TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on COMBINERS
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- This week I'm taking on the most popular subject that's been repeatedly requested in the comments! From their toy history to their in-fiction portrayal, these are The Basics on COMBINERS!
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Decepticons are obsessed with combining. If you leave 2 ‘cons is a room alone together, they’ll be standing on each other’s shoulders in seconds! I guarantee it.
Swerve is that you?
in most of the anime it is combiners [autobots] vs. strange energy[ decepticons]
THE TRANSFORMERS COMBINER WARS TOYS ARE REALLY THE BEST STUFF I EVER IMAGINED
VICTORION SHE'S WAS THE BEST FEMALE AUTOBOT GIRLS BUT LIOKAISER HE IS WAY MORE POWERFUL AS UNICRON WAS
i hope so if megatron's little sister mega empress did not turn into megetronia as a lewd combiner
The only combiner who could be considered successful (as in a perfect melding of the components' minds) in Gen 1 was Predaking, who in all the Gen 1 media except the cartoon was shown to retain the intelligence, cunning, and ferocity of the Predacons, united flawlessly by their love of the hunt and able to work as one single predatory beast.
And that's why he's the best.
Liokaiser from victory is much like g1 predaking. He is described as cruel, merciless, and cunning.
Well, that and I assume it was because they functioned as a pack, yielding to their ‘alpha’, who was stronger than the rest
Devestator is better than predaking
@@literallylemon2665 True
Imagine if like 5 combiners could combine into a super combiner the size of Unicron
That would be like 25 deceptions trying to work together
No, it’s just be big… like idk metroplex big
Oh boy. If we had that, imagine someone wanting 5 of THOSE to combine. 125 separate robots.
Well, a couple of us know what happened when Starscream attempted to do that...
IMAGINE 5 UNICRON COMBINE
Favorite combiner: Volcanicus. Not necessarily for ability or anything like that. The Dinobots are my favorite team of characters and I'm so happy to see they got an official gestalt form after so long. The giant sword is obviously a plus.
Honestly Volcanicus is one of my favorite Autobot combiners, only matched with Superion.
Making the Dinobots a combiner team was a genius move, the full robot looks so coherent with the gold and silver of the bots, just like the Seacons, except the Seacons were designed to be a combiner from the start, and Volcanicus was an engineering miracle from modern times :D
I liked his potrayal in Cyberverse where all the dinobots are like still active
Technically, Volcanicus is Transformers' counterpart to Power Rangers' Dino Megazord.
My personal fav is victorion. The first female combiner and one that was voted on by fans! I love that! Plus the sword is so cool!
Dinobots finally combined?!?!..... when?!?! Where?!?!?
The triple changers would be a good basics topic, I think.
Oh yes. Reminds me of my friend Springer.
Hi, I'm Hot Rod .... he’s got better thing to do tonight than die
I would be interested in that
what about split changers
@reinhart jonathan sorry i mean the religious flywheels and the sadistic overlord
I love how when the fans were given a choice, they collectively said 'eff if, let's go full girl!'
Srsly shows some intestinal fortitude as a fan base. It doesnt have to be a boys club
intestinal fortitude? must be some strong intestines
@Nexus Prime the gender balance of the fandom is definitely more vast than i originally thought. It's pretty cool
Heck I know I ton of gender diverse peeps who love transformers too! Me being one of them haha, who doesn’t like giant shapeshifting robots?
@@God_gundam36 I think its cus it's so old
@Nexus Prime The original marketing team, for one. The reason there were no female Transformer toys was they said Transformers is a boy's toy and boys don't want female characters. They were completely wrong, as the She-Ra experience should have told them.
Computron would have to be my favorite. He was the first combiner I ever owned so he has a special place in my heart. And I just love the sci-fi/fantasy aesthetic of the Technobots' alt modes.
However, that being said, I've got much affinity for most of the Decepticon combiners as well. I mean, I'm Autobot all the way, but it's hard to not like badasses like Devastator, Bruticus, and Predaking.
Justin Wahlne Decepticon are better.
Computron was probably my favorite. The only thing I didn't like about him was his Maroon color scheme. I just think they could have gone with a better color scheme. The other Autobot Combiners Superion and Defensor had more positive color schemes.
@@pp3k3jamailaverage hope crusher (joke)
When I was a kid, I loved the combiners! My favorite Decepticon combiner team was the Stunticons, and my favorite Autobot combiner team was the Aerialbots.
The Key to Vector Sigma episode
I agree. I'm a big, or rather, out of shape, kinda chubby fan of the Stunticons. They're Autobot counterparts are probably my second fave. I enjoy their individuality too! Especially Dead-End, Wildrider, and Breakdown! Not a fan of Dragstrip or Motor master as MUCH. I just really like the 80's car alternate modes, and personalities. Slingshot, Skydive, and Air-Raid have great appearances in THEIR alt. modes as well. I don't know why I had to go on a tangent.. could'a just gave a thumbs up, I guess..
If you were a combiner what autobots would have in your team?
Liokaizer and superion
Those were the original 5 team combiner
im genuinely surprised that Transformers and Voltron have never gotten any sort of crossover. Voltron is literally a combiner!
Yeh more power rangers tho
@@inosuke2679 Well they're owned by the same guys now.
@@Beelzeboogie really I didn’t know that
Voltron, is the original combiner!👍🏿
@@bowtomlinjr129 you need to watch old Japanese cartoons. Several combiners before Voltron such as Combatra V and Voltus V.
Optimus: Uh Jazz look out, there’s combiners Jazz, there’s combiners
Jazz: Oh no Prime, there’s combiners Prime, combiners
Both: Ahh ahh
Prime: *Combiners*
Dark Scream DiamondBolt lol
THEY RE GONNA BUILD AN ARMYYYY OF COMBINEEERS
I totally get this reference
I read this in his voice 😆
What?
"Decepticons are obsessed with combining. Get 2 of them alone in a room and one will try and stand on the other's shoulders."
As far as combiners go I'm partial to Devastator as he was around first.
Chris these videos are so good, I watch them as soon as I see them in my feed, keep up the good work! :)
Devastator forever!
J-Tron not the revenge of the fallen one though, or at least for me
I agree dude, but that said the Revenge of the Fallen Devastator did two things better than the toy/cartoon/comic one; each Constructicon had his own size and colour which made each look unique and when they combined they looked like a large animal rather than a large humanoid. But I just couldn't look past the wrecking balls! :(
Actually I think the real first combiner , was voltron I could be wrong but he's been around sense been around. Like the 70's. But for sure the Go bots had a combiner before dia clone did & that show ended like a year before transformers G1 started. Go bots even had the first triple changer.
Commander Jamaa Oh God no!!!
Man Chris, you do not disappoint! Thought I knew about combiners, learned SO much more.
Me too. Definitely good content.
Devastator, the first and still the best
Volcanicus upon first combination, tore devastator to shreds viciously!
My 2 favorite combines are Victorion and Superion
Who you calling Inferior?!
Nobody call Soundwave unchrasamatic!
VICTORION AND LIOKAISER ARE THE BEST TRANSFORMERS COMBINER WARS TOYS IN THE WORLD
My favorite combiners are Safeguard and Defensor! Safeguard because I love his component characters very very much, and Defensor because his honorable mother hen personality is an adorable and refreshing departure from “big scary dumb bot”
The Devastation image of devastator was what my eyes first saw
Fave Combiner Bots:
Victorion(I love her rusty getup), Superion(because aerialbots)
Fave Combiner Cons:
Bruticus(PLAY FALL OF CYBERTRON AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND), Megatronia(her color palette is just so glam)
Fall of Cybertron is a great game.
I couldn't agree more.
I love these videos, you are one of an elite few that has the bell clicked.
Excellent work, a transformers lore channel is such a great thing to be able to watch, my favorite combiner is either Bruticus or Abominus
"THE BASICS on COMBINERS". Well, now you just need to do the basics on Titans and I'll be happy.
hey starscream, he did that
I’m almost ashamed to say that my new favorite combiner is Optimus Maximus...I wanted an Optimus combiner since forever (who DIDN’T pop Prime into Magnus’ armor at least once?), and now I have him 😊!
This series is fantastic! My only complaint is that I have to wait so long for the next episode...but I’m so very thankful you make me wait and take the time to do this show right. Keep up the fantastic work, Chris!
Optimus maximus is my favorite too
Me too, i’m also imagining if Maximus appears in the live-action movies.
DERR GOANNA BILD AN ARRRMEEEE OF COM BINE OOOOOOORRRRS!
I'm sorry
Pat Rex 11 I hate machinima for doing that they ruined menasor
Same, Combiner Wars is my least favourite Transformers series though I'm newish to the franchise so haven't seen some of the other infamous shows like Energon. Also I refuse to watch Titans Return and Power of the Primes when it comes out
Pat Rex 11 I watched them just to see how bad they were michima dosen't disappoint
Good to know... I guess
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss!
Devastator being the first always has been important to me, but I would say Predaking always fascinated me more.
I happen to be stickering my reissue g1 constructicons while watching this
my favorite is the version of devastator from the IDW comic series that has prowl used in the combiner
I have a theory,that in order to work together completly they need to work as a team and gain each others trust,so the can work in combined form
Isn't that kind of a given?
Which is extremely ironic, considering the Decepticon combiners tend to be some of the most dysfunctional groups in most series.
@@gent777 but for some reasons, the Combaticons, organized group of tacticians, gave up their intelligents for the sake of combining process into Bruticus.
Please do The Basics on Ironhide
He’s my favourite Transformer
All you need to know is that he was Orion Pax's mentor or something. He is older than the war itself and at this point it is believed that he has had enough replacement parts to build a small army. In his G1 self, he would tell old war stories to the younger autobots. In summary he is a cranky, broken down, outdated autobot that's been in almost every situation possible, a feared soldier to the decepticons. He is my favorite as well.
J-Tron are you sure your not talking about kup?
No I'm sure that's Ironhide, I got this from the movie and the G1 bios on Transformers Wiki. Although I think Kup shares the same data.
J-Tron who's older, ironhide or kup?
TheBd62 kup.
I friggin LOVE combining robots! Ever since watching Power Rangers at a young age, the idea of multiple machines combining into one BIGGER robot by folding and changing their appearance has always fascinated me, and I'm very glad that the franchise of Transformers is another franchise that keeps the concept alive and kicking!😁
Hey Chris McFeely. My favorite combiner ARE.....
1.) The Aerialbots
2.) The Protectobots
3.) Skylinks
4.) The Technobots
Those were MY FAVORITE Transformers as a KID.
It’s such a breath of fresh air to hear someone talk about transformers and do so in a positive light. Way to many “haters” in this fandom now days.
That's most fandoms though.
@@zeterzero4356 while that may be true, part of the Transformers fandom sometimes takes it to a whole other level, to the point its not self deprecating its just them being salty.
@Samuel Cannon Shows what kind of sweats Gee-wunners are.
My favorite combiners are Devastator and Predaking :) Scramble City style combiners do not sit well with me. I prefer it when each member has a specific spot.
My three favorites would be
3: piranacon cause of his obscurity as well as the amazingly styled individual bots that worm him, there was a lot of creativity there
2: monstructor because of sheer brutality and cause he’s basically just abominus + devastator
1: devastator, why? mean just look at him, there’s so much personality put into that character, especially in the IDW continuity, there friendship with prowl was just the sweetest thing.
Not many know this, but the limbs of the said "Scramble City" combiners can actually combine with G1 Metroplex, connecting to his shoulders and knees, hence the name Scramble City.
I have all of The Special Teams collection. My favourite group is The Stunticons, my favourite Decepticon of the collection is Swindle, my favourite Autobot (the character not the toy) of the collection is Groove
6:02 How ironic, because Computron would've been able to dodge that, being an advanced supercomputer and all.
Computron being a methodical thinker who takes TOO long to consider things and fails to react in time is part of his original characterisation! That's what's happening in this scene: as he shoots him, Abominus snarls "Computron think too much!"
I think, Predaking, since it was so amazing when he combined when he hunted Megatron.
I certainly hope that if not in the Power of the Primes toy line than a future toy line we get the Sea-cons with Combiner Wars connections
gameboy4064 I like Beast Wars II seacons repaint more than g1
There might be in WFC: siege
Selects: releases Piranacon and god Neptune
Prime!
Look out!
*COMBINERS!*
WonderCreek Jazz
Lookout there’s
Combiners!
Uhhh
Uhhh
*Combiners*
Oh no. Jazz
Look out for the titans
Ah, Prime...
Look out for the Titans...
UHH UHH
*T I T A N S*
*I*
*T*
*A*
*N*
*S*
Favourite combiner would have to be predaking. Just love the idea and concept. RID 2001 Rail racer is a great concept too
Transmech534 Same
I have Rail Racer. He's cool looking when he's put together but he never stood up very well.
Wait a sec. If Nexus Prime was a combiner and one of the thirteen Primes, does that technically mean that there were seventeen Primes?
My favorite combiners have always been Superion and Bruticas.
Superion because the team that makes him is awesome. Being that they were the break out bots for the autobots side that were planes.
Bruticas because the team I feel pretty much sum up what it means to be decepticons. Especially with Onslaught and Swindle. Who are two of my favorite decepticons.
Combiners are definitely one of my favorite topics, thinking about both the physical means and the mental effects. You did a fantastic job here!
A burger and a turkey sandwich should combine to form Burgerturk.
Awesome video, Chris! Really high quality stuff. I am looking forward to your videos every week.
I am not a great fan of combiners in general, but if I'd have to pick one, it would be IDW's Devastator with Prowl as it's head.
Speaking of Prowl; hopefully we'll have a Basics on Prowl one day... and a million other characters. Love your Basics videos so much!
"IDW's Devastator with Prowl as it's head. "
Yuck. IDW IS GARBAGE and shit like this is just one reason.
I couldn't agree more, Mathia! IDW's comics are my favorite incarnation of the Transformers, besides Prime. IDW Devastator with Prowl is also my favorite combiner! And I am dying for a basics episode on Prowl (or Jazz)!
tbb033
Have you actually read MTMTE or RID? How can you call them garbage?
I respect your opinion of course but that implies you respect mine, or Mathia's. It is proof of your immaturity and lack of respect for another's opinion that leads me to make the above inquiry and to question my position regarding my own respect for you. You cannot state that "IDW is garbage and shit" without becoming a troll.
"CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE BECOME A TROLL!"
-I am channeling my inner Prowl here, BTW.-
THEY GONNA BUILD AN ARMY OF COMBINERS!
Great video on one of my favorite topics. 😄
I would have my favorite Combiners are Defensor and Predaking.
Can you do the basics of the character Star Saber.
He is my favorite character
Chris I love this series! So much information to take in and it’s so interesting. Favourite combiner is definitely Bruticus because I grew up on RID 2001 and armada and so on but when I learned of G1, Bruticus was always my favourite combiner at first because of the look but now because of the characters (and the look) my favourite version of Bruticus has to warbotron’s version.
My favorite would be Piranacon by the Seacons. It's the first combiner I got to read about in the few comics I had back in the day. Some story involving them and I think Shockwave and Galvatron.
My favorite combiner?
OVERCOMPENSATRON!
aka nexus
Superion (Aerielbots) vs Menasor (Stunticons)
Defensor (Protectorbots) vs Menasor (Combaticons)
Computron (Technobots) vs Abominus (Terrorcons)
Dinobot vs Devastitor (Constructicon)
Predaking (Predacons)
Brilliant series. How about an episode on The Wreckers?
HELL YEAH!
My personal favorite would have to be raiden but landfill may just be a close second.
My favorite combiner is bruticus and movie devastator has some of the coolest movie decepticon designs
I’m surprised defensive is outclassed so often
He’s often used as “deus ex machina” the robot
Computron, Menasor, and Predaking the goats
That Enigma of Combining is pretty powerful being able not only control combiners but fully revive a dead ones and reminding us never trust Starscream.
Honestly, I love Defensor and I don't know why. Maybe it's the colors, or that he's a fun concept for a combiner, I truly don't know. I just like him and I don't know why.
Masterpiece Devastator and Bruticus pls XD
My favorite combiner? The Predacon(not those ones.) combiner Predaking!
They unite fully being one of the few combiners to act normally, as the Predacons are unified by their love of the hunt. Also he has a lion on his chest and bird wings. Hard to get cooler than that.
Fantastic video!
I'd have to go with the Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron on the grounds that the eplaination for his existence in the accompany comic as well as his limbs are some of the most out there stuff I've seen in Transformers and it amuses me to no end.
Basics on Triple Changers would be pretty cool. Not sure how much lore information exists behind that, but it might be worth looking into.
Idea for a new combiner: Defensor 2.0
Bots:
- Inferno
- Red Alert
- Prowl
- Ratchet
- *other emergency vehicle autobot not from the Protectobots*
The Basics on Energon Ironhide. Yes that sounds about right.
Seth Tan sounds like a good idea
Seth Tan KICKER
Seth Tan
Osi
Seth Tan oh,god,no
The beast
Oh god
Actually Transformers: Prime is the only one without a combiner.
It would have been awesome for Transformers Prime to have at least 1 combiner made up of more than 3 bots.
I'd have to say Menasor (G1) is my favorite combiner. I mean, the first episode they appeared in showed them chopping trees in half while driving, flying off cliffs, and in that one episode where Wildrider crashes into a wall and knocks off Bluestreak, he drives off fine, but with the combined mode of the Stunticons, if their armor in vehicle mode can withstand that much in vehicle mode, he's one tough combiner!
Defensor......I HATE STAR SABER BECAUSE OF WHAT HE DID TO HIM.....Please do an episode on Ratchet that would be awesome
Cheers
Digi
To be frank, I don't remember watching the entirety of G1 so I can't say I have a nostalgia fuelled favorite, but I really like Abominus.
Thanks for mentioning the Scramble City Combiners ability to swap. I don't think they every brought this up in the U.S. when the toy line was first introduced.
Bruticus angry! Bruticus SMASH like button!
Optimus Maximus is superior to Ultra Bee in every way, fight me
Well my favorite combiner is DragonStorm and maybe you could do a video on the guardian knights at some time
Considering they got so little screentime and actual lore in The Last Knight, a The Basics video would be difficult to make
Shortest basics video ever- "Welcome to the Basics of the Guardian Knights... oh just go watch The Last Knight. And there's the basics on those guys"
How the hell can Dragonstorm be your favorite combiner??? He lasted all of 20 seconds and has no personality whatsoever.
a dragon combination of twelve knights that was inspired by arthurian legend? how is that not awesome XD
Mine is Infernocus.
I have 4 different combinors safeguard from animated perceptor from armada and Energon and buildking from rid 2001
I think that this video is very good researched
The only G1 transformers figure I ever owned was First Aid. I didn't know much about transformers at the time, but as I grew older I discovered he was part of a team called the Protectobots. And so my love for Defensor was born. I have just got the last part of Defensor on Ebay, the elusive and hard to find Blades.
Victorion is my fav.
DanTheWildBirdMan me too
Same here
You alright, Chris? Your voice was cracking a lot.
But besides that, The Basics on Primus?
7:08 DULL SURPRISE!
I was looking for this comment. :D
My favorite Combiner is Computron, for no other reason than it coincided with my favorite Grimlock story. (Always been a sucker for a good Flowers for Algernon plot)
Now I’m real excited to see a proper Dinobot Combiner team. One that isn’t The Beast, no less.
The basics on minicons?
I would combine the subject with Micromasters just to get the Micro play pattern done in one shot as well.
+darthirian Heh, *Combine* the subject
I've always been a Bruticus fan, which initially started with Ruination in RiD. That toy and the FoC Bruticus are the only combiner toys I've been able to get so far.
Optimus: Uh Jazz look out. There's combiners
Jazz: Oh no Optimus look out there's combiners
Both: Ahhhhh
Optimus: Combiners
As a kid I used to go Bruticus ,, and smash stuff ,, as a 46 year old i still do it... Yet I still love Devastator
You missed "the beast"
Hey Vsauce Michael here That is the stuff of non-canonical fanwankery, that is truly better off left forgotten.
Even if it was canon I'd still recommend forgetting about it.
That's because it should never be mention.
_no._
Min is superioron
Actually it's just a few bots or cons merging into a bigger bot or con ;)
I can never forgive the Bay films for taking a fan favorite in Devastator and turning him into a scrotum joke. A joke that doesn't even make sense when you think about it. There is no piece of construction or demolition equipment that has 2 wrecking balls.
Those aren't wrecking balls they're ballast weights
When he includes Ultra Bee instead of Optimus Maximus on the thumbnail.....
I like G1 dragstrip & I like dragstrip design too!😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😻😻😍😻😻😍😻😍😍😻😍😍😻😍😻😻😍😍😻😍😻😍😍😍
Devastator is my Favourite, I do like me some fan made Dino bot combiners though.
A combined is a giant robot made up of 5 or more Autobots or decepticons
I would have to say Superion is my favorite, and sorry im not a good speller so someone please correct the name spelling lol
My favorites are Predaking, Bruticus, and Liokaiser for Decepticons. Superion, Volcanicus, and Defensor for Autobots.
My favorite: Predaking
2nd: Abominus I don't see him mentioned very often.
Abominus. Even though the Terrorcons technically hasn't made any appearances lately, his cool design and ferocious appearance is the reason why I like him.
Favorite combiners are a tie between Magnaboss and Tripredacus. I'm a Beast Era kid. Well... a Beast Era 30 yr old kid.
My favorite combiners are Devastator, Menasor, and Bruticus those are my favorite Decepticon combiners.
Even though I know all of this, I always find your videos interesting!!!
I was right! Steven Universe *IS* the female version of Transformers! They have everything! Even Fusion!
Thank you so much for not bringing up The Beast.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, here you just brought him up