got a request for megatron watching cartoons with tailgate so of COURSE I went with g1
got a request for megatron watching cartoons with tailgate so of COURSE I went with g1
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#transformers #mtmteI’m a huge fan of James Roberts’ work in the Transformers universe. I think the above three panels do a good job encapsulating why.
The first panel comes from The Transformers #22, “Chaos Theory, Part 1,” published in 2011. It’s a flashback sequence to Megatron’s first time in jail, as he’s being questioned by a Cybertronian police officer named Springarm. The second and third panels were published just a few days ago; they’re from More Than Meets The Eye #32, “Twenty Plus One.” Without spoiling too much, Nightbeat (some combination of former hostage negotiator, judge, and detective) is trying to solve a spat of mysterious disappearances, and wants information from Megatron to help prove or disprove his working theory that all of the victims were created the same way.
The first thing I like is Robert’s consistent depiction of Megatron. Four million years (and three writing years) separate the pacifist miner from Tarn and the bloody-handed-tyrant-cum-captain, but Megatron’s response has stayed the same, for the same principled reasons: Cybertronians ought not be obligated to divulge information concerning their creation, because that information can easily be used (and has been used!) by the state to segregate Cybertron.
It would have been easy for Robert’s to let Megatron divulge his creation process in the latter scene, and pointed to this change as a sign of character growth—“it only took four million years and the death of 100 billion sentients, but Megatron has come to realize that it’s okay to answer some questions. He’s learning to trust, and he’s learning when information disclosure is important.”
But Roberts didn’t take the “character growth” cop out, and this gets me to the second, and more significant, reason I like the juxtaposition of these two scenes. Beyond Megatron’s response, look at what else has stayed consistent: in both situations, a well-intentioned police officer is asking Megatron for deeply personal, definitional information. And in their own way, Springarm and Nightbeat’s differing response help explain (and justify) Megatron’s refusal.
In the first scene, Springarm apologizes for asking the “old,” irrelevant question concerning creation type—but his apology didn’t stop the police officer from asking the question in the first place. Springarm asks his question out of an unexamined reliance on tradition, and a seeming ignorance as to how the mere continued inclusion of questions of creation is proof (particularly to Megatron) that the Cybertronian state has not “moved passed” apartheid.
In the second scene, Nightbeat makes it clear that he emphatically agrees with Megatron’s refusal—but that regardless, Megatron needs to divulge this information, because lives are at stake. There’s no reason to doubt Nightbeat or his intentions, but the point still stands: an upholder of the law is evaluating what constitutes necessity and justice, with no eye to how the information he wants will be ultimately used.
The larger point is that in any specific case—Springarm, Nightbeat, even and especially Orion Pax—a man a Cybertronian might be good and just and principled, but systems are, by their very nature, corrupting influences, and these systems have and will use matters of race creation to divide and control the populace. This is where Megatron’s opposition springs from. And if Roberts had written Megatron as answering Nightbeat’s query, it would have been a sign that Megatron’s concerns were, on some level, misplaced—that the state doesn’t mean harm, that you should trust it to use personal information in limited ways, to the betterment of all society. And for all of his many, many faults, Megatron is right to doubt that.
(Post script: Megatron’s consistency also returns to some of the ideas brought up in The Transformers #22 and #23—specifically, if the war has fundamentally changed Optimus Prime and Megatron. Prime concludes that he has stayed the same and that it’s Megatron who has lost his way. These scenes make an interesting counterpoint.)
THE OLD MAN’S BACK AGAIN! A desperate last gamble that might mean the sacrifice of one of their own gives the Autobots a chance to fight back - but what will it take for Megatron to join them? Find out in MTMTE #54, the penultimate chapter of THE DYING OF THE LIGHT, now on TFWiki!
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Drunk Ultra Magnus closing in on Tailgate for Transformer With Whom I Most Identify.
(Transformers: MTMTE v.4)
Just a little thing I had to photoshop up tonight, for reasons! Tailgate’s character is so important to me. I can get wordy and personal sometime if anyone is interested, but it means so much to me that canon and the mtmte narrative treat Tailgate as a legitimate flavor of adult.
(and @itswalky, I was told you might enjoy this edit!)
yes i do
Pax…Jumps off Buildings…MTMTE #10
roofs rooves roofs
I’ve been thinking about this all day, and it’s kind of distracting me from my Work-work, so I’m going to go ahead and write this down so I’ll get it out of my system.
Spoilers for MTMTE #38…
I’ve said this before: Transformers has historically been a pretty regressive franchise, even for...
With TFCon Toronto in over a week, I’m scrambling to get some things made to have for sale at the show. Here is one idea I’m working on. A Tailgate inspired combiner head, for Combiner Wars Cyclonus! If your a MTMTE fan like me, this bizarre idea may intrigue you. If all goes well, I’ll announce the final version on Monday, which will come as a finished, color product.
ha ha ha yes
SAD GAY ROBOTS TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS! Cyclonus goes to Whirl for help when he is faced with a difficult choice, but things soon turn deadly when Getaway’s true intentions with Tailgate are revealed… and they don’t involve long walks on the beach and staring into each other’s eyes! It all hits the fan in MTMTE #47: “The Lopsided Triangle”, now annotated on TFWiki.Net!
ALSO THIS WEEK!

TALES! OF! SIN-TEREST! Arcee suspects Verity Carlo is involved in the disappearance of Prowl and goes rogue in an attempt to solve the mystery, while Kup calls in the only ‘bots for the job: the Wreckers! How deep does Prowl’s control go? What’s wrong with Verity? And what is… the Noisemaze? TFWiki take you through these questions and more in our annotations for SINS OF THE WRECKERS #1!
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TALES OF SINTEREST???
*eyes mcfeely*
So here are some of the characters I’ve been working on lately which have shown up on the cover to MTMTE 41 :) Yes, They are all female transformers and out of these designs 3 of them I also choose the names for.
It was fun to help create these characters. I know I’ve wanted more female characters in transformers for a while now. I’ve always placed one or more in the background of various TF projects I’ve worked on. Now we have the opportunity to have more of them and I’m very happy about that.
When the story came up for having new female characters I knew that I would like to have some of the characters that haven’t been used yet. I know I really wanted Firestar and James was able to get her for MTMTE. Then we were talking and he asked me to come up with a crew of new characters, both male and female and I was pretty excited about that. He didn’t have any names in mind at the time, so I wrote down a bunch of names and looked up on the wiki and tfu.info if they had been used. A lot of them hadn’t to my surprise so I showed them to James and he liked them. I then came up with a head sketch of them, and mentioned which ones were female and which ones were male, and he liked them. then I set out to design them.
These are the design I came up with. I wanted there to be a lot of different looking bots. First I started with Firestar. She is the more traditional look for a female TF, but where her main difference is her height. She is a very tall bot. She towers over most of the others. Not as tall as Megatron or Ultra Magnus, but she’s taller then Rodimus and most of the other Lost Light crew. I also had the idea to give her fire hair since in alt mode her head is the where the exhaust of the car. It also help add a little more emotion to the character since I can have the fire doing different things when she’s feeling different emotions. I thought it was different and something interesting to play with. With her torso design I decided to give her the same style of split canopy that Nautica has since it solved a design issue I was having at the time. Also I like the idea of some of the characters sharing similar design features :)
Next is Javelin. She was fin to draw since I wanted something very different looking. I enjoy the look of the head where is a single eye. i thought can we have a character with a single eye and not be a victim of empurata? why not?.
Next we have Proxima. When I described her to James I said she would be the equal of better of Perceptor. She would be a extreme multitasker. With her e4 head design she has main visor style eye, but 3 other eyes where 2 can move around her head.
Roadmaster was fun to design. I wanted a big characters that looked like she would bend and break you if you looked at her the wrong way. She is the biggest of the characters I’ve designed so far, matching Ultra Magnus in height (well to his head, not shoulders) When I was working on this character I thought an interesting variant would be to make a strika out of her, but then I would want strika to be a bit bigger then her. But the idea is in the back of my mind so maybe I’ll work something out of it?|
Last character who isn’t on the cover, but I saw that she was partially shown on a post on the credit’s page is Velocity. Another fun design where I got to play around with features that I don’t normally see with many TF’s :)
Thats it for now
Enjoy :)
My favorite queer-coded Disney princess.
(HRT = Human Rear Transformation)