Crush aside, I think Fanzone’s kind of an underrated character
Like….they could have just made him the bumbling cop trope, or worse, the stick in the mud, by-the-book cop trope who’s only there to serve as an antagonist for the main characters…..
…But they didn’t. Sure he’s comic relief, but he’s just a genuinely good guy and a great character.
He’s like a big papa-bear to Sari, despite the fact that she’s constantly teasing him and he doesn’t even like kids.
He’s smart enough to not only remember that Cybertronians fear organic germs, but to also seek out the local sleezeball and use that fear against him.
He cares about protecting his city so much that he’s willing to go up against GIANT ALIEN ROBOTS to do his job.
And he can put aside his machine-hate whenever the Autobots need him, or vise-versa.
Plus, HE PUNCHED A FUCKING MUTATED BAT-MONSTER A LEAST 10 FEET TALLER THAN HIM IN THE FUCKING FACE.
And yeah, I DO love the fact that he IS prejudice against the bots at first (which is slightly justified, since they DO wreck his city on a daily basis)…but ya’know what? He gets over it. And I LIKE that in this show literally EVERYONE has their own mini character arc where they start out one way and end up another.
Also, he has a thick Canadian accent for some reason and…okay, yeah, how many tough, badass Canadian characters in American cartoons can YOU think of?
Am I the only one that would be super interested in seeing a tf continuation that had humans be in space with the cybertronians rather than stuck on earth? I just feel like the interactions could be super interesting if done right
And by done right I mean none of that cappy “woe is me I’m a human in space make the whole story line revolve around me” and more “I’M STUCK IN SPACE WITH THESE GIANT IDIOTS AND I NEED TO TAKE THE BIGGEST DUMP EVER BUT THEY DON’T HAVE ANY FUCKING TOILETS SO I HAVE TO ASK THEIR FUCKING MEDIC TO HELP ME F U C K” and there’s culture shock on both sides and maybe go into why a lot of cybertronians were(are?) anti-organic
Plus for once it would be the humans adjusting rather than the autobots. I could see some of the bots are super confused on how the humans are able to adapt so quickly until they’re pointed out to the fact that cybertronians have had a very slow inclination for evolution because of their life spans while humans perish rather fast so they evolved and adapted in a couple million years to where they are now
There’s a capability for some really cool and potentially hilarious interactions and I just!!!! Want to see this explored!!!!
I’m just all about that human/robot interaction when it’s done in an interesting manner
yes it’s another submission for @zeenovos‘s zine which here’s a link to a post about it. will i ever stop? probably not. i love transformers but i have to support an All Girls Zine with my entire heart and soul cause i mean…. look at it.
Hey I almost made myself cry with this thought so I had to share it:
Imagine a Cybertronian, regardless of faction but I imagined Autobot, just tooling around in alt mode, checking out Earth and doing car stuff.
So they’re at an intersection, waiting for the light to turn green, and they overhear some humans talking. There’s a parent and their young child, and one of the parent’s friends. They’re talking about kids and work and stuff and the cybertronian starts tuning out and then the friend asks the kid “what do you want to be when you grow up?”
And it’s the first time the cybertronian has ever heard anything like that. They put their hazards on because their engine has just stalled while they think about that, just kinda going “wooow… what do I wanna be when I grow up? I never got asked that… i hope that kid gets their dream job.”
And also because I’m imagining this kid like four they look over and see the cybertronian and just kinda go [vehicle type], whatever the bot’s alt is and instead of saying no, the parent just laughs and goes “okay, you can be a [vehicle]”
And the cybertronian is like “i have to protect this planet”
I know we all love the usual story of TF. It’s a great story, and it holds up through the test of time because it’s something we’ve seen in our own history time and time again. The slow decline of the Golden Age into a period of terrible fascism and oppression, the political climate becoming a breeding ground for rebellion and the subsequent rise of Megatron and Orion Pax as the next great speakers representing the people, then the sharp turn into war and the destruction of the world they all fought so damn hard for. Then of course, the seemingly endless wandering until finally, they come to Earth for whatever reason the continuity gives them.
But, I’ve been thinking. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see things flipped? What if we get to that period after the fateful meeting with the High Council, and the buildup to war is a lot slower? What if during that time, humans found their way into space and established themselves in the universe? I know, shush, hear me out. Usually in tf canon, the universe is a collection of well-established societies with the people in charge being descended from old Cybertronian colonies. It’s also usually canon that the universe has long, long since lost contact with Cybertron, when the Great Decline began and all the space bridges got shut off because Cybertronian society began turning inward.
So like, what if humans turn up and suddenly start shaking up the status quo. We know in a lot of tf canon, organic life is treated as second-class by non-organic life. Organics are generally viewed as slow, messy, stupid creatures. Now, I’d imagine if we got to space and people were racist arseholes to us, we’d have something to say about that. We’d probably have a lot to say about that, now that I think about it. So lets imagine we get ourselves a reputation much like Megatron and Orion did back on Cybertron (I’ll get to that in a sec). We’re these strange people who just showed up out of nowhere, flipped the bird to the established rules, and fucked shit up because we said what needed to be said. We argue and argue against what we view as unfair and oppressive rule, and all that arguing ends up putting us in good stead with all the other organic races and more open-minded of non-organics. We get noticed for other reasons too, like all the stuff you see in those awesome ‘humans are space orcs’ or ‘earth is space australia’ posts. I love those, and I want to see more self-love in scifi. Humans are pretty amazing when we put our minds to something. Because of this combination, we’re rapidly gaining power in a system with no place for us, and it’s tipping the balance. Lets then imagine we start asking questions too, because that’s what we do. Argue and question.
Lets imagine all that questioning leads to us finding out about the great, long lost planet that all these non-organics are descended from. A planet of crystal cities and everlasting light, a planet so ancient it can’t be dated, a planet that’s also an actual living person at its core. Don’t pretend we wouldn’t immediately decide that’s our new adventure, because fuck me that’s just awesome.
What if back on Cybertron, the same thing is happening. Megatron and Orion are still fighting the good fight, just trying to fix a stupidly broken system while also keeping their tenuous friendship intact by the end of it. What if suddenly these ridiculously tiny organic creatures turn up, having somehow tracked the planet down, and join in with said good fight when they realise they’ve seen this shit all before and they’re not having any of it. Because you see, Cybertron might be an old myth to some, but if we can find it and make friends with the locals, then the rest of the universe will follow suit.
Idk, it’s just an idea swimming about in my head. I think it’d be cool to see how things changed, how the war either still happened or didn’t happen, how the cultures would clash and mingle, how friendships and relationships would develop. That sort of thing.
I’m rambling, but I know what I’m trying to say. I just really love those rare occasions when tf fics and canon go into the similarities and differences between our species and re-imagine stuff.
HA! No, there isn’t, but wouldn’t that be hilarious and fitting! Jerky anti-social son of a rich senator, never wanted for anything in his life, always had the best tech, never been told “no” before – and when Isaac Sumdac is the one to finally do it, this loser jerk nerd stamps his feet and says “well them I’m gonna be a supervillain and I’m gonna SHOW YOU ALL!” It could certainly fit!
(Though we must be fair and point out that the reference to the Inhumanoids in the Almanac is noting that it’s canon for the G1 cartoon, not Animated, since the character of Hector Ramirez appears in both series. In Animated continuity, the Almanac only notes that the Inhumanoids were enemy characters in the “Ninja Gladiator” video game Bumblebee plays in “Where Is Thy Sting”!)
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