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

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  1. SaberPrime

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    Why there's no reason to bump it. Just let it die unless you actually have something to add to the conversation.
     
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    The Sunbow cartoon had a lot of contradictory stuff going on. That said, the reason Prime had a girlfriend is because gender was built into the genetic makeup by the Quintessons. It didn't bother me that the relationship was included. It would've been a bit weird if it had happened in the Marvel comic, though.
     
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    Thanks for your input.
     
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    I like to do things in the open. But noted.
     
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    Having his response on here is hunky dory, posting repeatedly including bumps just to try to fish for a response from him is not. THAT was my point, not to hide the discussion at hand.
     
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    Thank you for finally making that plain. Appreciated.
     
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    No argument there, however in an ironic twist, they kinda got that wish with Beast Era, and (more pleasing to them) the Cybertron Games

    which bodes a little too true for one horny human named Michael

    Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhm What???
     
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    There was no genetic makeup, they were assembly line products and the notion of CNA was expanded and introduced wayyyyyyyyy later than the Sunbow. :) 

    But if we want to speculate, since those were sold to various places in the galaxy and we know that there are several races with anthropomorphic characteristics, I will bring up an opinion of a friend: If you want to sell a product to someone it has to appeal to them. Since most of the galaxy's denizens have such characteristics, introducing them into the product might have been a marketing thing.
     
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    Good point.
     
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    Maybe they were saving teasing the girlfriend thing for more backstory for Orion Pax?
     
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    It's a canon fact that Ariel got rebuilt into Elita-1, who was introduced earlier in the series.
     
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    And stated in the episode itself.
     
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    But from what I understand, not the original intent
     
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    With all this talk of gender, at first I read that as "they kinda got that with the BREAST era" and had to re-read it :lolol 
     
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    Not the original intent of what?
     
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    That Aerial became Elita
     
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    It was absolutely the intent. There's no uncertainty about it.