>>10628368It's nice finally having both members of Cybertron's most cunning power couple (and technically, they hold the distinction of being the very FIRST official married couple to appear in the whole franchise) together at last. Strika's weird engineering is a tad bit outdated, and I wish they had done something more with her hands, but she's still quite fun to mess around with, and has a rather 'striking' silhouette that certainly makes her stand out - especially when she's paired with Obsidian. There is another bit of weirdness going on here that should be pointed out, though - both Strika and Obsidian here are labelled as Decepticons, when in canon they were actually Autobots before being stuffed into their current Vehicon shells (something that confused Primal quite a bit when they introduced themselves in the show and revealed that they had not, in fact, been reprogrammed like the previous three generals); presumably, this is because of their antagonistic role in BM, but the characters aren't technically 'bad guys' - they're programmed to protect and serve Cybertron, and since Megatron had pretty much literally become Cybertron by the time he brought them back online, it meant that their loyalty - however misplaced - ended up being to him. Still, these two are from the Universe storyline, and were plucked from a different timeline (this Obsidian having explicitly betrayed his programming and murdered both Megatron AND all the Maximals before taking control of Cybertron for himself), so maybe these incarnations actually were really evil Decepticons in their original universe. Who knows.
