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What am I on about you wonder ?

Well I was thinking of the voices of the systems that speak back to them in Beast Wars like when Megatron instructs his AI assistant / shall program or what ever the heck the thing is supposed to be to increase full power to his primary weapon before shooting Optimus in the face.

So I got to wondering in transformers overall which characters and franchises talk to themselves - and who doesn't ?

Also did I remember correctly but didn't some have male voiced AI and some female in Beast Wars ?

What about the broader Universe which ones do this trick which ones don't and did Beast Wars do it first or was it in a comic first ?

Just something that crossed my mind so I thought I'd start a thread on the subject.

I think it's simply as it appears; an AI in charge of weapons systems and perhaps more - not so unlike Jarvis in the live-action Iron Man movies. It's not a particularly uncommon thing in science fiction.

IDW Starscream clearly has voices in his head currently.

Are you talking weapons systems or some sort of mental issue?

G1 Headmasters

G1 Combiners

Possibles: Whirl, Wheelie, Punch/Counterpunch, Repugnus, Battletrap, Hun-Grr (two heads)

Definites: Any '-master', combiner or Minicon user, Flywheels, Megatron & Galvatron during periods of insanity, Blaster, Twincast, Soundwave, Soundblaster, any cassettes, Doubleheader, Rack'n'Ruin. In IDW, Windblade and the Titans with whom she mind-links. (Why the hell was this necessary? Couldn't the Titans speak for themselves like normal folk do so easily?! I think it was a way to shoehorn in a new character and make her important. It reminded me of 'The Horse Whisperer'.)

I am sure there is conformation maybe not a voice itself for most of them. If not a chime of some sort that indicates the order has been accepted/completed.

Aside from those that have others within them.