Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Karl's Top 7 - Most Badass Characters on Beast Wars

Many don't know this, but Beast Wars is actually the greatest television show ever made. The show started with a basic concept of having gorillas fight dinosaurs (which, on it's own, sounds fucking sweet) and kicked up a notch by also making the gorillas and dinosaurs Transformers. Then they made shit real by setting the whole show on *spoilers* Earth. I know what you're thinking, and yes, the show was often dangerously intense and overwhelmingly badass. I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to watch Beast Wars if you have a heart condition because there's so much action.
I remember having a VHS of the first two episodes, and it came with a card that, when you turned it, changed from Optimus Prime Animal Form and Robot Form. I guarded that card with my life.

7. Tarantulus
When I was younger, I liked Tarantulus alot more, but upon more recent viewings, he's kind of a dick. He still can shoot bullets from his arms and has cool gadgets though.


6. Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime may have been the leader of the Maximals, and was almost always down for scrap, but he was also an idiot and could barely keep his shit together. He repeatdly got the shit kicked out of him even though he was supposed to be the most powerful. And whenever he fought someone in Beast Mode he looked like a really muscular midget fighting. Which is kinda cool, but not really.

5. Inferno
Inferno's crazy loyalty and clear love of violence I felt made him one of the best Predicons, and he quickly became the second command after Megatron following Scorponok's death. Dude's fucking nuts, and with the ability to fly and duel machine guns/flamethrowers, he's ready to fuck shit up.

4. Tigatron
Tigatron is one smooth customer. He sounded like Barry White, and I imagine he did the best with the ladies out of any Transformer. He also had a gun that looked like it was partially made out of brains. Awesome.

3. Depth Charge
Depth Charge started out as a rouge (badass) and eventually joined up with the Maximals. He kicked some serious ass and did it on the regular.

2. Tigerhawk
He's a tiger-hawk hybrid (in case you didn't pick that up from the name). Nuff said.

1. Rhinox
Rhinox was just about as badass as they come. He wasn't they type to go looking for fights, but when it came time to rumble he used his twin machine guns to kick serious ass. I think he might have had a sword too, not that anybody could get close enough to him that he could use it. 

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