What is your Transformers head canon? (G1-TFA & RB)

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  1. SG_DJ_Vaporwave

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    More movieverse headcanon

    - Barricade's voice changes (DS game, 2007 movie,TLK) a lot because of the damage he took in the prequel comics. It damaged his vocal processor but not to the extent of Bumblebee.

    - Bonecrusher was a Constructicon and could combine with the Devastator combiner. He could be a full arm but with his death Hightower and Scrapmetal drones had to take his place.

    - Bruticus exists in the movie universe. The Onslaught we saw in TLK was not THE Onslaught though. TLK Onslaught was a fan of his. The actual Onslaught is still traveling the universe with his combaticons (besides Brawl). The team consists of Onslaught, Hailstorm, Vortex, Jetstorm and Swindle.

    - After the 07 Movie the bots created by the Allspark were very confused. Bumblebee counseled most of them and had them join the Autobots.

    - Cliffjumper is Bumblebee's twin brother and is alive. He is trying to get to Earth still to reunite with him. Cliffjumper is also a Wrecker.

    - All known Movieverse Wreckers include
    - Roadbuster
    - Topspin
    - Leadfoot
    - Seaspray
    - Powerglide
    - Cliffjumper
    - Crosshairs
    - Hound
    - Impactor
    - Tomahawk
    - Stratosphere
     
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    I wish we had gotten the monstrosity that is Stratosphere in a movie.
     
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    You sir, gave me idea.
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    Shockwave's own specialized team of Seekers known as "The Rainmakers" consists of Acid Storm, who is able to create clouds of powerful acidic rain, Sunstorm, who utilizes immense heat and fire to disrupt and even melt most metals and lastly Hailstorm, who specializes in using ice to create damaging hail and can freeze upon contact. If Hailstorm uses her abilities alongside Acid Storm they can create a pretty devastating and damaging weather pattern.

    All three of them were just plain seekers until Shockwave augmented their bodies and made them better.
     
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    Rumble and Frenzy are both blue and red. As a prank/confusion tactic in battle, they switch out the different-colored armor plates.
     
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    One day during the early years on Cybertron, the 13 primes convened in counsel. To the eventual return of the Chaos Bringer himself, Future threats that The Covenant of Primus foretells, and the future of the ever growing population of the primitive Cybertronians after they are gone. In much debate a plan was hatched. A new Prime to lead the people and vanquish the Chaos Bringer himself. In addition to the Omega Lock, a new weapon was planned and constructed. The Scepter of Sparks. But to power it was the problem. While the Matrix was created by Primus Solus could only get the Scepter could only carry 2/13 of the mighty power bestowed to the 13. Several attempts were made but to no avail.
    Micronus brought in 13 of his children of Minicons to be given some of the power of the 13 so as time went the power would grow until the time came for its use. Nexus, Alchemist and Solus would modify these small bots to be able to hold such power and transmit the power to another Cybertronian when needed. The Scepter was altered again to accommodate 4 of these new Prime Masters. Of course it was a far cry from the final product but a significant improvement.
    Quintus would create a central hub that all the PM power would centralize their power. This would become the Halo of Primus. With the help of Onyx a mighty Throne would be made to hold the Hubs immense power it will carry. For some reason Onyx insisted on a head dress to accompany the Scepter to aide a mental connection to it. Prima was against it saying the Matrix is just as good as a fancy bucket. Onyx won the argument.
    While the others where working on this plan Liege Maximo skulked in the dark hatching a plan to make this power his. He would set events into motion to have Megatronus distract his fellow Primes and take the power to himself.
    With Vector's ability to open portals, Alpha Trion would use his ability with The Covenant of Primus to create a path for this new Prime to receive the grand power to save the Universe from the ever growing Darkness in the distant future.
    After the preparations are done and the power transfer was complete to the 13 PM Liege Maximo new the time was right to set his plan into motion.
    Solus was in the works of creating a new Scepter that could hold 7 of the PM, until interrupted by Megatronus that would lead to her death.
    During the fight of what would be called The War of the Primes, Vector an Alpha Trion would catch wind of Liege Maximo true motives and take the Throne of the Primes and Prime Masters and hurrelled them into a time portal to where only The Covenant of Primus held the clues.
    Even though it looked like Liege Maximo may have died during the battle this would not be the end of Liege Maximo's ambitions or Legacy.
     
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    Mine is that all the Transformers have a set robot mode size that is unchangeable, but Teletraan 1 simply forced their alt modes to fit in whatever way - Megatron and Soundwave are simply the most extreme examples. The Seekers, for example, grow much larger as they turn into plane mode. At a stroke, this piece of headcanon eliminates robot mode scale issues amongst the toys. Made me happy, anyway.

    Oh, also, Cybertron is tiny.
     
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    My own belief is that the mind of a combiner is made up of the team's minds, with the leader being more or less the dominant "core". So basically the leader's own personality forms the base of the combiner's. The minds obviously need to work to merge correctly, which is what leads to the problems previously discussed. This would explain, say, Superion shutting out the rest of the Air team. Silverbolt already has the Superion personality in him, simply as a result of shutting out the others' minds. And it is the effort and concentration that takes to shut them out that basically makes Superion's personailty from Silverbolt's: he is simply Silverbolt acting in a simplified manner due to blocking the rest of the team.

    I do think its also possible, as with Predaking and the Seacons, that the gestalt mind comes together so well that the combined mind could develop into a new personality, which evidence does seem to indicate. But it would be in essence a group spilt personality. And if the Seacons are to be believed, it is possible the alternate persona could become dominant.
     
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    I do not know if this is already in here, but I had an idea about combiners. There are the usual five member teams or even three at the lowest, but those teams are considered artificially created. There are combiner duos, and these teams are actually rare, to the point of being mythical. But once they were even more numerous than the artificial combiners.

    These combiners could match an artificial combiner in power, while not taking as many Cybertronians to create. The combined duos were naturally created, but when the war broke out, these combiner teams broke up, even going as far as to remove any and all compatible parts with their combined partner. Thus, the combiner duos faded and became a myth. They did this to avoid being dragged into the war because they were aware of just how devastating their power was.

    However, combiner duos continued to be created, but they never met up with their respective combiner partner. As such, these Cybertronians are considered nonexistent. Or they were...until a duo of these combiners came into contact with one another, and thus, the combined duos were found out about once more.

    Shockwave, having heard of the combiner duos, wanted to try to recreate that power, and thus, began the combiner experiment/project. He was able to create combiners, but there had to be more than two in order to match a combiner duo in power. The missing link for that was never found, but it didn’t matter, because the combiner project was a success.

    So began the Combiner Wars.
     
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    All Cybertronians have real names, but nearly all of them take nicknames. The exception is Orion Pax.

    Orion Pax’s nickname is Rollout for his constant repetition of the phrase. He doesn’t like it, though.
     
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    This is generally canon, a lot of continuities explicitly mention that the names we know the Transformers by are codenames
     
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    Ah... but what about Pax as Rollout?

    Anything about that?
     
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    I always thought this made sense. As alien machines they likely speak in binary or some version of it and their names would he so hard/impossible for us to pronounce that we get these nicknames. Barring possibly Optimus and Megatron as I cant think of any real world use of those words. Perhaps simplifications of the actual name
     
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    Roadbuster's hologram/holomatter avatar is the Doom Slayer. Similarly, Quake's is the Quake marine.
     
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    Longitudinalwave A Big Fan of (Sound/Shock)wave

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    This would be really interesting, actually, especially for the reactions of the various Autobots (and potentially Decepticons). I imagine younger Autobots like Bumblebee, who idolize Optimus, would be horrified that the future doesn't see him as the paragon that they do, that guys like Ironhide and Ratchet, who are close friends with Optimus, would be furious that he's being slandered or insulted (Ironhide would probably try punching some of the future guys into changing their minds), and the Decepticons would either be incredulous that "that idealistic fool" wasn't remembered as such or endlessly amused by the whole situation.

    A lot of these are combiner-related; some of these probably came from osmosis:
    -I tend to think of the Stunticons and Aerialbots as brothers; similarly, I assume that all of the Combaticons (bar Blast Off, who was probably from a higher social class) are brothers and that at least some of the Protectobots are brothers as well. The Constructicons I usually think of as coworkers instead.
    -At least as far as the G1 cartoon is concerned, I tend to assume that the Protectobots came from Cybertron rather than being built on Earth, both to contrast them from the Aerialbots and because they never got an origin episode.
    -The idea that Starscream had some sort of political clout on Cybertron prior to the war is interesting to me; I tend to make him a high-ranking political figure in Vos (an idea that probably originally came from the UK story "State Games").
    -I usually make Prowl and Jazz police officers and partners before the war, mainly because that would make for a great buddy cop dynamic.
    -I think of Hound as a mapmaker before the war (based on a line from his bio).
     
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    By the time of the Beast era, Cybertron under the Maximals and Predacons, has been in a state of political isolation from the rest of the galaxy such as the humans and other races encountered during the Great War. Cybetron's contact with the rest of the galaxy mainly being colonizing and exploring uncharted parts of space. This is why when Megatron took over the planet in Beast Machines no other species bothered to go check on why the planet went dark.
     
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    Sunbow cartoon: The Susanna Hoffs song 'Wishing on Telstar' was a huge hit for the ex-Bangle, a not-small part of that due to the Autobots really liking the song.

     
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    I've got a few!
    • Soundwave and Shockwave are brothers (Shockwave is the older one).
    • With Megatron asleep on Earth and the Autobot resistance in full retreat on Cybertron, Shockwave began conducting increasingly bizarre science experiments to alleviate his boredom. That's why he thought the female Autobots were extinct.
    • Deathsaurus was created by Shockwave during the four million year gap.
    • Starscream was a student of Shockwave and believes he has surpassed his teacher in every way.
    • The Seekers are clones made by Starscream who were given false memories so that they believe they willingly chose to join the Seekers and adopt Starscream's body-type. Thundercracker's false memories are starting to break down and now he's not sure what's real anymore.
    • Starscream's disdain for Megatron stems from his sense of intellectual elitism. Since the miner-turned-gladiator Megatron probably has very little formal education, Starscream views Megs as an intellectual inferior unfit to give orders to an obvious intellectual powerhouse such as himself.
    • Additionally, pre-war Tarn was in the Cybertronian equivalent of the Rust Belt.
    • The Season 2 Autobots were originally stored in archaic versions of stasis pods until Optimus decided they weren't leaving Earth anytime soon and might as well get everyone settled in.
    • The Terrorcons and Sea Terrorcons (commonly abbreviated as Seacons) were created by the Quintessons with the intention of being a mass-produced replacement for the Sharkticons and Allicons. The Terrorcons sent to the Decepticons were done so as part of a field test to work out any bugs in their programming.
    • Starscream's appearance in Beast Wars was, for him, set between his death in the Movie and his reappearance in Starscream's Ghost.
    • The Maximals and Predacons are directly descended from Autobot and Decepticon Micromasters.
     
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    This makes a lot of sense, actually.
     
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    After getting ER Ironworks, I’m head canoning him to be an ancient cybertronian who existed before transformation technology existed. He was knocked offline in some kind of industrial accident and lost for millennia. Now found and brought back online, his personality matrix is too old to be compatible with current forms so he has to retain his original body.
     
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