TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on BLUDGEON 

His entire concept is a word salad of cool. Samurai skeleton tank robot? Not sure those words are supposed to work together, but I don't care.

The only potential downside to Bludgeon as a character is my brain always presents him as having the same voice as the original Skeletor. I'm still not sure if that's awesome or awful.

We were denied Pirate Bludgeon in Animated? A damn crying shame if you ask me.

*_"Drift: The Autobot Ronin with Honor."_* *_"Versus."_* *_"Bludgeon: The Decepticon Samurai With No Honor."_*

I'd like to see Metallikato explored more. Bludgeon's one of those guys where you figure he'd have more stuff going for him but he's just a cool dude with a strong cult following. Fitting, since he leads a few cults in the comics!

I like that they've made his outer shell's look into the actual robot form in later years. The tank parts work well on the samurai aesthetic

Bludgeon is definitely one of the more unique Transformers characters, and one of the scariest lookin mo’fos 💀💀💀💀💀💀

I love that the basics because it talks about lore and about toys keep up the good work

I was introduced to Bludgeon (and Transformers in general) by Angry Birds Transformers. Bludgeon is an early game character, but his weapon, shooting large waves of meteors, was blatantly overpowered and I loved it. He remains one of my core five favourite Transformers: Shockwave, Waspinator, Prowl, Dinobot, and Bludgeon himself.

I was so happy to see Bludgeon appear in Cyberverse. Too bad he didn't appear in S3 but I am happy he got a little exposure. I hope he gets a bigger role in a future tv show or film.

This video left me wanting to know the basics on more comic-original characters such as Straxus or Jhiaxus. Pretty underused characters if you ask me.

What’s better than a robot or a samurai? A robotic samurai!

Here's to the master of Metallikato appearing in Transformers Cyberverse

I think a good alternate mode for Bludgeon would be a green and brown Japanese Type 90 tank with orange accents.

Favourite Transformer: samurai warrior robot with a skull face, that transforms into a tank and knows cybertronian magic.

Thanks for this extremely well done and informative video on Bludgeon, one of my favorite villains in fiction. This is by far the best Transformers channel on RU-vid. I hope we can get a Basics episode on the Fallen/Megatronus some day!

This was a great Basics episode Chris, good to see Bludgeon get quite a legacy through the years and he's a great character too.

"Alas, poor Bludgeon" is literally how I know the line. Always was the only pretender who mattered to me

I don't think bludgeon would become obscure, he has a very unique and iconic look

Animated Pirate Bludgeon sounds like THE GREATEST THING EVER. Also, wait, Bludgeon's REDECO showed up in a Transformers TV show before he did? There's no justice. Also, RE: Future episodes: While I'd personally love to see some character-centric episodes based on Cliffjumper and Thundercracker, because those are two of my favorite Transformers characters, like... ever? If you're itching to do another episode based on a concept... how about Japanese-exclusive Transformers fiction? Or at least, Japanese-exclusive Transformers cartoons like Headmasters and Beast Wars II from that era where Japan was putting out a lot of those? Because even for longtime fans who've spent countless hours browsing TFWiki that stuff can be... a little elusive.

Rotf Bludgeon is such an underrated character

Now Saturday mornings are fun again. I don’t wake up to a new set of Saturday morning cartoons... but I get a new episode of Transformers: The Basics. Thank you!

Bludgeon was a great antagonist in IDW for various things reverse-enginering the Pretender Technology from Thunderwing, creating the group itself, working for the greatest villains (and back-stabbing them right after XD) and also temporarily posessing Slug-Oh My God, he's The Superior Spider-Man.

Really Good Episode! Bludeon is a very underused character! It is time for him to appear on the main TV series!

It’s a shame this character doesn’t really get any media portrayal. He’s so much cooler than the other big grey Decepticons that continue to make appearances

4:51 "Oh my god! He killed Wheelie! You bastard!" Yes. I did a South Park reference.

Definitely one of the coolest designs of all time.

My introduction to Bludgeon was in the Orion Pax spotlight comic. Before that i knew Bludgeon existed but i was never interested. In Him as a character but that spotlight changed that. Everytime i imagine a transformers story in my head and Bludgeon is apart of it he always. Look like his IDW incarnation. Before he got a messed up pretender shell. I think that version of Bludgeon kinda looks like he should be in one of the Micheal Bay movies. But then he would probably have five minutes of screen time and die in the movies middle. Thanks for showing me how awesome Bludgeon can be Chris.

Bludgeon is actually a super cool character imo after seeing this basics vid might go on a bing watch for other characters

I feel like Hasbro might see him as too violent for some silly reason, hence why he was never featured in any cartoons.

Back in college, I saw the original G1 toy at a store dirt cheap & I snatched him up. One of the next times I went in, they offered to buy the toy back (for more than I paid) as they forgot he was a leader of the Decepticons. I kept it then but sold him later to make rent payments. Thanks for the cool video sir!

Surely Bludgeon’s got to be one of the most prominent and popular Transformers characters to have never appeared on screen. I struggle to think of another character so beloved by fans who’s yet to make a proper appearance in the cartoons of movies.

It would be cool if the war club version bludgeon was used in some media as a weapon for a titan or combiner team

I had this toy ironically one of the only transformers of the 80s I owned. This ‘bot was so visually striking and different

And now Cyberverse Season has finally debuted Bludgeon!

Shattered glass bludgeon would 10/10 be the best transforme Hehe cowboy :)

So glad we got a new toy in legacy

Great retrospective! Would love to hear about predacons/predaking

RotF Voyager Bludgeon is a fantastic figure. One of my faves.

I love Bludgeon. I wish someone would use him for a movie or TF cartoon. Seriously, this guy is bloody awesome!!!

Bludgeon was a Con I never heard of for years but when I saw his name in a fan fiction of all things I got curious and looked him up and just loved that idea of a samurai Decepticon and he became like my third favorite Transformer of all time with Transformers Armada Starscream being number one to this day and Demolisher taking second place. Bludgeon actually took third place from Transformers Cybertron Megatron with me.

You gotta do the basics on Impactor and Springer if you haven’t already!

Bludgeon one of my favorite Decepticon villains.

This makes me wonder why cyberverse has made Bludgeon a mute, He seems quite talkative in the comics.

If he ever comes back, perhaps as a Tank, perhaps his turret could become his Kanabo. I think the adage of the Kanabo is something worth keeping from now on. Possibly used to bludgeon other Bots faces, revealing the skull-like endo-skeleton that lied beneath the victims face, which could be the inspiration for Bludgeon's own chosen visage within the setting.

One of the most Metal Transformers ever

I like to imagine the first meeting where Decepticons dediced to make Pretenders was like, "So, they will never know we're Decepticons if we disguise ourselves as horrifying monsters!" I mean, one of the Autobots -did- disguise himself as a UFO, so...

Bludgeon was one of furmsn favorites Furman seemed to hate all the other pretended except bludgeon, octopunch,bstrsnglehold and thunderwing All other pretenders Furman killed them off soon as he got the word

Im so glad to have his revenge of the fallen toy. The transformation from tank to samurai is so cool different from the transformers toys these days

It wasn't Megatron beheading his Pretender shell that killed Bludgeon in TF: G2 #3, it was both of them engaged in a tank duel where Megs blow him into pieces with one shot.

With the siege line now out, he could make a good leader

If Bludgeon started as a samurai, and that he was considered to being a pirate in TFA, I'd love to see a witch doctor Bludgeon in the future.

*Megatron* : "I'll crush you with my bare hands!!!!" *Bludgeon* : "Omae wa mou shindeiru..." *Megatron* : "NANI!?"

Oddly enough, Bludgeon was introduced as the mentor to Windblade (they both are styled after parts of Japanese culture after all) in the Transformers fighting game Forged to Fight

Great vid as always, keep up the good work.

I love this character and I’m very happy he appeared in transformers cyberverse

Whenever I read his dialogue in the IDW books I hear Eric Bauza (Tiger Claw from Nick TMNT).

I've seen him in the cyberverse cartoon

Thank god Hasbro finally put him in Cyberverse, Finally new fans can learn abut this awesome character.

Such an awesome design! :D

Well, there's something for fans to rejoice about: Bludgeon appearing in a supporting role in Transformers Cyberverse, once again envisioned as a ronin but lacking dialogue.

I want to see a deep dive on Tarn and his squad.

We have Bludgeon’s basics. But now… years after IDW’s 2005 continuity has come to a close… what about *Thunderwing?* 🤔

Never realized that the Unicron Trilogy was supposed to have an incarnation of Bludgeon. Wonder what series it was supposed to be for?

For some reason, I always imagine Bludgeon starting his paragraphs with a shout of "FOOLS!!", and cutting down the nearest Transformer (regardless of allegiance) whenever he says it...not even because he's mad, just out of force of habit. I know he doesn't say "FOOLS!!" THAT often, nor does he cut down other Transformers at random, but I just can't imagine him not doing that for some bizarre reason.

I still have the mini tank without his cannon or shell.another great discussion.

The lack of Lord Doomitron in this episode is outrageous.

Chris, have you done a basics on my namesake yet, Thunderwing? If not, get on it old son! I'd love to hear your thoughts on him.

This dude is legit my spirit animal…all that mystic samurai stuff is right up my alley.

I think the name 'Bludgeon' was moreso a tongue-in-cheek nod to his tendency for brute force instead of subtlety in earlier incarnations, rather than a reference to a weapon. Also, IDW did reuse the Mayhem Attack Squad's concept to create the DJD.

Bludgeon is such a cool character's definitely the greatest of the pretender shells! Here's hoping he gets his due in future transformers media!

in the new cyberverse suow he becomes a key character actually, in a certain way. when megatron and optimus were trying once more to put an end to the war peacefully, bludgeon killed slipstream, preventing her to reveal starscream position and prolonging tje war as a result. the show domt state this, but i think he did so because he loved the war and loved to kill autobots too much to just let it all end, his actions resulted in a rivalry with windblade as well... truly amazjng, and he said nothing across the whole show! truly cyberverse is a great show... from season 2 on

I want to see a Drift vs Bludgeon in season 3 of cyberverse, though I'm waiting for most of the episodes to air before I watch them, so I can Binge them

I loved his role in idw stormbringer comics with thunderwing

One of my actual favorites because of the comic.

Bushido- honor before death Bludgeon: chaos After blood

He was on Cyberverse!

Had to rewatch this Basics! Now I want the ROTF version, though I do have the Evolution one. A sweet figure!

Looking forward to the basics on thunderwing

2:15 Check out the asteroid-sized chin on Megatron!

So I noticed 1 thing about bludgeon. On the mobile game, Transformers forge to fight,I noticed his vehicle form look kinda similar to Devastator in the Michael Bay movie. A tank with 1 missile launcher on each side. So this is what I'm asking: Was Devastator really supposed to be Bludgeon in Transformers 1?

Can't wait until Saturday

I could make him out of legos. I got some skeleton heads from a Lego store a couple days ago and repaint other minifig parts to look like him

I always thought the character should wield a kanabo instead of a katana, since his name is Bludgeon. Hopefully they'll permanently change his weapon & keep his shell's ability to transform into a kanabo.

Bludgeon should be the next big bad in a transformers movie and they should have the pretenders come in and be the bad guys and maybe introduce Metalhawk and some original pretender autobots

BIRTHDAY BLUDGEON BASICS 🙂🎂

He's in Cyberverse now and he is probably the scariest con right now and that is taking Starscream's insanity into account.

This character sounds really interesting they really should try and do something with him, maybe in the next cartoon after cyberverse

Okay, I can't be the only one who sees the irony of a swordsman named "bludgeon."

I did not even remember what his actual robot mode transformed into because I've only read the comic and I'm not sure they ever let him get out of his shell...

I love Bludgeon he has such a cool design.

Awesome basics on Bludgeon! I always enjoy that character myself. 😄 And I do wonder if an episode focusing on his Pretender counterpart Octopunch would be equally as enjoyable. ☺

@2:26 Bludgeon: Everybody was kung fu fighting.

Chris, you gotta update this now. Bludgeon is in Cyberverse. Holy crap, he finally made it.

He's in cyberverse now as well

Can we get Basics of Thunderwing?

I also liked him on the Transformers Cyberverse series. He was badass on that show the way he took on Windblade

love your vids, Would cool if you did a vid on IDW Galvatron, whos not megatron. Wish we would get a toy of him. As he is one of the best versions of Galvatron

Who would make a great rival to Bludgeon? Animated Prowl, Drift or Windblade?

Bludgeon! I always loved this guy because of his arc at the end of the Marvel comics! Great episode as always!