A Serious Case of Dr. Meridian/Mandroid Brainrot

Female She/Her 30s. Likes history,manga,anime, Transformers,comics, writing. No drawing skills to speak of. ASKS OPEN

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Once again going to explain something that many people fail to comprehend. Understanding something doesn't mean condoning it. The amount of people that 100% think I support Mandroid genociding the TFs clearly don't have reading comprehension because NOT ONCE HAVE I EVER SAID THAT.

When I say Mandroid was right, I'm referring to 2 things he specifically mentions in the show:

-It being bullshit humanity got caught in a war they had nothing to do with. -TFs are dangerous.

How anyone thinks these two statements aren’t true is doing some intense mental gymnastics. The TFs are literally giant robots with built in weapons. People died. Warzone has the characters going to a war memorial and Megatron almost shoots them after they accidentally trigger his fighting instincts. It's a running joke in the show that JB frequently breaks/destroys stuff on accident. Dot freaking lost a limb in the conflict. Multiple Cons tried killing the kids. Mandroid was drafted under protest by GHOST and hated the experience so much that he despises the organization just as much as TFs.

Does that mean Mandroid is justified with his genocide plan? OF COURSE NOT! Having negative emotions doesn't give a person carte blanche to do whatever they want. I understand why Mandroid is angry, but think his actions are horrific and that he's a bastard. He's a fascinating character and the fact some people vilify me and others who think the same are hypocrites considering the majority of the TFs they love so much have done equally terrible things.

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For a second I thought I deleted my S4 screenshots, but ended up finding them in a folder called 'Random ES shots'. I don't want that crap clogging up my main Mandroid folder lol. I will say though that I'm happy these little guys exist:

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I'm surprised they gave Starscream something to do. I can see Megatron saying something like: "Be grateful for this." as someone throws the pack of cards inside the cell the way Croft threw the energon patch to Mandroid in Home.

I wonder how many times it took him to get the tower that high?

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Here's a thought: Armada/Micron Legend Cyclonus hanging out with the Chaos Terrans. The 3 of them would get into all kinds of shit. Like them competing to see who can make the biggest explosion.

Cyclonus would definitely mistake Spitfire for a Minicon at first though.

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"Humans have no reason to be afraid of Transformers."

If the natural cautiousness to be wary of anything large and heavy, especially moving metals, is wrong, then explain how/why should any rational human not be afraid of THESE

That's freaking TRYPTICON! On Earth!

In a CITY!

And who is this??

The Ark? Omega Supreme? It's not Metroplex. No way the big guy can leave Cybertron.

Also in a city.

That city is 100% decimated. The scale of the war on Earth in Earthspark seemed much, much worse than in any continuity. The amount of years it went on already speaks for itself.

Darn, the post war setting could've been explored and treated with respect if the writers aren't so one-sided with a lot of things....

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Sadly, most of the fandom sees nothing wrong with the black and white moral insanity. "My poor baby Decepticons!" You mean the guys that canonically wanted to conquer/destroy Earth? GHOST didn't lock them up for the hell of it. Obviously that doesn't excuse the torture and experimentation.

This meme sums up the show's morality:

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Tbh, it's okay for them to be in prison...But, the PROBLEM is that they also experiment and dismember some of them like toys

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We've already established the experimentation/torture is a problem. The point of the initial post is calling out the show's black and white moral insanity. The show claims to be grey when it's clearly NOT. Why is it that the only people (aside from the TFs) who acknowledge the War even happened are all BAD? The writers don't want to entertain any other view point except the poor baby Cons thing so pretty much every human that isn't a Malto is framed as being a bastard.

[cityzenshark]

I don't like the concept of Dad #2. The Terrans barely bonded with their adopted father, and the only one that personally did is Nightshade even when it's only in their alt mode episode. I prefer "Mentor".

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A summary of the conversation between the Terrans and Starscream in What Dwells Within that most of the fandom seems to ignore:

Thrash: You're a backstabbing scheming bastard.

Twitch: Yeah, you should join Megatron again. He's the best!

Starscream: I take offense to that!

Also this is Starscream's OFFICIAL bio from the Guidebook:

[unknownchoatic]

ok so i just watched Transformers Earthspark season 4… i took notes while watching because i was genuinely baffled by how bad it was (also ive only watched season 1 and like 3 episodes of season 2 (it was boring so i gave up) so like i know i dont know all the context)

(also this was done in bad faith)

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Concept: In the ES universe, the idea of Tsukumogami in Japanse culture came from Terrans that were born before the Maltobots.

For those that don't know, Tsukumogami are objects (such as tools) that come to life after at least 100 years.

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In my Lotus AU, Nightshade gets really attached to the Arachnamech they find in GHOST storage. Unfortunately, Nightshade can't bring Fuschia home since they know their family would be upset. There's also the fact Robby becomes hellbent on finding an Arachnamech to feel SPECIAL for finding Witwicky's own cryptid.

It's sheer luck that no one at GHOST found it yet, but Nightshade knows it's only a matter of time. They eventually tell Mandroid about it's existence so the two can work together to get Fuschia to a safe place. That place? With my OC Tara and the other Arachnamech Dianthus.

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Headcanon that Mandroid sent cleaning crews of Arachnamechs to retrieve the destroyed ones. Except the Bot Brawl arena since there were only two Arachnamechs left. Croft cleaned that up.

[cityzenshark]

Please tell me there are more Earthspark fans here who wants to read a fanfic that DOES NOT HAVE MegOp, MegOpLita, BreakBee, Bee angst, Starscream centered, Megatron centered, etc.

--basically fics that focuses entirely on the Terrans.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Transformers: Earthspark, Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Alex Malto/Dr. Meridian | Mandroid Characters: Alex Malto, Dr. Meridian | Mandroid Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon Compliant, Period Typical Attitudes, 1980s, Graduate School, Sexual Content, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

Humanity, he thought, when he could find the words. Humanity was losing touch with itself.

In the autumn of 1988, the not-yet-Dr. Meridian makes an unexpected human connection. Alex Malto is inspired, odd, and searingly kind.

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Leaning toward the idea of Starscream wanting to sway the Terrans into joining the Cons just as a fuck you to Megatron in my Lotus AU. Starscream already has an in with Hashtag, but he'd focus on Twitch as soon as he found out she's Megatron's favorite.

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Headcanon that the reason Robby and Mo's power suits are so bland looking is because that's the extent of Robby's drawing ability for his self insert fanfic.

Meta wise it's most likely because that's all the animators could handle. Also anything more stylistic would've been too toyetic.

[cityzenshark]

"Humans have no reason to be afraid of Transformers."

If the natural cautiousness to be wary of anything large and heavy, especially moving metals, is wrong, then explain how/why should any rational human not be afraid of THESE

That's freaking TRYPTICON! On Earth!

In a CITY!

And who is this??

The Ark? Omega Supreme? It's not Metroplex. No way the big guy can leave Cybertron.

Also in a city.

That city is 100% decimated. The scale of the war on Earth in Earthspark seemed much, much worse than in any continuity. The amount of years it went on already speaks for itself.

Darn, the post war setting could've been explored and treated with respect if the writers aren't so one-sided with a lot of things....

[monocle-teacup]

Sadly, most of the fandom sees nothing wrong with the black and white moral insanity. "My poor baby Decepticons!" You mean the guys that canonically wanted to conquer/destroy Earth? GHOST didn't lock them up for the hell of it. Obviously that doesn't excuse the torture and experimentation.

This meme sums up the show's morality:

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In my Lotus AU, Mandroid tweaks the holomatter tech so he has different presets for his human appearance. There's his normal look and he has another one for when he has to quickly 'hide' from GHOST or the Maltos while out and about in Witwicky. His disguise? Diedrich Bader aka his voice actor.