History Headscratchers / BeastMachines

*** To be practical, Rattrap's new body isn't built for hand-to-hand given such issues as his lack of legs, and the drones often attack in such large numbers that such a strategy wouldn't really be practical.

* Why is there Earth Based Organic Life on Cybertron? How the hell did it get there and get fossilized?

** Because the writers were told to do so, and not worry about how it affects the continuity/lore of the rest of the franchise. But if you still need an in-universe answer, its possible that whoever established Cybertron (the Quintessons for the cartoon, Primus for the comic) used a planet that has/had organic life on it. I wouldn't put it past the squids to wipe out all indigenous life to build a factory over it, would you?

** Considering that wolves are usually a symbol for nobility, the werewolf half could be a representation of the "nobility" Megatron had gained from his success in taking over Cybertron. He was less hammy, was willing to negotiate at times, literally had to be responsible to keep the entire planet going since no one else was around to do it, and, obviously, looked at organics like they were [[AristocratsAreEvil "a filthy disease plaguing his perfect world."]]

* Waspinator went back to Cybertron because he was bored and the Cavemen kicked him out. Why would he wants to do that? He's a wanted criminal in the Maximals' eyes and a rogue Predacon. Couldn't he just stayed outside of the Cavemen's territory? The Earth is a big place, especially in prehistoric era.

** I seem to remember reading on Wiki/TFWikiDotNet that Waspinator was the ''Darksyde's'' pilot. Perhaps he cobbled something together out of spare Transwarp cells and a stasis pod.

* Bob Skir clarified a few things years later. Specifically, that whole thing with the tree slingshot was a joke added by Mainframe (a bit of levity), so don't take it as canon. As for how Waspinator really did get back, he doesn't know but would love to tell the story one day (joking that his odyssey must have been 'worthy of Homer').

*** Yes but still doesn't Optimus primal have access to the Matrix? so why didn't they try to find some kind of way to gain access to the sparks of their deceased friends like Dinobot and Tigatron and attempt to bring them back to life in order to help fight against Megatron? It could not hurt to try since they are at war against countless hordes of Vehicon drones and could use as much help as possible.

** Considering that wolves are usually a symbol for nobility, the werewolf half could be a representation of the "nobility" Megatron had gained from his success in taking over Cybertron. He was less hammy, was willing to negotiate at times, literally had to be responsible to keep the entire planet going (especially if he wanted it to be the "perfect technosphere"), and, obviously, looked at

** It may be that they're uncomfortable actually bringing others back to life and dragging them into a conflict when their comrades have earned peace after their previous conflicts.

*** Beast Wars Megatron ceased to be in a sense once he merged his spark with that of his Decepticon ancestor the original Megatron during the events of the beast wars season 3 episode master blaster because the original Megatron imprinted his mindset and attitude onto the personality and ego of the Predacon Megatron from beast wars, in a word beast machines Megatron's change of personality being due to the original Megatron having frankensteined him into a mental hybrid clone of the original Megatron's but with the Predacon Megatrons ego still being firmly in control of the hybrid mind, this would account for vehicon megatrons disgust for his beast mode and all cybertronians with such biological based alt modes,in a word the Vehicon Megatron having his ego influenced by the personality and attitude of the original Megatron ghost in the machine like

*** Yes but still doesn't Optimus primal have access to the Matrix? so why didn't they try to find some kind of way to gain access to the sparks of their deceased friends from the beast wars like Dinobot and Tigatron and attempt to bring them back to life in order to help fight against Megatron? it could not hurt to try since they are at war against countless hordes of Vehicon drones and could use as much help as possible

* Why don't the Maximals ever consider trying to fish out the sparks of their deceased comrades from the beast wars to help them like Rhinox with Optimus primal in Season 2 of Beast Wars? You would think that they could use all the help that they can get

* Why doesn't the Maximals ever consider trying to fish out the sparks of their deceased comrades from the beast wars to help them like Rhinox with Optimus primal in Season 2?

*** Though ''some'' of Earth's culture may have been adopted into Cybertronian society, since much (if not all) records of the Great War was forgotten or, as shown in BW episode "Possession", suppressed to avoid another war.