TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on FLAMEWAR
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- This week's Obscure Characters Month episode looks a 'bot who began life as a convention-exclusive recolour, but made the jump to the mainstream, and is now one of the most frequently-appearing female Decepticons around! These are The Basics on FLAMEWAR!
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'Impulsive little gremlin' is a chaotically powerful descriptor.
My favorite kind of character.
Yes that or the perky female minion. I would say both works.
Hololive Amelia Watson intensifies
Well with what Flamewar means in the internet generation. Yeah. It fits perfectly.
@@barnoldthatsit6822 The
the Decepticon Amelia.😳
I like the idea of a rival character for Arcee, and it’s nice to see a female Decepticon that’s not Slipstream.
There’s also Blackairachnia/Airachnid and now shatter from the Bumblebee movie
And Strika and Shadowstriker.
nightbird, acid storm (sometimes), strong arm, strika, and there is a whole combiner team...can't remember the name.... megatronia?
@@Lazrael32 Sadly Megatronia only appears in a Toyline😑
There really should be more Femcons, because in G1 they said that Fembots were so rare, they were thought to be extinct, but female Decepticons are SUPER rare.(Strongarm is an Autobot btw, sorry, that just bothered me)
You either didn't know her, randomly discovered her normally, or you've seen some, *questionable* , Transformers content
What do you mean by that last one
@@omarsalem1219 Porn. With the style and popularity of TF Prime that was unavoidable.
I'm in option 2.
heheheh
We first saw her in Transformers Elite.... and Transformers Prime NSFW material...
Flamewar in other continuities:
Super dangerous Decepticon with burning hatred towards Arcee and Bumblebee
Flamewar in IDW2019:
Mischievious little gremlin that gets easily distracted by things.
I guess the idea is that she is still young and immature and has a long way to go before she becomes the spy and tactic of the Beast Age.
We think 2019 Idw Flamewar is adorable...
@@Nx57ytre Makes sense. Kinda like a "hot shot" young rookie getting in way over his head about the missions at hand. Know what I'm saying?
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 If you don't mind the flamethrowers mounted to her wriste
@@cyberprime9355 still adorable
I feel we get so close to having her as a bigger released toy, but she just suddenly gets forgotten
I'd like it if she got a Masterpiece or 3rd party release, but I doubt it will happen
Yeah I hope she gets a new figure too, maybe War For Cybertron or something
Nicee would look cool as her, she has a bow and everything
I am still hoping one of the inevitable WFC Arcee recolors will be of her, but there is probably only one left.
Same with nightbird
Never let Flamewar go into the comments section.
Such a bold comment... I approve!
Why?
Hi.
we didnt start the flame war ... its been always burning since the world's been turning
Or it will become a Flame war
*Chris Mcfeely:* Where did you first encounter this rising star?
*Me:* Literally this video.
Same. And now that I know this character exists, I suddenly have a new favorite decepticon...maybe. Atleast next to Barricade.
TFwiki.net while researching Arcee and Decepticon females.
Rule 34 and the Legion toy I had of her
I have fond memories of the nice lady at Botcon 2014 checkin calling Flamewar "the biker chick."
Wow that's nice
Flamewar was at one point the most common character card in “blue” defensive decks in the Transformers TCG. Her wave 1 card was one of the most useful Decepticon cards in the entire game!
Sadly, no one in my area really plays anymore.
@@EclipseWarlord I mean can you blame them? Wizards pulled the plug on it for the dumbest possible reasons.
@@TheParanoidLogician The game is actually fun to play. Very different mechanics from MTG.
@@EclipseWarlord Oh I'm fully aware. I was part of my local scene for it and was pretty good at it. I loved it so much and its unfair cancellation still has me a touch bitter over half a year later.
Congrats Chris, this is the first BASICS episode of a character I've never heard of before. Talk about obscure!
In the earth wars mobile game she deactivated/ destroyed afterburner's t-cog which in someway stopped the possibility of computron coming to aid in the battle against deathsaurus' new upcoming combiner liokaiser
Same here, I never heard of her but she seems cool
Same here never heard of her.
I first noticed her back in 2012 when I saw her Tfp Arcee toy at either Walmart or Toy's R us, but I didn't actually know anything about her until I looked at tfwiki.
@@twistederror That is how I first learned of her. Still doesn't explain why she hates Arcee though.
"To forget the past is to doom the future".
That's honestly a good quote.
@Lord Starscream, True leader of the Decepticons I agree fellow Starscream(and I TOTALLY won't stab you in the back like my clones did to me) ;)
@Waspinator predacon says the guy who was possessed by me and gets blown up constantly
@waspinator predacon Yeah, you’re my favorite pred, you’re almost like Jon Wick
@Waspinator predacon, yeah, sure, whatever bro, but you also never ruled the ENTIRETY of Cybertron in Idw, and speaking of Idw, in Idw YOU were just Jhiaxus's lackey, while I became the chosen one
@@RemixOfTheVoid Mimimimimi, I became the chosen one. Mimimimi. It’s your fault that Waspinator was with tha psycho
Flamewar is the most dangerous Decepticon on the internet
Hahaha internet jokes
She's weaseled her way into being my favorite transformers character out there. IDW2 Flamewar is my spirit animal.
This is my first time hearing about her. Thanks, Chris. We need more female Decepticons. Heck, we need more female Transformers, period.
more importantly more characters that originate from botcon in modern media
I remember stumbling upon her on TF Wikia once and immediately liking her because of her design and Paint Job. Hell even shared her with a friend whom immediately got enamored with her haha.
Flamewar can easily join Slipstream as a promient marketable female Decepticon for Transformers.
Actually, in Angry Birds Transformers, Flamewar and Slipstream are in the same squad: The Noughties
Oh they’re ‘marketable’ alright… just ask the internet…
And Thunderblast with Blackaricha and Airachid too
@@scottdoesntmatter4409 they don't have gonads, the concept of gender in cybertronians is just that, a concept, to make them not so different of us, but being different in other ways
And is not the same gender than sex, gender is just a tag, sex is the biological part
@@rafcor6799 they dont have gonads eh?
Well what about Alice? And Dickbot the Blender Guy? Oh, and how about this:
"I am directly below... The enemy scrotum."
Female Decepticons are really rare and I like the devotion of Flamewar, I'm surprised Megatron never got the hots for her.
He’s too busy yelling at Starscream and fighting a war to worry about his love life.
Perhaps it's why he's angry all the time, too much hate and not enough love.
@@sivanlevi3867 Lol, yeah, that’s probably it.
I like to imagine what it would be like if Flamewar showed up in TFP.
Flamewar: Arcee!
Arcee: Flamewar! My most hated archenemy!
Airachnid: I thought I was your most hated archenemy...
Arcee: I have a life outside of YOU y'know!
Airached:"your seriously saying there's nothing special about us"
Arcee:"there is no"us". Never will be"
@@bepisthescienceman4202 Airachnid: :(
@@bepisthescienceman4202 Oh, now that's just rust in the wound.
Flamewar eh? Something tell me she shouldn't be on the internet forum topic that are about against Megatron!
Unlike most flame wars however this one would end with people *actually* getting burned to death!
Her nemesis is some anti-Megatron troll named "Seeker_King"
ALL HAIL MEGATRON
She's literally evil Arcee given physical form.
That and hella insane...
yes
Really? I always thought of her as an evil genderbent Hot Rod.
Wouldn't that be Shattered Glass Arcee then?
@@HORRIOR1 oh god, hot rod and arcee's evil kid
I hope one day she gets to show up in a cartoon.
Yeah same, I say that cyberversw cartoon may be good for her as another female decepticon
@@wolfgang6442 Shadow Striker. Maybe they can appear together.
@@natek4488 and diabla and nightbird
Jobby would be like BÒØBÌʧ
Rack and Ruin were in Cyberverse, anything goes at this point.
I love that her name could only have come about during the age of online forums.
I love her and want to see her given a new toy. She's so precious as an evil gremlin in IDW2.
It was her very first toy I get to know Flamewar, was surprised when her first retail toy (her TF Prime toy) was revealed back in the day and was surprised that she get to be added in TF: Earth Wars.
Flamewar sure has unique obscure fame.
I remembering first hearing of flamewar over on the tfwiki website. I read over her because I liked her color scheme and found out she was an interesting character.
The fact that she becomes a mischievous gremlin of a decepticon prankster makes me love her.
I love the Gurren Lagann fire bra and the cheeky anime toothy grin. Normally I find this stuff overdone, but for a character created to be a parody of an annoying fangirl I think it fits.
I first encountered Flamewar in Transformers: The Basics.
This is already is one of my favorite Basics episodes, Flamewar is character I wish people knew more of.
>”Remember back on cybertron, Where you and tailgate were scouting ahead? you wonder how arachnid found you, right? It was me Arcee. I was the one who gave arachnid you and tailgate’s location, Me!”
Imagine Arcee's reaction...
Arcee: Why.... why would you do that!?
Airachnid was just a knock off of Lockdown anyway.
I feel like such an idiot as I found her while searching some... NSFW material and ONLY saw her in that. So I figured she was just a NSFW character 😅
There are NSFW transformers image on internet? Who would look for that?!
@@moloko912 apparently this guy
The NSFW makers know alot of things we dont
Trying to find images for a D&D campaign and BOOM porn
@@moloko912 *character exists*
rule 34 artists: it's free real estate
I wonder what would be Jobby's reaction if he saw her
Double trouble with no nut November
THE HONG
His Nicee review should give you some hints
He would've lost his shit after Nicee lmao
Jobby would descend even further into madness
This convention exclusive also served as a basis for another character in the Cyberverse series, take a guess who! She also shares a rivalry with Arcee, to boot.
Here’s hoping she appears in future TV shows. IF she and Nightbird appear in the same show, they will most likely compete for the right to be Megatron’s main lady.
Or who gets to kill Arcee first
@Jayko Blue 17 Or Megatronia could be one of those
@@RemixOfTheVoid jesus no please no don't remind of that name
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 True, she’d be a perfect rival for Arcee.
@@RemixOfTheVoid Yeah I almost forgot her. By the way you’re thinking of the Combined form of Megaempress and her 4 guards.
3:52 This character design is aggresively targeting me as a person.
How exactly? Besides looking cute and hot?
Tf fans: oh yeah make rule 34 come in heee
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 both good sir
That’s pretty cringe if you’re not joking, TBH.
@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 Hell yeah.
Holy cow, I'm a Transformers noob but I actually know this character! I saw her first in the current comic series, and her personality definitely stands out. You described her perfectly 😂
Where did I first encounter her? Here and now, never heard of her.
Me either
Ditto
LOL same
Alright, now I'm gonna need the basics on Roulette and Shadow Striker.
Anyone else know about Flamewar's existence before this episode of "The Basics?"
I knew since I have her Prime legends class figure. It remains the only figure of Flamewar in my Transformers collection.
Probably one of my first and best executed Transformers customs was Flamewar using the Beast Hunters Arcee mold. Ironically, the week I finished the custom Botcon 2014 announced the convention exclusive Flamewar.
I've only seen Flamewar in the IDW2019 universe but I love her there. While like 90% of characters in that universe feel stilted and flat, she stands out for just being a fun character with a cool design.
"Flat".
😄😄 😄😄😄
Excuse me? I'm not flat chested!
I first encountered her while reading a fanfiction, and later the comic where she gets sent to aid Deathsaurus.
My interdiction to this character was the cyberverse prime figure. I thought she was going to appear in the show along with Rumble and Deadend.
I love when this channel covers a character I've never heard of.
So Flamewar was created to be a Mary Sue originally. I'm surprised they haven't recolored the G1 Arcee into her yet since that seems to be the MO.
I'd love to see a basics on Skylynx at some point. He's an old favorite of mine.
She is a key part of everyone's journey when starting the transformers trading card game back in wave 1. Every other deck had a flamewar
The 2014 Botcon exclusive has always been one of my biggest grails and she's always been one of my favorite characters period! Glad you've covered her, looking forward to the rest of the month!
so important to have more decepticon ladies, and a bike lady! In a rpg we team up her with airachnid, worked pretty well
Ngl, her backstory from when she first appeared reeks of "Original character do not steal".
I said the same aloud
Big Drift energy.
Yeah, she seems better now.
LETS GO! My favorite fembot finally got her own Basics episode! Actually learned a few more things about her from this vid so, thanks Chris!
Chris,
Thanks for all these obscure character videos this year. I'd never heard of Flamewar, but her real-life origins and zealous support of Megatron make her a fascinating villain.
Keep up the great work.
I've been watching the basics since the beginning and this was the first time I was uniformed of a character. Well done Chris! Keep em coming!
First encountered her in Earth Wars. Loved the model, so I had to dive into her history. She's a good character, the Decepticons always need more loyal, non-backstabby members.
I first heard of her while browsing TFwiki pages and I've been intrigued by this fem-Hot Rod ever since.
Slipstream, Shadow Striker, now her, glad more female 'Cons are getting more spotlight. I wonder if we'll see Strika or Thunderblast in more prominent roles anytime soon.
That was a really cool obscure character video....I had never seen her before but I am totally into her now. Keep the videos coming bro you are doing a great job.
Hello I'm from Russia, and I really like watch your story about Transformers! Thanks you for the video! 🙂👍
I like how this comment section is split into three parts:
1. Never heard of this character until this video showed up in their feed
2. Knew about her from different parts of official media (tf legends and stuff like that)
3. P O R N
It's like 3/4 1 and 3
I'm 1 since it needs to be said
I first encountered this rising star on an episode of Transformers: The Basics.
I've loved Arcee in all her forms, and I have never heard of this Decepticon until now. Just wow. Great episode.
I first saw Flamewar on the wiki while looking up more info about that Transformers Universe game. It's too bad it was canceled, because there were several other female Decepticons: Duststorm (a dune buggy sniper), Astraea (a pickup truck), Diabla (a motorcycle with poison blades), Rollcage (a racecar), and Riot.
I discovered Flamewar on a fan made Transformers series known as Transformers: Elite, which has hasn’t posted any new episodes in a couple years now which is kinda upsetting because it was quite interesting
@Johnny ATV Ayyy! And I wonder why it stopped, perhaps it was too ambitious as a project?
shame because I wanted to see more
We loved that version of her... so obsessed with Arcee...
can you do the mighty space explorer, Cosmos. I think he would make a great episode due to his many cameos through the franchise.
I knew of flamewars origins but I didn’t know there was so many figures of her. Always happy to learn something new
I first encountered her in Prime. I got her Cyberverse legion toy as I wasn't able to find Arcee's and I just loved her so much. I should find her and dig her out at some point. I think she's in storage with the other Prime Cyberverse figures
Wow..... Didn t expeckt THAT from her back story but it is an interesting one indeed. And if I remember corecktly, I found about her exitence once scroling down trought TF Google image.
Me: *sees that flamewar appears in the rebooted comics which most of the characters in the comics are based off of existing toys*
Me to Hasbro: ey boss, can I get a new toy please?
Boomer
@@swiftsharpener3109 Listen here you little decepticreep
@@mrmajestic1273 Man you are really a boomer.
@@swiftsharpener3109 Flamewar: trying to start a fight? Sharpwave: finds it is not worth it.
I've been keeping up with the new comics and that's where I first saw Flamewar. I really like her and hope she, Shadow Striker, and Slipstream all get dedicated mainline toys in the near future.
Love how She went from Being an OC Basically to a Official Character. Speaking of...
Hey Chris, would you ever Consider doing an Basics Tie-In Series on Transformers Fandom Universes, Characters, And other Related Things? Of Course with Concent, but I'm Sure Quite a Few of us Will Give you Our Blessings to Do Teachings on Our Creations
"Where did you first encounter this rising star?"
This video, and now I want a figure of her!
5:06
Beth McGuire-Smith’s art style always looks so goddamn phenomenal
The art style at 3:53 is better IMO.
Great video! Loved learning more about her, especially since she was such a great card in the Transformers TCG :) Plus it's always awesome to learn more about the female bots!
These videos always make me want a figure of the characters in the video thank you Chris
I'll keep asking until I see it "The Basics on Strika"
That would be good, but theres a certain other member of team Charr who i think deserves an episode first: Blackout.
I didn't even think this character was relevant enough for a video so thank you so much Chris!! 😭💞🥰
I met her via the tcg, where she was an incredibly solid card that partnered up well with any number of other characters.
I really wish I could get her and Flareup's Prime Arcee redecos. The deluxe sized ones from the Knights Vs. Pirates exclusives.
Im here after the shattered glass flame war figure just got announced
I first ran into her through the card game.
I happened to have her Prime Cyberverse toy, in fact, I think she was the first Cyberverse toy I ever got. My first exposure to the line was pretty neat. Little did I know at the time what an interesting character she was!
I first found out about her 5-6 years ago when I was curious about if there were other female Decepticons other than Slipstream Thunderblast, and Blackarachnia.
First time I heard of this character?
Today, on this channel.
I am LOVING Obscure Characters Month!!! : )
THANK YOU CHRIS, SO SO HAPPY 2 KNOW U READ THAT!!! : )
Benson Yee is a legend! Still remember visiting his bwtf website back in the 90s and getting all the updates on Beast Wars and its successors
You should do an episode about what cybertron was like before the war. Explaining what happened to cause the war and some good facts about the war.
Love your content btw. Always learn something new
I would love to see a deluxe version of her released in the main line. We need more femcons
Slipstream, Flamewar it great to see female transformers making there grains! Go girls👍👍👍😎
Thanks! Just don’t tell flamewar I said that! She could roast me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Get it ROAST ME!!🤣🤣
Bruh.
@@DBWalks2010 Ha ha very funny just because i can commit arson? And say that Huffer was a useless piece of sht.
Thanks
Definitely deserving more mainstream toy attention. That colour scheme really pops, and would add some much needed weight to the female Decepticon ranks on the shelves/toy box.
Not terribly long after I first heard about Flamewar as one of Aligned Continuity Arcee's nemeses on TFWiki, I managed to get her card in the Transformers Card Game in a booster pack. then this video comes out half a month later. Primus! Everything's turning up Flamewar!
This is legitimately the first time I've heard about her.
3:52 If that's not adorable then, I don't know what is.
I live for panels like this in comics
True, this Flamewar is precious...
I discovered Flamewar with the Tfp Legion class toy, but never thought anything of her, and I ultimately forgot about her until today
My first knowledge of Flamewar was getting the Transformers Prime recolour toy. Great little figure.
I bet she spends a lot of time in internet forums
Why haven't i heard about flamewar i would've loved her
Never heard of her but now I really want Hasbro to make a figure of her IDW version
I first encountered her in the Transformers legends mobile game. I didn't know she was slated to be in Transformers Universe. That would have been cool. I was so disappointed when that game got cancelled before they had some actual well known charactars.
Lets hope she doesnt know of the existence of reddit
Oh no
lets hope none of the transformers have to suffer the scourge on the internet that is reddit
I envy her for not knowing about that damn site
Let's hope for Primus not.
I know the existence of Reddit. It’s a place of memes.
I wonder if we'll get her in the WfC line as a retool of Earthrise Arcee.
I hope not, that mold is terrible
@@EviltheNub I personally don't think it's that bad, but not worth quadruple dipping.
She’s getting another deal with Soundblaster.
I remember the first time I heard of Flamewar: It was about 6 minutes ago on this very channel!
Nice to know that I haven't seen everything that the Transformers universe has to offer.
I only know about her from this series from a previous episode where she was briefly mentioned. Would love to see her make it to a TV series some day, a transforming bike with flamethrowers sounds cool.