All this over a cartoon that was created for no reason other than to sell plastic toys.
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How dare you say that! Cartoon robots are srs bsns.
The guy who designed the toys intended Megatron to be the good guy lmao.
Transformers, in every continuity, are created beings with a purpose in mind.
The implication, of course, is that only males have a purpose.
Or I think maybe the implication is that the sole purpose of women is reproduction, and since Transformers don't reproduce biologically, there's no point in having Transformers who are women
Hardly an either/or thing. Man strong, man have purpose. Woman weak, woman make baby. No baby, no purpose.
Also, definitely male default too. In the beginning there was man and then god made woman from man, etc.
I thought the purpose was to move a continually cycling cast of toys.
The "Transformers Generation XXX" is gonna be really hard to watch isn't it?
Transformers have guns tho
A larger frame stopped being an advantage with the invention of the gun
a bigger body is still physically better for running fast or storing fuel or holding bigger guns
especially for a giant robot that can't be OHKO'd by a .22
There's very much a balance to be found. There's a reason we stopped developing super heavy tanks after WWII and started focusing on multi-role tanks.
Fair enough, but it's not like there's no niche for lighter, faster, harder to hit combatants either
This guy is either extremely gay or an incel, no in between
Personally I think it's the latter
I too, like a woman who is burly and ready for combat.
Big Bad Beetle Borgs was better
It's such a weird argument. Like sure, human females generally build muscle slower than human males due to lower levels of testosterone, but why would that affect bots? If they wanted to build a female Transformer and put more "muscle" on her, they could just...do that? What's stopping them from building two genders of bots with different frames, voices, and pronouns, but otherwise the same specs?
I think Mairghread Scott came out and said she'd privately discussed the issue with Simon Furman after this kerfuffle, and that they'd come to an understanding.
Anything alien that looks like a human is overtly just a vehicle for telling human stories.
In this case, a vehicle like a big-ass truck or a sick jet.