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Why bro?

why are earth trucks optimus prime on cybertron?

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I never actually thought about this before.

If they're aliens why do they transform into earth vehicles?

coh posted...

I never actually thought about this before.

If they're aliens why do they transform into earth vehicles?

Having only ever seen the 80s cartoon, I think they transformed into weird, generic vehicles on Cybetron. On earth the vehicle modes were Scanned/developed to help them fit in.

...despite having military conflicts in populated areas all the time so its not like their existence is ever really a secret lol

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When they landed on Earth they scans the area for objects to transform into. On transformers its cars. beast wars its animals

Going off the original cartoon as stated above they had different alternate forms first. Example Wheeljack...

https://i.imgur.com/akOtycd.gif

https://i.imgur.com/JzAvAjk.gif

Their robot modes would still have components to their Earth forms, but this was mostly done to cut down on costs and making new cartoon models.

In some new media when depicted on Cybertron yes they do appear to have Earth forms, but even then going back to G1 some robots had Earth-like vehicle forms even millions of years back, such as motorcycles, trucks and construction vehicles, but with a futuristic tone.

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In the transformers canon, humans developed cars and other modern day vehicles by unearthing and discovering ancient transformers that were standard on earth. Cars and stuff are Cybertronian tech, just adopted by humans.

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he has a cybertronian truck form in war for cybertron
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Kelystic posted...

he has a cybertronian truck form in war for cybertron

This

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They were made to sell toys. Best not to think too hard about it.

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Starscream



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But then in flash back episodes they had their earth designs. Also that Ax hand for Prime and morning star hand got megatron was tight.

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DD Divine posted...

But then in flash back episodes they had their earth designs. Also that Ax hand for Prime and morning star hand got megatron was tight.

That happened once with Starscream by accident. In most flashbacks or time travel episodes you didn't see their past counterparts transform (unless they had a different body)

and yeah Optimus and Megatron only used those weapons in the first episode. They've since been included with some of the toys.

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Airhammy posted...

Going off the original cartoon as stated above they had different alternate forms first. Example Wheeljack...

https://i.imgur.com/akOtycd.gif

https://i.imgur.com/JzAvAjk.gif

Their robot modes would still have components to their Earth forms, but this was mostly done to cut down on costs and making new cartoon models.

In some new media when depicted on Cybertron yes they do appear to have Earth forms, but even then going back to G1 some robots had Earth-like vehicle forms even millions of years back, such as motorcycles, trucks and construction vehicles, but with a futuristic tone.

They freaking just murdered Wheeljack like he was nothing. People cried over Prime. And they was like what the fuck is a Wheeljack.

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cjsdowg posted...

They freaking just murdered Wheeljack like he was nothing. People cried over Prime. And they was like what the fuck is a Wheeljack.

Fortunately Wheeljack's death was somewhat retconned in one of the comics years after his appearance very much alive in the Japanese G1 continuity.

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