Talk:Grimlock (RBA)
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Why is this its own article? Saix (talk) 08:19, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Because TGB made it without waiting for outside input. Heck, unless someone can point out where the two versions we have now have been explicitly shown to be separate, I'd merge all three. --Khajidha (talk) 08:26, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Well considering the RID writers say their Grim is separate from FOC Grim, those two stay separate. And considering this Grim is going to be in the RBA cartoon (he's been in the intro since the beginning), if he ends up being incompatible with the others as well, then yeah, making a new page was the right call. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 08:32, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- We can wait till the cartoon airs to make that decision. It's easier to split out a toy than to merge it in and delete an article. Saix (talk) 08:34, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Have the writers shown us anything in fiction that says so? Cause "author intent" carries virtually no weight with me. --Khajidha (talk) 08:37, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Did you even watch RID 2015? The Grimlock from that show was a natural Dinobot (instead of the product of a heinous experiment) who was a originally a Decepticon (FOC Grimlock was always an Autobot) and had a young goofy childlike personality with a fetish for punching things (unlike FOC Grimlock's harsh and grownup personality). Literally the only thing the two Grimlocks had in common were their names and T-Rex altmodes, but even the latter still differed in that it was forced upon FOC Grimlock while it was simply RID 2015 Grimlock's natural form. RID 2015 treated Grimlock's being a Dinobot as though he was a kind of Cybertronian fauna, while FOC Grimlock was a normal Cybertronian person forced into an animal form. --Sabrblade (talk) 10:17, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- And Generation 1 toy and comic Grimlock was a pre-existing Cybertronian while cartoon Grimlock was built by Wheeljack on Earth. Doesn't stop them from being the same character. --Khajidha (talk) 10:21, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Except that the G1 comic and cartoon aren't meant to be continuations of one another and exist in the same universe, while FOC/Prime/RB/RID/RBA are (albeit with some squinting). That was the whole point of the "Aligned" continuity. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 10:37, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- And Generation 1 toy and comic Grimlock was a pre-existing Cybertronian while cartoon Grimlock was built by Wheeljack on Earth. Doesn't stop them from being the same character. --Khajidha (talk) 10:21, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Did you even watch RID 2015? The Grimlock from that show was a natural Dinobot (instead of the product of a heinous experiment) who was a originally a Decepticon (FOC Grimlock was always an Autobot) and had a young goofy childlike personality with a fetish for punching things (unlike FOC Grimlock's harsh and grownup personality). Literally the only thing the two Grimlocks had in common were their names and T-Rex altmodes, but even the latter still differed in that it was forced upon FOC Grimlock while it was simply RID 2015 Grimlock's natural form. RID 2015 treated Grimlock's being a Dinobot as though he was a kind of Cybertronian fauna, while FOC Grimlock was a normal Cybertronian person forced into an animal form. --Sabrblade (talk) 10:17, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
- Well considering the RID writers say their Grim is separate from FOC Grim, those two stay separate. And considering this Grim is going to be in the RBA cartoon (he's been in the intro since the beginning), if he ends up being incompatible with the others as well, then yeah, making a new page was the right call. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 08:32, 9 May 2019 (EDT)
