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** Because Optimus turned grey, which means he's dead. Less arbitrarily, the original version of Ultra Magnus' "death" had him be torn apart by energy ropes the Sweeps fired, so the Junkions were able to put him back together, while Optimus was shot a bunch of times so I guess some vital systems were blown up or something. However, Ultra Magnus' dismemberment was apparently deemed too violent, so apart from a few frames of a Sweep firing an energy rope, it was replaced by him just getting shot a bunch of times, thus confusing the issue. Long story short, they had different injuries and Ultra Magnus' were repairable while Optimus' weren't.
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** Because Optimus turned grey, which means he's dead. Less arbitrarily, the original version of Ultra Magnus' "death" had him be torn apart by energy ropes the Sweeps fired, so the Junkions were able to put him back together, while Optimus was shot a bunch of times so I guess some vital systems were blown up or something. However, Ultra Magnus' dismemberment was apparently deemed too violent, so apart from a few frames of a Sweep firing an energy rope, it was replaced by him just getting shot a bunch of times, thus confusing the issue. Long story short, they had different injuries and Ultra Magnus' were repairable while Optimus' weren't.weren't.
* Why does Megatron keep Starscream around when at every turn, he [[TheStarscream constantly attempts to overthrow his leadership?]]
** Because Starscream is too good to throw away. Besides, Megatron welcomes these attempts, as they keep him on his toes and remind him that anyone, not just Starscream, can turn on him.
** Most series have justified Megatron just keeping Starscream around by pointing out that the Seeker isn't disloyal to the Decepticons--just Megatron. A being as cunning and clever as Starscream get thrown out or executed would either hand the Autobots a powerful ally (as some Starscreams did join them, or at least tried, when Megatron proved to be too much to handle), or make Megatron too complacent in thinking no one would turn on him, leaving him open for another coup attempt.
* How do giant robots like Megatron and Soundwave turn into not only a human-sized gun and tape deck, but Cybertronian-sized ones as well?
** Mass-shifting.
* Where did the Protectobots come from? They just... appear in ''Bruticus' Revenge'' and are just there for the rest of the series. No origin, no nothing. Same with the Predacons and Terrorcons in Season 3.
** Perhaps they were on Cybertron when the Ark was launched, and managed to find their way to Earth.
** Its a retcon added years after the fact, but Ask Vector Prime established they were on a Cybertronian colony that was shut down, and they were forced to enter stasis. When the Earth Autobots found them, the Aerialbots donated some of their Energon to re-activate the Protectobots, granting them the power to merge into Defensor as a bonus.
* Does Cybertron have an atmosphere? Spike, Chip and Carly have all been to Cybertron with no form of breathing assistance and they move just like they do on Earth, which assumes it has Earth's gravity...
* Right in the first episode, Megatron flies out of the sky and lands on an oil rig. Aside from him being incredibly large and as menacing-looking as an 80s cartoon villain can get, why is the first instinct of the human workers to [[TooDumbToLive immediately throw things at the giant robot]]?
** Because humans destroy what they don't understand.
* The Autobots shouldn't need Teletraan to tell them that Megatron shouldn't have those powers in ''Heavy Metal War''. They've been fighting him for millions of years...
* In ''Prime Problem'' Megatron's Optimus Prime clone accidentally refers to Ironhide, Prime's second in command, as Bumblebee. Megatron knows who Ironhide is. He has called him by name in a previous episode.
* In [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Golden_Lagoon The Golden Lagoon]], shouldn't everyone have come down with [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gold_Plastic_Syndrome Gold Plastic Syndrome]]?
** They're actually made of sturdy materials beforehand, so the gold must have just improved it.
** There's a reason it's called Gold ''Plastic'' Syndrome rather than Gold ''Paint'' Syndrome.
** Yes, they would have come down with Gold Plastic Syndrome...if they were ''toys''. Why would that problem affect ''real'' robots?
* [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thief_in_the_Night Thief In The Night]] has Six-Gun and Scamper interrogating the Dinobots ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Sky Lynx]]) about the theft of national monuments like the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal and Fort Knox....did they honestly not realize that, powerful as the Dinobots may be, they were incapable of ''physically picking up buildings?'' The fact that monuments were going missing and the dinosaur transform static's consistent presence should have tipped Metroplex off to the idea that maybe Trypticon, the only Decepticon large enough to do such a thing, was behind the thefts; after all, Trypticon has a dinosaur for a robot mode, so he probably has the same dinosaur transform static as the Dinobots and Sky Lynx. The whole "interrogate them due to dinosaur transform static" thing comes off as Metroplex forgetting about Trypticon completely.
** That whole episode was stupid in general.
** Metroplex's hatred for Trypticon is so great it extends to anyone who reminds him of that. Hence the FantasticRacism towards anyone who possesses "dinosaur electrons" overriding his common sense.
* Is Ravage a cat or a dog?
** His Japanese name is "Jaguar". I dare say he's a cat.
* In ''The Return of Optimus Prime'' the heat resistant metal is shown as being Gold in color. Why then, when Optimus is coated in it, is he turned silver/grey.For that matter how did they return Optimus to his usual red/blue?
** They painted over it?
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* Why does Megatron keep Starscream around when at every turn, he [[TheStarscream constantly attempts to overthrow his leadership?]]
** Because Starscream is too good to throw away. Besides, Megatron welcomes these attempts, as they keep him on his toes and remind him that anyone, not just Starscream, can turn on him.
** Most series have justified Megatron just keeping Starscream around by pointing out that the Seeker isn't disloyal to the Decepticons--just Megatron. A being as cunning and clever as Starscream get thrown out or executed would either hand the Autobots a powerful ally (as some Starscreams did join them, or at least tried, when Megatron proved to be too much to handle), or make Megatron too complacent in thinking no one would turn on him, leaving him open for another coup attempt.
* How do giant robots like Megatron and Soundwave turn into not only a human-sized gun and tape deck, but Cybertronian-sized ones as well?
** Mass-shifting.
* Where did the Protectobots come from? They just... appear in ''Bruticus' Revenge'' and are just there for the rest of the series. No origin, no nothing. Same with the Predacons and Terrorcons in Season 3.
** Perhaps they were on Cybertron when the Ark was launched, and managed to find their way to Earth.
** Its a retcon added years after the fact, but Ask Vector Prime established they were on a Cybertronian colony that was shut down, and they were forced to enter stasis. When the Earth Autobots found them, the Aerialbots donated some of their Energon to re-activate the Protectobots, granting them the power to merge into Defensor as a bonus.
* Does Cybertron have an atmosphere? Spike, Chip and Carly have all been to Cybertron with no form of breathing assistance and they move just like they do on Earth, which assumes it has Earth's gravity...
* Right in the first episode, Megatron flies out of the sky and lands on an oil rig. Aside from him being incredibly large and as menacing-looking as an 80s cartoon villain can get, why is the first instinct of the human workers to [[TooDumbToLive immediately throw things at the giant robot]]?
** Because humans destroy what they don't understand.
* The Autobots shouldn't need Teletraan to tell them that Megatron shouldn't have those powers in ''Heavy Metal War''. They've been fighting him for millions of years...
* In ''Prime Problem'' Megatron's Optimus Prime clone accidentally refers to Ironhide, Prime's second in command, as Bumblebee. Megatron knows who Ironhide is. He has called him by name in a previous episode.
* In [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Golden_Lagoon The Golden Lagoon]], shouldn't everyone have come down with [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gold_Plastic_Syndrome Gold Plastic Syndrome]]?
** They're actually made of sturdy materials beforehand, so the gold must have just improved it.
** There's a reason it's called Gold ''Plastic'' Syndrome rather than Gold ''Paint'' Syndrome.
** Yes, they would have come down with Gold Plastic Syndrome...if they were ''toys''. Why would that problem affect ''real'' robots?
* [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thief_in_the_Night Thief In The Night]] has Six-Gun and Scamper interrogating the Dinobots ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Sky Lynx]]) about the theft of national monuments like the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal and Fort Knox....did they honestly not realize that, powerful as the Dinobots may be, they were incapable of ''physically picking up buildings?'' The fact that monuments were going missing and the dinosaur transform static's consistent presence should have tipped Metroplex off to the idea that maybe Trypticon, the only Decepticon large enough to do such a thing, was behind the thefts; after all, Trypticon has a dinosaur for a robot mode, so he probably has the same dinosaur transform static as the Dinobots and Sky Lynx. The whole "interrogate them due to dinosaur transform static" thing comes off as Metroplex forgetting about Trypticon completely.
** That whole episode was stupid in general.
** Metroplex's hatred for Trypticon is so great it extends to anyone who reminds him of that. Hence the FantasticRacism towards anyone who possesses "dinosaur electrons" overriding his common sense.
* Is Ravage a cat or a dog?
** His Japanese name is "Jaguar". I dare say he's a cat.
* In ''The Return of Optimus Prime'' the heat resistant metal is shown as being Gold in color. Why then, when Optimus is coated in it, is he turned silver/grey.For that matter how did they return Optimus to his usual red/blue?
** They painted over it?
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*** Except in The Ultimate Doom, Starscream can totally do interstellar travel. He flies from Earth to Cybertron after setting the exponential generator to explode and manages to do it in less than 8 hours. Then he manages to go from Cybertron to Earth mere minutes after the generator was supposed to explode.
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*** In the Japanese-only Headmasters series.
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* Ultra Magnus was rebuilt easily when they found him dead. How come they did not try rebuilding Optimus when he died.
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* Ultra Magnus was rebuilt easily when they found him dead. How come they did not try rebuilding Optimus when he died.died?
** Because Optimus turned grey, which means he's dead. Less arbitrarily, the original version of Ultra Magnus' "death" had him be torn apart by energy ropes the Sweeps fired, so the Junkions were able to put him back together, while Optimus was shot a bunch of times so I guess some vital systems were blown up or something. However, Ultra Magnus' dismemberment was apparently deemed too violent, so apart from a few frames of a Sweep firing an energy rope, it was replaced by him just getting shot a bunch of times, thus confusing the issue. Long story short, they had different injuries and Ultra Magnus' were repairable while Optimus' weren't.
** Because Optimus turned grey, which means he's dead. Less arbitrarily, the original version of Ultra Magnus' "death" had him be torn apart by energy ropes the Sweeps fired, so the Junkions were able to put him back together, while Optimus was shot a bunch of times so I guess some vital systems were blown up or something. However, Ultra Magnus' dismemberment was apparently deemed too violent, so apart from a few frames of a Sweep firing an energy rope, it was replaced by him just getting shot a bunch of times, thus confusing the issue. Long story short, they had different injuries and Ultra Magnus' were repairable while Optimus' weren't.
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***** Mass and matter are linked. If matter is converting into energy, mass is decreasing.
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***** OK, here's what happened. The Autobots went to find some energy and the Decepticons followed. They got into a space fight and crash landed on Earth, where they lay dormant for about 4 million years. eventually, Teletraan was reactivated by a volcanic eruption, and revived Thundercracker. Thundercracker revived Megatron, and the two of them proceeded to revive the other Decpticons, who proceeded to steal lots of Earth's energy because they're dicks. Just before they did, Starscream fired a few farewell shots at the ''Ark'', which knocked Optimus Prime into the path of the revival beam, bringing him back online. Optimus revived the rest of the Autobots, who went to stop the Decepticons from stealing the energy and gaining an advantage. They failed, and the Decepticons blasted off in a spaceship bound for Cybertron, but Mirage sneaked on and took advantage of a fight between Megatron and Starscream to make the Decepticon ship crash into the sea. As thanks for saving the world, the governments of Earth banded together and gave the Autobots the energy they needed. However, the Autobots seemed to remain on Earth to protect humans from Decepticon evilness. As for why the Decepticons didn't try to build their own power plants, Megatron indicated that the answer was time: it's much faster for them to steal energy from a human-built solar power plant that it is to make their own.
****** You forgot one thing. It was SKYWARP that was revived first.
****** You forgot one thing. It was SKYWARP that was revived first.
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***** OK, here's what happened. The Autobots went to find some energy and the Decepticons followed. They got into a space fight and crash landed on Earth, where they lay dormant for about 4 million years. eventually, Teletraan was reactivated by a volcanic eruption, and revived Thundercracker. Thundercracker Skywarp. Skywarp revived Megatron, and the two of them proceeded to revive the other Decpticons, who proceeded to steal lots of Earth's energy because they're dicks. Just before they did, Starscream fired a few farewell shots at the ''Ark'', which knocked Optimus Prime into the path of the revival beam, bringing him back online. Optimus revived the rest of the Autobots, who went to stop the Decepticons from stealing the energy and gaining an advantage. They failed, and the Decepticons blasted off in a spaceship bound for Cybertron, but Mirage sneaked on and took advantage of a fight between Megatron and Starscream to make the Decepticon ship crash into the sea. As thanks for saving the world, the governments of Earth banded together and gave the Autobots the energy they needed. However, the Autobots seemed to remain on Earth to protect humans from Decepticon evilness. As for why the Decepticons didn't try to build their own power plants, Megatron indicated that the answer was time: it's much faster for them to steal energy from a human-built solar power plant that it is to make their own.
****** You forgot one thing. It was SKYWARP that was revived first.own.
****** You forgot one thing. It was SKYWARP that was revived first.
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******We do see Starscream and Skyfire take off from Cybertron, and then the two of them explore Earth later, but in between that time, who's to say what happens? Maybe Starscream chills in Skyfire's altmode during the long stretches of interstellar travel and then gets out whenever they stop to study a planet.
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*** Given the Quints' general dickishness, it's also possible they'd once kept organic humanoids as slaves, before their robotic technology grew sophisticated enough to replace those with proto-Transformers. They copied the humanoid anatomy of their non-mechanical slaves when they started building them rather than breeding or capturing them, because it'd become a tradition to keep bipeds as servants.
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*** Given how G1 transformers sometimes refer in passing to robotic version of animals, it's possible they're not really mimicking organic life at all, but mechanical Cybertronian life forms that ''resemble'' Earth species via convergent evolution. That could also explain how Ravage and Laserbeak could have their animal-like anatomy prior to their arrival on Earth.
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*** Heck, appealing to the maximum range of potential markets might be the reason they ''are'' Transformers. Mode-conversion technology might've been something the Quintessons came up with to adapt their products to clients' needs, and vehicular modes were a side effect of that.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon decepticons were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Optimus can lift an oil tanker but Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Optimus can lift an oil tanker but Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Optimus can lift oil tanker but Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Optimus can lift an oil tanker but Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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* How the scrap can regular humans physically match transformers in strength? Optimus can lift oil tanker but Sparkplug was seen latching onto Ironhide to keep him from shooting Spike. In Auto-bop, a train-rider teared off a metal bar to smash the control panels, in the same episode; many humans were seen flipping Tracks aside with apparently little-to-no effort. In ''The Girl Who Loved Powerglide'', the decepticon were seen struggling to hold Astoria in place, she also fended off Powerglide for a few seconds.
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*** [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Heavy_Metal_War You are misremembering the episode in question.]]
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** They died. It's shown in one episode of the cartoon, where they were fighting Devestator and both he and the Dinobots fell into some lava.
