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Published: 2014-06-02 08:07:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 5088; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 34
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It's been an observation of mine that a lot of the hated ideas in the movieverse (fat robots, clothing and facial hair analogues) would be accepted without question in Transformers: Animated.Related content
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holy crap dude, nice, u gotta try doing drift like this
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That is a very interesting observation, I hadn't noticed that before...
Part of it might be that the movieverse tends to focus a bit too much on the human characters (I came to watch a giant robot war, not some loser's coming-of-age) so when the Transformers are reduced to giant robot versions of humans it's just another straw on the camel's back. There's also the fact that in the movieverse the human-analogs are often offensive (Skids and Mudflap) or just tacked on to make a character "cool" (Drift's samurai theme).
In Animated, there's more focus on the Transformers, and while they do similar stuff with making them humanlike, it's usually handled more intelligently that just making a Transformer version of a racist stereotype, cliche character, or human celebrity.
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TFA had Constructicons who were literally NYC construction workers with exposed asscracks.
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I never said Animated didn't do that kind of thing. Prowl is just as guilty of the whole "instant awesome just add ninja/samurai" as Drift, for example.
Really, the difference is that in Animated they give the Transformers enough focus that they're an actual character (albeit a stereotyped one), rather than being just "the one who makes fun of African-Americans" or "the one who has a katana" or "the one who looks like Joe Famousactor."
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My guess is that the argument would be "but teh movies r ment to be realistic, Aminated is cartoony" or something like that. To which I would say "Fuck you, robot trenchcoats are awesome".
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