TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on THE UNDERBASE SAGA
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- This month, The Basics turns five years old, and to celebrate the milestone, it's time to fully explore the meme - this is The Basics on THE UNDERBASE SAGA... the story of the COSMICALLY POWERED STARSCREAM!
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I love the fact that such a catchphrase like "offlined by cosmically powerd starscream"is become one of the reasons why this channel become so popular in the last few years
Tbf through out the franchise starscream has been cosmically empowered through many iterations. Chris was just the first person to finally coined the term.
That definitely needs to be a shirt
Chris during an episode: “… was offline by a Cosmically Powered Starscream.”
Me: “Oh - Bingo! I gotta Bingo!!”
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The Transformers Mythos Checklist:
- civil war
- pre-war life
- subfactions
- search for the all spark
- reviving cybertron
- dooming cybertron (Optional)
- a cosmically powered starscream
- Spotlight off-world adventures
- discovering an alternate power source for good or bad
- name dropping/meeting one of the 13 primes
- life in one of the colonies
- discovering/using ancient relics
- optimus prime dying (Mandatory)
- megatron getting a power boost
- megatron becoming galvatron (Optional)
- meeting cybertronians who didn't know there was a war going on (Optional)
- fighting the quintesons
- finding/fighting lost titans
- multiversal things (Optional)
- Unicron
I can't wait until the phrase starts popping up in other media independent of this channel. THAT'S gonna crack me up. I will LMAO
So what happened to the Cosmically Powered Starscream, he killed virtually everyone and was unstoppable by even Optimus Prime and Scorponok?
Well you see, he was off lined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream.
The jokester in me says: Starscream learned the hard way why you shouldn't overcharge a battery.
Lol it’s a vicious cycle. Like when someone shoots someone else from behind and then someone else shoots them from behind and on and on
A COSMICALLY POWERED STARSCREAM, was the ONLY thing, THAT COULD OFFLINE A COSMICALLY POWERED STARSCREAM.
So he did a Wing Gundam and blew himself up? EDIT: Yes, he did.
Well no but actually yes
Imagine working so hard for 5 years on a basics,and then all your work gets offlined by a cosmically powerd starscream
Pretty rad way to go if you ask me.
Better than getting offlined by some ice, eh Galvatron
Feels more embarrassing and sad to me.
I want "I was Offlined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream, and all I got was this T-Shirt." On a shirt, so bad...
That's a lot of shirts
This quote was such a running theme,and now we got to see the whole story about this catchphrase
SO THIS CHARACTER WAS KILLED BY AN UNDERBASE POWERED STARSCREAM
I mean it's not Chris's fault Starscream literally offed like half the active roster of characters like a human slapping a mosquito.
I feel like the Underbase could be worked into modern TF mythos by having it be the dark counterpart of Vector Sigma. Whereas Vector Sigma is the source of wisdom and knowledge archived by Cybertron's elders, the Underbase could be where the dark secrets and dirty parts of Cybertronian history that the elders were ashamed of and wanted buried and forgotten were hidden, cast away into space. That'd be a good reason for the Decepticons to want to seek it out and learn its mysteries.
I'd say those dark secrets could be weapons and others items of war that were considered so dangerous that they had to be sealed and kept away from everyone
This is a fantastic concept and from now on it's my head canon
WOW! Nice.
@@tylerthorson2610 Nice.
I t already has. They called it the All Spark in the movie
It only takes one Cosmically Powered Starscream to take an entire generation worth of supporting caste offline.
For those keeping score, Cosmic Powered Starscream managed to offline no less than FIFTY FIVE Transformers over the course of his rampage, with more implied off screen later on.
That includes four 5 Bot Combiner Teams (Aerialbots, Predacons, Terrorcons, Technobots), the 6 bot team Seacons, the 5 Dinobots, the 5 Throttlebots, Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain, the Superior Soundwave and Lazerbeak, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Jetfire, Goldbug, Hound, Mirage, Blue Streak, Buzzsaw, Hoist, Brawn, Gears, Jazz, Blaster, Octane, and even Omega Supreme.
56: *Himself.*
The Underbase saga was well written with an individual story for each issue that all tied in together nicely. #47 gave us the Seacons, #48 revisiting Megatron for the first time in two years, #49 a short but dynamic Deception civil war and #50 a cosmically powered Starscream cleaning out the old products.
The Seacons hadn't even been out a year when they got toasted, they were even newer than some of the Fort Max crew, and back then toys were on the shelves a lot longer
@@tigerbread78 Then they all got their character bios published in the comic later in its run describing them with interesting and diverse personalities and abilities making the reader want more of them.
Fun fact: Bob Budiansky also drew the cover of issue 47 - what a talented guy!
Really wish he’d drawn them all. Jose “My favorite part of Transformers are their eyeballs and individual teeth” Delbo was an artistic low point in the series.
He also drew an X-Men cover or two back in the day.
Expanding upon this, Bob Budiansky actually did preliminary layouts for many of the Marvel Transformers covers for issues that he wrote, and gave those to the artists to complete. Occasionally he would end up finishing the covers himself, like TF #47 and Headmasters #1.
@@jpdunphy1 Delbo really did struggle with the 'bots in action poses as well, but Nelson Yomtov was the worst with his lazy block colouring, particularly with that G1 issue cover of Bruticus and Defensor
OK I know that Transformers can be a bit inconsistent with death sometimes, but the fact that Megatron was able to bring Starscream back to life when there was nothing left of but a big clump of wires is straight up insane. Whichever medic it was that managed that task deserves a medal.
The TF Marvel comics universe was made at a time before modern TF concepts like sparks were invented. Back then, all you had to do to bring a fallen Transformer back to life was rebuild their body, put their brain back into their head, and bam. You've brought a dead guy back online.
He put Starscream in a Pretender shell. Pretender shells automatically heal the Transformer inside. That's also how Grimlock, Jazz and Bumblebee were brought back (in the same storyline)
In one IDW panel, Megatron tells Optimus that, after one memorable fight, his men had to shovel him into a CR. Then there’s Waspinator…
It’s cast-protection, a well-known variation of plot-armour.
@@battleupsaber462 for not talk about the episode where Optimus became a Robot Croccodile
As his Decapitated Head was still able to control all his body parts
It was Ratchet (whom Megs had kidnapped and who had dealt with Megs before in the comic), who then tried to destroy Megatron by teleporting the bombs Megs had left onboard the Ark to Megatron's base and tackled Megatron just as he dived back through the teleport gate as the bombs exploded, which led to the utterly horrifying fusion of the two.
if the catchphrase offlined by a cosmically powered starscream" was offlined by starscream himself,i think the "offlined by a decepticon clone of optimus prime" will be the new replacement actually
Thank you, Chris, for highlighting my favourite TF comic panel of all time - Starscream addressing the Underbase:
“Blind me with your awful light! Thrill me with your darkest secret! Fill me with your unholy power! Give yourself to me!!” Simple, powerful art and writing; I get cosmically-powered shivers every time (and I’ve the panel as my go-to desktop wallpaper 😁)
I wish you many more years of the Basics.
Jose Delbo really channeled some Jack Kirby energy in that issue, that panel especially. The Kirby Crackle was strong with that one.
I laughed harder then a I should've at this
Happy 5th years tf the basics,that was such a great journey,i hope all your work don't get offlined by a cosmically powerd starscream
So the Cosmically Powered Starscream was so powerful no one could offline him but himself and in fact he did? 😂 Congratulations on 5 years of The Basics! As a Transformers lover this is THE GREATEST thing to watch ❤️
The Transformers: The Movie: "We killed off almost all of your favorite characters in the span of 20 minutes."
Cosmically Powered Starscream: "Hold my energon."
It actually happened twice in Cyberverse. Once with the Allspark, once when Starcream was made into a Quintesson.
You turned a footnote into one of starscreams biggest fan character interpretations
The most used terms in your videos:
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1. Cosmically powered Starscream
2. Machine hating human Circuit Breaker
3. Diaclone
4. Microchange
5. Monster Planet Unicron
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Congratulations for your 5th anniversary Pal!
Don’t forget “the monster planet, Unicron”!
"The character remained obscure for several decades until IDW's comics brought them into the spotlight"
how abou offlined by a decepticon controlled copy of optimus prime? or am I miss remembering the line
@@battlinjoe2592 ah yes that is also frequently used.
And "all these ideas were combined by the new alligned continuity"
Starscream was basically Thanos in The Underbase saga. It's bit funny though none of the other high ranked Decepticons never get change to wield such power.
Though now I wonder would power of the Underbase been so great that it could have killed Unicron, seeing how Starscream had like portion of Underbases power and when Starscream had rest of that cosmic power, it destroyed Starscream.
I just thought way Underbase could be brought in new TF fiction as backup database that almost eclipsed Vector Sigma and to avoid that, Underbase was launched to deep space.
even starscream was offlined by a cosmically powered starscream
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Some powerful artifact: exist
Optimus Prime: to the space go brrr
I once thought that 2021 was going to be a great year…
But my hopes were off-lined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream!
My secret is... I'm ALWAYS cosmically powered!
Oh great one, how would you become president?
@@tuarihawkins-hakiwai1312Probably the same way he became Ruler of Cybertron
This has been what "The Basics" has been leading up to, the source of a majority of Transformers Generation 1 characters being offlined in the G1 comics....the Cosmically Powered Starscream.
Congratulations on 5 years of this channel dude! You’re definitely one of favourite guys on UA-cam!
I've had a personal headcanon around the Underbase saga for decades.
Starscream is pretty famous for having a unique spark. In the original cartoon he somehow survived being turned to slag and became a ghost. This even recurs in a few different versions of Transformers. The idea that the seekers are all clones of him and all have unique powers has been a thing as well.
My theory (personal headcanon) is that the Underbase had such an impact in his spark that it echoed both through time (kinda making it predestined) and all universes, and his spark is always just indestructible in all versions.
Megatron never dared kill him, because he knew (thanks to Shockwave) that he was indestructible, and would be more dangerous if he ever discovered it for himself. Killing him would literally show him he cannot die.
His unique spark always leads to the other Seekers (through whatever chain of events transpire in a given universe) and their special powers are results in mutations of that spark.
And it is all because the Marvel version found the Underbase.
The Underbase is so powerful, it's effects ripple through time and universes.
I dig it. I especially like the alternate theory of why Megatron doesn't kill Starscream.
Never read The Underbase Saga but given that Cybertron is my favourite show in large part thanks to its Cosmically Powered Starscream I'll always be thankful for it
It amazes me that one of my most sought after toys, CW Scrounge has a connection to arguably the most famous arc of the Marvel comic
I loved this storyline, but I thought it was strange that the Seacons, a new team that'd only been recently introduced to both the toyline and comic, were among those killed off.
Yeah they werent even discontinued until at least 1989
And in the middle of all that the Time Wars happened taking out some more bots. I'd like to see basics on other Marvel storylines such as the Dinobot Hunt, the Galvatron Saga, the Matrix Quest and the Unicron saga.
Congratulations on five years! I’ve been here since Episode 4, and I plan to be here for the next five years as well.
If it ever gets used in new Transformers Media, I think it would be nice if Alpha Trion was its creator and custodian, with only Trion himself being able to reliably find the Underbase.
Id honestly love to see a TRUE Underbase/Cosmically Powered Starscream done in the modern era and resurface itself in lore.
(Be it a mainline comic or a cartoon)
I seem to notice a pattern of Optimus yeeting stuff Megatron wants, right off the planet. The All spark, the Underbase, the whole Autobot team...
I'd add Starscream's appropriation of, and assimilation with, the Warworld in G2 to that list at the end of the vid!
I was just checking for this comment before I mentioned that myself, but also he used the Matrix to do it.
Lesson of the day: If there's some sort of "supreme power" that makes everyone who interacts with it become some sort of semi-god...please for fuck sake keep your Starscream on a leash.
HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY, THE BASICS!!!!! :D Hard to believe it's already been a half-decade since the Basics took off, and this was the perfect way to celebrate the series' 5-year running! I look forward to your updated episodes throughout the rest of the month, Chris! Keep up the amazing work, and ROLL OUT!!!
Congratulations Chris! Great series. Five years already... how is that possible?! :D
How this story hasn’t been adapted is beyond me. Not beat for beat but the Underbase could be the central focus of a multi-part episode or even a movie. An awesome send off for Starscream. Maybe when it overloads him the residual energy would lead into a Dead Universe based story. Opening a rift of Unspace or signal to Nova Prime it was his time to return with his Heart of Darkness, either renamed the Matrix of Chaos or just Anti-Matrix. The former fitting if the Eldritch being Chaos is featured in the final act.
Then I suppose you could bring in Unicron and have Starscream’s ghost play a role in The Chaos Bringer’s arrival.
Someone tried to make a series on it, but it was canceled and discontinued after it was taken offline by a cosmically powered starscream
When the man makes episodes based on his own running gags, you know he's a good egg. Here's hoping for another five years of over-explained robots!
Gosh has it really be 5 years? I been watching since episode one. But show so good it made time go quicker.
Happy Anniversary, Chris. This has been such an enjoyable series all these years and I'm looking forward to many more years to come.
I still lament issue #50 of the series being one of only 2 or 3 issues I do not own. At least now, using the information you've granted, I can fill in the blanks in my head canon. It's much appreciated.
“So who was killed by a cosmically-powered Starscream?”
Chris: *inhales*
You should make an episode about the cybertronian measurements of time.
Cycles. Mega cycles. Nano clicks and stuff
There’s a Wiki-page I usually refer to. Go be confused!
Thanos wipes out half the cast of the MCU,
Starscream "Don't speak to me of the old magic fool, I was there when it was first written!"
The crazy thing is that the UInderbase Saga even predated the Infinity Gauntlet comic, which the Infinity War and Game films were based on, by a year and a half!
at this point the basics has become my Saturday morning cartoon. this is one of the first things I watch/do on saturdays.
Huh, it's interesting how close that original story is to the modern Allspark. Makes me wonder if Michael Bay was actually inspired by it.
Budiansky loved the 1st movie, I know that.
He quoted that the human/Transformer interactions reminded him of his stories he used to do.
I’ve been face-palming ever since Vector Sigma became a cube, was renamed the Allspark, got launched from Cybertron by OP and then changed to a handily-sized doo-dad which also then got linked to the art of Combination discovered by Shockwave.
Sacrilege! Those who created this total mishmash deserve to be offlined by a cosmically-powered Starscream!
@@clogs4956 Since when does it have anything to do with combiners? You mean the enigma of combination? If you can't even get that right you don't have any place to criticize the franchises lore
@@tracytron7162 I'm referring to the Combiner Wars, as Chris did, where there's the combination doo-dad standing in for the Underbase/Allspark doo-dad.
You have to admit that there's usually a doo-dad someone is chasing and/or misusing. Usually Stasrceam, although Bay didn't get round to that one.
Happy Birthday Basics! Thank you for being a great source for everything Transformers!👍
This, in my theory, how Season 4 of Transformers G1 cartoon could have ended, if it ends in 5 episodes as it should be instead of 3 episodes.
The 2-part finale would be an animated adaptation of the Underbase Saga from the comics. And by the very end, both Autobots and Decepticons declare true peace for all Cybetronians, which would soon lead up to the events of Beast Wars.
…and then Chris McFeely was off-lined by a Cosmically-powered Starscream
For real, though, happy 5th anniversary, Chris!
Finally this Starscream is covered fully in a way I can understand
So, in short, Starscream:
>Gains god like power.
>Destroys parts of the earth.
>Kills a bunch of folks.
>Dies
Yup. Definitely sounds like a Starscream moment.
Happy 5th anniversary!! This was a great running joke on the channel, and its great to know how the saga happened and its effects on the franchise.
My son had a question that I never thought of. How do transformers perceive their surroundings while in alternate mode. Hes 12 and autistic we watch your videos when they come out. We enjoy our time together watching your videos, keep up the awesome job!
The whole thing about optimus sending the Underbase to space, then it finding its way on earth, and to it being used further absorbed into starcream really makes me wonder, if the comics inspired the main plot of the '07 Bay film with the Allspark
This sadly feels like the end of an era. This channel is basically the video encyclopedia for Transformers history. Everything is so well-researched and told on-screen. That smooth narration with the Irish accent just fits. This guy is part of transformers lore now. Hope he gets a cameo voiceover somewhere in the future.
What a way to celebrate 5 years of entertaining and enlightening. Thanks to this channel, my love of Transformers was re-ignited after some years of dormancy.
Here's to the next 5 years, and beyond.
Congrats on 5 years, Chris! I've been watching The Basics since the very first episode, and man time sure does fly... not unlike a certain cosmically-powered so-and-so ;D
5 years?! Congrats and keep up the good work. Here's to another 5 years- 10 yea- no, 15 yea- Thank you, Chris.
So guys we did it. We finally got a cosmically powered starscream episode!
Happy 5th Anniversary to the "Basics". I've enjoyed every episode and look forward to hopefully at least five more years. As always great experience my friend. Best wishes !!!!
Congrats on Five Years, McFeely! Here's to Many More!
Great stuff Chris! I remember this story distinctly - the shocking death toll (though even as a kid I could guess what was behind it), the superb work Delbo and Co. did in depicting the Underbase and SuperCrankHeadStarscream, and Starscream as a real threat - a skillful manipulator, cold-blooded, utterly ruthless and viciously lethal.
And congratulations on 5 years! Long may your cosmically powered reign of terror continue!
Yes! I’ve been waiting for a “Know your Meme” on this specific running gag. While this isn’t exactly it, who better than straight from the maker himself!
Transformers #47 was my first comic and really is responsible for my love of reading today. This video took me back. Thanks for that.
Congrats on the Five year anniversary Chris, as a Life long Transformers Fan i am always happy to learn more about the Robots in Disguise, here's to another five years of great videos.
Wow. 5 years already. Congrats! It’s been a great journey so far.
I have the biggest smile on my face right now and I don’t think it will go away anytime soon
I love this show! Can’t believe it’s been 5 years already, and I’m excited for the next 5!
Happy anniversary!
One of the first things that clued me in to the fact that the TF movies were made be people who had only skim-read key issues of the comic was that The Allspark was essentially the Underbase (mungled together with the Matrix, but named after the TF afterlife)..
Even at its kookiest, Marvel is my preferred G1 style. And man, The Underbase Saga had STYLE.
Happy Birthday to the channel and to the Basics! This show has become a fixed parted of my weekends! Even if there isn’t a new one I will go back and watch a previous episode! Thank you for keeping interest in Transformers going and for teaching us all about the different aspects of the lore! Keep it coming!
Happy 5th Anniversary to TF The Basics and thanks for the information about the characters, history of the transformers and the lore of history of toys, comics, novel, cartoon and etc. Keep it up and I love transformers, and now, I'm huge fan of your UA-cam channel. I'm glad I subscribed to u. I'm a Transformers fan after all.
congratulations on 5 years of the basics!
Phew! For a second I thought this was this was the series finale! Great work thanks for all the videos!
I do like the unwritten rule across Transformers media that if there's an all powerful McGuffin, Starscream WILL end up absorbing it in someway.
Even if it isn't from Transformes but from a serie that crossover with Transformers he still able to absorb it
Like Mazingascream
According to someone that payed the math bill if you take into account the various characters who simply disappear from the book Starscream off lines anywhere from 57 to 109 transformers.
I also did the math, and you seem to include Ratbat. He was killed in the story, but not by Starscream; it was Skorponok who killed him.
Happy 5th anniversary. Congrats my dude. Love it. Starscream goes all Dark Phoenix here.
I am kind of amazed that he has been able to do this for five years without having to re do episodes with new information
To this day I still have issue #50 (now in a protective sleeve) because of how unique and terrorfying it was at the time reading it as a kid in the grocery store -- Here's Starscream wiping out EVERYONE you grew up reading /watching!! 😫
I hope that in the future we get a Transformers cartoon which briefly gives us a Cosmically-Powered Starscream and makes it the MEME that defines the next generation of Transformers.
Congrats on 5 years man I was worried you’d eventually run out of topics but with this episode being about a comic story arc it opens up so many more episodes that could be done , like maybe an episode about what lead to megaton and ratchet getting fused together would make a great Halloween episode. as well as the remakes you spoke of at the end of this episode
5 years?! Man that's crazy to think about. Thanks for providing us bots fans with such great info
This vid has been a long time coming given how this topic gets brought up in just about *every* vid😂 And Happy 5 years to the channel! keep up the good work
Happy 5th birthday to the Basics, and thanks for telling us this story!
Take a drink every time “Cosmically Powered Starscream” is said.
CPS- Cosmically Powered Starcream
Bane of all cybertronians. Eliminator of pesky characters, plots, and loopholes. One of the hilarious and best terms used on this channel! Happy 5th Anniversary buddy!!!
I can't believe it's been five years already. Congrats on the great achievement & thanks for all the fantastic videos!
This one made me ridiculously happy. Thank you for five AMAZING years.
Cosmic Starscream and the Power of the Underbase seems to be the Transformers' analog for Jean Grey and the Phoenix force.
…Starscream eventually joins a Club that cosplays like they're from the Victorian Era?
Happy birthday to this series!
Hope to catch many more episodes!
Good job for doing this for 5 years Chris! Wonderful.
Now it is your turn to be offlined by a COSMICALLY POWERED STARSCREAM.
It's funny. I accidentally celebrated the fifth anniversary by watching every episode of The Basics recently (not all at once, I'm not cosmically-powered). it was cool to go back and see how the series evolved. I always been, at best, a casual fan of Transformers. It's why I find The Basics so appealing; I love looking at lore from long running franchises. I especially love when it's explored by someone with real love for the material, in all its forms. Congratulations on 5 years. May you continue to give us The Basics until all are one.
Congrats on FIVE YEARS! I LOVE IT HERE!
The Cosmically Powered Starscream was so powerful that the only one who could offline him is the Cosmically Powered Starscream.
If I could ever find that Platinum G1 recolor of the Supreme Cybertron Starscream, I always thought it would be a good Underbased Starscream.
5 years. Wow. I've probably been watching for around 3 of those years and I love this channel.
Congratulations on Five Years of great videos. Every episode is a treat and this one was a great culmination of what has become something of a running gag.
I have to say every episode feels like you are covering your favorite character or topic. If you hadn't admitted to having a preference for Omega Supreme I never would have known that was your personal favorite.
Also congratulations on 5 years, I’ve enjoyed watching every episode for two years.
The trope of Starscream temporarily gaining the squandering incredible power keeps popping up but it's entertaining every time.
Five years huh, never thought this channel have been so long...thank you for your hard work in bringing us this Transformers knowledge, I really enjoy them ^^
This was a fun video to watch, now I finally know how many characters were killed by the Comically Powered Starscream
Yeeting something into space seems like a very common occurence for Optimus Prime.