Sabrblade wrote:Flashwave wrote:the whole point to the Shidfters is that they don't have ANY altmodes,
I ask this again. What fiction out there has said that all Shifters don't have their own personal altmodes in addition to all the of non-personal ones they've scanned from others for shifting purposes?
If there is a source for this out there, I'd like to go back and take a look what it said about this.
I was getting more at their overall ability and what it means to them, It's corrollary, but I'm working it off what little of Makeshift's introduction we got and the religious legned of the Shifters and Adaptus. Sure, it's entirely possible that a Shifter could look at a Mercelengo and go "ooh! Shiny! Mine!" but the counterpoint to that, which is in and of itself unproven theory, is why when he was escaping, did Pseudo have to use one of the Bot's alt modes instead of his own? By that point, his cover was blown. and so far, every escaped Decepticon has kept their Cybertronian alt if they didn't have an Earth form. He did, eventually, scan the train (YAY!) but that was more or less handwaive storytelling, I think. And I'm sure that files under "his alt mode" because it wasn't an Autobot's.
Sabrblade wrote:Flashwave wrote:But I don't think that's EVER been addressed one way or the other in ANY media, other than once sort-of in the original 2001 RID series,
What was this "once sort-of" from that show? (I've forgotten
)
Scourge. He got The Tanker Truck, Kelly (screamy lady with the INSANE Insurance premiums,
) And Optimus Prime. But even then, it was more that he got physical traits of Prime than being able to scan a fellow Transformer. I'd love to see a series go into Alts more in depth. You could make a decent children's epabout picking an Alt/finidng an identity that's "You". Rescue Bots touched on it with the Pilot and again when Salvage was picking his mode, and RID15 took 45 seconds in the Junkyard about it, But I'm thinking more world-buildy stuff. "Wait up! I'm stuck without wheels!" "If yuo need an alt, scan his." "I can't scan HIM, that's indecent!"
or "Dude! I already scanned that! Go pick another one! I had it first!" (That'd be like the ultimate commentary on Hasbro's repaint fodder.)