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The characters rarely had guns, instead shooting energy blasts out of their fists. Although [[Rule of Cool]] may state otherwise, ''built-in'' weaponry does make a lot more sense for a robot, when you think about it (and if you observed closely, the Transformers in the 2007 live-action movie seem to follow this rule, with all their weapons being "onboard").
The GoBots' origin as organic beings accounted for the presence of genders among the robots. Unlike ''[[Transformers]]'', ''
Also, since they did have ''young'' GoBots who needed to be educated, and the characters did not make claims to [[Time Abyss|vast age]] like the [[Transformers]] did, it appears that GoBots do age, reproduce, and experience generational turnover like any other biological race (although exactly ''how'' their two genders reproduce would be [[Squick|anybody's guess]]).
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Despite addressing some valid and interesting science fiction tropes (as listed below), the series's biggest handicap, apart from its obvious similarity to the [[Transformers]], was probably its "toony" character design, as compared to the comic book-realism of the [[Transformers]] art. (This may account for the show's popularity in Europe, where toony character designs in [[Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea|adventure shows]] and [[Tintin|comics]] are more common.)
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* [[After the End]] (the planet Gobotron, whose biosphere was destroyed in a war)
* [[Ancient Astronauts]] (the Evil One)
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