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* Why do Transformers have genders and romance? And why are there so few female Transformers?
** The second is, presumably, a combination of the first and the [[Merchandise
** The Marvel G1 comic explains that Transformers are in fact genderless, what with being robots and all. However, on Earth, they came under criticism from [[Straw Feminist]] women for not having any females on their team. Since the feminists were too irrational to accept that a robotic, non-biological race didn't actually have ''males'' either, the Autobots built Arcee in a very stereotypically feminine manner to shut them up. Unfortunately, that just made things worse.
*** For that matter, why is it that "no gender" translates to "no girls"? Why haven't we had any genderless female-shaped characters?
**** The question is "Why do people assume everything not quite human enough to recognize gender is a male?" People would react to [[Metroid|Samus]] the same way if they didn't [[Samus Is a Girl|know she was a girl]]. Of course, there's also the question of why the cartoon gave them clearly male voices.
**** No gender means "no girls" and "no boys". Technicaly Optimus, Ratchet, Bumblebee and the others are not more male than they are female, we identify they as male because we are socialy conditioned to asign masculine gender to everything that's not explicitly female. But the secondary sexual characteristics we use to identify a character as girl (including voice pitch) are inaplicable to most of earth species (I'm pretty sure you can't find anything specialy "femenine" in, for example, a female [[Futurama|crab]]) let alone to a race of [[Starfish Aliens|alien giant transforming robots, only vagely humanoid]]. So a robot with [[Non
***** To be fair, the transformers are mostly warriors, so that's another reason to view them as male. Then again, I am not sure using stereotypical gender roles is much better than defaulting to male when anthropomorphizing genderless alien beings.
** In the IDW comic, [[Mad Scientist|Jhiaxus]] introduced gender to the Transformers just to see what would happen. The real question here is "how did the Transformers ''know'' that Arcee was female"?
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** Megatron may be a brutal tyrant but at least [[Even Evil Has Standards|he has standards]]. Starscream's sole purpose is the aggrandizement of Starscream and he doesn't care what crimes he has to commit to elevate his stature. If he ever gains control of the Decepticons there will be nothing to stop him from turning his maniac ambition on the Autobots and the rest of the universe; when that happens he's likely to engage in war crimes that Megatron wouldn't even contemplate.
*** Uh, yeah, but have any Decepticons actually performed well under a (classic type, not emo type) Starscream? They ignore him in ''Animated'', betray him in ''Beast Wars'', and I get the feeling the kind of guy who blows up the trumpets celebrating ''his own coronation'' isn't going to be too popular.
** Starscream seems to have a knack for getting control of artifacts like the Underbase or Warworld, after which he starts [[One
** If the Autobots take Megatron's side, he'll be shooting at Starscream and not them. If they take Starscream's side, he's likely to stab them in the back first chance he gets. Starscream's a dangerous foe, but he's even more dangerous as an ally.
** In the G1 cartoon at least, the Autobots didn't care about internal Decepticon power struggles. In "Triple Takeover", Optimus tells Megatron in no uncertain terms that he's irrelevant now that he's no longer in charge, and only Blitzwing and Astrotrain are worth focusing on. In "Starscream's Brigade", the Autobots take advantage of Decepticon disorganisation to rescue Wheeljack, but don't interfere one way or the other with Starscream's insurrection.
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