Hot Shot (Unicron Trilogy)



Hot Shot (Japanese: Hot Rod (Armada/Micron Legend), Hot Shot (Energon/Superlink), and Exillion (Cybertron/Galaxy Force) ホットロッド Hotto Roddo, ホットショット Hotto Shotto, エクシリオン Ekushirion) is a young Autobot who works for Optimus Prime. He is one of the main protagonists of the Unicron Trilogy of Transformers.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) Hot Shot is extremely childish.
 * 2) He takes his obsession with "JaAm" way too far to the point where it is just plain annoying.
 * 3) His maturity makes no sense at all. He went from a childish in Armada being to a serious character in Energon, and got flanderized to be childish again in Cybertron.
 * 4) Speaking of Transformers Energon, his personality became incredibly bland, boring, and dull.
 * 5) Hot Shot from the Unicron Trilogy can easily be compared to Bumblebee from the Michael Bay Pentalogy. Both are yellow (Until Hot Shot turned blue in Cybertron), both are robots, both are childish, both transform into sports cars, both tend to be the kid-appeal characters of their respective continuities, and both of them are from continuities that have many installments (A trilogy of cartoons and a pentalogy of films respectively). The only difference is that Hot Shot is overly talkative (Especially in Armada and Cybertron), and Bumblebee barely speaks (His actual voice can really only be heard in Transformers 2007 and Transformers 5: The Last Knight).
 * 6) The reason why Hot Shot was blue is because originally, in Galaxy Force (Japanese dub of Cybertron), it was originally a complete reboot and Exillion being a completely separate character.
 * 7) * However, they later merged the past two shows, thus causing confusion in the US, thus explaining Hot Shot being childish again in Cybertron.

Trivia

 * Hot Shot was originally going to be called Bumblebee, but Hasbro didn't have the rights during 2002 - 2005. Thus, the yellow car that appears in the movies got that name.