Funny, people were comparing MECH more to Cobra at the time.For that matter, with Prime's MECH, we have a VENOM analogue all ready to go.
Funny, people were comparing MECH more to Cobra at the time.For that matter, with Prime's MECH, we have a VENOM analogue all ready to go.
True, but Cobra-plus-obsession-with-transforming-tech kinda leads inevitably to Venom.Funny, people were comparing MECH more to Cobra at the time.
It's always tricky having GI Joe and Transformers coexist in the same universe because the latter element escalates things immediately. It's hard to isolate and ignore it for the sake of telling GI Joe stories. They're the elephant in the room that always has to be acknowledged because why would a special military strike force not be deployed to deal with this sort of thing?
Unless you keep it to early stages of Infiltration protocol, and culminate with the GI Joes or Cobra or both stumbling upon the facsimiles used by the Decepticons. But from there the state of play has to change. Transformers becomes the Poochie of the world GI Joe inhabits.
Which isn't bad per se because there's plenty of stories to be told with that interaction, but it's a pervasive undercurrent for GI Joe stories that will have to be accounted for. Just shared universe things.
I think it's workable enough on a per-story basis (response and travel time alone would be a big card to play), but it's not the sort of thing that can keep happening that way and just be ignored. Before long it's "some highly trained special mission force, lol".
But like I said and to your point, the robots in disguise element can be leveraged if the coexistence is mostly done while the Cybertronians are in infiltration mode. That keeps the Transformers unknown/undiscovered and hiding, and turns it into a mystery the Joes need to track down over time rather than repeated "Dangit, just missed 'em".
I just wish that some of these groups stuck around after the series that spawned them. MECH is cool. Why not use it in other stories?For that matter, with Prime's MECH, we have a VENOM analogue all ready to go.
Right. Like... there needs to be someone going "oh you want to include a US government agency that works with or keeps tabs on the Transformers? We have this, you should use it."It likely boils down simply to "Everyone has their own idea that they want to add in as their own personal contribution, but it turns out it's all the same idea because no one does checks and balances on each other."
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The EDC, Sector 7, Skywatch, GHOST, UNIT-E, and MECH aren't terribly interesting on their own, which is why there's always a new org that basically does the same thing in the next revamp.It's probably because nearly all of those agencies aren't terribly interesting in and of themselves. Sometimes you get an interesting character, like Silas, but overall, they're treated as interchangable because they basically are.
So... you got induction duty, yeah?At least BotBots had the courtesy to reuse Sector Seven for its cartoon.
In all fairness, Cityformers like Fort Max and Metroplex aren't as big as Cityformers like Fort Max and Metroplex, at least where the toys are concerned.I've said it before and I'll say it again: They are big guys, yes, but not as big as Cityformers like Fort Max and Metroplex. They're more like the height of Combiners.