SW's SilverHammer wrote:I'ght i'll let you on to a secrety secret; i'm trying to piss off Shockblast by bringing race into this seeing as he's the warrior for social justice. I.E i'm trying to be a dick
Ive got to be honest, Id given up with interacting on any level with this fandom outside my friends, but then this subject popped up...
Personally, I applaud your efforts, thank you.
Sadly some of the other comments here have been so insane I cant believe some of you people exist in the real world.
Personally, I dont care if its female or male, it will be something NEW, so Im fine with it. Combiner wars has entertained me to the point i will support it to the conclusion. And to hell with the people that think it should pump out nothing but G1 accurate combiners one after another with unique molds all round. They have no clue.
But, inspired by Fox news and their false reporting, I would like to throw this in as my 2 cents.
Transformers have no genderFALSE. It varies from continuity to continuity but there are a LOT of females dotted through the franchise.
This is all part of some kind of feminist agendaFALSE. I have no words for the dumb.
99.9999999999999% of transformer fans are maleFALSE. theres plenty, and i mean plenty, of women of all ages, they just dont shout their gender from the rooftops every time they post.
This will ruin transformers with its fanwank, equal opportunities propaganda...FALSE. If this appears in comics for more than an issue I'll be shocked.
Transformers have no child stage (or contextual equivalent)FALSE. Both Beast Wars, original RID and Animated alone disprove that
I understand that some people round this fandom are just wilfully under educated on the history of the franchise, and that some get SO WORKED UP that they blow things out of all proportion and that is truly sad. But some fans arent wired up the same way and that is ok, you cant reason with them, you cant explain that after 30 years a franchise must evolve, that subtle nuance is sometimes a nice change to BANGBANGSHOOTYEXPLODINGROBOTS!!!!!! Or that G1 was 3 decades ago, stands proud but what happens now in IDW is not raping the franchise or the fans. In fact I dare one of them to make such an argument to a rape victim (sorry, makes me sick when people us that term).
As for women and other ethinic backgrounds in the franchise, its called diversity, its been there since day 1, this is just a new directionwe may take, you may enjoy it, but let it happen, its good for you and its good for others, and if you dont like it, if it offends you so bad... walk away and ignore it. I know you think you cant, but you can.
Theres a tumblr page a friend recently showed me some snippets from fans debating this issue, its truly sad. Moderately horrifying. And we, as a community, need to grow up.
Whatever you own private 'head canon' is, its yours, but transformers arent real, the established fiction can evolve, y'all need to appreciate or ignore, there is no debate needed on that subject.