Tag: tfa

tyrantofthefirmament:

pixelchaos00:

megarowboat:

man i sorta noticed an interesting thing abt tfa comlinks?? the autobots press their fingers against the side of their helmets in order to talk, while decepticons can apparently just speak into the air and it will register

which i mean! fits really well if we go with the whole “decepticons are military” thing, ‘cuz you might not have a free arm in battle to call someone

but it also means that decepticons are voice activity scrubs who don’t use push to talk

Does that imply that “callers” could listen in on a Decepticon? Is their comlink linked with their brain or is it all the time turbed on? This also can be very useful when captured. They could let their comlink line just open and other ‘Cons are able to hear where they might be captured or who is holding them somewhere. The fact, that Decepticons don’t need to push anything to just talk through their comlink is pretty cool and helpful. Though, if it is possible to be hacked, Autobots could use this to listen to any conversation the ‘Cons will have.

That’s a thing in TFP too! The Autobots always put their finger on the side of their helm, but in the scene where Starscream gets his arm shot off and calls for a bridge, he just yells into the air while holding his arm in his other hand. I always figured the ‘Cons had more advanced comms, since overall they seem to have more stuff, and Ratchet is always so impressed with their science.

They can probably just activate it by thinking about it.