Master Post of All My Transformers Analysis Posts and Essays!
Since I just realised I make a ton of these, and my Transformers analysis posts tend to be my most popular content, I figured I’d make it easy on people to find anything they might be interested in.
I’ll update this regularly as I make more essays and analysis posts! :)
Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :)
27 July 2023: This list requires some updates-- I’m working on it! :)
Listed in order from most recent to oldest:
Language and Communication
TFP: Ratchet and Raf: Teaching Language is Teaching Culture
TFP Cybertronian Linguistics: Soundwave and Multimodal Communications
Various TF Media: Chirolinguistics and Cybertronian Sign Language + Disability in Cybertronian Culture
Language in TFP
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Medical Analysis
Earthspark: Hashtag and Starscream’s PTSD
IDW 1: Drift and Rodimus: How to Approach a Hallucinating Ratchet
IDW 1: Pharma, The DJD, and Psychological Resilience
The Ecosocial Theory of Embodiment As Applied to Cybertronians
MTMTE / Lost Light: Velocity and Gaining Experience as a Medic
MTMTE Analysis: Ratchet, Tailgate, and Cyclonus - Foreshadowing, Delivering Difficult News, and Receiving It
TFP Bulkhead’s Wrecking Ball Fists and Real World Industrial Drilling Bits
Cybertronian Medical Conditions, Classifications, and Causatives
IDW 1 Ratchet and Potential Pharmaceutical Abuse
TFP, IDW 1, and TFA: Cybertronian Cultural and Medical Distinctions Regarding the Physical Form
Various TF Media, TFP, and TFA: What Are Cybertronians Made Of? Nanites and Human Equivalents (Uses my own FBC blood test results as example case study.)
IDW 1 Rung and Cybertronian Psychology + Psychiatric Medical Practice in Canon
IDW 1: Tailgate and Stages of Cybertronian Development
G1 - Basic Cybertronian Structural Anatomy (Storyboard Analysis)
Various TF Media: Potential Risks to Cybertronian Health on Earth
G1 Marvel Comics - Sleep, Stress, Syncope, Trauma, and Cybertronians
TFP - Cybertronian Medical Ethics and Best Practice Standards
IDW 1 - Drift’s Tendency to Rely on Interpersonal Relationships for Sense of Self-Concept and Self-Identity
TFP - Megatron and How Dark Energon Affects Him Psychologically
TFP - Ratchet and the Use of Real World Psychological First Aid Techniques to Reassure Miko
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Politics, Society, and Culture
IDW 2: Codexa and Going Immersant
IDW 1: Cybertronian Facial Markings: Spirituality and Grief
TFP: Cybertron and the Functionist Indoctrination of Youth: Smokescreen and Ratchet
IDW 1 Beginning of the Decepticon Movement + Real World “Fire and Rehire” Workplace Abuses
IDW 1 Folklore and Folk Magic in the Mines of Kaon
IDW 1 The Differences Between the Leadership Styles of Optimus and Rodimus
IDW 1 - Differences Between Optimus and Rodimus (Additional Commentary)
IDW 1 Cyclonus and Cybertronian Music History
TFP - The Cybertronian Class System
TFP / Aligned Continuity: The Nature of the Autobot/Decepticon Conflict
IDW 1 - Interpreting “Same Face Syndrome” in Comic Art in an In-Universe Context: Drift and the Circle of Light
TFP - The Timescale of Cybertronian History: How old is Cybertron and the oldest Cybertronians when compared to Earth and Humanity?
IDW 1 - Whirl and the Baby Scraplet: Semiotic Analysis
IDW 1 - Exploring the Concept of Primal Lineage
Holiday Special: Cybertronian Holidays and Celebrations
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Cybertronians and Humanity
TFP: What if Cybertronians Never Adapted to Working With Humans?
IDW 1 / TFP: Cybertronians and their View of Human Beings
TFP: Ratchet’s Assumptions about Human Capabilities
G1 - When Bots Influence the Development of Other Civilisations
TFA - Isaac Sumdak and Depictions of Human Aging in Animation
TFP - Ratchet and Raf: The Effect of War on Children
TFP: Cybertronians and Road Rules / Vehicle Safety on Earth
TFP: Ratchet’s Science Projects and his Memories of Cybertron
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Miscellaneous
TFP: Quintus Prime and the Quintessons: Colonialism in Space
Earthspark - Optimus Prime’s Face Shield and Audience Accessibility
TFP: Ratchet and Bulkhead: Comic Cover Analysis
IDW 1: The Characterisation of Cop!Optimus and Revolutionary!Megatron - Analysing Audience Response
IDW 1 The Autobot Code
Meta Analysis: Hasbro’s Anti-Union Hiring Practices
Meta Analysis: The Influence of Eastern European Sci-Fi Media on Western Sci-Fi (Including Transformers)
G1: Character Designs Inspired by Real World Fashion Patterns
G1 - Spike Witwicky’s Design vs Real World Fashion Pattern
G1: Transformers in Human Form: Character Design vs Real World Fashion Patterns
TFP - Kaonian Culture vs Real World Punk Scene
G1 Cybertron’s Colony World: Paradron
TFP - Orion Pax’s Cybertronian Design Analysis
Meta Analysis: The US Military’s Involvement in the Cybertronian Presence on Earth and in Real World TF Media Project Funding and Production
Meta Analysis: Iconic Music from Various Transformers Media (With Links to Audio)
IDW 1 / Meta Analysis: The Implications of Megatron Being Left Handed
IDW 1 - One Sentence Analysis of Drift’s Character Development Arc as Biblical Narrative
TFP - Miko and the Humans: Character Design and Development Discussion + Basic Character Building Workshop
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Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :)
(Bonus: Here’s the start of my TFP Russia AU concept, which is still in the works, the past few months have been...intense, lmao, but updates are being worked on!)
Bonus 2: Here’s my master list of Transformers media available on the Internet Archive! Content is included from across a wide range of Transformers franchises/media.













