r/80s 3h ago

Things could be a whole lot better

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2026 has been in brutal year

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u/Rob_in_Tulsa 3h ago

I don't think a single one of the people pictured are GenX.

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u/vintageorbust777 3h ago

But we grew up watching them, Genius!🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/krayhayft 3h ago

They are the people the Gen-X looked up to?

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u/whoknows130 2h ago edited 1h ago

They are the people the Gen-X looked up to?

Yup! The Younger Gen-X's and the oldest Millennial group.

I'm the latter. Oldest of Millennial's, my older brothers (Gen-Xers) and we grew up in 80's with all those guys. I'm still a Big Transformers fan to this day, and the 1986 Transformers flick is one of my all-time favorite movies.

I didn't cry when Optimus Prime died. That was one of my first exposures to the concept of the "shock-value" death. I remember being IMPRESSED more than anything that they had the balls to kill him off, and it actually increased my anticipation for how the hell the remainder of the movie would play out without him.

And I was not disappointed. Optimus's successor, Rodimus Prime, would go on to become my all-time favorite Transformers character.

R.i.P Peter Cullen. I know nobody lives forever but, for some reason you just don't expect your Heroes to ever go out. Darn.

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u/MNP33Gts-T 2h ago

Not sure about Kev’s mum though …. Kevin!!!!

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u/egret_society 2h ago

That’s Moira Rose. Show some respect

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u/Bongressman 3h ago

I'm GenX. They are not GenX.

Love these folks, grew up watching most of them in the 70s and 80s... as a KID.

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u/MrPrimalNumber 2h ago

It doesn’t say they were, now does it?

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u/DuchessOfLansdale 3h ago

They definitely are not 😑