TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on NIGHTBIRD
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2020
- At the height of 1980s Ninja-mania, Transformers debuted its first ninja character, who was also the first female robot in the franchise! This week, Obscure Characters Month looks at the history of NIGHTBIRD!
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Offlined by a jealousy powered Starscream.
Take my like, you deserve it.
Take this! My Love, my Anger, and all of my Sorrow! *Smashing the Like Button!*
Starscream yeets a null ray at Megatron’s girlfriend
Starscream may have had a love-hate feelings for Megatron so she null-rayed Nightbird.
@Brita-Ann Marley Marley don't take it too seriously but the existence of Slipstream made me think otherwise.
"shes not so hot"
"shes hot enough for me to replace you whenever I want"
"Replace me? NERVARR!"
Hate to be that guy but...instead of "want" it was "choose"
that implies more about megatrons relationship with starscream
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion yes very abusive screamer was jealous
That line implying that the reason G1 Megatron keeps Starscream around despite backstabbing him constantly, is because none of the other Decepticons (until Nightbird) were hot enough to take Starscream's place.
When you get offlined by non-cosmically powered starscream
And then survive!
Huh, defeated by a regular powered Starscream
Yup...ONLY a true badass shoots someone in the back.🙄
Inferior human technology.
Correction: "Jealously" powered Starcream
@@Stewart118Tyler
Ninjas are not supposed to fight fair, they're supposed to be stealthy and more of assassins rather than warriors, the warrior part depends of the individual ninja. If anything Starscream beat the ninja at her own game.
You know she’s a pro at being a ninja just by how obscure she keeps her status.
well, if obscurity = ninja status then redwing must be the master
@@masonjones7777 who?
@@ZeothTheHedgehog exactly.
@@masonjones7777 haha
“Heroic sacrifice of... Wheelie.”
That’s a new one.
@Brita-Ann Marley Marley Wheelie is the Wesley Crusher of the Transformers.
@@henrynorcrossii3363 LOL! Wesley Crusher. EDIT: I think I can top that, though... Jar Jar Binks. 😀
Okay, who's more annoying, g1 wheelie, or bayformers wheelie? I vote yes
Braum Kinball Well, at least G1 Wheelie wasn't a pervert.
@@ltb1345 still annoying
Aah yes, Megatron's waifu.
@Johnson Gattis @ Yes
Ah yeas
Heard of megaempress
I like apples yes
LOL
NIghtbird...the secret lover of Megatron and the one thing humans made that he respects....besides energy suppliers.
Honestly I'm watching this and my only thought is HOW IS THIS CHARACTER NOT MORE POPULAR!? The first female Transformer (sorta). The first Cyber Ninja. A potential love interest for Megatron. She's got a lot going for her! How has more not been done with this character?
One word: female.
Okey that what probably happened was even dumber thanks to the gendered market they maybe got afraid to "steal" sales from their girl toys for having a female character on their boy series, just don't think more than 2 seconds on this excuse and it makes sense.
@@TheDoomBlueShell Honestly it's not even that. It's just the "boys don't want to buy toys of girls" logic.
@@TheDoomBlueShell I mean yeah that's definitely true for the 80's during the original series, but look how many prominent female transformers we've had since the late 90s and 2000s. Arcee, Black Arachnea, hell Windblade is sort of the personification of the community's desire for more fembots. I'm just surprised that a character with this much potential who also happens to be something of an origin story for 3 reoccurring concepts in the series got left behind
The first female protoform transformer because remember in season 3 they weren't transformers yet they were ordinary robots in the five faces of darkness
@@TheDoomBlueShell the grammar bruh
Nightbird has so much character potential
At least Japan gave her something to do (albeit goofy stuff, but she almost killed Sixshot!).
@@MikhailSamunin But is she going to be a robot created on Earth? Because that is an incredibly unique perspective we very rarely see since the Dinobots and Constructicons are portrayed as from Cybertron nowadays
I'm from future, Nightbird is also villain in the new movie
Time to learn about Megatron's favourite bot.
She's not so hot!
@@gota7738 if we are talking about hotness, how about look up on megaempress, megatron's "wife"
I don't know guys, megatron seems pretty attached to starscream, it certainly wouldn't surprise megatron if he keeps him around for..... *ahem*. other reasons.... (I'll shut up now)
You mean sex boat
@@gota7738 She's hot enough to replace you whenever I choose.
I would like to see the rivalry banter between Starscream and Nigthbird
Same, more should be made of their dynamic, it would be very amusing!
id rather that but nightbird is still completely silent and starscream is only imagining what she's saying and he still somehow looses
I would imagine it's about as one-sided as Starcreams rivalry with Shockwave in Transformers Prime, Nightbird is just doing her job while Starscream is imagining slights against him like a mean girl in high school.
Hey you know what be really cool, if in a future transformers movie, the human take Shatter & dropkick's remains, and end up creating Nightbird, but through out the movie fragments of the 2 deception personalities being to emerge corrupting her, and like the original she goes rogue and joins the decepticons having a distinct hatred for Bumblebee
That's what they did with shadowstriker in cyberverse.
@@laffodile1636 Not really
Basically what Bay did for Galvatron
Apparently she is appearing in Rise of the Beasts, so you never know...
@@anueutsuho7425 wait what, legit, night bird is coming
So you're telling me.... Megatron made his own waifu?
We should make own waifus too...
@@Andrei-13831 there are whole ass movies about why we Shouldn't do that
Yes
I never knew Megatron was so cultured.
Starscream stole his waifu
*When Chris McFeely uploads a new TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS Episode.*
Me: *"Oh my favourite CZcams show is back on."*
Shame they never did more with her in the series.
Hasbro never wanted female robots back in the day. Even Arcee didn't get a toy until 2014 (not counting repaints).
TwistedGaming918 there was a G1 Arcee prototype. It looked horrible, even for the time.
@@holden_7597 There was also a repaint of Chromedome to represent Arcee and Daniel in The Rebirth, which also didn't happen.
@@twistedgaming9185 In all fairness a female frame (as well as other agility type Cybertronian frames) would seem as a rarity since the war would require more bulk like physique to combat one and another with it being more on height than slimness. Then there's the whole reality bit on Cybertronian reproduction making it questionable of the usage of a female form since there is no breeding (unless if there's a comic explaining it since there have been forms of media showing parallels to that of mammals with the mechanical aliens). And since this was a show men't for boys at the time (but it's not like it was prevented for a girl to watch, just look at MLP's fan base) it focused on war as it's big thing like Gundam (since Transformers designs/toys were made in japan) and a Brotherhood type thing with a bit of silliness with each episode. But today is today and we can make our own stories with what's already made (Just as long as it doesn't go into Kissplayer territory, don't look it up) and how the female frame is woven back into modern Cybertronian time (since the LORE does say that one of the 13 primes was the first Female Cybertronian, Chris has a video about that).
That is pretty much the best summary of the 1980's cartoon
Megatron: finally creates his waifu
Starscream: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
“She’s hot enough to replace you”
4:46 “More adorable than dangerous!”
*Shows that one of the nightbirds in the comic panel crashed into one of the stores.*
You sure about that?
In all fairness, it's one of maybe 3 in those two panels that seem to have done any damage at all, even if it was unintentionally dealt
@@load-bearingcoconut5586 Agreed, the one in the foreground is collapsed with a freaking banana peel on her head 😆
so she was offlined by a non cosmically powered starscream? impossible
Still starscreams got a large kill count
Not really. She did survive.
before being revived and terminated by a cosmically powered starscream
I’d love to see a comic about Drift, Nightbird, Six-shot and Bludgeon.
And a the Transformers Animated Prowl and Yoketron
@@MTV2O2O animated Jazz as well
@@meep1998
And animated lockdown
if a comic with the transformers characters of japanese or asian culture, and don't forget windblade
@@jasonmaster1611 maybe the Nijikas, while at it
Makes me want Fanstoys to retool/repaint their Arcee into Nightbird.
They've done it(Nightbird is a remold of Arcee)...I actually have her
FansToys be like: We can't give her an O-fact because she doesn't have a mouth.
@@ToaArcanAND SHE MUST STARSCREAM!!! Ehhm...sorry!
It amazes me that a character named "Nightbird" was given a ground vehicle alt. That makes ZERO sense...
The perfect alt for her is the old F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter jet.
Right? Youd expect an owl or a stealth helicopter. . .
...
FOOL! NIGHTBIRD CAN BE WHATEVER VEHICLE SHE WANTS!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised they never used the name for a character in Beast Wars. An instant Airazor repaint.
Maybe a Mitsubishi eclipse.
So, what are your thoughts on Rise of The Beasts' Nightbird?
Nightbird should be character on cyberverse
Shadow Striker seems to be the Cyberverse analogue, is she still in the new season? Haven't watched it yet.
She did become it, in "The Imobilizer"
She looks like some earthling play puppet!
*(GETS PUNCHED)*
Well this puppet has quite a punch
Megatron: 《trembles》
She's everything I wanted
Nightbird I remember her. Her first and only episode appearance "Enter the Nightbird" is actually the fourth G1 episode I seen (the others are the original three part pilot episode).
-I remember hearing that Bumblebee director Tarvis Knight loosely base Shatter from Nightbird. Cool fact.
-I honestly believe that she could have fit in nicely in TF4, as the many KSI drones under the control of Galvatron. Either as her own self like Stinger, as many ninja drones like in the comics, or both.
-TF: Siege brought us Nightbird, and she's cool.
I'd imagine Nightbird's alt mode being a raven or a falcon to go along with the ninja theme
A stealth aircraft would be good too. Fits the “Ninja” theme. Plus making her fly would have Starscream in even more panic because he fears she’ll replace him as commander of the Seekers or something
Scrounge would make for a decent, if short obscure character episode.
Chris Gould you dare insult the beast king?
how about magna stampede or enemy?
@@dekaw9138 Scrounge, the guy with the special hand. Not Scourge.
@@maxwellorryn3380 The Sixth Ranger of the CW Technobot team
Talking about obscure characters, I dont even remember have seen the episode where she appeared when I was a kid, I would love to see her in a new incarnation in any show, but hope she be a real Cybertronian and not a human creation, I like more that angle.
I remember it very fondly because she was in it and how strong she was. The end of the epusode made me think she would come back
Nightbird would make an interesting member for the DJD
While cool as an idea, I like that she didn't talk. I'm very drawn to mutes
A unforgettable character. As a child i always hope that night bird would escape to return for a few more episodes back in the day. Still one of my favorite characters thank you Chris.
It's nice to see nightbird make a return to media. From cyberverse to rise of the beast, she is making a comeback
Wow! Optimus has Elita One, and Megatron has Nightbird. This gives me the creeps...
At least they can go on a double date
@@syabilaazri7834 or a double battle
@@jasonmaster1611 true
At least Nightbird will get her live-action debut in Rise of the Beasts
And now she will be a member of the Terrorcons in the Transformers Rise of the Beasts movie.
It's good that the popularity of Nightbird has endured these long years, she's a good character to have around. But apart from that I'd say she's long overdue for a comeback in animation form, hopefully that happens sooner rather than later.
As always Chris, great stuff.
I still laugh at that one line from Optimus in that episode: “Look out! She’s not deactivated - she’s playing roboto-possum!” 😂
She's everything i ever wanted
Chris McFeely: *Uploads a new TF Basics episode*
me: *smashes the notification and watches*
Imagine if she was in transformers age of extinction as a KSI drone.
That would be awesome but also terrible because of the *micheal bay* design affect
Oh, you KNOW those KSI nerds made a Transformer waifu.
It could have been an interesting story for the IDW story arcs if the Earth Defence Force had created their own robotic defences akin to Cybertronians following the Decepticon invasion years prior and codenamed it 'Nightbird'. Galvatron and his Decepticons could have learned of this and reprogrammed the robots to turn on the humans, forcing the Autobots to endanger their own lives in trying to defend those who hate them.
After a call for reinforcements to Cybertron, Windblade could have informed the real Nightbird from her homeworld about these imposters with her name and she could have showed up to lend a hand against the imposters.
Doubt it would have fully worked though.
She's gonna be in the new Transformers Rise of the Beasts movie! Looks like it's Nightbird's time in the limelight.
It was rise of the beast not ruse of the ninjas. She wasn't there a d will not be in any future films. Garbage character
Enter the Nightbird
Revenge of the Nightbird
Nightbird III: The Domination
Greetings from America! (It's 4:00 AM right now)
When I was a kid, I never understood why they made Nightbird a one-off character, never to be seen or heard from again in the cartoon. I mean she had so much potential for further episodes.
Well this needs to be updated now since she is also a terrorcon in the new move Rise of the beasts
I think Night-Bird should remain a non-transforming Action - Master.
I would buy that Night-Bird.
Looking back, it's weird how Optimus had to have ninjas explained to him, but then later series show Cybertronian ninjas (e.g., Six Shot). I guess Prime just wasn't aware of them.
Great Stuff! I absolutely believed Megatron had a thing for Nightbird as a kid.
I can't wait to see Nightbird in transformers rise of the beasts I wander what she can do.
Its 415am, woke up to pee. Saw my feed, got an ice cream cone and started watching. Back to bed, awesome Basics! 👍👍
Four hundred and fifteen AM? That's an interesting system, (kill me)
@@jjrivas3 what did i do?
@@sausagethegodofcurrynothing man, i was kidding. I forgot about this and was going to delete it. Like I said, it was too early for me lol and 420 got baked. Didn't mean to sound crude man, my bad. 🤙
@@jjrivas3 nah, i'm just stupid
Turns out that you're a poet and you didn't know it...lol
But that is pretty good stuff
Honestly, given that Nightbird is both a Deception and ninja, I hope someday we get to see her and Drift (the Autobot's resident samurai) clash swords sometime in the future.
Or maybe she an Windblade could go at it, who knows?
Id love to see night bird appear as a recurring character in a cartoon or comic series. In my head canon she has a snakeyes/stormshadow style rivalry with drift.
The only reason megatron wanted to recruit her is because he wanted a friend
Starscream: what about me?
A REAL friend a girlfriend who can use laser swords
i included Nightbird in my own Transformers story, where she is a loyal servant of Megatron, who transformers into a stealth jet & actually removed her voice box on purpose, to be even more silent
A stealth jet is a good fit for her, name wise and character wise. Wouldn't mind seeing a transformer toy of her like that
What if she was “born” with no voice box? You know, kind of like a disability turned into strength?
Imagine if in age of extinction, instead of K.S.I. Turning Megatron into Galvatron they turned him into Nightbird, because in G1 she was a man-made giant robot
Imagine if Nightbird wasn't written out permanently and actually became an official Decepticon in the original cartoon. She would've been Megatron's go-to 'Con for anything involving stealth and espionage, incapable of speech to both mimic the ninja stereotype "vow of silence" and make any attempt at interrogation useless. She could even link up remotely with Soundwave to relay information directly to him, who would then inform Megatron. She could've had scenes where she went toe-to-toe against Arcee.
Starscream would definitely still be extremely jealous and attempt to take her out at certain times, but Nightbird would take that as a training exercise, never informing others about it, as it would take away the challenge she seeks to improve her own abilities.
As for a vehicle mode, I would've gone for a stealth submarine, giving Seaspray a rival on the ocean and further going with the ninja theme of hiding underwater.
Tell me, would you have liked Nightbird and Megatron to have a love-like relationship?
@@jasonmaster1611 No. Wouldn't work with Megatron. He'd be too busy with his plans for total domination. I can imagine other Decepticons definitely trying, and failing horribly.
An obscure character that I personally love is Monstructor
I’d like her to become a mercenary like devcon and lockdown. Maybe they could all be a part of a team of mercenaries together
I hope the include her in the last Transformers movie, Rise of the Beasts. Because that'll be so cool.
Totally worth waking up at 4am for a new Basic vid
To answer this question 6:36, check out Transformers: Rise of the Beast in theaters in June or July.
she is one of my faves. glad you put the spotlight on her. :)
That manga has some very.....suggestive artwork
Well whaddya expect?! It's drawn by Hayato Sakamoto (Or in some fan circles, derisively called Sikomofo), who used to work as assistant to Yuuki Ohsima, THE MAN BEHIND KISS PLAYERS.
reynaldi Pangestu What the fuck? I knew he was creepy but that just makes it worse
@@reynaldipangestu259 it's all coming together
Plot twist: She was actually in every season of every Transformers cartoon. You just didn't see her because....well...
She's a ninja.
One of my absolute favourite characters, I was so excited when she made her debut in G1, since the episode implied she would return, though she never did... I would love to see her in more media, perhaps the Netflix series will feature her!
She was one of my favorite characters despite having only 1 episode. I could see her being a subordinate/partner to Soundwave given her infiltration/assassination specialty and him being the Decepticon's spymaster/communication officer. I could also see her as a bounty hunter or mercenary in a later incarnation.
Nightbird is gonna make movie history next year when she gets to be in Transformers Rise of the Beasts! Now, that's the perfect moment to spread her ninja wings!
It was rise of the beast not ruse of the ninjas. She wasn't there a d will not be in any future films. Garbage character.
"Enter the Night-bird"
A solo spin-off movie in the Transformers franchise.
I want it! Who else?!
Yes!!!
@@EdwardEstacado Directed by thundercracker and being the first film filmed on cybertron and earth.
I want to see this. It's a shame that she was only in that one episode. Her concept was so cool, a kunoichi ninja transformer! She could've been used for stealthy infiltration type missions, which could've made for some interesting stories.
I wonder now if Arcee was made to counter Nightbird seeing how Arcee never had an orgin story in the cartoon. They both almost share the same body type. Would've been cool if Megatron did somehow not only get Nightbird back, but took a page out of Street Fighter's M. Bison's book and made "Dolls" of his own. An elite assassian squad based off Nightbird.
Transformers: The NightBird! Created by Jon Favreau.
I absolutely love these retrospective views on my favourite piece of my childhood! They remind me of better times with my recently departed mother. Please keep up the fantastic work.
Megatron:She is everything i always wanted!
Starscream got jealous when Megatron said this. Here are my thoughts on that.
1.Megatron had some lust toward Nightbird.
2.Starscream could have some homosexual tendencies because of his jealousy.
Why does everything have to be gay in this day and age?
Starscream above all craves power and control. His jealousy stems from his number 2 spot being taken away from him.
Prehaps it was a joke, but I have a sneaking hunch you are being serious about Starscream being a homsexual.
Which is very telling of the sign of the times we live in.
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
"A sign of the times," are you for real? Bud, people have had Starscream figured for gay for over twenty years. He's famously effeminate (to the point other TF series have made jokes about it) and his conduct in "Enter the Nightbird" has been viewed through this lens ever since people started shipping Megatron and Nightbird.
When we watched Transformers as kids. The last thing we cared about was who was the "gay" character and who was having sex.
You folks are fucking dorks and weirdos. lol
The Japanese dub made Starscream a bishie, voiced by the late Hirotaka Suzuoki.
@@OldieWan Knock Out is pretty gay from his mannerisms to the campy performance of Daran Norris.
........& on that note, Nightbird is now part of my Transformers R.I.D. 2015 Fanfiction!!!!
5:25 this is the first time ive ever seen anything about Angry Birds Transformers on this channel!
I just realized Nightbird looks like Armada Sideways.....woah.
Thx for the video Chris McFeely I never knew that night bird was a actual character in the G1 cartoon.Keep up the good work man your videos are fascinating🤔
I wish they did more with her in the movie besides what they did, really loved her vehicle form 👌
And then most recently, she appeared in Transformers Cyberverse as a member of Trypticon's mercenaries
And now nightbird is going to appear for the upcoming live action movie for transformers rise of the beasts and she will be part of the terrorcons and her vehicle mode taking on a Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R and she will have the ability to fly and still a ninja
I actually got the Siege Nightbird figure on Thursday, she's pretty good
Thank you for doing a video on my favorite character of all time.
5:40 I gotta say, Shatter has quite a pair of headlights.
It’s nice that she’s hit the big screen in Rise of the Beasts
You gotta love it when your first toy is a kreo minifigure
I did not know NightBird served as Shatter's inspiration. Thanks for that 411. Can't wait for the next obscure character video, and future episodes as always.
"she's everithing ive alway wanted"
Megatron bro, calm down you Irection, its a kid show
Like Knockout said, *"Watch out for the Quiet ones."* And Nightbird is one of them.
I do admit, that as a kid, I was quite taken with Nightbird. And.not just because she was a ninja -- though that definitely was a selling point for me -- but because she was for all intents and purposes, a female Decepticon. Even after she was captured, supposedly reprogrammed and put into stasis, it was clear that she was still conscious and none too happy. But I never dreamed that she'd ever get a toy. I mean if Hasbro wouldn't make a toy of Arcee, what chance did Nightbird have? But to now have two is amazing. Now if only she'd return as an actual character in the comics or a cartoon.
You are one of my favorite CZcams shows
Edit: I am definitely getting that night bird figure
I remember school lunch was where we discussed the previous days episodes of Transformers and GI Joe. Enter the Night bird was well talked about.
One of the best fembots (robots)
We need a updated basic of Nightbird now that she was in Transformers: Power of the Beast 🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜
I would love for to appear in cartoons again to see her in action and be Megatron's love interest.
4:37 *yes yes yes yes yes*
I am happy Nightbird made an appearance in TF RIse of the Beasts. It may have been a somewhat minor role but I am glad she got a bit more exposure.
I remember the debates tho I shipped her with bombshell so glad she got a video thank you
Bro this channel really got me back into transformers
every other video i'm supposed to watch: watch later
the basics: **CLICK**