Why did Orion Pax have a girlfriend in the G1 cartoon?

Discussion in 'Transformers General Discussion' started by Nelomaxwell, Dec 25, 2018.

  1. Primeultra

    Primeultra Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 26, 2017
    Posts:
    9,964
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +6,858
    Not a fix for you

    Your words were right, but didn’t Specify the G1 cartoon, so I echoed your words with the only alteration being to specify the G1 cartoon
     
  2. pilot00

    pilot00 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 17, 2017
    Posts:
    10,526
    Trophy Points:
    272
    Location:
    Athens Greece
    Likes:
    +9,576
    In the 80s cartoons, most of the protagonists had to have a girlfriend and eventually down the series a son. Family values and all that.

    Thankfully, they came around this idea with filling the role with Spike eventually.
     
  3. TheWarPathGuy

    TheWarPathGuy Tougher than Leather.

    Joined:
    Jul 21, 2018
    Posts:
    6,223
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Location:
    Illinois, Chicago
    Likes:
    +7,457
    I don't get why a robotic race has genders cause they are robots. Yes they go by male and female pronouns for some reason. They don't reproduce, they lack private areas, and can be transgender somehow (in the IDW G1 continuity.)

    Maybe Elita-One is just a really close friends with Orion and really care deeply about each other.

    Also I don't believe it was to sell toys. Mainly cause the original G1 toyline (to my knowledge.) had no females.

    As for the aging thing I think Transformers age mentally.
     
  4. TheWarPathGuy

    TheWarPathGuy Tougher than Leather.

    Joined:
    Jul 21, 2018
    Posts:
    6,223
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Location:
    Illinois, Chicago
    Likes:
    +7,457
    Guys can we stop arguing about a fictional robot's partner? Can we all be nice and not make overly aggressive counter arguments?
     
  5. G1Prowl

    G1Prowl Prick, apparently

    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2008
    Posts:
    14,036
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    Monticello, IN
    Likes:
    +11,877
    ALL club and Botcon fiction should be ignored. These are the no talent hacks that had an army of Nightbirds take out Daniel and Wheelie. What's more ridiculous: the fact that an Daniel and Wheelie were such a threat to the mythos that they needed to be wiped out with an army of robot tittie ninjas, or the fact that it TOOK an army of robot tittie ninjas to wipe out Wheelie and Daniel?
     
    • Like Like x 2
  6. Haywired

    Haywired Hakunamatatacon

    Joined:
    Jun 17, 2014
    Posts:
    9,019
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +12,909

    I'm EXTREMELY purist about what I consider an actual G1. If it's a modern continuation or reboot made after the first run of the franchise was concluded then it is not G1 to me. No matter the marketing spiel about it, trying to call it G1 will always fall on my deaf ears.

    Trying to fool me into calling Dreamwave, ReGeneration One or the OldIDW a "G1" sounds as empty and illogical as would be putting any of the Reinassance or XIX century artists in the same category with actual Ancient artists they were emulating.

    It just doesn't work. Things might be heavily inspired by G1, but one can't enter the same effin river twice...


    FunPub and ANY other coda written afterwards simply don't count for me.
     
    • Like Like x 1
  7. G1Prowl

    G1Prowl Prick, apparently

    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2008
    Posts:
    14,036
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    Monticello, IN
    Likes:
    +11,877
    Eh, with my indoctrination into the multiverse via DC and Marvel, I just view every TF iteration as an alternate reality, pure and simple. It's like the new Abrams-Trek films. I have no qualms calling them TOS as they were obviously made in that same vein. Discovery, on the other hand...
     
    • Like Like x 1
  8. Jhiaxus

    Jhiaxus Liege Centuro

    Joined:
    Mar 28, 2003
    Posts:
    2,373
    Trophy Points:
    307
    Location:
    Chesapeake, WV
    Likes:
    +1,744
    Ebay:
    Why did Orion Pax have a girlfriend? Cause she was a hot piece of ass, that's why!
     
    • Like Like x 5
  9. Haywired

    Haywired Hakunamatatacon

    Joined:
    Jun 17, 2014
    Posts:
    9,019
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +12,909
    Them mechs always fall for the pink shades of them body plates.

    It's a Cybertronian equivalent of dressing sexy.
     
    • Like Like x 4
  10. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

    Joined:
    Sep 28, 2013
    Posts:
    25,385
    News Credits:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    California
    Likes:
    +40,795

    Bah! Your just upset because the robot tiddy ninjas didn't let you get your blackbelt early.


    ;) 
     
  11. G1Prowl

    G1Prowl Prick, apparently

    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2008
    Posts:
    14,036
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    Monticello, IN
    Likes:
    +11,877
    Nah, I don't get wound up over robot tittie ninjas.

    Now, robot maids...

    981394-dorothycap001.jpg
     
    • Like Like x 1
  12. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

    Joined:
    Sep 28, 2013
    Posts:
    25,385
    News Credits:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    California
    Likes:
    +40,795

    :rolleyes2  :lol 
     
  13. G1Prowl

    G1Prowl Prick, apparently

    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2008
    Posts:
    14,036
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Location:
    Monticello, IN
    Likes:
    +11,877
    R. Dorothy is love, R. Dorothy is life.
     
  14. Soundwaver

    Soundwaver Banned

    Joined:
    Jul 15, 2018
    Posts:
    834
    Trophy Points:
    137
    Likes:
    +438
    Well Wheelie had parents ( he could've been built, but we never saw a childbot being built), so maybe they can and do mate, but most don't. Also they're not just robots, but living beings too. Earth robots are genderless, but these aren't Earth bots.
     
    Last edited: Dec 31, 2018
    • Like Like x 2
  15. Soundwaver

    Soundwaver Banned

    Joined:
    Jul 15, 2018
    Posts:
    834
    Trophy Points:
    137
    Likes:
    +438
    Wouldn't mind that and like the idea, unlike some fans, I don't mind them having kids. They're mechoids, but not of Earth. They're not Earth bots and unlike Earth bots are life forms. They're living beings. Also they don't need to have sex/have sex the way we do and go through pregnancy/lay eggs to have kids. I never see why some fans have a problem with this. Again, just because our robots can't or don't have kids doesn't mean they can't or shouldn't. Also them having kids isn't a human thing. There's no universal law that states that only organic life forms can have a family/childern. This type of mindset really piss me off. To me them having kids makes them alien because our bots can't have kids. However that would also make them human, but that can be fix by not having kids the same way we do. Also it depends on whatever they're metallic organism or just robot with feelings. If they're organism, then them having kids shouldn't bat an eye because they're not robots, but alien metallic organism. Heck Data built his kid as an adult. I can't see why it can't be like that


    Ps. I know you was joking.
     
    Last edited: Jan 1, 2019
    • Like Like x 2
  16. Primeultra

    Primeultra Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 26, 2017
    Posts:
    9,964
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +6,858
    They never said Wheelie had parents in the cartoon

    You should specify continuities

    Or they were programmed for life with a simulated intelegence

    Again this is specified which continuity
     
  17. Soundwaver

    Soundwaver Banned

    Joined:
    Jul 15, 2018
    Posts:
    834
    Trophy Points:
    137
    Likes:
    +438
    It was in a storybook called Wheelie, The Wildboy of Quintessa and yes the book is canon. Anything publish under Hasbro or Takra is canon.

    Also in some contintuies they're living beings and some they're just AI, highly evolved ones, but still AI.
     
  18. Primeultra

    Primeultra Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 26, 2017
    Posts:
    9,964
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +6,858
    I know about the book and I know it’s a Canon....and part of a different continuity then the G1 cartoon

    like I said before....The G1 cartoon never said Wherlie had parents
    Exactly why I suggested you should specify Continuities
     
  19. NaCl

    NaCl Fry cook

    Joined:
    Sep 13, 2017
    Posts:
    499
    Trophy Points:
    142
    Location:
    Arkansas
    Likes:
    +679
    I'unno. Why does Alpha Trion have a beard? Why doesn't Optimus realize Elita-1 is clearly Ariel?
     
  20. Primeultra

    Primeultra Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 26, 2017
    Posts:
    9,964
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +6,858
    because he doesn’t shave

    What makes you think he didn’t?

    Nothing in the cartoon gave any indication that Optimus didn’t know?

    Or are you talking about IDW or something else?
     
    • Like Like x 4