YMMV / Lil Formers

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • This comic strip posted in October 27, 2006 has Kranix's Oh, Crap! moment from the start of the original 1986 film be in response to Michael Bay instead of Unicron. As Transformers: The Last Knight ended up being the last Bay-directed Transformers film, Unicron will not be seen in action in that particular film universe.
  • This strip made in January 19, 2008 jokes that the writer's strike would result in Michael Bay happily filming Optimus and Megatron spouting So Bad, It's Good dialogue for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. The final product that resulted from the writer's strike opened up to such negative reception that even Bay admitted that it didn't turn out as hoped.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This strip from 2008 about Marvel making female versions of preexisting characters mentions Galacta, a female version of Galactus, in passing. As of 2010, there actually is a Galacta now.
  • The Transfan profiles from 2007 consist entirely of men, with the exception of a woman who dismisses My Little Pony as "girlie stuff". A few years later, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic would develop a sizable Periphery Demographic of adult men.
  • On several occasions, comics have poked fun at the possibility of certain characters appearing in the live-action films who eventually do show up:
    • "Auditions I" suggests that Jetfire can't appear in the live-action films because of legal issues... which never happened, because he's featured in Revenge of the Fallen.
    • "Auditions II" mocks the idea of Soundwave being in the first film's sequel due to his outdated cassette player alt-mode. However, Soundwave appears in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon with two different updated alt-modes: a satellite and a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
    • "Auditions II" has the casting director express disbelief about Unicron showing up. In The Last Knight, while he doesn't appear in person, imagery depicting him does.
• Shallow Parody: Just about every strip parodying a Transformers continuity other than the Generation One cartoon reeks of mocking the work solely for being different from the Generation 1 cartoon, the arguments on why the other continuities are inferior to G1 frequently being biased and not having a leg to stand on. Shortpacked! even did a Take That! to Lil' Formers in one strip where the characters read a parody of the webcomic called Smallbots and saw that essentially every strip was a character from the original Transformers cartoon bullying their counterpart from another continuity for being "lame" without explaining why.

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