TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on DRIFT 

“Ratchets peaceful death many years later” holy crap someone in the idw comic DIDNT have a brutal death?

the fact that shattered glass drift is a robot deadpool just cracks me up, every time.

99% of the comments: *about Drift* 1%: *Ratchet and Drift* Me: *still can't get over the fact that Ratchet died*

Me 4 in the morning: I guess it a good time to learn about tranformers.

Kinda ironic that Ratchet died in the same movie Drift debuted

Kind of surprised they never put this guy against Bludgeon. Seems like their ideals would make them decent rivals!

"Movie Drift liked to speak in haiku." *Sky-Byte would like to know your location*

Once again, I love the IDW version best. Plenty of chuckles were had because of Drift being a space hippie.

As cool as Drift's Decepticon to Autobot story is, I would love to see an Autobot who turns to the Decepticon side (Mudflap from Cybertron doesn't count, he switched because Starscream pretty much asked if he had anything better to do).

MULTI-FACTION DRIFTING!

Original IDW Drift was SUCH an awesome character. I've always wanted more of Wing. Maybe even a figure. The Circle of Light characters would be an awesome sub-line as well.

But the real question… *was he offlined by a cosmically-powered Starscream?*

Drift quickly became a favorite character of mine when I began reading the IDW comics and his Generations figure was a must have for my collection. He's still a favorite and I display him fighting side-by-side alongside Ratchet.

Last time I was this early, Ironhide was still alive.

I'd totally forgotten that Drift/Ratchet became Canon and just about had a heart attack when you brought it up. I'm still not used to IDW allowing romance subplots to happen at all lol.

I really love Drift, both designwise but also his IDW backstory. He is one of my favorite characters, def. Top 3. I am still reading through Lost Light, so I didn't know he and Ratchet were really gonna end up together, but this is one of the rare instances where I didn't mind it one bit to know what I can expect for him. I really loved their dynamic so far. (I'm still upset, that I now know Ratchet is going to die, tho! >:-C) The Transformers Generations Drift was the first and only figure I ever had shipped (from Australia to Germany) and it was damn worth it! His car and alt mode are awesome and the swords are so damn cool!

My favorite take on drift is IDW he is so come but fun at the same time I like the relationship that ratchet and drift have

Drift incarnations ranked: 1. IDW Drift as written by James Roberts 2. Movie Drift 3. RID 15 Drift 50,000. IDW Drift as written by Shane McCarthy

I don't read the comics, so I thought AoE was Drift's first appearance. Also, Cosmically Powered Starscream, it feels so empty without him.

I started reading IDW's transformers a few months back, and finished it recently. Man it was great. Such s beautiful series.

I can picture Drift and Six-Shot becoming friends over their shared past

No one: Not a single spark: Drift: RYU GIN NO KEN WU KURAIIII

Drift has always been my favorite Transformer. His story in the IDW series is amazing and I’m glad he got favorable recognition in MTMTE.

*[Eurobeat intensifies]*

Drift's favorite songs comprise the entire Initial D soundtrack.

We've seen starscream and skywarp on the basics but we haven't seen thundercracker can you make a basics on thundercracker

Idw drift is my favorite! So much character development there, and his relationship with Ratchet was not only very cute but also flowed very naturally throught the entirety of Mtmtr/LL

I’ll be honest, the Ratchet relationship threw me for a loop.

Say what you will about the bayformers at least they got an actual Japanese man to play Drift.

While I do agree that his concept does seem somewhat like a fan creation, I'm a martial artist so I'm a bit of a sucker for this kind of thing

Drift and Ratchet being gay together is actually really adorable tbh

8:18 Cyberverse Drift: "Very poor choice of words"

I find the Robots in Disguise take on Drift quite interesting: A stern but caring master to his students Slipstream and Jetstorm who is himself also still dealing with his own dark past. Shame Slipstream and Jetstorms names weren't the best choices.

I was also unsure of drifts silly japanese samurai-esque look and characterization, wondering if it was a bit tacky in this day and age... but upon looking around the Japanese fanbase of the IDW comics, they absolutely LOVE him over there and enjoy drawing him practicing in/in context of their culture. It's fun to see!

I'm one of the few who liked Drift from day one, but that's because I'm a sucker for samurai stuff.

If it wasn't for drift, windblade would look different

Drift: From a Cold-Blooded Decepticon Warrior Killer to a Honour Bound Autobot Samurai.

THEY'RE CANON WTF IM SO happy!!!!

I will admit that I quickly fell in love with this character.

Chris McFeely talking about drift culture, my life's complete

Thanks for this one, Colby Parker! I, despite knowing he's a complete nonsense weeb concept, actually really like Drift once he goes new age-y, and his relationship with Ratchet from "barely able to tolerate each other" to "married ever after" is fun and one of the few times I've ever enjoyed a romance that started with bickering.

Sadly, Cyberverse Drift never truly abandoned his Decepticon legion. I was very disappointed when I found that out.

I was rooting for Ratchet and Drift to get together from the moment I heard about their past back before the war. And when Ratchet decides to go after Drift because he knew drift needed him more then the lost light did. They were adorable. I was sooooo happy when they became cannon. ❤️❤️❤️

Japanese street racing Me: *puts teriyaki boyz Tokyo drift song*

I'd love to see them adopt drift's idw story into an animated series, something similar to the samurai episode of star wars visions. His story is too cool to not expose to a greater audience!

Drift and Ratchet were a couple??? That threw me off.

Drift's first appearance was in the 2008 IDW comic book The Transformers: All Hail Megatron.

1:46 “Trained in the way of the Sword” Those words made me see flashbacks to an time where “edge” was prominent in T.V. Shows

80’s Kids: Nothing new will ever top G1! Transformers after G1:

“It’s a haiku...”

I’m glad you got around to Drift. He’s one of my favorite characters from MTMTE/Lost Light and I ship him with Ratchet so hard. :D

And the Drift Mini-Cons are left overshadowed and forgotten. Still liking the use of Cybertron transitions, btw.

I first saw him in the age of extinction film, he's like my third fav autobot ever

Drift is another personal favorite of mine. Sure, he is somewhat on par with ocs. But I think his changes over the decade show that original characters made for other forms of media can be accepted with time

I can picture Drift and Jetfire having a friendship because of their deception past, and I'm not being homophobic but I do ship Drift and Windblade

Im not even that into Transformors but I've been marathoning these Basics videos.

Sensei, we got your notification. We've been waiting.

My favourite bot always has been and always will be, can never get enough Drift

3:38 wait what I did not know that idw version of drift and ratchet were in love now that things interesting thanks for telling me mr mcfeely

Regardless of my initial feelings about Drift's personality, his toy is beautiful. The unique transformation and awesome color scheme made me by him despite his DeviantArt OC behavior. I'm glad to see more recent takes on him have been better written.

Drift， if recolored with more red, yellow and blue, would be perfect for the core robot and take a leading role in Japanese super robot show! Just wonder what his combine mode would look like. Really love this long sword wielding Cybertonian :D

Drift's one of my favorite characters. I'm so happy you did an episode on him!!

Wow, I never knew so much about this character. Thank you for showing us this newer entry into the franchise.

7:06 evil drift with a color scheme and decoration based on the Japanese empire flag? How fitting

I genuinely thought drift wasn't an idw original character because I didnt think such a good character would be created so recently, but as I learned about transformers I realized all of the robots couldn't bee all from g1 originally and I felt stupid lmao. I know better now

Did Drift and Ratchet seriously become a couple??? If so then hell yeah

Drift is my favorite character. I love him so much I am big fan of him he is the best samurai transformer ever.

Will you do a basics on Wreck-gar basics. He is one of my favorites. I will say that I really enjoy your program. It's like I get to relive my childhood every episode. Thank you so much

His original design for IDW G1 imo is the best design

I like IDW drift he was a sweetheat and funny. Can't believe ratchet fell and bonded to him. So cute.

Drift is a playable character in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, in which his Decepticon past and code of honor are hinted constantly in his dialogue.

Fun fact: People liked Drift’s toy. However, since it was released at the time where he was a “Base-Breaking Character,” the toy was later rereleased as a new figure for Blurr. As in, they recolored the toy, replaced the swords with guns, and remolded the head into that of Blurr’s. According to the wikis, this was done so that people could own the toy, while not feeling guilty for buying Drift merchandise.

The basics on Drift: "Gundam"

Whirl and Drift are my favorites from the comics.

another fun, entertaining, and educating transformers basics video ,you never fail to impress us with the quality of your videos! :)

Great video! He's been a favorite of mine since he was introduced during All Hail Megatron.

How far he came just like windblade

Who Knew Drift loved Ratchet?!

Thank you for doing one on my favorite Transformer! 🙌🙌🙌

I’d like to see Chris McFreely continue his Art of Transformers videos, they felt like the most informative of his videos to me.

Transformers lore is so much cooler than the damn movies.

God I hope the COPPA rules don’t hurt this channel. This is the only channel I truly love. I am going to join your patreon because you do amazing work that deserves to be recognized for what it is.

I just want to thank you for doing all this videos. I love the franchise, but is really hard to get your hands on most of the content nowadays if you are short on money. I really want to watch all the old cartoons and read the IDW comics, because I love the lore and the characters and if it wasn't for your videos I would be completely lost! So thanks for doing all this!

The Autobot samurai is actually not the first character named Drift. That belongs to a Mini-Con character, a member of the Burning Rubber team from the Transformers Armada toyline, who transforms into a blue racecar and combines with his teammates Spin and Indy to form the Cosmotector Shield.

It's baby!

He always drift into me heart.

It's ironic that Drift's first full live action appearance was the same movie where Ratchet was brutally murdered

I like Drift during All Hail Megatron comic Nissan Silvia transform mode was great, which is initial drifting. Most of samurai people in Japan which depends the way on their living for.

This man has the power of God, anime, and gay energy on his side. Hes to powerful.

Mtmte/LL Drift is my favorite ^-^

Its thanks to this video that about 7 moths ago Transformers became my personality

Cyberverse Drift: They left a bunch of really obvious clues that he was going to turn out to be evil. So obvious that you think it has to be a red herring. And then, in a shocking twist, he... was evil.

Samurai robot? Should've just given him a Gundam head.

Turned from decepticons and joins the autobots. DRIFT IDEA

The abandoned Drift design for AGE OF EXTINCTION, with its orange and black color scheme. Reminds me a bit of one of my favorite Decepticons, Bludgeon. Surprised the Master of Metalkaido ,and Drift weren't made rivals at some point.

Best video ever and he is the reason why I gotten interested in transformers and samurai

I wasn't aware of the Drift + Ratchet thing but now I need to figure out a good toy combo for them on my shelf.

Fun fact: drift from robots in disguise actually appeared in transformers prime as a cameo during Rachet’s flashback

Been waiting for this for a long time, awesome to finally watch it

I love drift! He went to dead lock a thief/ mercenary ( depend on with any of his back story is )to drift teacher, samurai, and friend