Would an Indian Transformer be acceptable?

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  1. Mudslide, Jun 22, 2014
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    I remember when Dust debuted. I think she's just crowd filler these days if drawn at all. :( 
     
  2. General Magnus, Jun 22, 2014
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  3. LegendAntihero, Jun 23, 2014
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    This is silly. Hasbro shouldn't make give make a Transformers a stereotype just so he can be an Indian.
     
  4. Ryan F, Jun 23, 2014
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    They should have a female African-American Transformer and have her voiced by my favourite Africa-American actress, Charlize Theron.
     
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    I think she's South African.
     
  6. Kraken, Jun 23, 2014
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    Ummmmm, Jetfire isn't Scottish, nor is he supposed to be Scottish. He's Mark Ryan, that's his actual voice, just bombasticated up. Mark comes from Doncaster.
     
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    Has anyone mentioned that Blades, from Rescue Bots, is voiced by an Indian-American actor - Parvesh Cheena? (If so, apologies for duplication)
     
  8. Ryan F, Jun 23, 2014
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    She has dual nationality though, right? South Africa and USA? Therefore African American.

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    I didn't know that. It would make sense if he was an Apache helicopter on the show. lol
     
  10. Aernaroth, Jun 23, 2014
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    I don't think it'd be particularly easy given the state of the brand and it's history to build a transformer who's "Indian" as a core part of their character without significant risk of falling into stereotype, but there's a lot in the way of aesthetics, both martial, religious, and/or historic, that could be very easily drawn from India to build a transformer. Doing so with other cultures/histories has been something that's been consistently done since basically the beginning of the brand, and I don't see why India couldn't be a similar source.



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