Yeah, I was so confused as a child....listening to such cool music and watching your favorite cool police car character die with a close up and a clunk...
yeah after watching all the cartoons every Sunday and not 1 single autobot or decepticon death in any then this.....i was 7 years old so it hit me hard
Hasbro deciding to kill off characters from the first two years of the television show was the death of the tv show. never recovered its popularity until 2007. Nuts!
I don't think that's true. Their popularity was already declining so they tried to reboot the show. Unfortunately, a series of problems followed. Rodimus Prime was handled poorly. The writing sucked. There was no direction. And their target audience grew up.
@@williamjennings5941Galvatron had the same mind as Megatron until season 3 started and his mind got completely scrambled and he went insane. At that point I think it’s safe to say he was no longer the same person he used to be. He didn’t have any of his previous ambitions and he felt no compassion or comradery towards any of his fellow decepticons, as he’s constantly beating them up even when they do exactly what he told them to do. Galvatron is just a lunatic and he’s definitely not the same as Megatron, but he does still retain some of Megatron’s memories. I was always hoping he would get his mind fixed and become Megatron again but the show ended before they could ever bring closure to his character.
@@lukestarkiller1470he was still very much like Megatron, just far more irrational and insane. Also Megatron didn’t care about his soldiers either, it’s literally one of his defining traits. He even says “they are expendable” Megatron has no sense of comradeship that’s what makes him the perfect opposite of Prime. Also Galvatron was especially just an upgraded version of Megatron. He still retained Megatrons memories, ambitions and motives but he was more powerful. Furthermore Galvatron recognised both Optimus Prime and Starscream xx
@@TheWhovinerd-1963 yeah I dunno he just never quite felt like Megatron to me. I feel like Megatron actually had some interesting ambitions but as soon as he became Galvatron they all went out the window. Megatron was all about finding enough energy to win the war and conquer Cybertron, but if I remember right Galvatron almost destroys Cybertron at one point in season 3 and doesn’t even care, he did care in the movie when it was going to be destroyed by Unicron before he went crazy but afterwards it’s like he lost any attachment to it. And I know Megatron was always smacking around the other Decepticons but he would also praise them when they did a good job, but Galvatron literally beats up Cyclonus any time he does anything even though he’s his most loyal Decepticon at that point. Galvatron was always just so unpredictable that he kind of just became uninteresting to me, I never genuinely felt like he could win because he’d just completely give up on an attack halfway through and run away just because he didn’t feel like fighting anymore. He seemed so easy to beat because you just had to wait for him to change his mind which happened very frequently. But I have just recently started watching the Japanese headmasters cartoon and in that show Galvatron feels much more like Megatron. They just skipped the whole “going insane” part of his character and I think he works much better as just an upgraded Megatron. I really do like the concept of Galvatron and I think he looks really cool, I’m just not a big fan of how he was used in the original show.
Funny Ultra Magnus death wasn't shown, like i know they repair him and hes back to life but the way he was blown to bits before that was quite brutal 😶
Amazing how all the decepticons lasers all became stronger in the movie, one shotting Autobots all over while these same shots wouldn't kill for 2 seasons on tv.
I read somewhere that the Autobots' death on the ship was supposed to be far worse than what was in the movie. They had to lighten it up because it would have pissed off parents even more than they already were, and the children would've had major nightmares and childhood trauma.
Prowl's death haunted me as a kid. Partially because he was my favourite Transformer. The light going out of his eyes was dispiriting. While the other scenes were bad, I couldn't re-watch the movie until well into adulthood.
When I watched Transformers the movie on rental video as a little, Prowl's death scene was so scary that I used to skip the shuttle attack scene when I re-watched the movie over and over. I could never forget the close-up shot of Prowl's face where the smoke leaking out of his mouth.
I wouldn’t really count Megatron dying by Unicron since it’s still his spark in his body and just his body remade to be Galvatron he might have a new identity but he’s still Megatron within his spark
I can never forget Prowl's death. Ever. I saw this in the theater when I was 11 and when I saw his face, the eruption from his mouth, I knew he was dead. I knew there was no way he had survived. The wave of nausea that hit me a moment later made me seize the arm rests on my seat to keep myself from losing my balance. 'Brutal' doesn't begin to describe that scene.
@@JJjjJJjjJJ28Not just a movie. We all had emotional attachments to these characters. Seeing them brutally killed was practically like seeing a real person get killed for some of us.
@@Leondrius TF the movie graduated to the level of Japanese Anime. We were too weak to handle the brutality of the transformers war. I loved this movie growing up; and I was a die hard Iron Hide fan. I was sad when he died but I know, in this movie, all brakes were off and I was all in for the ride!
@@mini_shot2833 big dawg is reading not a strength of yours. i also say that only one counts as an actual death, that being the case with fucking disintegration. is this making sense to you now?
They really did just make us grow up when we didn’t they… I became a man on August 6, 1986. Their reason was greed, but I see it now as a mercy before our beloved childhood was franchised to death.
I still believe that Brawn should not have been one shot like that. He was literally one of the strongest, and I had seen him throw Decepticons like they weighed nothing before!
Ah my childhood. I hadnt even seen the show before watching this, but i always found it weird that decepticons were killing autobots with a few shots yet they'd get blasted and only get incapacitated. Then watching some of the cartoon years later and seeing how much goofier it was really caught me off guard. Was there a reason why decepticon weapons seemed to be so much stronger?
Gears didn't die in the acid pit to feed Unicron, those 2 robots that fell in the acid pit are generic robots from the beginning of the movie the planet that Unicron ate. if you take an image of Gears from the cartoon series and compare it to one of those robots falling to the pit none of them look like Gears. Hasbro demanded at that time for the movie to be shortened so a lot of the storyboards were cut out and those storyboards have a lot of bots dying👍
@@miamitrancemissions6425 not to mention all the Autobots that are in the storyboards that are cut out of the final feature are all still alive the reason why we don't see them is because Hasbro wanted to phase them out and bring in new characters along with toys.
Yeaaaaaaah, and Kup did tell the lad to stay away, that it was Prime's fight. I remember my dad, who was a kid in the 80s when this movie came out, telling me a lot of fans hated Hot Rod after that. 😅
Why is nobody talking about the fact that in a "kids movie," we had the tragedy to witness bots getting DISSOLVED ALIVE in stomach acid. I know they're anonymous, so it's hard to stay attached, but, honestly, that death was probably the most horrific to watch and imagine for me...Prowl's is up there, though. I'll admit that
I still think brawn isn’t technically a death. I honestly believe he barely survived the battle and was able to pilot the shuttle to safety and then was upgraded to Outback by whatever medics remained
But he actually died so we seen the shot that he got shot in the soldier but when he’s on the floor as you see the smoke coming out of his back, it went through his shoulder and then went through his back, creating a huge back hole so we shot in the shoulder, then passes to the back so that means a lot of smoke came outso he did die
Megatron died? Could have sworn that did not happen. And you left out Starscream along with the robot baracudas that Hot Rod sliced in half and the many Sharkticon deaths and the billions of Lithonians that Unicron ate
Wheeljack didnt die it was smokescreen originally thats why wheeljack could be seen with smokescreen colours and in the story broads wheeljack could be seen alive
Megatron didn't die, unicron gave him a makeover just like the insecticons, skywarp and thundercracker. Technically it wasn't hot rod's fault that prime died, he was trying to stop megatron from getting the gun that was visible to him, but accidentally got in the way. Wheeljack and windcharger wasn't by toaster ovens, that was just a line by blaster. If you noticed, prowl's death was worse than prime's. Brawn and ratchet should've survived, but no one seen them after their initial shot by the deceptions.
The seekers didn't die, they were actually in a few episodes of season three. Could have added Skywarp & Thundercracker and the insecticons to the list.
I watched the movie last night. As a kid when they invaded the ship. Ironhide, Prowl, and Ratchet had me f'd up. Shooting on the Weekdays they were bad shots(always missing) The movie tho was brutal, killing well-known autobots like... wait they're dying and fast. 😢😂 1986 Cartoon movies felt real even G.I.Joe.
Optimus monologued. Heroes and villains one weakness is their tendency to monologue. Optimus monologued enough for Megatron to go for the gun and try to shoot him. Is it entirely Hot Rod's fault Optimus died? No. Optimus' sense of honor and monologuing got him killed. If you're going to shoot, shoot don't talk. Did Hot Rod add to the confusion when there were other options? Yes. Was it intentional? No.
