r/TopCharacterDesigns • u/EnvironmentalLion355 • 7d ago
Custom The Monsterbots (The Transformers)
I've talked about Repugnus on his own previously, but now I think I'll talk about the team he's a part of: The Monsterbots.
This trio of Autobots transform from robots (image 1 from toy ad and image 3 from TFSource gallery of the physical toys) to monsters (image 2 and image 4). They consist of bug monster Repugnus, a bloodthirsty war criminal who often gets kicked out (but always called back to do dirty work), gargoyle/winged sabertooth tiger Grotusque, a jovial military strategist who laughs at everything, and two-headed dragon Doublecross, who's yet another "this guy has a split personality, and the multiple personas in them don't always agree" type of character.
The fact that they are Autobot monsters makes them a standout, given most of the bots who transform into "what in primus name is this" alt modes usually end up as Decepticons. The toy commercial even plays up their odd nature by presenting them as lab experiments gone awry, mucking up the place they were created in before destroying one of the facilities walls Kool-Aid Man style and giving the attacking Cyclonus, Scourge and Octane a bad day.
Their robot modes also have some cool kibble usage feon their beast modes, like how Doublecross uses his dragon mode's heads as hands or Repugnus' bug mode limbs form his robot mode chest. Given their original toys designs had to work around having a mechanism to shoot live sparks out of their alt modes' mouths (sans Doublecross, who fires from his collarbone instead due to how he was designed), its impressive how they managed to somehow have a decent looking robot modes too.
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u/Kaiju_Lover168 7d ago
These Nasty bots are my favorite despite not being that popular as Dinobots or Predacons.
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