Random Transformers Thoughts

Discussion in 'Transformers General Discussion' started by Venixion, Aug 8, 2019.

  1. Windsweeper II

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    Or he could have a party with Trypticon, Scorponok, and Fortress Maximus and create a major earthquake.
     
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    As I don't consider headmasters as separate characters on my shelf, but I like the names, this is how I explain Cerebros and Emissary.
    Fort Max is so damn bored most of the time that he's gone a bit stir-crazy. So when using his smaller bodies he insists on being referred to as "Administrator Cerebros" or "the Emissary of Fortress Maximus." Sixgun and Cog were created later to keep Max and Metroplex company, wouldn't do to have an entire city go completely nuts.
     
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    On reading this, I realised that Metroplex and Fortress Maximus are what happens in Godzilla when Tokyo decides to fight back...
     
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    Maybe Shockwave should eventually have a proper face .... he's is seeking perfection etc, maybe as an ultimate super form?????
     
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    Maybe Sixgun functions the same way as Cerebros, allowing Plex to take to the skies in order to monitor himself. After all, if Metroplex is about the size of a couple city blocks, it wouldn't be too hard for him to monitor it all.
     
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    . Does anyone actually like Bayverse Jazz and Ratchet for reasons that have anything to do with the movies?
    I don't remember them doing much.
     
  7. Venixion

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    Why are some toys too tight and others loose limbed right outta the package?
     
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    Because they're made of plastic and Transformers have been stretching the practical limits of plastic molds for decades now?
     
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    This makes a whole lot of sense. I imagine the titans are analogous to the Ents from LOTR: big, slow, unthinkably ancient beings who perceive time in terms of whole ages rather than mere moments.
     
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    I like the Conehead head design better than the standard Starscream-style Seeker head design - it fits better with the jet mode, in my opinion.
     
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    Did the Autobots not help Prime in the forest (RotF), because on some level, they remembered Hotrod getting blamed for getting Prime killed back in 2005(86 film)?

    They didn't want to get shunned by the fandom for killing Prime like Hotrod?
     
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    :lol 
     
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    I respect your opinion, but I can't agree, I've always hated the coneheaded look. I do however love that they have different specialised jet modes, to differentiate them from each other and the original trio. Kinda wish the original trio had more molded differences actually.
     
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    The more I think about the Animated Autobots, they resemble the Titans from Zeta Gundam; Both the Titans and some of the Animated Autobots like Sentinel Prime have an originally noble goal of wanting to defending their homeworld (The Titans want to defend the Earth Federation from Zeon supporters, Animated Autobots want to defend Cybertron from Decepticon criminals).

    But over time, both become more corrupted and rogue over time, even utilizing immoral techniques in their attempts to win the war (The Titans unleashed deadly poison gas on a colony to stop a riot which kill everyone in the colony, the Animated Autobots create the Safeguard and Omega Supreme).
     
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    Cliffjumper Least insane TF fan

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    Why does generations exist?
     
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    I thought this Conjunx Endura thing in IDW. Was going to be alot more scifi and more alein.

    I really thought this was going to explain groups. And combiner teams. And the closer characters grew towards each other they started to share colors.

    Predacons. Technobot. Alot of the micromadter portal teams. Insecticons.

    And show even though the stunticons were a team they didnt actully like each other.

    And how robots from spaces bond in groups rather than just binary pairs. Sure some could just be a pair. But I was hoping they'd explain "teams". And chrome dome and rewind where just a starting team.

    Also even when it was clear it wasnt that. Still felt like it was a rae thing. But by the end of idw everyone was conjunxing some Enduras. That one with acree was out of no where.

    Kind of a shame it was just "dating" in the end. Felt forced and kind of a waste.
     
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    Couldn't agree more.
    Conjux Endera could have been an amazing piece of world building if it did all the things you expected.
    Instead it turned out to be a cringey playschool imitation of adult relationships.

    Why the hell would you portray Transformers in boring humanized binary pair relationships when you can be creative and explain the combiner teams etc as romantic relationships or some kind of family bond?

    And that's exactly what is wrong with Transformers fiction. Roberts has been one of the best otherwise, but most writers employed on Transformers haven't got a grain of imagination in their body and just do all the obvious things. The current IDW stories are a Prime example of that.
    Apart from a few tweaks I can't even tell the difference between them and the old Barber/Scott books.
     
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    Why do Transformers speak English as their common language?

    Well in terms of friendship we have the Amica Endura, which I guess counts as brotherhood in a way. Maybe the combiners were all Amica Endura.
     
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    Maybe. But it would have been way more interesting to use those relationships as the basis of romantic relationships in Transformers than to just humanize them again.
     
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    So we are able to easily watch it. ^^;
    There some points of realisium that some people have problems with. But really would make awkward media to watch. Yea they could add a line in about how their translating it or something.I think that was a small point in the bumblebee movie? But. Does that add anything to the story?
    Yeah I guess? It kind of was? But it wasnt stated and I wish was just expanded on much more.
     
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