#transformers deadend

He runs into a firefight recklessly and everyone surrounding him gets picked off neer instantly.

Menasaur gets into a fight but his Dragstrip arm is used to block attacks rather than his side.

A whole building falls down and he just stands there only to go perfectly through a window.

I did a rough TFP design for Motormaster, Dragstrip, Wildrider and Deadend for my fanfic

-be warned all of these were scribbled with a ballpoint pen with zero sketching or rough drafting beforehand-

MOTORMASTER

Truck, doesn’t use his visor I just couldn’t be assed to draw optics - his energon sword magnetises to his back, he keeps his iconic hood and his servos and details are pink. He’s bigger than the others

DRAGSTRIP

Like Breaky his alt is an armoured car instead of a racer. Yellow gold ish finish, uses his visor - tire wings on his back

WILDRIDER

Little tire winglets. Armoured car. Doesn’t use his visor

Doorwings are always dropped low, uses both visor and battle mask nearly all the time. Although usually keeps the mask off in the base or with his gestalt. Armoured vehicle

Menasor

Dragstrip: cuz it’s super important that we renew it, trust me boss!

Motormaster: what’s it called again?

Breakdown: Disney+

Wilderrider: it’s super cool, all the cool, wild and crazy stuff is on it, too bad Shockwave stopped paying for it

Motormaster: we’ll if he said no then why should I?

Dragstrip: cuz of that

Deadend: I like the sad donkey, he comforts me

Deadend and Wildrider are both dead prior to the events of Prime with Deadend being the first casualty and thus how the stunticons learn just how deep their gestalt bond ran. However his death has deeper far reaching consequences, and not just because it rendered them unable to properly transform into Menasor without a "stand in" combiner (something they all hated).

Deadend I tend to imagine as being the largely mental member of the team. Motormaster was their gang leader and big idea guy, but it was Dead End who actually sorted out the logistics and plans. He was no genius and had no military training let alone a formal education (tho he's self educated) but he was the closest thing the stunticons had to a "smart guy". Unfortunately he also deferred to Motormasters decisions A LOT and tended to not push his luck when it came to disagreeing with their leaders.

This was, in part, because Motormaster became way more violent and intimidating as the war went on, but also because of an emotional conflict. See, Deadend and Motormaster were actually pretty close pre-war to the point of probably being best friends. Though neither of them would have said that part out loud.

As for the others, Deadend and Wildrider were a surprising pair that actually got on pretty okay. Deadend and Motormaster met him in the gladiator pits when they were both in dire need of funds and after a rough start they wound up teaming up to make some serious shanix on gladiator gambling.

Dragstrip and Deadend were a near polar opposite in terms of relationships. He didn't hate Dragstrip but its like when your friend has another friend they're always hanging out with but you don't particularly consider a friend. It was sorta like that. Pre-war the two are near polar opposites in terms personality with Dragstrip being way more vulgar, more emotional rather than intellectual, and their relationship with Motormaster being different as well.

Finally there was a healthy respect between Deadend and Breakdown. Breakdown was closer friends with Dragstrip than with him, but there were times where Dragstrips pre-war energy and Wildriders, er, wild personality were too much for him and Deadend was the calmest person for him to get some quiet time with.

The comical mafia outfit. Probably best represented in 2015s robots in disguise. These guys are dysfunctional dangerous villains but also, like, kinda silly? Their disparate personalities and quirks are played largely for laughs as is their macho-ist group dynamic.

Fast and Furious with more family dysfunction. The stunticons have a macho rough relationship with each other that masks how much they actually like each other. Found family vibes. This is purely fanon as far as I know. Likely related to the first one where making the groups relationship more genuine makes one more comfortable with laughing at their misfortune.