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When asked why Transformers based on the Creature from the Black Lagoon and other classic monsters exist, [[Vector Prime]] replied that they were seen as fearsome and potent alternate forms. Evidently, robot-Gill-man is actually the alternate form of an unknown Cybertronian, not the real Gill-man. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime/Facebook src#June 10, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, | When asked why Transformers based on the Creature from the Black Lagoon and other classic monsters exist, [[Vector Prime]] replied that they were seen as fearsome and potent alternate forms. Evidently, robot-Gill-man is actually the alternate form of an unknown Cybertronian, not the real Gill-man. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime/Facebook src#June 10, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/10}} | ||
===IDW Generation 1 continuity=== | ===IDW Generation 1 continuity=== | ||
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:'''Japanese | :'''Japanese''': 大アマゾンの半魚人 (''Dai Amazon no Hangyojin'', "The Merman from the Great Amazon") | ||
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Revision as of 22:13, 19 January 2018
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon is an Earth robot or an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a monstrous transforming robot who probably lives in a black lagoon somewhere. He transforms into a giant coelacanth. Some know him as the Gill-man.
Fiction
Ask Vector Prime
When asked why Transformers based on the Creature from the Black Lagoon and other classic monsters exist, Vector Prime replied that they were seen as fearsome and potent alternate forms. Evidently, robot-Gill-man is actually the alternate form of an unknown Cybertronian, not the real Gill-man. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/10
IDW Generation 1 continuity
The "Creature" was one of many Autobots at Grindcore prison. He was executed with many other Autobot prisoners in a smelting chamber falsely claimed by the commandant to be a teleporting platform. Speak, Memory! (Part 2)
Toys
Generation 1
A transforming Creature from the Black Lagoon toy was proposed in the 1980s to be part of a "Vintage Horror Movie Series". The series never made it past production art, unfortunately, though said art could be found in the Deluxe edition of Transformers Generations.
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Notes
- The Creature's alternate mode appears as a mechanimal in the Beast Wars: Uprising story "Not All Megatrons".
Foreign names
- Japanese: 大アマゾンの半魚人 (Dai Amazon no Hangyojin, "The Merman from the Great Amazon")
