The Energon Pub

[RAR]

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.

[Kurona]

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.

[Sunstar]

IDW Starscream clearly has voices in his head currently.

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

[Windsweeper]

G1 Headmasters

G1 Combiners

[snavej]

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'.)

[-Soundwave-]

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.