No, don't hold that there! Don't-- oh, bother.
Yesterday I mentioned that Soundwave was the first of five nominees for the Transformers Hall of Fame. Nominee number 2 is Grimlock, who is equally unsurprising. I mean, yeah, once voting opens, Soundwave has this locked up, but Grimlock is the only guy who could possibly ever steal it from him. Even though he won’t.
Just like Soundwave’s Hall of Fame bio, Grimlock’s also drops some new information about him. His speech impediment has been explained various ways before. In the Marvel stuff, he didn’t talk right because talking right was for prissy losers. He talked badly because he wanted to. In the original cartoon, he didn’t talk very well because he was a primitive creation of Wheeljack. (In fact, one could say that without a trip to Vector Sigma to endow him with life, he wasn’t actually truly alive, but merely a complex machine.)
The Hall of Fame bio claims that his speech is fucked up because Scorponok damaged his voice processor during a battle. Well, okay, let’s add that one to the pile, I guess.
Hopefully, Dinobot will be tomorrow’s nominee. If not, I may be kind of fucked (I’ll explain later), but if he is revealed to be a nominee sometime this week, I wonder what crazy retconned trivia we’ll learn about him. Is he Megatron‘s son? Did he earn his rigid grill structure for pulling off a successful heist? Will we finally learn what a steses pod is?
Who knows. Other than us, potentially sometime tomorrow morning.
I assume the Scorponok thing is a reference to the IDW series, but I can’t recall if his voice was screwed up before or after their first battle. At any rate, it was fixed within the issue and he talked fairly normally in every other story, so it’s kind of a moot point.
HAY unrelated, but you should mebbe update sarahpalinistheantichrist.com? [found a joke site and thought about it]
Just now I tried pointing it to http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/book-7/06-price-hike/mooseburgers instead, but it’s still 404ing for me. Hrn. Usually this works instantly…
Grimlock’s speech pattern being fucked-up because of Scorponok was explained in Spotlight: Grimlock.
You should know that. Shame on you!
No, it wasn’t. He had trouble with his vocal processor in Spotlight: Grimlock, sure, but he continued to talk completely normally thereafter.
The vocal processor trouble wasn’t due to a battle with Scorponok, either. It was incurred during his escape from Skywatch, who weren’t affiliated with Scorponok at all.
So I’m wondering if you actually read Spotlight: Grimlock.
(Are you Andy Schmidt?)
Hrm. This is interesting. Bumblebee next, perhaps? I want to say Shockwave, but he’s only ever been stunning in the comic continuity . . .
Bumblebee’s automatically inducted, as well as Prime, Megatron, and Starscream. Fans are voting on the fifth inductee.
Also the IDW comics and Animated.
With the angle of the photo, and position of Grimlock’s sword, it appears that Grimlock is the one with a “rigid grill structure”.
A big, hot, possibly throbbing rigid grill structure.
Okay, I’ll stop now…
That certainly isn’t alluded to in the image caption…
Did not notice that…
I still would have made the “big, hot, etc.” joke.
Since Hasbro thinks all Grimlocks are Grimlock, I wonder if the nomination includes this Grimlock. I guess so!
Ah! Need brain bleach! NOW!
YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED!!!
http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-5.cfm