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I kinda support microscopic organic life on Cybertron

 It would also be funny if for a long time they weren’t seen as anything special and most not involved in industries using them don’t think about them.

Colonial organic life cultivated for industrial use would be useful for many industries as well. Organic life is very good at arranging carbon chains is what I’m saying.

(Imagine: cybertronian oil/grease farmers)

I mean, Cybertron has crystalline lifeforms in many continuities so its not all metal. And organic life could arrive by panspermia early on in the planets history..

Of course with symbiosis between organic cells, nanites, silicon based artificial cell the symbiosies can get weird. If you think lichens are weird, imagine a cell that makes silicon based copies of itself to protect it under layers.

Evolutionary niche opportunities of free-living organic life not cultivated would be mostly limited to being extremophiles with long periods of dormancy.

There are probably bacteria or bacteria like things that evolve to metabolize fuels and energon though. Probably can wait millenia until a drop hits them.

(oranic, not computer) virus diversity is lower than earth. Retroviruses that insert dna into hosts genome reign supreme.

Mechanical wildlife may have storage compartments for certain symbiotic organic life. Perhaps even using them in production of scents.

Megatron and other deceptcion leaders

I’d like to see a cartoon series tackle the idea that Megatron isn’t always the Decepticon leader, or even honestly their best, and he has been overthrown multiple times.

However, when the dust settles, eventually the usurper is gone and he’s back on top.

The surprising twist is that Starscream would often be the one helping him get back on top, helping explain why Megatron keeps Starscream.

This is also works with the fun idea I have where Megatron see’s himself as Optimus’s arch rival while Optimus is going “oh, Megatron’s back again.. Well at least he’s more predictable than Ratbat.”

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.)

Thoughts on TF:Prime Beast Hunter predacon combiner (and recolors)

(reposting since  can’t edit the old one anymore)

Its interesting how Rippersnapper has the highest rank while the tie-in docs sent to stores (Predacons Guidebook) say the Predacons were starting rally around Hun-Gurr . It comes off as the Decepticons making Rippersnapper leader of the group officially since he seems the most “civilized” by their standards, being a trash talker. It allows for possibility of the internal hierarchy of the Predacons not matching the official hierarchy imposed by the Decepticons

Which also brings up a possible interesting dynamic: Hun-grr could end up being the heart of the team, mediating conflicts between its volatile members, while Rippersnapper acts as the tactician.

Also, originally Rippersnapper was supposed to have a shattersteel bow according to the website, but when his toy came out it was labelled an electrocharge bow.

Meanwhile, Windrazor was originally to have an “abomination bow”, but got a tornado bow when the toy came out. ( I like to think the name describes the non-straightfoward flight path of the projectile and since Windrazor was painted as taking unusually well to). Probably because “abomination bow” doesn’t give an idea of what it does very easily.

Rotgut, Blight’s recolor (who lacks tech specs) is interesting for their role as a Demolition Expert, suggests more intelligence and training than those given to the other predacons.

Cindersaur, has a shocking intelligence rating of 1, yet is of average skill. All I can think of to characterize them from that is “African Grey Parrot that developed pyromania and learned to shoot a gun.”

Also note that Windrazor and Cindersaur have same function: Inferno Stormer No idea what this means though, perhaps they excel in fighting in conditions where everything is on fire?

Blight may be ironically less destructive than Windrazor despite having greater destructive potential if only because Blight might focus on targets that anger him like an animal while Windrazor enjoys destruction itself and can use his intelligence to maximize it.

A ranking comparison using minions from show

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Breakdowns function left off since toy and show didn’t seem to match.

Most attempts I’ve seen by fans to give the Decepticons a so-called “valid philosophy” falls flat to me because it ends up being what real-life internet edgelords or awful rich people believe. 

Seriously, they call themselves “Decepticons.” That sets off the same warning flags as “Dark Enlightenment.”

While I am loving nerd Thundercracker portrayals, I’d like to again see a more developed take on “jerk jock repeatedly forced by circumstances to stand up and be the adult in the room” that you saw glimpses of in G1 cartoon.

Edit: “Why do I always have to be the responsible one?”