TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on THE UNDERBASE SAGA 

I love the fact that such a catchphrase like "offlined by cosmically powerd starscream"is become one of the reasons why this channel become so popular in the last few years

Imagine working so hard for 5 years on a basics,and then all your work gets offlined by a cosmically powerd starscream

So what happened to the Cosmically Powered Starscream, he killed virtually everyone and was unstoppable by even Optimus Prime and Scorponok? Well you see, he was off lined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream.

This quote was such a running theme,and now we got to see the whole story about this catchphrase

The Underbase saga was well written with an individual story for each issue that all tied in together nicely. #47 gave us the Seacons, #48 revisiting Megatron for the first time in two years, #49 a short but dynamic Deception civil war and #50 a cosmically powered Starscream cleaning out the old products.

I want "I was Offlined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream, and all I got was this T-Shirt." On a shirt, so bad...

Happy 5th years tf the basics,that was such a great journey,i hope all your work don't get offlined by a cosmically powerd starscream

if the catchphrase offlined by a cosmically powered starscream" was offlined by starscream himself,i think the "offlined by a decepticon clone of optimus prime" will be the new replacement actually

The Transformers: The Movie: "We killed off almost all of your favorite characters in the span of 20 minutes." Cosmically Powered Starscream: "Hold my energon."

I feel like the Underbase could be worked into modern TF mythos by having it be the dark counterpart of Vector Sigma. Whereas Vector Sigma is the source of wisdom and knowledge archived by Cybertron's elders, the Underbase could be where the dark secrets and dirty parts of Cybertronian history that the elders were ashamed of and wanted buried and forgotten were hidden, cast away into space. That'd be a good reason for the Decepticons to want to seek it out and learn its mysteries.

My secret is... I'm ALWAYS cosmically powered!

For those keeping score, Cosmic Powered Starscream managed to offline no less than FIFTY FIVE Transformers over the course of his rampage, with more implied off screen later on. That includes four 5 Bot Combiner Teams (Aerialbots, Predacons, Terrorcons, Technobots), the 6 bot team Seacons, the 5 Dinobots, the 5 Throttlebots, Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain, the Superior Soundwave and Lazerbeak, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Jetfire, Goldbug, Hound, Mirage, Blue Streak, Buzzsaw, Hoist, Brawn, Gears, Jazz, Blaster, Octane, and even Omega Supreme.

Congratulations on 5 years of this channel dude! You’re definitely one of favourite guys on RU-vid!

Thank you, Chris, for highlighting my favourite TF comic panel of all time - Starscream addressing the Underbase: “Blind me with your awful light! Thrill me with your darkest secret! Fill me with your unholy power! Give yourself to me!!” Simple, powerful art and writing; I get cosmically-powered shivers every time (and I’ve the panel as my go-to desktop wallpaper 😁) I wish you many more years of the Basics.

It only takes one Cosmically Powered Starscream to take an entire generation worth of supporting caste offline.

So the Cosmically Powered Starscream was so powerful no one could offline him but himself and in fact he did? 😂 Congratulations on 5 years of The Basics! As a Transformers lover this is THE GREATEST thing to watch ❤️

Never read The Underbase Saga but given that Cybertron is my favourite show in large part thanks to its Cosmically Powered Starscream I'll always be thankful for it

Starscream was basically Thanos in The Underbase saga. It's bit funny though none of the other high ranked Decepticons never get change to wield such power. Though now I wonder would power of the Underbase been so great that it could have killed Unicron, seeing how Starscream had like portion of Underbases power and when Starscream had rest of that cosmic power, it destroyed Starscream. I just thought way Underbase could be brought in new TF fiction as backup database that almost eclipsed Vector Sigma and to avoid that, Underbase was launched to deep space.

Fun fact: Bob Budiansky also drew the cover of issue 47 - what a talented guy!

OK I know that Transformers can be a bit inconsistent with death sometimes, but the fact that Megatron was able to bring Starscream back to life when there was nothing left of but a big clump of wires is straight up insane. Whichever medic it was that managed that task deserves a medal.

How this story hasn’t been adapted is beyond me. Not beat for beat but the Underbase could be the central focus of a multi-part episode or even a movie. An awesome send off for Starscream. Maybe when it overloads him the residual energy would lead into a Dead Universe based story. Opening a rift of Unspace or signal to Nova Prime it was his time to return with his Heart of Darkness, either renamed the Matrix of Chaos or just Anti-Matrix. The former fitting if the Eldritch being Chaos is featured in the final act. Then I suppose you could bring in Unicron and have Starscream’s ghost play a role in The Chaos Bringer’s arrival.

The most used terms in your videos: . 1. Cosmically powered Starscream 2. Machine hating human Circuit Breaker 3. Diaclone 4. Microchange 5. Monster Planet Unicron . Congratulations for your 5th anniversary Pal!

I once thought that 2021 was going to be a great year… But my hopes were off-lined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream!

You should make an episode about the cybertronian measurements of time. Cycles. Mega cycles. Nano clicks and stuff

It actually happened twice in Cyberverse. Once with the Allspark, once when Starcream was made into a Quintesson.

You turned a footnote into one of starscreams biggest fan character interpretations

Happy Anniversary, Chris. This has been such an enjoyable series all these years and I'm looking forward to many more years to come. I still lament issue #50 of the series being one of only 2 or 3 issues I do not own. At least now, using the information you've granted, I can fill in the blanks in my head canon. It's much appreciated.

Transformers #47 was my first comic and really is responsible for my love of reading today. This video took me back. Thanks for that.

I've had a personal headcanon around the Underbase saga for decades. Starscream is pretty famous for having a unique spark. In the original cartoon he somehow survived being turned to slag and became a ghost. This even recurs in a few different versions of Transformers. The idea that the seekers are all clones of him and all have unique powers has been a thing as well. My theory (personal headcanon) is that the Underbase had such an impact in his spark that it echoed both through time (kinda making it predestined) and all universes, and his spark is always just indestructible in all versions. Megatron never dared kill him, because he knew (thanks to Shockwave) that he was indestructible, and would be more dangerous if he ever discovered it for himself. Killing him would literally show him he cannot die. His unique spark always leads to the other Seekers (through whatever chain of events transpire in a given universe) and their special powers are results in mutations of that spark. And it is all because the Marvel version found the Underbase. The Underbase is so powerful, it's effects ripple through time and universes.

Cosmic Starscream and the Power of the Underbase seems to be the Transformers' analog for Jean Grey and the Phoenix force.

Phew! For a second I thought this was this was the series finale! Great work thanks for all the videos!

1:42 Some powerful artifact: exist Optimus Prime: to the space go brrr

Happy 5th birthday to the Basics, and thanks for telling us this story!

I really hope we get little moments like this in season 3

This was a fun video to watch, now I finally know how many characters were killed by the Comically Powered Starscream

Cosmically powered starscream was ultimately offlined by Cosmically powered starscream

I still remember the time Starscream tried to become a god twice in Transformers Cybertron Starscream: Those are...Moons!

I loved this storyline, but I thought it was strange that the Seacons, a new team that'd only been recently introduced to both the toyline and comic, were among those killed off.

This has been what "The Basics" has been leading up to, the source of a majority of Transformers Generation 1 characters being offlined in the G1 comics....the Cosmically Powered Starscream.

This one made me ridiculously happy. Thank you for five AMAZING years.

5 years?! Man that's crazy to think about. Thanks for providing us bots fans with such great info

Going on things you have said over and over in the series, the next anniversary video should be about Toys re-released in Europe and Australasia...

In my school vr game cosmically powered starscream was a boss where to defeat him you need to fire dainsleth at him and if you do enough damage to him he stops and ultimately gives you a special flare gun that calls in a airstrike made by the rain makers the underbase had a unexpected role where shattered glass shade tryed to fuse everyone into the prime verionts but was stopped when decepticon calamity weapon Goalius had the underbase in him after he was almost killed by both friendly fire and shattered glass airtalon sattleair and torch talon assault which caused goalius to fight sg shade who's a cosmically powered starscream levels of powerful and the battle ended with goalius victorious and have the head of sg shade

Congratulations Chris! Great series. Five years already... how is that possible?! :D

It would be so cool to see cosmic starscream in the modern films. Imagine the incredible visual effects you could put on on him!

A perfect way to celebrate five years of the Definitive Transformers lore channel.

I don’t know much about this but word on the street is many bots were offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream. Happy five year anniversary Chris!

Just about any Transformer's continuity: Megatron: *wants a thing* Optimus Prime: *sends the thing to space* *billions of lives and many planets suffer as a result* And Megatron is the villain here?

If I had the time, I'd make 2 supercuts: 1) [massive list of bots] "taken offline by a cosmicly powered Starscream" x100 simultaneously. 2) every mention of "Bob Budiansky" over the last five years

even starscream was offlined by a cosmically powered starscream

I can't tell you how happy I am about finally getting to learn about the cosmically-powered Starscream.

4:58 The comic's cover reminds me of the part were Spiderman is holding Gwen's death body and telling the Green Goblin he'll pay for that.

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY, THE BASICS!!!!! :D Hard to believe it's already been a half-decade since the Basics took off, and this was the perfect way to celebrate the series' 5-year running! I look forward to your updated episodes throughout the rest of the month, Chris! Keep up the amazing work, and ROLL OUT!!!

me: watches the new basics episode when i wake up me the rest of the weekend: bored

Even when the underbase isn't present, the risk of being offlined by a cosmically powered starscream still exists

After the occasionally name drops in other Basics, I’m delighted to see this at last!

Congratulations on 5 years! Here's hoping we can double or triple that!

And in the middle of all that the Time Wars happened taking out some more bots. I'd like to see basics on other Marvel storylines such as the Dinobot Hunt, the Galvatron Saga, the Matrix Quest and the Unicron saga.

I completely forgot about this whole storyline, but the moment I saw that image of Starscream from issue #50, it ALL came flooding back. Thanks for restoring my lost memories!

My son had a question that I never thought of. How do transformers perceive their surroundings while in alternate mode. Hes 12 and autistic we watch your videos when they come out. We enjoy our time together watching your videos, keep up the awesome job!

Congratulations for the fifth anniversary of the channel! What I like most of the Underbase Saga, along with the phrase cosmically powered Starscream, is that made my city, BA, appear in a TF comic! With Omega Supreme using the Obelisk as a baseball bate and all.

Hi Chris, also Happy Anniversary Chris and all I can say is Congratulations on 5 years of Transformers The Basics and Congratulations on The Basics on Transformers The Underbase Saga one of my favorite Transformer stories of all time also congrats on The UnderBase Saga,also thank you for sharing Chris keep up the great work Happy ANNIVERSARY stay safe out there and have a nice day.🙂👍

If it ever gets used in new Transformers Media, I think it would be nice if Alpha Trion was its creator and custodian, with only Trion himself being able to reliably find the Underbase.

Congratulations on 5 years of the basics! Love these videos, Sir! Your contributions to the fanbase will never be forgotten! Till all are one!

So all this time whenever someone dies, it was secretly the cosmically powerful star scream that was responsible. Truly a scary antagonist.

So in total, a cosmically powered Starscream offlined 16 characters?! Plus more victims off panel?! Damn. Happy 5th anniversary of Transformers The Basics!

It amazes me that one of my most sought after toys, CW Scrounge has a connection to arguably the most famous arc of the Marvel comic

The Underbase takes the phrase "knowledge is power" in a very literal sense.

I was concerned that Chris would have been off lined by a cosmically powered Starscream before completing this episode. And fo the short version of this episode we hear Chris saying "Please allow a moment of silence for those who have off lined by a cosmically powered" as an image to match the name slowly show up on screen as we 'remember those bots who gave their spark in the Underbase Saga'. Congrats on the 5 years & many great videos sir!

I like to think the reason this episode didn't get made sooner is because the idea itself kept getting offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream. Lol, congrats on 5 years of helping others learn the basics on Transformers Concepts new and old. Lots of your vids have influenced many a discussion between me and my friends about the history of them all. If I may be so bold as to request an episode, I'm quite interested on the basics and history of IDW's Megatron. The stories of the famed leader who eventually forwent his ways and joined the Autobots are some very intriguing episodes. Maybe you can do an episode dedicated to the changing of sides? There are quite a few examples of Transformers changing allegiances. From Skyfire in G1 to Starscream in Armada, there must be a plethora of info you can use for such an episode! Anyways, thanks for the amazing vids and here's to another five years!

Just for clarification, as I remember seeing that panel in one of the very few Transformers comics I actually owned, have you covered the story of Starscream's resurrection after his death by Underbase-overload? And does it leads to the memetically infamous panel of Optimus and Megatron fighting back to back as Megatron admits that he was an idiot to bring Starscream back?

"And Jiaxus was eventually offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream"

So, in short, Starscream: >Gains god like power. >Destroys parts of the earth. >Kills a bunch of folks. >Dies Yup. Definitely sounds like a Starscream moment.

Thanos wipes out half the cast of the MCU, Starscream "Don't speak to me of the old magic fool, I was there when it was first written!"

Wow. Talk about a count of taken down Autobots and Decepticons. I mean just wow how Starscream was able to take down Omega Supreme with that much power.

Happy fifth anniversary! Thanks for all the cool info!

FINALLY. We've been waiting five years for this seminal moment.

I'd add Starscream's appropriation of, and assimilation with, the Warworld in G2 to that list at the end of the vid!

Take a shot for every bot is killed off in this basics on the underbase saga

If we don't see a story published one day where differently-cosmically-powered Starscreams from alternate universes (Allspark v Underbase v Enigma, etc.) go head-to-head against each other, I'll be sorely disappointed.

*WE FINALLY REACHED NIRVANA.* ALL HAIL THE COSMICALLY EMPOWERED *STARSCREAM!!* 💙❤

The Underbase Saga could have been the Infinity War of Transformers.

Huh, it's interesting how close that original story is to the modern Allspark. Makes me wonder if Michael Bay was actually inspired by it.

Such a suitable topic for the anniversary of this series x3 Happy 5th Anniversary! Here's to five more, and beyond! :3

As Usual Chris McFeely hits us with a Banger! Thank you Chris! The Underbase Saga is what drew me into the Marvel Comic universe and kept me there and YOU sir, have taught me a few things I didn't know about it. Could you possibly give us a "Difference between the Autobot/Creation Matrix" in a Basics episode. Thanx again for your AMAZING Work!

Optimus: You can't defeat me! Megatron: I know. But he can. *Cosmically Powerful Starscream has entered the chat*

My favorite storyline in the original Marvel G1 run. Imagine if Furman got to write it.

The Underbase looks like a Transformers version of a cosmic cube.

I swear dude, you gotta make a shirt thats says "I was offlined by a cosmically empowered Starscream, and all I got was this shirt." Anyway, happy 5th anniversary!!

Happy 5th anniversary Chris McFreely

STARSCREAM IS THE KING‼️ This is so cool, hasbro needs to release a titan class figure based on cosmic STARSCREAM. What a great story arc…I need this in a graphic novel format.

According to someone that payed the math bill if you take into account the various characters who simply disappear from the book Starscream off lines anywhere from 57 to 109 transformers.

*double kill!* *triple kill!* *overkill!* *killtrocity!* *killamanjaro!* *killionaire!*

Awesome video in fact it’s the most Hardcore one I ever watched and I never saw the original comics but after seeing this video I’ll have to read them online somewhere and I hope to see other videos again soon like one on Wreck Gar and perhaps one more for Beast Wars like Rattrap or Tarantulas but all and all it’s been a good 5 years watching all these videos so far and happy to be a subscriber to your channel.

basics on machine wars please.

Gosh has it really be 5 years? I been watching since episode one. But show so good it made time go quicker.

Happy 5th anniversary!! This was a great running joke on the channel, and its great to know how the saga happened and its effects on the franchise.

I'm surprised that Hasbro hasn't done a gold repaint of the Combiner Wars Leader class Starscream as a representation of the Underbase possessed Starscream from the Regeneration One comics.

…and then Chris McFeely was off-lined by a Cosmically-powered Starscream For real, though, happy 5th anniversary, Chris!

NICE!! Can't wait to see what episodes get updated. I had suggested that awhile back.