Talk:Spike Witwicky (G1)

1) I can't believe there's no talk page for this guy yet. 2) We need a disambiguation page for just Spike Witwickies now. Ha ha ha ha ha. --ItsWalky 23:56, 10 July 2009 (EDT)

We have a talk page. It just went back at the old location due to the crash and no one noticed it yet. Moved it now. Geewunling 01:42, 11 July 2009 (EDT)

Spike's age in DW continuity

I've been goign thrut he Keepers Trilogy again, and Iw ant to ask... is there (fundamentally) any reason Spike could NOT be 22 in 2002?

I notice that the re-references to the events of 'Autobot Spike' in the trilogy say Spike was a CHILD when it occoured.

Does Daniel look 7? (I'm horrible at judging kids ages.) If you say Spike was 22 in 2002, then he'd be... 18 or 19 in 1999 when the ArkII blew up. Which would make the picture on Buster's desk one of th LAST pictures of them together prior to SParkplug's death, possibly pushing many of their (1985ish originally) adventures to the late 90's. The alternative is that Buster is randomly keeping a very OLD picture of them around, and Spike is actually, um... 33 (his cartoon age in 2002.) He looks too young to be 33, and his situation is too old to be 22. (Unless, I guess, he had Daniel at a precociously young age.)

I mention his seduction by a follwoer agent- whih I think works BETTER if he's 22. The alternative (if you stick to the cartoon timeline) is that he was havign an affair, but IIRC it was Spike's first time.

I dunno, thoughts? I thinkt he Keepers trilogy implies SPike is 4 years odl when the Ark awakens. I'm just fishing for conflicts with the larger DW continuity. -71.37.253.98 00:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Categories

Does anyone know why Spike isn't showing up properly in the Humans category? - Dark T Zeratul 20:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

He is. You just gotta hit the "Next 200" link to see it. --KilMichaelMcC 20:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Stupid cutoff, right at the end of the Witwickies. - Dark T Zeratul 20:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Spike Witwicky, Master of Time and... well, Time

Re-watching Megatron's Master Plan, I noticed that the passage of time for Spike seemed wildly different than for the rest of the characters - and that's not the first instance. Just wondering if we can establish a pattern.

See, in the middle of the Autobots' trial, Spike decided to find the damning videotape and look for something everyone else had missed. Which he did - EXTREMELY quickly, with Ravage in hot pursuit. He found the footage of the post-cosplay Decepticons before the judge had even announced a verdict. Then Ravage caught up with Spike, and that dun-dun-duuun moment was the last we heard of him for a while.

In fact, before his next appearance, there was enough time for the Autobots to be rounded up and put on a spaceship that Berger donated, then Decepticon Day to be declared (complete with a parade). The clear visual cues of nightfall and then daylight indicate at LEAST a full day before we hear Chip saying that Spike is "still looking for clues." At that point we finally see Spike again... watching the videotape, then surprised by Ravage bursting into the room. His surroundings (and, for that matter, the content of the tape itself) do look different, but the fact that the action is identical brings up the question: Does time warp itself around Spike?

And why I say it's "not the first instance" is because of The Rebirth, when Spike managed to build Fort Max out of an alien city and get to Cybertron (which had to involve FINDING Cybertron, as it had been moved in the meantime) in what seemed to be a matter of hours. Which of course is the opposite temporal effect from before, but it's still the same principle. Now, applying the Furmanism rule, I wouldn't think of adding this cockamamie idea to the article itself, no matter how facetiously, until a pattern was established. So can anyone think of a third instance of Witwickian time-dilation?

-- Jackpot 21:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

animated

Should we create pages for animated Spike and Carly considering the fact theyre named in garbage in garbage out? Ratchet gives them a ride to the hospital (Carly's having a baby) and they are called by their names. So should we create pages for them?

Storylinks

Is there REALLY a need to link every single episode of the cartoon that Spike appeared in? The storylinks take up more space than the text! -- Dark T Zeratul 17:18, 15 October 2009 (EDT)

I've assumed those were placeholders in case someone were to elaborate on the individual episodes. - Cattleprod 17:22, 15 October 2009 (EDT)

That's exactly why they're there. Feel free to expand upon episodes of your choosing. --Detour 17:34, 15 October 2009 (EDT)

Spike is on my list of "Big G1 cartoon continuity sections" to work on after Soundwave's. Indeed, having done Prime's, Megatron's, Starscream's and Soundwave's, Spike is probably the next-most-important guy to do! - Chris McFeely 17:41, 15 October 2009 (EDT)

Ah, gotcha. So long as there's method to the madness. -- Dark T Zeratul 17:45, 15 October 2009 (EDT)

Spike/Amuro

Okay, is there any reason why my edits for both this and the Daniel article was deemed unacceptable? 69.34.209.198 16:34, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Maybe because no one seems to have been comparing them to Amuro Ray, so the denial of similarity seems pointless. --Khajidha 16:40, 29 September 2010 (EDT) (ps: you also misspelled Ray, according to Wikipedia - I don't much about that series)

So it's okay to make a sarcastic comparison to Beavis and Butt-Head who Spike truly doesn't look anything like, but not to Amuro whom both father and son do look uncanny like. Last time I checked, besides the valuable information, was what this site was all about. 69.34.209.198 16:53, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Those comparisons are pretty poorly-written, and again, nobody appears to have been comparing them to this "Amuro Ray" fellow. --NCZ 16:59, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Alright, since I know nothing on Transformers humor, how should it be written to make fun of the fact that they look alike? 69.34.209.198 17:11, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

The problem is that their similarities are coincidences at best. They're pretty much just both brown-haired boys from series with similar character art styles. There are likely DOZENS of other characters that look like them. -- Semysane 17:15, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

That's my point all along, reverse sarcasm at best. Spike and Daniel don;t look anything like Amuro Ray. ;) Maybe I should have said, "For the record, let make it perfectly clear that father and son do not look anything like Amuro Ray. That goes double for his appearance in Char's Counterattack". Where they favor the most. :P 69.34.209.198 17:27, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

If we're going to mention every Gundam character they don't look like, we'd have to add an extra page. Why not mention that Spike doesn't look like Kamille Bidan or Judau Ashta either? I really don't see the point in adding the comparison at all. --Semysane 17:34, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Hmmm, I don't really see it as much in Judau. Not like Amuro. I don't think that kind of stuff fills out a whole article. 69.34.209.198 17:44, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

BLARGH! Your sarcasm detector needs its batteries changed. The point is that Amuro bears nothing more than a passing physical resemblance to Spike. There is NO REASON to mention it. -- Semysane 17:56, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

My batteries are fine. That was me trying analyze those two example you pointed. Just because I don't give into a bit of sarcasm, doesn't mean I don't get it. Again how is one passing resemblance of Beavis and Butt-Head worth mentioning, but Amuro isn't? It too is a more obscure passing reference. Think about it, if one is good enough to be mentioned on the this wiki, then other is just as good. Or has Beavis and Butt-Head become more Transformers relevant than Amuro 69.34.209.198 18:20, 29 September 2010 (EDT)