History Headscratchers / Transformers

** Third here: If there wasn't an airlock, then it would have the same reaction as an airplane I would guess. With the change in pressure, it would send everything not bolted down into the empty, vacuum of space. While it wouldn't kill them, it would be annoying at least and catastrophic at most; as a transformer could get lost forever in space. [[YoufailPhysicsForEver Or I could just not know how spaceships work.]]

* Where are all the rest of the Autobots (and by extension Decepticons)coming from if they didn't end up on the Ark.

!!TransformersGeneration1 and WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie (1986)

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* Why isn't Unicron generally voiced by MauriceLaMarche? His Orson Welles is ''perfect''!

*** The question is "Why do people assume everything not quite human enough to recognize gender is a male?" People would react to [[{{Metroid}} Samus]] the same way if they didn't [[SamusIsAGirl know she was a girl]]. Of course, there's also the question of why the cartoon gave them clearly male voices.

!!TransformersGeneration1 and TransformersTheMovie (1986)

** I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but in the script for TransformersTheMovie, it's revealed that Autobot City is basically a massive energy-gathering operation, with wind turbines, solar panels, oil derricks etc. all over the shop.

** Because the [[TransformersTheMovie Movie]] takes place in the G1 Animated continuity, which didn't ''have'' Primus; the TF were made by the [[TheManBehindTheMan Quintessons]], and Unicron was made by [[CanonDisContinuity a monkey]]. To all involved (including Unicron), Cybertron was just the home planet of the TF, and not the physical embodiment of Primus. DevilButNoGod, indeed.

** From the POV of the current canon of a single Unicron and a single Primus across the multiverse, we may consider the release dates rather than the given dates (unless it's treated as a "future timeline" of a current timeline, like the future UK stories). I mean, TransformersTheMovie was in 1986, but Unicron didn't know Cybertron was Primus' new form because he couldn't trace the dormant Primus, and there's enough worlds of Transformers (Junk, Paradron, etc) to avert him from doing the math. Primus awoke in the TransformersMarvel universe in 1989, and then Unicron traced the awakened Primus noticed that Cybertron was Primus. The Watsonian explanation is a good one too.

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** This was actually {{Lampshaded}} in a TransformersAnimated short. Turns out even Optimus doesn't know.

* Why do Transformer spaceships have air locks? I was watching TransformersAnimated and I noticed all of the spaceships they used had air locks. This doesn't seem all that useful if they don't have to breathe and have been shown to be able to travel through space with no ill effects.

* Why is there IDW comics stuff in the Generation 1 entries? It isn't more G1 than the Unicron Trilogy, the live-action movies and TransformersAnimated; all those series replicate the same characters and throw some G1 references into the mix. There's even a few name re-uses as different characters in all of them (Red Alert in the UT, Galvatron in IDW, Scorponok in the 1st movie, Skids in ROTF, Ironhide in Animated, just to name a few). The Dreamwave comic was a modern G1 continuity, ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor is in a G1 continuity (and even then, it has its own entry), Anime/TransformersVictory, WesternAnimation/BeastWars and others are part of G1 and have their own entries due to complexity. Why Transformers IDW doesn't have its own Main and Characters entries? I admit I'm kind of a Gee-Wun and despise most of IDW material, but I really think IDW can't be considered G1 even if you like it.

* Why is there IDW comics stuff in the Generation 1 entries? It isn't more G1 than the Unicron Trilogy, the live-action movies and TransformersAnimated; all those series replicate the same characters and throw some G1 references into the mix. There's even a few name re-uses as different characters in all of them (Red Alert in the UT, Galvatron in IDW, Scorponok in the 1st movie, Skids in ROTF, Ironhide in Animated, just to name a few). The Dreamwave comic was a modern G1 continuity, ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor is in a G1 continuity (and even then, it has its own entry), TransformersVictory, WesternAnimation/BeastWars and others are part of G1 and have their own entries due to complexity. Why Transformers IDW doesn't have its own Main and Characters entries? I admit I'm kind of a Gee-Wun and despise most of IDW material, but I really think IDW can't be considered G1 even if you like it.

*** No, it wouldn't. If some of Megatron's matter was converted to energy (or shuffled into a pocket dimension or whatever), then his mass would decrease as well, since mass is literally "the amount of matter within in an object," barring mass-increasing effects from special relativity. For that [[{{Pun}}matter]], mass-shifting seems intrinsic to Transformers. A car is mostly an empty box, yet Bumblebee and Optimus Prime don't behave like their chests are completely hollow.

*** Which, of course, leads into the matter of Transformer "sexuality". Bar [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave#Energon one]], all on-screen romance is between males and females. Given the existence of Transformer romance and given that nearly all of them are male, it's reasonable to assume that numerous male/male romantic relationships exist and are just delicately skipped over by the censors.

* Why is there IDW comics stuff in the Generation 1 entries? It isn't more G1 than the Unicron Trilogy, the live-action movies and TransformersAnimated; all those series replicate the same characters and throw some G1 references into the mix. There's even a few name re-uses as different characters in all of them (Red Alert in the UT, Galvatron in IDW, Scorponok in the 1st movie, Skids in ROTF, Ironhide in Animated, just to name a few). The Dreamwave comic was a modern G1 continuity, TransformersWingsOfHonor is in a G1 continuity (and even then, it has its own entry), TransformersVictory, WesternAnimation/BeastWars and others are part of G1 and have their own entries due to complexity. Why Transformers IDW doesn't have its own Main and Characters entries? I admit I'm kind of a Gee-Wun and despise most of IDW material, but I really think IDW can't be considered G1 even if you like it.

**** No gender means "no girls" and "no boys". Technicaly Optimus, Ratchet, Bumblebee and the others are not more male than they are female, we identify they as male because we are socialy conditioned to asign masculine gender to everything that's not explicitly female. But the secondary sexual characteristics we use to identify a character as girl (including voice pitch) are inaplicable to most of earth species (I'm pretty sure you can't find anything specialy "femenine" in, for example, a female [[{{Futurama}} crab]]) let alone to a race of [[StarfishAliens alien giant transforming robots, only vagely humanoid]]. So a robot with [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]], hourglass figure, [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics some contraption in the head imitating hairdo]], and a higher pitch voice, makes little sense, but the Autobots decided to make Arcee this way to meet our preconceptions, only they overdid it. Maybe a little less [[PinkGirlBlueBoy pink]] would have helped, but in fairness I think it would be very hard to make something that is naturaly genderless look "femenine" without it looking "stereotypical femenine". Sometimes you just can't win.

* Are the Transformers really robots? All the material seems to point to them as un-programmed (or programmed by Primus, a deity which doesn't seem to give orders), autonomous, naturally intelligent mechanical beings. Would cyborg be more accuate?

** Ironhide probably didn't want to hurt Spike. The rest are because it's a hastily-written toy commercial animated by the cheapest animation sweatshops Asia could provide.