What if in TFA when Megatron got into the Autobot’s ship, he just looked at Optimus Prime and gently asked “Do your creators know you’re in deep space?”
ok art’s, like, not a thing on tfa cybertron (nobody knew what it was in headmaster) but they also have these giant stained glass windows??
does this not count as art or…
You know what, Transformers Animated has so many plot holes for their culture I’ve genuinely spend time thinking about them. For example Blitzwing in episode 11 ‘Lost and Found’ tells Lugnut:
[Lugnut stomps on a lunar rover by mistake] Blitzwing: [Hothead] Careful, you copper-clad klutz! You stepped in something! Blitzwing: [switches to Random] But with a few dancing lessons, you’ll be light on your stabilizing servos like me! Cha-cha-cha!
So Decepticons have dance, but not music because Megatron calls Sari’s music ‘odd sound patterns’
BUT Rosanna is an Autobot singer: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rosanna_(Animated) so they have singing as a concept on Cybertron. Does that mean dancing is done to singing back on cybertron? Or is it by some other means?
Also, regarding art, in the official Transformers animated comic, The Arrival, set during the pilot of TFA; Blitzwing is is a public speaker at Megatron’s funeral, and he built a statue to commemorate Megatron, does that not count as art?
I have put too much thought into this cartoon.
same tho,,
ok ok maybe it’s that only younger autobots don’t know what art is. maybe it used to be a thing waaay back when, even before ratchet was around, but then they stopped doing it for some reason. maybe decepticons have a healthy art community.
and—wait, isn’t rosanna a decepticon double agent or something? it’s implied that she’s flip sides, isn’t it? so actually decepticons… should know what music is, right? or was that just not important enough for megatron to teach himself about? maybe cybertronian music is different from earth music or something?
I feel like Cybertron is a place that doesn’t consider any media that honors political figures as “art”. We would consider it art but not Cybertronians. In the TFA Almanac it says that there is an Art division on Cybertron. So probably their definition of art is different from ours. I feel like in every continuity Earth is considered more diverse than Cybertron in terms of art and music.
I dont remember anyone saying Transformers dont have music. Megatron might not consider Sari’s music to be actually music. It’s like when someone hates a certain genre of music so much they don’t consider it music.
The most loved, beautiful Cybertronian poem survives only as a fragment with no author. The Autobots praise it and believe it to be the most beautiful poem in existence, possibly written by the first Magnus himself.
In reality, it was written by Megatron. Every Decepticon knows it in its entirety and loves it too. They have the full poem engraved everywhere. The Autobots, being stubborn, refuse to believe any Decepticon that tells them who the Author is and tries to finish the poem.
Overlord is old, old as Megatron, old as Megazarak, old as well before the war, when Megazarak was just staring to gather malcontents together and Megatron was stuck as his second, writing his speeches for him.
Overlord is something of a showman, always has been- he’s flashy, passionate, driven, constantly seeking validation and entertainment in equal parts. On top of that, he’s cruel. Deeply and intensely cruel, with a desperate need to control and overpower others.
Add in the fact that he’s big, even by Decepticon standards, easily on par with Strika for size, and you have one of the most terrifying threats the Decepticons could have asked for during the war.
Overlord made a name for himself most prominently as a sort of one-mech strike force. His specialty was to go into an autobot battleship, or a base, or a small colony, or…say…a fortress, and when he came out everybody would be dead and everything inside would be destroyed. Unless he was sent in to grab a specific bot or an item, in which case he’d come out with a very traumatized bot or a slightly dinged-up item!
Mind you, he was also considered to be a master interrogator, torturer, occasional leader (although he had a habit of treating those working with him as disposeable, or forgetting them alltogether, or sometimes kiling them himself) and notorious partier. Seriousy, there ain’t no party like an Overlord party because an Overlord party don’t stop until at least 30% of the population is eradicated and people are sobbing.
As for the abrupt, startling end to his career during the war…nobody is really sure exactly why he disappeared. Some say that he simply grew tired, or was injured, some believed he’d died, others think he simply found a better fight to indulge in. After all, he was somwhat addicted to battle- and each time he tended to try to up the stakes, to do more, to accomplish greater things, to create more mayhem and fire and revel in it!
Which may explain exactly why he stopped, after all, how could he ever top Fortress Maximus?
Nothing else compares, not after you’ve gone into the heart of the largest living being known to be created, the first and only of his kind, and torn apart his power couplings? Mutilating a sapient fortress, big enough to be considered an unstoppable game-changer? Nothing else is going to compare. No torture is going to meet slaughtering the crew residing inside a sapient being in full view of security cameras, or making every speaker system in a building-sized victim scream static simultaniously.
Maybe just…he realized he’d reached a top, there.
Especially when the Autobots shelved the Maximus program for the Supreme program, downsizing in favor of efficiency.
Or perhaps something else, I don’t really know! Maybe that’s when Megatron took over from Megazarak. Or he came up again the wreckers (who I have a whole OTHER TFA headcanon for where they were a group throughout the first half of the war, largely forgotten by the general population now as anything but propaganda and war stories to thrill protoforms and young cadets), or…well, who knows what!
But by the time he sniffs out the Lost Light for Primus knows what reasons, he’s hungry for something, anything to sink his teeth into. Both proverbial and literally.
There’s a few ideas, I don’t really know which, as to why exactly he picks up on the Lost Light. Maybe he’s working for Tyrest, trying to steer them closer so Tyrest can get his favorite Mini-Con back. Or maybe he simply picks up on a signal, far from any other Cybertronian source, and goes to investigate.
Cybertronian Database 