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Q&A for Transformers Fans, Day 26
Jun. 29th, 2015 01:57 pmRespect For Your Species: Which human character from the Transformers franchise do you like or respect?
You don’t understand how much I love the human characters. Yes, even the teenagers. If I could have majored in Giant Robot Companionship, I’d be the world’s foremost expert right now. A partial list of standouts:
Raoul - I like him as a ‘Bot-friend better than Spike in a lot of ways, and I do love Spike. Gratifyingly, he is every bit as huge a dork as Spike, and he tagged Megatron with spray-paint. If he didn’t get a medal for that there is no justice.
Astoria - who else has mouthed off to Megatron like that and lived to tell about it? Not even Starscream got away with that shit forever.
Doctor Harding - Another one-ep female character, a space engineer who designed a satellite to collect solar energy - which, uh, you may as well stamp “Decepticon Bait” on the side of that thing, but never mind. She’s awesome and has a high sass quotient, so of course she went the way of Elita-One and her crew.
Carly - I used to hate her. I have since repented of my sins and joined the Cult of Fearless Science Chicks. A shame she kind of faded out in Season 3.
Marissa Faireborn - More than made up for the sting of losing Carly to motherhood. The image of her bossing giant robots around and generally being badass will never fail to make me happy. Also the ‘good girl falls for bad boy’ plot was actually surprisingly well handled - she did keep her head in the end and came out on top. Kind of a reversal of how these things usually go. (Also, someone please write Marissa versus Old Snake guest starring the Transformers - I don’t know enough about G.I. Joe to make it work, but come on, it needs to happen.)
Lennox, Epps, & Simmons - I’ll admit it, I liked the military humans in Bayverse. They actually got to have some bloody personality. Simmons in RotF in particular nailed the “I’d never want to get within ten feet of him, but he’s entertaining to watch” factor.
Agent Fowler - HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THIS MAN. HOW. MY LOVE FOR HIM KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
Miko - The only TF:P human I started making up headcanon for the moment I saw her. No number of GODDAMMIT MIKO moments (you know exactly what I’m talking about) will make me stop loving her, or her relationship with Bulkhead. Compared to Jack, who is a 40-year-old in a teenager’s body, they got the teenage girl so right it’s amazing.
Most of the other humans fall under the category “my headcanon makes me love them rather than (or in spite of) the source material” but no amount of headcanon will ever make Sam palatable anymore. :\
You don’t understand how much I love the human characters. Yes, even the teenagers. If I could have majored in Giant Robot Companionship, I’d be the world’s foremost expert right now. A partial list of standouts:
Raoul - I like him as a ‘Bot-friend better than Spike in a lot of ways, and I do love Spike. Gratifyingly, he is every bit as huge a dork as Spike, and he tagged Megatron with spray-paint. If he didn’t get a medal for that there is no justice.
Astoria - who else has mouthed off to Megatron like that and lived to tell about it? Not even Starscream got away with that shit forever.
Doctor Harding - Another one-ep female character, a space engineer who designed a satellite to collect solar energy - which, uh, you may as well stamp “Decepticon Bait” on the side of that thing, but never mind. She’s awesome and has a high sass quotient, so of course she went the way of Elita-One and her crew.
Carly - I used to hate her. I have since repented of my sins and joined the Cult of Fearless Science Chicks. A shame she kind of faded out in Season 3.
Marissa Faireborn - More than made up for the sting of losing Carly to motherhood. The image of her bossing giant robots around and generally being badass will never fail to make me happy. Also the ‘good girl falls for bad boy’ plot was actually surprisingly well handled - she did keep her head in the end and came out on top. Kind of a reversal of how these things usually go. (Also, someone please write Marissa versus Old Snake guest starring the Transformers - I don’t know enough about G.I. Joe to make it work, but come on, it needs to happen.)
Lennox, Epps, & Simmons - I’ll admit it, I liked the military humans in Bayverse. They actually got to have some bloody personality. Simmons in RotF in particular nailed the “I’d never want to get within ten feet of him, but he’s entertaining to watch” factor.
Agent Fowler - HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THIS MAN. HOW. MY LOVE FOR HIM KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
Miko - The only TF:P human I started making up headcanon for the moment I saw her. No number of GODDAMMIT MIKO moments (you know exactly what I’m talking about) will make me stop loving her, or her relationship with Bulkhead. Compared to Jack, who is a 40-year-old in a teenager’s body, they got the teenage girl so right it’s amazing.
Most of the other humans fall under the category “my headcanon makes me love them rather than (or in spite of) the source material” but no amount of headcanon will ever make Sam palatable anymore. :\
