Hah, I love when outsiders talk about TF, how they're "just robots". I remember my brother was very bothered by the concept of female transformers. "DO THEY REPRODUCE, WHY DO THEY NEED BOOBS, DO THEY LACTATE?!" What a fool, I say!
They do feel something. I've been thinking about the concept of TF in modern story-telling. They aren't shown as "robots" anymore but actual "living beings". I was actually thinking about how Bumblebee ripped off Rampage's arms in ROTF and his reaction.
Funny how a member of these boards with almost 4000 posts still says theyre robots and not living beings xD
Because when you're a toy company marketing toys for kids, you use a word that simply describes the product... Robots. 30 years ago Hasbro couldn't have imagined that using the word "robot" to describe "sentient" machines would actually worry some in it's contradiction. That's why.
I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but I think in the movieverse at least feeling pain is optional. If you've ever read The Veiled Threat there is a part where after a fight in Peru Longarm's middle finger is like completely bent over backwards, and Epps or Knockout (I can't remember which) asks him if it hurts and Longarm says it did, but he just turned off the pain receptors in his hand.
