User:TheStrongestBad

TheStrongestBad is a human and Transformers fan from the TFWiki portion of the Real Life continuity family.

I'm TheStrongestBad (he/him) (July 26, 1994 - ), a Filipino-American guy from Chicago who has had a healthy diet of Japanese robot anime and toys since childhood, so naturally, Transformers was right up my alley.

I'm also known on most other sites as PutYaGunsOn ("Guns" for short), and am active on the TFWiki Discord Server.

I also know a lot of words in the Japanese language and can read it on a kindergarten, maybe first grade level. But I'm no fluent speaker as of now.

Optimus Prime was, is, and always will be one of my life role models, hence why I'm here. But when it comes to characters I'm generally a pretty big Grimlock, Arcee, and Hot Shot fan. I used to be a Rodimus hater, but the guy's really, really grown on me.

Creator of the Following Stuff

Sandboxes

• Reissues Sandbox - For keeping track of toys that have been straight reissued, packaging and all.
• Blokees - A sandbox for making a proper, official article on Blokees model kits. NOTE: This is now obsolete as we now have a proper Blokees page. If I need a new sandbox for whatever reason I'll repurpose this one instead of making a new one.

Wiki Articles

• Aphrodi A
• Entertainment Earth
• Kōji Kabuto
• Sayaka Yumi
• TakaraTomy A.R.T.S

Fan Works

• To Be Optimized - Sequel to Go-Bots issue 5.
• A New Titan - The Transformers: The Movie and Titans Return marketing material canon weld to explain why Brawn's mom let him have two toys in that line.
• Ferrous - A prequel story about Ironhide during his days in the Cybertron Civil Defense Force, well before Megatron's uprising. Inspired by his section in the History of the Transformers sleep story from Calm.
• No Less Of A Prime - Sequel to Power of the Primes cartoon.
• Trial By Laser - My own reimagining of Shell Game starring Optimus Prime rebuilt into G2 Laser Optimus.
• One Thing About Nucleon - An Optimus Prime character study where the Action Masters commercial turns out to be a distant sequel to One. Contains Transformers One spoilers.

External Fanon Wiki Articles

Note: I will most likely not contribute to these wikis anymore

• TransFanon: Hot Shot (G1) - An article on the Hot Shot depicted in one of my personal canons.
• TransFanon: Laser Optimus Prime (RID) - An article on the Optimus Prime depicted in one of my personal canons.
• TransFanon: Ren Kazemaru - A Diaclone OC.

My History with Transformers

Robots in Disguise

I had a couple of Machine Wars toys as a kid, I don't remember getting them, I was probably too young to remember. The first toy I actually remember getting was Rapid Run, which I credit for kickstarting my shift from toy trains to action figures. I eventually got more Robots in Disguise toys, completing both Omega Prime and Rail Racer.

From there, I started watching the RID anime on Fox Kids.

Generation 1

At the same time, I learned of the existence of the Generation 1 cartoon from my parents, who would have been teenagers when it originally aired. They eventually got me the full first season on DVD box set as a gift. I distinctly remember my dad misidentifying Megatron's infamous Walther P38 altmode as a German Lugger (sic).

I was a proud owner of the Bumblebee and Cliffjumper keychains and the Commemorative Series Optimus Prime.

Unicron Trilogy

Naturally, I became an Armada fan and collector, finally having a Transformers show that my friends at school also watched.

I lost interest shortly after Energon came out, even though I was excited when it aired due to it being a sequel to my beloved Armada.

Renaissance and discovering this very wiki

In 2007, I regained interest in the brand when a certain movie with an end credits song by my childhood favorite nu metal band came out. I discovered this very wiki that same year, learning of the existence of the Japanese G1 continuity and diving into a major rabbit hole. I have been an on-and-off fan and collector since.

Renaissance 2: Energon Boogaloo

I fell out of Transformers in 2010 or so while in high school.

I got back into it when I got back into toy collecting in general in 2017 and saw a cool Hot Rod toy with a Headmaster. It blew my mind and I got back in. Been on and off since then.

Personal Canons

I love making personal canons. Despite my current hangups with the universal stream categorization system, I get a kick out of the idea that [Dimension Traveler X] who showed up in [Big name comic issue Y] was actually from [obscure one-off children's picture book from the 80s] all along, and embrace the crap out of it.

G1 Cartoon Canon

Simply put, the first three seasons and the movie follow the American timeline, with Season 1 taking place in 1984, Season 2 in 1985, the movie in 2005, and Season 3 in 2006 (not 2010). From 2006 onwards, the canon takes shape to heavily resemble the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity, but with the Headmasters anime taking place in 2007, and anything that wasn't directly depicted in an anime episode taking broader strokes here and there.

Any characters, factions, and subgroups who originated in American media have their American names and characterizations, and any that originated in Japanese media have their Japanese names. Elements of the Marvel Comics continuity exist here to fill in blanks, and while the Legends World does in fact exist, the events that take place there play out differently and in a self-contained way, rather than in ways that directly affect the trajectory of the greater canon.

Hot Shot from another universe has been here. It plays out similar to Henkei! Henkei! volume 11, and I like to think he ended up there after the Universe War, which also contained many Cybertronians from this universe.

Some version of the Beast Wars occurs in this universe, but exactly how they play out is currently unknown.

Fanon Discontinuity

Kiss Players doesn't happen, period. End of story. Wings Universe too, because I don't particularly like the idea or even implication that Ultra Magnus was originally Dion, and the less said about its ignorant and insensitive portrayal of Japanese culture, the better.

While I love the concept of the Legends World, I understand that much of the manga's humor is based around elements exclusive to Japanese dub-isms and some of the more...controversial aspects of anime otaku culture. So while I will say the world itself exists in my canon, the events of the official manga are very, very broad strokes at best.

Trial By Laser Canon

A universe that continues from the events of the Robots in Disguise anime, while reimagining the events of Shell Game in a way that removes the crossover elements in favor of a totally standalone story. The battle against Megazarak culminates in Optimus Prime's victory using his new Laser Rod body.

Childhood Armada Canon

An ill-defined universe that is haphazardly made up of elements of the Armada anime, pack-in comics, and video game, along with my childhood play with my toys. Story beats from the anime occur, such as meeting the kids, Hot Shot being the first to wield the Star Saber, Starscream becoming a good guy and making a big heroic sacrifice, etc. but Decepticlones also exist. The final battle is sort of a mix of the anime and the game, where Optimus Prime and Galvatron have their epic final duel on Unicron's surface while Hot Shot flies around on the Vanguard Booster and Nemesis Shield and uses the Matrix Cannon to defeat Unicron himself.

Hot Shot, Smokescreen, and various Mini-Cons from this universe were known to have participated in the Universe War, and this same Hot Shot ended up in another universe and later the Legacy World, where he met the Optimus Prime from Trial By Laser.

External Links

• My GoBots Wiki Profile
• My AO3 Transformers Works
• My Main Fandom Profile, with links to other Fandom profiles