Talk:Artfire

Where do we want to have the main article, the offical-but-incorrect "Artfire", or the unoffical-but-correctly-romanized (I think)-and-actually-means-something "Autofire". "Artfire" is more widley used, but so was "Minelba" at one point. --FortMax 22:44, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Exactly how official IS Artfire, anyway? As far as I know, he's never appeared in any form outside of Japan. Unless I'm mistaken in that assumption, I'm in favor of Autofire with Artfire as a redirect. - Dark T Zeratul 02:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

"Artfire" was used in English on the blindpacked Super Spy Changers box. --Monzo 02:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't think "Autofire" is any more reasonable than "Artfire" - when Doug decided to revise his earlier transliteration, it was apparently under the mistaken belief that Artfire's function was "Rapid-Fire Gunner", but it isn't. That was Stepper. Artfire is a sniper, and I think the logic behind his name works perfectly well - he fires, because he has a gun, and he makes it an art, because he's so great.

I also seem to recall Quez saying the kana didn't actually works as "Autofire", but I'm not about to say that definitively because it's been years. -LV 14:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Sparks - new character or same guy as Hot Rod's Firebolt?

Currently links to Firebolt, which is actually a disambiguation page. I'd say until we see evidence to the contrary, we should consider Sparks, the Targetmaster partner to United Artfire, as a separate character who was named in homage to Marvel Headmasters #4's name for Hot Rod's Firebolt. We consider Stepper's Nebulon and Artfire's Nightstick to be separate characters from Cyclonus's Nightstick and Scourge's Fracas, after all. (Plus, Hot Rod's Nightstick was already named "Nightstick" for the Transformers Collection Hot Rodimus reissue.)--Nevermore 16:19, 13 April 2012 (EDT)