History Fridge / BeastWars

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* The idea of the transwarp wave moving into the future as it spreads. Not only does it conveniently reach Predacon / Maximal Era Cybertron (or would have if the Tripredacus Council hadn't taken steps), but no explanation is given for why anyone picking it up wouldn't just travel back to immediately after the explosion, rather than weeks / months ''after'' it.
** It was stated at the beginning of the series that transwarp technology was experimental. They might still have been perfecting it.
* In ''Call of the Wild'', the beast mode glitch is repeatedly referred to as an issue specifically pertaining to Maximal programming... so why is Dinobot affected?
** In the first episode, he mentioned he'd reprogrammed his activation code to that of a Maximal, so maybe there's that.
** The Predacons are shown as, at best, second-class citizens, meaning that they have to make due with poorer technology and locales. It's possible that the Preds removed that particular glitch so they could adapt to life on more worlds. It might also explain why the first few battles tended to leave the Maximals running in fear: being more in tune with the mindsets of their (mostly) predator animal forms, they would have an advantage.
** Come to think of it, the glitch makes no sense at all. The Maximals primarily use their alt-modes to unobtrusively explore inhabited worlds. How would they do their studies on the local populations if they started tweaking out after a few days in beast-mode?
*** My guess would be that most inhabited worlds aren't as rich with raw Energon as proto-Earth, allowing the Maximals exploring them to be able to surreptitiously spend a good amount of time in robot mode to compare notes with their comrades. Either that, or the glitch is a side-effect of the presence of excess ambient Energon radiation.
*** You also have to take into account that the glitch only comes up because they have to stay in their alt-modes for days to protect themselves from Energon poisoning. As explorers, they would have hidden their ship and be returning to it during downtime each day where they could safely return to robot mode and the ship's shields would protect them from any dangerous radiations.
*** Also worth noting is the circumstances. The Maximals didn't have much time to rest or wind down due to the constant Predacon attacks. Much like a human lacking sleep, this likely caused them to become less functional. If anything, they were going stir-crazy.
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* Ravage's toy in Takara's ''Beast Wars Metals'' line, along with the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' toy based upon it, is designed so that his animal and robot heads are one and the same. This is likely a call-back to Ravage's first character design from ''G1;'' back when he was one of Soundwave's minions, the jaguar head was the only head that Ravage ever had. It seems that Ravage is sticking to the head that he's most familiar with across both his former robot mode--now his beast mode--and the new humanoid form that supersedes it.

** And note that in ''Beast Machines'', he had to effectively wipe all but the basic functions from said sparks to reprogram them. Two of the three that he didn't reprogram ended up rebelling [[spoiler: while the third was Waspinator, who didn't exactly need much coercing]]. The last two he "reprogrammed" turned out to be doing it out of their own free will (the need to protect Cybertron as a whole, even if it's no longer the Cybertron they knew).

* Megatron's final plan to destroy the Ark with the Nemesis doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you think about it. He was incensed earlier in the season when Tarantulas tried to do something similar and the Decepticons are still aboard the Ark, meaning destroying it would wipe out the Predacons as well as the Maximals. Yes, Megatron is carrying the original Megatron's spark, but without his body, that doesn't do him a lot of good. But that's when it hits you- Megatron IS carrying the original Megatron's spark. A Megatron who wouldn't care about wiping out the Maximals OR Predacons if it meant victory for himself. Was BW Megatron being subconsciously manipulated by his ancestor into following the best course of action for the Decepticon leader? It's no stretch to imagine that with time the original Megatron's spark might have taken more and more agency away from BW Megatron. There's nothing concrete in the show itself to support this, but it is an interesting idea nonetheless.

* Silverbolt's kinship with Transmutate makes sense when you remember he too is [[MixandMatchCritters]] different.

* Silverbolt's kinship with Transmutate makes sense when you remember he too is [[Mix-and-MatchCritters]] different.

* Silverbolt's kinship with Transmutate makes sense when you remember he too is [[MixandMatchCritters]] different.

* Ravage's toy in Takara's ''Beast Wars Metals'' line, along with the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' toy based upon it, is designed so that the beast mode and robot mode heads are one and the same. This is likely a call-back to Ravage's first character design from ''G1;'' back when he was one of Soundwave's minions, the jaguar head was the only head that Ravage ever had. It seems that Ravage is sticking to the head that he's most familiar with across both his former robot mode--now his beast form--and the new humanoid form that supersedes it.

* Ravage's toy in Takara's ''Beast Wars Metals'' line, along with the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' toy based upon it, is designed so that the beast mode and robot mode heads are one and the same. This is likely a call-back to Ravage's first character design from ''G1;'' back when he was one of Soundwave's minions, the jaguar head was the only head that Ravage ever had. It seems that Ravage is sticking to the head that he's most familiar with across both his former robot mode--now his beast form--and his new humanoid form that supersedes it.

* Ravage's toy in Takara's ''Beast Wars Metals'' line, along with the ''War for Cybertron: Kingdom'' toy based upon it, is designed so that the beast mode and robot mode heads are one and the same. This is likely a call-back to Ravage's first character design from ''G1;'' back when he was one of Soundwave's minions, the jaguar head was the only head that Ravage ever had. It seems that Ravage is sticking to the head that he's most familiar with across both his beast mode--his former alt-mode back when he was a cassette tape--and his new humanoid robot mode.

* Code of Honor is all about fate and whether or not free will exists. At the very last scene, a proto human uses Dinobot's makeshift hammer to kill the snake which has been preying on them. In other words, before Dinobot's gift they were at the mercy of fate. After Dinobot, they became the masters of their own destiny.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', you have Megatron cutting Rampage's spark in half, then keeping half of said spark in a box lined with energon spikes, squeezing it to cause him immense pain whenever he gets out of line. The horror comes when you remember that, for all intents and purposes, sparks=souls. Megatron essentially tore half of Rampage's soul out of him. And that's not even getting into creating Dinobot II with said half of soul.
** Speaking of Rampage, let's not forget how he became a monster, in the first place; ''the Maximals experimented on him in an attempt to copy the immortality of [[TheStarscream THE Starscream]], the worst Decepticon opportunist in existence.'' Yes, the ''good guys'' performed Nazi-esque eugenics experiments on ''their own people'' in an attempt to emulate the conditions of ''one of the most notorious bad guys of their era''. Then remember that they ''also'' pulled a BigBrotherIsWatching by locking down all information and locations related to the Great War, keeping ''their own people'' ignorant of their past. All in the name of not reliving the atrocities of that war. HeWhoFightsMonsters, indeed...
*** Can't it be considered ProperlyParanoid when the first thing a capable Predacon leader does when getting hold of the location of Earth was to head there with the explicit intent to go back in time and kill the Autobots in stasis lock? Meanwhile, Starscream wasn't always a megalomaniac, he used to be a scientist. Could you condemn someone just because they share a similar origin to someone horrible (or did they explain somewhere that whatever turned Starscream immortal also turned him treacherous and megalomaniacal?)
*** No, because the Predacon records were never sealed, so any Predacon who cared easily learned what happened on Earth (Megatron, Dinobot, even Blackarachnia who was 'born' on Earth). It's just that messing with time on that scale is considered insane and over the line even to the Predacons, Megatron was just that crazy and his minions too uninformed about his real motives. You'll notice the only other Predacons who understood what he was doing were Tarantulas, who wanted EVERYONE to die, and Dinobot, who died trying to stop Megatron from manipulating time.
* A somewhat minor example, but when Rhinox is deprogrammed in ''Dark Designs'', he comments about how being a Predacon is "like being three gigs of attitude on a two gig hard drive. No wonder they've got personality problems", leading to an EverybodyLaughsEnding... save for Dinobot, who is a Maximal by choice, not by programming, and who is still immensely proud of his Predacon heritage (Megatron and his merry band of lunatics, not so much). What Rhinox said would be immensely insulting to someone like that.
** Of course, earlier in the episode, Cheetor's reaction to Rhinox's programming was "Better dead than Pred", which led Dinobot to retort "Some of us have survived the experience", so that isn't entirely overlooked.
* The existence of new Predacons as the series goes on is pretty horrible, when you think about it. At the start of the series, before they crash land on Earth the Maximals jettison their hibernating crew members in their stasis pods to protect them from the crash and energon on the planet, planning to pick them up after they sort out the whole mess. New characters are introduced in the series by having some of these pods crash to Earth, and the Maximals and Predacons fight over them. So far, every single awakened character has no memory of their time on Cybertron due to damage from the crash. But the Predacons take it one step further and purposely [[BrainwashedAndCrazy wipe their memories and implant a program]] that makes them aggressive, scheming, and all the other things that Megatron wants in a minion. As shown in the last few episodes, if the program is removed, it kills the Predacon in was implanted in. That means that Inferno, Blackarachnia, and Quickstrike were probably all loyal Maximals at one point, and all much different people than what they were forced to become.

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** The rest of the protoforms don't fare much better. Considering dozens, if not hundreds, of pods were seen in the first episode being dumped out, but only a handful were ever recovered, much of the crew was likely lost on the planet. It doesn't help that in Coming of The Fuzors it confirms that many of the pods that crash landed on the planet malfunctioned and were destroyed (several malfunctioning transformer bodyparts were seen around where Silverbolt and Quickstrike landed). Even the ones that might have survived the crash didn't survive intact; Silverbolt and Quickstrike were lucky, but Transmutate was just barely functional. And that says nothing of the ones that did get rescued; According to the Timelines comics, Tigatron and Airazor had completely different lives back on Cybertron and were only made into protoforms because their ship was shot down in pursuit of Megatron and transferring their minds into protoforms were the only way to save them. The process was evidently incomplete, as the two basically had no memory of who they were. Tigatron, in particular, would be horrified if he did ever return to Cybertron since he was basically an elite soldier of the Maximal police force, whereas his current personality is a naturalist pacifist.
* G1 Megatron's plan to assassinate Optimus Prime wouldn't let the Decepticons win. If anything, it would actually let ''Unicron'' win, because without Prime, there would be no Matrix of Leadership (or it would fall into the wrong hands and be unusable), and therefore, [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie no way to save Cybertron.]]

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* The idea of the transwarp wave moving into the future as it spreads. Not only does it conveniently reach Predacon / Maximal Era Cybertron (or would have if the Tripredacus Council hadn't taken steps), but no explanation is given for why anyone picking it up wouldn't just travel back to immediately after the explosion, rather than weeks / months ''after'' it.
** It was stated at the beginning of the series that transwarp technology was experimental. They might still have been perfecting it.
* In ''Call of the Wild'', the beast mode glitch is repeatedly referred to as an issue specifically pertaining to Maximal programming... so why is Dinobot affected?
** In the first episode, he mentioned he'd reprogrammed his activation code to that of a Maximal, so maybe there's that.
** The Predacons are shown as, at best, second-class citizens, meaning that they have to make due with poorer technology and locales. It's possible that the Preds removed that particular glitch so they could adapt to life on more worlds. It might also explain why the first few battles tended to leave the Maximals running in fear: being more in tune with the mindsets of their (mostly) predator animal forms, they would have an advantage.
** Come to think of it, the glitch makes no sense at all. The Maximals primarily use their alt-modes to unobtrusively explore inhabited worlds. How would they do their studies on the local populations if they started tweaking out after a few days in beast-mode?
*** My guess would be that most inhabited worlds aren't as rich with raw Energon as proto-Earth, allowing the Maximals exploring them to be able to surreptitiously spend a good amount of time in robot mode to compare notes with their comrades. Either that, or the glitch is a side-effect of the presence of excess ambient Energon radiation.
*** You also have to take into account that the glitch only comes up because they have to stay in their alt-modes for days to protect themselves from Energon poisoning. As explorers, they would have hidden their ship and be returning to it during downtime each day where they could safely return to robot mode and the ship's shields would protect them from any dangerous radiations.

* G1 Megatron's plan to assassinate Optimus Prime wouldn't let the Decepticons win. If anything, it would actually let ''Unicron'' win, because without Prime, there would be no Matrix of Leadership (or it would fall into the wrong hands and be unusable), and therefore, [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie no way to save Cybertron.]]