^//3//^ Thank you for requesting and hopefully I choose from the right chart—> Blush Expressions. I had fun drawing this and feel free to send another.
4,000,000 year of practice. I wonder how many cons did Megatron help “get clean”
Also note: This same thing has happened to Megatron. He can’t get drunk anymore either.
Is it just me or do I detect a little something in the way he says “I did?” Megatron’s whole life has been about giving up pieces of himself to become what he became.
On the other hand, Trailcutter’s alcoholism has been cured, albeit by force, and he has a job now to give him something else to do with himself…which makes me pleased that Megatron seems to be turning out to be a good leader for the LL, if not a particularly warm and fuzzy one.
I’m just amused by the fact that Megatron seems to have been an active participant in the Decepticon healthcare system… “Having troubles drinking? Here, you’re going to see Megatron…”
In G1 – both comic and cartoon – you could restore a Transformer to life just by rebuilding their damaged body, even after the introduction of the Matrix. Check out one of the very earliest examples of Transformer death and resurrection, from issue #3 of the Marvel comic:
Not that it was always this easy, of course; only the advanced skills of a Quintesson could bring Optimus Prime back to life in the cartoon, while in the comic, Ratchet had a real tough time of it repairing the many Autobots who were offlined by the cosmically-empowered Starscream:
It ultimately took the use of highly-advanced Pretender technology to repair a few of them, and infusions of the rare and powerful Nucleon to restore the rest.
It was with the introduction of sparks in Beast Wars, and their continued use in media after that, that resurrecting a Transformer has usually come to require some “mystical” intervention, to one extent or another. This generally makes it a bit tougher to resurrect someone, as it usually requires that a ‘bot actually voyage into the afterlife and essentially “guide” the spark of the deceased back to the material world – as Rhinox did for Optimus Primal in Beast Wars, the Mini-Cons did for Optimus Prime in Armada, Sam Witwicky did for Optimus Prime in Revenge of the Fallen, Alpha Trion did for Ultra Magnus in the Transformers Legends manga, or Scarlett did for Optimus Prime in G.I. Joe vs Transformers:
That usually – but not always – requires access to some kind of sacred implement like the Matrix or Vector Sigma, which can’t be used by just anybody; and in the cases where these items don’t come into play, it’s usually some even more complicated and arcane way of doing things (like Rhinox’s use of a fortuitous transwarp explosion, or Scarlett using the brainwave scanner to induce transcendental mania.) The resurrections you mention in “Heart of Darkness” were done through the power of the titular object, so they were really “undead” rather than alive again. It was only thanks to an energy surge from Vector Sigma/the Matrix that Cyclonus was fully restored to life.
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