Transformers What If?

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by ScientistMan, Aug 15, 2021.

  1. Leolim

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    What if Brave Maximus was Activated on Beast Wars 2?
     
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    This I can answer!

    Immediate series failure as subbed only series were niche as hell back then (And its not like they're not niche nowerdays). We wouldn't have had the market support for Unicron. No Unicron, in turn, would mean no Titan figures in this day and age

    I doubt holding off a few months would have had too much effect either way, but subs only would have been a death sentence
     
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    I dunno, I guess this is a "Pick the lesser of the two poison" situation; I've watched Micron Legend and it's a good series, but unfortunately, a show whose reputation and recognition-wise was done dirty and ruined all thanks to how the shoddy nature of the Armada dub would be what it was associated with forever.
     
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    Remember though, we're not the target market.

    Armada's fine. Its not perfect, sure, and us adults poke fun at the dub, but, we're not the target audience. Its a matter if it hit kids well and based on how well Armada sold? It did.

    If they waited a few months and did up a better job, could have been better, sure, but I don't think there'd be that much difference today.

    Now, Energon on the other hand... Though honestly I think nothing could have saved that mess
     
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    Speaking of which...

    What if the Energon dub actually bothers to include the "Return! Our Scorponok" episode of Superlink, which is actually one of the most pivotal episodes of the series that answers some questions, and resolving some plot points involving Scorponok?
     
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    Matrixbeast Here comes a thought

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    What If Counterpunch's Autobot counterpart wasn't nearby, real nearby?
     
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    What if when Optimus Prime first learned about Autobot survivors on Cybertron in the original cartoon as per the Ultimate Doom episode he learned that Arcee was the only Fembot survivor. As such, he was constantly getting flashbacks of when he left Elita 1 behind, as such the Search for Alpha Trion was essentially just a nightmare.
     
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    what if wheeljack was such a legit mad scientist that his insane and inhumane experiments on bots and inventions were more harmful to the autobots than the decepticons ever could be.
     
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    What if Black successfully controlled Brave Maximus and use to it destroy Unicron.
     
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    What if Megatron won In idw.
     
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    What if Rhinox stayed a Predacon?

    What if Dinobot never defected to the Maximals? Which we kind of saw a version of that in Kingdom.

    What if Cheetor didn't steal the TM2 Drive from the Predacons?

    What if Tigatron and Airazor weren't taken by the Vok?

    What if Depth Charge had been on the Axelon Crew?

    What if Transmutate lived?

    What if Terrorsaur had been possessed by Starscream instead of Waspinator?

    What if Tarantulas had succeeded in making Inferno another Spider?

    What if the Tripredacus Council had gone to Earth themselves instead of sending Ravage?

    What if Megatron used different sparks to create his Vehicon Generals?

    Also... just to get the Japanese Beast Wars in there... What if if the Maximals were sent on different different missions? In other words instead of Axalon vs. Darksyde we mix and match the different casts.

    Axalon vs. Galvaburg II

    Axalon vs. Dinosaur

    Yukikaze vs. Darksyde

    Gung Ho vs. Darksyde

    Yukakaze vs. Dinosaur

    Gung Ho vs. Galvaburg II

    You also gotta remember that it's not just the BW Maximals who would carry over... because all of the Predacons who weren't part of the original Darksyde crew were all on board the Axalon as well. So everyone who was on that ship would carry over. Would the same characters still be reprogrammed as Predacons? Would the protoforms even still be ejected if the Axalon never had that space fight with the Darksyde? The only characters who would likely come out the same are the original bridge crew anyone else on board would likely be very different.

    Anyway this would also mean... going by the reverse... that the Darksyde Predacons, without access to the Maximal's protoforms, how would they bulk out their ranks? Would Dinobot still defect to a different team of Maximals? Would Lio Convoy or Big Convoy take him in the same way Primal did?

    I imagine that the Predacons would still be on the same missions, traveling to the same places since they had their own self motivated goals. Megatron stealing the Golden Disk and following a map to Earth for example wouldn't change. However since the Maximals all received their orders from the Convoy Council and those orders could of been given to anyone this would be the catalyst for the ships to end up on a different course to a different planet, encountering an entirely different group of Predacons in the process.

    Although I guess Big Convoy's mission was just to find Lio Convoy after he went missing... and technically the Axalon's mission was to dispose of Protoform X so it doesn't quite work... I really just want an excuse to mix and match the different teams and see how they would interact together.
     
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    They can't be in the same Time period because 2 and neo take place 10,000 years after beast machines.
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    ask vector prime did do some official what ifs. I can remember one of them was what if Starscream's spark fused with Waspinator (i.e. transmetal Waspinator)
     
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    What if Silas and Morocco team-up?
     
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    what if the original series, the autobots were the first to be reactivated by telatraan; so basically we have the autobots stuck on earth and having to also take care of the imprisoned cons

    this image from the DW comics comes to mind lol
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    Wasn't Hearts of Steel also an official "What if...?" story anyway? Like it's basically G1 except Shockwave goes to Earth with the other Decepticons and they wake up at an earlier point in human history resulting in most of the Autobots being steam trains, Megatron being a Civil War cannon. The Seekers being Bi-planes. Ect.

    Oh... What if Optimus Prime woke up? This is going off of after BW Megatron attempt to kill Prime and change history, Rhinox repairs Prime while Primal keeps his spark safe and becomes Optimal Optimus at the same time... Well there's a second after Prime's spark was returned where it looked like he could of woken up. What if that had actually happened? Would the Autobots and Decepticons have to take beast modes to adapt to Earth in that time period? There are no vehicles for them to scan. How would they interact with the Maximals and Predacons? Of course they were trying to preserve the time line but if this were to happen it would greatly alter the future anyway. Would the Maximals and Predacons even still exist?

    There's of course a parody of this happening but it would be interesting to see an official version.
     
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    I have a few "What If" ideas for Beast Wars:

    - What if the Axalon did leave for Cybertron at the end of Victory and Optimus was stranded with the Predacons on Earth?
    - What if Rhinox wasn't successfully changed back into a Maximal at the end of Dark Designs... but was only pretending he was?
    - What if DinoBot didn't rejoin the Maximals at the end of Maximal, No more? (either didn't defy Megatron or wasn't accepted back by the Maximals)
    and one just for laughs - What if Waspinator was secretly a Prime?


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    What if Megatron had enough strength to throw Starscream out of Astrotrain, and then Starscream became Galvatron?
     
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    Um... that's already a thing... Not officially but...

    In my fan fiction Nemesis Prime actually becomes Waspinator. Changing his own programming to hide as a different Cybertronian all together. Megatron building the Thrust program on top of Waspintor who was already built on top of Nemesis Prime caused him some issues later on as he would later be renamed Headmaster due to his swapping between three heads as he switched personalities. I actually based this on Armada Sideways since Animated Blitzwing didn't exist yet when I wrote this so the active personality also takes the form of the Rider when in vehicle mode. As well as the chest insignia also switching from Decepticon, Predacon, or Vehicon depending on who's fronting.

    And yeah... I know ironic, someone who actually has DID writing a character with a fictionalized version of DID. To be fair though... they're robots who have been reprogrammed and I never personally considered it DID at the time. Didn't even occur to me that most people would confuse this for how DID works in the real world. I thought it was generally understood that most of that stuff was fake. I guess you could say, I wrote this when I had more faith in humanity.
     
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    Bee427 Still here and queer

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    Why would that already be a thing if nobody knew about it except you?
     
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