I need to go curl up and cry somewhere

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Life hack! if you don't want to give paramount any money for being zionist scum, but absolutely have to spend some cash on movie tickets for whatever reason, you can just take a page out of the playbook of that one guy who watched morbius like 20 times and simply buy a movie ticked for a different movie but go into the room that screens tf one���

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I absolutely love this direct parallel. Thundercracker is always such an interesting character when he's portrayed like this - he's loyal to the Decepticon cause, but not interested in wanton destruction and death the way many other Decepticons are. He pities small weak things and finds no entertainment or honour in killing them unless he absolutely has to.

It's going to be fun seeing how his reluctance to kill for the crime of being small affects his relationships with some of the most brutal Decepticons we've seen.

(what more can i say?)

ELITAAAAAAAAA SHE LOOKS SO GOOD YALL

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While I have reservations about Transformers one (seconding thoughts on Bee, not sure how they'll balance humor with a rebellion storyline), if nothing else it'll be a visual treat. Cybertron looks AMAZING and it's clear they put a lot of effort into that. Also, Elita better live.

Thought it's nice to see everyone screaming and supporting each other in this.

Oh it's GORGEOUS for sure, there's a reason why the top post of the TF: ONE tag is the one with all those screenshots of the landscapes we see in the trailer, and I LOVE how much care seems to be put into all the visual elements. If the movie turns out to be subpar, at the very least I think it can be safely said that it's ABSOLUTELY going to inspire plenty of TF worldbuilding desires

Also hard agree on Elita. She DESERVES this spotlight, and if they do anything to screw her over then I'll be absolutely pissed

And YEAAAH it's nice that we have something to all freak out over! The movie naturally isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea (no movie exists that caters to all, especially fans of a franchise), but it's awesome that we all get something this big to speculate over and talk about! It's the first animated theatrical film in decades! We've been WAITING for something like this!

elita one in transfomers one thank you for everything we elita fans are eating good

shes so pretty!!! her little cat ears and antennas <33

Behold…

✨WORLDBUILDING✨

Excuse me as I go insane over the fact that Cybertron is an inorganic-organic hybrid planet

Been thinkin bout popcorn bucket Oppy ;__;

Lmao glad to see I’m not the only one who thought “this could have been hot rod” the second they showed bee, granted I thought that too with beasts mirage but still- give me my stupid orange idiot

I only reason I can imagine why nobody would ever consider Hot Rod for the comedic relief role is because I don't think Hot Rod's public perception has EVER recovered from how he was used in any of the theatrical TF movies. From what I've gathered from outsiders, very little people pay attention to transformers aside from the movies, and considering how Hot Rod's only roles in them has been Optimus's Replacement (who got that role after the brutal g1 character slaughter which traumatized children. He's still awesome in that movie, I just don't think a lot of non-big tf fans really moved past that) and French, it probably makes marketing sense that nobody wants to fuck with him again.

Even though Hot Rod would've made sense more personality-wise for Mirage's role, I can probably get why they chose to make him Mirage. We all know that transformers has a history with reconstructing existing characters and also giving lesser-used names to characters who really aren't the same person (I love ROTB Mirage but that man is NOT g1 Mirage), and there aren't many non-tf-fan people who will know who Mirage actually is (and considering how bayverse Mirage isn't even named Mirage? Yeah, they were probably looking for a character name that hadn't been used in Bayverse yet. Personally I think we should sever Knightverse's connections to Bayverse), so they just kinda fuck-it-we-balled it.

But then that just makes the choice to make Bee fill the comedic role for TF: One even more confusing. Bee is one of the most popular characters in Transformers history (along with Optimus, Megatron, and Starscream), and has a STRONGLY set personality. He's a bit of a wisecracker at times, yeah, but the core of his character was more connected to the emotional side of things rather than comedic. He's connected with humans, he's gentle, he holds his friendships so strongly, he's actually a lot more disgruntled and upset at times than some people give him credit for. Bee's always been the friendly one, but his friendliness isn't really displayed in constant joking, but rather through the physical and emotional ways he shows his care. The fun part about Hot Rod and Bee's dynamic (that we rarely get to see unfortunately) is how they can both be on a similar page of amusement, but in different flavors. Hot Rod IS the more louder and outspoken one of the two, if anyone's initiating wisecracks, it's HIM (if it makes sense this way, Bee's energy feels rounded and bouncy, while Hot Rod's feels sharp and bold).

I don't want to doubt the writers' personal history in transformers outside of what they've publicly done for the franchise (The Last Knight is something I personally would be ashamed of having on my resume), because sometimes what you publicly do doesn't exactly equate to your passion or care, but it does make me wonder how much experience they have with these characters individually.

It could also be the age-old case of Hollywood going "make it marketable as shit" so they go the route of "we need to fill these character roles with the classic group dynamic: main character, best friend, the funny one, and girl" and they just went with who were the most marketable faces.

All-in-all, it's a confusing-ass choice to just NOT include Hot Rod if you need comedic relief, and also make Bumblebee something he's not. Unless they subvert expectations in some way with him, it feels like they could've used anyone else and it would make more sense.

Bee movie Megatron that lives rent free in my mind <3