Fridge / Transformers: Devastation

Fridge Brilliance:

• With all the athletics and flat-out impossible agility Transformers have shown throughout the series, it actually makes a bit of sense that they could utilize Bayonetta-like fighting styles.
• Grimlock incorporates the most wrestling moves in his fighting style. Wrestling is a sport in where you use your weight and power to beat your opponent. Sounds like a perfect fighting style for someone like Grimlock.
• Megatron doesn't transform into a pistol, instead transforming into some form of generic tank. This seems to be just an change for the game mechanics, until you notice that almost all his alternate modes since Transformers: Generation 1 has been a tank, and otherwise, all his boss encounters would require someone to hold him when he's not in his robot mode!
  • The "needs to be held" argument becomes kinda moot as Shockwave turns into a gun, yet can hover/fly. Megatron can also hover in his gun mode in some other appearances of the character, like DreamMix TV World Fighters.
    • Given the influence of the Combiner Wars toys on the game is why Megatron is a tank here, it's likely that's also why Shockwave is still a gun, as his toy in the line was a cannon.
• If one considers this game to be the prequel to The Transformers: The Movie, Megatron's line, "Such Heroic nonsense" takes into a new light. Megatron sees Optimus Prime destroys the device that contains all of Cybertron's entire culture, all because the latter wants to save humanity. Years later, Megatron sees the Autobots rebuild a new civilization in the form of Autobot City. Megatron not only wants to destroy the Autobots because they are his enemy but also for what he perceives as an affront to "real" Cybertronian culture.
• Why Starscream objects to the use of Plasma Energy and even references the golden age pointing out how unstable it is? Assuming the game follows the same continuity as the original G1 show, Starscream before the war was a scientist just like Shockwave or Wheeljack and even his old partner Skyfire/Jetfire. He probably knows the dangers involved with plasma energy and is understandably wary much like the episode "Dinobot Island" when Megatron tampered with said island trying to get a boost of energy despite the Seeker's constant critizism and pleads to stop messing with the place as it grows more and more unstable. Is easy to imagine Starscream has to once again to complain about Megatron once again messing with unstable dangerous resources that could easily backfire on the Decepticons.

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