If it had to have an edgelord-esque word like "Shadow" in it, I would have suggested just "Shadow Wing".
As an aside, how has Japan not used the name "Shadow Convoy" for anything yet?
I dunno. Humbling him and forcing him to become a lot more introspective was certainly a bold move, I feel.
Certainly kept him from being a static character like he was in the '80s, letting him grow and mature in a way nobody could have predicted.
And that heroic, selfless sacrifice of his...
In all honesty, we were brainstorming ideas for how TFTM could have let Optimus live (preferably while also allowing Hot Rod to still become Rodimus and take over as the new leader), since Deviations was brought up as an example of how not to do that.
Sorry, those toys couldn't be featured in the cartoon or its movie due to their molds being owned by Bandai, since the cartoon was also airing Japan and that would have given free advertisement to one of Takara's main rivals. Same reason we never got Roadbuster and Whirl onscreen, and why...
At the very least, we can probably anticipate that his (and those of the other Thirteen) altmode will probably be (in the words of Thew) some kind of a "Space Whatever".
Full disclosure: My legit favorite scene in the entirety of TFTM is the final scene, starting from when Hot Rod first grabs the Matrix from Galvatron and it starts glowing while "The Touch" starts playing for the second time in the movie. Everything from that point to the very end of the movie...
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