#robots in disguise (2001)

[sentinelprimeslowerhalf]

rba side burn!!

Just found out he has a cameo in Rba and I had to draw him. I LOVE SIDE BURN!! Look how cute he is 😭 I just wanna kiss him

[emperor-kumquat]

So many RID 2001 memes

[churino]

Design for x-brawn

X-brawn was the first of nightbird's vehicons to come online, runamuck, and runabout had more of a hand in his design than they would in future projects, which resulted in him coming out as a rootin tootin musclehead cowboy

X-brawn is the oldest of the autobot brothers and their leader, being the driving force for some of the vehicons to abandon nightbird and join the autobots, Like sideburn after him, X-brawn is a copy made by people that never even met the original, so he's an odd interpretation of brawn, rough and tumble like the real thing, but young and with an american southerner thing going on. He's got a laidback but adventurous attitude.

But all of that breaks when it comes to the topic of what happened to his younger sisters, unlike his brother prowl. Brawn does tell their story to those who ask. He is self described as simple minded, and is willing to put his simulated feelings aside if he feels something uncomfortable for him is something that needs to happen for some reason or another.

Exemplified by his views on the vehicon's whole quest to gain sparks like the real transformers, he is deeply unsettled by the idea and thinks it's a worthless endevor that will only end in failure and is what could be described as confortable with his current existance but he belives this quest is something that NEEDS to happen, and puts on a happy face to support his brother's aspirations.

It's possible he fears becoming alive, not just because of what happened with his sisters but also because he knows a living expanded mind would have to re examine his experiences thus far and the idea of having to actually think about what Nightbird, the vehicons and his brothers mean to him, and why hes an autobot in the first place beyound the promt in his brain that tells him hes supposed to be one. Is scary and conflicts with his view of himself as a simple creature

[fluffyspaceowls]

close up on his face

to the greatest shark in town <3

[lowder-the-koopa]

Lowder Reviews: What's Next 5

[short-wooloo]

I want non G1 Transformers comics

We're now on our 4th (5th? 6th?) G1 rebooted comic universe, and don't get me wrong, I do love these universes, IDW2005 is a definitive version of Transformers to me, I really love IDW2019 and wish it had gone on longer and gotten to reach its natural conclusion, and Energon universe has been really good so far

But in the end, they're all just Geewun again, and while they are trying to be different, in the end they're all just retelling the original cartoon

And this is precisely why Beast Wars 2021 was such a breath of fresh air, for once the story being retold was something other than G1

So can't we do that with other Transformers continuities?

I want a comic that takes all the characters, concepts, and plots of the Unicron trilogy and make them actually work as a single cohesive story!

Can you imagine it?

And since hasbro doesn't give a shit about stuff that isn't G1, the writers could have free reign to do as they wanted

[pocoslip]

Side Burn flirting with yet Another Red Car, Sideswipe and gets Rejected because he is with Someone else yet Again

(Sideswipe is with Air Raid By The Way)

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, since there is a Delta Magnus, are/were there Alpha, Beta and Gamma Magnuses? And what happened to them?

Dear Magnanimous Muse,

These three are elder members of the House of Magnus, and naturally, Delta wasn’t the last of his house. Their Old High Cybex names are for the most part sequential, so keeping in mind that Greek letters are only an approximation, here are some of the more notable individuals of this lineage:

Alpha Magnus, whose true name was Ultra Trion, a key figure in the Autobot resistance who died protecting the Oracle from Megazarak,

Beta Magnus, the worthy warrior who gained the power to control rays of electrons, but who was cursed with a monstrous appearance,

Gamma Magnus, a loadbearer with an avian alt-mode, who cast off his armor and turned away from war to reunite with his kin,

Iota Magna, who is rather difficult to describe, since she inhabits the realm of imaginary numbers,

Pi Magnus, the sacred geometer, whose teachings influenced the prominent philosopher Platonix,

Omega Prime, the form taken by Ultra Magnus when chosen by the Matrix of Leadership after millennia, referenced in the Covenant of Primus.

[liaswritesrobots]

[sentinelprimeslowerhalf]

shockwave doodle!

Art block is being a pain again so here's es shockwave

Oc x canon doodle too cause our side burn fig arrived today!

[dstevensartgallery]

Omega Prime

One of my new pieces for TFcon Toronto 2023

[random-kido]

rid01 Megan for my soul

[laserbread]

Optimus accidentally having a child with Megatron and losing the custody battle was not on my RID01 bingo card

[bwooomscratches]

Sky-Byte, that’s me!

watched Robots in Disguise 2001 and has way more fun than i thought i would (mostly because of Sky-Byte) and completed the whole thing in only a few days :’-) love that haiku shark

(original screenshot under the cut)

[actualcoolbugfacts]

✨cool bug facts's✨

It's Megatron's birthday!!!!

This is Megatron from Transformers: Micron Legend, the English name for the show is Transformers Armada. He is designed after a stag beetle. He kickstarted my spiral into obsession with entomology.

Technically, we don't know when his birthday is, but we do know that December 1st is the birthday of the Megatron seen below.

He is not designed after an insect, but he is very cool.

I want to talk about Micron Legend Megatron's design. Firstly, he is not a moose or reindeer. Thrust at one point says "I told you not to call me that, you stag beetle." and Hotshot refers to him as a 'stag beetle head' (they do not call him this in the English dub).

Secondly, his left hand resembles a female stag beetle's, being very large and having very sharp fingers, while his right hand looks like the rest of the character's hands.

Thirdly, he has an abnormally small head, like a female stag beetle, while he has the mandibles of a male stag beetle.

In the sequel series, Superlink (Energon in the English dub), he is entirely based off a female stag beetle (besides the fact that he doubled in height since the last series).

He is a very cool Megatron.

Other cool Megatron's include;

G1 Megatron 1984

Thoughts about him;

If I remember correctly, in 'The Secret of Omega Supreme', it's said that he was built to be machine of destruction, to think about nothing but destroying anything that stands in his path. Does that mean he can't properly think for himself?

In episode 16 of season 3 'Webworld', he goes to therapy, gets some awful therapists who are essentially going to kill him and then give him a new processor as it's the only way to cure him. He manages to escape and then blows up their planet.

Edit from several days later, December 9th 2022 (this was posted on December 1st 2022).

It was not the secret of Omega Supreme that said that, that was said in 'The Five Faces of Darkness', which is a 5-part series that starts off season 3.

G2 Megatron 1993

Thoughts about him;

Underappreciated. He's just a little bit ugly but he deserves some love too. He can't get any love from Kiloton anymore, as he's dead.

Also he's apparently in a relationship with this guy called Kiloton, you don't really see him much in the comics, his name isn't even said, but he caused Megatron to start a second war, this time on the humans, after they killed him. He also doesn't get enough love.

Speaking of Kiloton, the Megatron who's birthday it is? In one comic he was shown in a bar showing off his poetry to this guy called Impactor. It would later be stated that Impactor's old name was Kiloton.

Beast Wars Megatron 1996

Thoughts about him;

As much as it may have already been said about him, I would like to reiterate that he is Barney the dinosaur. If not, then a relative of Barney the dinosaur.

His voice actor (David Kaye) would go on to voice beetle Megatron in the English dub of Micron Legend. By voicing Optimus Prime in the 2007 series Transformers: Animated, He would become the first voice actor to have voiced both Megatron and Optimus Prime in their career.

He is also referred to as the Queen by a character called Inferno, which makes for one of my favorite lines from the franchise.

(For context, Dinobot left the Predacons at the start of the series, and has now returned to them for the time being.)

Megatron: Inferno, aid Quickstrike.

Inferno: Yes, my queen.

Dinobot: I was not aware you had given yourself a new title.

Car robots/Robots in Disguise Gigatron/Megatron 2001

I'm including him in the Megatron section, despite the fact that he's called Gigatron in the original dub, because the English dub is more popular than the Japanese dub, meaning he is more recognized as Megatron than Gigatron. I will be referring to him as Gigatron as I haven't watched the English dub.

Thought about him;

He's kind of plain? But I still enjoyed watching him do stuff. Just causing a little bit of mayhem for no good reason. And I also just love his personality. He has issues and I lowkey kind of relate. Not to the whole killing people to get what he wants, but him just trying not to lose it while broadcasting to a bunch of people about how he's going to blow up a dam but it keeps not working so he keeps having to call Gel-Shark (English name; Skyebyte) to find out what's happening.

Also, there was an episode where he put on drag and then got catcalled by an Autobot who didn't recognize him.

Unicron trilogy Megatron/Galvatron 2004

This is the same guy as beetle Megatron, from Micron Legend's sequel series Superlink, which came out in 2005. His new name is Galvatron. In the English dub he isn't called Galvatron until he gets an upgrade that turns him purple.

Thoughts about him;

As previously stated, he is designed after a female stag beetle despite being referred to as a man. I am in full support of this.

He also has this guy called Shockfleet (English name; Mirage) that nicknamed him 'Gal-sama'. 'Sama' being a Japanese honorific for someone you worship.

He's very silly. Goofy, might I add.

This is Master Megatron from the third series in the trilogy, Galaxy Force, which came out in 2006.

Thoughts about him;

He isn't a stag beetle. I am fuming.

He looks like he's wearing a crop top and cowboy pants with overalls. And he has these spiky goth knee-high boots on.

The reason why his left arm is so wack-looking is because he's powerlinked with Dark Ligerjack, who is essentially his cat that attaches to his left arm.

Dark Ligerjack's name sucks so I called him Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Ravenway every time I had to refer to him.

Transformers IDW1 Megatron 2005

That's this guy. Happy birthday my guy.

He is very cool. If you can, I would very much recommend that you read the IDW series, specifically the one that ran between 2005 to 2018. Just to differentiate because there is a recent IDW series that came out in 2019. The series is very long and therefore expensive, so there is a good chance that someone would not be able to read it. And if they can they will probably get lost trying to figure out which comic they're supposed to be on. Just skip Spotlight: Arcee, that story was retconned, and is very offensive.

Thoughts about him;

This may start a fight, but you are not supposed to forgive him for everything he's done just because he went to therapy and made a vow to never kill anyone again. He says this himself, that it may be cruel, but with everything he's done, and the billions of people he's killed, he deserves to be executed. You're supposed to feel sympathetic towards him though, and you are supposed to feel sad when he dies. But you never even think about the people who he killed because you never had a chance to get to know most of them, because even with how long this series is, it isn't long enough to tell the stories of billions of people. Someone's life is much longer than the amount of time it takes to kill them. Not to mention the brutal ways in which he killed them. The comics, I feel, make it known that you shouldn't forgive him, and frequently remind you about the things he's done, while still making you understand what his viewpoint and what his mental health was like to cause him to spiral.

And it all leads back to that the Functionist council should have never existed in the first place. While most people that the council ruined the lives of didn't turn out like Megatron, a lot of them died or were forced to live in awful conditions, and the one's that did protest would be greatly overshadowed by the actions of Megatron, essentially making it so that those people had to join his murder spree to even feel like they are free. But trapped in the echo chamber that was the Decepticon cause at this time, I would argue they weren't really free. Megatron could kill any of them at his whim, and he would, and he has.

He came to a point where all sentient live besides his own had no meaning to him. His actions eventually caught up to him, and with that, he realized that he isn't someone who can be expected to mingle with the people who he's hurt without them complaining or being scared of him.

And he somehow accepted that better than some people who read these comics.

Anyway very cool Megatron.

Transformers Animated Megatron 2007

Thoughts on him;

Haha jet go brr

To me, he just kind of feels like the default Megatron. I like him and all, but he feels a bit too generic. I really don't have that much to say about him.

Prime Megatron 2012

To be honest, Prime is one of the few shows I haven't watched yet.

He looks silly though/affectionate.

Earthspark Megatron 2022

To be honest I haven't watched that many of the newer shows/comics, so I'm skipping to Earthspark.

Thoughts about him;

Only 10 out of 26 episodes have come out, so I can't say very much about him. But I do feel hopeful that they are going somewhere good with his storyline.

I will point out, his storyline is a pretty heavy-handed jab at police brutality and jail conditions, but it is a nice surprise for the fact that this show aired on Nickelodeon.

Also, and this may controversial, but when I first saw him, both me and my brother (doux-mirages) talked about how he's the ugliest Megatron.

He is a very cool Megatron though.

[short-wooloo]

Haslab Transformers Omega Prime is fully funded, and at 10 days that is a record for Transformers Haslabs

Here if you want to fund (beware, $250 us)

If we get it to 16,000 we get a big fuck off anime sword and figure stands!