50 Bunnies
More random quotes from all over the place, a lot of lyrics, and of course, more stuff from the Transformers wiki.
1. Voice actor Michael Chain has stated that he based his characterization of Red Alert on former U.S. President Richard Nixon, a man so incredibly paranoid that he kept secret audio recordings of himself. Red Alert takes notes from Nixon, and others, to become a better Security Chief.
2. “In the Dreamwave Generation 1 comics, when showing the panel through the eyes of many Cybertronians, Autobot and Decepticon alike, twisted text along the side of the shot, oftentimes reversed or flipped around, would read "The More Than Meets The Eye Transformer Red Alert". While other messages were often used, sometimes as Easter Eggs, this was the most popular. The Girl Scouts must have been planning this for years.” I now want to see something where Red gets it into his twisted little CPU that the Girl Scouts are more dangerous than the ‘Cons and are out to rule the world. It’s the cookies. XD I’d also be happy to answer questions about Scouts for anyone who adopts this.
3. Since it’s so common for someone to rewrite their own programming and coding (much in the sense of training to become better kind of modification, not the illegal kind), someone gets tired of how slow humans and other organics evolve and how long it takes for something to be accepted universally in their genes, so they decide to do some genetic altering/experiments.
4. The magnetic field of Earth starts to reveres, causing needles to point south instead of north, at first it’s in random patches across the globe for thousands of years before it stabilizes. Bet that causes a lot of frustration among the Transformers.
5. Perceptor attempts to find absolute zero.
6. Special abilities (like echolocation) in nature is often better than their technological counterpart.
7. There are many Transformers with the same name, it’s about time they all meet each other. Holy frag, there’s a lot of Prowls.
8. In IDW comic continuity Squawkbox exists before Combiner technology has become available to either faction. This means that either Squawkbox is the core being and he's later split into Squawktalk and Beastbox or um... someone at IDW screwed up.
So, what would it be like for a spark to be split long after creation into two distinct individuals? Also, if a spark can be split that means it can be meshed together, too. So, what would happen if someone decides that the logical way to end the war it so combine the spark of a severely glitched or psychotic mech with a much more balanced one? And how exactly would they go about deciding who was glitched and who was balanced?
9. Every household in America has at least one Nosecone toy somewhere. Check your couch cushions.
Alright people, you heard ‘em, go check your cushions for a lost Autobot.
10. What happens when you cross-breed Starscream and Shockwave. Logical and Psychopathic.
From Strafe’s wiki profile. So, any other younger bots that may be the product of crossbreeding?
11. In the hardcover Movie Guide it is noted that Ratchet is one of the few Autobots that could conceivably give Megatron a decent fight one-on-one before being dismembered and fed upon.
Again, a wiki profile, Movie Ratchet’s this time. And honestly? I laughed my aft off. Now, I really want to see this happen. Or better yet, the reason why Ratchet's able to face Megatron as an equal while most other bots couldn't.
12. "I could kill but I can't die. Ever lasting life is mine."
T-4 Strain; Spawn Soundtrack
13. A compiled list of songs about the sun to annoy the ever living pit out of Sunstreaker.
14. Only forgiveness will finally end this, there won’t be a witness if we both fall. There’s never a hero in a battle of ego, there’s never a winner of the quick draw.
Wild West Show; Big and Rich
15. Tired of how everyone thinks science is boring, the brainiacs decide to randomly ‘borrow’ mechs and show them how fun science can be. Would be great if both ‘Bot and ‘Cons decided to do it at the same time, not knowing that their counterparts were doing the same exact thing they were.
16. Movie/G1. Megatron and Skyfire share a bonding moment about being trapped in ice for so long.
Meg: "Do you know how frustrating it is to have the one thing in the universe you are after only a room away form you? And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it while all these nasty little insects crawl all over you.
Sky: "That would be frustrating, true. But at least that particular bit was only for a few human decades. Imagine being trapped in that same spot for a few million stellar cycles."
Meg: "Alright, you got me there."
17. After encountering one too many cassetticons, someone finally decides to fix Soundwave.
18. Every society has their superheroes, so what are the Cybertronian ones?
19. Gollum’s Song from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack.
Where once was light, now darkness falls.
Where once was love, love is no more.
Don't say goodbye.
Don't say I didn't try.
These tears we cry,
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us,
The hurt, the blame.
And we will weep
To be so alone.
We are lost,
We can never go home.
So in the end,
I'll be what I will be,
No loyal friend,
Was ever there for me.
Now we say goodbye,
We say you didn't try.
These tears you cry,
Have come too late.
Take back the lies,
The hurt, the blame.
And you will weep
When you face the end alone.
You are lost,
You can never go home.
You are lost, you can never go home...
20. Minds think alike- “A pack doesn’t leap because it’s told- a pack leaps because every individual, all at once, decides to leap.”
21. There's the training recruits in the military go through where they eat insects, worms and other creatures many wouldn't touch let alone put in their mouth. So, what's the Transformers version of this training?
22. In nature, baby animals tend to have different colors than what they’d have as an adult in order to better hide themselves from predators. So, what would the camouflage of a sparkling look like? How would their appearance change as they grew older?
23. "Scientists are passionate about their work, they cannot not do it."
24. One of the science mechs get bored, and after finding about the new discoveries from Madagascar dinosaur fossils, most importantly the soft tissue, they decide to see if they can make a real life Jurassic Park.
25. Imagine coming into the world with a person so like yourself that for a time you don’t understand mirrors.
26. 96 % if the universe is made of stuff we don’t know, one of the Transformers decides to remedy that.
27. "What does it take to spook a psychopath?"
28. The Transformers land on an Earth that is a little different than depicted in the shows. Over time, all the western continents have developed as normal, the Americas, however are a little different. The Native Americans grew up in a land of dinosaurs, domesticating many as their mounts, like the Europeans have horses. Some have even managed to train Nanotyrannus as their hunting partners.
29. As wonderful as it is to be a Seeker it must be beyond frustrating and incredibly difficult to distinguish yourself from the rest of your brothers. After all, there's only around a few million bots with the same build as you.
30. Can a Transformer be hypnotized, if so how?
31. “Let me show you how to release your inner mad scientist.”
32. Many don’t like going into Ratchet’s office because of how it’s decorated. Mainly all the fuel pumps, empty helms/cranium casings, examples of dissection, and other medical paraphernalia disturbs the ever living slag out of them. Stares at skull in bedroom. Really, what's so bad about having body parts laying around your home?
33. TF:TM It must have drove their partners past the point of insanity, able to feel their bond mates, very faintly, over their link, knowing they’re alive. Yet, everyone says they have died, and as the years turn into millennia, they’re not sure what to believe anymore.
34. Abominus (Terrocons), Piranacon (Seacons) and Predaking (Predacons) would like to remind everyone that they’re gestalts too and that they’re feeling a bit lonely. And tired of floating around a writer's head who has no ideas for them.
35. "The world changes so fast that you couldn't stay wrong all the time if you tried."
36. Considering that Metroplex is a giant sentient Transformer, how exactly does one keep things private while in him? Is he able to feel all that’s going on in and around him?
37. Art. The insides of everyone’s personal quarters. We’ve seen Prowl’s from Animated, time the others shared their rooms as well. From all verses.
38. "Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy."
39. The reason Brawn is always giving Perceptor a hard time is because he's Percy's creator.
40. Rewind and Skydive are the studious ones of their brothers, with a deep love for books and knowledge, something their brothers don't really understand. So, they decide for mutual sanity and for the fact that they really need someone they can geek out with, to have a weekly book night just for them.
41. "With each passing day, the world finds new and exciting ways to kill a man." - Balthier
42. "A man is not drunk so long as he can hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off of the earth." Or in this case, a mech is not drunk so long as he can magnetize himself to the floor (or any other metallic surface) and not fall off the planet they're on.
DrunkBot#1: "Dude, you're so drunk *hic**points at mech above him* you sticking to tha ceiling."
DrunkBot#2: "Na, me not. You the one s'drunk. S'me on the floor you one on the ceiling. *giggle* Ev'rythings topsy turvy."
SoberBot#3: *hands on hips**growls* "The both of you are cratered off your afts. No get to your quarters before you're sent to the bring. And for Primus' sake, get off the walls!"
43. If there was something so deeply etched into programming and spark that it was a part of a mech no matter how they felt, would there be a way to change that aspect of them without irreversibly harming themselves? "It’s in his programming and spark, and is not something he can truly get away from, even if he wanted to."
44. There's a few reasons why Reflector's so frightened of Soundwave; for ages now, the cassette host has been trying to convince Reflector to become a full fledged cassette. It's getting to the point where the Comm officer is willing to use any means necessary to add the cameras to his collection.
45. Unknown to everyone except Soundwave, Reflector is actually one of his cassettes.
46. Many are surprised when they find Perceptor looking over elementary grade notes and books. He explains that he may be intelligent but if you don't know/can't remember the basics, you might as well not even try to experiment. This is after watching Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader and getting more wrong than I feel comfortable admitting.
47. The spiritual path is not one that leads to some blinding light into which all of our troubles are dissolved. Rather, it is a path that leads to finding the light within and shining out into our world.
48. Could go with bunny about each Cybertronian having four different names. A common belief was that to know something or someone's true name was to have power over it or the person. To name something was to make it your own.
49. A very feminine looking femme that is actually a mech, and a very masculine looking mech that is actually a femme. Because confusing humans is so much fun.
50. After a long mission in which a group of mechs uses camouflage paint to go undercover as a bunch of the opposite faction that they're holding prisoner, decide they like the life they're living under these false, taken, identities. Now they just need to figure out how to make the change permanent and what to do with the originals.
1. Voice actor Michael Chain has stated that he based his characterization of Red Alert on former U.S. President Richard Nixon, a man so incredibly paranoid that he kept secret audio recordings of himself. Red Alert takes notes from Nixon, and others, to become a better Security Chief.
2. “In the Dreamwave Generation 1 comics, when showing the panel through the eyes of many Cybertronians, Autobot and Decepticon alike, twisted text along the side of the shot, oftentimes reversed or flipped around, would read "The More Than Meets The Eye Transformer Red Alert". While other messages were often used, sometimes as Easter Eggs, this was the most popular. The Girl Scouts must have been planning this for years.” I now want to see something where Red gets it into his twisted little CPU that the Girl Scouts are more dangerous than the ‘Cons and are out to rule the world. It’s the cookies. XD I’d also be happy to answer questions about Scouts for anyone who adopts this.
3. Since it’s so common for someone to rewrite their own programming and coding (much in the sense of training to become better kind of modification, not the illegal kind), someone gets tired of how slow humans and other organics evolve and how long it takes for something to be accepted universally in their genes, so they decide to do some genetic altering/experiments.
4. The magnetic field of Earth starts to reveres, causing needles to point south instead of north, at first it’s in random patches across the globe for thousands of years before it stabilizes. Bet that causes a lot of frustration among the Transformers.
5. Perceptor attempts to find absolute zero.
6. Special abilities (like echolocation) in nature is often better than their technological counterpart.
7. There are many Transformers with the same name, it’s about time they all meet each other. Holy frag, there’s a lot of Prowls.
8. In IDW comic continuity Squawkbox exists before Combiner technology has become available to either faction. This means that either Squawkbox is the core being and he's later split into Squawktalk and Beastbox or um... someone at IDW screwed up.
So, what would it be like for a spark to be split long after creation into two distinct individuals? Also, if a spark can be split that means it can be meshed together, too. So, what would happen if someone decides that the logical way to end the war it so combine the spark of a severely glitched or psychotic mech with a much more balanced one? And how exactly would they go about deciding who was glitched and who was balanced?
9. Every household in America has at least one Nosecone toy somewhere. Check your couch cushions.
Alright people, you heard ‘em, go check your cushions for a lost Autobot.
10. What happens when you cross-breed Starscream and Shockwave. Logical and Psychopathic.
From Strafe’s wiki profile. So, any other younger bots that may be the product of crossbreeding?
11. In the hardcover Movie Guide it is noted that Ratchet is one of the few Autobots that could conceivably give Megatron a decent fight one-on-one before being dismembered and fed upon.
Again, a wiki profile, Movie Ratchet’s this time. And honestly? I laughed my aft off. Now, I really want to see this happen. Or better yet, the reason why Ratchet's able to face Megatron as an equal while most other bots couldn't.
12. "I could kill but I can't die. Ever lasting life is mine."
T-4 Strain; Spawn Soundtrack
13. A compiled list of songs about the sun to annoy the ever living pit out of Sunstreaker.
14. Only forgiveness will finally end this, there won’t be a witness if we both fall. There’s never a hero in a battle of ego, there’s never a winner of the quick draw.
Wild West Show; Big and Rich
15. Tired of how everyone thinks science is boring, the brainiacs decide to randomly ‘borrow’ mechs and show them how fun science can be. Would be great if both ‘Bot and ‘Cons decided to do it at the same time, not knowing that their counterparts were doing the same exact thing they were.
16. Movie/G1. Megatron and Skyfire share a bonding moment about being trapped in ice for so long.
Meg: "Do you know how frustrating it is to have the one thing in the universe you are after only a room away form you? And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it while all these nasty little insects crawl all over you.
Sky: "That would be frustrating, true. But at least that particular bit was only for a few human decades. Imagine being trapped in that same spot for a few million stellar cycles."
Meg: "Alright, you got me there."
17. After encountering one too many cassetticons, someone finally decides to fix Soundwave.
18. Every society has their superheroes, so what are the Cybertronian ones?
19. Gollum’s Song from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack.
Where once was light, now darkness falls.
Where once was love, love is no more.
Don't say goodbye.
Don't say I didn't try.
These tears we cry,
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us,
The hurt, the blame.
And we will weep
To be so alone.
We are lost,
We can never go home.
So in the end,
I'll be what I will be,
No loyal friend,
Was ever there for me.
Now we say goodbye,
We say you didn't try.
These tears you cry,
Have come too late.
Take back the lies,
The hurt, the blame.
And you will weep
When you face the end alone.
You are lost,
You can never go home.
You are lost, you can never go home...
20. Minds think alike- “A pack doesn’t leap because it’s told- a pack leaps because every individual, all at once, decides to leap.”
21. There's the training recruits in the military go through where they eat insects, worms and other creatures many wouldn't touch let alone put in their mouth. So, what's the Transformers version of this training?
22. In nature, baby animals tend to have different colors than what they’d have as an adult in order to better hide themselves from predators. So, what would the camouflage of a sparkling look like? How would their appearance change as they grew older?
23. "Scientists are passionate about their work, they cannot not do it."
24. One of the science mechs get bored, and after finding about the new discoveries from Madagascar dinosaur fossils, most importantly the soft tissue, they decide to see if they can make a real life Jurassic Park.
25. Imagine coming into the world with a person so like yourself that for a time you don’t understand mirrors.
26. 96 % if the universe is made of stuff we don’t know, one of the Transformers decides to remedy that.
27. "What does it take to spook a psychopath?"
28. The Transformers land on an Earth that is a little different than depicted in the shows. Over time, all the western continents have developed as normal, the Americas, however are a little different. The Native Americans grew up in a land of dinosaurs, domesticating many as their mounts, like the Europeans have horses. Some have even managed to train Nanotyrannus as their hunting partners.
29. As wonderful as it is to be a Seeker it must be beyond frustrating and incredibly difficult to distinguish yourself from the rest of your brothers. After all, there's only around a few million bots with the same build as you.
30. Can a Transformer be hypnotized, if so how?
31. “Let me show you how to release your inner mad scientist.”
32. Many don’t like going into Ratchet’s office because of how it’s decorated. Mainly all the fuel pumps, empty helms/cranium casings, examples of dissection, and other medical paraphernalia disturbs the ever living slag out of them. Stares at skull in bedroom. Really, what's so bad about having body parts laying around your home?
33. TF:TM It must have drove their partners past the point of insanity, able to feel their bond mates, very faintly, over their link, knowing they’re alive. Yet, everyone says they have died, and as the years turn into millennia, they’re not sure what to believe anymore.
34. Abominus (Terrocons), Piranacon (Seacons) and Predaking (Predacons) would like to remind everyone that they’re gestalts too and that they’re feeling a bit lonely. And tired of floating around a writer's head who has no ideas for them.
35. "The world changes so fast that you couldn't stay wrong all the time if you tried."
36. Considering that Metroplex is a giant sentient Transformer, how exactly does one keep things private while in him? Is he able to feel all that’s going on in and around him?
37. Art. The insides of everyone’s personal quarters. We’ve seen Prowl’s from Animated, time the others shared their rooms as well. From all verses.
38. "Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy."
39. The reason Brawn is always giving Perceptor a hard time is because he's Percy's creator.
40. Rewind and Skydive are the studious ones of their brothers, with a deep love for books and knowledge, something their brothers don't really understand. So, they decide for mutual sanity and for the fact that they really need someone they can geek out with, to have a weekly book night just for them.
41. "With each passing day, the world finds new and exciting ways to kill a man." - Balthier
42. "A man is not drunk so long as he can hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off of the earth." Or in this case, a mech is not drunk so long as he can magnetize himself to the floor (or any other metallic surface) and not fall off the planet they're on.
DrunkBot#1: "Dude, you're so drunk *hic**points at mech above him* you sticking to tha ceiling."
DrunkBot#2: "Na, me not. You the one s'drunk. S'me on the floor you one on the ceiling. *giggle* Ev'rythings topsy turvy."
SoberBot#3: *hands on hips**growls* "The both of you are cratered off your afts. No get to your quarters before you're sent to the bring. And for Primus' sake, get off the walls!"
43. If there was something so deeply etched into programming and spark that it was a part of a mech no matter how they felt, would there be a way to change that aspect of them without irreversibly harming themselves? "It’s in his programming and spark, and is not something he can truly get away from, even if he wanted to."
44. There's a few reasons why Reflector's so frightened of Soundwave; for ages now, the cassette host has been trying to convince Reflector to become a full fledged cassette. It's getting to the point where the Comm officer is willing to use any means necessary to add the cameras to his collection.
45. Unknown to everyone except Soundwave, Reflector is actually one of his cassettes.
46. Many are surprised when they find Perceptor looking over elementary grade notes and books. He explains that he may be intelligent but if you don't know/can't remember the basics, you might as well not even try to experiment. This is after watching Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader and getting more wrong than I feel comfortable admitting.
47. The spiritual path is not one that leads to some blinding light into which all of our troubles are dissolved. Rather, it is a path that leads to finding the light within and shining out into our world.
48. Could go with bunny about each Cybertronian having four different names. A common belief was that to know something or someone's true name was to have power over it or the person. To name something was to make it your own.
49. A very feminine looking femme that is actually a mech, and a very masculine looking mech that is actually a femme. Because confusing humans is so much fun.
50. After a long mission in which a group of mechs uses camouflage paint to go undercover as a bunch of the opposite faction that they're holding prisoner, decide they like the life they're living under these false, taken, identities. Now they just need to figure out how to make the change permanent and what to do with the originals.