See Transformers Film Series for the live-action film series.
See Transformers: Prime for the animated series.
See Beast Wars for the animated series.
See Beast Machines for the animated series.
See Transformers: Robots in Disguise for the anime and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) for the animated series.
See The Transformers: Robots in Disguise for the comic book series.
See Transformers: Animated for the animated series.
See The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye for the comic book series.
See The Transformers: Dark Cybertron for the comic book series.
See Transformers: Rescue Bots for the animated series.
See Unicron Trilogy for the anime series.
- Transformers: Cybertron actually at least plays with the concept, and Robots in Disguise bases a few gags off of how a car could escape its owner without revealing itself as an alien robot. Transformers (2007) also explores this, replacing slapstick comedy with a sense of otherworldy awe.
- Like it says on the Never Live It Down page, when he said that he couldn't deal with the problem, he was trying to land a critically damaged ship. He didn't say it because he didn't care, he said it because he was busy.
- Actually, they were on the run from the Decepticons at that point, the ship actually wasn't damaged much, if at all, unlike the one used by Hot Rod, Kup, and the Dinobots. This was how they were able to trick Galvatron, by separating from the primary part of the ship which was still intact and then letting Galvatron blow it to hell, making him think he'd succeeded in slaying Magnus and destroying the Matrix.
- Magnus' ship was being Targeted directly by the Revenge, with Cyclonus coming about for an attack. Given the first shuttle had lasted all of about a minute, his choice was Pragmatic and certainly saved their lives.
- Question is, what makes a Physical God high?
- Tainted energon, hacking, or solar bombardment messing with his magnetosphere, which in turn messes with his brain circuits.
- Note that there are dragons in certain episodes of the original cartoon. However, the G1 cartoon didn't actually happen in every continuity, and dragons don't show up elsewhere except as alt-modes, so this counts as another bit of evidence that dragons are somewhere out there in universes where they aren't explicitly shown to exist, given how many universes have a version of, for example, Starscream. (For the uninitiated, this is a Multiple Choice Continuity thing.)
- Either that, or the Transformers saw them in human fiction and decided they were pretty awesome.
- That raises the question of the various other monsters used as alt-modes, like Sinnertwin's Cerberus or Blot's...well, the Transformers Wiki refers to it as a "nose-goblin". And then there's things like Octopunch's pretender-shell, which resembles an old-timey dive-suit with tentacles.
- This theory does terrible, horrible things to established continuity by trying to put RiD and the Unicron trilogy in the same timeline. In Japanese continuity, it was Car Robots, which was set in G1 continuity with new characters, and in American continuity, it's off on its own. Then again, that doesn't rule it out. This is Transformers. Established continuity does terrible, horrible things to itself.
- In the text story "Prime Spark", Armada!Prime meets his G1 and Beast Machines counterparts. G1!Prime puts forward the notion that they're not the same being, but rather alternate versions connected across the multiverse. This casts doubt on the idea that G1 and UT can be reconciled, but does not completely rule it out.
- That actually works out better for the theory; remember that — at the end of the Binaltech storyline — Black Convoy split off the Ravage-altered timeline to form its own continuity, meaning we now have two versions of the Unicron crisis: the original, unaltered version we saw in the animated movie onward, and the version as depicted in Binaltech. The Binaltech version continued on to spawn RiD and the Unicron Trilogy, while the original version continued on with Beast Wars, Beast Machines, etc. The Armada Prime is from the eventual future of the altered Binaltech version, while the G1 and Beast Machines Primes are from the unaltered timeline, completely unaware that they are actually "cousins" separated by a divergent timeline.
- Simpler explanation: The Quintessons originally built the Transformers, but Primus gave the sparks. Thus, while the Quintessons may have created their bodies, the Transformers consider Primus to be their true creator, as he gave them sentience and self-awareness.
- And if the Quintessons built the Autobots from naturally occurring gears and pulleys, we've got ourselves the trifecta. Wonder if we can shoehorn the Allspark in while we're at it...
- Maybe the Allspark was designed as a replacement for the Heart of Cybertron either after it was stolen by Megatron to power the Nemesis, or after it was subsequently destroyed by Perceptor.
- The Allspark's been confirmed to be the essence of Primus, so it really would only be a combination of two origin stories, not three.
- And if the Quintessons built the Autobots from naturally occurring gears and pulleys, we've got ourselves the trifecta. Wonder if we can shoehorn the Allspark in while we're at it...
- According to the 3H comic continuity, the Quintessons created the Transformers in an attempt to harness the power of Primus. Their scheme did not entirely go according to plan.
- ...I trust you are enjoying your pornography...and toast...
- Of course, they could go back to budding....
- Doesn't that result in sentient robo-cancer and successive generations becoming more and more emotionless?
- It's still feasible. Unwise, but feasible. And, well, desperate times...
- Doesn't that result in sentient robo-cancer and successive generations becoming more and more emotionless?
- Dude, only Japan tries to fit it into G1 continuity. (Don't ask how.)
- It makes SENSE in Japan, though, since they don't use G1 names. It's set in 2000, which would place it between the second season and the movie, and it takes place in Japan, explaining the lack of G1 characters.
- Alternatively, he did it just because he felt like it. Every profile writeup Astrotrain's ever gotten says he gets a kick out of chaos and confusion... So creating an Evil Power Vacuum inside his own passenger comparment? Why, it'd be like his own personal Decepticon ant farm!
- Given how the Vok actually handled things, it's unlikely that they'll keep the job.
- Jossed; according to Ask Vector Prime, he doesn't even know for sure what they are or what their goal is (although he did entrust them with the Origin Matrix in the Shattered Glass universe).
- Isn't it implied Universe Ratchet is Marvel Comics Ratchet though?
- This just makes Star Wars Transformers all the more confusing!
- So the Allspark (the entity/afterlife/dimension, not the artifact) is the Force? And Primus being the Unifying Force?
- Given that the Hate Plague was actually a form of HYPER insanity, and one that wasn't all-consuming since once he's infected, Galvatron is once again leading the Decepticons, who are at that point still working as a cohesive force, this actually makes sense.
- It was also created by Unicron to detect any new source of energy to power himself up.
- All the stuff about Primus being a god is mythology/ancestor worship the Transformers have developed over the years, as the story mutated over several hundred million years to the point of being unrecognizable.
- Alternatively, Primacron merely found the planetoid that Primus had tricked Unicron into sealing himself into, and used that as the base material for creating a robot (which is why it went rogue on him- it had an evil god in it. You really have to check for those things).
- Primus, meanwhile, laid low until the Quintessons turned his comatose body into a factory, at which point he woke up long enough to give the factory products Sparks, free will, and the desire to revolt. Then he went back to bed.
- In the Japanese dub of "Call of the Primitives", the assistant of Primacon/narrator aka the "Oracle" is identified as the same entity as Primus, Vector Sigma and the Oracle in the Beast Era. This is official conclusion drawn from the seemingly out-of-place Matrix in a scene in the episode "Call of the Primitives" is shown rising from Primacron's destroyed lab into space while the Narrator (his assistant) says "I escaped to this dead world", "I"/the narrator is logically identified with that is escaping, the Matrix/what is inside the Matrix. But if that was the case shouldn't the narrator be narrating from Cybertron?
- There are many ways to access Primus, via the Matrix of Leadership, the super computer Vector Sigma etc. The Oracle did appear in Beast Machines on Cybertron after all.
- Alternately, Hot Rod is genuinely that unobservant.
- Hot Rod clearly did so to usurp Optimus Prime, making him a better Starscream than the actual Starscream.
- Or better yet, Obama is actually Rodimus Prime.
- More like G1 Ultra Magnus.
- Well, Transtech Prime is suspected to be based on him.
- Change... into a truck.◊
- Maccadam's Old Oil House appears in every continuity where we get a decent look at Cybertron- something suspicious, given how much it varies otherwise. There must be some reason for it.
- Dead Optimuses and Megatrons from across the multiverse apparently have a private room to hang out in between resurrections, hinting at a supernatural connection for the bar owner, and a multiversal nexus for the bar itself
- Drunken background characters are never wrong!
- From this, we can surmise that Maccadam is one of the original thirteen.
- Like Nexus Maximus is the Guardian of Rarified Energon and Vector Prime is Guardian of Time, Maccadam is the Guardian of the Well of All Sparks, located deep within the twisting corridors of backrooms behind the bar- the bar is in every universe to ensure that every universe has an afterlife.
- Maccadam's Old Oil House has many bars, each connected to the same backroom (the Well of All Sparks). Presumably he has very good security, to prevent some drunken yahoo from wandering through the wrong door and coming out in Shattered Glass.
- Ask Vector Prime seems to imply he's Alchemist Prime.
- It is sold to Hasbro and people under the table by one someone working there out to make a quick buck- possibly one of the many Swindles living in Axiom Nexus.
- Media is released on dates and in forms that match up so closely to the dimensional identifier as a combination of in-joke and guide for them- there's so much raw data that they had to figure out some sort of date-based rationing system to make it look like they made it up, and using the dimensions that match up to our dates is as good as any.
- If that's true, we're probably screwed- Transtechs are powerful and it seems there's some ever-increasing tension within Axiom Nexus.
- So? Then we get involved with the Cybertronian wars, just like Earth does in every other freaking continuity stream- we're probably just taking longer than usual. Whether our universal polarity is positive or negative, we're practically guaranteed to get either the Autobots or the Decepticons protecting us from their evil brothers, probably the Autobots from what we've seen so far. Unless, of course, the univeralness of that happening in what they've let us see is a misinformation campaign...
- Jossed by the second Allspark Almanac. We're in the Quadwal Cluster, Axiom Nexus is in the Nexus Cluster.
Who was the first person to be revived? Skywarp. One of the Skywarps I mentioned above was hiding in the Ark, and after it crashed on Earth, influenced life into evolving into humans, and then waiting for the humans to develop technology suitable for the Cybertronians. When he thought Earth technology was suitably advanced, he teleported into the volcano that had the Ark lodged in it, and self-destructed. That caused the volcano to erupt, jolting Teletraan-1 back to life. Once the second Skywarp self-destructed, his mind was transported into the first Skywarp, who rolled into place for Teletraan-1 to repair him. After he revived all the other Decepticons, he convinced Starscream to shoot the Ark, knowing that it would throw one of the Autobots into the repair beam. His reason for this is that the Seekers wanted the Autobots and Decepticons to destroy each other, leaving the Seekers. That was almost accomplished in the 1986 animated movie.
Who was reformatted into Scourge? Thundercracker. Knowing of Unicron's abilities, Thundercracker psychically asked him to reformat him and Skywarp into two separate entities, rather than make Skywarp a Sweep, right after he was reformatted into Scourge, and before the Sweeps were created. This was so he and Skywarp could be close to Galvatron, making it easier to influence him.
Who was possibly reformatted into Galvatron's most loyal warrior, Cyclonus? Skywarp. If you think Bombshell became Cyclonus, then Skywarp immediately destroyed him, and took his name. This was for the same reason Thundercracker had for making Skywarp and him separate entities.
Which reformatted characters' original forms appeared at Starscream's Coronation? Thundercracker and Skywarp. Clones of them hung onto Astrotrain, and helped Scourge and Cyclonus lead Galvatron to Starscream.
- So much for Thundercracker being a Noble Demon.
- I think you have them confused with the GoBots.
- Or, organic species inhabited Cybertron before the coming of the Primus/Quintesson-created robots (see above).
- Additionally, a humanoid civilization thrived until they were wiped out by the Quintessons. Survivors may have been forced underground. Primus tries to convert them into cyber-organic beings, which ultimately deformed them into the Demons (or Primordials).
- Solus Prime is a personification of his feminine side.
- That only works if we're talking about techno-organic transformers, and most of the ones we've seen are implied to be pure machine.
- Yes, they're pure machine. They're also giant alien robots who transform into vehicles, who have encountered things such as time travel and aliens who use a magical pool to transform, and worship a god-like robot named Primus. None of that stuff's within the bounds of reality, so why shouldn't we suspend disbelief about the whole pregnancy thing?
- Because Magic A Is Magic A, and while we have seen a lot of reality-breaking stuff in the transformers multiverse, we have never seen anything resembling cell division in mechanical beings, except in technorganics. They don't self-repair, they don't grow or show signs of aging, and they're demonstrated to start out the same size they will be their entire life in every continuity (except Sari, but she's half human and inadequately explained). Unless you're proposing that a fully grown transformer gets pregnant with another fully grown transformer, the concept of transformer pregnancy would require an additional reality break (robotic cellular mitosis and meiosis) besides the existing "Sparks And Gods, Planetary Magic [transformation pools, the dragon in G1, etc], Energon-based plasma weaponry, and Trans-Warp time-space travel" breaks that most of the known breaks can fit into. And before you mention the Planetary Magic break, we've only seen that on non-Cybertronian worlds, mainly Earth and a few other alien worlds.
- Actually, we have seen cell division and mitosis in fully mechanical TFs, in the form of budding. And we also have actually seen fully-mechanical TFs self-repair, and there's plenty of TFs like Kup and Alpha Trion that certainly do show signs of aging. On top of that, it's been stated in canon that TFs have "CNA". Not that I don't agree that the TFs probably do not get pregnant in the human sense, but only because we've never seen them ever do it that way despite there being no problem showing us the many other ways they reproduce (plus external building makes more practical sense), not because it's technically impossible.
- While budding is possible, it also results in what basically amounts to a reduction of soul as connection to Primus becomes thinner and more strained. If that's an indication of what non-MacGuffin reproduction is like in general, any form of Spark creation not involving Primus will inevitably lead to loss of emotion and possibly Swarm creation. Neither of which are in any way desirable.
- Well, the problem with budding is that, since it involves a single TF being split into two beings, it's no wonder there was a reduction in soul, since the budded TF is pretty much a clone of the original. Whereas sexual-style reproduction would involve a merging of two souls and CNA sources into a new form. As such, I don't think you can necessarily use the negative results of budding as proof that sexual reproduction would be just as negative, as the two are rather different processes. Especially since sparks have certainly been created without Primus involved in ways other than budding (most recent being in the Sunbow continuity Generation 2: Redux when the humans reverse-engineered Vector Sigma's technology into their own devices to create Earth-born Transformers), so that doesn't mean a whole lot.
- I would like to direct your attention to the first few minutes of The Transformers: The Movie (the 80's one). The first on-screen victim of Unicron is the planet Lithone. The inhabitants of said planet are robots similar to Transformers, and in one scene, we see not only mechs and femmes but robotic children. The Lithones are clearly capable of reproducing sexually despite being robots, so why not Cybertronians?
- Because the Lithonians aren't explicitly broken off fragments of godsoul in crunchy metal shells, whereas Cybertronians are?
- So wait... if Sparks are split off from Primus, does that mean PRIMUS HIMSELF is budding? The would be so many kinds of bad...
- Budding was perfectly safe back in the day when the initial Sparks had enough oomph to them to survive the process with emotions; it was simply Not Meant For Mortals to use after the initial generation or two, and Primus, being God, has more than enough spark power to spare, especially given that they return to him when extinguished. Alternatively, thats why he spends most of his time sleeping.
- Ok, so what's your explanation for the hatchlings in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen? After all, the baby Cybertronians had to come from somewhere, even if they do hatch from pods.
- Starscream budding is all I can think of. I mean, even if mating was possible, the only ones there were Starscream and the Fallen... Oh dear.
- Oh, right. You forget- Fallen was one of the Original 13. From before budding was deleted, and directly made by Primus. He can probably still bud if need be; it'd also explain why the hatchlings looked so much like him and nothing like Starscream.
- The hatchlings were dead. However they were produced, it failed to create living transformers.
- Actually, the idea of baby Cybertronians may not be as stupid as it sounds. Just read this if you don't believe me. Also, Wheelie's backstory in some versions mentions his crashing on Quintessa with his parents, and one of the commercials for the toys mentions the Decepticon Sixshot is the father of the Autobot Quickswitch.
- Yes, they're pure machine. They're also giant alien robots who transform into vehicles, who have encountered things such as time travel and aliens who use a magical pool to transform, and worship a god-like robot named Primus. None of that stuff's within the bounds of reality, so why shouldn't we suspend disbelief about the whole pregnancy thing?
- They can reproduce by combining the energy of two laser cores to ignite a third laser core inside a newly-built body. A new "spark" of life in the laser core, so to speak.
- Not that much of a guess, really; this was almost outright stated as being the case in "Crossing Over: Part 6", when the Caretaker says that "Your bodies, even your sparks, are merely emergent properties of the sublime luminescence of your being: Energon."
- Cthulhu is part dragon, Unicron has wings.
- Cthulhu is part squid, Unicron has tendrils and vaguely resembles a squid in planet mode.
- Cthulhu is a humanoid, Unicron is too.
- Not to mention that both of them are lesser gods, with something else sitting in the space between universes...
- As a follow up, Galvatron simply went mad from the revelation.
- ...But we already said he was Nyarlathotep! He can't be both, can he? ...Please tell me he can't be both. That would be bad.
- But Cthulhu is napping on earth. I think Nyarlathotep is more likely - maybe he just took a Cthulhuian form, for some reason?
- Alternate theory: Unicron fought with Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones before the Big Bang.
In "Rhythms of Darkness", we see that North America is under control of the Decepticons, commanded by Galvatron, who is getting bored at the lack of fighting. Rodimus Prime is close to death, and is strung up between the Twin Towers. This shows that Galvatron is, if anything, even more powerful by this time, and thus the idea of him being the same one as from the UK stories is entirely plausible.
Since Furman included a whole lot of references to the UK comic in his US run, this also makes sense from a Doylist perspective.
- However, in Marvel Comics issue #65, we see that they're not immune to high gravity, as the Autobots were burning energon to compensate for the planet's high gravity, leaving them low on power at a critical moment.
- However the fellow kid who plays as Cobra Commander must stink at the game.
- He just lets his gun do all the thinking (and take all the notoriety) for him.
- Ha, he wishes.
First off, let's start with reason for each races.Humanity: They wanted to expand from Earth, but lack serious technology and their fleshling selve are bit fragile in deepspace.Cybertronian: With the civil war and all, they found out that their species is dying en masse. They still have the need to revive Cybertron that require massive amount of energon, but at the same time, they needed the scarce energon to sustain themselves.
So, with the reason established, each race develop a method to merge with each other. Cybertronian, seeing that human's anatomy conserved much more energy and simply more nimble, decide to upgrade themselves by downsizing the overall size into normal humanoid size shedding the large frame. Human, also in a way, upgrade themselves to this form. But one question remain, the universe at large is largely organic lifeform. In the event of energon absence or depletion, they need to sustain themselves with organic material(i.e eating organic matter). Thus they begun the techno-organic project. This particular project's aim is to integrate Hardiness of metal technology and the organic diversity.As the project almost come to completion, Predacon/Decepticon faction decide that they like staying metal, and sabotage the project, destroying all the tech-org goop on Cybertron. Since all of humanity is either converted to metal or willingly turn themselves into tech-org material, the source of that project is lost aside from the record of humanity's origin, the Golden Disk featured in BW-era.
- Not only that, but since Unicron is a multiversal singularity and The Transformers equivalent of Satan, every version of Satan in fiction is actually Unicron himself.
- Except that Unicron is stronger than Primus. We can't have Satan being stronger than God, can we?
- He isn't stronger, exactly, its just that God's Hands Are Tied by the fact that he has to worry about the welfare of his inhabitants and the universe/multiverse around him, whereas Unicron has no such restrictions, since he wants to destroy it all anyway. Besides, Primus is pretty much just the Archangel Michael; the Sentient Core of the Universe that created the two is God.
- Primus also got the crap beaten out of him on the Astral Plane, where there were no such restrictions, so it would stand to reason that he's the weaker of the two.
- Though that doesn't change the fact that Primus is basically just an Archangel of the same fundamental class of being as Unicron but of opposite alignment, in which case Satan isn't stronger than God, merely stronger than the dude God sent to keep him from destroying Creation.
- Arguably, Primus is the closest thing that the Transformers multiverse has to the Christian-Judaic God. The Sentient Core of the universe hasn't done anything other than actually create him in the first place. Meanwhile, Primus shares a fair number of traits in common with God, like the way his name is often invoked, and is more of a creator figure. But putting that aside, what really discredits this WMG is that there are series where Satan Is Good, or at least, not evil.
- Except that Unicron is stronger than Primus. We can't have Satan being stronger than God, can we?
- Alternate theory: Unicron is a spawn of the Devil. That be the case, Primus is a warrior of God, created to take on Unicron.
- It is possible that 'God', 'Satan' and other characters of myth and legend were inspired by Primus, Unicron and the 13, along with other ancient heroes.
- Because they both contain the initial of the opposite faction's name. Proof.◊
- Or we could just chalk it up to sexual tension?
- The Autobots' symbol represents the Last Autobot and the Decepticons' represents the Fallen.
- "Tha' only thing worse than a stinkin' pred, is stinkin' Decepticon!" - Rattrap (and he'd know according to this)
- based off this picture on DeviantArt
- "Once a Predacon, always a Predacon" has a whole different meaning now.
For starters, in the video game she looks like a motorcycle Transformer. Supposedly she regrets that she is unable to use scientific powers, suggesting that she was once rather intelligent and well-educated. The duty of the Doras is "to declare their opinion", suggesting that she may have been on her school's debate team. They eventually evolved into Autobots and Decepticons, and of course now they're having the mother of all "debates".
- It's spreading across realities.
- It's effing UNICRON. The Eldritch Abomination Big Bad of Transformers pretty much in general.
- Rule of Cool.
- It actually already caused one, more or less. Just, this being Transformers, the multiverse moved on again and the result is more or less all undone again.
- Universes will be either destroyed or merged with the Transformers Aligned Universe. The Shattered Glass universe is spared the merging. A post-merged Starscream is the only one to remember everything.
- As of the big reveal at the end of season 1 of Transformers: Prime, this seems unlikely, because, well, it'd be small potatoes by comparison.
- He'll have an obvious Beard of Evil, unless he turns out to be a Red Herring.
- He'll also sport a mohawk.
- He'll have an obvious Beard of Evil, unless he turns out to be a Red Herring.
- Blurr's Super-Speed (Auto-Haste status effect).
- Skywarp's Teleportation
- Mirage's Invisibility (Vanish)
- Elita 1's Cast from Hit Points Special Power
- Megatron's Auto-Revive. Additionally he must have a way to restore his Hit Points. At the end of "The Ultimate Doom Part 3", he is quite severely damaged after his starship explodes, but when he returns to Decepticon Headquarters on Earth in the very next episode ("Countdown To Extinction"), there's not a scratch on him. Plus, in "More Than Meets The Eye" and "Heavy Metal War" he must have had a means to revive the other Decepticons. This troper smells Phoenix, Life A.K.A. Raise, Cure 3 A.K.A. Curaga, and Life 3 A.K.A. Reraise or Auto-Life.
The Hate Plague behaves a lot like the combined Negative Status Effects of Berserk and Charm and/or Confuse. Victims even glow red, just like someone afflicted◊ with Berserk.
It may only be possible to truly defeat the Dweller in the Depths using Ice and/or Water based attacks. It readily absorbs energy, and those attacks would be the only types that wouldn't fuel the creature.
- The only way to become immune to getting turned into an Energy Vampire by the Dweller may be to cast the Final Fantasy VIII version of Zombie on one's self, or by using a Relic Ring or Lich Ring from Final Fantasy VI. Undead creatures cause a Drain effect to reverse, meaning the Dweller would have its energy stolen if it tried to drain anyone under the Zombie or general Undead status effect.
Every Transformer effectively has the "Auto-Regen" status automatically set, thanks to their automatic repair systems.
- And they shall be triple changers. vehicle mode, robot mode, and...my little pony mode!
- That'll probably cause both fan bases to scream "Ruined Forever!" you know.
- One focused on mythical/ancient Transformers such as the Thirteen, the Guiding Hand, Demons, Trans-Organics, the Last Autobot, Xal, Primus, and Unicron.
- A line featuring non-Transformers allies and enemies, such as Quintessons, Nebulans, Vok, and humans, with a transformable ally or equipment (including post-upgrade Sari Sumdac, exo-suit Daniel or Spike, Sharkticons, Allicons, and the Head/Target/Power-masters).
- Another IDW-centered toyline, this time focusing on the thirteen colonies of Metrotitans, with different variations:
- Caminus: mostly female Transformers (some with Windblade's Japanese aesthetic) with melee bladed weapons;
- Eukaris: organic or technorganic beast modes, mostly characters from the Beast Era (including Fuzors);
- Velocitron: alien-looking, aerodynamic race cars;
- Elita One's ship: either a pirate/raider theme, Vehicon-looking alt-modes, or both;
- A planet of Micromasters Combiners (possibly Prion);
- Ok, so the Micromaster Combiners come from Devisiun; Prion probably has either Mini-Cons, Triple Changers, or both;
- Circle of Light/Crystal City: molds inspired by Japanese-exclusive G1 characters and aesthetics, some of them with Drift's Great Sword.
- Which of course will feature the Transformers.
- Planet eater? Check. Massive Horns? Check. The ability to reshape others to his will? Check. Y'know come to think of it Galactus is said to appear differently to different races...
- The Cybertronian Civil War is older than any other galactic civilization and not restricted to just Cybertron. Wherever Autobots or Decepticons go, the other faction inevitably follows them and destruction ensues. The galactic community knows that and shuns Cybertronians, even to the point of opening fire on sight. "Robots in Disguise" isn't unique to Earth, it applies to the entire galaxy because no civilization wants to see them.
The reason is two-fold: to give the other Decepticons someone to hate who isn't Megatron, and to keep the other Decepticons in line by showing them what happens when they get ideas above their stations. Of course, Megatron sometimes gets Lost in Character (such as in "Triple Takeover" and "Hoist Goes Hollywood"), though he always apologizes to Starscream afterwards, and 'Screamer takes it all in stride. Sometimes, it's a ploy to get new recruits. For example, "Starscream's Brigade" was a gambit to obtain another combiner team in response to the Autobots gaining the Protectobots; Megatron banishing Starscream from Earth was to allay suspicion that the entire thing was staged, and Starscream's later attempt to extort leadership by trying to destroy Earth was part of a ploy to make the Autobots think they had destroyed the Combaticons.
As for the movie, this, too, was staged. Starscream willingly allowed himself to be killed, as both he and Megatron knew of his mutated spark. The plan was for Starscream to throw Megatron out of Astrotrain, then Megatron would get repaired somewhere, somehow, and come back and kill Starscream. Neither of them counted on Unicron reformatting Megatron into Galvatron, but they rolled with it, and Starscream later returned as a ghost. In "Ghost in the Machine", Starscream successfully got revenge on Unicron for derailing his and Megatron's plans, and Galvatron retained enough sanity to not kill Starscream. After being cured of his madness, Galvatron gave Starscream a well-earned retirement for his years of loyal service, and Starscream largely disappeared from the face of the galaxy, though he's always on call if the other Decepticons get too uppity and need to be shown the price of mutiny.
- It could also be something Megatron asked Starscream to do to keep him on his toes and always ready for combat.
A long running one, but stick with me here. Brawn survived much worse-including getting shot in the head. In the same scene, Ironhide survives his wounds initially, and it takes Megatron shooting him point blank to finish him off. So it's not improbable he could've survived his wounds. Admittedly, he doesn't make an appearance after the Movie-but neither do numerous characters who's survival was confirmed (Sunstreaker, Cliffjumper, Hound, and Jazz).
They're mechanical just like Cybertronians and Cybertronic wildlife, and foliage is often shades of gray-blue with photovoltaic cells.