i’ve seen people claiming IDW Knock Out treats his conjunx Breakdown badly in IDW canon and acts bigoted to him, and i don’t get it. i don’t think IDW kobd is that well-written but… I don’t remember Knock Out being anything but respectful of Breakdown himself, even when KO’s like, is rude to Blurr or whines about Moonracer being too busy to be his assistant anymore and BD tries to chill him out. am I missing some controversial line from him or are these fans making up text from thin air?

I… honestly haven’t seen that either, Anon?  I suppose it’s possible we’ve both missed something, but I really struggle to think of a point where Knock-Out in IDW talks either to or about Breakdown in a cruel or bigoted way.

You’ve alluded to it before in Cinema Cyberdisio, but Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Transformers would go really well together. Particularly the already very weird and more lighthearted continuities like G1, TFA, and some parts of IDW. Both of them are a scifi mishmash full of aliens and mad scientists that despite the constant stream of wtf nevertheless manages to deliver on some serious feels. Also Gypsy needs to meet her long lost cousin Shockwave.

I think this would be so much fun, and also Gypsy meeting Shockwave would be adorable.  Especially if Shockwave is one of the mad scientists keeping them prisoner, and he’s in the middle of doing the Dramatic Reveal where the screen on the satellite switches on and Shockwave is starting to intone, “You’re probably wondering why I’ve brought you all here…” and Gypsy is just like hi cousin Shocky!  How’ve you been?  We missed you at the reunion last summer!

Come to think of it, I really want the Mads in this crossover to just be an unholy alliance of every morally questionable scientist on either side of the war.  Shockwave is fighting with Thunderwing and Brainstorm about scales for measuring how terrible a movie is, while Trepan and Jhiaxus come up with inventive ways to monitor their subjects’ brains, and Perceptor is just in the corner facepalming. 🙂

I wonder what future continuities will do with Prowl. Idw did something really different with the character and definitely fleshed him out more than any other TF media save perhaps TFA, but part of me kind of misses the G1 persona. I hope in the next comic series/show/etc we can get a little mix of everything.

I will be fascinated to see what happens with the next incarnation of Prowl!

I’ll admit, the IDW version is far and away my favourite personally – not just the Machiavellian machinations, but the spymaster role, the sly little sense of humour, the power struggle with Optimus, the terrible puns, the way this unassuming beat cop turns into an unlikely galaxy-wide heartbreaker.  But a mix of past incarnations sounds really interesting, and I’m open to seeing how Prowl can be reinvented.