Punch | Counterpunch (Transformers Generation 1) - Vangelus Review 437

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Комментарии • 100

  • @mrheroprimes
    @mrheroprimes 11 месяцев назад +31

    What I find intriguing is that in the headmaster's anime, Punch/counter punch Is one of the characters that's extremely accurate to Toy appearance that being as counterpunch when he's running around the Decepticon base his punch components are visible on his back, Also in the headmaster anime he only has one yellow gun.

  • @romorini
    @romorini 11 месяцев назад +1

    With that short leg configuration, this really sets the template for the Animated Shockwave spy conversion.

  • @TheNewSam
    @TheNewSam 11 месяцев назад +9

    One thing I will always appreciate is your ability to flawlessly match cut between things. That tall Punch to short Punch transition was satisfyingly solid.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +6

      extremely satisfying to find the join frames on my end as the editor 🔥

  • @EungsuLee
    @EungsuLee 11 месяцев назад +12

    Ah yes, Counch/Puntercounch!

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +5

      why are we doing this to him ;_;

  • @SearchmanDS
    @SearchmanDS 11 месяцев назад +13

    Ah Vangelus and his Punch/Counterpunch fiction talk. Been hearing it for years and never gets old

  • @vriderch1360
    @vriderch1360 11 месяцев назад +13

    I've been re-watching a lot of your older reviews the last few days, and I came to the conclusion that you can review anything, and I'll love it. I love seeing stuff like this in the context of today.

  • @ToaArcan
    @ToaArcan 11 месяцев назад +9

    Punch's deal is basically "What if James Bond an alter-ego called Counterbond, who is just James Bond walking backwards with a hat pulled over his face, and he drives James Bond's car, and this somehow works."
    I love him.

  • @Not_Jib
    @Not_Jib 11 месяцев назад +1

    Punch counterpunch being a guy with the minds of 2 people inside him constantly fighting for control is unironically the coolest concept I’ve heard for the character

  • @TheVagabond7
    @TheVagabond7 11 месяцев назад +7

    I still have my Punch/Counterpunch somewhere. I got it at a yard sale, though, so he's missing his weapons. But I *adore* him. Any time a Transformer had more than 2 modes, it excited me. Six-Shot was my holy grail, but I never did acquire one.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +5

      Sixshot got a reissue or two iirc, so there should be more floating around out there now ✨

  • @Beedo_Sookcool
    @Beedo_Sookcool 11 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent video, as always! Thank you! 1:56 - "Animation" and "accurate" should never be in the same sentence, unless it's in a negative.

  • @mattr75
    @mattr75 11 месяцев назад +5

    Punch and Counterpunch is such an interesting character/toy design

  • @woogha
    @woogha 11 месяцев назад +2

    Everyone's favorite spy. Benedict Counterpunch.

  • @Levitz9
    @Levitz9 11 месяцев назад +3

    Its always a good day when a new Vangelus review drops!

  • @Xarxes81
    @Xarxes81 11 месяцев назад +1

    Yeah I've made my "James Bond TF in deep cover" fan fiction too!

  • @SomeOtherBots
    @SomeOtherBots 11 месяцев назад +1

    I originally read this notification as a “Punch” review and I was like “oh, I guess he’s only reviewing one”

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      that would be so messed up but also respectable

  • @AlexReynard
    @AlexReynard 11 месяцев назад +1

    Oh my goodness yes. Got this a little bit after childhood for $8 in a comics shop, and has been in my top 10 ever since. Such good handfeel for them joints! Such a great color scheme!

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      yessss we love a single digit pcp

    • @AlexReynard
      @AlexReynard 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Vangelus My best so far was a downshift for 10 cents from a church rummage sale. Though it did take me years to get him a head.

  • @Jetblast01
    @Jetblast01 11 месяцев назад

    It's funny how in the Headmaster's cartoon, Galvatron of all people was the ONLY one to notice Punch on the back of Counterpunch. Galvatron!

  • @HeresWhyItsCool
    @HeresWhyItsCool 11 месяцев назад +1

    I looooooove the Double Spy!!! Got him for my 7th birthday, along with Technobot Afterburner. Punch also had one of the best commercials too!
    Man, Vangelus, I wanna hear your story pitch!!!!!

  • @ZimMan2
    @ZimMan2 11 месяцев назад +3

    Wow, crazy coincidence, I finally snagged this guy from a local toy shop this past weekend. Such a great slice of this era of G1, which has been my favorite era of G1 for a long time.
    Funnily enough, my waist slide has the opposite problem, being slightly too loose. If only our Punch-Counterpunches' waists could transfer energies across the internet.
    Also, I feel like, in terms of the toy’s storytelling, it makes more sense to me if Counterpunch is the true form, given how much better hidden it is in Punch mode.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      grats on the snag!

  • @retrocute
    @retrocute 11 месяцев назад +1

    The omnibus Powercore Combiners review is coming soon... I can feel it

  • @WaveSineReverse
    @WaveSineReverse 11 месяцев назад +1

    his Toy Maverick counterpart is nearby, real nearby

  • @disconnected22
    @disconnected22 11 месяцев назад +1

    You just said the words “Pontiac Fiero”. I have not heard those words in decades

  • @charlesswansonii9319
    @charlesswansonii9319 11 месяцев назад +1

    Well, a Vangelus review has been overdue on my sub feed lately. Good classic review. Hope to see you review some of the new Moderoid or even Bandai Spirits kits soon; would be thrilled to see a return to Mazinger with HG Shin Mazinger Zero Infinitism one day ...

  • @TheVacuuminator
    @TheVacuuminator 11 месяцев назад +6

    Always interesting to get your perspective on a G1 toy, though it does leave me hungry for coverage of the Power of the Primes one too haha

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +8

      I really should

  • @DJayMan28
    @DJayMan28 11 месяцев назад +1

    Makes me want to go downstairs and dig up the modern figure from its two pack and play with it some more

  • @starsaber8969
    @starsaber8969 11 месяцев назад +1

    Punch/counter punch having a sukuna/yuji dynamic would be pretty fun

  • @SkullGrin-s7y
    @SkullGrin-s7y 11 месяцев назад +1

    Oh yeah, armpit kibble comes standard on the Fiero.

  • @FortressMunkimus1985
    @FortressMunkimus1985 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hmmm the Official Punch Leg Transformation something I didn't know about, and I've had the figure for 5 years.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      knowable feeling

  • @michaellombardi1620
    @michaellombardi1620 11 месяцев назад +1

    This figure always interested me as a kid. Never saw one in person

  • @langletprolet8378
    @langletprolet8378 11 месяцев назад +1

    I genuinely thought this was an old review I somehow missed and haven’t watched when it comes to my recommended feed. 😅 Such a pleasant surprise that it’s a new review. Never had a Punch/Counterpunch, but finally got lucky few days ago and managed to nab a used Dominua 2 pack with Barricade. He (or they?) has always been such interesting character(s) begging to be explored more.

  • @Shockwave-ob2tx
    @Shockwave-ob2tx 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'm just gonna pretend P/CP is something beside a Fiero....because the Fiero's most well known trait was being a flaming toaster...

  • @TsunogaiDanshaku
    @TsunogaiDanshaku 11 месяцев назад +4

    I never knew about Punch's "short king" leg configuration, and as a frequent carouser of the Trivia sections of TFwiki pages, this gaping void in my knowledge shames me.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +3

      no shame! as far as specifically you and specifically I are concerned, you and I both always knew this
      /always knew this/

    • @darrenbent7601
      @darrenbent7601 11 месяцев назад

      @@Vangelus If you put it into either the short leg configuration, or the full leg with the feet pointing down, and fold out the arms to the sides with the wheels facing towards the front of the vehicle, it makes a pretty cool looking MASK style flying mode.

  • @isuckatusernames4297
    @isuckatusernames4297 11 месяцев назад +2

    the POTP one was my introductio to the character,never got the toy tho, him being a deluxe, on top of being an expensive one doesn't feel like is giving him a high enough partscount to make him work.

    • @Beedo_Sookcool
      @Beedo_Sookcool 11 месяцев назад +1

      I knew of the character since the 1980s, but the POTP version was the first version I owned, because the original is old and hard to find, and the other intervening versions were all stinkin' convention exclusives. I quite like the POTP version, but the leg engineering was a bit . . . off.

  • @heli88
    @heli88 10 месяцев назад

    I theorize that Punch/Counterpunch is the secret genesis of Vangelus/The Subtitles.

  • @Turnip1981
    @Turnip1981 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hey, great to see a new Vangelus video. You keep being glorious you wonderful guy!

  • @forkfighter
    @forkfighter 11 месяцев назад

    Counterpunch should be glad that Galvatron is too crazy to notice his treachery

  • @Ohmygodiamonfire
    @Ohmygodiamonfire 11 месяцев назад +1

    Punch/Counterpunch was like, the first G1 toy I got as a teenage collector in the mid 2000's, and man does it still hold up as just a cool transforming robit.
    (Also Skybound should have made Punch one of the autobots in the initial cast but it is what it is)

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      it's all good I'm sure they understand I called dibs

  • @Thomas_Name
    @Thomas_Name 9 месяцев назад

    I hope someone will finally write those sinister Punch/Counterpunch stories instead of... Starscream doing things.

  • @russellharrell2747
    @russellharrell2747 11 месяцев назад +1

    I’d love an update of this with two different car modes as well as two robot modes.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      me too!!

  • @drakesterX
    @drakesterX 11 месяцев назад +1

    Pontiac might be double spy fans from *the other side.*
    (Ya know… because they died… almost 15 years ago)

  • @ClawestBoss
    @ClawestBoss 11 месяцев назад +1

    "Child Slush, Rust & Torment" :D

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      you know the flavours

    • @ClawestBoss
      @ClawestBoss 11 месяцев назад

      Yes indeed!@@Vangelus

  • @MrDoctorVK
    @MrDoctorVK 11 месяцев назад +1

    My, 4th Vangelus's Retro Review in bag.
    I admit that I'm surprised to see about semi good conditioned G1 Double Spy toy.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      the stickers on mine are pretty beat up- is the loose PCP population right now really suffering condition-wise?

    • @MrDoctorVK
      @MrDoctorVK 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Vangelus Okay corrected my comment.

  • @princeaphan8274
    @princeaphan8274 11 месяцев назад

    Him, Doublecross, and Sideways should form a team maybe.

  • @zombfire5259
    @zombfire5259 Месяц назад

    Good old Counch Puntercounch

  • @dantekc
    @dantekc 11 месяцев назад +1

    There is a new punch/counter punch that was released.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      and you're all welcome!!

  • @thabuloodles9209
    @thabuloodles9209 11 месяцев назад +1

    1 of my favorites

  • @TheRealTHD
    @TheRealTHD 11 месяцев назад +1

    I have a feeling you'd like Double from Mega Man X4, he is huge Punch/Counterpunch energy, even with his happy friendly form being short and stumpy (though he was a bad guy the entire time).

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      I love Double's design but in X4 he's such a non entity I had trouble getting into his big swerve haha

    • @TheRealTHD
      @TheRealTHD 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Vangelus didn't help that Iris was in the same opposite position as Zero so if you did his story first, GEE I WONDER WHO X HAS TO FIGHT

  • @Martynde
    @Martynde 11 месяцев назад +1

    I hear the next Vangelus review is nearby… real nearby.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      rumours!

  • @malcomalexander9437
    @malcomalexander9437 28 дней назад

    Punch/Counterpunch: I am Alpharius.

  • @Tonbot74
    @Tonbot74 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wouldn't Counterpunch's helmet/visor combo give him brow articulation?

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      I prefer to leave it out since imo that'd undercut the raw drama of its participation in the persona transformation

  • @Technochaos03
    @Technochaos03 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've never paid this guy's toys much mind. I suddenly want a g1 punch/counterpunch very badly?

  • @notsosoutherngentlemen2970
    @notsosoutherngentlemen2970 11 месяцев назад +1

    one of my favorites from youth! Have you covered G1 Jetfire?

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      I haven't - I never had one myself

  • @RamblingCatastrophe
    @RamblingCatastrophe 11 месяцев назад +1

    Are we ignoring the Power of the Primes Punch Counterpunch lol

  • @CardboardBots
    @CardboardBots 11 месяцев назад

    Nice storytelling

  • @fearorcourage
    @fearorcourage 11 месяцев назад

    So, given that the FunPub prose story, "The Truth We Make," already pretty definitively told the tale of Punch/Counterpunch having a split personality and being uncertain which was the real one, I'm guessing your treatment would differentiate itself by focusing more on the body horror (robo-dy horror?) of the whole situation?

  • @benwalters9725
    @benwalters9725 11 месяцев назад +2

    He looks like the hot new toy 1987

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +1

      so hype for my amazon preorder

  • @ranwolf1240
    @ranwolf1240 11 месяцев назад +1

    So you're saying Punch/Counterpunch is the Transformers version of Madison/Gabriel from Malignant?

  • @AdamusPrime24
    @AdamusPrime24 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've heard of P/CP many times, especially from yourself, but now I'm beginning to understand...There's always that little voice niggling at the back of the throat...Maybe it's time to hear it...

  • @Takeshi357
    @Takeshi357 10 месяцев назад

    But who would win, Punch/Counterpunch, or Doubledealer??

  • @thebackcorner1427
    @thebackcorner1427 11 месяцев назад

    YO IT'S BRUNCH/OUTFORLUNCH

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад

      google added a "translate to english" button to this on my end

  • @Doctorme4
    @Doctorme4 11 месяцев назад +1

    I mean... Having Punch/Counterpunch working as the espionage/intel gatherer for Doubledealers mercenary work wouldn't be... bad, right?
    Also, where in Hades did you actually FIND one of these in such good condition?

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +3

      this is the one my mom got for me sometime between 1987 and 1989

    • @Doctorme4
      @Doctorme4 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Vangelus I'm impressed you still have it.

  • @EdmundAycock
    @EdmundAycock 11 месяцев назад

    Van oh Van. You are the DemiGod of Transformers. I've waited many years for this review. Punch. Counterpunch. I've Loved this (these) bots since the beginning days. Bless you. Great review that only You could do. Now lube up that groin my friend. I did.😊

  • @scambroselauntrellus3681
    @scambroselauntrellus3681 11 месяцев назад +1

    I missed you

  • @B1ackTheRipper
    @B1ackTheRipper 8 месяцев назад

    Found Counterpunch in Goodwill for 4 bucks and came to this video trying to figure out how to change him🤣

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  8 месяцев назад

      damn congrats on the deal!

  • @masterfarr8265
    @masterfarr8265 11 месяцев назад

    does this guy count as a triple changer?

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад

      speaking as a scientist, yes

  • @theprimo100
    @theprimo100 11 месяцев назад +1

    I was the 70th like. Sorry for ruining nice things.

    • @Vangelus
      @Vangelus  11 месяцев назад +2

      it's all good, to have been nice is an even greater honour than simply being nice