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=== [[Transformers Generation 1]] and [[Transformers:
* Why did Starscream use a slingshot in episode 2 when has ''two'' frickin lasers on each side of his arm?
** [[Rule of Funny]], and that Starscream is a [[Troll]].
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*** He puts it in [[Hammerspace]].
*** [[Memetic Badass|Wherever the hell it wants!]]
**** That logic only holds up if Optimus is [[Beast Wars
** Yes, yes, the trailer disappears. I think that worrying about what happens to Optimus' trailer is kind of missing the point. The real question is where does ''the rest of Megatron'' go when he transforms from a robot of comparable size to Optimus Prime into a Walther P.38 (Even one big enough to be scale-correct to Starscream)?
*** The rest of his mass is [http://www.tfwiki.info/wiki/Size_changing#IDW turned into energy], in accordance with Special Relativity. Presumably, similar technology is used to allow Pretender shells to be human-sized.
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* Why in the hell ''can't'' the Transformers make their own energy? They seem incredibly adept at converting other, more crude forms of energy into Energon, so why can't they set up some solar windmills or something?
** I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but in the script for [[Transformers:
*** I meant ''before'' they came to Earth. It's like they had no concept of "renewable resource" or "alternate power source" while on Cybertron. Not once did I ever recall them talking about looking into manufacturing their own Energon before coming to Earth. Then again, they seem to have awesome skill at ''converting'' other forms of energy into Energon, but again, they don't seem to bring this up.
*** I grew up watching G1, and I distinctly remember that the Autobots fled Cybertron to regroup after a massive decepticon attack. However, Megatron and a group of Decepticons attacked the Ark, causing it to crash-land on Earth where it lay dormant for several million years. This caused severe damage, and the batteries were considerably drained. Thus, the Transformers had to seek out alternate sources of power to recharge it and get back home. The Autobots did go for windmills and such; the Decepticons tried to steal energy from humans because they're dicks.
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* There was a time Unicron considered sparing Galvatron's pitiful planet. Why the slag would Unicron ''ever'' consider sparing Primus, who is locked within Cybertron?
** Because the [[Transformers:
** For a [[Watsonian]] explanation: He's evil. He was lying.
** From the POV of the current canon of a single Unicron and a single Primus across the multiverse, we may consider the release dates rather than the given dates (unless it's treated as a "future timeline" of a current timeline, like the future UK stories). I mean, [[Transformers:
* Why in the name of Cybertron was Cyclonus so stupidly loyal to Galvatron? Skywarp wasn't especially loyal by Decepticon standards (his lack of smarts, however, is something worth noting), while Bombshell was so independent that he and his Insecticons were technically "allies" of Megatron's forces rather than being true Decepticons- and he was willing to try and steal leadership away from Megatron if he could get away with it. Not to mention the fact that, as Webworld makes perfectly clear, Galvatron is just as much a danger to his troops as the Autobots are, if not more so. Which leads to this troper's next gripe...
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** It just indiscriminately repairs anyone who happens to be under the repair beam. By coincidence, that happened to be Skywarp, who of course had every reason to get the other Decepticons up and running, and no reason to do the same for the Autobots.
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* Why couldn't Megatron come back to the valley to finish what he started after the disk was destroyed? He'd found the place already, and I don't recall the Maximals setting up any security measures.
** It's mentioned in the episode itself; Megatron's attack forced the protohumans to leave the valley and spread out, meaning he was unable to exterminate them anymore.
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** Blackarachnia was turned into a Predacon by Tarantulas, which is what he was doing to Inferno before his activation. As for why Inferno acts how he does, it's mentioned that his beast mode has overridden most of his personality, leaving him with heavy ant-like tics (such as calling Megatron his "queen", and his insane loyalty to the "colony"); why that is is unknown, but as Tarantulas was trying to reprogram Inferno in the middle of his alt-mode scanning session (and didn't get time to finish before the session completed and Inferno was reformatted), it's possible that that caused some damage in Inferno's robot/beast personality block protocols that caused the ant mode to take over.
*** Anothr possibility: Inferno's circumstances have nothing to do with him being crazy. He was built that way, but since he wasn't up and walking around until the pod fell to earth, got fiddled with by Tarantulas, et cetera, nobody knew that he was defective.
**** It's also possible that ant instincts are just that strong. ''[[
* I find it annoying that Silverbolt only tries to redeem Blackarachnia, using the claim she was built out of Maximal parts as one of the lines he tries to do so with. That's true, but so are Inferno, Quickstrike, and, God forbid, ''Rampage''. Yet, he doesn't do anything to try and redeem any of those (granted Rampage is a [[Complete Monster]], but I get the idea that Inferno is redeemable after a ''thorough'' defragging of his hard drive.) Granted, those guys are much too aggressive to even let him.
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** Third here: If there wasn't an airlock, then it would have the same reaction as an airplane I would guess. With the change in pressure, it would send everything not bolted down into the empty, vacuum of space. While it wouldn't kill them, it would be annoying at least and catastrophic at most; as a transformer could get lost forever in space. [[You Fail Physics Forever|Or I could just not know how spaceships work.]]
* Why is there IDW comics stuff in the Generation 1 entries? [[Your Mileage May Vary]] about the comics quality, but from an objective POV, it isn't more G1 than the Unicron Trilogy, the live-action movies and [[Transformers Animated]]; all those series replicate the same characters and throw some G1 references into the mix. There's even a few name re-uses as different characters in all of them (Red Alert in the UT, Galvatron in IDW, Scorponok in the 1st movie, Skids in ROTF, Ironhide in Animated, just to name a few). The Dreamwave comic was a modern G1 continuity, [[Transformers Wings of Honor]] is in a G1 continuity (and even then, it has its own entry), [[Transformers Victory]], [[
** Its G1 because its part of the Primax univeral stream, with story attempting to retell G1 from another universe. If we took it out, we'd have to take Dreamwave out into its own article too.
*** Dreamwave was trying to retell G1, IDW isn't, is just another TF universe like any other. However, if it has already been defined as a Primax universe, it means that it's [[Word of God]] from Hasbro, I must accept it and there's nothing to do in the page. Now what bugs me is why Hasbro considers IDW as a version of G1 when clearly isn't.
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