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Im not saying its perfectly accurate, but I see many similarity. Notice Transformers has no Golden Age. Also, im only including the American Cartoons and movies. No animes and comics.

Silver Age - Generation 1:
Where to begin? Silly. Little to no plot coherence (don't look at me like that). Superman could move planets and Optimus had X-Ray vision. You get my point. Nothing was consistent, like the Autobot ability to fly.

Bronze Age - Beast Wars:
Maybe. Im not sure, but we can agree that Beast Wars was darker while still a little bit silly. The Bronze Age was still silly, just like Beast Wars. But it got darker. And Beast Wars DID tackle some...issues with the "Transmutate" episode.

Dark Age/Iron Age - Beast Machine:
The Iron Age went two ways. And one w as dark, edgy and alot more more mature. Say what you want about BM (even I din't like it much), but it WAS a much darker show than Beast Wars.

Modern Age/Platinum Age - Transformers Animated:
The recontruction of the older ages. The Autobots are "superheroes" (kinda) and its alot more cartoon-ish. Still, its was well-written (hey, that MY opinion). The Modern Age comics draws heavily from their own mythology. We can agree that TFA was one big mythology gag and celebration of the old days of Transformers...before all the anime shitstorm.

Dork Age/Iron Age - Transformers (2007 and Rotf):
Oh boy. There was another side to the Iron Age. In an attempt to be more "mature", comics added sex, drugs, violences and penis jokes. Does this sounds familliar to you...?

err... I think I understand what you are going for, but I'm just not quite seeing the parallels you are are drawing, or agree with some of the 'ages' you list.

From the view of growing up in, working at, and still being a regular at numerous comic shops.

The Golden Age of Comics was the time around the 40's and 50's where the medium first really took off and we saw the original super heroes. (Captain America, The Justice Society of America)

The Silver Age brought us the launch of the Marvel Universe, and the the evolution of DC titles with the passing of many titles, Flash going from Jay Garrick to Barry Allen, GL from Alan Scott to Hal Jorden and so on.

The Bronze Age started when Jack "The King" Kirby left Marvel and many Titles took darker tones.

From there we entered the Modern Age in the 80's when books started to be made with out the comic code, companies started trying to make a lot of their histories make sense, and the largest factor, Money changing the focus of most companies, with the talent requesting (and getting) a bigger slice of the pie.

but (and as seen in many 80's Marvel books) I digress.

in a sense, for many of us the characters we think of when we think of G1 (and ARAH for GIJoe) are the ones from the Cartoons, and really the "Golden Age" are those episodes.

The Silver Age would be the Marvel comics, because they were stronger than shows. And while you see this era for these comics for silly factors, I see it as that time because in the comics were more serious, the decepticons while still harboring silly schemes like the Car Wash of Doom, were definitely more deadly than the shows.

Again I will agree that the Beast Wars would be the Bronze age because despite the toys lines being something that many fans looked at and saw the final nails in the franchise. Suddenly, however we were given a show that was fun for kids but serious enough for the older fans to enjoy.

Then after Beast Machines failed, we hit our Modern age with Car Robots being brought over as RID, and Hasbro hit upon a cash cow that the franchise hadn't seen since the special team were a new concept, and we've seen a steady hit of TV shows movies, comics, toys and hundreds of other things for us to spend money on.