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you’re telling me this onicle is bi?
what’s that? this former is trans too?
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reblog this and say when you first joined tumblr and what your initial fandom/focus was in the tags
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I don’t think I have all that many major-scale hot takes, but if I were to name one hopeless hill I’d absolutely die defending, it’s that the robot designs from Bayformers 1-3 are cool as shit.
Yeah, I’m serious.
Okay, but does anybody actually like Ramjet?
All of the other Seekers have something interesting going for them
- Starscream is Starscream.
- Skywarp is a meat-headed jerk who does what he is told without question. Plus he looks cool.
- Thundercracker has deep reservations about the Decepticon cause, and likes writing fanfiction about his friends.
- Thrust tries to be a badass to cover up his crippling insecurities.
- Dirge dies every episode.
- Slipstream is either a snarky aloof type or a stern militaristic type with a bit of a vengeful streak, depending on which cartoon you’re watching.
- Sunstorm is a fanatical maniac who wishes to cleanse the universe with the fires of his boundless fury.
- Acid Storm has that gloriously eye-searing colorscheme and is canonically genderfluid.
But Ramjet? The most I’ve been able to glean from tfwiki is that he likes headbutting things. Which is not a personality.
Even IDW, which turned fucking Swerve into one of the most likeable and complex characters in its roster, killed Ramjet off in 2006 and proceeded to have absolutely nobody react to his death in any way.
So, again, does anybody actually like Ramjet? Is he anyone’s favorite Seeker? Why?
Everyone likes to joke about Cyberverse Shockwave being angry all the time, but I never got vibes of anger from him.
The vibe he always gave off to me was being profoundly done with everyone’s bullshit. Like, half his dialogue could be replaced with heavy sighing and the same effect would be communicated.
In Transformers Prime, Ratchet at one point says that Soundwave’s anatomy is drastically different from a “normal Cybertronian.” He is the only character we see who has these extendable cable things.
Furthermore, in Robots in Disguise, we finally get to see how incredibly long those things are. Seriously, they’re at least 200 feet long, and that’s just what we visibly see of them.
So, my theory is that Soundwave doesn’t have an internal “skeletal” structure like all other Cybertronians. Instead, his body’s just filled with these cables, all coiled up and twisted together to serve the same basic function as a skeleton.
That is exactly what he is doing.
A short tribute to the only two innocent souls in the entire Transformers film series.
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJP6MT2L1Qo
AUDIO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0
Soundwave's leitmotif in Robots in Disguise is so good, you guys.
SOURCE: Robots in Disguise (2015) 02x10 “Portals”
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In Transformers Prime, Ratchet at one point says that Soundwave’s anatomy is drastically different from a “normal Cybertronian.” He is the only character we see who has these extendable cable things.
Furthermore, in Robots in Disguise, we finally get to see how incredibly long those things are. Seriously, they’re at least 200 feet long, and that’s just what we visibly see of them.
So, my theory is that Soundwave doesn’t have an internal “skeletal” structure like all other Cybertronians. Instead, his body’s just filled with these cables, all coiled up and twisted together to serve the same basic function as a skeleton.
I’m just saying...
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Want to read an almost 500-page pdf analyzing the (first three) bayverse Transformers movies, about the creeping fascism of the autobots, bizarre symbolism, and Megatron being the secret hero of the piece? OKAY HERE YOU GO
(Full disclosure, most of the length is pictures mixed with short paragraphs. It’s not 500 pages of text.)
The “bayverse is actually good” analysis is a firmly tongue-in-cheek bit of fun that came out of Something Awful’s Cinema Discusso forum circa 2012. I’d heard it referenced but never bothered to read the thing until now. A lot of it is “wtf, Michael Bay?”, but there’s weird stuff going on in the background, from Megatron’s design and role becoming gradually more feminine as the movies progress until he’s letting his children eat his own body, Starscream the last loyal decepticon, Optimus’ deliberately-misleading narration, Shockwave-as-the-red-scare, and the decepticons’ working-class coding before IDW Megatron came along. If you enjoy reading too much into media as much as I do, it’s worth a look.
Reading this and the notes for this post…….holy shit. I feel more grateful for the Bumblebee movie now. Including hopefully we get that Transformers 1990 movie that’s been rumored soon.
I just wanna say Bayformers is wild…..these should of been written because holy fuck. Yeah this tonuge in cheek and I’m probably thinking too much. But God these movies should of been rebooted earlier or written differently.
It’s no wonder I seem to like Dark Of The Moon in a way. Where it feels like, “The Decepticons Strike Back”.
I feel obligated to reblog because expanding upon this idea is basically the whole point of my “Overthinking the Transformers Movies” series.
Live-action Hot Rod may be one of the most utterly worthless fictional characters I’ve ever seen.
You see, he has the power to stop time. This makes him so overpowered that it completely breaks the rest of the movie.
Seemingly, the writers also realized this. But, instead of rewriting the movie so that one of their protagonists doesn’t have a movie-breaking superpower, they instead wrote the rest of the movie so he has this power but never uses it when it would actually be helpful.
There are so many points throughout the film where stopping time would be the most efficient solution to whatever is happening. But, whenever those moments roll around, Hot Rod is either not there or busy with something else. They made their character so brokenly overpowered they have to write him out of his own movie.
The fact that he’s a walking French stereotype (for some reason) doesn’t help matters.
I usually disagree with the sentiment that the live-action Transformer designs are “visually cluttered,” but I will concede that I have no idea how to parse Dragonstorm.
what even is any of this
In Transformers Prime, Ratchet at one point says that Soundwave’s anatomy is drastically different from a “normal Cybertronian.” He is the only character we see who has these extendable cable things.
Furthermore, in Robots in Disguise, we finally get to see how incredibly long those things are. Seriously, they’re at least 200 feet long, and that’s just what we visibly see of them.
So, my theory is that Soundwave doesn’t have an internal “skeletal” structure like all other Cybertronians. Instead, his body’s just filled with these cables, all coiled up and twisted together to serve the same basic function as a skeleton.
CONSIDER:
alpha quintesson
I’m going to get more into this in a future essay, but these two are the only truly innocent characters in the Transformers film series.
#Demolishor&SidewaysDidNothingWrong
It’s a little thing, but I love the detail of movie Shockwave manually reloading his arm cannon like this. I can’t explain exactly why I like it. I just think it’s cool.