Death's Head: The Marvel/Transformers/Doctor Who Character
Added 2025-07-15 13:52:50 +0000 UTCThis one is complicated. VERY complicated. But worth it, yes?
(Originally posted on YouTube 7/16/25)
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I knew about him from the transformers and dr who comics, but didn't know about the marvel stuff, it was so interesting.
Loupy
2025-09-03 09:46:48 +0000 UTCSent ya a pm with my thoughts/a little think you message (Hope that's okay), but I love this video!! I'm a huge fan of Death's Head whack-ass backstory and it's fun to see it all laid out like this. He's very much a product of 2000 AD era comic book writing. IMO, for all of his weird canon ties, he feels most like something out of Judge Dredd or Rogue Trooper.
Guyofguyness
2025-07-25 05:25:42 +0000 UTCYes I did make a list of Transformers Lore Corrections & Trivia, yes I will be putting it in the YT comments when this goes up there
OrderlySummit
2025-07-15 23:55:12 +0000 UTCHuh, that's entirely possible. Death's Head definitely isn't influenced BY him, DH was decades prior, but Zurg could have taken some inspiration from the older comics. Never heard anyone say that officially but I see the resemblance for sure.
Matthew Selle
2025-07-15 22:54:51 +0000 UTCThere's a text box about it in there! It's really not as complex as you'd think, Marvel just published the one-page story to have a legal claim that DH was one of their characters. There's a wiki somewhere out there that says High Noon Tex came out before Death's Head debuted in Transformers but that's just not true, it was a later thing.
Matthew Selle
2025-07-15 22:52:27 +0000 UTCYou didn't even mention "High Noon Tex" and the shenanigans that were pulled to claim Death's Head was not created under the Hasbro Transformers license but instead debuted in a Marvel UK non-Transformers one page story.
Christopher Ulichney
2025-07-15 22:40:26 +0000 UTCSo the fun thing about Death's head is that transformers has its own Death's head inspired character. Introduced in animated, I believe (do correct me if I'm wrong, yes?) is the character Lockdown, who is an unaffiliated transformer bounty hunter with a removable hand.
Toa Ventron
2025-07-15 22:35:10 +0000 UTCDoes Death’s Head have any design influences on or from Emperor Zurg?
Brenden Yee
2025-07-15 17:37:52 +0000 UTCHa! Jeremy Bearimy. I understood that reference.
Andrew Dyjach
2025-07-15 16:02:28 +0000 UTCAlso, Transformers One is probably the best place to start. The whole thing is a real mess of different shows and toys that have a similar theme but little direct connection. I love it so. If you want to research it, start with Chris McFeely's "The Basics On" you tube series
Joseph McGivern
2025-07-15 15:10:17 +0000 UTCI love Death's Head so much. Created to solve the narrative issue of needing a Bounty Hunter who can fight transformers thats just how he works best. Need a badass in you story? Drop in DH.
Joseph McGivern
2025-07-15 15:08:13 +0000 UTC
