#IDW2 continuity

[eashgirl]

You know something I enjoy about Skywarp's teleportation across different continuities is that it's rarely the same. The mechanics of his teleportation vary in nearly every continuity, and there are different limits to how it works. In G1, for example, it’s portrayed as a sharp purple flash, accompanied by a distortion of time and space, as Skywarp is able to teleport in an instant. Kind of confused why he doesn't use it that much.

The same appears to be the case in both IDW1 and Shattered glass.

In IDW2 it does appear to seem as though Skywarp can create portals to facilitate his teleportation, though this doesn't appear to be a necessity, as he can simply warp without forming a portal. In this continuity, his teleportation is depicted with a golden hue, and it leaves behind a trail of what looks like mystical smoke (or something similar) as he disappears. I kind of like how much he uses his teleportation in this continuity to be a menace not gonna lie.

In Skybound, Skywarp only uses his teleportation once, but it’s a pretty cool twist. Instead of just teleporting to another spot, he creates these mini portals or disks that stay in place. He then reaches through them to mess with Optimus. The teleportation has a green hue here, which makes for a pretty neat iteration of his powers because imagine if he can use it to just steal important weapons or stuff like that without even trying to move. On paper it's less riskier than actually teleporting there himself. And funnier ngl.

Then there’s Earthspark, where his- or her teleportation is really something..... In this version, her teleportation is ridiculously fast, almost like lightning itself. The whole thing happens so quickly that it looks like she literally transforms into lightning, streaking across the space with this red glow. It’s almost like she’s not even teleporting in the traditional sense; she’s just zipping through reality so fast that she becomes a bolt of lightning, visually it looks pretty great.

But at the same time something I love about giving a charecter a pretty overpowered ability like this is as usual it usually comes with a fair share of drawbacks. Or rules that pertain how it functions.

In the Aligned Continuity, or the pre canon TFP novels, Skywarp’s teleportation has this limitation. He has to plan out his destination at least five seconds before jumping, or else he could end up teleporting somewhere completely random, which could be pretty disastrous according to him. Starscream took advantage of this weakness to set him up,which ended up getting him killed. This version of Skywarp’s ability really relies on him being able to think ahead and stay grounded, because if he tries to teleport on the fly, he’s basically gambling with his own life

However, other continuities don’t seem to have this same limitation. For instance, in Earthspark, Skywarp is shown teleporting randomly to different locations within the span of just a second. Her limitation in this version, though, is that she can’t warp through solid objects, which means if she's trapped in a room with no way out—she’s effectively cornered.

Then there's IDW1 Skywarp—though I wouldn’t really call this a limitation- as this happened due to an incident rather than it always being inherently present, but when he gets stabbed by Arcee during a jump, he loses control over his physical form. He essentially becomes incorporeal, existing almost like a ghost, and has to struggle to keep himself anchored in reality. Messing with space time kind of does that I suppose.

IDW2 Skywarp went through something somewhat similar. He attempted to teleport all the way to Cybertron after he was banished, but ended up getting caught in unspace, where he was trapped for thousands of years. He eventually managed to latch onto Jumpstream and escape, only to be thrown right back into unspace in the end, low-key karma since he was pretty much just changing allegiances on merry whim just to have fun(valid), but also sucks for him. Honestly, a miracle he didn't completely lose his mind after all that time alone- then again he probably did. Unspace was to my knowledge mostly accessible by teleporters such as Skywarp and Jumpstream in this continuity.

So, the moral of the story is—teleportation is fun, but also kind of sucks, at least for Skywarp. Seriously, why are G1 and Earthspark the only shows where he actually gets to teleport? It’s literally in his name—just let him teleport already, I beg of you!

[novafire-is-thinking]

IDW1 has Terminus, and IDW2 has Termagax.

I want to see them compare notes on how they “raised” their respective Megatrons.

[catbusdriver]

The Titans

Cybertron's space program is ODD by most standards. However, it's still working

[cryptids]

One of my fav things about nightbeat transformers is that he's like "a detective" but nobody is actually paying or hiring him to do any of that??? He's not even a PI. Solving mysteries is just his special interest.... like that's his hobby. That's why he always has to just announce his findings to whoever is in the same room at the time bc he's never actually working for anyone

[maikhiwi00]

watching tfc and this is like the third time they kill my boy blurr 😭😭😭😭

[sophianightdreamer]

Things that happened in the Official Transformers RPG's lore.

So, I've got my hands on all three rulebooks of the official TF RPG. And also the G. I. Joe RPG, but that's irrelevant right now. My batch did not include the crossover rulebook, sadly.

Therefore, notes on the lore and other details in the "basic" canon, because TFWiki did not go into the details, that grew into this list of odd events mentioned.

First thing first, the general continuity is very close to Cyberverse or G1 Fanon, having the basic outline of G1 cartoon, but with details and chunks of backstory pulled from elsewhere - Optimus is a former archivist/data clerk, Bumblebee is a sportscar, et cetera.

To note, there's a somewhat short introductory "who-is-who" list and basic character sheets with profiles both.

Well, I've already got my whiplash, so it's your turn now.

There's something very funky going on with Devastator. Prowl's introduction blurb directly states that something Combiner Wars-esque/Prowlstator has happened, and reads as implying that Autobots hijacked Devastator. By all accounts, Scrapper is alive, making it a possible genuine canonical instance of Prowlastator with Scrapper alive, but the Constructions as whole are placed with the Decepticons. But, Tergamax mentions that among people that were at any moment replacement parts of Devastator there were five Autobots, Prowl included. What happened?

The "who is who" listing for Autobots includes declarations of jobs/roles/traits. Some of these are notable: 1) Ironhide is a chemist 2) Swerve is in Public Relations 3) Rung is Psy-Ops 4) Perceptor is specifically an engineer 5) Bumblebee is noted as "Hero of the People". Must be popular.

Speaking of roles, monochromatic SIC of the day is Jazz, who is also a strategist now.

All of the people in the introductory list are implied to be the Ark crew, and there are problems regarding space travel for Autobots right now. This means that Anode, Lug, those two kids from IDW2, Elita's team and Glyph are on the crew.

Rattrap is a Decepticon.

Optimus Prime has a thick Iaconian accent in Cybertronian. It turns "Teletraan" into "Teletron".

Character sheets include a list of languages that character speaks. Some of these past the standart English+Cybertronian are completely random. Optimus Prime speaks Dutch. Korean is surprisingly popular. In what could be a nice callback, Slingshot has Arabic. The only two people who know the language of newly-introduced alien species of Catharsians are Ratchet and Wildrider. But the crown is taken by First Aid, who has both ASL and Quileute. Yes, the basically extint language of a small tribe warring legally with Stephanie Meyer.

Speaking of languages, both Megatron and Shockwave are noted passable polyglots, and both lack the Universal Translator perk Soundwave, Blaster and Perceptor have. But while Megatron has vague but limited "languages from across Decepticon territory", Shockwave has "all common languages", implying he knows at least a bit of almost everything manually.

Tracks is a triple changer, apparently.

Decepticons' thing is mass-producing sparkless drone clones of their own members.

There's a general threat level system with lists included, where 0 is a random human civilian, 24 is Optimus and Megatron, and 25 is Omega Supreme and Scorponok. Chosen numbers for some characters are thought-provoking. Jazz is 14. Ratchet is 15. First Aid is 9. Wildrider is 6. Ironhide and Starscream are tied with 17. Lord Zarak by himself is 10.

Transformers The Movie sort-of happened, with no apparent notable casualties except for Megatron, who got Galvatroned, but there is a chance that Cyclonus, while a minion of Unicron, predates those events. He is also in an odd position of formally being a part of Decepticons and not the followers of Unicron, who are technically a separate faction.

Scorponok and Deathsaurus are member of Decepticon High Command/Conclave along with Shockwave and Soundwave. Nobody trusts Starscream, so he is not there, but he has the air force.

Mindwipe is, once again, a sorcerer.

Predacons, the combiner team, somehow adopted a sharkticon.

The evil plan du jour of, apparently, pre-Unicron era is converting Earth into the second Cybertron via several colony sites.

[cyberglyphs]

Reasons to ship every single version of MegOP

since Very Dumb Discourse™ exists about whether or not certain versions of this ship are valid, this is going to be THE most positive post about all versions of MegOP. refer back to this post for reasons to ship your favorite version of MegOP if anyone gets weird about it with you. now let us begin!!

G1: goofy '80s faction dads fighting each other in a denny's parking lot every week LET'S GOOO, that shit is fun as fuck. orion pax also totally had a celeb crush on megatron before megatron ruined that and shot him and his pals 😔 and there's a lot of angst you can add with megatron becoming galvatron and optimus coming back to life to see how much he's changed!

BW: it's the sheer fucking comedy gold factor of a newly minted college graduate and a terrorist dinosaur IMMEDIATELY singling each other out on a prehistoric rock and deciding to call their daily gang slap-fights the BEAST WARS, what iconic drama queens LMAOOOO. also, megatron made his final body in BM look like optimal optimus SPECIFICALLY to fuck with him, and that's just...incredible

UT: the fact that megatron CANONICALLY acted like a grieving widower over optimus after he died in armada is. amazing. never forget their absolutely insane obsession with each other that they can never EVER give up on played a direct part in unicron nearly ending the world <3

Bayverse: this is the one continuity of all fucking things that gave us the lore about megatron being prime's lord high protector. absolute galaxy brain writing from the tie-in comics. also these two would ABSOLUTELY have the messiest, nastiest, most brutal hate sex imaginable, and that's beautiful. <3

Animated: optimus being a rookie washout underdog and megatron being a super scary much older warlord is a really interesting and underrated fresh take on their dynamic! lots of fun to be had with exploring what their relationship would be like after megatron finally acknowledged him as his archnemesis, lol. also...age AND size difference ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Prime: do i even need to say anything, i'm pretty sure that one flashback still of orion and megatronus being friends is responsible for birthing a million shippers for this pairing alone LMAOOOO. the bitter ex-boyfriends energy was TRULY off the charts in this show, it's a damn shame megatron never appeared in RID15

Cyberverse: same bitter ex-boyfriends energy but this time with dates at maccadams. megatron also dies encouraging optimus to beat the unhinged alternate dimension megs AAHH THE ANGST

IDW1: they're both depressed gay war criminals in this one who CONSTANTLY live in each other's heads rent-free and that's amazing, lmfao. also, megatron becoming an autobot means this is one of the VERY FEW continuities where it's not nigh impossible to figure out a way to give these two a happy ending together in fanon

IDW2: space date space date SPACE DATE. they were falling together and everything. megatron also LITERALLY tells optimus to open himself to him...to give him the matrix...yeah megs my dude i'm sure that's the ONLY thing you wanted from optimus "opening" himself. toootally positive, lol

G1 Marvel: megatron was SUPER fucking pissed and weird as shit about the time optimus died over a video game. it counts

Dreamwave: their first fight had megatron urging optimus to join him AND they disappeared together in a space bridge explosion once which is like, a fanfic-esque setup for them to be alone. also i'm pretty sure this is the continuity where optimus accidentally gave megatron a lobotomy, so...uh...potential for angst is to be had

SG: mirror universe!! evil crazy villain optimus with noble goody-goody hero megatron has so much potential for absolute chaos. bonus if you also bring in the normal versions somehow through multiverse shenanigans <3

KP: the only way this version of prime can redeem himself from the creepy underage human girl bullshit is if he gets a good hard dicking from megatron. next

Prime Wars: huge "ex-husbands go on a road trip with their disgruntled daughter" energy here. megatron also LITERALLY says "oh optimus, if only you could see me now" <3

Earthspark: again...need i say why? they're pals and working together from the get-go, what's not to ship??

Skybound: optimus literally wears megatron's arm. truly beautiful <3

TF One: it's not out yet but give it time. the entire movie is going to be about orion and d-16 being madly in love and tragically breaking up, baby!!

[archie-sunshine]

for the anon asking about bumblebee lore [this is only with continuities i'm familiar with/can summarize easily]

g1 - funny guy! basically human friend character. he's peppy, well mannered, and is the most attached to the humans overall [not to say that other autobots don't like humans, but bumblebee is often depicted as being around them the most]

idw1 - he is so tired. used to be peppy human guy but then he had to become the autobot leader overnight, dealt with a lot of shit, died, started haunting starscream, got resurrected, and it's implied at the end that he starts being haunted by starscream.

idw2 - tired father. please let him sleep. his child died and then he almost joined the decepticons and he really just wants to sleep

tfa - college soldier who fucks it up real bad. gets demoted to a team full of other fuck ups and losers and becomes close friends with the token human of the show! he's loud, very adhd, and extremely bratty.

bayverse - this is where the bumblebee loosing his voicebox starts from, before that it was not a concept. i don't know the lore, but this is where it started

tfp - bumblebee also looses his voice box here. it was removed by megatron but it doesn't really have any impact on his actual character or arc [he doesn't really have an arc tbh...] at the end of the series he gets magically fixed

bumblebee2018/rotb: also another bumblebee voice box removal. this time it was ripped out by blitzwing after bumblebee crash landed on earth. he then goes into stasis and is repaired by a human named charlie. they then fight the government and bee escapes

cyberverse: yet another bumblebee gets his voicebox yoinked. now with amnesia added on for flavour. windblade fixes him in season 1 and he becomes best friends with hotrod and cheetor

earthspark: tired father/mentor. he's so done with everything. also a bit homosexual with breakdown. he's got a bit of a complex about being important and this is mostly seen in season 1

tfone: he gets trapped in the basement for who knows how long and is extremely socially deprived. he gets picked up by orion and d-16 [and an unwilling elita-1] and now he's got friends! yay for him. then he joins the government. not so yay.

anyways anon, hope this helps <3

@ bumblebee lore anon here you go

[eashgirl]

I can't believe starwavewave is such an underrated ship esp since its been 40 years these guys were around. Well tbf I do think tfone is one of the few versions where their dynamic isn't inherently contemptuous/distrusting of one another. They have a surprising undertone of camraderie? Like I don't think they're besties or whatnot, but there's an air of cooperation and trust with one another. Starscream doesn't technically order those two around — the three of them just do what they do. They help one another in the couple of battles they were together without even saying anything, and they're coordinated in fights. I haven't seen another iteration where they all like... Just actively work together by choice.

There's also the fact the the HG doesn't move until those three flew off to join Megatron. And the three of them don't discuss nor order it around — they're just united in that decision. Idk it really speaks that the HG has an unexpected trust in those three's decisions and judgement — what they say, goes.

So yeah I love shipping tfone starwavewave and I hope we get to see more of their teamwork and a more cooperative dynamic with one another, I think them actually getting along somewhat would be super interesting and have a lot of potential

I totally agree I've been obsessed with the dynamic of TfO StarWaveWave since I saw the movie, and I'm kind of surprised they aren't shipped in other continuities they have been around for quite a long while. I know their individual ships are somewhat popular but they have a lot of potential as a trio too.

I actually started shipping them because of a running joke between me and my friend about our tf one ships, besides Dpax,Oplita because rarepairs are fun,with the most random ships ever for funsies. Like shocklita,soundbee, starbee,starlita,megalita, sentistar, arceelita,jazzop etc. (if there's an abundance of Elita ships it's besides she's my fav,her and Starscream ngl)

I just joked that I might as well ship Starscream, Shockwave and Soundwave because like they were together in every scene in the movie besides the times they were forced apart by circumstances. That and the added history of being comrades for several hundred cycles, plus their personalities could be made into an interesting dynamic so I just got hooked then and there. They really do feel coordinated in that sense, like that one scene where Soundwave shoots down one of sentinel's guards trailing Shockwave and Starscream destroys the one after Soundwave. Plus the way they fight with Optimus, they don't exchange any words they just know how to fight together and that's just so interesting to read between the lines. They don't give the vibe they're outwardly close nor the most typical but they give old married couple vibes because they're just so used to eachother's habits and pretty resigned to them. Soundwave knowing why Starscream was riling up D-16 and choosing to step aside and see what happens because he likely had seen the latter do this a thousand times before,Shockwave's bursts of anxiety and Soundwave's... I actually don't remember if he had any of them he seems to be the one who's tolerating the other two and their interesting.....quirks lol.

In other continuities the toxic side of their relationship is pretty appealing too, they're like the three co workers who can't stand eachother but just happen to work well with e/o so they are constantly forced to work together. In comes three competent people acting so petty and childish when they are around each other, Soundwave/Shockwave's beef in cyberverse,Soundwave/Starscream's beef in idw2 and Skybound. And I think Starscream/Shockwave's thing in tfp maybe... Ironically I think those two have been more amicable in canon continuities than with Soundwave ngl.

I legit need more fics of them, I'd pay for a pre canon story, heck I may write one myself if no one else does because I NEED to see it.

[cerebrocentric-bullet]

I'm opening Transformers bust commissions in exchange for 30 euro donations or more (or amount of equal value in your currency) to Palestinian GFMs raising money to leave or survive in the Gaza Strip.

Steps:

Make a donation of at least 30 euros to a Palestinian GFM campaign (You can find verified campaigns over at Gaza Funds)

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Include the name and continuity of the character you'd like me to draw as well as the expression and pose you'd like me to draw them in. Make sure to include a visual reference if your character is an OC.

You'll receive a high resolution PNG and JPG image file of your commission in your email within 2-3 weeks.

I'm best at drawing Generation 1, IDW1 and IDW2 Transformers, but I'll try my hand at TFP and TFA designs if you'd like me to.

[0/5 slots taken]

[transformersconfessions]

As someone who's only been a fan of transformers for less than a year, sometimes I step back and look at what IDW1 did (mostly MTMTE/LL) to the culture of the fandom as a whole and it's just crazy how influential it was. It's to the point where the BBC had an article back when LL ended talking about how women started attending transformers conventions in droves, apparently, all bc of that run (and The Gay™ in it). Transformers as a Brand still has a lot of issues (mainly with misogyny/token women) but like. It's queer now. It's Been queer, and it'll forever be queer no matter how angry dudes get over the pronouns or the kissing. Can't put the cat back in the bag.

(Side note ngl it's not even really the gay stuff - technically - that makes some guys mad. Looking through old forum posts a lot of the complaints were more that "Tumblr fangirls" were invading their spaces... Or bc it's appealing to girls it sucks... it's like the opposite of what happened to MLP with bronies lmfao. I constantly see sentiment like that even today which makes me want to fangirl harder out of spite!)

Despite that. I don't necessarily disagree with the usual criticism of the shipping overshadowing everything else, of course it does, but like......it kinda overshadows it for a Significant reason?!?! (we live in a society.mp4) It's still unbelievable to me that Hasbro was okay with it???? Before gay marriage was even legal everywhere in the US????? And it wasn't just like one couple and that's it...as soon as relationships were on the table it was like a deluge of canon gay for almost a decade (continuing into IDW2). This quote of JR's from a 2014 interview at Sequart is really revealing: "Hasbro in particular wanted John Barber and I to explore the more ‘human’ side of the characters." -> We Definitely Got That. The contrast between the original conception of the brand in the 80s to "without love there is no meaning" at the end of LL is so surreal. I cried a little

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[teatitty]

Opbee speaks to me because there is something very "soulmates" about Bumblebee's loyalty to Optimus being the one constant across every single continuity. That die-hard, never wavering devotion. No matter how bad or awful the timeline gets, Bumblebee always stays at Optimus' side. He might waver [IDW2 canon] but he always comes back. He died for it at the start of Skybound. Multiversal devotion just gets to me. I need to write them kissing because Bumblebee deserves to have his hot boss make out with him

[decepti-thots]

🔥 on IDW

People like to blame IDW2's lackluster fan reception among enthusiasts for them losing the license. I think this is bullshit, and that they would have lost it whether or not they continued the IDW1 continuity instead. At the end of the day, IDW as a license holder never had amazing sales figures for the Transformers comics after the original launch post-Dreamwave- I know Roberts and Barber have both confirmed that MTMTE was doing better than the official sales figures indicated (as it was selling unusually well on digital platforms due to its demographic appeal, which are not counted because Comics Industry Bullshit), and I believe them when they say that helped there. But even by the overall dismal standards of USAmerican monthly comic sales (and they are dismal), by 2018 every single comic they were selling for Transformers was not looking good figures wise, and nothing they tried was boosting them for long. Hasbro didn't take it away because critical reception was poor; they took it away because they saw a better offer, and IDW as a company is just often... not... great at getting their comics the kind of publicity that is needed to keep your longterm serialised monthly comic out of the cancellation-figure graveyards. It's sad as hell it got cut short and I really wish it hadn't been. But I think attributing it to anything but sadly mundane comics industry problems- that unless you are Literally Batman, the market is tiny and highly spread out and keeping comics profitable is a losing game- is grasping at straws. Certainly I think laying all the blame at Ruckley's feet because not everyone loved IDW2 is unfair. (It sold better than the LL and OP runs in phase three!) (That relaunch was, of course, also comics industry BS, and not their fault.)

By contrast, Skybound is as of the latest sales figures outselling EVERY SINGLE DC COMIC. This is so incredibly rare among non-big-two comics. It won two Eisners. That is near unthinkable for a licensed comic. It's clear that Hasbro took that offer when the license was being renewed because Skybound had a plan to make TF comics explosively popular again, one which has self evidently worked to date, and there's really no need to get conspiratorial about why this happened when that explains the decision perfectly well. Shrug.

[pluralsword]

tempted to make a short fic out of this it would be funny.

also it kills us that three out of ten of these have harmed Arcee in awful scientist capacities in some way (Animated Shockwave with his interrogation techniques that involved taking her head apart, IDW1 Jhiaxus by being a transmedicalist shit instead of listening to her when it came to her gender affirming journey, and Flatline forcing her spark to power two other bodies), and she in turn mostly trashed them (while she did trash Prime Shockwave at least once iirc she didn't get the chance to take down Animated Shockwave, but sure gave him a hard time), and a fourth hasn't but was her arch-rival (Airachnid) before acquiring the mad scientist archetype in other continuities. Considering that Prime Ser-Ket is concurrent with Prime Airachnid and Arcee was on Cybertron for a long time in that continuity one has to wonder if she would have run into and fought Ser-Ket and the Forged before coming to Earth.... ....gaaaaaah feels like seeing the time knife is contemplating the transformers multiverse just the time knife, haha XD

also before you choose Shockwave as the winner because of IDW1 time travel shenanigans we want to point out there's a funny causal loop wherein that Shockwave's ideology originates from (and largely copies) Jhiaxus, who is maybe the only person he's shown any true loyalty to in the events leading up to Dark Cybertron. the counterpoint of course is that in Jhiaxus's opinion, Shockwave surpassed him by then in the sciences and he was but Shockwave's minion, so given that Shockwave is the only person Jhiaxus has ever truly cared for without also blatantly betraying, he'd probably just let Shockwave shoot him.

[thestitchesarchive]

day 3 let's give it up for day 3 :3

in which I start getting funky with coloring and backgrounds and the whatnot huzzah

day 3 is favorite iteration/continuity and for this one, I chose idw2- controversial, but I really liked it all things considered. Decided to slap together a few of my favorite parts from the series (aka cool space stuff, the gals, and obviously cyclonus because if I ever not like cyclonus then I am dead and an imposter has taken my place)

this series sure had its moments i gotta say

[elfdragon12]

G1 Sunbow: female robots are generally competently written and one episode passes the Bechdel test, but there are 4 episodes with female robots before Arcee's introduction in Transformers the Movie and one has no will of her own as she's human made.

Marvel US: female robots are pretty much non-existent.

Marvel UK: same as Marvel US until Prime's Rib, plus Simon Furman's whole "anti 'gendered' robots" stance (read: robots identifying with gender is only a problem when it's the female gender then it's "robots should be genderless!").

Japanese continuity: more female robots, but most are either in stereotypical roles or written in a horny way.

Beast Wars: only two female robots and both end up in romantic relationships, though the space for characters was limited and both are mostly competently written otherwise.

TFA: both main female robots are primarily there as "man pain" material, generally written as less competent to their male counterparts and one could be replaced by a lamp with a sticky note for all she contributes. Also, female characters have drastically less body variety than their male counterparts.

TFP: only two female robots and one's backstory is entirely defined by her relationships with male partners and, in the story, is paired (not romantically) with another male character to play surrogate mother to despite him already having a strong mother. Not to mention the size difference, being much smaller and more slight. While the Aligned continuity has more female robots, they are still in much, much smaller numbers than their male counterparts.

IDW1: Simon Furman part 2: Electric Boogaloo, this time with some added transphobia. Then any female robots after that are either considered trans (no male robots are considered trans, which is the part that makes it weird) or are from the Girl Planets (supposedly, the planets have an equal gender ratio, but I couldn't name 4 male characters from either).

Dreamwave: all the key female Transformers everyone is familiar with (Arcee, Firestar, Moonracer, Elita-1, and Chromia) are sleeper agents for the Quintessons and other female characters don't have much of a role at all.

Bayverse: Arcee, Elita-1, and Chromia all look the same, transform into the same alt mode, and are voiced by the same person. Also only appear in one movie. (Not to mention the treatment of the *human* girls.)

BBB 2018, ROTB, Cyberverse, and IDW2 are all pretty normal about female robots so were not included.