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.
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.
I can’t believe that the first two parts of Transwarped have confirmed that of the entire bridge crew, including wartime field medic Ratchet, actual engineering genius Bulkhead, student of an incredibly illustrious school Optimus, and nearly-got-in-the-elite-guard Bumblebee…
Prowl is literally the only one who knows anything about babies. And I’m not talking human babies because Sari clearly gave Optimus the eight-year-old version of the talk, but like. their own species. He’s the only one who recognizes Isaac’s description as talking about a protoform and he reacts like that nigh instantaneously.
Because first, you just have this entire assembly of competent people boggling in total confusion over a protoform and Prowl is the one desperately shouldering his way in like “Bumblebee that is not how you hold a baby!”*
But see the other side of it is… where did Prowl get this knowledge? He’s not terribly old- seemingly he’s about Optimus’s age and I feel like both of them are either early twenties or late teens, even- given how cybertronians seem to be culturally considered adults as soon as they’re past “puberty” and settled into their mature body, it’s likely from a human perspective we’d overestimate the proportionate ages of them.
So that just gives me the image of like… Prowl as the equivalent of a thirteen-year-old who just for one reason or another was surrounded by babies. My friends with more Transformers savvy than me tells me that protoforms are generally depicted as just sorta autonomously bubbling out of pools of liquid metal so my present headcanon is wherever he grew up was close to one and sometimes the planet just, y’know, decided you were gonna have twenty babies whether or not you had twenty adults in a position to care for them so just, everybody who was capable of carrying a baby around was put on baby duty.
* admittedly he’d be a little off the hook since even newborn cybertronians would probably have about the motor dexterity of a toddler, but that’s another subject that I like to call “Isaac Sumdac probably had so much fun babyproofing his lab in response to his new completely unexpected alien hybrid bundle of joy”
A completely normal late-night excursion to a refinery on the Planet Junk goes belly-up when Jetfire and Jetstorm are kidnapped by the barbaric Junkions! Will they make it out alive? Why does everyone on this planet act like a maniac? Does Sentinel Magnus even care if the blunder twins get stuck in the garbage forever? After all, you know what they say: an Autobot’s Trash is a Junkion’s Treasure!
So, in 2007, Hasbro put out a redeco of Armada Red Alert in the live-action movie toyline as that universe’s Inferno. However, unbeknownst to me as I worked on this character, who is a rework of Animated Red Alert (herself based on Armada Red) with the movie Inferno colors, there was already an Animated Inferno from the Allspark Almanac, who is based in Beast Wars Inferno. Not wanting to name-double-up, we gave her a totally new one.
Cybertronian Database 
