I believe Springer’s original name, Ostaros, is meant to be the masculine version of the name Ostara, which is associated with fertility, new beginnings and spring. I’m gonna go cry now.
The "unredeemable monster still capable of love" trope is one of my absolute favorite tropes in fiction, and this version of Tarantulas nailed that trope. That said, I did like what Earthpark did with him, of course being an all-ages show that version of Tarantulas is an outright saint compared to past ones xD.
It's a shame he was only in one episode. I would have loved to see more of earthspark tarantulas. Maybe in the future, we could get another one like him.
I do admire IDW’s Tarantulas, he is not overly tragic but you can still sympathise with him. That last moment of him dying in Springer’s arms is just heart wenching, a Son & a Father’s last moments together.😢🥺
Blackarachnia's psychotic ex-BF turning out to be badass triple-changing commando Springer's creator was indeed among the more shocking (yet equally compelling) creative divergences in Transformers mythos I ever experienced from the IDW 😲 Also, huge props for that performance as Tarantulas!
I was born in '90, so I grew up with BW on weekly television and Tarantulas was one of my favorite characters too! ❤ I love how twisted he was in IDW, but I love what Earthspark did more as it expanded on the father figure version when he mentors and grows to care for Nightshade
I'm actually arachnophobic in RL, personality wise I always thought of Tarantulas being like a strange combination of Starscream and Shockwave, LOL, And I did read those comics a certain panel involving Tarantulas and Road Buster nearly traumatized me. XD
I had no idea that Tarantulas was Springer’s father in the IDW comics so I was pleasantly surprised that I was messing with my SS86 Springer when I was watching this video
The voice acting for Tarantulas was brilliant. Now while I am not a huge fan of IDW's depiction of Prowl, their version of Tarantulas is very good. He is just as evil as his Beast Wars counterpart, but actually shows a slightly tragic side to his personality. Under different circumstances he could have been a good person instead of the monster he became. I have only read last stand of the wreckers but now I want to get my hands on the sequals.
Except he actually is terrifying and competent. For the most part, I mean hell in the original cartoon. He's he's literally like, basically a wacky to their version of the gut of it, the devil, you can't say the same for a screamer.Like the only reason he got killed because I basically I think like two gog d like aliens jumped his ass
Excellent work on the essay! Always nice seeing these kinds of deep dives and attention brought to variants of these characters! Happy to have lended the audio for Tarantulas' final moments as well! Always have fun voicing the character.
While im not big on the whole Tarantulas being Springers father (it seems extremely random), can I just say that this is probably my favorite video you’ve created? The voice acting and writing are extremely good, keep up the good work
I gave my son tarantulas this weekend as a early Christmas gift and this video makes me happy as I'm a huge fan of whom I've always considered to be a variant of Shockwave who is probably my secret favorite transformer. ❤ I loved this thank you for making this it hit me hard cause we all look at our kids wanting them to be better than we are. Loved the voice work too
In some degree I have always love tarantulas since i first saw him; the desings, his voice and so on.. seeing tarantulas like this in his finals moments hurts me but i guess is the things he deserves after all what he did. At least he had a moment to talk to springer, even if was really short(Sorry if there is any grammar error ^^)
This strangely brought me to tears on the emotional and nostalgic aspects. I remember Megatron/Galavar made a remark of Tarantuals being the spawn of Unicron and I like they never elaborated if this was literal or not but hey, Tarantulas had horns to like Unicron so...
Genius, mad scientist, cannibal, traitor, he's my boy and I love him, and I'm always happy to encounter another fan! PS the third party TM Tarantulas by Transart toys is wonderful, and worth every penny if you're into MP scale
I have to be honest with my feelings for this character. As you can see from my profile pic, Tarantulas is not just my all time favorite transformers character but he is my all time favorite character in all fiction. So when he appeared in the comics I was SO HAPPY! His design in the comics was AMAZING! But as the comic continued my feelings started to change. You see to me the Beast Wars Tarantulas is PERFECT. He is the type of villain that I love the most. Complete Monster. He's irredeemable and nothing was shown to humanize him. He was evil, he knew it and loved to be evil. Always will love card carrying villains, can't help love a guy who loves what he does. And his evil laugh is my favorite evil laugh of all time! Even more the Mark Hamill's Joker laugh! It's amazing! Back to IDW Tarantulas, then they started to "humanizing" him, his relationship with Prowl and his fatherly love for Springer. I'm going to be honest, I DON'T like it. I hate when previously pure evil characters are reinvented to be sympathetic villains. I just love my villains to be evil. Their just more fun to watch that why and makes their eventual defeat that more enjoyable. Anyway, while I eventually started to like the IDW run less after it was all done, at least the IDW Tarantulas was still evil. Not like Earthspark Tarantulas. ... argh argh argh... I Absolutely HATE ES Tarantulas with EVERY PHIBER of my being. The only good thing about him is his Amazing design. He is TOO divergent from who he originally was. The only thing he has in common from the original is his name and looks. His voice is terrible! He doesn't laugh evilly ONCE!!! One of the many reasons I don't like Earthspark. But then again that show isn't made for me but for kids, so what ever. The ONLY time the character was done justice was in the 2021 Beast Wars IDW comic. Loved that comic, that was a comic that knew how to write to the hearts of it's characters and keep true to who they are. The Skybound comics are doing the same for it's characters, (mostly.) So yeah. I just love this character so much and just had to say my opinion.
Tarn once said this: "- Even the most debauched and fatuous society can, on occasion, produce something beautiful." I think IDW's take on Tarantulas is a living example of this. Even the most monstrous, and depraved individual can, on occasion, create something good and just.
BW Tarantulas is a Predacon Shockwave. The IDW version is fleshed out. I'll be interested to see a future video on Airachnid and how different she is from Shockwave and Tarantulas as another cruel Decepticon.
Thats the kind of villains i like they are not trying to say he is missundertsood or he is a victime he is a Monster but it does not mean he is hartless
I didn't read the IDW comic but i think- -Tarantulas was friends with prowl,maybe. -(Master wu and garmadon were brothers) -Prowl took over tarantula's son after tarantula turned evil. -(Master wu took lloyd after garmadon becomes evil) -Springer becomes a great hero. -(Lloyd became the Legendary green ninja) -Tarantulos worked with and got bacstabbed by the OVERLORD. -(Garmadon worked with and got bacstabbed by the OVERLORD) -Tarantulos is purple and probably has some black colours. -(Garmadon is black and the colours for his season is purple) -Springer is green. -(Lloyd is green) -Prowl is a war criminal. -(Master Wu is a war criminal, he caused the merge(idk if it was an accident)) I forgor if its tarantulas or tarantulos💀
Not specifically, no. He's a tarantula, and so, Tarantulas is his name. I think it was probably the easiest choice when the team was putting together the BW show
@@DeltaTrion it a odd 1 for sure. The 1st part is good because 2 reasons: it was purpose and respect for past source material. despite that the writing throws off constantly but it ends amazing great. 2nd season throws away all characters building. And 3rd season builds off of 2nd season. You won’t be bored at least.
I'd love to see more continuities where Tarantulas is both a mad scientist and a caring father. I can imagine a plotline where Tarantulas and his creations are originally on the same team, but his children eventually leave to join the Autobots because of Tarantulas's lack of morality in his work, eventually leading to Taratulas rethinking and changing his ways, leading to him joining the Autobots as well and working to fix his mistakes.
@ You can tell new stories and not completely ruin every character at the same time. Armada was very different to g1 but that’s because it’s not g1, it’s armada. But the comics are obviously supposed to be a reinterpretation of g1, using the same characters and designs. Dream wave took from g1 and iterated on it, and well yes it was very dark characters still felt like the characters. Skybound is practically just a new g1 for people of today and again, characters are consistent with their original characterization. However idw looked at allllll the tf history and established personality’s and said “Fuck that all psychopaths and gay!” And I just hated it. I could not enjoy watching Arcee butchering people and enjoying it, I couldn’t stand autobot Megatron, and to say I hate what they did to Starsaber would be a fucking understatement.
I believe Springer’s original name, Ostaros, is meant to be the masculine version of the name Ostara, which is associated with fertility, new beginnings and spring. I’m gonna go cry now.
The "unredeemable monster still capable of love" trope is one of my absolute favorite tropes in fiction, and this version of Tarantulas nailed that trope.
That said, I did like what Earthpark did with him, of course being an all-ages show that version of Tarantulas is an outright saint compared to past ones xD.
It's a shame he was only in one episode. I would have loved to see more of earthspark tarantulas. Maybe in the future, we could get another one like him.
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If we're still getting another wave of episodes we have a chance for him to come back and be good.
Wish his Earthspark version had the Rankin and bass spider voice still. It's kinda the trope of Spider transformers.
@@barrybend7189 I think it would also add to the don't judge a book by its cover theme.
Never thought I'd feel bad for Tarantulas but here we are
Gonna be honest, I’m still weirded out by Tarantulas being Springers father, but hey, that’s IDW Transformers for ya
No kidding! In IDW2, Wheeljack was the dad of Gears. Anyone got others? Most have OC parents or children.
IDW is...."interesting" to say the least.
Springer has 4 father figures in IDW1
I do admire IDW’s Tarantulas, he is not overly tragic but you can still sympathise with him. That last moment of him dying in Springer’s arms is just heart wenching, a Son & a Father’s last moments together.😢🥺
Blackarachnia's psychotic ex-BF turning out to be badass triple-changing commando Springer's creator was indeed among the more shocking (yet equally compelling) creative divergences in Transformers mythos I ever experienced from the IDW 😲
Also, huge props for that performance as Tarantulas!
It just goes to show that even a monster can still have the ability to love.
The voiceover for Tarantulas and Spinger is some of the best I've ever heard and I need a full series of this please!
You've got @IgKnightedSpark to thank for it!
He's good in IDW, Earthspark and Beastwars.
I was born in '90, so I grew up with BW on weekly television and Tarantulas was one of my favorite characters too! ❤ I love how twisted he was in IDW, but I love what Earthspark did more as it expanded on the father figure version when he mentors and grows to care for Nightshade
Really need to watch the show. I heard S1 was great, but that S2-3 was not as good
@@DeltaTrionHow did Tarantulas know Prowl?
this is for sure one of my favourite pieces of transformers storytelling. it even made made me purchase legacy tarantulas when i read for first time!
Dude this is an awesome take on Tarantulas. From the design to the character, Nick Roche did an amazing job
I'm actually arachnophobic in RL, personality wise I always thought of Tarantulas being like a strange combination of Starscream and Shockwave, LOL, And I did read those comics a certain panel involving Tarantulas and Road Buster nearly traumatized me. XD
I had no idea that Tarantulas was Springer’s father in the IDW comics so I was pleasantly surprised that I was messing with my SS86 Springer when I was watching this video
As a Transformers fan that haven't read IDW yet, I'm very surprised that prowl is like a main treat to the autobots
The voice acting for Tarantulas was brilliant.
Now while I am not a huge fan of IDW's depiction of Prowl, their version of Tarantulas is very good. He is just as evil as his Beast Wars counterpart, but actually shows a slightly tragic side to his personality. Under different circumstances he could have been a good person instead of the monster he became.
I have only read last stand of the wreckers but now I want to get my hands on the sequals.
Glad you cover IDW’s stories now, they’re good.
Also props to the voice acting.
Tarantulas is the like Starscream of the Beast era.
Except he actually is terrifying and competent. For the most part, I mean hell in the original cartoon. He's he's literally like, basically a wacky to their version of the gut of it, the devil, you can't say the same for a screamer.Like the only reason he got killed because I basically I think like two gog
d like aliens jumped his ass
Excellent Analyses on Tarantulas!🌟
Excellent work on the essay! Always nice seeing these kinds of deep dives and attention brought to variants of these characters!
Happy to have lended the audio for Tarantulas' final moments as well! Always have fun voicing the character.
While im not big on the whole Tarantulas being Springers father (it seems extremely random), can I just say that this is probably my favorite video you’ve created? The voice acting and writing are extremely good, keep up the good work
I gave my son tarantulas this weekend as a early Christmas gift and this video makes me happy as I'm a huge fan of whom I've always considered to be a variant of Shockwave who is probably my secret favorite transformer. ❤ I loved this thank you for making this it hit me hard cause we all look at our kids wanting them to be better than we are. Loved the voice work too
In some degree I have always love tarantulas since i first saw him; the desings, his voice and so on.. seeing tarantulas like this in his finals moments hurts me but i guess is the things he deserves after all what he did. At least he had a moment to talk to springer, even if was really short(Sorry if there is any grammar error ^^)
This strangely brought me to tears on the emotional and nostalgic aspects.
I remember Megatron/Galavar made a remark of Tarantuals being the spawn of Unicron and I like they never elaborated if this was literal or not but hey, Tarantulas had horns to like Unicron so...
Genius, mad scientist, cannibal, traitor, he's my boy and I love him, and I'm always happy to encounter another fan!
PS the third party TM Tarantulas by Transart toys is wonderful, and worth every penny if you're into MP scale
I'm not....but I AM into Tarantulas, and so, I must look into this!
I loved your voice acting at the end of the video. Another amazing video
I have to be honest with my feelings for this character. As you can see from my profile pic, Tarantulas is not just my all time favorite transformers character but he is my all time favorite character in all fiction. So when he appeared in the comics I was SO HAPPY! His design in the comics was AMAZING! But as the comic continued my feelings started to change. You see to me the Beast Wars Tarantulas is PERFECT. He is the type of villain that I love the most. Complete Monster. He's irredeemable and nothing was shown to humanize him. He was evil, he knew it and loved to be evil. Always will love card carrying villains, can't help love a guy who loves what he does. And his evil laugh is my favorite evil laugh of all time! Even more the Mark Hamill's Joker laugh! It's amazing! Back to IDW Tarantulas, then they started to "humanizing" him, his relationship with Prowl and his fatherly love for Springer. I'm going to be honest, I DON'T like it. I hate when previously pure evil characters are reinvented to be sympathetic villains. I just love my villains to be evil. Their just more fun to watch that why and makes their eventual defeat that more enjoyable. Anyway, while I eventually started to like the IDW run less after it was all done, at least the IDW Tarantulas was still evil. Not like Earthspark Tarantulas. ... argh argh argh... I Absolutely HATE ES Tarantulas with EVERY PHIBER of my being. The only good thing about him is his Amazing design. He is TOO divergent from who he originally was. The only thing he has in common from the original is his name and looks. His voice is terrible! He doesn't laugh evilly ONCE!!! One of the many reasons I don't like Earthspark. But then again that show isn't made for me but for kids, so what ever. The ONLY time the character was done justice was in the 2021 Beast Wars IDW comic. Loved that comic, that was a comic that knew how to write to the hearts of it's characters and keep true to who they are. The Skybound comics are doing the same for it's characters, (mostly.) So yeah. I just love this character so much and just had to say my opinion.
Tarn once said this: "- Even the most debauched and fatuous society can, on occasion, produce something beautiful."
I think IDW's take on Tarantulas is a living example of this. Even the most monstrous, and depraved individual can, on occasion, create something good and just.
That last Tarantulas scene is very, very, very good
Wish this video had a Aracniphobia mode lol
Great video
(Gonna have to watch this one audio only loll)
spider cinema
It’s him!
Beast Wars Tarantulas is actually my favorite Transformer from Beast Wars
Ooh lala.
Thank you for putting us on, without you I would’ve never known about this guy
great video!! i’d love to hear your thoughts on the metaphors & language indicative of pregnancy nick roche included while writing
Amazing voice acting!!
Beast wars was such a trip
Roadbuster was cheering in the afterspark at the end
Tarantulas was always one of my favorite characters too
Great video
BW Tarantulas is a Predacon Shockwave. The IDW version is fleshed out. I'll be interested to see a future video on Airachnid and how different she is from Shockwave and Tarantulas as another cruel Decepticon.
Tarantulas shrinking his own self reminds me of Ant-Man and the film Honey I shrunk The KIDS!
0:51 *If they were in beast form*
"Thats weird, I don't remember getting a 3rd."
No wonder they took that inspiration for earthspark tarantulas
Thats the kind of villains i like they are not trying to say he is missundertsood or he is a victime he is a Monster but it does not mean he is hartless
I really love this show
OH YEAH VECTOR. Edit: this is what it means to be the first comment say something completely unrelated and still get 4 likes
AHHHHHH YALL GOTTS ME TEARING 😭😭😭👈 FOR A SPIDER 🕷 KINO ABSOLUTE KINO NO NOTES
My only problem with the last issue of Wreckers trilogy is the fate of Springer.
I didn't read the IDW comic but i think-
-Tarantulas was friends with prowl,maybe.
-(Master wu and garmadon were brothers)
-Prowl took over tarantula's son after tarantula turned evil.
-(Master wu took lloyd after garmadon becomes evil)
-Springer becomes a great hero.
-(Lloyd became the Legendary green ninja)
-Tarantulos worked with and got bacstabbed by the OVERLORD.
-(Garmadon worked with and got bacstabbed by the OVERLORD)
-Tarantulos is purple and probably has some black colours.
-(Garmadon is black and the colours for his season is purple)
-Springer is green.
-(Lloyd is green)
-Prowl is a war criminal.
-(Master Wu is a war criminal, he caused the merge(idk if it was an accident))
I forgor if its tarantulas or tarantulos💀
Someone please pay Chris mcfeely to do a basics episode on him 🙏
Insert Kratos begging meme here
is your other favorite predacon ME
Tarantulas' death is not memorable though I found soul and sadness in this ❤ vid.
Which transformer comics is this the name
This one IS different from the Tarantulas from the Beast Wars.
…Who was your other favorite?
Next week you'll know ;)
Beast Wars superior!
Is there any meaning to Tarantulas’ original name? Like is he named after the scientific name for spiders
Not specifically, no. He's a tarantula, and so, Tarantulas is his name. I think it was probably the easiest choice when the team was putting together the BW show
@@DeltaTrionthey mean Mesothulas
@@rat7831 aah gotcha. I’m actually not aware of a deeper meaning behind the original name
Sorry I wasn’t very clear on which name. I didn’t know how to spell Mesothulus
@@rat7831 Thank you
Same here body I hate spider
Have you any thoughts as to his more recent depiction from _Earthspark?_
I personally find it to be among the better aspects of the show's writing.
I have yet to watch the show actually. It is on my list to watch next year.
@@DeltaTrion it a odd 1 for sure. The 1st part is good because 2 reasons: it was purpose and respect for past source material. despite that the writing throws off constantly but it ends amazing great. 2nd season throws away all characters building. And 3rd season builds off of 2nd season. You won’t be bored at least.
Why? Just why IDW?
@@WendythePuppet2023 why what?
I'd love to see more continuities where Tarantulas is both a mad scientist and a caring father. I can imagine a plotline where Tarantulas and his creations are originally on the same team, but his children eventually leave to join the Autobots because of Tarantulas's lack of morality in his work, eventually leading to Taratulas rethinking and changing his ways, leading to him joining the Autobots as well and working to fix his mistakes.
Once again idw butchering classic characters.
Did you watch the video
I think the beauty of Transformers as a franchise is that every new continuity can do something different.
@ maybe but god did if feel like idw actively hated the franchise with how horribly out of character everyone was.
When you say out of character, do you mean non G1? Wouldn’t you rather have iterations of characters rather than the same story every few years?
@ You can tell new stories and not completely ruin every character at the same time. Armada was very different to g1 but that’s because it’s not g1, it’s armada. But the comics are obviously supposed to be a reinterpretation of g1, using the same characters and designs. Dream wave took from g1 and iterated on it, and well yes it was very dark characters still felt like the characters. Skybound is practically just a new g1 for people of today and again, characters are consistent with their original characterization. However idw looked at allllll the tf history and established personality’s and said “Fuck that all psychopaths and gay!” And I just hated it. I could not enjoy watching Arcee butchering people and enjoying it, I couldn’t stand autobot Megatron, and to say I hate what they did to Starsaber would be a fucking understatement.
Seriously lousy voice actin👎👎
@@rollin-kimblecroskey9110 yikes! Sad to hear you think that. I think the original creator did a wonderful job