Yeah, not all of us look at toys or drawings like that. I don't sexualize anything TFs.

That being said, I like her TR toy specifically because it doesn't look inherently male or female, yet doesn't look inherently NOT male or female. It's the epitome of what Cybertronians should look like: humanoid without being overhumanized/oversexualized.

 

I don't love hypersexualized transformers in fiction, but I do love hypersexualized transformers(that actually make sense if you read into it).
i'm a nautica, road rage, elita 1 and flamewar man m'self.

 

Her name is Javelin. She's an Autobot who's a sniper.

 

Strika or Roadmaster.

Because female robots don't have to be pink, have pretty features of be stick thin.

Strika has always struck me as such a cool design, with the wheel feet, gas mask like facial design and strong accent.

IDW's Roadmaster is just a flat out awesome design.

 

i found this, courtesy of practical-leg-6633 on reddit
all I can say is that it has begun.

 

This probably accounts for about 60% of daily internet browsing.  

 

My headcannon for the Nemesis is that Tarantulas put NAVI-ko's brain inside the Nemesis and then she began making a new body for herself

Speaking of NAVI-ko.

Why not ad her to the list?
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She's way cool, love the royal color palette.

 

dum de dum de dum... oh hey, what's this? It looks like a car crash. I should look away... but I can't help myself.


In terms of looking like a good Transformer? I like Strongarm, as per her RID2005 design (not the fan art that often doesn't get it). She looks like a standard car Transformer, and isn't hypergendered. Instead, there are just some minor design points that code her as female for the audience, but functionally, she's not really different from "male" Autobots.

She also dodges a lot of stereotypes (neither pink convertible nor dainty motorcycle), and still manages to be a colourful character, while not ending up as the "caregiver" or the "bad girl" or the "manic pixie"... or even playing hard against type like some of the female bruiser TFs.

And I like that. I feel strongly that Transformers shouldn't have biological gender, and I prefer to see them as an asexual alien species that operates on an industrial-mechnical metaphor (trademarked SMOG term right there).

Of course, whether they pick up archetypes through exposure to gendered organic civilzations, or if they just happen to go with whatever pronoun humans or Nebulans or Martians throw at them is fine with me.

There have probably been some other designs here or there that also make the grade here, but I'm not thinking of them at this moment.

In terms of a more anthropomorphic and more overtly feminized design... setting aside my general objections, and some of the cringier artistic depictions... god help me, probably Nautica.​

The character became a bit of a tiresome darling, but the basic design is attractive and the head design with the visor is iconic. On the down side, other than her hover turbines, the rest of her design is admittedly not super distinctive, and her alt-mode is... vague. Still, she's more memorable than most fembot designs, so I can dig it.

Honourable mentions:


Road Rage... I care nothing for the character, but I always felt the G1 Tracks mold had a vaguely feminine quality without actually being specifically feminine, so I like that they made a fembot out of it. Maybe it's the flowing lines of the Stingray alt-mode?

Pathfinder from Gobots... one of the original fembots. My childhood favourite Gobot, well before I discovered that she was supposed to be a "female" toy robot. It made no difference... still a fave.

Dishonourable mentions:

Windblade... it's all been said before. Tawdry garbage exoticist concept, tawdry garbage exoticist execution.
Flareup... who the hell thought it was a good idea to name a robot after a herpes outbreak?

zmog

 

G1 and TFP Arcee. TFP is probably my favorite version of the character.

 

"This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."



On a serious note, I like that due to how exaggerated Animated is, you can put Clobber next to Animated Lugnut and if you line up their heads, she actually does look like what I'd imagine a female Lugnut (if Lugnut was a species and not a character) would look like.

 

It’s easy to just headcanon them as twins

 

I believe Clobber really IS Cyberverse Lugnut. The whole intention was to simply gender-swap him, and the character was still supposed to be named Lugnut until late in the process.

I actually like the name Clobber better for both iterations.

zmog

 

Override and Shatter have the coolest designs

 

Oh I'm aware of the intention, just that I prefer them being separate, because characterization wise they're complete opposites. So I just think of them as siblings.

 

I remember Lugnut being a little bit more aggro, so I guess there is a difference there. I think the more accurate way of looking at it is that they're the same character, but from alternate universes, the same way Animated Prime, G1 Prime, and Bayformers Prime are the same character... but also totally different guys.

But from a 'fanon' perspective, if you want to put them both in the same continuity, whatevs, right?  

zmog

 

Another major difference is that Lugnut is fanatically loyal to Megatron and the Decepticon cause, whereas Clobber eventually joins up with the Autobots. I'm pretty sure I read that's the reason the Cyberverse writers ended up making Clobber a "new" character (since she originally was just going to be a female Lugnut), because the character had become the polar opposite of what Lugnut typically is.