Does Thanos kill a Robot? this is a just fun.

 

TFs don't exist in that universe, so no.

In the marvel comics universe, where there's arguably an overlap between TF and marvel superheroes, yes, since the Transformers are living beings and they inhabit the same universe, Id expect a snap would halve their numbers the same as any other alien race.

 

In Marvel universe being "alive" is along the lines "thinking and feeling", not the hard science definition. Quite a few robot and synthetic characters could be considered alive there. TFs would probably qualify as well.

 

There were Marvel Transformers crossovers back when Marvel owned the publishing rights before Transformers moved to IDW... I never read any of them so maybe there's an answer in those old Transformers Marvel comics.

 

There were a number of publishers between marvel an IDW

When Marvel first developed and published transformers comics, in the mid 80s and early 90s, there were a few “crossovers” but not really much to speak of, not like we got avengers orcxmen vrs transformers

And what we got was later explained to not taking place in the main marvel useverse

 

"You should of gone for the spark."

I dunno. Is Transformers half of the universe?

 

In the Marvel G1 universe it is very much not.

 

TFs in most universes aren't very numerous and often are on the edge of extinction because of their civil war.

 

Well hey, they already fight over energon like crazy. Maybe they would be grateful to Thanos for a little bit of population control!  

 

Except for the Marvel G2 universe. The Hub was a massive interconnected series of planets in a mech-formed galactic empire, so who knows how many G2 Decepticons there were. The Hub network was the home of Liege Maximo, progenitor of the Decepticons.

 

But it still sounded like the cybertronian empire was small compared to other stellar races in that universe, if only because the Autobots were able to be a thorn in the side of its expansion.

 

I don’t recall the G2 story ever giving us any idea on just how big the hub network was

And if you recall even in re-gen, The autobots thought the hub of that story was huge and largely populated and they found out they were wrong

 

Surely it would, unless they came up with a creative method of making them immune, which would be cool thing to play with.

Thinking about it, what if they lack the proper makeup in order for the infinity stones to 'target' them? Like how a heat-seeking missile can't target something without a heat signature. Given that they're not what you'd typically call living beings, perhaps it makes them mostly immune to the snap. It'd be more interesting than the stones just being these macguffins that surpass everything else.

It could lead to storylines approaching / discussing the idea of what it means to be sentient, and are the Cybertronians truly 'alive' or just following the programs built into them, or that they're 'born' with. These kinds of questions about machine intelligence and sentience should be the bread and butter of Transformers.

Something like that, or the stones are just all-powerful weapons that can't be stopped by anything and literally every single life-form is victim to them. Which is just terrifying.

 

Thanos isn't what happened to this guy but how often do I get to bring this epic moment up.



The crazy thing is he made a full recovery.

 

The conditions of the snap were "half the universe's population, executed at random". The Transformers, as living things, are part of that group; hence, off they go.

 

Depends on if Thanos exists in that particular Marvel Universe designation. If he did, then yes because it was half of civilization he wiped out. While whether or not Transformers are technically lifeforms can be debated, it's hard to argue that they aren't a "civilized society".

 

I gotta think that across all of the universe, life appears in many different forms, some radically different from our own, and all of them are life-forms the Gauntlet will affect. In many ways, although the Transformers are made of different material than we are, their "life" is very similar to ours, and it's the other races out there, races that are things like a super-intelligent shade of purple and bacteria, it's those weirder forms of life that are more of a question.

I'm wondering if a human escapes from the Snap, what about the millions of living things on that person? All the little guys that live in and on us, do half of those die? All the mites, all the bacteria inside us, they are all gonna be affected too, right? What about plants, because I don't remember seeing half the rainforest disappear and the ramifications of that in Infinity Gauntlet. Losing half the fish stocks in the ocean isn't going to help with the whole lack of resources thing, but that was never the original concern in the comics. Thanos was just in love with death. And Death.

 

That's why it was half of "civilization", not "lifeforms".

 

Now to think how much the Cybertronian civil war is tied into lack of resources... It's a relatively small numbered species taking a lot of it from their surroundings.

MCU Thanos wouldn't like them at all. :X

 

I suspect that End Game will make it clear that Thanos's snap only effected one universe. Since Transformers don't exist in the MCU, no, their reality is not affected. (Transformers exist in a couple of Marvel comics universes, but the MCU isn't part of any comics universe either.)