A concept: Henry Masterson is exactly the kind of person to believe in the really boring end of the speculative aliens / “humans are space orcs” content where people presume that us humans are just infinitely more mysterious and complex and funny than all other aliens, especially since just in his debut episode alone he dismissively referred to the autobots as “toys” and thought nothing of literally decapitating Bulkhead.
On the flipside, while we see that cybertronians can be somewhat confused by certain aspects of Earth culture, overwhelmingly they’re exactly as savvy, complex, and quick on the uptake as you would expect from a spacefaring civilization that vastly predates ours.
In that sense: please consider Henry making a big deal out of trying to convince Starscream that dabbing is a Traditional Human Gesture Of Respect and Starscream, who knows perfectly well what the internet is, does basic amounts of research, and is generally as a career soldier Someone Who Knows When Someone Else Is Giving Him Shit, playing along right up until he thoughtfully responds in kind with the Ancient, Traditional Decepticon Greeting of flipping the bird.
The reason some Cybertronian’s visors are restractable and some aren’t is because that the one’s who never/rarely ever have their eyes showing actually have poor eyesight. So basically the visors work as stylish glasses.
And it’s something they usually have to be born with, unless their optic sensors are damaged beyond repair.
Jazz for instance has always been almost completely blind, and the visor does help him see a little bit but his eyesight is still pretty bad. It’s barely noticeable though, because he’s able to rely on his hearing so well, which is part of the reason why he enjoys music so much.
At the end of the Golden Age, the data archivist Orion Pax is not alone in harbouring doubt in Cybertron’s future. Inspired by the revolutionary fervour of the gladiator, Megatronus, Orion seeks him out; and thus begins a relationship that will eventually bring Cybertron to its knees.
In which Orion continues his self-discovery and Soundwave’s skeletons start falling out of the cupboard. Also, Jazz.
Instead of Megs having introduced as a detached head, we got the horror story of maintenance crew on alien planet spotting helmless giant sneaking around instead.
Team Prime had no idea who the heck this was, but they must intervene (while frightened af) this…headless grey zombie? who somehow so fixated on the Allspark.
The story consisted of team Prime screaming around, sobbing in horror as they were forced to fight a ferocious body (yup), and finally trying to alert Ultra Magnus, as expected, they got dismissed.
Somehow they grew quite close until much much later they just learned it’s Megatron’s headless frame.
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