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Article about how IDW turned Transformers into Gay Robots Eating Pudding
BBC: Transformers: Misfit robots and the women who love them

Pedobots, roll out!

An initial positive reception emboldened Roberts, leading to his favourite moment - issue 16, the "declaration of love" between two same-sex Transformers characters, Chromedome and Rewind. It was "a first".

"In the nicest possible way, it became normalised. The world didn't come to an end. That reaction gave me and others the confidence to tell more stories like this," says Roberts.

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"As far as I'm aware they're gay," says Barber, though he insists he does not want to "label" any reader's impression of the pair.

"It's important everyone can see themselves in the stories they read, and also to see people with other perspectives and different lives."

Guest wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:17 pm

....fucking kill me.

They took the parody as a serious documentary

It's very difficult to be a Transformers fan these days.

And here I thought Michael Bay was the worst thing that could happen to Transformers. Jesus Christ.

Liar Revealed wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:48 pm

It's very difficult to be a Transformers fan these days.

Because apparently a glorified toy commercial about robots shooting each other needed Robotic Boy's Love and gender-confused machines.

Also I'm somehow convinced these nutjobs have infiltrated this IP for no other reason than it being called "Transformers".

At least we still have Transmorphers.

Liar Revealed wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:48 pm

It's very difficult to be a Transformers fan these days.

The franchise has been COMPLETELY taken over by the cringiest lunatics, and I think I know how it happened. I think it's because everyone else, even all the supergeeks, FINALLY got too old to give a shit.

Bayformers didn't really bring in die-hard fans. It brought in people who wanted to drool at babes, explosions, and giant robots for two hours before moving on to the next forgettable spectacle filled summer blockbuster. All those people moved on to Marvel.

So the last thing the true fanboys cared about was Beast Wars, from the 90's, and while a lot of college nerds and recently graduated from college nerds are still in that phase where they're running from adulthood and trying to regress a bit to childhood, only the saddest, most emotionally stunted specimens are still doing that in their 30's. And they took over.

Face it, Transformers is not a series made for grown ass adults. It's far too ridiculous. Maybe it can appeal to some older people but it SHOULD BE A KIDS SHOW. This should be obvious, but ALL the nerd series have to be made by and for grown ass adult nerd fanboys these days. Imagine how horrifying the My Little Pony series would get if instead of making it mainly for little girls with a nod and a wink to older audiences they made it by and for bronies. They would make all their creepy fanfiction shit canon. That's Transformers now, right down to the weird sex stuff.