Died at 94
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Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, radio personality, and voice actor, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40. He was the first actor to voice Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009). Kasem began hosting the original American Top 40 on the weekend of July 4, 1970, and remained there until 1988. He would then spend nine years hosting another countdown titled Casey's Top 40, beginning in January 1989 and ending in February 1998, before returning to revive American Top 40 in 1998. Along the way, spin-offs of the original countdown were conceived for country music and adult contemporary audiences, and Kasem hosted two countdowns for the latter format beginning in 1992 and continuing until 2009. He also founded the American Video Awards in 1983 and continued to co-produce and host it until its final show in 1987. Kasem also provided many commercial voiceovers, performed many voices for children's television (such as Sesame Street and the Transformers cartoon series), was "the voice of NBC" and helped with the annual Jerry Lewis telethon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Casey Kasem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
Casey Kasem
Cliffjumper
for Cliffjumper in Transformers G1: PROTECTOBOTS (1985)
Suggested by enzotakerian
The original 1980s Transformers series never showed any origin episode of where the Protectobots came from, so I thought I would make up my own origin story. It takes place after Starscream and the Combaticons were exiled from Earth. The Autobots fight the Decepticons at a hospital where Megatron and Soundwave get their hands on an X-ray machine and a CAT scan machine. The Autobots lost the first battle and a few people got hurt in the crossfire. Optimus realizes that they need more soldiers to prevent casualties. Wheeljack, Ratchet and Perceptor notice a station with old abandoned emergency vehicles and they thought what if they can make them into robots solely to protect the humans while Optimus and the others do the battles. After modifications, they made the emergency vehicles into the Protectobots (Hot Spot, Streetwise, Blades, First Aid, and Groove). Some of the new bots were having doubts and First Aid feels ashamed when he fails to rescue a little girl who has been snatched Thundercracker (the latter was reluctant) to make her a test subject in Megatron's new experiment.
