Brave Robots: Villains

(Blogger and my computer don't seem to be getting along right now. This may be partly responsible for the problems I've had the last few days getting stuff up.)

It occurred to me that it's been a while-a week or two-since I last posted a Brave Robots blog post.

This must be rectified.

The villains of the Brave Robots series are more than just a mixed bag-they're a mixed bag full of mixed bags.

Relatively rarely, they were fully realized as completely new transforming robots easily the equals of the main characters (except, invariably, they were relatively puny as toys and gigantic within the various series). Draias (from Brave of the Sun Fighbird) was one of these.



Also among their number was Dino Geist, the borderline suicidal maniac who homaged super robots while cramming as many stock footage transformation sequences into a scene as was mechanically possible for a single robot (unless that stuff is actually from two scenes and very well cut together) from Brave Exkaiser.



However, not all of the villains were so lucky. Some were repaints or remolds of pre-existing toys. Case in point:



Hmm, that fellow looks familiar. (In fact, all of the villains from Exkaiser, with the exception of the previously mentioned Dino Geist, were based on Dinobots. Fascinatingly, while toys of them ironically never surfaced, the various lesser Geisters were given the ability to combine with one another.)

Additional Transformers changed into Brave Robot villains include Goryu from Brave Express Might Gaine, who is a black repaint version of Dai Atlas.



Then, there were numerous villains based on Transformers that were red repaints of guys; these particular villains (who are not the only such), from Brave of Gold Goldran and (I believe) Brave Fighter of Legend Da Garn, were based on various other Transformers.







The funny thing here is that this is really only about half the equation. Brave Express Might Gaine (linked previously), Brave Command Dagwon, and King of Braves GaoGaiGar's selection of enemies has barely been touched. The next Brave Robots column I do will probably be about them as possible.