TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on CROSSHAIRS 

It’s funny how the last two Bay movies are so poorly received yet the new Autobot cast has become quite beloved. Easily the best part of those two movies.

Crosshairs isn't going to be the only green Autobot voiced by John DiMaggio

I'm always astounded by Bob Budiansky's ability to create separate individual personalities for literally hundreds of different robot toys. It must've been creatively exhausting for him. Yes, I know we're not talking about great literary characters here, but nevertheless he had to help the readers differentiate between what often were many samey looking toys I also loved how their personalities were often thematically linked with their names As a creative writer myself I'm kinda in awe of how he did this for so many years

Truth be told, I really enjoyed the exchanges between Crosshairs and Drift in Age of Extinction.

Crosshairs was sadly created during that awkward time of the G1 comics history, where too many characters came along all at once, and Budiansky was like "Fuck this, have a story about a car wash."

The duster coat on the movieverse one is a bit ridiculous but I'm surprised they haven't made a Transformer that comes from a convertible that uses the cloth roof as like a cape.

This is a weird thing to say but I'm fascinated by how part of the car kibble becomes like a long coat and even how it moves like fabric, only in Transformers.

I really love the AOE Autobots; their personalities and designs really sell the fact that these are essentially the only available Autobots able to respond to Optimus's call for aid, and what we end up with are more or less the worst of the worst, a pack of weirdos who don't really like each other all that much. Maybe its my immense Bayverse bias, and AOE being my favorite, but these Autobots were a lot of fun.

Blackout ,barricade, cross hairs You gotta admit without the live action movies not many people would know of them

My boyfriend came into the room partway through me watching the episode. He saw the Strongarm repaint and thought that was who the episode was about. I told him it was Crosshairs, to which he responded "the self-important gunslinger from Age of Extinction?" I chuckled a bit when shortly after, the video got to that very iteration of the character. 😂

I would’ve loved if Crosshairs was given his own level in a High Moon style game. He could be given the ability to glide around using his parachutes, have his dual pistols. Maybe another of his special abilities would be letting him shoot rapid fire without any need for weapon cooldown for a few seconds or something.

At this point, I think it's a very real question whether the movieverse Crosshairs can do the Knock Out or Bulkhead thing of displacing his older counterpart entirely. On the one hand, he's definitely more successful, on the other hand, well... fourth-at-best billing in the post-DOTM Michael Bay films is not exactly a high honor. I don't think it helps that his whole "car trenchcoat" design is infamously not very toy-friendly.

Ladies and gents, the Autobot Starscream. Brought to you by Bender doing his best Jason Statham impression.

Cade: Where are you going!? Crosshairs: To lay some hate One of the best lines in the Transformers films And can we all agree that a transformer having a trench code is awesome? I don't care if it doesn't make sense it's awesome!

Funny how original cartoon Crooshairs had red optics like a Decepticon instead of Autobot blue.

I have to admit that when I saw Crosshairs in Age of Extinction I thought he was meant to be Springer.

His G1 version also cameo’d early on as a background character in a few Armada scenes set on Cybertron

the siege for cybertron truck mold was also used for Ratchet as well

I'm quite impressed from his origins came from a G1 Targetmaster to the version we know sincev Age of Extinction.

"instruments of destruction"

I actually do like how the live-action movie gave Crosshairs an Australian accent

I know Crosshairs is English but he really does come off as an Australian

Let's not forget that Age of Extinction Crosshairs got to ride the Spinosaurus Dinobot Scorn to defend Hong Kong in the film. So cool!

I hope you don't mind doing Bluestreak. He feels like an interesting character to make considering that he rarely appears outside G1 media but has almost always notable roles in those roles. His constant name change into Silverstreak is also interesting

I really do want to see the behind the scenes of the 2007 toy lion design, seems like they had to pump out 1 million different toys to build up synergy for that movie

The movie gang in age of extinction always gave me wrecker vibes, I’ve always liked the idea of Optimus saying to cemetery wind and ultra Magnus coming down to take his place and leads the wreckers to become the new force of the auto bots on earth.

I like how Crosshair looks like he’s wearing a long jacket like Neo in The Matrix

Gonna lay some hate if Crosshairs doesn't get more screentime.

HI Chris,great video about the Autobot Crosshairs keep them coming, also My favorite Version of Crosshairs is The Original, Cartoon,Classic, and Retroboot Version of Crosshairs who is not only one of my favorite and best Transformer of all time but also my favorite Autobot Target Master also the following information is: Allegiance (as of 2023):Autobot Subgroup(as of 2023):Target Master,Function/Primary Function(as of 2023): Weapons Supervisor Partner(as of 2023):Pinpointer(5'11"(adult),215ibs(adult,cah),Transformation(as of 2023): Cybertronian Car/Dune Buggy, Crosshairs is also an expert in Weapons maintenance he is also a self-trained Sharpshooter. His vehicle mode his maximum speed is 160 miles per hour. His Target Master Partner is a dual RPG(Rocket Propelled Grenade) Launcher that can lock on target in less than.00006 breems Crosshairs is notoriously cautious and Pinpointer is a member of the Nebulon Rebels and not only a sharpshooter but also a solider in the Nebulon Rebels led by Gort, also Crosshairs is not only a member of the Heroic Autobots but also he is a member of The Autobot Target Masters, also thank you for sharing Chris keep up the great work and have a good night.🙂💪🟢👍✌️💚🦸🏋️🌆

One of my favourite transformers

I think G.1 Crosshairs has a brief cameo in the first episode of Transformers: Armada, when the Minicons are discovered and everyone is rushing around getting ready to launch

I like the Bayverse design. That Robotrench is fire. Also dig OG CH’s blue & red color scheme. Have both Bot & Master from Siege. Good stuff!

“Astrotrain… .TAKE OFF” ~S. Scream

Pretty sweet profile on Crosshairs! I only knew of him from the 87 series so finding out all this new info was exciting and awesome!❤

For whatever reason, this was 1 of the few original Transformer toys which survived my childhood days(purchased by my parents). Great video sir & I still like this guy!

Bayverse crosshairs "longcoat" is very nonsense but its AWESOME! Hope we can see more of this incarnation more in other media

I love the Transformer Crosshair for the badass character portrayed in the movie

Crosshairs is my favourite TargetMaster character, from the name, to his personality to His Design and as for my favourite version, I will always go for the original g1 version as I’m not a fan of his live action version

When I think Crosshairs (taking out the s) I think of the Clone Trooper from Clone Force 99 as seen in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. A character I didn't really care for at first but got more interesting as the series went on.

Kinda weird that his G1 character had to be sure of a shot. Maybe Sureshot liked weaving wigs

Crosshairs was also released in the studio series toyline as well based on his age of extinction appearance

I like how bayverse Crosshairs googles are colored like the G1 character

I have a theory that originally they wanted to get Jason Statham for Age of Extinction, but for whatever reason they couldn't, so they wound up with John DiMaggio doing an impression of him.

Minor G1 appearence: Spends like 8 minutes explaining lore based off of comics nobody reads Major Bayverse appearence: *Spends less than 30 seconds mentioning the character existed*

Movie Crosshair is the best-looking one. G1 looks like ironhide and ratchet with minor changes

"good soldiers follow orders. . ." My brain: uhmmmm wrong franchise, bud

Love this stuff! Thanks for everything you do.

1:25 *Right there,* thats what hooked me about him. That frigging skid!!!!

My favorite version of Crosshairs is obviously the movie version since he appeared in Transformers Age of Extinction. I also like his line in that movie that I kept reciting: "Time to lay some hate!" 😅😅😅

I love crosshairs,I just wished that he had appearances in 80s, and his design made it to the cartoon, But I love more when he came back to the movies and Other media’s,I also hope that in next transformers series he reappears with his oh or Bayverse designs🧡🖤💘😍💙🤎🤎🤎💜💕❣️💞💞

Always had a love for this Transformer probably because the G1 cartoon talked like Clint Eastwood. Recently acquired both the G1 and the Siege toys they are both great. I already had the movie toy and yes the trenchcoat idea is Awesome. Sets him apart from all other movie Transformers.

Ok but honesty i like the trench coat like look for crosshairs kts very unique and gives off a look of a urban assassination or fighter type in my opinion kinda like Aiden from watchdogs or something looks cool that's it I just like it

Little known fact: There is concept art for AOE Crosshairs that depicts him sporting a similar facial structure akin to Michael Bay. All of this to say, we almost got what is essentially a literal Bayformer!

Yet another amazing basics.

Lol at the fact his toy was first introduced as the same year a cosmically powered Starscream went on a genocidal rampage.

Nice Basics! Though I am old school, G1 Crosshairs is my favorite!

pretty much wish bluestreak would get the basics treatment who's with me?

Crosshairs was honestly one of the best parts of AOE and TLK

You should cover the human villains of the transformers universe

My absolute shock at the Bayverse Crosshairs popping up at the beginning. 🤣 I genuinely never connected these two characters at all.

“It’s not gonna happen” & “I have been wrong on 1 or 2 occasion” are my favourite quotes! 😁 had Rebirth on VHS 📼 & used to watch it all the time!

Crosshairs should be in the next video game as a weapon dealer and should sell upgrades

Another amazing video

Great documentary!

I just love it, when youtube stuffs so many adds into a single video that you can't see it at all and just give up in frustration, what a foolproof plan to make people watch more!😠😡🤬😤 Right?

I think crosshairs is a great character in the bayverve maybe can take his bayverve design mix with g1 like his head give a more g1 crosshairs like

I'd Love to see a Video on the Dinobot Snarl! He's my favourite Dinobot and transformer in general. He has alot of sentimental value to me, I've kept my original Gen 1 toy since I was a kid in the 90s

I absolutely loved Crosshairs' design in the Bayformers movies. I know it's a little bit out there with the trenchcoat but it's inspired me to make my own version of Crosshairs that's a mix of Boyformers Crosshairs and Transformers Prime Soundwave- wish I could show off the design here but this is just the yt comment section. Crosshairs needs a bit more love imo

My only toy of AoE Crosshairs was.the one with the big fist. I wonder why he got that instead of something related to quick drawing

I can imagine crosshairs interfacing his systems with a computer that just so happens to have Minecraft installed on it, and instantly becoming a pro, not just because he was a robot.

wow crosshairs really covers almost all of the different facets of continuity - g1, japanese g1, movie-tie-in, actual movie-

I would like to see a series on headmaster and target masters like in Japan!👍👍👍👍

Since my first exposure to the character was the Siege toy (and subsequent 3D model I made) he's the one I attribute the name to 😅

You should do the basics on Bob Budiansky himself since he is mentioned in every video as the one who gives G1 transformers their personality

That 'Age of Extinction' punk can blow it out his exhaust. '88 Crosshairs is my guy.

“Disillusioned with his job as a supplier of instruments of destruction.” Insert ‘86 film one-liners against NRG riffs here. Jokes aside, this episode has me a bit giddy not even two minutes in just because of how cool the character was in the fourth movie. Being able to finally see him covered here is just awesome

Omg I’m going nuts he changed boo-diansky to BUD-iansky the timelines are shifting

Everyone can talk what they want about bayverse Crosshairs, it's one of my favorite transformers from ever, and i want to see him again in the future. That's a hill i'm dying for. Ps: i love the cape.

Lets go I've been waiting for this vid for ages

I still have my old g1 crooshair

I really enjoyed hearing about crosshairs, another transformer I'd like for you make a video on is, Decepticon Needlenose.

I didn't even realize he was in the bay movies, but then again I only ever subjected myself to the first one. I mostly remember him from the Marvel comic and even then only barely. It's funny that in Regeneration One he got his toy/anime style head finally, I guess he got rebuilt a bit sometime between issue 80 of the original run and then.

I've read the Marvel comics and seen The Rebirth, Headmasters, and all the movies, yet still didn't remember who he was until I watched the video.

A "Cybertronian offroad vehicle". I didn't know Cybertron had offroads? Lol.

Hey I just want to say I like your channel and it gives me more insight into the show and the toys

loved it!

I've been waiting for this in a long time!

YES I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!! I hope legacy makes a Crosshairs based on the Michael Bay design since they are making Strongarm

Great Stuff, as always!

Kneecaps of his original design give me flight or fight response.

Crosshairs is my favourite Autobot thanks for crosshairs basics i am also one of people asked crosshairs basics

6:57 fun fact he was is in a fanfic on DeviantArt

G1 Crosshairs was the 1st Targetmaster I got and I still have both him & Pinpointer.

Another excellent video!

I feel the point blank in the legacy line is crosshairs just with the target master name . Very similar design to the OG gen 1.

Siempre interesantes sus videos 🤩🤗😎!

Uld love it if the updated version in the new series has the G1 design and abilities but with film colour scheme and personality

In my school vr game crosshair is in the game and he befriended the star wars character commander fox and assisted in the assassination attempt of decepticon bio powerhouse Goalius that failed in paris

I love movie Crosshairs...hoping one day they will get his "duster" look right

"Hey Cade! What's with the C3PO Rip off?" Best line for me