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Movie-verse Cybertronian reproduce, from what I can guess. The dialogs are cryptic and ambiguous about this, but I think they make it clear that they "reproduce".

Brothers and Sisters: The twins appear are brothers. This may or may not be the same thing for Arcee. Optimus also call Megatron "brother", but this may be more like "brother in arms".

Descendant: The movie make it clear that Optimus is a "descendant" of the Prime.

Here is what I can extrapolate. The transformers reproduce assexual. Either they "bud" or "grow" a new transformers from their own structure OR they simply "infuse" it.

You see, in the movie continuity the first Cybertronians came alive from the Allspark energy. Now, its possible that they simply build a robotic body. Then another transformers make it alive by infusing it with the allspark. Even if the artifact is lost, they can still do it on small scale since they are all descended from the allspark-born transformers. They make more of their own this way, using their own spark as an energy source.

...make sense, or is it too complicated?

I know what you're getting at... I thought about this too, not as in depth as you have, but I came to the conclusion that its asexual reproduction of sorts.

To steal from futurama, the bots have Robo DNA, "or RNA" and the "female" bots difference is that they use Femmzoil.

They need allspark energy to make more of their own. I suppose that since they are born out of it they carry residual energy.

What about the hatchlings that were seen onboard the Nemesis? How do you explain that?

It's like the Smurfs, man.

Hehe, this is where things become speculation. In ROTF there were baby Decepticons hatching out of globule pods. But lacking sufficient energon they die. For this Transformers searched the universe looking for Solar Systems that do not support life and would use the Harvester to destroy the Sun in that system to extract the energon needed to survive. Even the Primes did this, which is why they created the Harvester and made it so it could only be activated with the Matrix of Leadership. So if they are having babies coming out of eggs who is laying these eggs? We didn't see a Queen, we only saw a former "Prime" now called the Fallen. But that doesn't mean he's the one having these babies. Maybe he has a mate we are not shown and this "mate" is only used as a breeder and really has no rank and is kept enslaved. Decepticon's are considered evil.

Now if Transformers are able to reproduce, why was it so important for Megatron to get his hands on the "All Spark" that crashed onto Earth thousands of years ago? He should have been focusing on gathering energy as the classic Megatron was obsessed with. What was so important about the All Spark? It turns human technology into evil Robots, revives and repairs Decepticons as well. But whats so special about earth's machinery? Our manufactured machines are not made to last and the materials are shotty.

As for the "brother" analogies; when Optimus called Megatron his brother in the first movie. He could have meant it like a man who would call any other man his brother through mankind. Like a Christian would call any other Christian a brother. Since we are all humans and we must have all descended from some common ancestry we are all brothers and sisters. So all Transformers from Cybertron are brothers through a common ancestor or origin. They may have been created by the same source. Now they can be referred as brethren but not necessarily through blood or birth; But through a common creating process.

If Prime is descended through a Dynasty of Primes, maybe Michael Bay is pushing a birth like creation process through the line of "Primus"? Primus being the first and their God. Prime should be a "King" or a "Pharaoh /Living God" to all transformers. The linage he descends from may have been worshiped or who once rightfully ruled Cybertron in the earliest times.

The Primes were believed to be like Gods or like "Primus". Thats why the Primes and Fallen had those Egyptian Pharaoh headdresses. It is a headdress wore by an Egyptian Pharaoh who was considered a living God on Earth. If Megatron wanted to be a Prime in the Prequel, then that means he is jealous of the lineage Optimus Prime descends from. Megatron wants to be a God/King too. He wants the glory on Cybertron. Even so Prime doesn't even say he is the rightful ruler of Cybertron, and does not wear a Pharoah's headdress. But his protoform may have at one time! Techinically he should be since he is the last Prime. Megatron wanted to be a Prime too. The name "Prime" must literally mean a living God or Pharoah to Cybertronians. Prime however is very humble and has never said this to even the Autobots. But Megatron knows who he really is and hates him. Anyhow Prime considers himself just a transformer like all the others so he will call them all brothers. But of course this is still speculation.

Flare wrote:Hehe, this is where things become speculation. In ROTF there were baby Decepticons hatching out of globule pods. But lacking sufficient energon they die. For this Transformers searched the universe looking for Solar Systems that do not support life and would use the Harvester to destroy the Sun in that system to extract the energon needed to survive. Even the Primes did this, which is why they created the Harvester and made it so it could only be activated with the Matrix of Leadership. So if they are having babies coming out of eggs who is laying these eggs? We didn't see a Queen, we only saw a former "Prime" now called the Fallen. But that doesn't mean he's the one having these babies. Maybe he has a mate we are not shown and this "mate" is only used as a breeder and really has no rank and is kept enslaved. Decepticon's are considered evil.

Now if Transformers are able to reproduce, why was it so important for Megatron to get his hands on the "All Spark" that crashed onto Earth thousands of years ago? He should have been focusing on gathering energy as the classic Megatron was obsessed with. What was so important about the All Spark? It turns human technology into evil Robots, revives and repairs Decepticons as well. But whats so special about earth's machinery? Our manufactured machines are not made to last and the materials are shotty.

As for the "brother" analogies; when Optimus called Megatron his brother in the first movie. He could have meant it like a man who would call any other man his brother through mankind. Like a Christian would call any other Christian a brother. Since we are all humans and we must have all descended from some common ancestry we are all brothers and sisters. So all Transformers from Cybertron are brothers through a common ancestor or origin. They may have been created by the same source. Now they can be referred as brethren but not necessarily through blood or birth; But through a common creating process.

If Prime is descended through a Dynasty of Primes, maybe Michael Bay is pushing a birth like creation process through the line of "Primus"? Primus being the first and their God. Prime should be a "King" or a "Pharaoh /Living God" to all transformers. The linage he descends from may have been worshiped or who once rightfully ruled Cybertron in the earliest times.

The Primes were believed to be like Gods or like "Primus". Thats why the Primes and Fallen had those Egyptian Pharaoh headdresses. It is a headdress wore by an Egyptian Pharaoh who was considered a living God on Earth. If Megatron wanted to be a Prime in the Prequel, then that means he is jealous of the lineage Optimus Prime descends from. Megatron wants to be a God/King too. He wants the glory on Cybertron. Even so Prime doesn't even say he is the rightful ruler of Cybertron, and does not wear a Pharoah's headdress. But his protoform may have at one time! Techinically he should be since he is the last Prime. Megatron wanted to be a Prime too. The name "Prime" must literally mean a living God or Pharoah to Cybertronians. Prime however is very humble and has never said this to even the Autobots. But Megatron knows who he really is and hates him. Anyhow Prime considers himself just a transformer like all the others so he will call them all brothers. But of course this is still speculation.

That was very well thought-out and articulated...However I don't think there IS any explanation because I'm fairly certain they are just making this **** up as they go...They keep adding in elements for visual effect but don't actually bother coming up with a reason or explanation for them...

When a mommy robot and a daddy robot really like each other... they look at this page on what to do next.

Sabrblade wrote:When a mommy robot and a daddy robot really like each other... they look at this page on what to do next.

The predicon birds and the insecticon bees? Hehe... So transformers can do this and that and that too?

the way i see it, the 'hatchlings'' were grown in the artifitial pods, i have noticed in the movieverse the robots have a few organic features for example starscream spits at sam several time and also when ravage is killed he's skeleton is covered in a sort of goo, so in some way they are, to a level, organic so like i said i think (using energon) they grow ''hatchlings'' which develop as a human child would (probably faster, alot faster) and as they age (like jetfire does) they gain a identity and maybe in come cases they change from the typical human shaped to beast's such as ravage and scorpinok.

but hey thats just me

in the first movie optimus says they are Autonomous Robotic ORGANISM , the autonomous is probraly where they get their morals from and they are robots and they say they are organisms so they must have some sort of stuff thats acctually living.

Nemesis Hacker wrote:the way i see it, the 'hatchlings'' were grown in the artifitial pods, i have noticed in the movieverse the robots have a few organic features for example starscream spits at sam several time and also when ravage is killed he's skeleton is covered in a sort of goo, so in some way they are, to a level, organic so like i said i think (using energon) they grow ''hatchlings'' which develop as a human child would (probably faster, alot faster) and as they age (like jetfire does) they gain a identity and maybe in come cases they change from the typical human shaped to beast's such as ravage and scorpinok.

but hey thats just me

Well they definitely have a lot of fluids and gooey resin like plasma that do come out of them. In the next few years we may see more advanced books on the biology of Transformers as a fictional science; including how new "hatchlings" are created. Hehe, can't wait to see that Transformers P@rn... err I mean comprehensive study of course.