History Headscratchers / TransformersAnimated

* WHY do they leave the task of guarding the Allspark Key to Sari? Didn't it ever occur to the Autobots that it would be like putting a target on her head, what with the Decepticons seeking the Allspark? The more sensible and responsible thing would have been to either hide it, or guard it themselves, rather than appointing a young girl without combat skills (at least before her upgrade in season 3) to it. Not even the Generation 1 Autobots did something as irresponsible as having Spike or Carly guard the key to Vector Sigma.

*** Makes sense. That would be why he told Starscream not to ask what part of him she represents. If she responded an honest "your effeminate side", he would feel humiliated. It also goes with Starscream having crossdressed at some point, as shown by the above panel with Professor Princess.

*** Yes, but on the bright side, [[spoiler:at least those issues won't be bothering him anymore.]]

** The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original plan]] for "Endgame" part 2 was [[spoiler:to have Slipstream revive the now-dead Starscream after the Autobots left for Cybertron, but was cut due to time. Apparently she didn't hate him enough.]]

*** After [[spoiler:Yoketron's death]], Prowl probably just started flying through space at relativistic speeds.

** Also, reason why [[spoiler: Prowl]] sacrifices himself is that they can't pull out more. So they tried, failed and resorted to plan B.

* Why did Shockwave expose himself as Longarm to the Autobots? Even if he thought they wouldn't survive Megatron's plan, there was still a chance that Megatron's plan and they ended up surviving, meaning his role as Longarm would be more important in helping Megatron with a new plan.

** FWIW, [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet TFWiki's]] stance is that Slipstream's character is a gag about Starscream's effeminate nature; the personality trait she represents is his "feminine side".

* Where exactly did the Constructicons' personalities come from? Unlike the other Earth-born transformers they seem fully formed and cognizant. Meanwhile the Dinobots are primitive and animalistic, Wreck-Gar is bumbling and childish, and Soundwave had to be programmed by Megatron before becoming self-aware. So why do the Contructicons immediately start acting like stereotypical Brooklyn guys just seconds after they come online?

* Doesn't future Detroit have any federal government? We only ever see the mayor as a figure in authority. Does anybody find it really odd that the only reaction people had to ''alien robots from space'' was ''OH COOL SUPERHEROES''? There's no attempts at diplomacy? No curious reporters? No military intervention even after another robot from space blew up a bunch of fighters? No massive cultural shifts because HEY, ALIENS EXIST? In the original series the President had contact with the Autobots, and the humans at the very least seemed to ''care'' that they were present. Geewun was very silly, but at least they ''acknowledged'' that there were giant robots hanging about. For a series which prefers to bring in human villains, they seem to have forgotten that human ''government'' and ''culture'' exist.

* If Lockdown gets all his trophy's and upgrades from autobots then doesn't that mean he got that jetpack from one as well? That means there must have, at some point, been flying autobots and yet everyone is always saying over and over "Autobot's don't fly". Also why does Ratchet seem cling so tightly to this belief when he knows '''Omega Supreme''' personally.
** I thought that Lockdown said he hunted for whoever paid him the most. Normally it was Decepticons (paying to hunt Autobots), I'd imagine on occasion he was hired to hunt Decepticons by Autobots willing to pay. Of course, it's possible (perhaps even likely) that he was hired to hunt a Decepticon by a Decepticon. I mean, Starscream can't be the only TheStarscream out there, right? For the point about Omega Supreme, he wasn't a real autobot, he was a weapon built specifically to fight the Decepticons, and likely to be decommissioned once the war was over (no one wants an intelligent WMD wandering around the neighborhood...).

* Why did Shockwave expose himself as Longarm to the Autobots?
** His entire career was pretty much at stake so it would have been smarter for him to just play it safe just in case the Autobots survived.

* Why did Shockwave expose himself as Longarm to the Autobots?

* Why does Optimus get so flustered when he learns about human procreation from Sari? The human act of sexual reproduction shouldn’t elicit that kind of reaction from him unless the Transformers have their own (recreational) equivalent to it, otherwise it wouldn’t really mean anything to him.

** Especially annoying considering the first thing Megatron saw when he came back online was news footage of Starscream boasting about his destruction of Megatron to the Autobots. With all of the battles and events occurring over the months, especially the CurbStompBattle at Sumdac Tower between Megatron and the Autobots, there should have been a ''ton'' of footage of Decepticon footage laying around.

* A similar question would be why they didn't show any of the news footage of the Decepticons attacking the city? Do they really not trust humans so much that they would wave away thousands of witnesses and video proof?

** Maybe he orders Delivery instead.

** Well, the Autobots haven't been at war for millennia. Also, if the toy is canon, Magnus has rocket launchers everywhere.

* Something of a meta one but why are there no naturally flying Autobots? We know that Autobots couldn't fly till Jetfire and Jetstorm came along and supplementary materials state this this universe's version of Powerglide got his name from his skills as a starship pilot. I know that the Autobots of this continuity are civilian vehicles but there are non-military uses for aircraft such as passenger jets or search & rescue helicopters. Hell in the G1 cartoon the aerialbot leader Silverbolt turned into a type of passenger jet.

* Where did Blackarachnia find test-subjects for her techno-organic experiments before meeting Wasp? It's not like she could've just grabbed a few bots or humans like Meltdown used his lawyer and stockbroker. And if she wants to create a Techno-organic creature, it'd obviously never work using random machinery and animals.

*** The troper who posted the original comment ({{Crowley}}) is aware of that, and did not mean any UnfortunateImplications. She is very sorry for her stupidity.
** What bugged [[{{Crowley}} this Troper]] to the point of asking was that she can't find any clips of ''Animated'' dubs. [[https://www.youtube.com/?v=Cx_RykkxEjI This]] is the only video she can find, and it's in horrible quality.