TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on CROSSHAIRS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- This week, The Basics sets its sights on a popular request from the comments section - Targetmasters, sharpshooter, paratrooper, movie star, it's CROSSHAIRS!
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It’s funny how the last two Bay movies are so poorly received yet the new Autobot cast has become quite beloved. Easily the best part of those two movies.
That's the problem with the Bay movies, the Transformers stuff is really good but there's never enough of it to really appreciate it
@@cartervandenberg4771 How the hell is war crimes and incomprehensibly shoddy action scenes where you have no idea what's going on a really good thing?
@@tappajavittu That all stems from the same problem though. If we spent more time with the Transformers, we'd understand their motivations more, and if they weren't always cutting away to the human characters every two seconds then it would be a lot easier to follow the action.
(Not to mention I'm pretty sure every incarnation of the Transformers features both sides committing horrendous war crimes)
The problem I have with the Bayverse, is Bay's attitude towards Transformers as a franchise.
Saying: "it doesn't matter how bad it is, you're still gonna go see it." Meaning he only cares about money.
@@nine_tails137 well he is right about,we may criticize how bad the bay movies are but at the end of the day,we still watch them
The duster coat on the movieverse one is a bit ridiculous but I'm surprised they haven't made a Transformer that comes from a convertible that uses the cloth roof as like a cape.
That makes me think of Last Bot Standing.
So like dotm megatron?
@@rsdillbot3646 yeah but less truck and more sports car
@@DeamonChocobogood point
People really don't know what a wrap on a car is do they you see sometimes instead of paint they put a big layer of I don't know what it is but it's like paper thin inflexible
Blackout ,barricade, cross hairs You gotta admit without the live action movies not many people would know of them
Agreed!
And Jolt as well even too he didn't have enough appearance in the movies and comics
@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 Jolt was one of the main characters of 2 installments of the UT, while thee movie version had 0 lines and was only called out once.
Its really sad how out of all of them only Barricade managed to become a staple character
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 and how Blackout had Grindor be a duplicate of him in ROTF, despite being a different character all together.
It is a shame, but his legacy lived on through his Animated incarnation, which was quite inspired by the 2007 design.
"instruments of destruction"
...and now the song is stuck in my head.
Let's not forget that Age of Extinction Crosshairs got to ride the Spinosaurus Dinobot Scorn to defend Hong Kong in the film. So cool!
I know Crosshairs is English but he really does come off as an Australian
I like the Bayverse design. That Robotrench is fire. Also dig OG CH’s blue & red color scheme. Have both Bot & Master from Siege. Good stuff!
Crosshairs is my favourite TargetMaster character, from the name, to his personality to His Design and as for my favourite version, I will always go for the original g1 version as I’m not a fan of his live action version
I love the Transformer Crosshair for the badass character portrayed in the movie
1:25 *Right there,* thats what hooked me about him.
That frigging skid!!!!
Since my first exposure to the character was the Siege toy (and subsequent 3D model I made) he's the one I attribute the name to 😅
While I have Cinematic Crosshairs The Last Knight toys, I really would have liked to have WFC Siege Crosshairs toy. Kinda wish that Hasbro would reissue Siege Crosshairs and like with Legacy reissued Siege Soundwave, it would get cleaned from battle damage.
It's bit odds that during Takara's Legends toyline, they didn't do Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot yet featured in Legends manga but Takara only did they Targetmater partners.
pretty much wish bluestreak would get the basics treatment who's with me?
For me I want to see Tarantulas
@@alistairrae9807 okay plus I also want to see others to get the basics treatment like kup
@@alexcanine4948 yeah I would like to see all 3 get the basics Bluestreak, Tarantulas and Kup
I love bay verse crosshairs
"To lay some hate."
One of the best lines in the films up there with " I'll take you all on " and " today in the name of freedom we take the fight to them "
Crosshairs is my favourite Autobot thanks for crosshairs basics i am also one of people asked crosshairs basics
“Disillusioned with his job as a supplier of instruments of destruction.”
Insert ‘86 film one-liners against NRG riffs here.
Jokes aside, this episode has me a bit giddy not even two minutes in just because of how cool the character was in the fourth movie. Being able to finally see him covered here is just awesome
It would be cool to get a video on Vehicons
Wait until next week
This is the earliest I've been to a video
The G1 toy had a particularly satisfying sharp clicking noise in its knee and hip joints.
I've read the Marvel comics and seen The Rebirth, Headmasters, and all the movies, yet still didn't remember who he was until I watched the video.
Do a video on the High Moon Studios games!!
I had the G1 toy as a kid, so that is the only real Crosshairs to me.
I’ve been wating for This
Do you have plans for the Basics on Metalhawk this year?
I'm glad Michael Bay give crosshair color green or else he will looklike Optimus young brother because he have red and blue
Funny as Magnus was also red and blue in his big mode.
@@gabrielchee8470 don't forget devcon
Great documentary!
SS Crosshairs imo is the best version . Siege version is one of my favs as well. The Toyhax sticker set gives him his G1 chest, arm and leg machinery, highly suggest the sticker set and the character himself of course.🤘
Hope someday basics on lugnut
Also I would like to see a video about lugnut from Donovan ❤
Hey I just want to say I like your channel and it gives me more insight into the show and the toys
"Instruments of Destruction?" What heroic nonsense!😁
I remember the discussion they had with the Head masters in the Japanese cartoon.
I'd love to see a basics on tracks
My OCD is begging for the remaining ten '84 characters: Gears, Huffer, Windcharger, Bluestreak, Mirage, Sunstreaker, Trailbreaker, and individual videos for Rumble, Frenzy, and Buzzsaw. Please
Mirage is set for one due to ROTB, but otherwise not much incentive to cover the rest
Please make a video on the Basics on Lugnut
YES I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!!
I hope legacy makes a Crosshairs based on the Michael Bay design since they are making Strongarm
I truly believe it is time for Metroplex to have his stand alone basics. The original Titan deserves it
we need a basics on metroplex
I'd love to see a video about either Nightbeat or Punch/Counterpunch
He already covered Punch/Counterpunch: th-cam.com/video/AHMcJKBfNko/w-d-xo.html
Will you ever do the basics of Primal Prime?
Who's that
@@novustalks7525the matrix of leadership stuffed into the mech suit that Quickstrike used to puppeteer Optimus Primal in that one episode, resulting in the birth of a new character
Good 👍🏿
Crosshairs isn't going to be the only green Autobot voiced by John DiMaggio
OR Neil Ross who did THE G1 VERSION!
Are you mentioning ROTB Stratosphere??
@@alphaprime1000who else?
I adore John DiMaggio, he is very good at doing robots
@@asboboys7276 Significantly, Bender from Futurama
At this point, I think it's a very real question whether the movieverse Crosshairs can do the Knock Out or Bulkhead thing of displacing his older counterpart entirely. On the one hand, he's definitely more successful, on the other hand, well... fourth-at-best billing in the post-DOTM Michael Bay films is not exactly a high honor. I don't think it helps that his whole "car trenchcoat" design is infamously not very toy-friendly.
Also, consider he is dressed with his own flesh.
@@danielmedela8725 Who isn't?
@@cillianstewart9441 Yeah, well, the others don´t have flabs of it pretending to be a trench-coat, they are basically naked robots.
@@danielmedela8725 every transformer has their own sense of style plus scanning a new vehicle form to some bots and cons is the same as buying a new outfit .
At least he still has a better reputation them Mudflap 😅 (because even with Skids, Skids at least had a good IDW incarnetion. Mudflap on the other hand.... Besides Cybertron, he didn't have much luck)
Truth be told, I really enjoyed the exchanges between Crosshairs and Drift in Age of Extinction.
If only Drift actually looked like Drift lol
I'm always astounded by Bob Budiansky's ability to create separate individual personalities for literally hundreds of different robot toys. It must've been creatively exhausting for him. Yes, I know we're not talking about great literary characters here, but nevertheless he had to help the readers differentiate between what often were many samey looking toys
I also loved how their personalities were often thematically linked with their names
As a creative writer myself I'm kinda in awe of how he did this for so many years
Yeah! It’s really great stuff and those personalities can be fleshed out into some great characters, every last one of them imo. A shame so many are robbed of their spotlight or dismissed as “non-characters” for not having big fiction appearances
Ladies and gents, the Autobot Starscream. Brought to you by Bender doing his best Jason Statham impression.
I thought that was an English accent. Surprised it was not mentioned as part of what makes the character distinctive.
Autobot starscream is perfect lol
@@rsdillbot3646
Well, okay, he’s not *_NEARLY_* as much of a backstabber as Screamer, but he’s still spending a lotta time gloating about how he should be leader, so close enough for me. 😁
I'd say he's actually the *_opposite_* of Starscream, considering the only bot he follows without question is Optimus himself and he bickers and picks fights with everyone else.
@@concept5631
Sure, but doesn’t he also almost abandon Optimus on Lockdown’s ship, with Hound forcing him to help at gunpoint?
I really love the AOE Autobots; their personalities and designs really sell the fact that these are essentially the only available Autobots able to respond to Optimus's call for aid, and what we end up with are more or less the worst of the worst, a pack of weirdos who don't really like each other all that much. Maybe its my immense Bayverse bias, and AOE being my favorite, but these Autobots were a lot of fun.
Also makes a ton of sense, they were on hiding before shit crumbled down since they dont usually get along all the time. Optimus just forced them to work together for once lol, good thing theres no thing like a autobot capitalism or they would be complaining constantly lmao
Crosshairs was sadly created during that awkward time of the G1 comics history, where too many characters came along all at once, and Budiansky was like "Fuck this, have a story about a car wash."
"What is my purpose?"
"You make kids aware of your toy and then get taken offline by a cosmically-powered Starscream."
"Oh my god."
@@Triceratopping funny as Crosshairs wasn't taken out by cosmically powered starscream.
He got destroyed by Thunderwing (presumably) as he got blasted by the matrix powered mega pretender and was never mentioned again.
@@Triceratopping all headmasters, targetmasters, powermasters, and pretenders were immune due to being organic/Cybertronian hybrids. That and they were newer toys
@@gabrielchee8470 Ouch
Good thing Budiansky wrote the Underbase saga then, to prune the large cast of characters, huh?
My boyfriend came into the room partway through me watching the episode. He saw the Strongarm repaint and thought that was who the episode was about. I told him it was Crosshairs, to which he responded "the self-important gunslinger from Age of Extinction?" I chuckled a bit when shortly after, the video got to that very iteration of the character. 😂
This is a weird thing to say but I'm fascinated by how part of the car kibble becomes like a long coat and even how it moves like fabric, only in Transformers.
OK you see there's the thing calleda wrap Instead of painting the car they put something over it that I don't know what it is but you get like tuck it in all the crevice is in such and just like glue it on that's what it's trench code is look up a car wrap
@@plantainsame2049 I don't think it would actually be wrap which is plastic and would be way too fragile, more likely it's a Cybertronian material that's both solid and flexible because this is all make believe.
@@HappyBirthdayRoboto It should be fragile though in case it gets snagged on anything he can just tear it
@@plantainsame2049 It would make more sense to have a quick release mechanism like Burnside Batgirl's cape. Also Transformers can reformat their bodies to take new vehicle forms so Transformium (or whatever they're made out of in the movies) is probably super strong, flexible and can change shape, colour and density on the fly. Again make believe.
@@HappyBirthdayRoboto Considering that Transform whatever was invented by the movies
Cade: Where are you going!?
Crosshairs: To lay some hate
One of the best lines in the Transformers films And can we all agree that a transformer having a trench code is awesome? I don't care if it doesn't make sense it's awesome!
It´s a piece of his own body he can trip on. Like those skin bags grannies have in the arms. Also, being the best lines on Bay-formers is not exactly a great bar to reach...
@@danielmedela8725 there's alot of great lines in bayverse lol... tho its mostly just optimus
I don’t personally think “lay some hate” is all that good of a line
@@danielmedela8725 there's a lot of great lines in the movies
@@arcrisgonzaga7324 And it´s mostly hipocrisy. Optimus Prime in Bay universe is a blood-thirsty psycho that gives speeches to pretend he´s a good leader.
I would’ve loved if Crosshairs was given his own level in a High Moon style game. He could be given the ability to glide around using his parachutes, have his dual pistols. Maybe another of his special abilities would be letting him shoot rapid fire without any need for weapon cooldown for a few seconds or something.
Funny how original cartoon Crooshairs had red optics like a Decepticon instead of Autobot blue.
Gonna lay some hate if Crosshairs doesn't get more screentime.
I have to admit that when I saw Crosshairs in Age of Extinction I thought he was meant to be Springer.
I'm quite impressed from his origins came from a G1 Targetmaster to the version we know sincev Age of Extinction.
His AoE interpretation is easily the best one imo.
I hope you don't mind doing Bluestreak. He feels like an interesting character to make considering that he rarely appears outside G1 media but has almost always notable roles in those roles. His constant name change into Silverstreak is also interesting
Yea, or the sad fackt that... Even tho whenever Prowl gets a new toy, Smokescrean is usually the first in the line of repaints, not Bluestreak.
That, and the fackt that Smokescrean has way more figure represantations. A Prowl recolor or not.
@@dedalionarts6077 Yeah. Out of the three Datsun Autobots, Bluestreak gets the short end
Movie Crosshair is the best-looking one.
G1 looks like ironhide and ratchet with minor changes
I actually do like how the live-action movie gave Crosshairs an Australian accent
His G1 version also cameo’d early on as a background character in a few Armada scenes set on Cybertron
"good soldiers follow orders. . ."
My brain: uhmmmm wrong franchise, bud
I really do want to see the behind the scenes of the 2007 toy lion design, seems like they had to pump out 1 million different toys to build up synergy for that movie
Yeah it's interesting
And half of them were just recycled molds from Energon and Cybertron.
the siege for cybertron truck mold was also used for Ratchet as well
“Astrotrain… .TAKE OFF”
~S. Scream
Kinda weird that his G1 character had to be sure of a shot. Maybe Sureshot liked weaving wigs
Sureshots basically sunstreaker 2.0.
Also of course G1 Crosshairs had to be sure of a shot becuz he doesn't want to waste ammo.
Think of the last time you play COD/Fortnite/PUBG etc and you lost bullets trying to shoot someone. G1 Crosshairs probably wants to avoid that
@@gabrielchee8470he’s good at resource management, I’ll give him that
I like how Crosshair looks like he’s wearing a long jacket like Neo in The Matrix
The movie gang in age of extinction always gave me wrecker vibes, I’ve always liked the idea of Optimus saying to cemetery wind and ultra Magnus coming down to take his place and leads the wreckers to become the new force of the auto bots on earth.
I have a theory that originally they wanted to get Jason Statham for Age of Extinction, but for whatever reason they couldn't, so they wound up with John DiMaggio doing an impression of him.
That's actually a well known fact. Jason stateham and vin diesal were asked to play cade, vin was too busy and Jason had no interest
@@novustalks7525 Makes you wonder how many people said "no" for them to end up with Mark Wahlberg. Dude's not exactly a big-name action star.
@@LordArikado he sang a transformers song back when he was a musician so there's that connection
The movie version may be the more well known by the general public, but I very much prefer the original in terms of personality. He has the brains to properly manage resources and his personality isn’t…a pile of buffalo chips and I’m not talking the food. I just can’t stand the personalities of most of the Bayformers characters. I don’t want anyone to win when they are mostly just such unloveable piles of manure and insults.
Give me the original any day because then I actually care if something happens to him.
Minor G1 appearence: Spends like 8 minutes explaining lore based off of comics nobody reads
Major Bayverse appearence: *Spends less than 30 seconds mentioning the character existed*
Really?
I don't think so.
Also the bayverse char unfortunately only had 2 major movies for him to go off.
One of my favourite transformers
Bayverse crosshairs "longcoat" is very nonsense but its AWESOME! Hope we can see more of this incarnation more in other media
HI Chris,great video about the Autobot Crosshairs keep them coming, also My favorite Version of Crosshairs is The Original, Cartoon,Classic, and Retroboot Version of Crosshairs who is not only one of my favorite and best Transformer of all time but also my favorite Autobot Target Master also the following information is: Allegiance (as of 2023):Autobot Subgroup(as of 2023):Target Master,Function/Primary Function(as of 2023): Weapons Supervisor Partner(as of 2023):Pinpointer(5'11"(adult),215ibs(adult,cah),Transformation(as of 2023): Cybertronian Car/Dune Buggy, Crosshairs is also an expert in Weapons maintenance he is also a self-trained Sharpshooter. His vehicle mode his maximum speed is 160 miles per hour. His Target Master Partner is a dual RPG(Rocket Propelled Grenade) Launcher that can lock on target in less than.00006 breems Crosshairs is notoriously cautious and Pinpointer is a member of the Nebulon Rebels and not only a sharpshooter but also a solider in the Nebulon Rebels led by Gort, also Crosshairs is not only a member of the Heroic Autobots but also he is a member of The Autobot Target Masters, also thank you for sharing Chris keep up the great work and have a good night.🙂💪🟢👍✌️💚🦸🏋️🌆
When I think Crosshairs (taking out the s) I think of the Clone Trooper from Clone Force 99 as seen in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. A character I didn't really care for at first but got more interesting as the series went on.
Love this stuff! Thanks for everything you do.
I just love it, when youtube stuffs so many adds into a single video that you can't see it at all and just give up in frustration, what a foolproof plan to make people watch more!😠😡🤬😤 Right?
I do quite love the bayverse Crosshairs, he is just fun
I love movie Crosshairs...hoping one day they will get his "duster" look right
Pretty sweet profile on Crosshairs! I only knew of him from the 87 series so finding out all this new info was exciting and awesome!❤
is bayverse's Crosshair long coat ridiculous? YES.
is it cool? *YES*.
it's like 90s design, most of them are eye sore, but damn, when it hits right, it hits really good.
Crosshairs should be in the next video game as a weapon dealer and should sell upgrades
Crosshairs was also released in the studio series toyline as well based on his age of extinction appearance
You should cover the human villains of the transformers universe
That 'Age of Extinction' punk can blow it out his exhaust. '88 Crosshairs is my guy.
I’m a class 87 Crosshairs fan. I don’t care for the movie version.
Good soldiers follow orders.
Wait, wrong sniper from a wrong franchise.
I like how bayverse Crosshairs googles are colored like the G1 character
My favorite version of Crosshairs is obviously the movie version since he appeared in Transformers Age of Extinction. I also like his line in that movie that I kept reciting: "Time to lay some hate!" 😅😅😅
My only toy of AoE Crosshairs was.the one with the big fist.
I wonder why he got that instead of something related to quick drawing
I think G.1 Crosshairs has a brief cameo in the first episode of Transformers: Armada, when the Minicons are discovered and everyone is rushing around getting ready to launch
I had completely given up on the live action movies before Age of Extinction so I didn't realize how annoying the Crosshairs character was.
A "Cybertronian offroad vehicle". I didn't know Cybertron had offroads? Lol.
The movie incarnation of Crosshairs was almost everybit as unwatchable as the movies in which he featured.
I think crosshairs is a great character in the bayverve maybe can take his bayverve design mix with g1 like his head give a more g1 crosshairs like
I had one of the new Movie Crosshairs toys. I thought to myself. "Damn, this is UGLY AF" Still a G1 fan.
Thanks for this, crosshairs is my favorite character from bayverse. Also do you know anything about the 12 knight transformers from transformers the last knight movie? I would love to see a video about them😃
I still have my old g1 crooshair
If movie Crosshairs gets g1ified he'd probably be a sideswipe repaint much like the movies.
Yet another amazing basics.