They're based on old 1950's retro sci-fi robots like Robbie from the OG Lost in Space.

I'm unfamiliar with that.

That's okay. It's really old stuff. It's the same level of silly as the original Star Trek, basically.

Indeed so is

Gezunteit
Bologne
Skidoo
Blunderbuss
Buttress

Just because I'm occasionally that guy:

Gesundheit
Bologna or informally, Baloney.

At any rate, I think weird words are apropos of a weird subject.

Thank you. I wasn't sure quite how to spell it. ^^

Kerfuffle is another one!

I like weird words.

I think the common understanding of licensing is that you make a popular thing, and then sell the rights to use that popular thing and forget about it. You can do it that way, but not many people with sense do that. I'm not going to say I'm an industry insider, but I know enough to understand that's usually not how it works.

Haha. If anything, Megatron could borrow more story beats from old Graham if you ask me. It's always how I saw IDW Megatron.

Innit tho. The mileage they could've got out of a character trying to make amends, in a universe that justifiably hates him...

But no, have some empathy cobblers instead. I wouldn't mind, but it didn't even close the character arc of him giving up tyranny.

I was happy they finally made Shockwave a legitimate threat and not the wiener he was in the G1 show or the not-very-logical (almost angry) Marvel comic Shockwave, but I definitely feel Dark Cybertron punked out at the end.

Oh absolutely. Shockwave was actually a threat. A threat that, devoid of any emotions, could justify horrendous acts. It was really cool. It's a shame it was squandered with his death.

More or less. I try not to think too hard about it. There's not a whole lot of people here that engage in any kind of literary deconstruction through no fault of their own. I'm usually just happy that I don't get "OMG OVERLORD IS COOL" or some angry weirdo that explains to me why [Segment of the Transformer Franchise] touched them improperly.

Haha. Fair enough.