#maybe tfp Megatron is just the black sheep and said ''frag all of this I'm staying as a Cybertron jet'' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

transingthoseformers · 2 years ago

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So one thing that bothers me is how the rescue bots (and blurr and salvage) don't have altmodes when they arrive on earth. But they had altmodes on Cybertron, at least for some time period???

The only thing it reminds me of is the first bayverse (and beast wars but gimme a minute) movie because those guys were all basically identical before scanning altmodes. And in the aligned continuity, we're shown mecha having Cybertronian design altmodes (ie Megatron, techhhnically the predacons and insecticons) in beast wars, they're pretty much a pile of protoform goop, some metal, and a spark before they unconsciously scan an altmode based on their current surroundings (likely to better blend in, far more like an automatic response to mimic and hide) and we see what happens when that process gets partially interrupted my poor hunny Transmutate.

So... do mecha normally just remove any altmode they previously have once they enter space travel?

#tf worldbuilding?#questions #transformers #of course these are three very different continuities #and rescue bots isn't exactly a clearcut one to one with tfp/rid15 #but it seens like a very purposeful move in order to better adapt to their environment #maybe it's an old practice that stems from prewar Cybertron and a select few mecha just. choose not to shed their previous altmode?#in beast wars we see that both the predacons and maximaks do this. but that seems built in like an instinct?#those guys have a lot less choice in their altmodes #maybe tfp Megatron is just the black sheep and said ''frag all of this I'm staying as a Cybertron jet''#possssibly bayverse megs too i cannot recall his alt currently

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