#ian noble

[solarzilla]

Canonical chaser in tf

[yourfaveisrobosexual]

Ian Noble, aka Action Man, from IDW comics is robosexual!

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Seems like someone let Ian Noble know about Kup’s death then, which is good because he definitely deserves to know, the two having been good friends:

I wonder who it was that had to tell him.

And I also have to say, with the - “this one’s for you Kup” - it’s really, really sweet that Action Man’s apparently striving to do things that would have made his mentor proud.

[brandxspandex]

Hang on, when did they both become Action Man?

[soothedcerberus]

@comicsjess67 Kup and his human pal, Action Man ^^

[theartofthecover]

Revolutionaries #2 (Variant Cover) (2017)

Art by: Tone Rodriguez and Thomas Deer

[melodylesbian]

More of Kup and his little human from Action Man: Revolution (images 1-7) and Revolution #5 (the last panel only)

[skidblast]

I was re-reading TAAO's first arc and wondered if you have any bets on the identity of DC-357? A lot of people figure Rattrap, but I could also see it somehow being Scoop or Sandstorm, both of whom have stakes against Starscream. (Also an option, though way less likely, is Impactor and Mayhem.)

I want to say Starscream.

The thing about Starscream is that he’s is a schemer, though his ability to scheme, or inability in some cases, varies between the franchises. But in TAAO he has been pretty good at it.

He has his little arrangement with Arachnid going, a secret mnemosurgeon who has every reason to be operating “black” given her serial killer status back on Eurakis.

Then we have Starscream blackmailing Windblade into taking care of the Combaticons. And then explicitly tells her to just “watch them”. However he would be a fool to think that Windblade would do just that. He would know that she would be working against his interests, to get rid of the stranglehold he has on her and Chromia. Windblade knows that Starscream is dangerous, and would want to get him out of the way, albeit peacefully, which Starscream considers a weakness.

Then what does that mean in the context of DC-357? The message he delivers to Onslaught promises that Swindle is alive, and also promises that there is proof that will end Starscream. 

Who would profit in locating Swindle, dead or alive?

We have Rattrap, who knows that there is proof that exists. But he already had Swindle at that point. The message states to find Swindle, not the proof. But it is Starscream that has neither. And if he would manage to find the proof. It doesn’t matter if he knew he was being recorded or not. For him, it would be a reasonable assumption he was, given whom he was dealing with. He would know how Swindle operates to begin with.

And who would have access to the resources he gives Blast Off? Starscream created the Badgeless, a secret police that answers only to him.

Of course what goes against this theory is Starscream’s inner monologue during the Trial of the Badgeless that did end up killing someone in order to “protect” Blast Off who instigated the fight to begin with. There his monologue does indicate that he doesn’t know what happened exactly. But the problem with TAAO is that there is not that many players to begin with, and I feel that the other usual subjects do not have the resources or the motivations to pull this off.