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*** "Some stupid reason?" Transwarp technology allows for time travel. They wouldn't just have to deal with Megatron, every vainglorious Predacon with a brain would be trying to scrap Optimus Prime.
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** It's very similar to ''{{Animorphs}}'': when the Animorphs turn into animals, they still have their own minds, but acquire many personality traits of the animal they morph to. In BW, Cheetor gained a love of running, Rhinox gained the natural instinct to just ram things, etc. Hell, if I recall correctly, the ant morph gave the Animorphs issues as well in terms of going insane. So there's precedent for people going insane when turning into an ant.
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***** Which is odd in itself, because in most other cases, the Transformer is not given the choice to override or not. It just happens.
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** Both the Predacons and Maximals have been seen eavesdropping on the other side's base. Or it could be a simple coincidence that Megatron also came up with the word, ala Godfried Liebnitz and Isaac Newton both coming up with calculus.
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*** To complete the thought, with the destruction of the disk Megatron could never again check if the future had changed to his intended specifications; thus, he would never know if he'd killed enough humans even if he did get back to hunting them.
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** Names in general are strange on this show. In the first episode, everyone who arrived on Earth besides Optimus and Megatron renamed themselves based on their animal (this diminished in later seasons with names being a bit less obvious) with lame dialogue like "Hey, I'm a cheetah! No, wait... I'm CHEETOR!" So, what were their names before they came to Earth? And why did they all rename each other? Who accidentally crashes on a deserted planet and is like "Well, first things first, better rename myself based on the local wildlife." I know them being Cybertronians with names based on Earth animals is a little hard to rectify, but you could hand wave it that they all chose animals based on similarities to their own names or something.
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** Names in general are strange on this show. In the first episode, everyone who arrived on Earth besides Optimus and Megatron renamed themselves based on their animal (this diminished in later seasons with names being a bit less obvious) with lame dialogue like "Hey, I'm a cheetah! No, wait... I'm CHEETOR!" So, what were their names before they came to Earth? And why did they all rename each other? Who accidentally crashes on a deserted planet and is like "Well, first things first, better rename myself based on the local wildlife." "
** Iknow them being Cybertronians assumed with names based on Earth animals is Rampage there were a little hard to rectify, but you could hand wave it that few off-screen engagements where they all chose animals based on similarities were introduced to their own names or something.him. IIRC, Depth Charge calls him X throughout the entire series (and when they first meet, I think Rampage says "I have a new name! Rampage!")
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** Names in general are strange on this show. In the first episode, everyone who arrived on Earth besides Optimus and Megatron renamed themselves based on their animal (this diminished in later seasons with names being a bit less obvious) with lame dialogue like "Hey, I'm a cheetah! No, wait... I'm CHEETOR!" So, what were their names before they came to Earth? And why did they all rename each other? Who accidentally crashes on a deserted planet and is like "Well, first things first, better rename myself based on the local wildlife."" I know them being Cybertronians with names based on Earth animals is a little hard to rectify, but you could hand wave it that they all chose animals based on similarities to their own names or something.
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* How did the term "Transmetal" catch on? Rattrap sort of made up the name when trying to explain what they'd become "We're like these... trans...metals." and suddenly everyone, on both sides, is calling it that. Mid-battle was Rattrap like "Hey Megatron, by the way, these new forms? We're going to be calling them Transmetal. So, y'know, pass it on." Also, Rampage. His name was originally Protoform X and that's how all the Maximals originally referred to him. Then Megatron decides to rename him Rampage for some reason, and the Maximals, who missed the random renaming and already have a name they associate with him, start referring to him by that name too? Why?
** Names in general are strange on this show. In the first episode, everyone who arrived on Earth besides Optimus and Megatron renamed themselves based on their animal (this diminished in later seasons with names being a bit less obvious) with lame dialogue like "Hey, I'm a cheetah! No, wait... I'm CHEETOR!" So, what were their names before they came to Earth? And why did they all rename each other? Who accidentally crashes on a deserted planet and is like "Well, first things first, better rename myself based on the local wildlife."
** Names in general are strange on this show. In the first episode, everyone who arrived on Earth besides Optimus and Megatron renamed themselves based on their animal (this diminished in later seasons with names being a bit less obvious) with lame dialogue like "Hey, I'm a cheetah! No, wait... I'm CHEETOR!" So, what were their names before they came to Earth? And why did they all rename each other? Who accidentally crashes on a deserted planet and is like "Well, first things first, better rename myself based on the local wildlife."
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**** Also, Blackarachnia's the only one who could be fixed. Quickstrike and Inferno have no interest in being fixed, and in the former's case, is just naturally mean. Rampage is of course, insane. Blackarachnia was the only one who might listen long enough to be fixable.
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** Presumably because he knew them well enough to know Rattrap was the best choice. Cheetor was still kind of an idiot at that point in time, not prone to thinking things through at all. Dinobot was way too bloodthirsty and probably would have gotten them all killed trying to waste Megatron. Rhinox wouldn't do very well; he's a genius, but he's also not very aggressive. Out of all the Maximals at the time, Rattrap was probably the second most intelligent (behind Rhinox), ''way'' better at thinking through things than Cheetor, and much less likely to drag the Maximals into a pointless encounter than Dinobot. More importantly, even though Rhinox is smarter than Rattrap, Rattrap tends to be a quicker thinker and more resourceful in general than anyone else.
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***** His systems kept telling him to enter Stasis Lock, which he said to override.
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* When Optimus was in the Vok pod, why did he choose Rattrap to lead, instead of Rhinox?
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** It actually comes out of a crashed stasis pod. In the next episode, you can see various pieces of a Protoform lying around, so the hand either belonged to it, or that's how Silverbolt's or Quickstrike's hand looked like before they obtained their beast modes.
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*Whose hand shoots up out of the ground at the very end of "Aftermath"? It shows Quickstrike and Silverbolt's stasis pods and the next episode starts at that same scene, but that hand is never seen again. I assumed it was Terrorsaur's and that that the lava he fell into was some kind of river that carried his damaged body downstream, but since they already had a death fake-out with Optimus it seemed clear that Terrorsaur wasn't coming back. So who was buried there?
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* The series had some great humor. There is no doubting that. But some of the more over-the-top cartoon gags just irked me. Or rather, their timing. ''The Low Road'' was an episode that ran on silliness, and I liked it. The recycled LooneyTunes slapstick from ''Before The Storm'' was great as well. Even such serious and dark episodes like ''Code of Hero'' had moments of humor. But season 3's cartoon gags? I felt a large number of those were terrible. That part of the series almost crossed the line for me with its [[MoodWhiplash zigzagging tones]] and how taken for granted all these comedic moments have become. While it is possibly the least noticeable and least mentioned instance, I consider Tarantulas' comical splat against a rock in the episode ''Crossing the Rubicon'' (just after he fires his missile at the Maximal base) to be the worst offender, given its context. Followed closely by the infamous Tasmanian Devil and Wile E. Coyote scene from ''Feral Scream, part 1'' (but at least Depth Charge's fitting reaction made it somewhat bearable). Then there is Tigerhawk's painful crotch attack, performed by Tarantulas' spider drones. I guess ExecutiveMeddling may have had something to do with it, to make the show more light-hearted and zany, but these ruined otherwise perfectly built-up, serious scenes for me.
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** If Rhinox, genius that he was, couldn't hook up relatively intact Maximal technology to Autobot tech to any useful effect, there's no way that G1 Wheeljack could tell what a chunk of two-million-year-weathered Maximal computer even ''is'' let alone pull any pardox-worthy information from it. It'd be like sending a laptop back to the Elizabethan era after hitting it with a sledgehammer and burying it in the mud.
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**** It's ''not'' the physical damage. Physical damage, once again, will not kill a Transformer. It's Dinobot pushing himself far past his limits, literally draining himself dry of everything he had. He died of overexertion, not physical trauma.
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**** It's ''not'' the physical damage. Physical damage, once again, will not kill a Transformer. Nor is it the poison, which may have contributed but wasn't the root cause. It's Dinobot pushing himself far past his limits, literally draining himself dry of everything he had. He died of overexertion, not physical trauma.
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**** It's ''not'' the physical damage. Physical damage, once again, will not kill a Transformer. It's Dinobot pushing himself far past his limits, literally draining himself dry of everything he had. He died of overexertion, not physical trauma.
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** Dinobot reprogrammed his transformation code to be that of a Maximal, so that explains why his transformation was affected.
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** Check the Wikia. AllThereInTheManual (the comics) shows that they ''all'' had the colors of their forms while on Cybertron, including Tigatron and Airazor. The only ones that ''don't'' compute are the Transmetals, and even then, "lol, quantum surge". So, they all chose animals that were compatible with their color schemes wherever possible.
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** Check the Wikia. The Code Of Primus is written ''by Primus'', who transcends time and space. He's basically God to Unicron's Satan. Anyway, each part of the text is written in the language of the time, so while it all exists at any point in time, it's intelligible unless you can translate that language. That's why you can't predict too far into the future: the language it's written in doesn't exist yet.
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** They did, in a deleted scene that would've fit towards the end of the final episode of BeastWars, almost immediately before they took off from Earth.
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* Did they ever extract the original Megatron's Spark from Dragon Megatron? Just imagine how different History might have turned out if G1's megatron had no spark in need of protecting, meaning until he was blown up, he could have fought indefinately. Wouldn't such a small shift cause another minor time storm? Would the Maximals have taken the time to extract the double spark from Beast Wars Megatron?
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** Theoretically, there are traces of the Beast Wars still on earth. Unfortunately, these traces have been exposed to around two million years worth of environmental factors and are scattered around what could be generously described as "the middle of nowhere". Even if a human or cybertronian of the G1 era were to dig up, say, a chunk of the ''Axalon'', they'd likely have no idea what the thing was and would certainly have no method of extracting any useful data from it (seeing as it's based on technology that doesn't exist yet).
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***The only way Dinobot's death makes sense is that Quickstrike used poison on him near the beginning of the fight, and apparently it's helluva potent. Pure physical damage worse than Dinobot took is repeatedly shown to be fixable with a few minutes in a CR chamber, but maybe poison's different.
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*Since you can just toss a damaged bot - no matter ''how'' damaged, just ask Waspy - into a CR chamber, that means a lot of knowledge of the future is on Earth circa G1 in the form of everyone who appeared to die during the series (except of course for Dinobot.) and even the ''existence'' of those whose data was lost and so have no memories should have been quite the clue that something was up. Then you have to consider the ships that weren't completely destroyed. Nothing seems to have been written about this, ever, in the decade-plus since BW.
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** Waspinator?
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* 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?
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**Maybe Predacons have a similar glitch and Megatron's research was into whether or not the Maximal glitch was similar to theirs. Inferno believed he was an ant and Tarantulus seemed to enjoy his beast mode instincts a little ''too'' much, which supports this.
**Maybe Predacons have a similar glitch and Megatron's research was into whether or not the Maximal glitch was similar to theirs. Inferno believed he was an ant and Tarantulus seemed to enjoy his beast mode instincts a little ''too'' much, which supports this.
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**Maybe transwarp drive can only go X units of time per distance traveled? So the same trip made 1 month later would arrive 1 month after the first trip.
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** That may be true, but spelling it like "Yeeeeeeees" may lead people to believe he's making an extended rhyme of grease.
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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.
* 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 ''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?
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**Magmatron.
* It bugs me that people represent Megatron's {{verbal tic}} as "Yesssssss." He extends the E sound, not the S; it should be "Yeeeess."
* It bugs me that people represent Megatron's {{verbal tic}} as "Yesssssss." He extends the E sound, not the S; it should be "Yeeeess."
