#Designated Goodguys

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Dossiers: Not Another Tea Channel

Not Another Tea Channel is one of the few more wholesome creators from "This Community". She is respected by most because she tends to provide fair and relatively unbiased coverage of the topics she speaks on.

She was involved, to a degree, in the feud between The Trio and Tyra and Kalista, doing commentary on what was happening. She has been in conflict with Tyra, and BX Bestboy.

She has more or less been inactive since the Summer of 2023.

[cleocatrablossy]

SUPERHERO TIME

Okay so, obviously first civilian clothes based off their regular skins.

Scar does use a wheelchair, but for sake of the references he’s shown standing here.

Then we’ve got past identities:

Grian was Cuteguy up until about 4 years ago when he disappeared after a fight with Hotguy and was pronounced dead. He was part of the ‘Bad Boys’, a trio of vigilantes. About a month before his disappearance Stratos was killed. He was named Cuteguy by the public, having never given a name.

Good-Guy was another member of the ‘Bad Boys’, but with the apparent deaths of his fellow members it was decided for his own safety to distance himself from the role. And maybe get some amount of government oversight. Good-Guy’s last appearance was two weeks after Cuteguy was pronounced dead, as he said he was going into retirement form vigilante work.

The Jangler was a joke that lasted for a couple months 7 years ago. The Jangler mainly made TV appearances or would leave boxes behind, but would have the occasional appearance in person. He solely focused on disrupting the Jingler’s plans.

And finally, current day:

Poultry man has been out and about as a villain for just short of 4 years. Mostly either works with Hotguy or solo.

Sheriff is a hero, and opted to reveal his name to the public.

Hotguy has been around for 8 years now and one of the most feared villains. Probably because he has mechanical wings that can replace themselves if hit, and explosive arrows. Also an LED mask grinning at you while a guy is blowing shit up is somewhat scary. Mostly works with the Jingler, Poultry Man, or solo.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Dm Tip: Playing the Villain/ Guidelines for "Evil" Campaigns

I've never liked the idea of running an evil game, despite how often I've had people in my inbox asking how I'd go about it. I'm all about that zero-to-hero heroic fantasy not only because I'm a goodie twoshoes IRL but because the narrative-gameplay premise that d&d is built around falls apart if the party is a bunch of killhappy murder hobos. Not only would I get bored narrating such a game and indulging the sort of players who demands the freedom to kill and torture at will (I've had those before and they don't get invited back to my table), but the whole conceit of a party falls through when the obviously villainous player characters face their first real decision point and attempt to kill eachother because cooperation is a thing that goodguys do.

Then I realized I was going about it all wrong.

The problem was I had started out playing d&d with assholes, those "murder and torture" clowns who wanted to play grand-theft-auto in the worlds I'd created and ignore the story in favour of seeing how much unchallenged chaos they could create. They set my expectations for what an evil campaign was, and I spent the rest of my time developing as a dungeonmaster thinking " I Don't want any part of that"

But what would an evil campaign look like for my playgroup of emotionally healthy friends who understand character nuance? What would I need to change about the fundamental conceit of d&d adventures to refocus the game on the badguys while still following a similar enough narrative-gameplay premise to a hero game? How do we make that sort of game relatable? What sort of power/play fantasy can we indulge in without going off the deepend?

TLDR: In an evil campaign your players aren't playing the villains, they're the MINIONS, they're mooks, henchmen, goons, lackeys. They're the disposable underlings of uncaring overseers who have nothing but ill intent towards them and the world at large.

Where as in a hero game the party is given the freedom to challenge and overthrow corrupt systems, in an evil game the party is suck as part of that corrupt system, forced to bend and compromise and sacrifice in order to survive. The fantasy is one of escaping that corrupt system, of biding your time just long enough to find an opening, find the right leverage, then tossing a molitov behind you on the way out.

Fundamentally it's the fantasy of escaping a shitty job by bringing the whole company down and punching your asshole boss in the face for good measure.

Below the cut I'm going to get into more nuance about how to build these kinds of narratives, also feel free to check out my evil party tag for campaigns and adventures that fit with the theme.

Designing a campaign made to be played from the perspective of the badguys requires you to take a different angle on quest and narrative design. It’s not so simple as swapping out the traditionally good team for the traditionally bad team and vis versa, having your party cut through a dungeon filled with against angel worshiping holyfolk in place of demon worshipping cultists etc. 

Instead, the primary villain of the first arc of the campaign should be your party’s boss. Not their direct overseer mind you, more CEO compared to the middle managers your party will be dealing with for the first leg of their journey. We should know a bit about that boss villain’s goals and a few hints at their motivation, enough for the party to understand that their actions are directly contributing to that inevitable doom.

“Gee, everyone knows lord Heldred swore revenge after being banished from the king’s council for dabbling in dark magic. I don’t know WHY he has us searching for these buried ancient tablets, but I bet it’s not good”

Next, you need a manager, someone who’s a part of the evil organization that the party directly interfaces with. The manager should have something over the party, whether it be threats of force, blackmail, economic dependency… anything that keeps the antiheroes on the manager’s leash. Whether you make your manager an obvious asshole or manipulative charmer, its important to maintain this power imbalance:   The party arn’t going to be rewarded when the boss-villain’s plan goes off, the manager is, but the manager’s usefulness to the boss-villain is contingent on the work they’re getting the party to do.  This tension puts us on a collison course to our first big narrative beat: do the party get tired of the manager’s abuse and run away? Do they kill the manager and get the attention of the upper ranks of the villainous organization? Do they work really hard at their jobs despite the obvious warning signs and outlive their usefulness? Do they upstage their manager and end up getting promoted, becoming rivals for the boss-villain’s favor? 

Building this tension up and then seeing how it breaks makes for a great first arc, as it lets your party determine among themselves when enough is enough, and set their goals for what bettering the situation looks like. 

As for designing those adventures, you’ll doubtlessly realize that since the party arn’t playing heroes you’ll need to change how the setup, conflict, and payoff work. They’re still protagonists, we want them to succeed after all, but we want to hammer home that they’re doing bad things without expecting them to jump directly to warcrimes. 

Up to no good: The basic building block of any evil campaign, our party need to do something skullduggerous without alerting the authorities.  This of course is going to be easier said than done, especially when the task spins out of control or proves far more daunting than first expected. The best the party can hope for is to make a distraction and then escape in the chaos, but it will very likely end with them being pursued in some manner (bounties, hunters, vengeful npcs and the like).  Use this setup early in a campaign so you have an external force gunning for your party during the remainder of their adventures. 

Dog eat dog:  It’s sort of cheating to excuse your party’s villainous actions by having them go up against another villain who happens to be worse than they are. The trick is that we’re not going after this secondary group of outlaws because they’re bad, we’re doing it because they’ve either got something the boss wants, or they’re edging in on the boss’s turf.  This sort of plotline sees the party disrupting or taking advantage of a rival’s operation, then taking over that operation and risking becoming just as villainous as that rival happened to be. This can also be combined with an “Up to no good” plot where both groups of miscreants need to step carefully without alerting an outside threat. 

The lesser evil: This kind of plot sees your party sent out to deal with an antagonistic force that’s a threat not only to the boss’s plans but to everyone in general. In doing so they might end up fighting alongside some heroes, or accidentally doing good in the long run. This not only gives your party a taste of heroism, but gives them something in their back pocket that could be used to challenge the boss-villain in the future.  

The double cross: In order to get what they want, the party need to “play along” with a traditional heroic narrative long enough to get their goal and then ditch. You have them play along specifically so they can get a taste of what life would be like if they weren't bastards, as well as to make friends with the NPCs inevitably going to betray. This is to make it hurt when you have the manager yank the leash and force the party to decide between finishing the job , or risk striking out on their own and playing hero in the short term while having just made a long term enemy. This is sort of plot is best used an adventure or two into the campaign, as the party will have already committed some villainous deeds that one good act can’t blot out. 

Next, lets talk about the sort of scenarios you should be looking to avoid when writing an evil campaign:

Around the time I started playing d&d there was this trend of obtusely binary morality systems in videogames which claimed to offer choice but really only existed to let the player chose between the power fantasy of being traditionally virtuous or the power fantasy of being an edgy rebel. Early examples included:

Do you want to steal food from disaster victims? in Infamous

Do you as a space cop assault a reporter who’s being kind of annoying to you? in Mass Effect

Do you blow up an entire town of innocent people for the lols? in Fallout (no seriously check out hbomberguy’s teardowm on fallout 3’s morality system and how critics at the time ate it up)

I think these games, along with the generational backwash of 90s “edge” and 00s “grit” coloured a lot of people's expectations ( including mine) about what a "villain as protagonist" sort of narrative might look like. They're childish exaggerations, devoid of substance, made even worse by how blithely their narratives treat them.

Burn down an inn full of people is not a good quest objective for an evil party, because it forces the characters to reach cartoonish levels of villainy which dissociates them from their players. Force all the villagers into the inn so we can lock them inside and do our job uninterrupted lets the party be bad, but in a way that the players can see the reason behind it and stay synced up with their characters. The latter option also provides a great setup for when the party's actually monstrous overseer sets the inn on fire to get rid of any witnesses after the job is done. Now the party (and their players) are faced with a moral quandary, will they let themselves be accessories to a massacre or risk incurring their manager's wrath? Rather than jumping face first into cackling cruelty, these sorts of quandaries have them dance along the knife's edge between grim practicality and dangerous uncertainly; It brings the player and character closer together.

Finally, lets talk about ending the villain arc:

I don't think you can play a whole evil campaign. Both because the escalation required is narratively unsustainable, but also because the most interesting aspect of playing badguys is the breaking point. Just like heroes inevitably having doubts about whether or not they're doing the right thing, there's only so long that a group of antiheroes can go along KNOWING they're doing the wrong thing before they put their feet down and say "I'm out". I think you plan a evil campaign up until a specific "there's no coming back from this" storybeat, IE letting the Inn burn... whether or not the party allows it to happen, it's the lowest point the narrative will allow them to reach before they either fight back or allow themselves to be subsumed. If they rebel, you play out the rest of the arc dismantling the machine they helped to build, taking joy in its righteous destruction. If they keep going along, show them what they get for being cogs: inevitably betrayed, sacrificed, or used as canon fodder when the real heroes step in to do their jobs for them.

Art

[brokehorrorfan]

Two of Fright-Rags' Child's Play shirts are on sale for $15 today only with the coupon code GOODGUYS. They're designed by Matthew Skiff and Nik Holmes.

[awigglycultist]

HotGuy, CuteGuy, SpyGuy, and GoodGuy designs bc why not?

[vinxwatches]

my adventure's with superman

saw it, thought it had the save voice actor for Lois as played Luz in the owl house (it's not the same) and really liked her design. watching it, damn i like these personalities. i've also grown to like superman more then i did. is he OP? yea, but that's now the draw of him, and a more fun universe is needed to make him enjoyable.

also het get a magical girl transformation which is just hilarious. suit is a bit too armour plated for my liking.

ah, he's so sweat with his parents. i'd seen clips from them trying to do it in other cartoons but it was always a bit stilted, and of course it was shit in man of steel. here's it's just very nice.

i probably shouldn't sympathise so much with the villain.

nope, i think i was mend to sympathise with her. and now we have found the "goodguys". you know, just like how belos was the benevolent leader.

who the fuck uses a blimp these days?!

you should not make the villains fucking cute together if you want me to see them fail!

i really like the banshee. damn she's probably never coming back is she.

"oh, he's a liar" genuinely had my laughing out loud. sorry Clark, this problem isn't over yet.

"now, shut up. i'm about to be nice" great line.

wow, they really made this guy the most unlikeable. treatning people, misogonist, general elon musk and like. truly the biggest douche canoe possible.

standard equipment should come with some needle and treat... yea i really should add that to my handbag. won't need it often, but man will i feel stupid if i could ever need it but then don't have it with me even though i know how to use it. need to look into how to store some treat though.

you can't give superman the :3 face!

you call your product the parasite... bit on the nose for a tech company don't you think?

the bad tech tyrant claims he build the company himself, because of course he does. also it's a white straight man, because of course he is. yea, i got opinions. sure, this is made by an equally big company, but at least calling out bs like this is the popular/normal thing to do.

it really plays into the threat to superman is collateral damage. also fuck yea Lois will fucking suckerpunch a fucker. i really like her personality and that they gave her so much stuff to do.

damn, ep4? that's fast. also really neat as it allows things to continue instead of stagnate, i'm really interesting what she'll do with it.

wow, that's the laziest debumker ever. just going "nah"? you have to give some evidence.

ok, really like that people don't just have one body types. a lady can also be jacked as fuck.

oh, it's her, because of course it's her. it really is impressive how she's so recognizable across series and forms of media.

damn, that's one hell of a way to end the episode, truly tearing shit apart.

so, they're just doing this trope exactly https://www.tumblr.com/moringmark/724550083360718848?source=share (the trope it's making fun of, not the subversion)

the weirdest sweat gay romance ever.

[askmstau]

Can we perhaps get some more worldbuilding for the au? :]]]

Aka an accuse for you to ramble about the au :D

~Mezalea anon

(my motivation may have basically gone poof but my love of worldbuilding sure hasn't!!!!!)

uhhh i wont lie most of the actual worldbuilding is made up on the spot (example being bdubs' cafe -> sundial cafe) but i WILL talk abt some random fun facts. mostly about scar because he rotates in my brain like a microwave this post is long so heres a read more:

scars power is interesting to me bc like. alr this also applies to my normal hc scar but when he shapeshifts he not like. male. as a human, he's a cis man, but like. the animals/mobs he shifts into has attributes of all genders. my guy is inherently genderless and i love that. its inspired minecraft itself, since most of the mobs are genderless (like the cow both having udders and horns.) scott used to have a different design! he was originally wearing a tshirt, the same jacket he wears currently but off the shoulder, and shorts. but i ended up changing it bc he just looked like a highschooler whos starting youtube and i didnt like it LMAO jimmy's hero outfit is inspired by both his goodguy skin (main inspo) but i also had open his old captain america skin theres a noncanon event where scar fakes his death for his retirement as a villain (bc he managed to kill off the main ppl in charge) and like. it's set pretty early on. this still happens in canon, but farr down the road. like mst are together by that point (do know how they get together in that au is through scotts flower shop <3) joel has connections to like. everyone. he knows scott through lizzie, he knows jimmy by growing up with him, he knows scar by dating him in highschool- like hello?? another joel thing, he's not bias towards heroes or villains, despite literally dating a hero. it's very funny mumbo is a villain and i find that inherently hilarious. he is. so bad at being a villain. probably one of the most beloved as it turns out, outside of like. relationship stuff, grian actually has the most development. (you'll figure it out soon enough.) OKAY YOU KNOW THE XORNOTH SAGA RIGHT? funny bts: theres barely any plan for it. like. there's an idea here or there, but the entire thing is basically improv.

ive talked about it a lot, but scar is genuinely SMITTEN. he is down horrifically bad, and it's so funny to write relating to the above one, my doc name for the fic is "scar goodtimes. sir. you're down so bad you're digging your grave" i don't watch the people i write about on a regular basis. I've been watching scar a lot more as of late, and i've always binged grians content, but outside of them, i don't watch scott or jimmy that much? i mean i still watch em, but still. and i just. don't watch cubfan.

theres a reason scar got into archery and now: time for discord messages that i sent when initially making the au, and before this blog existed. most of these arent inherently pg

scotts old sketch:

and an unrelated meme that makes sense to me specifically:

enjoy the brain worms.

[forgeline]

Spring has sprung, and car show season is kicking into gear. And our team is starting our 2023 Goodguys show season in Raleigh, North Carolina, at North Carolina State Fairgrounds, THIS weekend (April 21-23), with the Griot’s Garage Goodguys North Carolina Nationals!

We’re showing off some of our newest and coolest forged wheel designs, we’re displaying our famous pro-touring 1970 “FN Camaro” on a gorgeous set of Forgeline GX3 Open Lug wheels, and we finally remembered to bring some Forgeline apparel with us to sell! So if you’ll be at North Carolina State Fairgrounds for the 8th Griot’s Garage North Carolina Nationals this weekend, then please stop by and see us!

[realwizardshit]

40k is one of those things that like really bothers/interests me because like. the world is interesting and has fun designs and characters but also its narrative is like textbook fascism. like literally. and i get it it’s meant to be this shitty depressing world where everything sucks ass but the worldbuilding justifies all of it. like there’s a neverending us vs them war and the empire has to do all these things or else it’ll melt and all the Badguys are going to fuck everything up and everything’s always on this like razor’s edge of collapse that the Goodguys are fighting for and like every time i think about it its like yeah its literally kinda a bit of propaganda. i dont think this means no one can enjoy the fandom bc 1. i dont believe that and 2. itd make me a hypocrite i just think you ought to be cognizant and maybe keep an eye out for That Guy at the hobby store with the black painted SS themed space marines and kick him the fuck out whenever you see him. the moral of the story is criticizing the thing you like and liking that thing are not mutually exclusive. and i should also probably read the fucking novels some time. also orks are exempt because they are after all just funny little guys

[thek0ifish]

The creator of Kinnikuman is one of the rare Japanese fans who enjoy mortal kombat video games which is shown with his perfect chojin character Grim Reaper who is designed off of Kung Lao and Quan Chi. He even uses a bladed hat like Kung Lao.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kinnikuman/images/2/28/Psychoman_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20200526163503

Warsman the Russian cyborg robo chojin wrestler on Kinnikuman's goodguy side of the time later inspired Capcom to create the Street Fighter 2 character Vega. Notice the mask and the claws. Warsman was also a brutal chojin who are known for their wanton need for violence and cruelty like Warsman is before Vega.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kinnikuman/images/7/71/Kin_warsman_4.png/revision/latest?cb=20210621102205

Okay that's actually pretty cool

[crsbysdot]

Dossiers: Weezy (Dean) And O66)

(I'm not including a picture here because I don't have one for him.)

Weezy, AKA: Weasel, AKA: DIY With Dean/Hack Of All Trades, AKA: Dean, is an online troll who has been active in the Younow Vegan community and in small commentary communities on Youtube. He is also married to Marissa (Not Another Housewife), and is (or at one time WAS) allegedly the leader of a troll gang known as Order66 (yes, feel free to roll your eyes; I think it's cringe as well), which I will henceforth be referring to as O66.

Dean and Marissa met when Dean's troll gang infiltrated the Younow Vegan community she was part of, and she decided to send him DMs chewing him out for his behavior. They ended up hitting it off and iirc, she was ostracized by some in that community for dating him.

Legend has it I MEAN ACCORDING TO MARISSA, Dean was part of a beer club or something on the internet in the early 2010s, when someone (presumably someone from that community who didn't like him) started harassing his teenage daughter. In response to this, he grabbed a couple of buddies and they formed O66 to "go after creeps and weirdos (pedos) online and make them stop". Marissa has stated that O66 are also "the founders of doxxing" and that they at one point had someone so scared that they went into hiding in real life.

(Note: Doxxing originated in hacker communities in late 90's and the term started gaining mainstream recognition outside hacker culture during the Gamergate scandal in 2014. Based in everything I've seen, Dean didn't become involved with these activities before the early 2010s and I haven't seen a link between him and Gamergate.)

Besides starting a troll gang, Dean is probably most well known for the following:

His beef with a creator called Shoenice, which saw Dean alleging that SN admitted to him to grooming a minor. Dean allegedly faked an interview with SN's ex-wife to further perpetuate the allegation, but the alleged victim has changed her story to whether or not it happened.

A video he allegedly did in the Summer of 2020, which involved blackface.

A video he did alleging that Gabby Petito cheating on Brian Laundry was what got her killed.

Saying that he he hoped the child of someone he was beefing with didn't make it out of surgery.

He is also linked to a troll attack on Ben Shapiro.

[crimsoncalamity]

I-No || Guilty Gear

♫ Time Traveling Heavy Metal Witch causes problems on purpose

♫ A sadistic, cold hearted, egotistical bitch who also happens to be the manifestation of mankind's desire for a "brighter tomorrow" put in the body of a regular human. It's kinda complicated, babe.

♫ Basically a badguy who is forced to be a goodguy by cosmic design

♫ The guitar's name is Marlene ♥

♫ Queen of innuendoes, especially of the musical and sexual variety.

♫ Horny as all hell. Will flirt with you as long as you're of age.

♫ Extremely under stimulated and disassociated from the rest of humanity after transversing and manipulating the timeline for so long. Believe it or not she started off a decent person.

♫ [Bleep] you, you [bleep]! I hope you [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]

♫ Recently had an existential crisis and quit her boss that she didn't really listen to anyway. Became God for a hot minute. Died on the inside before dying literally to her Freddy Mercury Fanboy arch nemesis.

♫ Remembered herself in her final moments. Well-maybe not her final moments anymore. She IS here in Isola after all. Sucks for you losers, huh?

[rpmtrish]

See Us at the 2023 Goodguys 25th Summit Racing Nationals

It has been a busy summer already for our team at Forgeline, but now, our favorite event of the year is almost here! We’re excited to be exhibiting at the 2023 Goodguys 25th Summit Racing Nationals Presented by PPG, at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, OH, over the July 7-9 weekend. Of course, we’ll be showing off some of our newest and coolest forged wheel designs and displaying our new Chevrolet C8 Corvette Z06 on Forgeline Carbon+Forged CF207 wheels and our famous 1970 “FN Camaro” on Forgeline forged three piece GX3 Open Lug wheels. You don’t want to miss your chance to enjoy this epic annual tradition, so if you’ll be at the 2023 25th Goodguys Summit Racing Nationals Presented by PPG in Columbus, then please stop by and see us! Read the full article

[richardsphere]

.Rwby Catchup”: V7 E13

Things Neo can conceal/disguise with illusions: Weapons, Armor, Clothes, entire planes (admittedly hard) Things she cant: The relic. Old Lady starts to go Ice-supersayian. Cinder generics into the scene as always.  Renora only just got together and they’re already having their first couple-fight. Oscar abandons crew, because thats going to be smart. Supersayian Oldlady has dementia, Oscar and James about to duke it out for the spear? “I wouldn’t trust me either”. And Jimmy shot the kid. I’ll be honest the whole “turn to the dark side” arc didnt really work for me. Not because i dont believe his dark side, but because i was never really sold on his “light” in the first place. Cant fall from grace when you are introduced without it i fear. (i mean i guess there were a few glimpses. But its more like he’s introduced as a fallen champion then that we get to see the champion fall if that makes sense) Cinders arm just got shattered, thats good? Is it going to stick? No, because it regenerates. I’ll be honest, Cinder still has too much going on in the design, Flaming eyes, Eyepatch, Amputated Monsterprosthesis, little brooch-like thing on her chest, earrings. Like one or two of these things are fine in a design but put it all together and her entire “deal’ gets cluttered. Why are penny’s maiden-flameeyes green?  Speaking of Green, Ozpins glowy forcefield/whatever his semblance is is back. Which begs the question: Do all of Ozpins Souls share 1 semblance or is this an a MHA One For All sort of deal? Qrow and Robin are off to prison again while Ozpin talks about fear and the montage implies cinder is afraid of failure. Which is might be the first time we have been given anything resembling a motive for the character. (we are 7 seasons in and our OG Main Villain is only now getting motivations beyond “im evil”) Salem got a backstory before Cinder did is what im saying. Winter’s still on the side of the Fasc, but at least she still cares for Weiss. Penny joins team goodguy (which is good, cause i never bought her on James’ side to begin with) Penny has 2 hands so she can cuddle Ruby and Weiss simultaniously. No Ozpin, i dont understand why Cinder does the things she does, it would be absolutely lovely if she got to have a personality beyond “generic looming threat” please. Wait Watts is still alive? I was under the impression James had executed that motherfucker when he held him by his throat over the arena pit that had been spouting lavaflames earlier that fightscene, and that them dramatically cutting away from his threat to “do whatever it takes to eliminate salem” was meant to imply an extralegal and brutal execution. while Watts’s “I hope you do” was a dignified set of last words before aforementioned extralegal execution. Congrats Watts, you live because the writers didnt have the balls. Pinochio just became the most important person in the arc, and a giant whale shows up. What a suprise. Salem get down from there, you’ll catch a cold. ------------ Final thoughts on S7: It’s basic foundational premise was not sold to me, but it managed to somewhat salvage itself half-way through. I rank it a B-tier season and it’s lucky to have that. The newly introduced villains (ACEOPS) werent really sold to me that well, and Clovers fall-from-grace/death didnt touch me emotionally. (though it sold me on Qrow being sold on it). Nonetheless i did like his character the most of the ops and their dynamic with Qrow was sort of weird, going from “possible loveinterest” to “Dickish Rival” at strange times. I hear that a lot of the FNDM shipped them? I never saw it but i could see where others might. (Also in hindsight: What was the point of using the Tournament in V3 to introduce 3 atlas characters with FNKI and Ciel when 2 are nothing but cameos I know from V9 that the absence of the latter is relegated to a joke).

[tidxbit]

my reasons for each choice, and what the skins would majorly change/look like

optimus prime = orisa: both were rebuilt to become a strong protector, and with the selection of megatron as doomfist, they enemies in this version as well. the spear would be a long handle with an energon axe head, and their feet can be each of the 4 back tires from the truck.

ultra magnus = reinhardt: both are known for using hammers, both are huge and symbols of honor but are not the leader of the faction cause they more fit in the front line. earthshatter makes the autobot symbol in the impact, and i would give this skin that apon death the armor detaches to show ghost magnus like how bastion breaks apart if all the skins can't be set to break.

cybertron / alpha trion = wrecking ball / hamond: the only major ball based transformer, and tiny squeaky trion is a funny thought.

optimus primal = winston: a good leader but is usually works under the bigger leader. and monkey.

bulkhead / miko = dva: victory saber was considered but would end up looking too close to the academy and varsity skins already in game, victory saber and many human piloted helpers in transformers history were all to vague except one, miko from prime, and to avoid the kinda boring design of miko's mech just threw them inside bulkhead. and the ult line could be "get WRECKED!" as a nod to bulkhead being in the wreckers AND it being a gamer term for being a dva ult.

pyra magna = zarya: both are powerful ladies with a commanding presence. if volskaya industries was still a thing, the giant mechs could be victorion.

elita 1 = sojourn: both were rebuilt to be warriors for peace.

rodimus = soldier: more of a meta reason but rodimus was chosen for the "old days" of transformers and how rodimus is not used in favor of sticking with optimus as the major lead, an old soldier lost to time if you will. and please pay attention that this is not hot rod. hound and kup was considered but rodimus won from the idea of what soldier would look like being mixed with either a green jeep, a green/blue pickup truck, or a burning red racer trailer.

blurr = tracer: fastgoodguy.

transmutate = echo: both came from pods, results may very how they exited said pod. graceful and kind.

prowl = cassidy: both are symbols of law that will strike out on their own hunts for justice.

arcee = mei: both are kind and hopeful for others. and snowball can be a little daniel witwicky.

wheeljack = sym: both are creators of strange machines and devices.

maccadam = torb: both are old masters of their crafts just trying to lay low. and both can down a few pints.

bumblebee = genji: agile new warrior for the autobots.

drift = hanzo: both are samurai that have been on most sides.

nosecone = venture: drill. that's it.

strongarm = brig: both are about justice. both are sturdy and strong. and they would probably learn from magnus.

springer = pharah: one of the few autobots that can fly. they each are like action heroes, one liners and headstrong.

minerva = mercy: both are motherly medics. not powerful on their own but very important.

ratchet = ana: both are old medics.

jetfire = baptiste: both switched sides to the good guys.

blaster = lucio: music goodguy.

perceptor = zen: both don't like to fight. both soft spoken.

beachcomber = lifeweaver: percifics and loves life.

windblade = kiriko: both have connections to strong spiritual stuff.

wing saber = illari: both are able to empower others and something tragic has happened to them.

blitzwing = bastion: in a situation where the whole cast is transformers, how is someone who can transform stand out? triple changer!!

wreck gar = junkrat: junkion and the jokester one.

trashmaster = roadhog: specifically the concept art for trashmaster looks like it would perfectly match with roadhog. junkion.

megatron = doomfist: both have their weapon as pretty much their arm. both just took the name to become a successor. both think the strong are fit to rule.

starscream = reaper: both can't fully die. both are pretty cowardly when push comes to shove. for the skin i would not only remove the soul filter, but also add a higher pitch cause that oddly works.

shockwave = moira: both are crazy scientists that care only for results. the healing hand would be the gun hand because spray, and the melee would look really funny wacking people with it.

soundwave = sombra: both are sneaky spies. both have minions, weather they chose to join or were forced. i would have the virus be ravage and the translocator be laserbeak.

blackarachnia = widowmaker: spider.

astrotrain = sigma: space. and in some version astro train is just helping his friends but isn't that evil and is kind.

lugnut = mauga: every team needs muscle.

shadow striker = junker queen: specifically the cyberverse design where they are mixed together with random parts and angry all the time fits JQ pretty well.

flamewar = ashe: a decepticon fembot that ALSO has a fire connection? we got a winner!

nemesis prime / ultra magnus armored mode = ramattra: to add a connection to orisa with the nemesis prime part, and also just the nemesis joke.

Transformers X Overwatch ideas

optimus prime = orisa ultra magnus = reinhardt cybertron / alpha trion = wrecking ball / hamond optimus primal = winston

bulkhead / miko = dva pyra magna = zarya elita 1 = sojourn rodimus = soldier blurr = tracer transmutate = echo prowl = cassidy

arcee = mei wheeljack = sym maccadam = torb bumblebee = genji drift = hanzo nosecone = venture strongarm = brig springer = pharah minerva = mercy ratchet = ana jetfire = baptiste blaster = lucio perceptor = zen beachcomber = lifeweaver

windblade = kiriko wing saber = illari

blitzwing = bastion wreck gar = junkrat trashmaster = roadhog megatron = doomfist starscream = reaper shockwave = moira soundwave = sombra blackarachnia = widowmaker astrotrain = sigma lugnut = mauga shadow striker = junker queen flamewar = ashe nemesis prime / ultra magnus armored mode = ramattra

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😯🤪😏Quiet as kept this is some of Philadelphia's authorities side hustles;

😏🤔😒😏It's rumored Philadelphia police districts beekeeping people on desk Duty designated due to the estimated time they have left of life and/or freedom to do certain crimes for the district whether it's deals targeting certain people and/or such as (the 9th District Library brothel) labeling everybody criminals and they say most of the police districts do this to a (science premeditated)😯😏👉🏻 with that government shitt!🚔🏢😕👮‍♂️😕 👈👈😯👻🤪

Inside jobs with Philadelphia authorities

😏😒😆🎙Like that fat joe cop robbing people for the 6 District!😕👮‍♂️🚔

🤔😏😒Note; it is one of law enforcement side hustles on whatever percent of proceeds that they collect for their pocket!🏢���👮‍♂️😕 👈👈👻🤪😯

🤪😯👻Yeah the f****** Goodguys!

Yeah when you speak on that shitt they say you krazy!!

😏Yeah thinking the world doesn't know it.

CW Daily Briefings!😁👍🏼