TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on GETAWAY
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- To coincide with the release of this week's LOST LIGHT #12, we're going to ring in the New Year with The Basics on GETAWAY! Watch out for spoilers!
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I've always found "evil autobots" (or at least, "morally flexible" autobots) to be an interesting concept in the franchise, because it adds a bit more nuance to their lore than just "autobots good, decepticons bad!" It sort of hammers home the idea that if you take away the insignias, the cybertronians really aren't that much different than human beings.
I'm a bit one-sided in that regard. I like good Decepticons, but don't like bad Autobots.
@PurpleOwlAnimation When given an option, the masses always choose chaos.
@@luigiboi4244so sigma
Gotta love Rodimus' last message before his fight with the DJD in the comics
"After I die, I want someone to sell my innermost energon - it's matrix enriched, so, it'll fetch a good price - and use the proceeds to employ a bounty hunter. There's this freelance peacekeeping agent on Elpasos. Horns, detachable hand, eyebrows that would make Rung jealous. Use him. I want what's left of my body turned into a Pathblaster - Brainstorm says it's totally possible - and I want the bounty hunter to use the pathblaster to SHOOT GETAWAY IN THE FACE. Now ideally the pathblaster would be in my colors? But the main thing is that Getaway dies knowing that I was personally responsible for his lack of a head. In fact - "
That has to be the most elaborate "fuck you" in any Transformers canon
@@eldritchexploited5462 and it's _beautiful._
Just realised the Bounty Hunter was actually Deaths Head
Got a comic number? Want to immortalize it on TV tropes properly.
@@eldritchexploited5462 Rodimus: Getaway, regrettably, I'll see you in the Well!
The ironic thing is I actually like that they made Getaway a villian. An evil Autobot is sorta rare in my perspective, seeing as I have read a few Idw comics in the past, mainly the MTMTE series.
So...Shattered Glass Getaway is heroic then?
@@Its_Charlie_Young Oooh, that IS a conundrum 😳🤔
@@Its_Charlie_Young He’d perhaps be a spy for the decepticons in that universe. Similar to punch/counterpunch but actually good at what he does. Perhaps to the point where the decepticons wouldn’t even know that he is or ever was on their side. There’d need to be a lot more that’d need to go into it but that would be the obvious path I think. I would imagine if getaway was just a really nice autobot who put others ahead of himself. He would be dead I’m pretty sure.
@@Its_Charlie_Young he convince sg tailgate to difect
Imagine if getaway was actually from shattered glass and there isn’t a classic universe version of him.
Getaway is an amazing character in MtMtE and Lost Light. An M.T.O who was literally created to fight, who was seen by both himself and others as disposable. He never really chose to be an Autobot; he was MADE an Autobot. So it makes sense that he never really embraced Autobot ideals, and ended up with a personality disorder. What I find brilliant is how his glib, charming personality even manages to draw in a lot of the audience, which is how you know a psychopathic/narcissistic character is really written well. His issue was never really with Megatron being on the ship. He just used the justified resentment of the other crew members to get them on his side for the mutiny. But his finely-honed ability to manipulate people's emotions to his advantage made even much of the audience believe that he was being sincere. A true psychopath, through and through.
ah yes, the bastard man himself
which makes me fully understand and appreciate him as an ass.
Bomp
I don't necessary like his characterization, but I do like how IDW takes obscure characters in to bigger roles in the lore, whether it be good or full blown psychopaths (cough cough Star Saber)..
Fuck IDW for that one. I'd rather watch the Michael Bay series again than watch my favorite transformers hero portrayed as a villain.
I really hate their portrayal of Star Saber, and I guess Dai Atlas, but mostly Star Saber
Centorea 88 that’s extreme I don’t think would watch the bay version on purpose
Agreed. They're still kinda doing it in the reboot-verse, with Quake, going from some nobody, to from what I see appears to be Cybertron's equivalent of JACK THE RIPPER.
I love IDW.
DeltaKnight haha
Ah Getaway. God I lovehate that glorious bastard. The writers did amazingly with him in mtmte/ll, I will never get over him as a character. They actually really outdid themselves with all their villains, come to think of it.
I love it so much. The way he keeps telling worse lies and almost traps himself in becoming evil is so perfectly written. And such a real character
Personally I’d love to see a more complex version of the character containing both virtuous traits from his earlier incarnations and the more villainous steak of his IDW one. A character who performs morally dubious actions but has his own sense of ethics that prevent him from being an outright mustache twirling villain, like I feel the IDW version of him became over time.
So…Prowl?
@@cylasbreakdown6140 obviously not the exact same characterization because I’m not trying to create something redundant for people to easily dismiss, but yes there are similarities
Saw the thumbnail and title and my first thought was "Fuck, Getaway!" My hate for him is real, great lore telling by the way.
FluffyWoWNerd god me too
FluffyWoWNerd l
Ok getaway should be given to the djd and beaten for four million years he’s the reason skids is dead
@@transformerfan7575 damnit you spoiled it!
Well I guess the comic is many years old now I should’ve read it already
@@80skidwannabe69 or avoid this video or the comments lol
As a New Zealander I have some feelings about IDW Getaway being the only NZ accented Transformer.
Same
Getaway deserves a proper toy in the Generations line, not just a repaint.
KING GRIMLOCK Why not *both?*
But the repaint is awesome. I love it.
rodster6 can he be in master pice and thrid party
I would like idw please
And he should be classified as an Ex-Autobot or something like that, with maybe a scratch through the Autobot emblem or something
Could you do a Basics for the following:
Humans- the fleshy pals that tag along for better or for worse
Beast Wars- the era that redefined so much
Combiners- when one bot isn't enough
The War- why are they fighting in the first place
The Insecticons- the ravenous swarm
Pretenders- Robots in disguise, in disguise
Theme Songs- The songs that tell the story.
Did you get what you wnat
All the tagline you gave sounded cringey
@@tartatovsky But it’s on brand for what Chris says. Besides, we’re arguing about TRANSFORMING ROBOT CARS FROM SPACE. At that point everyone has the right to say something that would make at least one person cringe.
After this came out, Getaway did perish, when the Red Scraplet horde he kept inside the Lost Light as a means of executing mutineers bonded with the colony that was under Whirl's care. The Scraplets then merged into the image of Primus (the fake one from myth, not Rung) and ate Getaway alive.
"using his powers to manipulate water" genuinely took me by surprise
The IDW version sounds like he would make a great Decepticon, emphasis on the deceptive part of the faction name!
Ren Cen YEAH, MAYBE THEY COULD PUT HIM IN THE MOVIES AS A AUTOBOT TRAITOR!
That's part of the irony of his hatred of the reformed Megatron: He acts in a very similar manner to the way Megs did before he was redeemed.
Furthermore, he also has heavy parallels with Rodimus, whom he also hates. Rodders isn't a terrible leader, but he does have the fatal flaw of having a massive ego and a hero complex. 'The Gloaming' spells it out that Rodimus hates not being able to save his comrades, he hates the idea of failing them, even if someone else saved them in the end, and this dates back all the way to Spotlight: Hot Rod, where his entire squad was massacred on his watch, and he spent years blaming himself for it.
Like Rodimus, Getaway is a reasonably competent leader, but he is weakened by his massive ego and god complex. While people have put forward that point that perhaps Getaway was right to try and remove Megatron from the ship by forcing him to kill one of the crew, the fact that he takes the thoroughly unheroic route of emotionally manipulating Tailgate, instead of the heroic route of attempt to sacrifice himself, exposes the fact that, in his mind, it's all about him.
Dan Gleeson ... THAT IS SO TRUE... AND REALLY POETIC!
Sentinel Prime YOUR RIGTH SENTINEL, FOR ONCE YOUR RIGTH.
Megs acted pretty darn redeemed, and his new Fusion Cannon, one of Brainstorm's morality-detecting weapons, was firing Autobot orange lasers. He tried to sacrifice himself to the DJD's mercy if it protected the rest of the crew, with no-one watching, and chose to stay and defend the lost ones even when he believed that they were organics. He'd still be trying to get to Cyberutopia if Terminus hadn't betrayed him.
Rodimus: Brought the incredibly powerful and murderous Overlord onto the Lost Light.
Getaway: Brought the incredibly powerful and murderous Sunder on board, then repeated the performance with Star Saber.
Rodimus: Makes a reward system based on his own face, but it actually works and motivates the crew.
Getaway: Feeds dissenting crewmembers to Sunder.
Rodimus: Endangers his crew by leading them into missions where they might die.
Getaway: Murders his crew personally.
Megatron: Wants to find Cyberutopia so he can give the Transformers a new home, in place of the one he and Optimus destroyed, and leave a better legacy than death and destruction.
Getaway: Wants to find Cyberutopia because he's deluded enough to think of himself as worthy of Primacy.
Yeah, Rodimus may have earned the ire of his crew, but Getaway actively kills them. I'll stick with the Megs-and-Rod Squad.
Throttle won't be in idw because I can only see getaways head coming off when someone rips it off
Getaway is one character I think should get the DJD treatment.
@@zuttoaragi8349 funny ,djd is dead because of him
Getaway - "Forgot me for two decades, eh? Try forgetting this..."
Finally, an autobot I actually hate on a personal level.
Let's just say he couldn't GETAWAY from those scraplets.
Grab your laugh track and get out
I cracked a smile. I say you earned “Dumbest Transformers Pun” of the Year.
Now i dont read the comics but Getaway seems awesome
ironbot222 same I dont read the comics either I only know about the toys and shows and movies
*cough*
He has a good character but he's a real piece of shit.
*cough*
I feel the same. I read a bit of "Lost Light", and everyone apart from Whirl could use a good butt-kicking. Anyone who would be willing to administer some is a-okay in my book!
Besides, he looks cool.
Me neither, sounds like a great villain
Well, Getaway couldn’t get away from the red Scraplets
It’s funny that Getaway’s Titan Master is named Throttle because in G1 Throttle was the Powermaster partner to Darkwing, one of the Decepticon Powermasters.
And Getaway is a Powermaster too...
Get it? Getaway *_doesn’t_* get away?
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Spoiler warning in the description proving insufficient, so I'll pin it here as well - there's a single-panel spoiler for LOST LIGHT #12 at 6:46-6:53. Nothing in the narration (and I know because I wrote it before #12 came out!) just in this visual, so if you want to just look away, you can!
Can you do the basics on pretenders
Could you please do the basics of starscream
Chris McFeely when is the next TF Nation
17-19 August 2018!
Chris McFeely that you should have said in the ending “whatever happens to getaway in the future... it’s a faith he surely won’t GET AWAY from” see what I did there?
I’m surprised that he wasn’t sent to the shattered glass universe. Because there’s evil autobots there too.
Well, if even Getaway can provide enough material for a Basics of his own, I guess I shouldn't give up hope for an episode on Hoist after all. :)
Hoist! Love Hoist. There are so many Hoists, he could have an episode easy, no problem! :)
It's so weird to read the old G1 comics with Getaway now that IDW has made him such a great antagonist.
id love to know how he convinced to lost light crew to turn on rodimus including preceptor a guy who is very smart and blaster to
i read on the wiki that he has great charisma, which is probably how that happened. (man i need to read the comics sometime)
@@gault6546 He kept rolling 20s on charisma until his untimely demise.
Well, he certainly didn't "Getaway" from a bunch of savage red Scraplets. Haaaaa! XD -ahem- Um, too soon? ^^; lol
Kryten Prime may getaway burn in hell
Kryten Prime you should check out my brothers channel he is called jacksonmus prime
Sama Caruso re Skrad de moutiuos
""Getaway prime" will always sound rubbish"
@@redlantern6669 Yep, especially for someone as scummy and traitorous as IDW Getaway.
We need a show that’s just the idw stories!
I mean, isn't it so funny that Getaway can't just... "Get away?"
Am I the only transformers fan that likes Getway despite his actions
Goom_Drop Probably, but he *is* known for being charismatic, IIRC. XD
I love him as a character, but hate him as a person. I squee every time he’s in it, but at the same time, would give anything to see him die a slow and agonising death.
he's a great addition to the story.
Sometime the bet villains are the ones you can't help but like despite their actions...
Like Megatron
BW Megatron...yeeessss
That trash kitty fully deserved what he got in the MTMTE & LL comics.
Seriously guys, if you haven't read them and James Roberts' works, DO IT.
Getaway and Slapdash, followed by Lightspeed the Motorvator were some of my last few Transformers generation 1 toys as child- I must have been 5/6 I think. I still have them to this day. I had no idea anything more had been made of Getaway outside of the marvel comics I collected. I always partnered him with the other Autobot cars such as Jazz and Hotrod during my 'epic wars'!
The basics of sideswipe and sunstreaker
Sideswipe is my all-time favorite character
In MTMTE Getaway/Breakaway he, in my opinion really, REALLY the strangest autobot in Rodimus crew! "Be a friend like autobot or HURT and KILL like a deception, what is matter ?" - Getaway/Breakaway.
7:22 Thanks to the scraplets, Getaway's journey took him where he deserves and where he can't get way from: the pit!
What an obscure character to do a video on! Awesome to see this
you give the comics a try if you haven't; Getaway is a complete BASTARD.
I was very confused when I saw the image(s) of Defensor was about to beat the crap of Getaway/Breakaway...until now.
Defensor beating him into the ground would be perfect.
Carlos D Rodriguez unfortunately, it's not gonna happen
my humble opinion, that was anti-climatic.
Chris McFeely in every single video: Japanese exclusive sequel series
Also in nearly every video: Another Transformer added to the list of bots offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream. Lol
I love this series. There are so many bots that need their story told, so I'm sure you'll be able to have many, many episodes!
Keep making more obscure character videos. Try Needlenose, Double cross, Dreadwind, Ramjet, Swerve, Sparkstalker,and Sandstorm next.
That ending pun...
My dude literally tried to trick a young bot who didn’t know any better. Now that’s evil.
The bit in MTMTE, where Getaway keeps telling worse lies and it becomes obvious is so perfectly written. James Roberts did an incredible job
(SPOILER WARNING FOR GETAWAYS ULTIMATE FATE IN IDW)
In case any of you are curious Getaway's ultimate fate in the IDW comics he and Rodimus engaged in a final duel. Getaway ended up in a position where he would have gotten killed by a raging fire but Rodimus vowing to prove that he wasn't like Getaway even after everything Getaway did saved him intending to take him to a proper trial.
So naturally how does Getaway repay Rodimus? He tries to stab him in the back first chance he gets but right before he does Getway sees a vision of Primus. Getaway reaches out ready to become a prime...but it turns out Primus was just a horde of scraplets that disguised themselves as Primus. And thus Getaway's story ends with him being eaten alive by scraplets.
Karma is a bitch ain't it?
“They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small, juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, until there’s nothing left. And I mean nothing… not even your optics.”
Tis a fitting yet horrifying end for Getaway
Wow! That is a great character arch! I was wondering why anyone would do a spotlight on such an obscure Transformer! I need to read these comics at long last!
6:01 MORE Transformers yaoi?!? Yare yare daze.
I wish we would have kept the Autobot deceiver type of story for the movies. Sure, Sentinel Prime betrayed the Autobots, but he did it for a good cause. Getaway for example, was just greedy. That kind of twist would be fun to enjoy in the movies.
Even if it meant slaying Ironhide as a show of force?
Getaway is one of the characters that you can't help but love even when you want to kill them yourself
3:43
Transformers that can waterbend...
This war will never end.
I was expecting him to be defeated in the lost light # 12. I was really disappointed that the last issue of the Mutineers Trilogy wasn't a conclusion, of any of the story arcs. Anyway, hopefully soon we will see him beaten somehow. :-) Good video! Thanks for compiling and produce it.
Anyone wanna see a shattered glass version of getaway???
Wait... so Tailgate has two lovers?.... damn that guy was a player
Apparently Furman likes to kill him just to make fun of his name. He's kinda become like dirge in this aspect
Could you do Punch/Counter Punch.
I hear that video's nearby... *real* nearby.
EY! Nice reference!
He is doing it in 2019
Shouldn't it be Counch/Puntercounch
These vids are so great, than even bots I don't give a stuff about, I still watch. The Norn Iron accent probably helps.
we need a Starscream equivalent for the Autobots it would be kinda interesting a autobot that’s what’s to be the leader of the autobots that would backstabbed Optimus Prime like how starscream would backstab Megatron who with me guys
I dunno why but when I first saw Getaway in the comics, I thought he transformed into a jet.
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
I understood that reference
Megatron: Warlord, Genocist, philosopher
BW Megatron: thief, terrorist, attempted Genocist
Galvatron: fucking insane
Getaway: Michael Jackson
Only thing Getaway and Rodimus could agree on is the fact they hate Thunderclash
Every time he talks I hear Felix from Red vs. Blue
Spoilers for the Lost light Comic Book series:
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Getaway gets eaten by Red Scraplets and he is no more.
I'm surprised you didn't say he was almost similar to starscreams personality.
Also do you think the Ginrai & Optimus are a separate character enough for their own individual videos or would you make them share the same video considering they look the same
+TheHooddedMage Oh, no, Ginrai and Optimus would definitely have to have separate videos!
An optimus viedo would probobly be at least a half hour long with all his versions.
I could totally see a story where in Gettaway, in his complete delusion and desire to become a Prime becomes a Harold of Unicron or makes a deal with Liege Maximo.
Literally knew nothing about this character. Randomly brought the deluxe class titans return breakaway and became one of my favourites transformer toys only to find out that he’s kinda an asshole lmao. I still try to imagine him as a different character who acts more nice and chivalry or smt like that XD
Transformers: the basics on Thundercracker
This is incredible I just got finished reading issues 10 and 11 of Lost Light where we see Getaway's doing his evil deeds and then I check my youtube feed and see this! :D
Beware of the spoiler! ;)
My lips are sealed! :)
Getaway, an obscure character who eventually became a mutinous scumbag only out for his own ambitions. He might be my favorite
We need a Masterpiece G1 Getaway.
I actually really like Getaway
Most of the Transformers from G! and specially in the original Japanesse story had been forgotten or altered so much they are different characters from their originals, Star Saber and Overlord are a clear example
Finally, someone with quality tf lore videos. Nice work.
Hopefully, future comics will clean Getaway good name
Another awesome video and happy New Year to you too
It sounds like the IDW writers used Getaway as a analog to our crooked President. (I guess if he were Huffer's shade of orange, it'd be more obvious.) He even seems to have a Trump-sized karma shield.
Knowing this, I think I still prefer his G1/Marvel and Masterforce incarnations.
I wanted his toy back in the day so bad.
They are all unique, like none to thrash collectibles.
Ive started reading Getaway in the IDWverse with Rhease Darby's voice.
Can you do basics on Predacons?
Awesome! Getaway was one of my first transformers.
I still have to say this, and that is, I like Getaways Super God Masterforce version way more.
He wasn't hated, and he was a fvcking kick ass godmaster.
Which is... basically power masters but has 10 fold special effects and 2 fold power stacked behind them.
Seriously, he had super powers.
He also got some actual role and screen in the series.
Si Getaway está en la línea de juguetes "Titans Return" ¿donde entrarán Joyride y Slapdash?.
RW:Chris when you mentioned “ Breakaway “from THE REVENGE OF THE FALLEN game ,he was actually a playable aerial autobot in one mission that I know of.
Could you pleas do a "TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS" on the Vok. I know of them from the Beast Wars show, but there is so much about them and their motives that I don't understand and want to know more.
PS: It's my birthday so please at lest consider it
I've never heard of Getaway until I watched this video. But my most hated Transformers character is Sentinel Prime.
He recently had a Titan Return toy where had a Titan Master named Throttle. Throttle was named after a Powermaster that came with Darkwing.
He’d be a perfect Starscream if you paired him with overlord.
I actually hated how much of a villain he turned into, like seeing Rodimus and his loyalist as the problem to completing the quest and Megatron as a Autobot being a bridge too far made since.
The basics on Pipes?
That'd be a bit of a flat episode, don't you think?
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Chris McFeely but he is underrated, wouldn’t you agree. Maybe do the basics on minibots?
Don't stomp all over our expectations, Chris
I love Getaway!
I’d like to see a video on Breakaway, or any other Autobot fliers like the Aerialbots or something.
thanks chris for clearing things up in IDW
I always wondered what that car I picked up from a trade around the time G2 was starting was named, and also what went in its hood-
Ngl I want Lightfoot to be his own character then both he and Getaway/Breakaway clash.
Yeah but idk what color scheme to give him.
Awe man I always liked that G1 toy, and I never read much of the modern comics. Guess I've gotta hate Getaway now
So its pretty cool that Thew Adams himself is a patron, noticed that in other videos to
I remember his 88 toy being hard not to play with. He had a lot of playability.
Honestly Getaway's death by Scraplets could not have any sooner in the comics thanks for the great video though I did not know Getaway existed until I watched this video for the first time
Love this show :)