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quick arcee doodle, she is my fav crashout
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Transformers and Female Body Types (Rant/Essay)

(I wanted more images in this, but tumblr has a limit and it was a lot of pictures anyway)
Anyone who complains about female transformers having ârobot boobsâ needs to shut up. Unless itâs a case of critiquing a design thatâs genuinely caricatured, this complaint only serves to protest against robots looking too feminine, as if all robots by default should have broad, masculine shoulders and flat chests instead. The problem is that people look at a masculine transformer and say, âAh yes, an anthropomorphised robot.â But the moment itâs one of the female transformers, itâs âwhy do robots need boobs?â as if a male-looking body type is anthropomorphizing, but a female-looking body time is suddenly âtoo humanâ or âtoo much.â As if all humanoid robot aliens should look male by default.
That being said, for a long time transformers did have a glaring issue of their female transformers having a generic, Barbie-doll like body type. This especially became problematic as male characters appeared with several different and varying heights and builds, while female characters all looked the same.
This eventually improved with newer media. Iâm going to go through different transformers series, giving my opinions on various female Cybertronians designs.



Transformers Animated and Transformers Prime are the cases where we see the very few female characters that there are being designed with this more Barbie doll look, especially in comparison to the male cast, who each have strikingly different silhouettes. I maintain that thereâs nothing wrong with having this stereotypically feminine figure as long as itâs not caricatured or designed to sxualize the character (in TFAâs case, Black Airachnid was extremely sexualized, but Arcee wasnât at least) itâs just the lack of variety that makes it painful. If all female characters were designed with a stocky, square body type, it would be just as bad; the problem is the lack of diversity in representing how each woman is different.
I think Arcee from Transformers Prime gets some of the most comments about how she has breasts and hips and is most often faced with the question âwhy should robots have boobs?â In response to this question, I propose: why shouldnât they? The shape of their chassis really doesnât matter in the end. I like Arceeâs design and acting like sheâs inherently caricatured for looking like a woman is just a way of alienating femininity.
TFP Arcee is also unfortunately sexualized a lot by the fandom. Primus forbid a woman exist in peace.
The problem with these âBarbie dollâ designs isnât that they are oversexualizedâ while this may have been a problem with Black Airachnia, the true problem, as seen especially with the treatment of TFP Arcee, is the concept that any female body traits are inherently sexual, which both creators and fandom spaces feed into.
Itâs not as prominent, but Iâve also seen a trend of attempting to give female transformers more diverse body types by giving them⌠male body types.

In Transformers Cyberverse, the Seekers all have the same body type, whether they are male, female, or genderfluid, the only differences being that the female models have lips and the male ones have facial-hair like chin stubs (and Acid Storm switches back and forth). However I would hardly call this progress, because the body type is more male-leaning, not truly gender neutral.
Often to make something appear gender neutral, people will just remove anything too obviously feminine. This treats masculine traits as the âdefaultâ and female traits as a deviance from this. A truly gender-neutral design would incorporate both masculine and feminine traits at the same time.
(What if we just made all the Seekers look like women and gave the dudes chins. What if we did that. Huh.)
Shadowstriker from Cyberverse is a better example of this, having a female body type but a chin stub and generally gender neutral face.
I like the look of Alpha Strike as well, she feels actually gender neutral and isnât too exaggerated like most muscular (and especially muscular female) characters are.
For example, Clobberâs design is good, but I do think her lips were strangely exaggerated.
Once the IDW run of the Transformers comics actually introduced female characters, they eventually gained a large cast with a variety of different body types. Take Windblade, Nautica, Pyra Magna, the Mistress of Flame, and Aileron.

These arenât all examples, but IDW certainly had a unique design for each of their female characters, with different heights, width, mixing and matching the proportions of their bodies and displaying diverse body types. Aileron is also a stand-out character design for me, as one of the few heavy-set transformers to be designed in a way that looks more rounded than bulky, implying weight over muscle. We need more weighted transformers in general.
I have many positive feelings about Transformers Earthsparkâs choice of character design for their female characters.
Earthspark has the most consistently diverse character design for its female characters.


And it shows that the key to designing actually good female Cybertronians isnât necessarily to make them not feminine, but to show diverse depictions of femininity. All of the female characters in this show are pretty feminine, but they all look different. Twitch is small and slight, Hashtag is tall and boxy. Each one has different proportions and are easy to tell apart by body type alone. Even better, they each have drastically different facial structures. Twitch has large eyes, Hashtag has a strong chin, Elita-1 has a straight nose and pronounced lips, Arcee has small eyes and a very slight nose, et cetera. Earthspark is definitely a win in this department.
My point with all of this is to say that femininity isnât a one-size fits all. Every woman is different and everyone should get to express their gender in whatever way they see fit. Transformers gradually diversifying the look of their female characters represents this, and I hope they continue improving as the franchise continues.
#transformers#maccadam#transformers idw#Transformers Cyberverse#transformers earthspark#transformers animated#transformers prime#tfp#TFA#tfp Arcee#Arcee tfp#female representation
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Rewatching s01e12 "Predatory" and this realization is destroying me.
Just imagine that hundreds of years ago you watched someone you loved get brutally murdered in front of you.
Then, when you're fresh off losing someone elseâwho convinced you to start caring again after closing yourself off for centuriesâyou're suddenly responsible for protecting this incredibly fragile little creature, and every time he opens his mouth it's like you're hearing a ghost.
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Most reasonable crash out
#transformers#tfp ratchet#ratchop#optiratch#tfp arcee#tfp bumblebee#bumblebee#arcee#ratchet#optimus prime#tfp optimus prime#tfp#transformers prime#Arcee jailtime arc đ#BUMBLEBEE MY BELOVED đ#in front of his DADS đ???#they might bone tho#i dunno#:3
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I love this scene đ
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#digital art#transformers#robots#decepticons#tfp#transformers prime#autobots#procreate#tfp optimus prime#transformers optimus#tfp arcee#transformers arcee#transformers animated#animated#my style#bumblebee#bulkhead
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i needed that tfp arcee and optimus hug,,,I think arcee would tell oppy things shed be too vulnerable to share to others, coz she's comfortable with them,,
#transformers fanart#transformers#transformers prime#tfp#tfp optimus prime#optimus prime#optimus#arcee#tfp arcee#arcee transformers#maccadams#maccadam#maccadm#they r mother and daughter to me
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I finally found the strength and time to finish this art, YEAH
#transformers#tfp#art#transformers prime#artists on tumblr#tf art#illustrations#maccadam#redesign#transformers arcee#arcee#tfp arcee#redesign arcee
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You know sometimes I wonder, âdamn where did this random lust for robots come from?â And then I remember what I grew up watching
#transformers#transformers prime#transformers arcee#arcee#tfp#tfp arcee#transformers prime arcee#robot posting#eroticism of the machine#robophilia#robotposting#transformers posting#roboposting#robot fucking#robotgirl#robo girl#robot fucker#robot girl love#the writers knew what they were doing#the animators mustâve known what they were doing#this required collaboration and lust for the machine from all parties#transformation#transformation kink
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Finished the lineart of my tfp stickers!
#art#digital art#transformers#fanart#artwork#digitalart#digital illustration#tfp#optimus prime#transformers prime#maccadam#tfp optimus prime#megatron#tfp megatron#ratchet#tfp ratchet#tf ratchet#starscream#tfp starscream#bumblebee#tfp bumblebee#tf bumblebee#soundwave#tfp soundwave#tf soundwave#tfp arcee#arcee#tf arcee#knockout#tfp knockout
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Transformers Designs: Prime vs Universe
















I just find these interesting.
#transformers prime#transformers universe#tfp#tfu#breakdown#arcee#bumblebee#knockout#wheeljack#ratchet#megatron#tfp breakdown#tfp knockout#tfp arcee#tfp ratchet#tfp bumblebee#tfp megatron#bulkhead#tfp bulkhead#mecha#concept art#still disappointed that i didn't know about this game until it was canned#:'(
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Arcee commission for @thisisfrenchhouse ! đđ
#HER#she took a while to get done I admit#tfp#transformers#transformers prime#arcee#tfp arcee#my stuff#my art
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Why I think Miko Nakadai is arguably the best human character in TFP
Don't misunderstand, I know Miko was handled haphazardly throughout the series' run. That said, aside from her skipping off into the battlefield, she was actually a great character - and, in my personal opinion, the actual audience surrogate character in TFP.
Now, let me explain.
Although Miko's backstory is told and not shown - a rich daughter who had everything she could ever want, up to and including two pure-breed cats and piano lessons from age three onwards (which, coincidentally, tells us she's brainy despite her antics) - much can be inferred from what snippets of her past we get, along with her interactions with the Autobots. For one, she obviously can't stand most adult supervision, which is likely because of a few things. For one, back home in Japan, Miko would have had to be proper and polite, always restrained, and had to do what she was told. While this is normal (to an extent) in the West, in the East this is etiquette that needs to be obeyed, especially if you're as well off as she is; her actions, specifically in Japan, will reflect on her parents, but to a far lesser extent in America. Thus, when presented with the freedoms of the USA, Miko not only jumps at the chance for an exchange program that will give her the mobility she craves, she also chooses the place that has the least amount of glamor. By extension of choosing to settle in Jasper, Miko's also displaying two other traits: she's not afraid of going to a place vastly different from her home, and she isn't disgusted by a small town with very little monetary value to it.
Secondly, Miko's disregard for authority from adults but deference to the 'Bots teases us with an insecurity - namely, an insecurity that no adult ever gives her a chance to make her own decisions.
Just think about it: All the times Miko's blown off the human adults, it's when they've tried to decide her life for her. Miko has, from what we can see, had her whole life dictated, up to and including those piano lessons. She may be a prodigy at almost everything, but her preferred instrument is the guitar - and yet, she wasn't given lessons in that from the time she was a toddler. Therefore, she feels confined and controlled by the authority of her elders. And so, while Miko may be able to sway Bulkhead into getting her out of detention and consistently slip past the watchful eyes of the 'Bots, it's out of a desperate motivation to control her own life. Now, she does hold too much interest in the battles and getting to watch them, but wouldn't you have that same eagerness if Gundams or Jaegers came to life before your eyes? Yes, she knows their lives are in danger, that they couldn't come home, but there's still a fantastical element to all of this about the Autobots. And it remains so because while she loves them all, Bulkhead is the only one who, while giving her life advice and trying to keep her in check/alive, lets her make her own decisions and take control of her life and her actions.
And that's why she keeps going to the field. That's why she only listens to the reprimands with half an ear and why she recovers so fast from Optimus' near death experiences, as well as Raf's close call with death.
And that's why Miko's world shatters when Bulkhead is left in a half-dead coma from his fight with Hardshell. Because the one person in the universe who gave her freedom and care without deciding her life for her was not just seriously injured, but possibly on death's door.
That's why Miko runs around without a care until the S2 episode "Hurt": because she wants autonomy to decide her life, even if it's stupid choices that could get her killed.
And after "Hurt", we see a new Miko. Yes, she remains gung-ho and fierce, but she stops running onto the battlefield. She takes less enjoyment from the War. Because now, with the reality of war fresh in her mind, she knows the risks and the stakes involved, and she will never take that or her friends for granted anymore. This is further proved when Miko 'sneaks' along for "Chain of Command", but with a twist: she asks Wheeljack if she can come along - and if memory serves, this is the first mission Bulkhead's been on with herself present since the events before "Hurt". Clearly, Miko is still worried about losing Bulkhead - only, this time, she values the words of the 'Bots, and now seeks permission to join a mission, though she wisely asks Wheeljack for this blessing.
This is the beautiful part of her arc, crowned by her battle with Starscream and his Seekers (which is also just straight up awesome.) When she's kicked the afts of everyone, and Starscream tries to intimidate her with his usual "I killed Cliffjumper" speech, Miko's response is this calm, slightly rough, retort:
"Big whoop. I snuffed Hardshell."
In this moment, Miko Nakadai is shown to have grown from an excitable child into an unyielding, but mature, adult warrior. She no longer treats the War and the 'Bots like a game, or a release. She treats them as her friends who she will gladly risk her own life for.
And that, in my opinion, makes her the best human protagonist in all of Transformers: Prime, and Transformers media in general.
As for what I said earlier about her being the true audience surrogate, be honest with yourselves: If any of us were given the chance to meet the Autobots, wouldn't you be just as irrepressible as Miko, as eager to help as she was, and tempted to go to the battlefield to see the action/make sure your 'Bot wasn't going to die? That's what I mean when I say she's the audience surrogate - Miko acts like we would, and learns as we would about the War and the 'Bots if we suddenly came across them.
That's my two cents on Miko, and why she's the human character I respect the most in Transformers...probably of all time. If you liked it, I'm glad; Miko deserves better, and I hope I explained why well.
Til next time, folks!
"Autobots, transform!"
#transformers#transformers prime#tfp#tfp miko#tfp miko nakadai#miko nakadai#tfp bulkhead#tfp optimus#tfp optimus prime#tf prime#tfp ratchet#tfp megatron#tfp starscream#tfp soundwave#tfp wheeljack#tfp arcee#tfp bumblebee#autobots#decepticons#rafael esquivel#tfp raf#maccadam#tfp jack
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she & Jack are so âDad and the cat he said we couldnât keepâ to me
#transformers#transformers prime#tfp#tfp arcee#transformers arcee#jack darby#tfp fanart#artists on tumblr#gonetoforksâ art#digital art
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girls!! some requests from bluesky + traditional tfp arcee for funsies
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if Arcee ws back @ base in the scraplet episode
#babysitters club idk i never read it#tfp#tfp bumblebee#tfp arcee#tfp bulkhead#bumblebee#arcee#bulkhead#transformers#tf#transformers prime#humanformers#thanks for the love on arcee's design đ#shes pretty awesome sauce#:3#bulkhead is scared shitless
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Transformers prime season 4: Ratchet goes to Rehab
#Transformers#Transformers prime#maccadams#Ratchet#tfp ratchet#tfp optimus prime#bulkhead#tfp arcee#tfp bumblebee
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