Plaything wrote: Now that you mention it...do you think the TFs' comlinks would have any of these nifty features? Or even anything similar to those features?
craggy wrote:I liked how they popped out of the robots forearms. Or anywhere else, as the story demanded.
Yeah, me too.
For sure, especially now with the expanded tech levels of the films and animated.I would at least anticipate them to memorize a map of a scanned location.
If there's one single thing a TF can't do, it's mimic something that hasn't been mimicked yet.Therefore, if there's a single thing a TF commlink is good for, it's to store info that needs translation, such as an alien language.
*G1 Wheeljacks' comlink could be an insane invention with bizarre features, whilst soundwaves' could be the most horrific of Megatrons' nightmares regarding who is spying on him and how.
*Swindle and Tarantulas would hand out booby trapped freebies and say they looted them from the battlefield, that every con should have one.
*Some Tfs, like Tigertron, might appreciate a commlink just because it's an amusing and clever piece of insight into somebody elses' creativeness- he was the zen one remember?
*Others, like Rhinox, might keep turning it off 'cuz it mostly generates annoying static, the young'uns only use 'em to talk static and he "can't understand how to program the damned things anyway".
*Trailbreaker, on the other hand would readily rely on lots of electrical devices to allow him to not waste energon.
*Grimlock would chew his to death and all the Dinobots would attack any nearby comlink the first time it buzzed, just because it didn't give notice it was about to interrupt their concentration on whatever they were listening to, which would propably be one of the leaders or strategists saying '...we should be getting a comlink message from the recon team any moment now'.
*Grimlock and Sunstreaker both would get into regular brawls with any other Autobots who had gay ringtones on their comlinks.
*Starscream would propably be written up to have a gay ringtone on his.
*Airazor,Beachcomber and Seaspray might have less of a comlink and more of a portable signal booster to let them wander further afield.They would treat HQ's input on what they found as the actual database to reference.
*Hound and Mirage would use theirs to record all sorts of stuff using non traditional cybertronian energyware and therefore potentially not get caught.
*G1 Prowl purposefully chose the police form to be able to infiltrate human 'no go' zones, and scanning police/fire/ambulance CB radio is something he already did.
*Jazz would rock up outside of mobile shops and be like 'Do you have the latest nokia a72-zillion-x? I want one to match my new FIFA mirror frills and Yosemite Sam hubcaps! Is that the one the Humans are into these days? The Nokia a72? Because the commercial says it's the one bringing the world togther like never before.I'm interested in learning about it so I can but the Samsung turboflow 33, but the commercial says the Samsung is only for when I know what I'm asking for."
*Ratchet and First Aids commlinks could go so far as to temporarily contain a spark whilst it's transferred from a demolished TF body to a replacement one.
*Smokescreen would go so far as to drop comlinks accidentally in mid battle or patrol, only they'd be loaded with false information. He'd even steal a comlink from an another Autobot to make it seem like a genuinely lost article, but give the Autobot another Commlink back later with all memory files of the original installed. Possibly months later, after the given mission was well and truly over.
*Punch/Counterpunch would somehow need two Commlinks or at least make sure he didn't get caught 'radiating' opposite faction frequencies by someone like soundwave.
*Blaster could potentially leak or project energy waves that act like Commlinks in some ways.He and Soundwave would have to make absolutely sure the other didn't know how the one was operating, regardless of external physical similarities.
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