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After rewatching Transformers Animated, I had an idea for reworking one of the forgotten human characters—and I’ve got a cool plan for how to pull it off (I think, anyway xD).

I’m talking about Colossus Rhodes (that little old guy who took those "turbo-steroids").

I came up with the idea of making him a standalone character—not just a lackey for Meltdown—who poses a threat even in his normal form.

He’d be a silent, masked mercenary capable of dishing out a serious beating even without any modifications.

But when facing Autobots (or Decepticons), he’d use special devices that not only boost his muscle mass but also alter his DNA, transforming him into a mindless, animalistic beast (quadrupedal, with sharp teeth and claws).

What do you guys think of this idea?

Autobots serve as local heroes.

Arcana Magnus Height – 10 meters
Alt mode – fire truck

She is sarcastic, overprotective, kind, friendly and strong; she can be compared to a mother. She often takes Decepticon attacks on herself.

Gauge Height – 6.5 meters
Alt mode – excavator

Hard-working, curious, composed, she often questions authority. Right after Arcee she is the oldest in the group and frequently looks after her “brothers.” She likes art, loves painting on walls and reading history books.

Fixit Height – 5 meters
Alt mode – family car

He is a maniacal, crazy Autobot medic who loves experiments (on living subjects). He is quite arrogant, unable to show emotions and pretends that others don’t matter to him. He is usually calm and collected, but when he gets excited he acts like a madman, and when something pisses him off he explodes in a fit of rage, only to return to a calm state a moment later.

Hot-Shot Height – 3.5 meters
Alt mode – sports car

The youngest of the group. By nature he is direct, overconfident, bold, naive and a bit annoying. He loves playing video games and also enjoys racing. Hot-Shot really needs to prove his worth.

I regret that the Cult of Vox wasn't developed further, as it could have been an interesting parallel to how we treat stars today—influencers, actors, singers, and the like—almost like gods

Treadshot and Overcharge were sent to a moon near Quintessa (a planet belonging to the Quintessons) to locate Red Energon, a substance capable of vastly enhancing speed and reflexes. Unfortunately, they were killed by the Quintessons, who harvested their body parts to construct a destructive, controllable drone. At the site of the explosion, parts of another, much older Cybertronian—Battletrap—were also uncovered.

The Quintessons fused all three Cybertronians into a single entity named "Blitzwing." However, they failed to foresee that the sparks of Treadshot and Overcharge remained active; combined with Battletrap's spark—which was reactivated during the experiment—the resulting drone possessed three independent personalities and was highly unstable.

Blitzwing returned to the Decepticon ranks.

After the war, he joined Starscream's squad, which was tasked with hunting down and eliminating Autobots.

Treadshot: A composed, cool-headed sniper and silent assassin who prefers to eliminate targets quickly and efficiently; he treats his victims like game and enjoys setting traps.

Weapons: Cryo-bombs and a rifle that fires rounds capable of freezing targets upon impact; the weapon can also generate a super-cooled laser beam.

Overcharge: An aggressive brute who crushes everything in his path and flies into a rage over the slightest provocation; he delights in burning and melting his victims alive. Weapons: Grenades and a flamethrower; his hands feature scorching-hot fingers that inflict searing pain upon contact (one of these hands was used for Blitzwing, though its function depends on the personality).

Battletrap: A madman from ancient Cybertron—a serial killer who delighted in slowly torturing and murdering his victims, as well as fashioning trophies from them. After his spark was reactivated within a drone body, Battletrap is now nothing more than a mindless zombie driven solely by the urge to kill; he is also unstable and bestial.

Weapons: He can generate paralyzing beams that cause excruciating pain for an indefinite period; he is also equipped with grappling hooks and a flail.

Adict Storm attacked a small group of Autobots who were on break: Arcee, her brother Hot-Rod, her best friend Springer, and her wife Greenlight.

Adict easily defeated all four and kidnapped Greenlight, on whom Shockwave experimented by combining her CNA with that of a prehistoric Cybertronian spider.

Greenlight (who changed her name to Blackarachnia) joined the Decepticons because she was manipulated by Starscream (and also into a "father-daughter" relationship with him) and saw no other option.

After the Decepticons' victory and the exile of the Autobots, Blackarachnia worked as a scientist. Her skills in chemistry allowed her to create and sell drugs and potions. Her relationship with Starscream (who is Megatron's advisor) allowed her to dominate the post-war Cybertron drug empire.

Shortly afterward, Megatron announced the creation of special units to search for and kill Autobots. Blackarachnia was assigned to a small group led by Starscream. Befriending Blitzwing and Blast.

Height: 12 meters (the same height as other Decepticons, excluding Megatron and the Soundwave cassettes) Alt mode: Cybertronian prehistoric predatory spider and A sleek, fast Cybertronian car.

Powers:

Potent venom in fangs and spider legs.

Web-based weapon creation.

Stinging hair.

Starscream before the outbreak of the great war was a descendant of one of the most influential and wealthiest families on Cybertron. His ancestors belonged to the elite of the planet for many centuries. Unfortunately he was never given the chance to know them. His parents two powerful and respected Cybertronian females died literally a few seconds after they created his protoform. When the cocoon opened revealing an already fully formed young Cybertronian the first thing he saw were the dead bodies of his parents. Fortunately his ancestors had foreseen such a possibility and in their wills they had precisely bequeathed him their entire vast fortune. Thanks to this Starscream from the very first moments of his life became one of the richest Cybertronians. He possessed not only unimaginable amounts of credits but also vast real estate holdings as well as collections of rare artifacts and luxurious items. He led an extremely materialistic lifestyle. He bought the most expensive things solely to show others his status. He surrounded himself with the elite wealthy businessmen influential politicians and so on. Despite this he was treated like a pathetic loser who was tolerated only because of his fortune but never respected. At the same time through his status he built around himself a devoted group of fans who saw in him someone different than he really was. Despite all this wealth influence and circle of admirers Starscream desired something much more. He desired something that would ultimately satisfy his enormous ego and prove to others as well as to himself that he was worth something. He dreamed of absolute hegemony. He therefore decided to found his own political faction. Thanks to spending time among the elite he knew perfectly well what wealthy and power hungry Cybertronians really desired. He decided to use this to gain power over Cybertron and in the further perspective also over colonized planets such as Velocitron. The ideology of the group was cynical telling wealthy Cybertronians exactly what they wanted to hear. It also contained philosophical and pseudoscientific elements which Starscream also misinterpreted badly. According to the assumptions of the faction the more resources someone possessed the greater power they had. The law did not bind them they could bend circumvent or if necessary even change it. An important element of the ideology was also the concept of the white spark an idea that arose even before the Golden Age which was supposed to justify the superiority of the richest over the rest of society. Possessors of the white spark were allegedly destined to rule and stood above the gray mass which they deeply despised in the depths of their spark. In the concept there also appeared the idea to divide the elites into five categories. Each of them had its name from the names of the Guiding Hand a group of powerful scientists and leaders whose history had become shrouded in enormous myth and so they were treated like gods. The categories depended on the amount of cash possessed the more you had the more powerful category you belonged to and the more you could do. Needless to say Starscream himself belonged to the best category. Here are the names of these elite categories: The least wealthy: Epistemus (Knowledge) More wealthy: Solomus (Wisdom) More wealthy: Mortilus (Death) Even more wealthy: Adaptus (Change) The most wealthy: Primus (Life) Starscream gave his group the name Superioricons (from the word superior better: so that faction members would think they were better than others). In short The S. Starscream did not possess any charisma or natural leadership abilities traits that usually characterize great leaders. He was however brave enough to openly say to wealthy and power hungry individuals what they really thought but were afraid to utter aloud. He was an outstanding manipulator and schemer and in addition he possessed an ability that allowed him to become completely invisible which was suitable for spying on opponents and allies. He knew that he could not present himself as an infallible savior. Instead he crafted an image of an isolated visionary with flaws someone who possessed considerable knowledge but was still learning and developing and who preferred to spend time alone in silence and peace. A few rich individuals who had known Starscream for a long time joined the faction not out of conviction but for entertainment. They were certain that his project would not survive even the first few years. Other businessmen and members of higher spheres joined the Vicicons because they saw in them a chance to do absolutely anything they desired without any consequences. Screamer also had compromising recordings of several wealthy Cybertronians doing horrible things and forced them to join the faction so that the recordings would not see the light of day. Loyal fans of Starscream also joined wanting to support their idol. The leader himself additionally bribed several corrupt politicians to join the group. Thanks to this The S became an official registered political faction and not just an ordinary movement. The hierarchy within Superioricons was quite unusual and depended mainly on the function that a given member wanted to fulfill. At the very top stood of course Starscream. Below him was the council of the five richest members of the faction who were much more charismatic than the founder and were better commanders than him so in practice they did all the work in commanding the organization but they had to convey the teachings of the groups founder in a very theatrical way so that their subordinates would be more engaged in the cause. It is worth noting that only this five were the public and most active members of Superioricons. Starscream appeared in public only when it was necessary and the rest of the faction members were hidden from public opinion. Each of them managed their own subgroup. After joining the organization a new member could choose which of them they wanted to join. The internal structure of these groups already depended on the decisions of their leaders. The first group dealt with creating propaganda slogans and communication and was led by Onslaught. The second group managed finances fees and taxes and was led by Swindle. The third group developed the ideology and pseudophilosophical justifications and was led by Brawl. The fourth group was responsible for investing and buying out properties and was led by Vortex. The fifth group was responsible for the social media of Superioricons and was led by Hailstorm. It is also worth adding that members of a given group had no idea who was in another group it was a huge secret even for them. Instructions were transmitted via notes or code. It was organized in such a way that units did not share their work with other members except their contact or people in their work teams. The secrecy was so great that many members had never met the leader of the entire faction in person. Starscream drew the faction members into a network of situations resembling a sect though without religious elements. To make sure that no one would leave him he bought them extravagant things: the most expensive energon and to the council of five even small villas and allowed them to take several members of their groups so that they would take care of the villas. At the same time he took control over their finances and bank accounts and he blackmailed faction members from the elites threatening to reveal recordings and photos of them doing something horrible if they tried to oppose him. This made leaving the faction practically impossible. Many Cybertronians from higher spheres who had joined for a joke over time lost literally everything. Starscream turned them and the rest into his personal slaves and servants. He ordered the members except the council of five to give up their names from then on they were addressed by numbers and codes. He did this to make it difficult to detect who was a member of the faction and also to make it very difficult to connect with him himself he ordered that in public discussions he be called by various pseudonyms such as Ulchtar or Pretty Poison but inside the organization he was called by his official title. Starscream deliberately isolated himself and distanced himself from his subjects because he wanted his presence to be a reward for them especially for his fans and so that they themselves would desire to get closer to him. This aspect was also used by the council of five: they also deliberately limited members of their groups access to the commander of the entire faction and said that the harder they worked the greater access they would have to Starscream. When however the leader of the faction appeared at meetings he allowed his subordinates to talk to each other while he himself sat on the side looking at the ground with distance and distraction remaining silent. Whoever he decided to look at immediately became the center of attention and everyone fell silent so that the leader could talk to them. He also refused to create policy in the presence of others. He accepted proposals from the closest members of the faction and simply said something like I will take care of it. They learned about what decision he had made later from others but never directly from him. This made everyone remain in uncertainty and obsessively wonder what decision he would ultimately make. Many members of Superioricons of course those who had known the leader earlier from various parties for the rich did not even like Starscream nor feel comfortable around him but they did what he ordered because they decided that he would help them fulfill their goals. A certain part of The S hoped that Starscream would lose power in the group and if by some miracle he won he would only be the face of Cybertron while they would really rule. Inside the organization several rituals arose. The most important was celebrating Starscreams birthday. Then the leader for that time came out and willingly spent time with his subjects it is worth noting that each group had a different time spent with him so that they would not learn about each other. All members had to fulfill his whims play Cube his favorite sport listen to many hours of full of errors interpretations of Alpha Trions philosophy. The members had relative freedom in the daily activity of the faction as long as they performed their tasks well. Starscream was very strongly attached to order literally and figuratively he really disliked dirt around him and was strongly attached to plans and schedules. However without their consent and knowledge Superioricons were constantly eavesdropped on not only in the faction headquarters but also in their homes. Starscream thanks to his invisibility ability and eavesdropping knew their deepest thoughts problems weaknesses and desires which allowed him to manipulate them even more effectively. The faction was popular mainly among the wealthiest strata and fans of the founder. The rest of society did not want to have anything to do with it. To realize the dream of domination Starscream came up with the idea of eliminating other political factions except the Autobot Liberation Movement which at that time ruled the planet and it made no sense to fight them in order to limit the possibility of choice in the upcoming elections for the ruling faction. They began to absorb smaller political factions primarily those ideologically close to The S. He did this by killing their leaders and staging the deaths as accidents or suicides and then forging documents about voluntary joining to the faction smaller less popular factions and politicians also joined of their own will inspired by the success that Superioricons achieved they wanted Starscream to teach them how to reach such a position people from the taken over factions were added to one of the five subgroups of Superioricons their names were changed and the rest of the planet never heard a word about them again. In this way he enlarged the ranks and took over influences so much that The S occupied 78 percent of the territories of Vos that is the city state on Cybertron although they did not rule this area they still had a very large influence on it and through the secretive nature of the group Vos became a city of ghosts. At the same time Starscream got rid of personal rivals not only in politics but also in private life those who had damaged his image or simply did not like him. Many subordinates of the faction mainly those who wanted more power had no problem with killing and even torturing others. They did this also for their own sadistic reasons to satisfy their brutal inclinations. It must be noted that attacks on others were carried out only by two groups of the faction exactly the group led by Hailstorm and Brawl the three remaining groups had no idea about these attacks and the leaders plan. Journalists detectives and independent conspiracy theorists who were opposed to The S those who were voters of the faction were supported were also eliminated. On larger and ideologically different factions terrorist attacks were organized. The society of Cybertron was absolutely terrified by this fact and the fact that no evidence could be found of who was the perpetrator deepened it even more. After 150 years on Cybertron only two significant political forces remained: the ruling Autobot Liberation Movement and Superioricons. Over time Starscream began to lose his fortune. Extravagant buying of gifts for members huge amounts of narcotics gambling financial frauds and bad investments brought him to the brink of bankruptcy. Groups led by Onslaught Swindle and Brawl without the knowledge of the leader to recover losses began to launder dirty money produce and sell narcotics rob others. They managed however to cover their tracks and frame other Cybertronians mainly the poorest for example the homeless thereby sentencing them to prison or the death penalty. Thanks to this they could calmly operate in the shadows without fear of being caught. Starscreams mental state deteriorated avalanche like. He fell into deep paranoia and psychosis. He saw a conspiracy everywhere. He began to practice cannibalism. The doctrine became strongly antigovernment. The leader claimed that the Senate would lead to the fall and enslavement of society. He also said that they should take power by force. In the views one could now find strong elements of conspiracy theories. The leader genuinely believed in the theories he proclaimed. He told members that his parents were one of the most important nobility in the history of Cybertron and their death was a conspiracy of the Senate which wanted to take full power although he knew that this story was complete nonsense. Starscream himself began to believe in it because he wanted to believe in it. When information reached him that the police had made a breakthrough in the investigation regarding the series of murders terrified Starscream himself made the final decision. He did not intend to go to prison he did not want to lose. He was so desperate that he preferred to literally extinguish his spark and that of his slaves. He gathered all the unaware members of The S in a tall skyscraper in the very center of Vos. The hall where meetings had already taken place earlier was oval in shape and the chairs were arranged in such a way that everyone always paid attention to him when he stood in the very center this was the first time when all members of each group were together and for some it was the first meeting with Starscream in person. Before the meeting he secretly placed huge amounts of explosives in the building and took a huge dose of narcotics. After a chaotic maniacal speech that sounded like the babble of a madman he pressed the detonator. The explosion killed not only the majority of Superioricons thereby ending the activity of the faction which had lasted 790 years but also killed and injured many random Cybertronians in the vicinity. Starscream and the council of five barely survived themselves. The special services when they saw his barely alive body immediately took it to appropriate facilities the council members were too mutilated to treat them so their personality modules were removed and hidden. After years spent in the hospital he was accused of serial murders terrorism running a criminal group brainwashing mental and financial violence mass murders and complicity in laundering dirty money. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and placed in a prison with heightened security due to numerous escape attempts and suicide attempts. Starscream after many centuries spent in prison calmed down enough to no longer hide his murderous tendencies and learned what not to do. When a million years later war broke out on Cybertron Starscream used the chaos to escape from prison. He joined the Decepticons although he did not believe in their revolutionary ideals at all. He did it somewhat out of boredom having nothing better to do he was lucky most Decepticons were born after he was sentenced and the rest during the time of The S were outside the planet so they could not know about his past. Thanks to his intelligence he quickly advanced to military strategist and creator of propaganda shaping the image of the Decepticons as saviors of the planet. He was also a very good warrior who sowed terror among the Autobots. Starscream gave the impression of being very loyal and was extremely effective in what he did however he desired greater power over the Decepticons and adopted a different tactic: he decided to befriend Megatron. He began to support the Decepticons even more and suck up to Megatron. He pretended to be a loyal soldier teaching him how to be a good commander. When their relationship became closer and they could be called close colleagues Starscream subtly manipulated Megatron transforming him from an ambitious revolutionary into a brutal tyrant. He said things like What? You will not kill them? A true leader would not hesitate for a moment. He also used his ability to become invisible to spy on Megatron solve his problems and thereby pass for someone who always had a solution. Several Decepticons were involved in Starscreams plot. They thought that the seeker simply wanted his plans to come out perfectly because he liked to be praised and during praises he behaved very strangely which was fun to watch. That is why they helped him out of boredom and for entertainment: they simply turned up his plans even more removed all irregularities and obstacles that could harm Starscreams military strategic plans. They liked to watch his strange and funny reactions when someone thanked him for his ideas. They practically turned him into some strange theater not having any idea about Starscreams true and darker plans. Starscream however does not know about this he is convinced that he himself pulls all the strings. On suspicious Decepticons he created false compromising recordings so that their words were worthless and the cons who helped Starscream confirmed his version so that it would be more credible. In this way in a certain sense he achieved his goal he had a very large influence on the Decepticons but he had to pretend complete loyalty to Megatron. Starscream for long years made Megatron and thereby the Decepticons dependent on himself. Starscreams strategic plans were too important to get rid of him or allow him to die so he had to be constantly protected. Thanks to this he did not have to worry about being killed. When after millions of years the war came to an end the Decepticons won and exiled the Autobots from Cybertron. Starscream became the official advisor and deputy of Megatron gaining enormous influence on the planet. He also gave himself the title Air Chancellor Starscream. Despite very large influences on the planet he was not its ruler as he desired and he felt that more was due to him. Later a special federation was established to eliminate the surviving Autobots. Although he was not the commander of the entire organization it was he who came up with its name Spark Suppressors in short SS. This name was not accidental the abbreviation constitutes a subtle reference to the name of Starscream himself. In reality he wanted the organization to kill in his name but at the same time he cared that it would not be obvious to others.Starscream volunteered to be the commander of one of its smaller units because he derived perverse pleasure from killing and torturing others and also satisfied his cannibalistic inclinations in this way.

Menasor is gonna be quadrupedal, btw

Pathetic rich dad and his smart, strong daughter!

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