This guy is freaking awesome.--Dynamus Prime 04:48, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- What are you basing that on? ;) -Derik 05:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- If Hasbro announces a toy based on a Dreamwave or IDW oiginal character AS SOON as the character is announced, you know he's gonna be freaking epic.
That, and he's the longlost mechanical brother of Samurai Jack.--Dynamus Prime 16:00, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- I still say this 'Drift' guy is like somebody vomited japanese pop culture stereotypes into Transformer form. Dynamus, I feel that I should mock you for using slang such as 'freaking epic'. --FFN 16:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- I think he deserves mocking because his username is "*-imus Prime," but that's neither here nor there. -hx 20:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It's just Boss's body in an exceptionally boring deco for a supposed "drift" racer, with Cybertron Override's head. I have a nasty suspicion we're looking at a canonized Echowarrior deal here. My apathy is palpable. --M Sipher 17:44, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- Glad I'm not the only person who noticed that this guy is just Boss. What's an Echowarrior? EDIT: Never mind, I just googled it. Another badass self-insertion character. Great. Just fucking great. --FFN 18:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- So I take it there's designs online somewhere? And a profile...?
- (Also thos article, is currently an orphan. All Hail Megatron should probably link to it, but- er- I lack a cite.) -Derik 18:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- As David said, he's KEWL, in presumably the mocking way we know and love David for. --FFN 18:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- And profile snippet of sorts in a Newsarama interview: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080725-SDCCIDWTformers.html
- "Drift has quite an Eastern outlook on everything and follows the ethos of 'be like water'. He's calm, collected but also capable of significant acts of violence."
- (To which my initial reaction was, "Didn't Transformers: Animated beat you to the punch for that sort of character?") Jeysie 18:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- As David said, he's KEWL, in presumably the mocking way we know and love David for. --FFN 18:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Let me guess: this guy is a badass wandering samurai robot. He probably has a sword and is cool and collected and kicks a bunch of ass and knows kung-fu and doesn't afraid of anything. I'm SO excited. Why couldn't we just get an existing character to shoehorn this personality onto? What's Manta Ray up to these days? How about Double Clutch? -hx 18:32, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think a 1-sentence character capsule provides sufficient basis to dismiss the character. Just because he sounds like something Pat Lee would think is awesome doesn't mean he'll be written that way.
- (Thanks for the links.) -Derik 18:34, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- I just wnat to know what story role could possibly require introducing an all new character to the series rather than just using a different Totally Badass Autobot Toughguy. I hear Rapido's looking for work. -hx 18:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- Manta Ray already has a personality. He makes puns. Bad puns. (Which makes him the only G1 character to have any discernible personality at all in the comics.)
- Double Clutch I will grant you. -Derik 18:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
How about this? Drift is Wreckers Devcon crossed with Ninja Rick. --FFN 18:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- Done as a light comedic romp, I'd read that. Drift thinks he's the baddest motherfucker in the galaxy, but he basically is the TF equivalent of Groo. -hx 20:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)