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Angry Archer

2008-05-04T18:15:52Z

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:''Angry Archer is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:AngryArcher01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Look, it's the Mad Archer!" "ANG-GU-REE! ANG-GU-REE! I AM THE ANG-GU-REE ARCHER!" "Whatever."]]

One of the human supervillains who menaces [[Detroit]] in the near future, the '''Angry Archer''' bears a strong resemblance to the traditional portrayal of Robin Hood; this includes a cheesy 16th century British accent. The seemingly cybernetic arm (or glove), high-tech arrowheads and glider-pack are new, though. He uses his skills with a bow and arrow in his criminal schemes.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Vocal thespian:'' [[Jeff Glen Bennett]] (English), [[Kaspar Eichel]] (German)

[[Image:AngryArcher02.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Hunt, hunt, hunt! He's the... Archer-man.]]

The Angry Archer didst reveal himself from within the shadows of the night. Dropping down on a passing horseless carriage, he bade its occupants stand and deliver. Howe'er, the local enforcers of the law didst vex him with their approach. This worried him not, for a swift rescue carriage was passing. Latching on't, he didst away with glee. But, forsooth, the carriage didst [[Transformation|shift form]] to become [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|a metal giant]], who defeated the Archer with reckless abandon.

Whilst the Angry Archer pled that he desired naught but fame and fortune, flying cameras arrived anon to record his humiliating fate. The metal giant then didst mock him most cruelly, advising the Archer he would have to settle for fame. Oh, what a twisted move by the fickle hand of fate. {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is|Home Is Whither Thine Ember Is}}

{{spoiler|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}
[[Image:Wreck-garangryarcher.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Didst thou dare to be stupid, yon rubbish lorry?]]
The Angry Archer was next espied fleeing from constables with his latest ill-gotten finery. His escape was madeth easier when said constables ran into [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] and wer't dashed rightly senseless. The Archer convinced the clockwork squire to journey with him and help with future roguish gallantry, and did even give him his new appellation. Alas, yon giant couldst not distinguish a difference 'twixt jewels, tools, and spools, so much of the bounty would ne'er be seen again. In their next sortie to lay low an armored coach, the two highwaymen ran afoul of yet more [[Ratchet (Animated)|celestial]] [[Bumblebee (Animated)|knights]], who convinced the tractable trash-toting titan to turn 'gainst the valiant Archer. The befuddled behemoth didst then try to "catch" his former cohort by hurling him high into yon blue sky. When danger reared its ugly head, the Archer turned his tail and fled. {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out|What Thou Cast into the Midden, Thou Shall Receive}}

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== Trivia ==
* This character's name and face are a play on Transformers design director [[Aaron Archer]]. The initial designs were conceived by [[Cartoon Network]] without Archer's awareness, and his original name would have been "Aaron the Archer," then "Aaron the Angry Archer."

* Once he learned of the character, the only change Aaron was able to request was to make the Archer left-handed, like Aaron himself.

* His anachronistic robotic left hand was added to point out that even such a historically-immersed character would still be taking advantage of future Detroit's advanced technology.

* The Angry Archer's arrowhead arsenal <strike>ancludes</strike> '''i'''ncludes....
**Magnetic grappling lines
**Laser cutters
**Steel fists
**Grenades

* He's also kind of a riff on [[wikipedia:Green_Arrow|Green Arrow]] and [[wikipedia:Red_Arrow|other]] [[Wikipedia:Hawkeye|archer-themed]] supercharacters, if you hadn't noticed.

* Angry Archer's voice is Jeff Bennett's "[[wikipedia:John_Cleese|John-Cleese]]-ish" voice, which he's used for characters in other cartoons, including Lord Bravery (Legally, it's ''Lord Smoked Meats and Fishes'') from ''[[wikipedia:Freakazoid!|Freakazoid!]]''.

*[[Professor Princess]] is more of a threat. Sucks to be Angry Archer.

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Sentinel Prime (Animated)

2008-05-04T18:10:49Z

82.34.15.240:

{{disambig3|Sentinel Prime}}

:''Sentinel Prime is an [[Autobot]] in the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Animated SentinelPrime earthrobot.jpg|250px|right|thumb|"Where is the jerk that calls himself Sentinel Prime?"<BR>"'''I''' am that jerk!"]]

'''Sentinel Prime''' is a member of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] under the command of [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]. Sentinel has a history of rivalry with [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], who attended the [[Autobot Academy]] with him. In his academy days, he was somewhat of a maverick, leading the more responsible Optimus to refer to him as a "walking malfunction." Of course, he's the one that ended up on the Elite Guard while Optimus was sent off to repair space bridges, of which fact he's all too fond of reminding his former classmate. He also has a bit of a superiority complex toward non-guardsmen Autobots, not to mention that he's intensely organic-phobic.


All things considered, he's kind of a jerk.

His alt-mode is a snow plow truck. He possesses an energy lance and an arm-mounted shield which can be expanded into a force-field, as well as tossed about as a weapon. Basically, he's a knight in shining armor...if he wasn't such a jerk.

{{quote|But Sentinel...}}{{quote|...is a glitch-head. All due respect.|[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] sum up Sentinel Prime|"[[The Elite Guard]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{ongoing}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[Townsend Coleman]] (English), [[Peter Reinhardt]] (German)
[[Image:animated_sentinel1.JPG|left|thumb|200px|"You're gonna need tickets to{{m-}}THE GUN SHOW!"]]

Sentinel took Optimus and [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] on a mission looking for an old Decepticon warship, hoping to get all the [[energon]] stored within. However, they ran into a pack of massive arachnids. Sentinel tried to hold them off long enough for Optimus and Elita to escape. When he came across a ship that Optimus and Elita had found, Optimus had to drag him away from the exploding energon, forcing them to leave Elita-1 behind. Optimus's radar couldn't find Elita's energy signature, and he assumed that she was dead. A furious Sentinel blamed Optimus for what happened, even though this whole disaster had been ''his'' idea. Jerk. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}

Years later, he was still a jerk. When Optimus Prime rang up the Cybertron Elite Guard to tell them of the Decepticons in pursuit, he sneered that a screw-up like Optimus wasn't worth the attention of Ultra Magnus. Piping through a visual of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] from the cargo hold of the ''Ark'' shut him up quickly enough. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!}}

[[Image:Sentl prime alt.jpg|right|thumb|200px|When the snow starts a-falling, There's a man you should be calling...]]
Later, the Elite Guard visited Earth to reclaim the AllSpark. When [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] decided to take a closer look at the humans, Sentinel warned that organics could spew out slime that melts through armor plating, deliberately goading Optimus Prime with memories of Elita One's fate. He decontaminated Optimus Prime's crew after setting a force field around the ship. When he heard that they'd defeated [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and the Decepticons, he didn't believe Optimus, almost causing a fight between him and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]. Sentinel boasted to Ultra Magnus that he had taken the initiative and scanned some "typical" Earth vehicles so they would not draw undue attention. He had, in fact, scanned massive, destructive vehicles for them both.

En route to [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], Sentinel further evidenced how subtlety obviously isn't his strong point by driving through a blockade and off an overpass still under construction. When he, Optimus and Magnus arrived, they encountered the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, and Sentinel began to attack, believing their technology was primitive. [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]]'s subsequent [[transformation]] caught him off guard. They then went back to the city to take care of malfunctioning police drones. Sentinel started to act like a jerk again, more worried about organic contamination, and vowed to see Optimus arraigned on charges of high treason, but Optimus finally told Sentinel off, saying to his former friend that Sentinel was on his turf now. Even when shown proof of the AllSpark not being destroyed, Sentinel's attitude did not change. He was thus rather surprised when Ultra Magnus said that Optimus had characteristics that Sentinel himself could stand to learn.

Ha ha. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}

[[Image:Sentinelprimeanimatedbattlemask.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Come one, come all! Join the merriment at the Cybertronian Renaissance Faire!.]]
[[Image:Sentinelprimeanimatedknightmode.jpg|thumb|right|150px|He's here to eat giant turkey legs and kick butt... and he's all out of giant turkey legs.]]
Not taking the criticism to heart at all, he continued to be a general jerk to Optimus, the local police, humans, and pretty much everyone. His comeuppance would soon come in the form of a humiliating body-jacking by the Headmaster. Putting his reputation (and his noggin) in Optimus Prime's hands, he trusted his comrade to help him get his body back without letting anybody else find out. In this state he was slightly less condescending to Optimus, but it was hard to talk down to someone when reduced to 1/10th his size. He still had choice words about Optimus' practices in the process of saving his body however, such as ripping its arm off and using his head as a soccer ball. Deep down, Optimus was enjoying himself.

After recovering his body, Sentinel had to face the embarrassing prospect of reporting to Ultra Magnus, but surprisingly enough, Optimus covered for him. It took every ounce of effort for the big guy to utter a "thank you" to his comrade later.

While in the Headmaster's possession, Sentinel's body's weapons were upgraded into more powerful forms. At the moment it's not clear whether Sentinel got to keep the upgrades when the Headmaster Unit was separated or not.
{{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}

Unfortunately, the whole Headmaster debacle ''still'' failed to purge Sentinel of even a dram of his jerk quotient. When Optimus protested Ultra Magnus's decision to have his crew join the rest of the Autobots off-Earth, Sentinel was quick to jump on Optimus, saying that ''no'' sign of Decepticon activity had been detected (failing to consider that the Decepticons had been dampening their signals). He even went so far as to bribe Optimus with an offer of reinstatement in the Elite Guard if he went along with the official story. Through all this, he was more than slightly keen to slap [[stasis cuffs]] on Optimus in order to get him to comply with Magnus's orders.

[[Image:Sentinel Prime shocked.jpg|thumb|left|Will get owned again...]]
When the Elite Guard's ship detected an AllSpark fragment in a runaway passenger train (actually a trap set by [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]), Sentinel was irritated to find that he had to stay behind and nursemaid "Maintenance Prime" while Ultra Magnus and Jazz set off to investigate. The situation got worse when, discovering Decepticon presence, Optimus goaded Sentinel into a blind attack and took the opportunity to slap the stasis cuffs on ''him.'' Poor sap...{snicker}

Sentinel eventually worked his way out of the cuffs and pursued Optimus to where the AllSparked train had stopped, threatening to have him tried and blacklisted for assaulting an Elite Guard, dismissing out of hand Optimus's justification of Decepticon involvement. Fortunately for Optimus, Megatron and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] chose that moment to blast Starscream to the ground in front of the Autobots.

[[Image:Sentinel vs Optimus, with Jazz in the middle.jpg|thumb|right|"You're a jerk!" "No, you!" "No, YOU!" "Ummm... bad guy?"]]
Sentinel had to take more time than the other Elite Guards to rally; unlike Magnus and Optimus, he had never seen a Decepticon before. Initial dismay aside, Sentinel did manage to last longer than the other Autobots against Starscream's onslaught, but the only reason he didn't fall was that Optimus took the stasis cuffs Sentinel had brought with him (anticipating Optimus's formal arrest as he was) and slapped them onto Starscream. Sentinel still thought Optimus drew out that battle on purpose.

Afterwards, Magnus expressed admiration over Optimus's willingness to disregard what were clearly ill-informed orders—praise to which Sentinel, predictably, objected. This just earned him another chastisement from Magnus about how sometimes the right thing ''was'' to trust one's gut over the book. Shortly afterwards, the Elite Guard departed for Cybertron. Sentinel could probably sigh in relief—no more looking worse than the "washout". {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Deluxeanimatedsentinel.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Must suck that [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|the washout]] gets better toys.]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (Deluxe, 2008)
: Sentinel Prime transforms into a monster-truck snowplow, and is armed in robot mode with his trademark shield and lance. Unfortunately, due to the size it will be incompatible with the [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] accessory (which only works with Leader class toys).
{{comingsoontoy}}

==Trivia==

[[Image:TFASentinel.jpg|right|thumb|'''''Spoooon!''''']]
* Sentinel Prime's blue coloration and ''especially'' pronounced chin (even by normal ''Animated'' standards!) really make him look like [[wikipedia: Tick (comics)|The Tick]]. He's even voiced by Townsend Coleman, who provided the voice of the Tick in his 1990s animated series. At the Cartoon Network panel at BotCon 2008, it was confirmed that Sentinel's design was created after Coleman was cast for the role. It's pretty evident that the writers are running with it, having him utter silly, Tick-esque lines like "Energon-y goodness!"
* Sentinel Prime's shield-tossing fighting style is a fairly direct reference to [[Captain America]]. Far more coincidentally, one of Captain America's many sobriquets is the "Sentinel of Liberty".
* In "[[The Elite Guard]]", it is revealed that the "Prime" in his and Optimus's name is a designation of rank, so despite Optimus being an academy washout, he's still Sentinel's equal. This no doubt irritates Sentinel quite a bit.
* Though characters named "[[Sentinel Prime]]" have been used or shown in two comics continuities and mentioned on the back of toy packaging, this is the first time a character named "Sentinel Prime" has been used in a cartoon and been produced as a toy.

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Headmaster (Animated)

2008-03-15T17:40:35Z

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:''The Headmaster is a [[human]] in the [[Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Headm_anim.JPG|right|thumb|180px|Galactus and the Leader's secret lovechild.]]

The '''Headmaster''' is the alternate identity of '''Henry Masterson''', a disgruntled [[Isaac Sumdac|Sumdac]] employee with the ability to take control of robots by replacing their heads. He's a gigantic dork with bad hair who plays too many video games and uses terms like "noobs" and "total ownage!", making the viewer assume he still lives in his parents basement.

==Fiction==
===Animated===
{{spoiler|Headmaster (episode)}}
Henry Masterson was a nerd with an emo hairstyle who came up with a machine that can replace the heads of war robots. However, [[Isaac Sumdac]] doesn't like the idea, since Sumdac doesn't make war robots. So, in a fit of Donald Trump-esque rage, he dismisses Henry.

Henry decided that he didn't need Sumdac to produce his headmaster units, and reasoned that having his own company would be "wicked sweet." However his main problem was that he made the Headmaster unit much larger than most robot bodies could support, causing their legs to buckle and break. Henry was hard-pressed to find a proper host for the unit until he saw Bulkhead on television. The emo jerk ambushed Bulkhead and decapitated him before going on a rampage in the Autobot's body.

Then, the lunatic decided to activate a solar nuclear reactor ''thing'' that would BLOW UP ALL OF DETROIT WITH HIM IN IT. Of course, the Autobots stopped this, but he got away, when the Headmaster unit sprouted tiny, tiny little arms and legs and scampered off into the night. {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
*'''Bulkhead''' (Leader, 2008)
:The Headmaster appears as a second head that can be fitted over Bulkhead's head. This feature is available on all Leader class toys. Applying the head alters the sound gimmicks of said toys, causing them to play clips of the Headmaster.

{{charstub}}

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Headmaster (Animated)

2008-03-15T17:39:14Z

82.34.15.240: /* Animated */

:''The Headmaster is a [[human]] in the [[Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Headm_anim.JPG|right|thumb|180px|Galactus and the Leader's secret lovechild.]]

The '''Headmaster''' is the alternate identity of '''Henry Masterson''', a disgruntled [[Isaac Sumdac|Sumdac]] employee with the ability to take control of robots by replacing their heads. He's a gigantic dork who plays too many video games and uses terms like "noobs" and "total ownage!"

==Fiction==
===Animated===
{{spoiler|Headmaster (episode)}}
Henry Masterson was a nerd with an emo hairstyle who came up with a machine that can replace the heads of war robots. However, [[Isaac Sumdac]] doesn't like the idea, since Sumdac doesn't make war robots. So, in a fit of Donald Trump-esque rage, he dismisses Henry.

Henry decided that he didn't need Sumdac to produce his headmaster units, and reasoned that having his own company would be "wicked sweet." However his main problem was that he made the Headmaster unit much larger than most robot bodies could support, causing their legs to buckle and break. Henry was hard-pressed to find a proper host for the unit until he saw Bulkhead on television. The emo jerk ambushed Bulkhead and decapitated him before going on a rampage in the Autobot's body.

Then, the lunatic decided to activate a solar nuclear reactor ''thing'' that would BLOW UP ALL OF DETROIT WITH HIM IN IT. Of course, the Autobots stopped this, but he got away, when the Headmaster unit sprouted tiny, tiny little arms and legs and scampered off into the night. {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
*'''Bulkhead''' (Leader, 2008)
:The Headmaster appears as a second head that can be fitted over Bulkhead's head. This feature is available on all Leader class toys. Applying the head alters the sound gimmicks of said toys, causing them to play clips of the Headmaster.

{{charstub}}

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