Talk:Bombshell (G1)

Weevil?

So is he beetle or weevil? --Terrocon Blot 04:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

He's a rhinoceros beetle of some sort. --MCRG 06:59, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Might wanna make a trivia note then, since sometimes in the cartoon, they made him eat through the tip of his "horn", which is something weevils do. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Terrocon Blot (talk • contribs) 01:44, 7 February 2007.

• Exactly,have a look at this and compare it to Bombshell.ChoHIlqoq 16:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

This once came up on ATT. Bombshell's toy is definitely intended to be a rhinoceros beetle, but...nothing in Transformers shows it arranged appropriately for that. It's always got its "nose" sticking straight out, sometimes being used to eat, and I believe all the official references to his altmode just call him an "insect". I wouldn't be surprised to see that some licensed product called him a weevil at some point, though, and with how stylized his altmode is, it's hard to argue against that. -LV 17:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

IDW

Do we need a "Bombshell (All Hail Megatron)" page to separate that guy from the Bombshell in Spotlight: Blaster? I'm only half kidding. - Starfield 22:58, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

Considering that the one in AHM is a fully functional character while the one in Spotlight: Blaster could easily be retconned as a drone prototype of some sort, if either one deserves a separate page it would be the latter. -Cattleprod 23:46, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

If the Insecticons in AHM are all clones, the bombshell in Spotlight: Blaster may have been the original.

I say we just note the unresolved oddity on his page here. -Derik 00:07, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

Toy Picture

Would it be OK if I added my picture of the Toys "R" Us Insecticons multi-pack Bombshell toy? --Kirby 14:26, 1 August 2010 (EDT)

Rhinoceros Beetle

The idea that Bombshell is a rhinoceros beetle extends all the way back to the original Diaclone toy which is called the "Waruder Kabutron." "Kabutomushi" is the Japanese word for rhinoceros beetle. So no, it's not the result of "some incompetent at Takara" (whatever the hell that means), he has literally always been designed to be a rhinoceros beetle. And even then, the toy has the obvious design influences to make it look like a rhinoceros beetle; the multi-pronged horn, the little nub after it to represent the smaller secondary horn, the bulbous head, etc. See the main image here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rhinoceros_beetle. Escargon (talk) 07:59, 20 July 2023 (EDT)

Also Japanese culture has a stag beetle and/versus rhinoceros beetle thing going on since forever. (The stag beetle is Shrapnel.) Saix (talk) 08:18, 20 July 2023 (EDT)

The way he uses his horn to lay cerebro shells into his victims by shooting it from the tip of his horn, plus how he usually holds the horn completely horizontal, and can move it downwards too, to me suggests he is more of a weevil than rhinoceros beetle in the cartoon, even if his toy was designed to be a rhino beetle originally. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sunstorm95 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 17 September 2023‎.

...so? Why even bother to bring that up if you know that the toy was designed to be that? Escargon (talk) 15:56, 17 September 2023 (EDT)