Yeah, I went to a couple of different sources to look into that one! Blackout does scramble - not shut down completely, just jam - radar and comms in the film, but it's *before* he unleashes his shockwaves. It's a silent effect in the finished film, but according to the movie's script, it was to be accompanied by an electronic "shriek" that would also cause the spotlights on the helipad to explode as it reached its crescendo in time with his transformation; the movie's novelisation also describes other systems being scrambled. The shockwaves themselvs are called "thunderclap concussions" or "pulse blasts" in the script. He fires them from an wrist-mounted weapon on-screen, but interestingly, in the *comic* adaptation, he DOES create them by stomping his feet! A result, I think, of the artist (or writer, or both) misinterpreting the brief, vague, shot of the first shockwave attack that was in the movie trailer, which the comic reproduces in a single panel.

Wait how did this comment come out a day ago if the video came out 14 minutes ago?!

@@angrypvz1646 Patreon subscribers get to see Chris' videos early.

Ohhhhh

@@ChrisMcFeely the blackout creating shrieks when he stomps was from animated

Yep

He built different

One man army

Truely a hefty Chonker

Blackout in animated was *HUMONGOUS* like for real hot rod was like gears size

As an G1fan that's what I try and take away from new media, wether I like it or not. I just hope someone else had an experience i did as a kid, and walks away changed and in love. I already have my stories and characters. it's ok if someone else has different ones. :0)

Can confirm

"Have your crew step out or we will kill you." And from then on, my childhood was forever changed!

The rotors and transformation sounds will always give me chills

I thought that was a fucking awesome opening scene. Then it switched to Shia whatever😒

Which is good for some characters cuz silent characters are also menacing cool and deadly even without a personality nor emotions

Which was his description on the original toy Bio, the left hand Mech of Megatron

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 Tell that to Bayverse Shockwave

@@AyushRaj bayverse shockwave was still good but he didn't have any G1 nor tfp personality which doesn't suit him like the silent tfp soundwave was

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 Making him an assassin I guess didn’t really sit well for most of us I suppose. Or not having any personality. Even after being a temporary staple of DOTM’s wallpaper.

Same with brawl who was devastator

Plus the idea of an evil police car was just perfect for that feeling of fear. Shame the movie forgets him in the final act

@@GunNutproductionsOG but this gave barricade a chance to star in his own small adventures until he returned in Dark of the Moon and the Last Knight

@@GunNutproductionsOG being forgotten worked in his favour since fans wanted to see more of him

@@GunNutproductionsOG con police vs bot police

Yea good point

Anyone ever notice how most of the Decepticon “grunts” in the first film all had names that started with B? Blackout Barricade Bonecrusher Brawl (I know it says Devastator in the film, but Hasbro fixed it)

Blackout and Barricade were both great. Blackout's death was even pretty cool imo

@@metal_fusion With minions of their own (kind of)

​@@Nostroman_Praetor Can't top his double for having his head split by the last Prime😂

Yes

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 why do I see you everywhere!!

Same. It reignited my love for the franchise.

Blackout will always be Great, he looks like he will get the job done, no matter the cost💯

@Keith Pillsbury well you have to admit,seeing Megatron resurrected in movie 2 was cool enough,especially with his iconic growl. And seeing Shockwave entering movie 3 with his pet driller was pretty something too

That honestly says a lot about the latter movies. The Decepticons just weren’t scary or impressive.

And he had the G1 transformers sounds

I'd say the intro to Dark of the moon was my favourite but to each if their own

Certainly, it's one of my favourite live-action transformation scenes, although that might partly be because it's the first.

True... shows how menacing the Decepticons where in the first Movie

I couldn't agree more.

G had an amazing personality in the ds game. Well, at least for me.

@@andresvargas119 that was the best transformers game

@Blushing Saikawa Agreed. The DS games are awesome and it's unfortunate they're so obscure.

As the other comments have stated, the DS game did an amazing job at fleshing out the characters. Blackout was a very methodical, reserved professional. Barricade was the sly, brutally-honest leader. And Brawl was a fun-loving bro who loved explosions. They were such a great team.

I think my favorite thing about Obscure characters making the jump to popularity is when it really is an absolute nobody (Hotlink, Cog, Bumper, etc)

I love blackout

Blackout is the first transformer I have ever known

My favorite one was the animated incarnation

@@candleman7457 yep same I wish that show coulda continued on even while prime was airing smh

And Blackout was the first Transformer to ever appear in a live action movie.

The late 2000s and early 2010s were the golden age of transformers in my humble opinion.

Actually, it's Grinder here. Grindor is an Autobot working at Trypticon Prison.

@Scom Tott you mean Bomb Burst and Submarauder

@Scom Tott I actually call the "disguised" form Blood, Dauros and Gilmer, while the inner robots are Bomb-Burst, Skullgrin and Submarauder. Same with the Autobot Pretenders: Hawk/Metalhawk, Diver/Waverider, Lander/Landmine and Phoenix/Cloudburst.

Funny detail: on TFwiki, it notes this strange having of two Blackouts in the Japanese opening, and then it says "This does follow tradition" with a link attached to it. If you click the link, it takes you to Grindor's page. I thought that was a clever detail

I like blackout

The first film they manage to make the decepticons like walking nukes but at the end they all turn into nerf guns

@@hudbinlonzo3728 I like Barricade

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 hey

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 me too 😃

Best version of Blackout without a doubt, every word he says is memorable, it was a huge miss that no other interpretation of Blackout has been as good as that version was, well I guess we can only hope for the future, however Spinister from the war for Cybertron trilogy is kinda similar to that version of Blackout both in design (head design I mean) and tone of voice and the obvious fact they are both helicopters but that’s just coincidental.

@@scoutoiler9543 if a blackout coloured spinister ever comes out, I would be the first person to order it.

What about his comic book version? He is pretty much the opposite of shockwave and is like breakdown and dreadwing from tfp

I just got the decepticon game for the ds and recently finished it and I just play as him in the Freeplay mode.

Took the words out of my mouth

He makes a great first impression in a very War of the Worlds esc attack and doesn’t get forgotten in the final act like Barricade

He was the first Transformer I saw, period.

Now THAT'S a nice icon for your profile, Noah.

@@kaneo1 thanks

True... But you known what's funny. Even name's that where used for characters in more them one show, don t alwayes end up as the "definiteve" version either. Just look it Jetstorm. An Beastmachines Vehicon general Animated Jetfire brouther And RID2015 minicon partner to Drift,... And he still don t have an "devinitive" version.

@Autobot Jazz Planned 4th season, turned to dust.

@Autobot Jazz dammit cartoon network smfh😒

Yea, like with Barricade, he is one of the best parts of the original movie.

To be frank, the first movie’s special effects have aged like a fine wine. To think it was released 14 years ago...

@@camarokidbb4347 yea, the year 2007, and it changed a lot in TF as an whole....

@@camarokidbb4347 true. I recently rewatched revenge of the fallen and it looks a little dated, but not bad.

Meaning their God is mirconus prime

Coincidence..... I think NOT. But really, they probadly where just looking for "best fiting" names. Barricade fits more them well an "Police car" type. And considoring "Black out" that our Helicopter con did in the base, Im not suprized it was named this way.

@@basedpota Micromasters ARE minicons.

@@basedpota The line between Micromaster and Mini-Con has kind of become blurred in recent years...

He don't desplay any personality in the movie.

@Ewan Callister having knife for eyebrows is cool but the problem with his designs was his legs

@@MrSafior not every characters need a personality to be interesting but the game give him that too

He will cause *blackout* to the whole city as a chopper even Dutch from predator won't want to get in the chopper

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 À characters wihout an inch of personality is not a character.

True.... But he did even EXIST back them, Micromasters where the last "transforming transformers" before the end of the the original G1 toyline. And "Underbase" was going during "Pretenders" introduction.

@@dedalionarts6077 well as far as I know he didn't exist in those comics

@@johnfrancomiguelfernandez4811 like I sayed.... The idea of "micromasters" wasn't even a thing during that time of the francise.

He was taken offline by a all spark powered starscream.

Cloning, protoforms, or the "body type mass production" from IDW.

@@dedalionarts6077 either of them would count as reasons for characters sharing the same body type

He ate too many energon

😏massive you say?

barricade could be a lieutenant in charge of the ground decepticons like how starscream is with the seekers, and blackout could be a saboteur and spy seeing as soundwave has mostly been communications officer in resent years, leaving his spying potential as a tiny cassette player behind for a bigger truck of some sort

Brawl and bonecrusher: are we a joke to you?

@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 all four of them are memorable ofc

Technically Brawl is part of the Combaticons in the G1 cartoons

He could have. I would recommend watching the KZfaqr Trans Theories because one of his theories talks about that

At least he didn't have balls like Devastator.

It's explained in the movie that while the living metal that makes up a Transformer's armor can regenerate from damage, extreme heat can actually disable the self repairing ability, as well as Lenox mentioning they figured the mechanical parts under the armor was a weak spot, and fired in said weak spot, which (thanks to Bay humor) happened the be right between his legs...

@@Trench1919A4 Yeah I watched that theory and is my head cannon is Grindor, the Bonecrusher and Brawl lookalikes are the same guys from the first film revived from the wave of energy from the allspark fragment

They explain in the movie that they figured out how to penetrate their armor. Plus it wasn't just the shot from lennox but you can see clearly that he's being shot by F-22 fighter jets at the exact same time. So think of being shot many times in the chest AND being stabbed through the heart from below, and he doesn't seem like such a pushover anymore.

L-link? I kinda want to read it lol

Where can I read

Well you can already see the Blackout from the comics towards the end of the video. They took an awesome and unique design and made it look generic and bland af :/ The animated design however is really an awesome interpretation, IMO.

Yea, it would been cool, but if I can ask.... What's your problem with Siege Barricade?

@@dedalionarts6077 nothing, it’s just that I hope for a design that looked more like the 2007 or last knight look, especially considering hasbro’s official gen 1 barricade design

@@shadowmarauder6033 yea, I can understand that. But I can also understand why Hazbro did this. Siege more or less where "G1 desighn's" , plus Guido Guidy concept art gived them one more "repaint possibility". Not to mention, and (sorry if Im gonna sound rude) .... Besides "hight shoulder wheels", Baricade desighn and transformation are rather generic.

That Barricade design was based off fan art, and stuck it to an already existing but very similar design. For blackout there really isn't many existing designs that fit it. While at first glance he seems the average Helicoptor, the EMP generator and shoulder mounted weapons, and arm mounted saw blade, and massive bulk have done their part in making him unique. As thats why IDW kept most of these features for their blackout. The G1 design should follow suit, making sure the keep these traits. But for the head I honestly think it should resemble the Decepticon symbol li8ke it did in the movie, which also ties back to how that design used to be Soundwave who's hewad was the base of the Decepticon logo in G1.

Yeah, scale is the only problem I have with the Animated toy line. Even deluxe jazz was bigger than blackout.

One one way sure... On the other, so far all his media roles where... BIG MENACING BRUTE WITH EMP POWER.

Run! Go! GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!

@@jpstudios-11 Why run to the choppa when you can become the choppa

Now I can imagine: “Brawl! You son of a glitch!” *iconic arm lock*

@@zexalcommander7036 that needs to be a tf media

@@zexalcommander7036 Imagine this: Lennox: kills Blackout by shooting in his crotch Blackout: "I'll be back..." Two years later: Grindor: *appears* Lennox: 😳

The idea isn t bad... Buut I think Scavenger has bigger chance. Considoring his name was re-used more times. Plus his name been used in for "The scavengers" in bouth IDW, and Rid 2015.

@@dedalionarts6077 yeah I get that, I’d hate to see a video only 6 minutes long. And I think if he mixed too transformers together in a video that were vague like bonecrusher I’d be fine. Scavenger is interesting too also so I’d also like to see more of him

Also, I was confused at how Blackout alone took out so many Omega Sentinels. I mean, why did Animated downplay the power of the Autobots to only win through asspull strategies?

@@Aidan_Yao his emp ability helped take them out easier plus the autobots are workers not military which explains why they are weaker

@@8ball180 I can see that.

A lot of people don't want to admit it but the live action movies were very influential to the franchise

@@dirckthedork-knight1201 Yes, that they were. ^.^

Don't forget Lugnut!

@@felmaster3534 Of course! How could I have forgotten!

Hmmm maybe. But I would rather get Scattershot or Landmine first.