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Daisy being voiced by either Nicole Oliver, Tabitha St Germain, Britt McKillip or Kathleen Barr in the next Mario movie

*jokingly* It really is a canon event

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2052433931945857339

This is a theory I made back in 2020 so it might not be valid but I figured I’d give it a shot.

Studio Series Thundercracker’s toy claims that he is from Dark of the Moon, coming with a cardboard backdrop display depicting an aerial dogfight scene in that movie. However, as we all know, he does not appear in that movie himself, or any of the Micheal Bay movies for that matter….. or does he?

Studio Series Thundercracker is also a redeco of The Last Knight toyline Nitro Zeus, with his packaging art even being a reworked version of Nitro Zeus’s The Last Knight toyline packaging art, modified to look like Thundercracker down to even the modified head design. This is all shocking and somewhat suspicious considering that most Thundercracker toys tend to be redecoes of Starscream, especially since Starscream’s Studio Series toy was concurrently released with Thundercracker’s. Additionally, Nitro Zeus himself is modified from the KSI Boss model from Age of Extinction, which is one of the mass drones produced by KSI. As the body design used for Thundercracker wouldn’t be used, not to mention have a CGI model, until the movie AFTER Dark of the Moon, it makes this even more suspicious. There is another KSI bot that bears some similarities to a Decepticon that appeared in Dark of the Moon and then returned in the Last Knight, that being the Oreo Transformer resembling Barricade’s the Last Knight design. Barricade’s design in The Last Knight more closely resembles the Oreo Transformer than his original trilogy design.

Looking back at Dark of the Moon, Barricade was highly damaged during the Battle of Chicago, meaning he would have needed to undergo repairs, which he evidently did, seeing his design in The Last Knight. Several KSI robots are based on the original Transformers in general, with Galvatron originally being modelled after Optimus Prime only for Megatron’s mind to cause it to take a shape not unlike his own body, Stinger was inspired by Bumblebee and the Two Heads are based on Shockwave. This could mean the Oreo Transformer and the KSI Bosses also had basis of their own. Studio Series Thundercracker’s toy is meant to depict him as having participated in the Battle of Chicago. Since Nitro Zeus knows of Shockwave’s death, as stated in his bio (and I heard that some people said his tattoo either says or is translated to “RIP my homie Shockwave”), it’s possible that, like Barricade, he previously participated in the Battle of Chicago. Since Barricade was able to survive the injuries he sustained in Dark of the Moon, it’s possible that there were other Decepticons that had the same luck.

In Age of Extinction, it’s established that Cemetery Wind is hunting down all the remaining Transformers left on Earth after the Battle of Chicago, be they Autobot or Decepticon. However, we see that Brains was kept alive at KSI as a prisoner. Maybe there were other Transformers that shared the same fate, Barricade and Thundercracker among them. They could have either been freed when the Autobots stormed KSI’s Chicago and fled offscreen to avoid getting slaughtered by the Autobots, or they were freed when Galvatron and his new army destroyed KSI’s China facility.

If Nitro Zeus is Thundercracker, then, why the difference between Thundercracker’s toy head design, being Starscream’s but with two more eyes, and Nitro Zeus head, being Shockwave’s. Well, I believe the reason for that change could be similar, if not the exact same, as however Topspin’s head changed from his Dark of the Moon design to his the Last Knight design having Leadfoot’s head.

So here’s my theory: Thundercracker participated in the Battle of Chicago, was critically injured but survived, either witnessed or learned of Shockwave’s death. Was captured by KSI, kept as a prisoner and used as the basis for the KSI bosses, was either freed offscreen when the Autobots stormed KSI’s Chicago facility, in which he escaped the commotion, or when Galvatron activated the prototypes and destroyed KSI’s China facility, in which he and Barricade joined Galvatron’s army and participated in the battle of Hong Kong but the two escaped with Galvatron. Either way, Thundercracker renamed himself to Nitro Zeus and modified his head to be based on Shockwave’s but was eventually captured by the Transformers Reaction Force prior to the Last Knight.

Theory contains information from these two videos, the second one having served as inspiration for this theory

https://youtu.be/4gV4LNYcLyk?si=g5wKJCTe5y__vpi4 (by Theorymus)

https://youtu.be/Wt_gQ9QgYcc?si=OyBMrTEuNYf6n_Pi (by the Fire Brothers)

I saw this post on r/Mario talking about if Mario should have a crossover with Marvel due to Sonic having a crossover with DC. Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/s/WlIc0xoa9p. Most of the commenters in that post said that it wouldn’t work for the various reasons that can be found in that post. I then thought about the hypothetical concept of a Mario x My Little Pony crossover because in my opinion it works better due to the magical themes and the various creature interaction potential. I could see a G4 collab happening in China due to the Mario Galaxy Movie succeeding there and other fairly obvious reasons. What you guys should consider is the fact that My Little Pony has multiple generations, hence why I included “preferably with the franchise in general and not just G4” in the title. But what are your thoughts?

Annoying Orange and the Chinese restaurant drive thru lady from “Dude, Where’s My Car?”

No hate to the toys, but Studio Series was supposed to be a film based toyline meant to celebrate more than 10 years of the live action films. For the 3D ride, the 1986 movie and TF One I can excuse, but War for Cybertron, Reactivate, Devastation and Energon Universe is stretching it. It also bugs me that people want more comic characters in Studio Series for this reason