I always found it funny that in G1 the combaticons individually sounded nearly posh and intelligent. But once they merged into Bruticus hes like a primal barbarian who can barely form a decent sentence.

While I love Combaticon team due to their theme being military, I have special place for Stunticons & Aerialbots. Their characters were well written.

Nothing personal I enjoy the G1 combiners the most. Anything after G1 is a good old power ranger posing after forming to let everyone know they are combined. In G1 they formed then started the battle no dancing or posing.

Love Combaticons A-Team style introduction!!! It will haunt me for weeks.

The Combaticons’ A-team thing, I love it.

Thoughts on Bruticus: I feel like Vortex and Brawl are to blame for Bruticus being a hate-filled brute. Onslaught is a skilled tactician, Swindle is a savvy schemer, and Blast Off is a sophisticated elitist. Had it been just those three, we'd see a more tactile Bruticus, but Vortex's gleeful psychopathy and Brawl's simple-minded brutality brings his mental state down.

That Combaticons A-Team parody is really amusing.

The A Team Reference just elevated you to one of my favourite youtubers! Thank you for this very informative video

When they first had Devastator speak, I guess they put Arthur Burghardt's voice through a vocoder to make him sound like all 6 of them are talking at once.

imagine this: A combiner.... Made of combiners...

Superion: was brash and acted like a super solider, he was compantant and a great fighter and well adapt Defensor: acted like a over bearing mother hen and viewed everyone as "his Children" keep away from people as he gets discracted expecially the children. Computron: Was a overbearing computer that too forever to react, Very useless. Thanks for nothing Branic the cartoon did him better and he was still useless. Abomlimation: Take out everything basically forgoet whom is involved Bruiticus: Strong and dumb like a sack of hammers. Point and click basically, he was good at combat at least Meansor: psycotic and derange, Very dangerous and crazy, the perfect Juggernaught Predaking: Tactical, smart, dangerous, efficent, Prey you do not run into him. Devasator: Destorys what is built, point and watch him destroy You basically nailed them right on the head almost. Great job

the bruticus moments in foc had to be some of the best in that game along with raged out grimlock biting shockwave´s arm off HELL YEAH

Love your videos, RodiumsPrimal. I remember collecting my allowance money over several weeks back in 1985 until I had all six Constructicons. Then I excitedly put them all together to form Devastator! It blew my 8 year old mind that you could put Transformers together to make even bigger Transformers. hahaha

The real menasor has special powers!!!!

I've never liked the Enigma of Combination because it seems awfully deus ex machina. The notion that they need to be purpose built from the beginning to be able to combine makes more sense to me than just a magic widget that you can zap at a random group to make them suddenly able to merge. It also makes them a lot less special if you can just gather together any five or six random Transformers and zap them into a combiner at your convenience.

*THEY'RE* *GONNA* *BUILD* *AN* *ARMY* *OF* *COMBINERS*

Well Devastator will always hold a special place in my heart, Predaking has to be one of my favorites. Not only like you said is the most effective combiner, his combined form looks like a stunning piece of art, even in the days where Transformers were weird and clunky he was always really quality.

8:45 I love the A-Team reference! I literally laughed when I saw it!

There wasn’t a toy I wanted more as a kid than Devastator. Then when the Stunticons came along, they just got better. It would be awesome to have every set. I’m always looking to buy! Hope that’s ok to say in the comments. I love the channel. Been binge watching for the past few days. I just found it. Hit the like and subscribe button folks! Keep the videos coming coming sir! I am a big fan!

The G1 version I like as the most effective combiner Predaking

WE'RE GONNA BUILD AN ARMY OF COMBINERS

Love the a team reference

It makes more sense that all. Minds combine to create a new personality

So is the main idea that the classical combiners (i.e. Devastator) have some singular function (like destroying, defending, taking calculated actions) while their individual parts are just that, individuals?

Very well done and comprehensive video! Like I commented in part 1, there's so much complexity to the various Transformers mythology that it can make your head spin.

This is a LOT to take in and requires a second and third viewing ;) I am REALLY glad you tackled this subject! Your TF Multiverse knowledge is mind-boggling! Thank you for taking the time and effort to put this together!

THis dude goes deep

I love that Combaticon A-Team skit! "Maybe you can hire....the Combaticons!" After thinking a bit about it, they actually do compare very well. Both Onslaught and John 'Hannibal' Smith are great planners. Swindle and Face love making deals and sometimes getting in over their head. Brawl and B.A. Baracus provide the muscle and Vortex and Murdoch are the fliers. That leaves Blast Off left over. Maybe Blast Off can provide transport? He can paint himself black with a red stripe on the side and be the black van.

Ultrabee IMHO was the best explanation of how a gestalt's mind work. They started in a very messy way because of their severe lack of teamwork, but when they learned how to think together as one the finally achieved their goal. Combiners however were the victory point of the Transformers franchise on the Go-Bots franchise. Let's admit it: The Go-Bots were not so bad and the G1 Transformers were all but flawless. But the amount of combiners in the Transformers franchise made the difference. The Gobots had on only three combiners. One of which never made into the cartoon and another was destroyed few minutes after his debut.

My favorite team will always be the Stunticons. They weren’t just programmed to be destructive, but mentally unstable. In that way, they are the most similar to humans. They are a paranoid, a fatalistic manic depressive, an obsessive competitor, and one with severe ADHD. And they are led by what could be best described as an abusive alcoholic father. Lastly, their gestalt is schizophrenic. I would venture to say they are the most interesting of all the combiners, and worthy of their own series.

I LOVE your videos. Now I want a Rodimus Primal toy from Hastak.

*WE WILL BUILD AN ARMY OF COMBINERS!!!*

My favorite origin story is the idea where Decepticons made Devastater to compete with Omega Supreme and then both sides started making them in an arms race.

Love that A-Team/Combaticon spin up!!! Bravo Rodimus Primal... great video!!!! 😆👍

DAMN GOOD TOPIC. I RECALL THINKING BOUT THIS AS A KID. I ALSO WONDERED WHY SOMETIMES AUTOBOTS COULD FLY AND SOMETIMES COULD NOT. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR INFO ON THAT TOO!

Best Transformers retrospective ever! Well done! 👍👍🤖

Reminds me of the idea that the Combiner Titan, merging with their bodies and minds with each other, into one, new gestalt mind, and I'll add that to my list, and one more thing: You know you gotta admire that, Rodimus Primal, and thanks for helping me with this work! 😉😉😉😉

Well,menasor wasn't wrong.. *THEY MADE AN ARMY OF COMBINERS!*

Thanks for making this video dude! :) Really helped to clear up a lot of theories & uncertainties I'd had with the Combiners :)

Thank you for explaning! Great job!

(Megatron) Constructicons merge for the kill!

Wow, your video quality has increased alot since your 1st combiner video, good going

Been waiting for this for a while. Fantastic! 18:10 LOL

G1 devastator, and mensasaur will always be my favorite

Great video! Really appreciate all your hard work!

That A-Team spoof earned this vid a like

Love this channel!👑

Brochacho...your videos...you’re a Cybertronian Historian that any Quintesson would worry about...LOVE your channel!

Great video as always.

Great video very well done, there is so much more to combiners than just 5 bots joining together.

I am very happy that I stumbled upon your channel. I have seen many incarnations of the Transformers, but was never a big fan. Now that I am getting more into the franchise your video helped fuel my interest.

Great stuff, I never thought about it that way.

o mg omg i was witing for this video a long time thank man

Still don't understand Menasor's voice in The Prime Wars Trilogy.

Great job! Loving your videos.

Great video bro!!! I'm a new sub and you definitely earned it. I look forward to more of your content.

5:06,that is so great detail and animation there.

VERY INFORMATIVE. GREAT VID!

Nice shout out the ATEAM!

The A team spot was awesome.

This was an amazing and very deep research.

I love how deep you go here.

Another amazing commentary video!

Thanks again for your reply!

A great explanation

Great video.

Yay, love this vid

great vids bruh!

That intro beat is dope!!!

0:17 Dashie?!

Thanksss for information.

Things that make you go hmmmmmm🤔 great video dude! I really wish I had grabbed the G1 Giftsets of Menasor and other combiners. I do however have Devastator so if I could only have one now that would be it. Great video! You do these very well bro!

Great job! Love your videos and also love the shout out for, Arthur Burghardt too!👍

Love the A-Team Combaticons intro. Awesome brother.

The combatacons were my favourites for a long time so I went and I collected all of them but they were my favourites and had great respect for the others also but great stuff thanks for this one

This is brilliant.

As far as I understood it concerning G1 Decepticon combiners, their minds were gestalts and as follows: Devastator - The personalities clashed because they each felt they were the leader, so Devastator's personality was very unstable and agressive - reflecting his internal conflict Menasor - None of the 'limbs' respected Motor Master as the leader, so there was reluctance to follow his instructions, making Menasor mentally conflicted, but still better mentally than Devastator Bruticus - Considering the militant nature of the Combaticons, Bruticus responded well to orders and instruction, but did not do well under his own direction. Making him a more stable mind than Menasor or Devastator. Predaking - The components are creatures of instinct and of a predatory nature, as such, when they merge, the dominant personality has the most influence on their gestalt mind, meaning Razorclaw is the base personality for Predaking - making his actions and decisions the most unified of the combiners, and thus, best able to utilize his combined abilities. Abominus - Made up of creatures that instill fear and base responses, Abominus acts on pure instinct, without a dominant mind to bring order to it's thoughts, making his actions erratic and unpredictable.

Ouch Roddy! Lol..I wasn't there like you said I would...Great video! Till all are one!

man...what a geekie idea... love it :)

Good video! Though I am surprised you didn't include the actual visual look inside the mind of Bruticus from Till All Are One #4, where we actually literally and visually see inside the mind of a combiner (for the first time, I think?). That was a specific look at how the minds of the Combaticons were interacting with each other- one was focused on the violence and fighting, some dealing with their own personal agendas or issues (feeling the 'death' of their teammate for the first time, for instance) and one trying to keep the group mind together and not let it descend into violent chaos. It was a fascinating look inside the combiner mind that I'd been waiting years to see.

Good work ! I thought I knew a lot of Transformers !

I like the little A-Team reference.

That actually explains why the Combaticons in Detention center on Cybertron

8:46 GOLD! PURE RETRO GOLD!!!

Haven't seen part 1, but thanks for the info.

My favourite will always be predaking. He's a badass and looks awesome

Always my favorite type of Transformers. Very nice summary of how they did it in the comics. Never knew how involved they had gotten in the comics. Wish they used the groups a little more in G1. I do like the combining of personalities into a new personality when combined. It kinda goes with what I thought as a kid when I first saw the combiner groups in G1. I always thought one of two things either their minds combined as they combined. Or my first thought was the Gestalt, like the individual personalities of each member of the group, was an independent distinct personality all its own with no merging of minds. Then just to throw a third in the mix I also thought that maybe the leader of the group was the one that controled the combined form when combined. That one going back to the mention that the one forming the body and head, since that is what most of the leaders of the groups form in the Gestalt form except for Scrapper as far as I know (maybe why the comic had Hook as leader before Scrapper was appointed), being in control of the combined from. A very fun and interesting topic indeed.

Another reason why I always liked the Decepticons more than the Autobots. The Decepticons always had the better combiners in my opinion. Devastator, Menasor Bruticus and Predaking even the terrorcons who formed abominus was cool.

Combiner are extreme they are also very powerful like menasor and bruticus . Awesome video bro 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Nice A Team bit dude!

Yay a new Rodimus video. I really appreciate the hard work and research that goes into these videos. Rodimus watches post G1 transformers series so that I don't have to. G1 is where the ❤️ is for me and as such Predaking has always been my favorite combiner

Love the NES style music

good stuff!

Love the A-Team reference

Awesome channel.

The C team made me lol so hard!!!

Combiners are the best! Great video! 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

Yeah that's a question I've always been thinking of

Menasor was voiced by Dashie...! THAT WAS DASHIE!

that was cool