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* Why is the show so different from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron|game?]] the visuals, the history, it seems more like the bayformers than the game?
** It's sorta similar to the differences between the [[The Transformers (animation)|original cartoon]] and the [[The Transformers (Comic Book)|Marvel comic.]] It's the same basic story and universe, but they have different ways of portraying it.
** [[Transformers Exodus|Exodus]], WFC, and Prime being one continuity were decided at a late stage (WFC and Exodus already out, Prime on the way) by people not directly involved in the making of either. They weren't written to fit together and it shows. It's kinda like when Takara (the Japanese toy company) suddenly said "[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|RID]] and Bayformers are all totally in G1 continuity!" and everybody else said "What the slag?!" When people [[Word of Saint Paul|not actually involved in the making of the fiction]] say something that's clearly nonsense, it's best to ignore it rather than to get a migraine trying to make it fit.
*** Actually, WFC, Exodus, and Prime are all based on the same 354 page production bible, which details the history and lore of the universe. As stated before, it's more like the parallel between the G1 cartoon and the Marvel comics, in that they essentially take place within the same universe, but portray events in their own way. Furthermore, while they do take place within the same continuity, the creative teams have a good amount of leeway in crafting their stories, able to craft the best stories they can even if it means a few contradictions here and there between other entries within the same continuity.
*** What happens in one clearly didn't happen in all three, which is what sharing a continuity means. Taking place in the same universe but telling the story a different way is a ''contradiction in terms.'' And what we have isn't a few differences, but three ''wholly'' incompatible, ''wildly'' different versions that don't have much in common past the existence of Dark Energon and some events of the early days of the war (maybe ''those'' commonalities are because of that production bible.) - not even character designs like the G1 show and comics.
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