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cinderoo · 1 year
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transformers anime girls!
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dragonskulls · 1 year
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ok but what if instead of being a bobots they were a kitty cats 🤯
ok so um. yeah. basically tfp warrior cats au of an au (im changing events too here fuck canon; as well as some characterizations). i'll designing the other characters too and maybe give bits of the story im giving it. giggles. Also i haven't read warriors in years i only got to half of the second arc lmao
but anyways this is still on early construction but what i have is that there was this massive as shit colony of cats living in a huge ass territory and idk there was something like the inequality in canon (i haven't read the Aligned books so im making this up on the fly) and yadda yadda war happens tons of cats leave even more die and the territories get ravaged, probably there was a wildfire that was the final nail on the coffin for the old territories (cybertron). The main story would take place in a run down abandoned city where resources are very scarce (which would be earth, also humans sorta disappear here lol) where the brightsparks (autobots) are hiding from the shatterclaws (decepticons) while looking for ways to restore the old territories as well as a stronger connection with Goldenspark (primus) and instead of tech maybe its like,,, starclan magic or something lmao. the humans are mini rats here and are in danger from the shatterclaws just like, killing them or something idk (also also the humans here are NOT up to scale they'd be a bit smaller compared to the drawings here). so some quick stuff:
-shriekingsky is starscream (i wouldve kept the original name but it wouldve ended up being Starstar) who's the traitorous deputy of the shatteredclaws
-shatteredstar is megatron. no one likes him. he made a pact with the devil (unicron for whom i have yet to come up with a name) in an attempt to use the dead souls in the dark forest as pawns for his faction or something and also to get the nine lives (but evil and fucked up)
-crimsonstrike is knockout. medic of the shatteredclaws and while being on their side isn't particularly loyal to shatteredstar. he and shriekingsky were the equivalent of highschool mean girls as apprentices bc i thought that would be funny
-brokenstone is breakdown. originally part of the brightsparks, but something something happened that made him not really trust them anymore, that plus probably crimsonstrike accidentally helping him out caused him to switch sides
-owlglare is ratchet. goofy ass eyebrows. really REALLY wants to restore the old territories, which causes some slight conflict with the others who also want to protect the city (bc of the mice as well as other rogue cats i dont know yet)
-sparkstar is optimus. god damn i struggled so bad with his design. you know him.
-bumblepaw is bumblebee i couldnt bring myself to change his name. he's a baby sparkstar found in the trash. like in canon he wants to get his warrior name back home so hes keeping the apprentice one for now
-the rats the humans. most of the population dont know about the cats and if they did they'd probably panic a whole lot. these had me looking up rat color morphs
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flipperbee · 4 months
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Bots id like to see in Earthspark and why
(Ratchet, Drift, First Aid, Cliffjumper, Rodimus, Tarn, Perceptor, Brainstorm, Thunderclash, Ultra Magnus)
Ratchet - he is the Autobot CMO, and close friend of Optimus, of COURSE he has to appear. A transformers serie (not based on a specific bot) without Ratchet would be sad. He has to appear and have a correct amount of screentime du to his high place (CMO and for the fans).
Drift/Deadlock - (A) Drift would (1) be there after the appearance of Ratchet bc he finally found him and they reveal being conjunx but lost bc of arriving on Earth (2) arrives with Ratchet and they are open about the fact being conjunx (3) love story between Ratchet and him where we see them fall in love and go through the Conjunx Ritus. I let a cgance that he would arrive with Perceptor bc the two of them are very good amica and wanted both find Optimus/Ratchet. (B) Deadlock would be there as a fierce Decepticon under Shockwave and Soundwave command (certainly not Starscream, he would never listen to him). He finds Ratchet and tries first to turn him into a Decepticon, then try to seduce him (it works) but them realise his life was empty without his medic, so he shares that with him and turn into an Autobot.
First Aid - Ratchet needed an assistant and First Aid was the first to come. He would heal Thunderclash after a big fight (see below, i explain more) and Ratchet gives him a best post instead of being a nurse. First Aid would actually be wayyy more skillfull than what people thought of him. It is due to his time with Pharma (only mention of Pharma).
Cliffjumper - c'mon, the guy must be COMPLETLY different from Bumblebee but bc he has horns just like him, people always misname him. And bc he is very brave, he would always be protective around the Malto family. He would assist Perceptor and Brainstorm to determin if the All Spark made its way to Cybertron (don't ask me why, i just see him being very worried about his home planet and make sure its okay).
Rodimus/Hot Rod - he is the successor to the Matrix. He is under Optimus's commandment and was needed on Earth to deal with new Decepticons. He has a very very hard time with ES Megatron. The guy is evil ! We must defend Earth!! But slowly see how Megatron has changed and is always polite and (that helps Roddy to accept him) is very kind towards the Maltos. He calls Twitch little bird, hold their hands, explain very calmly and has patience. So he decides to know him better and actually has a great time. He also meet the Maltos and is absolutely found of them, especially Alex. They go fishing, Wak Wak hunting, hike and he learns a lot about Earth's differents cultur (he would also talk a lot with Bumblebee and they would have a great time together, learning by Alex's sides). And this is important bc of the Matrix, that would be why it has choose him. He is kind, brave, has a great spark (he gives gifts all the time) and love to learn and has a good knowledge of cybertronian/human cultur. He would also be there with Drift and we would assist at their bromance where Rodimus actually act like a real bro and Drift doesn't praise him only for being a Prime. They have a healthy relationship.
Tarn/DJD - he is there bc of Drift. His name was the next on the list. He would not be defeated, but would absolutly come back. He plays with everyone and wants to use the humans to make them handle Drift. I don't see him being defeated at all. He would just at a certain point leave but is ready to come back. He would go see Pharma (i don't see him in Earthspark even tho i LOVE Pharma, i can't see how they would do his design and recreate his personnality- so sorry, only mention of Pharma) for T-Cogs bc he is bored.
Perceptor - will try to see if the All Spark is safe or not with the broken portal with Brainstorm, his soon to be Conjunx (Simpatico, my adored uncles). He would also learn about humans and adore Mo for being so kind, helpfull, calm and smart little girl. He would also work to give Humanformers !!! I absolutely need to see their human avatars!!!
Brainstorm - assist Perceptor his their research about the All Spark and would actually manage to locate it!! He would also discover a lot more, including travel in time is possible ! We would not see him work on his time machine, but he would talk about the past and mention of Quark. Stormy would LOVE Nightshade and become a bit of a bad influence on them. He would, with Percy, teach them about cybertronian sciences and technology.
Thunderclash - rival of Rodimus/Hot Rod in terms of popularity and successor for the Matrix. He has so much charisma. He actually likes Rodimus, and try to have something with him (I don't specially ship them, i just like the dynamic of a lover/shy jealous hater-but-i-love-you-but-URGH-i-hate-you-but-ur-sooo-my-type), and Roddy would see how bots around wish to have such attention, he would feel flattered and plays with that. They play a game together and end up being close, but Thunderclash is heavily hurt after Tarn attacked him and is put in coma to help him heal. Everyone would admire how he fought against an almost Phase Sixer. He would heal because of Ratchet and First Aid. He would then spend time with humans. He would as well have all the qualities to be a Prime. But it's Roddy that recieves it. And Thunderclash is so proud of him, not jealous at all.
Ultra Magnus/Minimus Ambus - Law. Order. Who put that there ? You can tidy your room, young one, it's a pure disorder. You, your Autobot badge is not well placed just-just let me adjust it right. Do you need any help Optimus ? I can see you haven't filled your administrative paperwork. Young Malto, you must know we have rules here, but i can make a summary for you. We need our lovely Law Enforcer. I need him. He would become very protective towards the children, especially Thrash. He would teach the Terrans about history and politics with passion.
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polyhexian · 1 year
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Nate ranks every transformers thing ever
What:
- Eugenesis
i have no idea how i can ethically rank this as good or bad. its good. its bad. its canon. its fanfiction. it is what it is. dont read eugenesis. please read eugenesis.
God tier:
- Rescue bots
i am not joking. i am not memeing. rescue bots is the best thing to ever come out of the transformers franchise. its the only series to break the three season curse and get a fourth season. it has more episodes than any other series, over 100. it didn’t get cancelled because it wasn’t popular, it ended because they ran out of stories they wanted to tell. then they dropped a sequel series with TWO more seasons. they gave nicole duboc a mainline series for this.
- Mtmte/lost light
life changing. incredible. ruined my life. saved my life. jro is my enemy. jro is my best friend. jro is my dad. i met him once. i showed him my hard copy of eugenesis i paid 150 dollars for and had him sign it. he probably thinks im insane. he DID sign it tho. i think about whirl and cdrw every day of my life
- Cyberverse
I LOVE CYBERVERSE SO MUCH... I don't think any series has captured the pure unbridled chaos of the entire franchise so well. It has so many characters and all of them feel RIGHT. I love the art style. I Love this unhinged soundwave. I LOVE the fresh and interesting new ideas if brought to the table. Season 3 was incredible. The season 4 specials destroyed me. TARN??? TARN IS HERE???
- Rescue bots academy
- Rise of the Beasts
I think that Bumblebee is an objectively better film, I just had more fun watching ROTB lol
- Bumblebee movie
BABY GIRL MY BABY DAUGHTER BABY GIRL BABY BABY
- Earthspark
- Botbots
Yes I am in fact putting botbots this high. This show was so unrepentantly funny. The goof at the beginning show us like oooh space ENERGON crashed to earth the war... Anyway none of that matters lets go to the mall. That is SO funny. They did a chopping mall parody and a Hamilton parody. The protagonist is an unhinged megalomaniac burger.
- Beast wars
don't worry about the visuals you get used to them so fucking fast. beast wars is incredible. the storytelling has so much depth. tigatrons big episode about the cost of their war against the planet and defining what protecting the planet even means changed me. theres an entire episode about farting and rampage and depth charge wanna hate fuck SO bad its fucking unreal
- Recordicons
you WILL acknowledge david willis’s contribution to lgbt history and you WILL laugh at his very funny memes
Great tier:
- Transformers Prime
- Transformers Animated
waspy baby.....
- Idw shattered glass
IM UNHINGED ABOUT SG STARSCREAM AND SG STARFIRE IM ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED
- 86 movie (Bluray remaster)
-the five minutes at the end of earthrise when cog became the main character for some reason
This was the funniest shit I've ever seen. One of the worst most boring shitty tf shows I've sat through with characters I truly care nothing for suddenly lurched sideways as out of fucking nowhere and for no reason at all a random background character suddenly took over the plot and gave the most harrowing performance I've seen in awhile in this horrifically tragic death scene that had my jaw on the floor. And then we just moved on and never spoke of it again ckdhzhcjof. WHAT WAS THAT.... LITERALLY WHAT WAS THAT AND WHY DID THAT HAPPEN....
- Armada (the starscream and Optimus parts)
It is UNREAL how good the starscream and Optimus bits are in this show. When the rest of it is pretty terrible. I would say after starscream dies it's pretty meh but not outright bad, just sort of nothin. The first couple episodes tho are so funny because they're so bad they had no script and were all but ad-libbing the whole thing. They couldn't go two minutes without getting a characters name wrong. Incredible. Anyway this starscream is legendary for being such an interesting and dynamic character with the best design ever. And just like. The coolest character arc.
Okay but also just like do not watch this show in English. The English version is awful and it is More than just a dub!! The Japanese version was finished AFTER the American version despite being animated in Japan!! Because the show! Was not! Done!!! The Japanese version of the show is called micron legend and it's practically a different show. Do yourself a favor and watched micron legend subbed.
- Victory
STAR SABER IS MY DAD OK
also the plot hinges around the premise that current autobot commander star saber found a human infant floating through space and legally adopted him. That's incredible come on
- IDW windblade mini
saren stone could kill me with a brick and i would thank them
- Transformers RiD15 IDW comic
Good tier:
- IDW2
- MMC mnemo/notif comic *
- Transformers go!
FUCK YEAH DRAGONS
- Funpub shattered glass
- Beast Wars uprising
DID YOU KNOW EJECT HAS A FUCKING SON?
Okay Tier:
- Wfc: Siege
- Zone
homosexual
- Challenge of the Go Bots *
Bad tier:
- The rest of IDW1
- G1
I'm not sorry for this. I don't like it. Boo
- Japanese headmasters
- Armada (the rest of it)
- Energon
- American headmasters
- Robotix *
im fucking unironically convinced when this flopped they just reused the plot for headmasters
- Wfc: earthrise
- Super god masterforce
- Beast wars 2
- Beast wars neo
- Beast machines
- RiD 2001
- 86 movie (pre bluray remaster)
- Cybertron
- Vanpires *
the wildest shit ive ever seen. ive watched every episode. imagine the cgi of beast wars season 1 with integrated live action. theres vampire cars and they "drain the gas from innocent cars" when cars??? not sentient???? the human children got irradiated and now they can turn into fucking horrible car beasts. why was this fucking made
- Bayverse
- Machinama’s Prime Wars
You know a series is bad when the first thing I want to complain about is the sound mixing
- Go-bots (transformers branded)
- Wfc: kingdom
Elite one my beloved I am so fucking sorry
Burn in hell tier:
- Rid15
Copaganda to rival paw patrol
- Exodus
This book called me a slur
- Hayato sakamoto’s Transformers Legends
- Kiss players
The worst thing transformers has ever done
??? (I still havent read/watched these) tier:
- Robot Masters
- Devastation
I played twenty minutes of this
- WfC
I’ve actually played a few hours of this but i got bored and didn’t finish so I don’t feel like i should rate it, but ultimately i just found it kind of generic and it didnt grab me
-FoC
-Wings Universe
-Unite Warriors
this is illustrated by hayato sakamoto and ive seen enough of like, the horny bathtub art and oversexualized female characters to assume its most likely shit tier, but i think he also brought breakdown back to life and canonized kobd? I do legitimately want to read this eventually
-Transtech
-Marvel comics
-GI Joe transformers crossover comics
-Dreamwave comics
-new energon universe image comic
-Q transformers
I have actually watched the subbed episodes of this but, there’s so few of them and its so clearly not intended for me since this is like a little silly flash cartoon specifically for japanese fans of transformers that its like, of course i dont really get the jokes or anything so even though i found this kind of boring i dont think its bad and i dont feel comfortable putting it on a tier
- TFP tie in games
- Bayverse tie in games
- Earth Wars
Energon enema though
- IDW MLP crossover
- Nezha
Nezha is lost media but it has toys and I have one so uhhhh I guess I'm acknowledging it theoretically exists
* don't act like this doesn't count, once you're deep enough to make a list ranking every transformers thing ever made you have to start counting this type of shit too
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scribe-of-hael · 7 months
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What would TFP Knockout be like if he was in TFA?
Why I'm so glad you ask. ~
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I acutally sorta showed this in a "Ask tfa Starscream" drawing where someone asked who'd be a good second in command. I showed knockout in the background because I'm utterly obsessed with him.
Show casing him as being a friend Starscream hadn't seen in a while!
But! To make it clear. Knockout as far as personality i think would not change barley at all. Why change perfection?
His personality i think would fit well in the tfa universe. Though I've seen many ppl interput his design in a tfa style. And many I have liked !
As far as background i see him much like Lockdown in the sense he is neutral, Decpeticon leaning.
He is a back alley Doctor (lenses expired) and yes Rachet knows him. A sleek doctor bot who refused to come form to his medical vechole alt mode and had a much sportier look , who loved racing. And considering TFA cybertron is Functionalist. I'd say he was told to get out of Cybertron.
Decpeticons are more willing to work with him and vise verse. I'd think Starscream would find himself in position where he was doctor for hire here and there and got to know him. Aka KO didn't mind listening to Star rant about Megatron cause he's a drama whore.
I can see Star picking up his signal and being like "OOOO I know Excatly what to do~" girls reunion party let's go.
Cause I need these two dumbasses to scheme together. Please and thank you.
Hell id love to see a racing episode like the ine with Bumblebee and Blurr , with KO included. This KO would get under Bumblebee's frame so bad.
"What was that? float like a butterfly, Fumble like a Bee!? HA HA!"
lots of people know KO to be kinda a mad doctor. Mostly for taking parts and selling them around of patients who "passed and totally didn't die on the table". Megatron knows him, Swindle whos he's sold stuff to and Lockdown who he's given augments to.
He's made a good reputation for himself. As to why he's friends with Star alot of ppl don't know. They do get along well enough!
Rachet got some issues with him because he left during the war. But good deep dive into "ah rachet you fought a war and are still oppressed btws" i think they were going to touch on that in season 4 but it never happened.
Have a moment where like Lockdown he's being chased by the prime gang in a high speed chase.
After basically pit maneuvering him "Now come out you have no where eles to go! Stop"
"You got alot of nerve scratch my pain" //Transforms//, "Autobot" //the smuggest face you ever seen.
Que Rachets gasp , "Knockout?!"
"At your service~ looks to me like you'll need emergency surgery" //buzz saw hands//
Crys i love him.
Also Breakdown is there cause I refuse to serpate the husbands. And yes Breakdown is also pretty much the same. But he grew up in a engeron farm like BulkHead and they did know each other.
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sepublic · 1 year
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Ok, so it's obvious you love Beast Wars, but what about other series? Earthspark? Cyberverse? Prime? Robots in Disguise 2015? IDW 2005-2018?
I grew up primarily on Transformers Animated and, alas, the Bayverse, the latter of which I think was my first proper introduction to the franchise; Though I do have VERY faint recollections of previous series, particularly Armada and its keys... 
I only really knew those from their toys, though I do remember a clip from an Armada CD; I had Cybertron Longrack, as well as Armada Excellion vs Thundercracker, and Skyshadow; Not to mention the Robots in Disguise Deluxe Mirage with that color-changing sticker. There was Deep Space Starscream from the Movie lineup, and Fast Action Battlers Jazz.
I have fond memories of my cousin’s Deluxe Scorponok and RotF Soundwave, whom I envied; The latter toy I remember him pitting against my own, particularly my Bionicles, and the constant fights and back-and-forth of Soundwave becoming a good guy, just to be a bad guy again, etc. We wanted to reap the fun of either scenario.
Then Animated Lugnut, whom with Thok from Bionicle have the same story for me; Originally I got someone ELSE from their line, but a factory defect meant I had to return it, and settle for a different character. In my case, I originally chose Animated Starscream, but then his head popped off and wouldn’t come back on, hence the switch to Lugnut. I also had Animated Oil Slick and a McDonalds version of Animated Bumblebee.
Regrettably, I’ve lost ALL of these toys over time, not sure how. But yeah, I had toys from the Unicron Trilogy and a distant memory of watching a CD that came packaged with a clip from the show of Armada Jetfire; Otherwise, the Michael Bay films were my introduction, followed by Animated, which I DID watch all of! I remember as a kid being frustrated by the loose ends of Animated’s finale, so finding out the show was actually cancelled explained a lot; As a kid, Blurr’s death traumatized me, but hearing he survived and would’ve recovered was a relief. 
Ultimately, my knowledge of any other series besides the Bayverse, Animated, Beast Wars (and technically Knightverse) is solely through cultural osmosis, some dives into the TFwiki (was surprised yet amused as a kid at its snarkiness), and Chris McFeely’s guides on Transformers characters throughout the ages. Before that I also remember watching the first three or so episodes of G1 on Netflix (getting to see the source material for the Bay films and how removed they were was a surprise), and years later, various clips of G1 on Youtube as well; I also watched the original 1986 animated film, and the episode where a human girl has a crush on Powerglide. 
As someone who DIDN’T grow up with G1 and thus can’t be accused of a nostalgia bias... Tbh, I really do find it THAT good, but I might just be influenced by the bandwagon. I just think it’s really funny and find a lot of the designs charming, and the ‘86 movie is legitimately raw and well-written. I watched Bumblebee Movie opening month, was disillusioned like a lot of people by the Bayverse, only to be astounded by the first trailer and stoked by the transformations of Bumblebee and Blitzwing, which felt very toy-esque and whom I could actually keep track of!
In general, I remember sort of falling off of Transformers after Dark of the Moon... But then @ganymedesclock started watching Animated, which reignited my curiosity. This led me to revisit the series, as well as the Transformers franchise in general; And that led to a DEEP rabbithole that’s culminated in me going through all of Beast Wars, naming and understanding the toys I had as a kid (and desiring them again with the context of what their characters were like).
It also led me to getting a couple of toys from the Studio Series line, particularly the Constructicons. Sue me, I think the Bayverse designs and films have SOME artistic merit, even if it’s largely garbage, they’re kind of a guilty pleasure at times, and the toys have a necessary simplicity that makes the aesthetic easier to digest. And like everyone else, the ideas of a rewrite, and/or my own Transformers continuity, have taken root in my head.
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loyal-logik · 1 year
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// Okay, so my thoughts on Earthspark :) 
I think, as a note, and as a long time TF fan, it’s very important going into a new series with an open mind. Every character in every continuation is unique to that world/verse, so going in hoping to see a copy/paste from a past series is never a good idea, even if we all have favourites and biases (I know I do lol). So, with an open mind, and someone who’s just very happy to experience a new TF series, these are some of my points.
Pros: 
- It’s incredibly heartwarming, fun loving, and the relationships involving family are genuine and lesson learning.
- Diversity. We have PoC, we have multicultural relationships, we have culture references, and none of it feels wrong, it’s just there, treated normally as it should be, and it’s wonderful. 
- Getting a ‘bot that is non binary and chooses to use ‘they/them’ pronouns.
- Getting more femme Decepticons 
- The humour is genuinely funny and warm.
- The animation and detail to HAIR. Like holy cow have you seen the hair animation!? Wow every little strand is an individual piece and it’s nuts!
- Megatron being the good guy, however, still questioning GHOST and not really enjoying the shit that they do (I have a lot of feelings on Megatron and thoughts on HIS thoughts and his past which maybe one day I’l reveal if the show decides not to lol). 
- The voice acting is all pretty solid, even as a long time TF fan who has biases.  
- There’s a genuine feeling that hovers over you which questions a lot. This series, I believe, has a lot more to it than meets the eye. I am HOPING that a lot of this comes out in the next part of the series, or in series to come (especially everything to do with the Cons).
- References to other series (like MTMTE and G1), I love when series pay homage to their predecessors. 
- Some of the designs (SOME of the designs) are amazing. I think Bumblebee’s design is my favourite, he looks amazing in this series. The Seeker girls also looks very cool. 
- The battle scenes. One of them in particular (which I’m sure you all know which one lol) is stunning, the animation, the fight moves, fucking spectacular and just sexy all around lol. 
- I personally love the use of 3D animation and then using 2D for the effects like smoke, and fire. I think it created a really unique and expressive dynamic, and reminds me of POW, BANG in comics, and it works very well. 
- Steve Blum as Starscream. Hell yes! 
- I saw insecticons <3 
- “Little bird” had to be fun for Megs’ voice actor considering he’s Sandor Clegane in GoT and called Sansa Stark that, and I feel like that’s entirely homage to it. 
- The humans aren’t annoying and in the way, I feel like they’ve written them very well in this series, especially coming back from Cyberverse which had NO humans in it at all.
- Twitch and Thrash are cute characters who you’ve got to remember are children brought up in a world they know nothing about, and they’re unique. Having a hybrid species is REALLY cool as well. I hope they explain more of this further down the track.
Cons (remember these are all personal to me): 
- Some of the designs, and this is mostly faces. Megatron’s grew on me over time, even though at first I was like wtf is that? But I don’t think I will ever see anything outside of handsome Squidward when it comes to OP. I genuinely think he’s horrible to look at and his facial design is overall just uncomfortable for me to watch. I’m sure in time I will get used to it, but like I said, he’s uncomfortable to look at because his facial structure just seems wrong. 
- These were some times I was stunned by the graphics, and others I thought... why weren’t they as good as the rest? Like mentioned in the pros, the hair is stunning, and some smaller details are really well done, but then there were others that felt awkward (like watching the cows move because they appeared to be stiff and less fluid than everything else that surrounded them). This isn’t so much a complaint about their graphics not being good, for someone who is on the spectrum, it just confused my brain and eyes when it happened, and it was hard to ignore it at times. 
That’s honestly about it :) That’s the cons lol. Handsome squidward face and my aspie brain being confused at some of the less finer details but being awed by others lol. So as you can see, the pros absolutely outweigh the cons for me. 
I think that this series has a LOT to uncover still, especially about the war, about Megatron’s past, and about his feelings towards how Decepticons are being treated. The scene with Soundwave is something we should all be thinking about as well, because it’s important, and Megatron’s reaction to hearing Soundwave repeat what he’d said about freedom is chilling. And it should be, because it’s a reminder of where Megatron came from.
We don’t KNOW a lot of the background to these characters yet, and I am hoping that that changes in the next half of the series, or in later parts of the series, because I really do feel like there’s a lot going on behind the scenes still, and I’m so keen to learn about it. :D  
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lavenderplain · 1 year
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Untitled Transformer project
Alright ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to do, since I am a fan of the transformers franchise, I've decided to create my own transformers story. It came up to me when I was listening to a song while also waiting for Transformers: Earthspark. Anyway, here comes the plot.
Plot: An autistic human girl name Victoria discovers a spear that are alien in origin. After touching the weapon, her DNA becomes coded to the weapon which caught the attention of two races, the autobots and the decepticons. The spear was also the locked key to a spark which was later freed. After being rescued by the autobots from the decepticons, Victoria must protect the weapon from the decepticons while she learns more about the two races from a former decepticon.
Alright, plot out of the way. I got the humans designs out of the way. But not the robots, cause 1. I suck ass at character designing and 2. I can't draw robots Anyway, I was thinking of hiring someone to design the autobots and decepticons. Or you could DM me for a hiring. Here are the main autobots and decepticons that are going to appear (their bios are coming soon).
Autobots:
Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Arcee
Ratchet
Skyfire
Swerve
Blurr
Wheeljack
Decepticons:
Megatron
Soundwave
Shockwave
Slipstream
Barricade
Kickback
Lockdown
Tarn
Neutral:
Starscream
Okie dokie, after the I found the designer for the robots, we will discuss what they're going to look like. Anyway, I can't wait to show the humans. Also, one more thing, I can't figure out the name for the project. I want something that hasn't been taken. If you can come up with something, let me know.
Anyway, can't wait to start production on it someday.
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frecklydork · 3 years
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“If you do not comply,” Starscream warns the girl, “I can do quite a number of things that will make you talk.”
He leans forward, activating the prod and pointing dangerously close to her body. The electric sparks emanating from it are almost as terrifying as his sinister smile - like he’s experienced with torture. Like he craves it.
“Number one,” he purrs, “I will t-“
“Wait! Stop! L-Listen—“ She takes in a shaky breath, trying to keep herself from hyperventilating— “Listen! Listen. Listen. Okay - listen-“
“I am listening,” Starscream snaps impatiently. “What.”
“Okay. Okay. Listen, I don’t do well under - I don’t do - I don’t do torture, okay? I’m gonna - I’m gonna stop you at number one.” She swallows roughly. Her arms ache in protest as she struggles against the chains. “Fuck, I’m not - I’m n-not, I’m - I-I’m absolutely not gonna make it to number two.”
Starscream‘s eyebrows knit against his nasal chevron.
“I’m - I don’t have a high pain tolerance.” The human shakes her head rapidly. “I stub my toe, and that - you - you know what, then that’s it for me, that’s - I’m done for the fucking day.”
“I... see.” The jetformer lowers his weapon, disregarding the fact he doesn’t know what stubbing a toe could possibly mean. Probably something stupid.
He normally never has such an easy time when it comes to interrogation, and was honestly looking forward to hearing her tortured screams, but a commander always keeps his word.
“Organic vermin are utterly pathetic,” he scoffs. He raises his free servo and places a claw under her chin, lifting her head and forcing her to look him in the eye.
It could be just the lighting - she hopes it‘s just the lighting - but she swears she can see bits of blue staining his claws. She might be new to this, but... isn’t that particular shade of blue... the color of robot blood?! 
With his optics running over her form like that, she’s too painfully aware that this enemy could skewer her within seconds. If only Bumblebee were here to save her!
“Keri...” he says slowly, voice dark and guttural, as if tasting the designation for the first time and seeing if the word is a name worth savoring, “is it?”
His voice suits him: dangerous, sharp. Deadly but beautiful, as if one were gently draping a blanket of silk over harsh glasspaper. There’s almost a certain curve to it, especially grasped onto the edges - it lures you in - snaps you like a bite.
“Um - mhm.” She nods. “You’re - you said your name was Star— oh, fuck. Star - Starlight?”
Oh. 
The Seeker’s optics widen. That’s a new one. 
He quickly recovers, replacing his astonished expression with a horrible scowl.
“Scream,” he corrects sharply.
“I’m trying not to!” She whimpers.
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Reviewing Autobot Humans:
⭐ = Full Star 
✨ = Half Star 
Spike Witwicky, Carly Spencer and Chip Chase from The Transformers;
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Each of these humans may have simple personalities (which is fair, since this cartoon was made in the 1980s), but each of them are smart and talented in their own fields. 
Spike and his dad are great at building things, while Carly specializes in electronics as well as chemistry and Chip is a computer genius. 
The original Autobot human allies were awesome and yet they’re sadly underrated and sometimes even forgotten. 
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for all of them! 
*
T-AI and Koji Onishi from Robots In Disguise;
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T-AI was basically the human-looking robotic girl of Transformers before Sari from TFA made it cool. 
She’s a helpful hologram with a heart full of hope.
But she does have her sassy and snarky moments too. 
*Meanwhile, Koji is a bright and brave boy who teams up with the Autobots to get his genius dad back from Megatron, but his personality isn’t as memorable compared to Autobot humans from other Transformers media. 
He’s also able to see the good in Skybyte before the Autobots did and asks Skybyte to give his dad a present for his birthday. 
His love for his kidnapped parent convinced Skybyte to free Koji’s father from Megatron’s grasp. 
⭐⭐⭐⭐ for T-AI 
⭐⭐⭐✨ for Koji 
*
The Children from Unicron Trilogy’s Armada; 
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The personalities of the Armada kids are pretty generic and kinda boring, but it’s pretty badass that Alexis managed to help Starscream to change for the better. 
Alexis is the only human so far to convince a Decepticon to become an Autobot. 
And it makes sense that Starscream and Alexis get along considering that they both can be control freaks sometimes! XD 
⭐⭐ for Rad
⭐⭐⭐✨ for Alexis
⭐⭐ for Carlos 
⭐ for Billy
⭐ for Fred
*
Sari Sumdac from Transformers Animated;
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Sari is a unique as well as interesting character with a quirky personality and plays a special role in the world of TFA. 
Sari spend most of her life isolated from the rest of the world in her dad’s building where he creates his inventions. Although her father loved her more then anything, he usually too busy to spend time with her, so he created non-sentient robots to educate, entertain and comfort her. Most kids around her age think she’s too weird and avoid her as well, so the Autobots basically became her first and only friends. 
Sari is also a cyborg. (However, TFA prefers to use the term ‘techno-organic’.) 
⭐⭐⭐⭐✨, I’d give her five, but her origins are never properly explained and I’m not a big fan of how her upgraded form looks... (Love her battle armor though...) 
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Jack Darby, Raf Esquivel and Miko Nakadai from Transformers Prime; 
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Jack is the one with the most common sense of the three and he is sometimes shown to act like a leader to them. But unfortunately most of it is wasted potential. His personality is pretty generic as well and all we know about his interests is that he likes motorcycles and girls. There was one episode where it’s implied that he likes camping and nature too, but it’s never brought up again. His single nurse mom has more personality then him. 
Raf is a genius yet a sweetheart. While Jack has little personality and Miko has way too much personality, Raf has the perfect amount of personality. He’s like a younger version of Chip from G1. I feel he should’ve been the one Optimus chose as an honorary Prime instead of Jack, cause Raf’s personality is quite similar to Orion’s. However, it does drive me crazy how he can understand Bumblebee and we never get a proper explanation... (It’s like Sari’s origins all over again!)
Miko is very different from Jack, but they share one thing in common: they both have wasted potential and lack proper character development. She keeps making reckless, irresponsible decisions that sometimes cause life-threatening problems and never gets properly scolded or punished by the Autobots for it. (Though to be fair, the Autobots should’ve made sure that she doesn’t keep sneaking through the groundbridge.) However, I will give her credit for her loyalty to her friends and taking responsibility for her actions. I honestly think she would’ve benefited more if she got Arcee for a partner instead of Bulkhead, cause Arcee is less of a pushover and might’ve helped Miko mature better. 
⭐⭐⭐ for Jack
⭐⭐⭐⭐ for Raf
⭐⭐✨ for Miko 
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Russell Clay from Robots In Disguise (2015); 
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He’s a nice kid, but unfortunately he suffers the same problem Jack Darby had: his single parent having a more interesting personality then him. 
⭐⭐
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The Burns Family from Rescue Bots; 
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Charlie is truly a legend with the patience of a saint, having to raise four kids. (Even though three of them are older, they still act like kids sometimes...) 
I don’t hate Kade, but he’s kind of a egotistic jerk sometimes and his appearance looks a bit off compared the character designs of the other main characters. 
Graham is a chill, mellow guy and a little less crazy then his siblings, but he doesn’t have a lot of personality compared to the rest of his family or his alien robot partner. 
Dani is pretty cool and is basically a more mature version of Miko, though she can also be hotheaded. 
Cody is basically the ‘Sari Sumdac’ of the Aligned Continuity. He’s a brave, kind and sometimes sassy kid that teaches giant alien robots about the human world and gets neglected by his busy family to do important things even though they love him. Without the cyborg plot twist. But Cody is also his own character. From the start of the show, he wished to be a hero just like the rest like his courageous family, so he could spend more time with them. 
⭐⭐⭐✨ for Charlie
⭐⭐ for Kade
⭐⭐ for Graham
⭐⭐✨ for Dani
⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ for Cody
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im sure someone else is going to say sentinel and ive already worn out the send you rewrite for an ask game joke so. prowl :]
you are only the second person to send me an ask actually. comedically. being the sentinel guy has many downfalls (everyone assumes someone said sentinel already /JOKE) i can do tfa prowl yes :-)
favorite thing about them well hes simply the best prowl because he absolutely isnt prowl at all. like not even close. that is just a man who happens to share the same name with prowl. im (mostly) kidding i havent really consumed a lot of tfmedia especially not any with prowl prevalent so i dont know if theres any other really good prowls and i just havent encountered them yet or whatever but i really do like his character so much. we love to see an autistic robot. i think his growth over the show is very interesting and like... hes such a handsome little man (spoken the way you would about like a tuxedo cat) his design is so interesting and again its so funny because girl that is NOT prowl! not even CLOSE!
least favorite thing about them theres not a lot i dislike about tfa prowl, but i will say the end of the show........ the season 4 scripts literally imply that scrapper mixmaster and dirtboss and wreck gar are still out there.......... they were willing to perma kill starscream on screen. for just a single tfa constructicon life we could save prowl. i guess its more of a story critique, without season 4 to have the whole ghost prowl plot happen, his death sort of feels.. out of nowhere...? he was training, he became literally so comically powerful, i guess the only thing stopping him from being the answer to all problems would be to kill him. but like... without season 4 it just feels so abrupt. still makes me cry a little though god bless (salute)
favorite line anytime tfa prowl says "fascinating..." is so everything to me. he is entranced by the beauty of organic life. but i do have to love the quip he does to bumblebee in the season 1 finale where he says that they need to use bumblebees strongest power, and after bee himself lists a few things, he cuts in and goes "Your obnoxious personality." i love that so much
brOTP i dont have a specific relationship i like the most with prowl, but i do think him and jazz shouldve gotten more screentime together. they shouldve been better friends :(
OTP did you know prowl is at the very least like a million years old? because he was drafted for the war? as in, the great war? as in, prowl is closer to ratchet aged than anyone else? this is not ending the way you think i still think bulkprowlbee is everything but prowl never clarifies hes the second oldest at all because theyre all adults so he just assumes they know however hes got like godly cybertronian genes and all that ninja training that make him look so young so one day bumblebee very boldly says something about "old bots" in reference to optimus (note: in my mind, bumblebee is like cybertronian mid 20s and optimus is cybertronian mid 30s) and prowl looks at him so baffled and goes ".... you do know im older than him, right?" and bumblebee goes "...huh" and prowl goes "bumblebee, i was drafted for the great war. im closer to ratchet in terms of age than anything." and bumblebee completely shuts down and its not for the reason you think at all its 100% because he didnt know his boyfriend was a silver fox otherwise he wouldve made like 1000 more jokes about it. everyone else is also so baffled by this revelation. i want to talk about this more in my headcanon section
nOTP im not as opposed to it as some people are, but i do still think prowl/lockdown is a little strange. i think you have to make prowl like 100% not an autobot for that which i will admit is funny as fuck but it just genuinely makes no sense to imagine them shipped in a normal tfa timeline aligned situation. also not a notp per se but sometimes i see people ship prowl and lugnut and that baffles me endlessly. you do you but also thats the funniest thing i have ever imagined. how did you get to that conclusion at all
random headcanon autobots and their reactions to learning prowl was draft dodger in the great war (mostly the age part) optimus: dead silence and the most horrified expression you could imagine. he assumed prowl was his age, maybe a little older or younger, give or take. he needs a bit to sit down knowing he is commanding over two people who are literally like 100x his age. once hes over it he asks about the war because of course he does bumblebee: see otp answer bulkhead: so so so very shocked and he needs to process it so bad but he clarifies so fast and so panicked that it changes nothing and that theyre all still friends (or boyfriends if you believe in bulkprowlbee). the moment he gets over it despite what he said he starts worrying about his health like hes an old old man and prowl is like "bulkhead i appreciate it im pretty sure im in better physical shape than all of you perhaps even combined" ratchet: literally does not believe him. literally refuses to believe this. he is so shocked and in denial. and when prowl provides proof that its true, ratchet goes dead silent in horror for like 20 seconds with this absolutely incredulous look on his face, followed instantly by more rage, going "WAIT just a allspark-damned minute, youre a DRAFT DODGER?!" and now that conversation is happening. bonus jazz and sentinel because i feel like it jazz: is older than him, and its not a shock. hed recognize yoketrons teachings anywhere sentinel: DID NOT KNOW JAZZ WAS THAT OLD. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOURE HAT OLD. JAZZ. JAZZ COME BACK! OPTIMUS! OPTIMUS (FRANTICALLY SHAKING HIM BY THE SHOULDERS) WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT LITTLE FREAK ON YOUR TEAM IS GREAT WAR AGE AND SO IS JAZZ? (10 SECOND PAUSE IN TIME) (OPTIMUS SHRUGS AND MAKES THAT "IDK" SOUND) DONT SHRUG AT ME I NEED ANSWERS
unpopular opinion uhhhh. hm. i dont know actually. i dont have a lot of crazy opinions on prowl. is the whole "prowl acts so smart but is so stupid" thing unpopular? can i say i think prowl is academically smart but he would probably wouldnt hesitate to jump off a cliff if prompted? but only because he thinks its a good idea/he thinks he can do it. i think prowl would do anything against orders if he thought he could
song i associate with them i have never thought about prowl while listening to a song in my life so im just going to go to my best friend the family jewels, album by marina who previously had some diamonds, and hold up Are You Satisfied? i think it fit him. a lot actually.
favorite picture of them this image i found on google at like 3 am once that was a wattpad fanfic cover i think. it makes me cry. its the funniest shit i have ever seen.
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Transformers Prime Liveblogging By A Transformers Fan Who Doesn’t Like Prime, Episode 3
I love that Ratchet reacts to this ungodly little hellspawn in the same way I react to a spider. And also Optimus immediately jumps to it being Dark Energon, which I thought was a fabled space thingie only said to exist. I know Megatron has it, but Optimus doesn’t know that or shouldn’t instantly know that
Speaking of Megatron, he now has a crack addiction! Like literally how else am I to interpret that? Megatron is now addicted to crack rocks. Starscream is right to basically go “what the fuck” because I too would wonder the same thing if my boss injected space crocodil directly into his heart.
Ok before I go on with any later observations I need to say how weirdly out of place Peter Cullen sounds as Prime!Optimus. Maybe its because I’m not used to his Optimus voice (I’m a Beast Wars and TFA enjoyer, I’m used to Gary Chalk and David Kaye for my Opitmuses) or maybe its just that my brain exclusively associates Peter Cullen’s voice with G1 Optimus, but I look at Prime!Optimus and I don’t imagine that mature commanding voice coming out of his mouth. Maybe its the fact that Prime!Optimus looks like G1 Optimus but doesn’t have his face mask up all the time like his G1 design does, I’ve kind of subconciously associated the lack of a battle mask with Orion Pax (this also applies to TFA, but thats also because TFA!Optimus just feels more like Orion in general) and my silly little autism brain is experiencing a mitch-match between visuals and auditory. Bottom line, my eyes do not believe the bot standing before me is a war-hardened old man.
Ratchet: Where on Earth is Megatron going to find that many dead Cybertronians? >Megatron literally has an army of Vehicons that I assume are effected by the zombie crack rocks. Also Optimus tells Arcee him and Ratchet are leaving...but doesn’t tell her why, because reasons. I’m kind of already over Arcee’s habit of bitching, but she kinda has a right to be a little pissed rn, granddad. Maybe fill in where the fuck you and the team’s only medic is going??? In case something goes wrong?? No?? Okay, but he better not be all dad-style grumpy when he finds out Arcee and Not-Bumblebee (see beginning of this post for why I call him that, we’re moving on) fucked off to do their own thing.
Honestly so far I don’t get why we have three child companions, like maybe its too early to pass judgements but the only kid who grabs my attention is Miko, and thats mainly because I love the ‘weird punk girl’ archetype a lot. My opinion on the boys might change, but for now I don’t get why the writers split up the whole “Autobot human buddy” role between three seperate characters when only one is nessecary and often times results in a more developed character (just look at Sari from TFA). Not to sound like one of those annoying Prime fans who focus too much on the politics of an alien robot cartoon but it kinda feels like Prime added these fairly uninteresting human male characters so their mostly young male audience didn’t have to relate to a girl character in their grittier looking Transformers show that is clearly trying to rake in some of the popularity from the uber-masculine Bayverse movies--When does Knock Out show up? I need something to distract me from everything else about this show so I don’t psycho-analyze it so much.
Fowler: I’m taking these children into federal custody. Or you could just fuckin’ contact their parents, my guy. Who’s gonna believe a bunch of literal children if they say they were with giant alien robots? Why do we need to arrest the children?? I get that keeping as few humans aware of their existance is a priority for the Autobots, but why does the government give two fucks if these kids know about the Cybertronians? The Decepticons don’t know about the kids or the base, or they didn’t until Mr. Government Agent Guy got his call intercepted by Soundwave, great fucking job there dude.
Ok so they DO explain why energon is on earth, still a smidge odd that the Decepticons and Autobots hid their life sustaining Energon on this random ass planet, but I’m not gonna question these higher life forms.
Why is Laserbeak a fucking angular drone, please just bring back the goofy casette tape creatures. Make them USBs or some shit, I dunno.
And then my internet connection shits the bed for like five minutes! Great! Thanks Verizon!
WOW Bulkhead, a man could be dead right now and your response is “Eh he was a jerk”. Why is it the children who have been here for like twenty minutes who go “the decepticons could get our location out of fowler, we should find him before the decepticons find out where we are” like what the fuck dude??? Also microchipping secret agents?? The hell are you on about, Raf??
Nobody: Starscream, for no reason: *poses like a hoe while he greets their captive* seriously why does he do that, i’m actually laughing really hard at this, what is wrong with him
Man I’m so glad Optimus didn’t tell Arcee or the others where him and Ratchet were going or what they were planning to do, because now that her and Not-Bumblebee fucked off to drive in circles around the Nevada, the one human agent who knows their location has been captured because Bulkhead has a Skyrim Speech skill level in the negatives and made him leave, and now the literal children you swore to protect are now defenseless! Bang up job, oh fearless leader.
I wish I had the brass balls to smart off to an alien robot five times my size not once, not twice, but three times.
I like how Megatron remarks that Ratchet is old when literally he looks and sounds more ancient than Ratchet does. Like sir, you too are an ancient motherfucker who needs to go into a goddamn robot retirement home. 
Megatron now being a robot necromancer aside, why did the past Autobots/Decepticons leave a bunch of their dead on Earth? Don’t they like salvage their dead for parts? Why are there bodies just recklessly shallacked across some bumblefuck part of Nevada? The hell.
Pretty good episode, 7/10, its closer to an 8 than a 6
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[ID: A filled out "controversy meme" template. There's three rows of five columns and then one sole box in the first column.
From left to right the boxes are as follows: Favorite Autobot, Despised Autobot, Favorite Decepticon, Despised Decepticon, Most Overrated Character, Most Underrated Character, Favorite Human Character, Despised Human Character (Which has been edited to say "Most Boring" instead of Despised), Favorite Show, Despised Show, Favorite Movie, Despised Movie, Favorite Game, Despised Game, Favorite Couple, Despised Couple.
Filled in respectively, these boxes from left to right contain images of Arcee from Transformers G1, Strongarm from Robots In Disguise (2015), Thunderblast from Transformers Cybertron, Tarn from More than Meets the Eye, Starscream, Botanica from Beast Machines, Sari Sumdac, Koji Onishi, the logo from Transformers Cybertron, the logo from Transformers Robots in Disguise (2015), a screencap from the three-part Transformers Animated movie, a screencap from Age of Extinction, the box art from Tranaformers Devastation, a sentence that reads "Only ever played the previous game, I haven't played anything else so I can't give an honest answer.", an image of Arcee and Greenlight together, and another sentence that reads "I don't feel like getting horribly murdered today." End ID.]
You know, I only posted this here for two reasons. Firstly, to see if I could describe more complex images without making them unwieldy and counterproductive. Secondly, to have a better UI to type out and format my opinions than DeviantArt's still somehow circa 2006 HTML usage. Explanations beneath the cut as to why I like and dislike Thing.
Favorite Autobot: Were there any truly iconic Transformers that aren’t Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, or Soundwave, it’d be Arcee. Granted, her completely stereotypical “Look, this robot is a lady robot!” design is a little dopey looking back on it, it’s nothing short of wholesome that her origin was Ron Friedman making a girl Transformer for his daughter to look up to. She’s managed to make a name for herself to not only intense and casual fans, but to people who don’t know much about the series at all! As for her character itself, I’m so glad she moved past being the mommy friend slash rotating love interest and evolved into a wonderful, adventuring kickass heroine proceeding this. My personal favorite Arcees are Energon and Prime, but I couldn’t not put G1 Arcee up there because let’s face it, she’s truly all that.
Despised Autobot: If Arcee was a labor of love added into the movie because of a father’s love for his daughter, Strongarm is a slapdash attempt to add in a girl character because the higher-ups said there needed to be one. Her entire personality is “JUST BECAUSE I AM GIRL DOESN’T MEAN I CAN’T POLICE!” I wanted to like her, but everything about her is underbaked to the point it’s frustrating. Her characterization never goes beyond the whole “Woah, girl policewoman! How progressive!” thing ever, which rapidly snowballs into being overbearing and uncomfortable to sit through given the rest of the show. Even her nonstandard character design is kneecapped by her lipstick and eyelashes because heaven forbid you don’t immediately clock this robot as a GUUUUURL.
Favorite Decepticon: You can tell that someone’s never actually watched Transformers Cybertron if they say their least favorite Decepticon is Thunderblast. I know I’m gonna sound like some whiny anime fanboy trying to justify bikini armor but hear me out. The entire joke with her character is that she’s a femme fatale that sucks at her job. She’s blatantly evil and nasty to anyone that doesn’t immediately fall for her “charms” and constantly makes a dope of herself at the hands of the kid characters. If she were not saddled with the most unfortunate chest design in the franchise, I think she could be as liked as Lugnut and Blitzwing. Besides, we could always use more lady Decepticons that aren’t just “Mwahaha! I am mean and evil for no reason!” or “My boyfriend broke up with me, better commit war crimes!”.
Despised Decepticon: I guess it’s one of those intentional writing moments where you’re not supposed to like Tarn because he’s the leader of a death squad that runs gulags, but I still genuinely detest him. He makes my skin crawl in the worst way, and I honestly can’t see how people find him attractive or sympathetic in any caliber.
Most Overrated Character: I genuinely do not fucking care about Starscream at all. Nearly everyone that likes them (including someone who was an utter scumbag to all my friends) acts like they’re completely justified in everything they do and demonizes anyone who says they’re wrong, including people they’ve directly emotionally manipulated and mistreated. He’s got his moments and I won’t deny that you can analyze deeper meanings from these moments, but for the vast majority of canon I cannot bring myself to give a shit about them. The only reason I don’t directly hate him is all the weirdo troll anons going off about how he deserves to be fed into a woodchipper and ignoring every actual shitty thing he’s done just to whine about how he was a meanie to poor widdle innocent baby Megatron.
Most Underrated Character: I probably could put any character from Beast Machines here, but Botanica takes the cake in being ignored in more than one respect. She was the only main character in the show to never get a toy, period, and the vast swath of her appearances since her show have been from additional material and semi-canon fan comics. I really hope she can get a second shot someday.
Favorite Human Character: When you can write a new character that doesn’t fit into the pre-established lore of the series and do it so well that they feel like a perfect fit regardless of the blatant ways they stick out, you’ve done something great. So, it shocks me that the writers admitted they had no idea with what they wanted to do with Sari Sumdac or how to finish her story. I don’t spoil a… 15-year-old show for you guys because her story is something you should check out for yourself.
Most Boring Human Character: I don’t actively despise any of the humans. Mainly because most of them are kids, and that thing dating Cade Yeager’s daughter deserves to rot in hell. Koji Onishi/Yuuki Ohnishi does stick out more than say, your Jack Darbys and your Kicker Joneses because Koji is mostly off doing his own thing while the Autobots and Predacons fight. Sure, his dad was kidnapped, but this takes tens of episodes to have an impact on his role in the story. Your boy said, “You deal with it, I got middle school to worry about, later” and that’s as far as he goes personality-wise. King shit.
Favorite Show: A fairly nonstandard one, but Cybertron/Galaxy Force is definitely my favorite one. The only real flaw it has is it’s pacing, everything else about it is great.
Despised Show: While I think people are a little harsh on Transformers Prime nowadays, I won’t act like there aren’t legitimate writing flaws that hold the show back. Robots in Disguise (2015) proceeds to take all these flaws and multiply them by about a million while adding in a half-dozen more. Were you upset about Bumblebee regaining his voice erasing positive disabled rep? Well, there’s a character that was disabled in an accident and his vocal glitch is a punch line! You complained about how there was an “Autobot bias” in Transformers Prime? Well, in this show, all the Decepticons are literal monsters and animals that need to be brought in by the Good Robocops! Also, all the designs are hideous as hell or weirdly pander-y to G1? I don’t get it. And why did Primus not want Windblade to fight Unicron but was okay with her putting furries in jail?
Favorite Movie: This one might be cheating. Transform and Roll Out if it counts.
Despised Movie: When I tell you Age of Extinction soured my enjoyment of Transformers for years, I mean it. I genuinely didn’t dream of touching it after watching this movie until my friend started talking about it again. It just makes me uncomfortable now, so I’ll stop talking about it.
Favorite Game: It’s Transformers Devastation because it has a good story and it’s also the only one that I’ve played. It wins by default.
Despised Game: Self-explanatory.
Favorite Couple: From what little we’ve seen of them, Greenlight and Arcee are absolutely spectacular. I appreciate the push to make Arcee more and more LGBT after the horrific (probably intentional, fuck Furman) fumbling back in 2008. I love them and their little daughter.
Despised Couple: HAHA NOPE NOT GONNA DIE TONIGHT
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dragons-socks · 3 years
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Baby Bumblebee chptr 4
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Bee was walking home from school. Lennox and Ironhide were hunting down Decepticons in Europe, so he didn’t really have a ride today, which was fine. He didn’t mind not going back to the house when Lennox or Ironhide wasn’t there. It’s not that Bee didn’t like Sarah or Annabell, but they just didn’t really get each other. Annabell tried to poke at every nerve Bumblebee had, just testing his patience. And Sarah either babied him too much or acted as if he should already know how to do some complex human thing.
And then there was school. Apparently, Sarah was right about his name. Though Bee still didn’t understand how a girl in his class can be named ‘jasmine’ after a flower, but to be called after the insect that lets that flower grow and flourish… that’s taking it too weird? Not to mention no one in the institute knows morse code, and only a few, including his teacher know sign language. The school said they’d set him up with an interpreter. That has yet to be seen.
“Oh, hey, you’re Honey Bee, right?” Bumblebee jumped as a boy his physical age tapped him on the shoulder. Bee pulled out a small keyring of flash card that said common phrases to help him interact with people who couldn’t understand his other forms of communications. He tapped on the one with his actual name on it. “Oh, well I’m Raven.”
Bee made a saluting gesture; instead of his hand being horizontal and pushed in front of him, his palm was vertical and facing out while his hand moved away to the side of his temple. Then, Bee finger-spelt the boy’s name. Raven looked at his hands with wide eyes.
“Woah, you really can’t speak, can you?” Raven asked. Bee let out angry trills, glaring at the boy. He started to walk faster, getting away from the human. “No, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that!”
Bee chittered, turning around and raising an eyebrow. You have one chance.
“I just didn’t want to believe Harvey. He’s always making up things about other people. My mom says he’s a bully.” Raven rambled. Bee nodded in agreement. Harvey was a larger kid in his class who kept trying to pick fights and make fun of Bumblebee. Bee would hand the kid’s ass to him, but he was still an Autobots and harming humans was still a big ‘no’ in his books. “We should be friends. I see you like Voltron. My favorite is the red lion, but the yellow one is alright too.”
Bumblebee shrugged, not knowing what this ‘Voltron’ was, but decided not to try to confuse the other with too complex interactions. This is the most pleasant conversation he’s had since being forced to partake in the human learning institution.
Soon Raven had to split off to go to his own home, but made Bee promise to meet up tomorrow to walk to school. Bee felt lighter for some reason, almost like he wasn’t so alone. Annabell picked up on his good mood as soon as he entered the house. A toy sailed through the air and whacked him in the forehead.
“Hey, Bee.” She smiled.
“Annabell, stop throwing toys. Go sit in the corner.” Sarah gawked. This turned into a ten minute scream-cry feast in which Annabell was forced to spend time in the corner for longer than her original sentence. Bumblebee was already set up at the table by this point, pulling out his homework. “How was school, Bee?” The woman said as she signed the words.
‘Good, I meet a new friend. His name is Raven.’ Bee signed, his feet kicking in the open air under the table.
“Oh, that’s nice, what did you guys talk about?” Sarah leaned over the counter, ruffling Bee’s hair. He huffed and waved her hand away.
‘He kept talking about some lion-show called Voltage or something? Said I liked it too, but I don’t know why he would think that.’
“You mean Voltron? Your bookbag is designed to look like one of the characters on the show. He probably thought you got the bag because you liked the show, not because it was yellow and black.” She explained, lifting up the bag in question. On the back in vinyl letters did read ‘Voltron’. “We could watch it. So you know what your friend is talking about.”
Bee shrugged at this. He’s tried to watch human entertainment, but nothing really caught his interest. Well, he’s only really seen whatever the Witwicky’s watched, and that was just through their living room window as he was parked in their driveway. Recently, Annabell has been making him watch her shows, which were all about learning numbers, colors, and being nice. At least she has her numbers and colors down.
“Yeah, it can be our thing, when you’re done with your homework we can watch a few episodes.” Sarah nodded to herself.
Annabell was returned from her sentencing. She shuffled up to Bumblebee, holding out the wooden block that she had thrown at him earlier.
“M’sorry, Bee.” She toed at the ground and gave him large puppy dog eyes. Bee huffed and took the block from her. He’s learned pretty fast to accept her peace offerings or have her throw another tantrum.
‘Yeah, I’m sure you are.’ Bee signed back. Annabell jumped around to her mom.
“Mom, what did he say?” Sarah shook her head at the young autobot. “He said, ‘apology accepted’.”
It didn’t take long to finish the easy equations or sentence structures his teachers assigned for his class. As soon as he put his work back into his bag, Sarah ushered him onto the couch and turned on their television.
“Get comfortable, sweetie, the first episode is the longest.” Bee wrapped himself in the yellow blanket that he’s since claimed as his own. As the episode went on, Bee found himself drawing parallels of his own life and the autobots to those of these characters. He was so immersed into this stupid cartoon that he didn’t even notice that Lennox had arrived and sat down next to his wife. Not until the episode was paused.
‘HEY!’ Bumblebee turned to Sarah, jumping a little when Lennox was also there.
“Hey to you too, kid.” Lennox said, his voice thick and his face contorted into worry. Bumblebee sat up.
‘Is Ironhide okay?’ Bee signed, trying to twist out of his cocoon to get a better look outside for the mech.
“He’s fine, Bee. But I do have some bad news. The Decepticons found the base. The Autobots had to be relocated and for your safety, we might not be getting their new location.”
‘But what about Ironhide? He still needs Energon to function. How will I find them once we’ve figured out how to change me back?’ Bee asked.
“They don’t think there’s a cure for you, Bee. Optimus thought it best to cut ties. Don’t worry about Ironhide. We’re still going to get shipments of Energon for him.” Lennox pulled Bee into his chest. Bee didn’t have room to sign his frustrations, but he also didn’t have energy to fight off his prison of warm arms. Instead he let Lennox’s voice swirl around his own thoughts that wanted to drown him.
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Bee slipped out of the house. The moon, street lamps, and his blinking shoe steps were his only light to navigate out of the neighborhood and try to find his way back to Optimus. The mech might not want him, but that was where he belonged, and he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
It wasn’t the first time that he realized that walking was much more time consuming than driving. This was just another time that the notion ingrained itself into his head. This was the first time Bumblebee found himself walking for a long time after sunset. It seemed to take longer in the dark. It took so much longer to reach the school than it usually does.
Maybe it wasn’t the darkness of night that had Bumblebee shuffling his feet. Maybe it was the thought of seeing Optimus and the others after a month of not seeing them. Maybe it was the knowledge that this was in direct opposition of Optimus’s orders. This is the most rebellious he’s been in a long time. Bumblebee finds his feet stopping. He looks around and realizes he’s walked himself all the way just a house past Sam’s. The chill has already settled into his skin, but he’s just noticed his minutely shivers. His teeth are chattering, and he feels tired seeping into the very marrow of his human bones. His feet and legs ache. It must have been half the night gone by now.
A rumbling sound brings the rest of the world back into focus. Cars race towards him, screeching to a halt and boxing him in. At first he thinks its normal bad humans, until he recognizes the cars and notices the Decepticons’ insignias.
“I don’t get it.” Starscream’s voice is audible from his vehicular mode. “There is but a human child where the signal emits. No energon, no Autobots. Nothing.”
Bumblebee’s heart spikes. He backs away from Megatron’s right-hand. The other ‘Cons have switched back to their natural state. They leer down at Bumblebee. One even tries to grab at him. He rolls to the side, and books it for a crack in their formation. Breakdown snagged Bee’s leg, scooping him upside-down, before he could make it. Bee kept hissing and sputtering at the Cons, but they weren’t intimidated.
“It appears, Starscream, that the boy is the origin of the signal. Maybe Knockout’s weapon wasn’t as defective as we had first thought. This human child does have a striking resemblance to their mute scout.” Breakdown muses.
Bee lets out sharp whistles, hoping the sleeping humans around them will awaken, but its almost no use. His vision starts to blur as the Cons start moving away. He doesn’t know what to do. He starts pushing against the metal fist around his leg, but with each shove the only result is his palms getting hotter.
Bumblebee can feel in his gut that Breakdown is about to shift. He can hear the t-cog clicking its gears in the split second preparation of turning into the alt mode. Bee panics, pulling his arm as far back as he could and smacking hard onto Breakdown’s grip. Instead of being halted by the warm living metal, his hand pushed in with no resistance. A shot of blue energy cut a path from his hand to the open sky. Breakdown drops Bee on the ground in surprise. Bee is able to twist himself to land on his back rather than just his head. He ignores the searing pain of smacking into the asphalt and scrambles away from his capture. The other Cons make a quick double-back, but not before Bee is on his feet. His palms and fingers tingle from the heat, but are unharmed from the powerful blast-ray. Cons surround him. He pulls his arm back and lets out another blast, sweeping his arm in an arc and taking out a line of the enemies, and also some of the residential appliances.
“Bee?” It’s Sam’s voice as he scampers out of his house in a shirt and boxers. “Where’s Lennox? Why are you here?” Bee doesn’t answer. He can’t answer. He sidesteps a blast from the Cons. Its not enough, Bee is grabbed again. His arms are pinned to his side in Starscream’s hand.
“I’ve got him, retreat.” Starscream proclaimed, ignoring Bee’s chitters and Sam’s shouts. A ground bridge was opened a few feet away. Starscream watched his men walk into the portal before turning to Sam with a viscous grin. “Till the next time, Witwick-”
Bee was once again hitting the ground. His back is singing and his ears are ringing from the gunshot. His vision is blurry, but he can still make out Mikaela cocking back a rifle as Sam ran to him. Sam carefully moved Bee away from the Decepticon, who was clutching his shot-up hand. There was a moment where it looked like Starscream was going to exact revenge. Luckily the portal behind him started to close and if he wanted a ride back home he couldn’t fight the humans. Everyone sighed with relief until they looked down at Bee.
The worried shouts of his friends were cut short as Bee’s small body finally gave it quits and fell asleep.
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writeyouin · 4 years
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May I then request female reader with TFP Megatron? He was fighting with Optimus (as usual), noticed the Autobots human allies and ordered Vehicons to destroy the pests. Fast movement caught his eye and with utter disbelief, he saw a new human ally shooting his men down with a miniature Energon gun and doing athletic maneuvers to dodge them and her beauty and ferocity smitten him. After defeat, he has Sounderwave look her up and decides to convince her to join their side and become his.
Megatron X Reader - Powerful
A/N – Now that I am safe in my den, I can proofread this.
Warnings – None.
Rating – T
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“Ughhhh,” Miko groaned dramatically, much to Bulkhead’s chagrin. “Come on Bulk, it’s not fair. Why can’t I go?”
“Miko,” Bulkhead said warningly, not that it had much effect.
“It’s only a recovery mission. You’ll never even know I’m there.”
“We both know that’s not true.”
Miko clasped her hands together, “Please.”
Bulkhead turned to you, seeing that you were checking the computer console for Decepticon activity, “Uh (Y/N), a little help here?”
You sighed, wondering why you were stuck explaining your mission to Miko again. On one hand, she was right, it was a simple recovery mission. A Unit E surveillance drone that had been sent to monitor Decepticon activity had went offline in the middle of the Grand Canyon. All you had to do was recover the drone, repair it, and see what it had found before it went offline. However, on the other hand, you were sure it was a trap. A drone that expensive shouldn’t ever have crashed out of the blue; you had a sneaking suspicion that Laserbeak had something to do with the drone’s ‘malfunction.’ That was why you were taking an army truck and Optimus, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee would be escorting you. Should you be ambushed in the Canyon, you would be prepared.
You pinched the bridge of your nose exasperatedly, “Miko, we’ve been through this. When I’m not here, you are free to join whatever mission the bots will let you in on, but this is a Unit E mission. It will be my ass on the line if Fowler catches you out there.”
“What? Fowler’s coming? No fair.” Miko whined.
“Fair or not, he’s my boss. Sorry Miko, you can’t go this time.”
You went back to monitoring the computer, mapping out the route that would be taken to get to the drone. Another thing that bothered you about this job was that the ground bridge had recently started malfunctioning and couldn’t drop you off at the drone’s exact coordinates. You chewed the inside of your cheek; the mission hadn’t even started yet and it was already going wrong.
While you pondered the route to your goal, Miko was already concocting her own plan. Once she was away from Bulkhead, she planned on grabbing a blanket and sneaking into the back of your cargo truck; it was so simple that she wondered why she hadn’t thought of it sooner.
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You glared at the rocky surroundings of the Grand Canyon, cursing that the drone had crashed right in the middle of it rather than somewhere more defendable. While Fowler drove the truck towards the drone, you surveyed the rocky outcrops that surrounded you.
“Give it a rest, (L/N),” Fowler said amiably, for once in a good mood since the mission was an easy one thus far. “We’ve only got to drive a little further and then we’re done. Easy as pie.”
You didn’t reply to the statement, instead asking Fowler a question, “Permission to end radio silence, Sir?”
“Permission granted.”
You nodded your thanks and commed the Autobots who were driving in formation around you to protect whatever was on the drone. “Everything clear, Optimus?”
“So far, Agent (L/N), however I have Ratchet running scans from the base as we speak.”
“Okay. Thank you.”
“You are welcome, Agent.”
Listening to you converse with Optimus from her position under a tarp in the back, Miko rolled her eyes, wondering why she’d even bothered to sneak aboard in the first place; this mission was a big dull dud. If only there had been a way to sneak into Bulkhead without him noticing; then she might have picked up some decent conversation at the very least.
In her head, she started a prayer to the only God that mattered; Jimi Hendrix, the God of rock. ‘Oh, Lizard King, great guitarist of Legend, please, for the love of your greatest fan Miko, make this mission more interesting, so I don’t die of boredom. Seriously dude! If I die of boredom before I’m the new God of ROCK, I will not be happy.’
After her impromptu prayer, Miko waited. Then she rolled her eyes when nothing happened. She tried again, mainly to give herself something to do. ‘Alright, so the Lizard King didn’t work… Guess I’ll have to go straight to the source of all the best music. Hey Freddie Mercury, it’s your gal, Miko. You didn’t like boredom either, so if you could do me a solid and-’
Miko was interrupted by the sound of screeching tyres. She lurched forward as the Land Rover came to an emergency stop. Something was finally happening and judging by the sound of Cybertronians transforming, and metal hitting metal, it was sure to be exciting.
‘All hail the QUEEN!’ Miko thought gleefully.
Forgetting any semblance of cover, she jumped out of the boot, eager to see what was going on. It was another trap, set by the Decepticons. Megatron, for once forgetting his usual flair for speeches had leapt down from the Canyon’s edge to battle with Optimus, who had clearly taken a bad hit.
Having not yet seen Miko, you breathed a sigh of relief once you were sure Optimus was okay and that he was going to fight back. Megatron was joined by a horde of Vehicons as well as Starscream and Soundwave. The rest of the Autobots transformed into bot mode, putting into play one of their battle strategies for such an occasion. Fowler was about to floor it, as was the plan; Optimus had made the two of you promise that you would leave should a battle occur, so the Autobots wouldn’t be distracted trying to protect you.
“STOP!” You screamed at him, grabbing his arm so he couldn’t put the truck into gear.
“AGENT!” Fowler bellowed back. “WHAT IN HELL DO YOU THINK-”
“Miko,” You pointed out the window. “She’s here!”
“Damn it!” Taking command of the situation, Fowler nodded towards the storage compartment on the passenger side, “Energon pistol there. Rescue that girl, Agent.”
You didn’t have to be told twice; this was exactly the kind of situation you had trained for. While Fowler was good at management, you were his top field agent, which was why he had introduced you to the Autobots in the first place. You grabbed your gun while Fowler drove away, employing evasive manoeuvres so the truck wouldn’t be destroyed; if it was, there would be no way to get Miko back to the base, should the Autobots fail.
You prayed that nobody would notice Miko; although you were fully prepared to fight a bot ten times your size to save her, you would rather get her out of any danger before the Decepticons took advantage of her human frailness. Unfortunately, your hope was dashed as Soundwave spotted Miko from his position above the canyon. It was rare he came on missions but Megatron had demanded his presence to record the demise of the accursed Autobots. Seeing you chasing aster Miko, he sent out Laserbeak.
“Laserbeak, capture the young organic.”
Eager to follow his master’s orders, Laserbeak swooped down into the fray, dodging and weaving between the warring Cybertronians.
“Soundwave, report,” Megatron commanded through his comm-link upon seeing Laserbeak flying behind Optimus.
“Yes, Lord Megatron,” Soundwave replied dutifully. “Laserbeak is to apprehend the Autobots’ organic allies.”
Megatron blocked a punch from Optimus, countering with one of his own. For the few seconds he was free from the fighting, he saw the pest that often travelled with the oaf, Bulkhead, being pursued by another human who he had never seen until today.
He growled, taking advantage of the situation to distract the Autobots, “SOUNDWAVE, DON’T WASTE TIME WITH THE HUMANS. RECALL LASERBEAK, NOW. VEHICONS, DESTROY THE HUMAN PESTS!”
Optimus’ optics widened in shock and he spun around to look at you. He reached out desperately, whispering a muted, “No.”
Using the distraction as an opening, Megatron leapt onto Optimus’ back and the two grappled with renewed vigour; Megatron eager to finally rid himself of his enemy, and Optimus struggling desperately to preserve all organic life, and his own.
“Bulkhead,” Miko cried, suddenly aware of the danger she was in now that six Vehicons were surrounding her, weapons raised.
Bulkhead roared angrily, and jumped in front of her. The Vehicons converged on him, and though he was fighting with all his might, he could not possibly last long against all of them. Avoiding a Vehicon on your own trail, you began shooting, never missing a target, which wasn’t much of an achievement, considering the Decepticons’ massive size. A normal pistol wouldn’t have done any good, but yours wasn’t any ordinary pistol; the weapon had been designed by the Autobots using a slither of their energon supplies. You were only ever supposed to use it in an emergency, since any more ammunition would cost your comrades more precious energon, so this was the first time you had used it, and it certainly packed one hell of a punch.
You almost went down from the recoil alone, though you soon got the hang of it. Employing years of training, you kept shooting until Bulkhead was free and the Vehicons attacking him weren’t getting up. There was no time for gratitude as the battle raged on, and you quickly realised that you were in this till the end.
With more Vehicons pursuing you, you had no choice but to keep moving, taking shots whenever you could.
Optimus managed to kick Megatron off him, though he had little time to follow up, needing a few more seconds to recover from Megatron’s ferocious beating. Megatron was about to finish off Optimus when one of his own soldiers fell on top of him. He was going to kill the fool for incompetence alone, until he noticed that the bot was already dead, a burning hole leaking energon close to where his spark was.
Megatron scanned the battlefield, wondering what had caused such a violent death, and then he saw you for a second time. Although he knew he should have crushed you where you stood while you were unaware of him lurking behind you, he simply couldn’t. He was fascinated by the way you moved. Throughout his long life, Megatron had seen the very best of Cybertronian fighters; he had never seen an organic of any form fight so effectively, especially against a Cybertronian.
Megatron wondered if you were afraid. If you were, you never hesitated to think about it, throwing yourself into the heart of the fight to protect the youngling Miko, who had foolishly run the wrong way. Your hair was plastered messily to your scalp, held in place by sweat and energon. Did you even know you were bleeding from your right thigh? Megatron doubted it; he had heard rumours that human adrenalin made the squishy organics forget their pain temporarily.
Unable to help himself, Megatron reached out for you. Afraid he was planning to kill you, Optimus pulled Megatron’s arm back, stretching it as far back as it would go, until the cables were taut and Megatron was grunting from the pain.
“(Y/N), RUN!” Optimus called to you, and you looked over to him. Instead of running, you snarled, aiming your pistol straight at Megatron’s spark while he was restrained. You pulled the trigger, but nothing happened; the pistol had finally run out of ammo.
Megatron broke free of Optimus’ restraint, then pretended to look around at his fallen soldiers, trying to find a reason to leave. You and the Autobots had taken out enough Decepticons for him to call a retreat. He would normally stay and fight till he was down to his last few bots, but if the fighting went on, he was afraid you might be killed, and you were far too valuable an asset to lose, even if you were an Autobot asset.
“This isn’t over Prime,” Megatron growled. “Decepticons, leave the fallen and retreat.”
His soldiers looked at him questioningly, but complied with his orders, afraid to receive a trip to Megatron’s worst torture devices if they didn’t. Not even Starscream dared argue with Megatron’s odd behaviour in case he put him to work with that brute Predaking again.
You looked around to the Autobots, checking they were alright. When you were sure they were, you glared at Miko.
She shrugged her shoulders awkwardly, “Heh… Guess we won this time?”
“Get in the car Miko, now.”
Miko’s shoulders slumped and she made her way over to Fowler, who had successfully kept the truck safe. Normally, she would have asked to ride with Bulkhead, but quite frankly, he looked disappointed in her too, and she didn’t want a lecture from him of all people; so much for an adventure, instead she had only caused more trouble than she was worth.
Once Miko was safe on her way to the ground bridge with Fowler, you approached Optimus who transformed, opening his truck door so the two of you could talk in private. Megatron’s behaviour was unsettling at best and the two of you would have to talk for quite some time about what might have caused it.
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In his hab-suite aboard the Nemesis, Megatron sat in a chair, resting his servo over his spark. When he was retrained, you didn’t even hesitate about shooting him; it was glorious. Megatron found it ironic that you hadn’t managed to shoot his spark, yet you had still captured it all the same.
The second he had returned to the Nemesis he had sent Soundwave on a mission to locate you and bring you to him. All Megatron needed now was a way to turn your vivacious ferocity onto his enemies. Well, he had spent many a year using Deception to get what he wanted; he would most certainly use it again to make you his.
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mk-wizard · 4 years
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Is Megatron a mutant?
Once again, we are delving into the weird and intriguing world of obscure Transformers theories. After discussing one about Optimus Prime and then his beloved Elita-One, we are now going to focus one on Megatron. Before I get into the fan theory, you all need to understand that Transformers lore has evolved over the years and now, Transformers are no longer just sentient robots. They are alien beings who can be born, grow old, die, get sick, fall in love and even have offspring. It sounds weird and you don’t have to agree with it or go by it, but it is what it is. With that said, Transformers can even have birth defects or handicaps. So the fan theory that surrounds Megatron is if he is in fact a mutant of some kind.
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When I was a little girl, Megatron always came across as a monster to me and not just because of the presence he evoked. Everything about him was beastly from the way he looked, they way he carried himself and even the way his voice sounded in G1. There was something that made him different from other Transformers even other Decepticons in a way that left me feeling like he just wasn’t normal and I wasn’t the only one who ever felt that way. Even his face was a little too unique for a Transformer. I mean, he was the first one to sport eyebrows and a helmet that was confirmed as being removable even though we never saw him take it off in cartoons and no Megatron toy had a removable helmet yet... it looked like it could. In other words, Megatron was trying to hide something. Also, if you take a good look at his design and the proportions, there’s something almost organic about him making look like an ever bigger misfit. It would only be later on though that Megatron would finally take off his helmet and reveal his secret in the comic featuring his origin when he was a gladiator...
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A lot of fans refer to these four protruding things as “robot hair”, but this looks nothing like hair to me especially when I compare it to Arcee’s helm or Transformers RID’s Sideswipe’s helm. These look more like fins or some kind of extra parts. If Megatron was flesh, these would be fleshy protrusions or maybe even tentacles. I can clearly see why Megatron hides these four things as they do look like they’re not supposed to be there and he is ashamed to display them. And if they are anything like some human deformities, maybe he can’t have them surgically removed because he would bleed to death very quickly on the operating table or removing them would cause other permanent damage to his body (maybe even his brain) that he can’t afford to live with. While it is not a very liked moment in Transformers lore, maybe it is one we ought to appreciate a bit more especially considering the origin of Megatron. He was a gladiator who like General Maximus in the film Gladiator was fighting to get his freedom and to make a point. Perhaps Megatron was trying to do the same thing in this moment by revealing his secret and not show off some hairdo. Maybe he was trying to show Transformer society why he had to resort to being a gladiator to survive. Maybe he was trying to show how life was usually like for Transformers with deformities or handicaps. It would make sense because in the beginning, Megatron was a noble person who rebelled against the Cybertronian senate for good reason and him being a mutant which unjustly doomed him to a bad life would make him empathetic in the beginning. It could not have been that he was just poor because Megatron is intelligent, hard working and skilled enough to rise up the ranks. Why wouldn’t he unless it was because he was being kept down over something unfair?
While Megatron’s design would be different throughout the years, him looking different, somewhat organic and alien even next to the other Transformers would remain. Just look at his face in the Michael Bay film.
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He has fangs and an almost dragon like face. Yes, all of the Decepticons had pointy and monster like features, Megatron still maintained that lingering look at some of his parts were extra. As if they were little accessories put on by him to once again hide something. And even in the Transformers Animated cartoon, he looked like an animal. He has almost a panther/tiger like shaped face and the helmet STILL looks like it doesn’t match with the rest of the armour. Sure, it never came off, but considering this is a high tech accessory, maybe it locks on in place like really good Lego pieces and you have to really jiggle it off. I admit that in the Animated cartoon, Bumblebee had feline features too and his were done to make him look cute, so maybe Megatron was given predatory big cat features in order to look intimidating, but... once again, he is the only one sporting eyebrows.
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Then in the recent series, Transformers Prime, which doesn’t even try to hide how different Megatron looks from everyone. Here, his frame borderlines demonic with the curved spikes and he is the only one sporting fangs. Also, the “skin” on his face looks significantly more organic with stripes making him look even more like a tiger especially considering none of the other Transformers look this organic. Not even Airachnid. And every tooth in his mouth is a pointed fang. At first, I thought the shard of dark energon mutated him, but when Starscream used it on himself and I took a second look at the zombie Transformers which came from the shard, they did not come out of looking a thing like Megatron. Also, while everyone has eyebrows now, Megatron still sports the signature hint that his helmet looks like it can come off.
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Are the crew at Transformers trying to tell us that Megatron is some kind of mutant and that maybe, just maybe, beast types aren’t just a fan creation? Does Megatron really have the tiger in him? And if he does, how did it get in there? Did he have it from birth? Was it given to him without consent when he was just a child? Who knows. One thing is for sure. It has been confirmed that Megatron’s helmet comes off and he’s hiding four fold-able fins that he only showed once and hasn’t again since nor does he want people to know his secret. Are ALL incarnations of Megatron hiding a similar deformity which hints that he’s a mutant?
Like I said, it is an obscure theory and the mystery of what’s hiding underneath Megatron’s helmet has yet to be solved seeing as how the one time he did take it off only raises more questions because like I said, that can’t be the robot equivalent of hair as it isn’t even shaped like any kind of hairdo I have seen.
What do you all think? Does this theory hold any water to you?
PS: I claim no ownership on Megatron or the pictures here. They are borrowed from Google.
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