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Please list characters by the media/incarnation that the darkhorse is most associated with. And let it be known, these characters have ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg The Touch]''.

 

 

 

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*** [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Hasbro finally rectified this]] in 2010-2011 by releasing arguably better versions in the mainstream toylines.

*** Of Thundercracker, Dirge, and Thrust. Skywarp is still rare and expensive.

** His popularity can be boiled down to three words: [[Badass Boast|"Damn, I'm good!"]]

* Erector. Only ever had one toy, and never appeared in fiction save for a Japanese magazine story, but he recently experienced such a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|rise]] in popularity that the fans voted him into the final nominees for the ''Transformers: Hall of Fame'', competing with such insanely popular and famous characters as Grimlock, Jazz, Shockwave and Waspinator. Hasbro even wrote a completely new character bio for him, semingly having embraced his sudden importance, but handled him as more than a simple dick joke. Considering his reputation started ''because'' of his name, this can fully well be seen as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the character.

* Soundwave, who eventually became one of the few Transformers to survive all the way from [[Pilot|"More Than Meets The Eye"]] to [[Grand Finale|"The Rebirth"]] unchanged. His robotic but ''pretty'' vocoder-altered voice, his faceless look, the fact that he had a pretty dang articulate toy... Call him a snitch and the fanbase will eviscerate you.

* Nightbeat's an Autobot detective. And he is AWESOME.

* Despite most Pretenders being obscure, there are two that stand out.

** Bludgeon is a[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Samurai Skeleton Tank Robot]] who, like most Decepticon leaders in the comics, was far more effective than Megatron. This popularity landed him a brand new Voyager class toy that skips the inner robot and goes straight from tank to skeletal samurai!

** Thunderwing is also this for having some [[Noble Demon]] traits. Oh, and he also managed to hijack [[MacGuffin|the Creation Matrix]]. This popularity also landed him a new toy... [[Anticlimax|which was a rather simplistic representation of his Super Pretender shell and altmode]].

* And in yet another case of "Decepticon leader who's better than [[General Failure|Megatron]]," we have [[Cyber Cyclops|Shockwave]]. In the cartoon, he was just a dull [[Yes-Man]], essentially a poor man's Soundwave. In the comics, he was the Big Bad for most of Budiansky's run, and his reason for [[The Starscream|constantly and successfully usurping Megatron]]? It's because he simply deems it logical, whilst also averting the [[Straw Vulcan]] trope in actually ''being'' logical.

* Most of the characters from ''[[Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' became this, but the biggest example is [[The Knights Who Say Squee|Ironfist]]. He even got an [[Transformers Animated|TFA incarnation]] complete with a toy!

* Swerve is quickly turning into this in the fandom thanks to Roberts' portrayal of him in ''More Than Meets the Eye''. He's gone from being used in past continuities as a filler character with no real distinct personality, to being a very chatty mischievous smartass with a [[Boisterous Bruiser]] personality packed into a minibot body.

* Roberts' original character Rung, the Autobot psychologist, is also gaining a fangirl posse, due mainly to his [[Adorkable|adorkably]] gangly and goggle-eyed design and his equally adorkable [[Butt Monkey]] and slightly naive personality.

* Even those who didn't much care for Mike Costa's run on IDW's Transformers ongoing seemed to like one character: [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bob_%28IDW%29 Bob the Insecticon], a spiky yet adorable abomination of science who becomes Sunstreaker's pet. When Bob showed up in the fourth issue of James Roberts' ongoing, which followed Costa's, a number of fans were rather excited to see that he was still around.

 

* Megatron's Rubber Ducky. No lines, not interaction with anyone else, but one of the 3 fully loyal Predacons. And the only one of those three (the others being Inferno and Scorponok) to get ''transmetallized''.

** [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rubber_Ducky Rubber Ducky] has his own page on the wiki.

* Inferno, largely due to his [[Large Ham]] qualities.

* Blackarachnia, who by the end became a [[Breakout Character]], and was one of the two characters (the other being Waspinator) to get an Expy in [[Transformers Animated]].

* Rampage and Depth Charge. The former for being an immortal psychopath, the latter for being the only one badass enough to take him on. They are drawn to each other like matter and antimatter, and are about as safe to be around when it happens. Put them in a scene together and watch the awesome.

 

 

== [[Transformers Shattered Glass]] ==

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|It has occurred to me that this page is dreadfully absent of the cunning and debonair Grimlock]], [[Verbal Tic|wot]]?