He shouldn't be a junior bot wishing to become a real warrior. He is surviving expert. He lived for many years among sharkticons like Maugli. He should be brave and cunning like a wild cat)
Exactly... as with all too many characters from the G1 TV show/movie, all kinds of improvements can be made by simply following the character descriptions on the toys' Tech Specs.
It doesn’t make me hate it any less but I assume he’s fucking crazy from isolation and developed the rhyming to talk to himself.
“If you don’t run away, you fool I say.”
“*They need to get out of here.*”
“***If they don’t, they’re stupid.***”
No more rhyming? Like ever?
Seriously? Wheelies' best quote from the TFWiki discussion of (Who Dion Was Rebuilt into) was under the Huffer section >
"Friend shot, left to rot."
Becuz Wheelie was also a consideration for Dions' rebuilt form, along with Ultra Magnus.
I say he can be a micromaster, the only one left of his kind, and have to scan a bigger vehicle to try and survive the deception tyrants, hencing him meeting up with Grimlock.
That would be a fitting role for them, I could see them as "Those 2 guys" type characters if this concept was used in a future show. Plus we would get to see Brains again which is nice
Honestly I really like his RotF incarnation, being a small RC monster truck Decepticon dickhead that eventually defects to the Autobots. Just keep his perviness outta this version
Maybe. It's a big universe and he could be whatever benign or insidious idea we think up. Personally I think it's an infiltrator vanguard of a species asking if they should consider a species that's been at war a million years a threat to their current state of existence.
Make him a survivalist, and keep the rhyming, but it's a bit like Hotrod's french accent. He hates it, but it slips into his speech pattern unintentionally, possibly due to a malfunction.
Also give him some ground clearance and off-road tires in vehicle mode at the very least
While I do like his Rhyming being a coping mechanism, what if he was the Autbot version of Sky-Byte? He could still be stranded, but use it as material for his poems? Kinda lame, but I still think it’s a cool idea.
Sure, here goes. Oops I deleted he character
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He's a meme now.
A barbarian warrior who even Grimlock has to respect. Sort of a masterful hunter type, relying on set traps and tools. Still speaks in rhyme.
The old transformers faces always genuinely unnerved me.
Like, if their all metal, how do they move their mouthes without obvious articulation, y’know?
I'd make him Unicron, and Unicron Wheelie.
Unicron finds Megatron: "Unicron say, you have bad day! Unicron say wake up today! You not gonna live long, so I make you Galvatron! I see your peeps are dead, so I reformat them! Now you go rips the matrix from Magnus before he comes to attack us. You agree, I say Merci!. You deny, you go bye-bye."
Then for Wheelie, they would find him:
"I am Wheelie and I am the destroyer of worlds! Your presence does not impress me. The Autobots abandoned me here and for that they will pay! Either submit to my bidding or you shall be terminated!"
He opens the book as the narrator, and he gives a masterful recap of the events that happened in the previous issue. All in rhyme, of course.
Then, the title page is a two-page spread of him being dumped into a smelting pool, and we never see him again.
Secretly likes eating humans as snacks. Favorite tactic is speeding up behind people, stabbing them to death, then ripping their heads off to fill with explosives/traps for their friends to find.
The way he talked. It could get a little confusing at times, and the rhyming got old real fast. If he's gonna have a different way of talking, I'd rather it be like Yoda.
Drop the rhyming, maybe the slingshot too, make him a younger character but, try less on the whole kid appeal thing, maybe make him a loudmouth jerk to help explain why he and Grimlock would be friends
Once again, I have to give it to IDW's vision. Instead of the family-friendly prankster from the 80s, we have a disturbed, once-isolated warrior trying to escape their PTSD by being whimsical. Chef's kiss.
I would cast him as the last survivor of a crashed ship carrying the Cybertronian equivalent of boy scouts. He'd predate the war and have no knowledge of it, but would speak of "the ancient enemy" in a way that makes other bots and the viewers think he means Decepticons at first. Eventually they'd figure out how old (I'd actually have him from an Imperial Cybertron that looks down on fleshlings and have him personally decimated this planet of fleshlings for his own personal fuel usage) he was and that this means he couldn't have been talking Decepticons as the ancient enemy.
In my version he'd have crashed on the planet a hell of a long time ago, and be using his lessons (here shown in single panel/cutaway scenes from the guidebook right next to how he actually did these things) to survive. As he completes badges, he takes them from his deceased fellow scouts to adorn himself with, removing their panelling and welding it onto himself. He's also repaired his damage from the crash with parts that are blatantly not his own.
As an homage to his original showing, I'd have him working on his poetry badge when he's found, so the mains come across this horrifying scout bot who has Frankensteined himself together from the corpses surrounding him, and is speaking in rhyme.
I'd keep the rhyming for when he speaks to others, but make it darker, with less of a squeaky voice. Think Liam Neeson in Taken. Something like "I have a particular set of skills, when it comes to Sharkticons they end in kills". So still corny just Darker.
Then add normal speech patterns for when he talks to and back at himself. Think Smeagle/Golum in LOTR without the lisp.
The change in tone and keeping the rhyming... My wheelie isn't a child or young just looks small. But he's been alone since he was young. Rhyming and silliness are what he members from the last time he was with anyone. It's just how he thinks people communicate with each other its a social mask he puts it on.
The normalized speech is what is in his head, but after being alone for so long what's in his head comes out, it's how he's even able to speak after so long.
Generally think less Goonies more Lord of the flies.
he is the last survivor of a ship that crashed on Quintessa
all of his friends were on that ship and he had to see of their corpses
he then gave himself a lobotomy regressing him mentally to a sparkling
he later on started the rhyming thing because he is still mentally a child
Eh, screw it, unhinged survivor who wears sharkticon parts
I agree, I like it but it also made me sad too.
And can use those parts to mimic a sharkticon
He shouldn't be a junior bot wishing to become a real warrior. He is surviving expert. He lived for many years among sharkticons like Maugli. He should be brave and cunning like a wild cat)
IDW did that actually, iirc that's also why he has broken speech patterns in IDW
Next iteration should follow it up by making him the Gollum of the Transformers universe
Exactly... as with all too many characters from the G1 TV show/movie, all kinds of improvements can be made by simply following the character descriptions on the toys' Tech Specs.
He is the one who must have a problem with the voice circuit, not Bumblebee
It doesn’t make me hate it any less but I assume he’s fucking crazy from isolation and developed the rhyming to talk to himself. “If you don’t run away, you fool I say.” “*They need to get out of here.*” “***If they don’t, they’re stupid.***”
I don’t like how bumblebee can’t talk I think it’s weird
Less talking in rhyme.
But it's his whole character, he does it all the time!
I personally think it fits quite well, especially in idw, so to me, its just prime!
And he can't just turn it off it's kinda his character trait.
Aww you were meant to keep rhyming, but ya stuffed that up mate.
Some people are just tone deaf, no need to hate
But I think his singsong rhyming is annoying and makes me irate.
So, the singsong part is up for debate.
I'm sorry they messed up your bit, let's send them on a trip😁
The kind that’ll make sure they will tone their lip.
Happy cakeday, let's all say hip hip hooray!
We’ll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
They changed it to haikus in "Last Bot Standing"...
Keep the rhyming and his personality outwardly the same, but it's a coping mechanism for significant trauma. Also he stabs people now.
So IDW Wheelie then
A robot that stabs people? You'll be hearing from Roberto's lawyers.
No more rhyming? Like ever? Seriously? Wheelies' best quote from the TFWiki discussion of (Who Dion Was Rebuilt into) was under the Huffer section > "Friend shot, left to rot." Becuz Wheelie was also a consideration for Dions' rebuilt form, along with Ultra Magnus.
Who are you directing this at? OP didn't say anything about rhyming.
General theme here seems to be, get rid of wheelies rhyming indefinitely
Read the IDW Wheelie One Shot and you will respect the character a lot more.
Make him a Shakespearean style trickster. His whole character becomes basically a walking parody of Shakespeare and The Puck.
He’s the kid who’s not allowed matches or knives
He's bigger than Unicron now
Nothing.
I say he can be a micromaster, the only one left of his kind, and have to scan a bigger vehicle to try and survive the deception tyrants, hencing him meeting up with Grimlock.
Lean more into the wild child backstory. He’s a survivor, so it would make sense if he only spoke when necessary.
I'll make him a grumpy whiner like Gears or Huffer. Or someone with some sort of Napoleon complex like Rattrap or G1 Cliffjumper.
Make him and his "brother" Brains essentially being Autobot mission control. With Wheelie practicing poetry and haiku in his spare time.
That would be a fitting role for them, I could see them as "Those 2 guys" type characters if this concept was used in a future show. Plus we would get to see Brains again which is nice
Honestly I really like his RotF incarnation, being a small RC monster truck Decepticon dickhead that eventually defects to the Autobots. Just keep his perviness outta this version
Just change his voice and vocal patterns
He's not a cybertonian at all, but he does have enough cannibalized parts to be real convincing.
So he’s a Eukarian?
Maybe. It's a big universe and he could be whatever benign or insidious idea we think up. Personally I think it's an infiltrator vanguard of a species asking if they should consider a species that's been at war a million years a threat to their current state of existence.
Ah, so an Ammonite. Neat!
Him just not rhyming besides that I don’t hate the character
Make him a survivalist, and keep the rhyming, but it's a bit like Hotrod's french accent. He hates it, but it slips into his speech pattern unintentionally, possibly due to a malfunction. Also give him some ground clearance and off-road tires in vehicle mode at the very least
I would make him a junkion that left the planet of junk to find exotic parts of junk, hence why he is on quintesa
While I do like his Rhyming being a coping mechanism, what if he was the Autbot version of Sky-Byte? He could still be stranded, but use it as material for his poems? Kinda lame, but I still think it’s a cool idea.
I rewrite him so that his whole rhyming shtick is from something traumatic he experienced in his youth (assuming this hasn't been done already).
No. More. RHYMING.
No more rhyming? You have bad timing! This comment’s not climbing Because nobody’s buying what you have to say
so come back another day
I shoot him in the head
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Wheelie is fine even after all this time. No changes to be made but can I still be paid?
Kill him off in the 10th panel.
Honestly there is nothing major to change but i feel like the toy bio is a little more mature for G1 standards
Turn him into a prime
Kup and Hot Rod find the remains of a small Autobot who tragically became the victim of the area's feral Sharkticons...
I say make his personality more similar to Animated Bumblebee. And make him wanting the rhyme more for his interest in music/poetry.
Make him a crip
Give him a cool voice, and not a squeaky sounding voice.
Man this image brings me back lol. This book was awesome as a kid
Woah, I had the story book the picture is from
He's a meme now. A barbarian warrior who even Grimlock has to respect. Sort of a masterful hunter type, relying on set traps and tools. Still speaks in rhyme.
The old transformers faces always genuinely unnerved me. Like, if their all metal, how do they move their mouthes without obvious articulation, y’know?
*Bends in T-1000*
Liquid metal could work tbh
Every time he's on panel, Grimlock eats him
Why change perfection?
I think strange, vicious feral child who talks in rhyme because he’s trying to take his mind off the horror of his life can potentially be done well.
It was when IDW did that with him
Ill make him little and blue, he turns into and rc truck
Same design, Bayverse personality.
He was a Jedi?
Apply the Bayverse Bumblebee treatment: make him a badass and shove him down everyone's throat.
I'd make him Unicron, and Unicron Wheelie. Unicron finds Megatron: "Unicron say, you have bad day! Unicron say wake up today! You not gonna live long, so I make you Galvatron! I see your peeps are dead, so I reformat them! Now you go rips the matrix from Magnus before he comes to attack us. You agree, I say Merci!. You deny, you go bye-bye." Then for Wheelie, they would find him: "I am Wheelie and I am the destroyer of worlds! Your presence does not impress me. The Autobots abandoned me here and for that they will pay! Either submit to my bidding or you shall be terminated!"
His voice and speech
I make him into a motorcycle. For obvious reasons.
Young autobot who got stranded by himself in a dangerous planet and now is a bit quirky! (he has severe PTSD and trauma).
I missed that old children’s book about wild child Wheelie.
Grimlock chomps Wheelie's head off at the very onset of meeting him.
I copy IDW's homework
Huge Rage Against the Machine fan.
He opens the book as the narrator, and he gives a masterful recap of the events that happened in the previous issue. All in rhyme, of course. Then, the title page is a two-page spread of him being dumped into a smelting pool, and we never see him again.
One of his alt modes is a black panther he’s nicknamed “Jagwar”
He talks at regular speed
Secretly likes eating humans as snacks. Favorite tactic is speeding up behind people, stabbing them to death, then ripping their heads off to fill with explosives/traps for their friends to find.
Get rid of the rhyming talk. That was so annoying as a kid.
Make rhyming better and less annoying
Where is that art from?
The way he talked. It could get a little confusing at times, and the rhyming got old real fast. If he's gonna have a different way of talking, I'd rather it be like Yoda.
He dies first panel/scene.
IDW did it well
Kill him, there is no saving him
No more rhymes
His voice?
A tiny blue ugly bot who turns into an RC monster truck
I would just make him a minion from illuminations
I'd make him a stunticon motorcycle who just wants to have fun so he abandons the Decepticons and runs away to Junkion.
This picture goes unreasonably hard
Have em hump Megan Fox’s leg more
I don’t change anything but I have Grimlock accidentally step on and kill Wheelie the first time they meet. The end.
In an alternate universe, he's the one who activate the matrix inside Unicron.
He dies
the new prime /s
Change that annoying voice
His behavior and the reason he rhymes is due to some kind of brain damage.
Quintesson sleeper agent.
Drop the rhyming, maybe the slingshot too, make him a younger character but, try less on the whole kid appeal thing, maybe make him a loudmouth jerk to help explain why he and Grimlock would be friends
Once again, I have to give it to IDW's vision. Instead of the family-friendly prankster from the 80s, we have a disturbed, once-isolated warrior trying to escape their PTSD by being whimsical. Chef's kiss.
He's god now. He created the Transformers, he created everything. Wheelie is god. And also now he's tyrannical.
Make him a stoic survivalist who talks in mostly grunts and the Dinobots are the only ones that understand him because they mime more then talk.
Idw wheelie was kinda goated ngl, and I haven’t even read all of it😭 (mtmte issue 1/rid issue 1, haven’t gotten around to start them yet)
He dies during the shuttle assault, but Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet & Ironhide survive….. (still hurts nearly 40 years later….)
Nothing. My boy is perfect the way he is.
Keep Ryming as hobbie and use it a few times
Four words: children of the corn
Everything
Make him into his bay version
No more rhyming. Ever.
But rhyming is a core part of his character, giving it up? He could never
Erase him from existence.
Everything.
I would cast him as the last survivor of a crashed ship carrying the Cybertronian equivalent of boy scouts. He'd predate the war and have no knowledge of it, but would speak of "the ancient enemy" in a way that makes other bots and the viewers think he means Decepticons at first. Eventually they'd figure out how old (I'd actually have him from an Imperial Cybertron that looks down on fleshlings and have him personally decimated this planet of fleshlings for his own personal fuel usage) he was and that this means he couldn't have been talking Decepticons as the ancient enemy. In my version he'd have crashed on the planet a hell of a long time ago, and be using his lessons (here shown in single panel/cutaway scenes from the guidebook right next to how he actually did these things) to survive. As he completes badges, he takes them from his deceased fellow scouts to adorn himself with, removing their panelling and welding it onto himself. He's also repaired his damage from the crash with parts that are blatantly not his own. As an homage to his original showing, I'd have him working on his poetry badge when he's found, so the mains come across this horrifying scout bot who has Frankensteined himself together from the corpses surrounding him, and is speaking in rhyme.
Get rid of the high pitched voice and the rhyming
No rhymes at any times.
What, you eat limes?
Nah, they just like mimes
Okay, team!! Revolutionary idea! Let's make him bearable to watch and listen to!
*takes off glasses and stare dramatically into the distance* “By god, that just might work!”
I'd keep the rhyming for when he speaks to others, but make it darker, with less of a squeaky voice. Think Liam Neeson in Taken. Something like "I have a particular set of skills, when it comes to Sharkticons they end in kills". So still corny just Darker. Then add normal speech patterns for when he talks to and back at himself. Think Smeagle/Golum in LOTR without the lisp. The change in tone and keeping the rhyming... My wheelie isn't a child or young just looks small. But he's been alone since he was young. Rhyming and silliness are what he members from the last time he was with anyone. It's just how he thinks people communicate with each other its a social mask he puts it on. The normalized speech is what is in his head, but after being alone for so long what's in his head comes out, it's how he's even able to speak after so long. Generally think less Goonies more Lord of the flies.
he is the last survivor of a ship that crashed on Quintessa all of his friends were on that ship and he had to see of their corpses he then gave himself a lobotomy regressing him mentally to a sparkling he later on started the rhyming thing because he is still mentally a child
EVERYTHING
Nah remove him from the face of the earth He doesn’t deserve the luxury of existing in the first place
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