In a World of Depravity...there is Prime...
April 2001 - bighonkin

Big Honkin Steve back with more ramblings about life and Transformers. By the way I want to thank all of you who sent sympathy cards and flowers upon hearing of the demise of my Megatron...(sigh). Anywho, today I would like to probe the colateral cortex of your synapses and nerve endings...I just wanna get you thinking.
Has anyone else noticed that it is cool to be the bad guy? Look at anything nowadays, the cool guys are always really edgy and dark. It seems that bad guys are always cooler than good guys. And the good guys that are cool or tough have to have some type of darkness about them. It all started with Wolverine, then came the Punisher, then Spawn, now we are inundated with them: Stone Cold, Boba Fett, Darth Maul...in every genre, the bad boy is the cool guy. Except the Transformers. This is not a complaint mind you...rather a sigh of relief.

Did you ever notice that (and I am referring to the G1 Transformers.) No one was as cool or as tough as Optimus Prime. I mean, Megatron had to cheat to kill him and even then Megatron wound up half dead. It doesn't stop with Optimus Prime either. Who didn't think that Jazz or Wheeljack was the bomb. Then along came Hot Rod and Blurr, Ultra Magnus, Sky Lynx, Omega Supreme, Metroplex, hello? No one EVER wanted to be the whiny coniving Starscream or the stupid Insecticons, even Soundwave, to quote one of the constructicons, was Uncharisamatic at best. My point is, I think its great that fans of the Transformers are fans of cool good guys that aren't very dark. That in at least one instance, the good guys do stand up to the bad. But that's just my opinion.