>>7868764>Drift really wasn't a poochie. He literally just showed up and did maybe one cool thing. That's just a forced meme in and of itself made up by Walky and his shitty wiki because they had it out for Shane McCarthy.Bullshit. No, Drift was a poochie because Shane McCarthy decided to dump every relevant IDWverse character created after 1986 to replace them with '84 and movie characters, and THEN he inserted his fan character into the group. His fan character, who-
>has a secret dark past>trained to be a samurai>refuses to use guns because repentance>carries around three swords, one of them he can't use unless it's the super perfect right time forgive me master for going all out just this onceThat's not even delving into the promotion the character had, calling him "Transformers' Wolverine," "super japanesey," "a tribute to Takara and Japan," and IIRC "the first new G1 transformer since the 80's." They went as far as making him a star character in that children's book IDW published.
People only stopped dumping on Drift because other writers got a hold of him and wrote him to be significantly less shit, and because Windblade showed up later and got the Drift treatment herself.