radioactivesupersonic:

So I watched Autoboot Camp and as much as I’m kinda losing my shit at the revelation Bulkhead is a farm boy this just… makes me think, in context here.

Space in Transformers Animated is just a wee bit horrifying, given, y’know, the vampiric space barnacles that must be killed with fire are just a common nuisance. And there is an implication certain features are deliberately selected (Bee’s comment to Wasp about ‘molds’)

I always kinda figured if Bulkhead was tailored for a purpose physically he was something heavy-industrial, but, the fact that he towers over basically all other ‘conventional’ city autobots we see kinda raises the implication that there are things a lot worse than barnacles out there and Bee was, as of the bridge posting, totally unused to dealing with them. 

The implication that most ‘countryside’ bots are just, people who can casually bench most of their closer-to-cybertron contemporaries because they need to be because it’s probably southern gothic populated with various lovecraftian space horrors out there.

I’m just saying in a human AU Bulkhead would be the kinda guy who takes on a camel spider armed with a single flip flop, without blinking, while Bee, who has never seen a bug larger than a fruit fly in person, climbs the table screaming in horror.