Tag: autobots

I’d like to see Transformers switch up the non-leaders factions between some series

Like say Scavenger, instead of winding up with the constructicons Bumblebee’s  mandatory large green buddy. (I’d imagine him being built as a decepticon but the autobots took over the base he lived at and he hadn’t been fully indoctrinated so he just walks in the back door and goes to his room like nothing happened. After all the decepticons told him might makes right and didn’t the autobots just prove themselve’s mightier. The only reason the DJD wouldn’t be after him is they went after the guy who was supposed to mentor scavenger instead, writing Scavenger off a a “defect” rather than a defector.)

Or have Misfire as a flight instructor for the flying autobots. (he’s actually a very good flier, even if he sucks at actual combat.)

Transformers and ableism

Man from the empties to IDW , Transformers comics have a long ugly history of unexamined ableism. (Though earlier it was physical ableism.)

I remember being upset at the Autobots commiting war the crime of disguising themselves as empties in Machine War comics, because the writer’s defense was like a slap in the face to me when my grandmother had dementia. 

He stated his interpretation of the empties was that they were mentally ill and had bad days where they were raving, and basically barely people in his eyes. As if that made it okay that after that mission the decepticons would obviously start targeting the empties in response.

This is more than James Roberts, this has been a problem with the franchise since the first Marvel comics.

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I note the autobts were mostly ableist to those with physical disabilities outside their ranks in the Marvel comics.