TRANSFORMERS: EARTHSPARK SPOILERS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT ONE SCENE WITH BUMBLEBEE 🗣️🚨 HYPER ANALYSIS DURING SLEEP DEPRIVATION 🚨🗣️
There's a scene in TF:ES that's stuck in my head. In one episode (that I can't recall because it's 1:00 in the morning), the Terrans, like, get a bad case of the munchies, right?? And, instead of energon, they go after
And ig Robbie and Mo feel their hunger, and how they just like, walk to the nearest flooded cave while strutting it like an absolute zombie. When the kids say this to Bumblebee, yk who's with them, he makes a joke. Says something about the one time Soundwave was so low on energon, he tried to eject a cassette and it exploded. (Pretty sure the clip was on Twitter at some point with other people talking about it). Flew over my head at first. Then I realized. Oh no.
So, yes, cassettes can explode. Y'know, with the stringys out and everything (I sound like an uneducated idiot because I am). From what I hear, it's debatably normal and not like an actual bomb. Now, assuming that's what Bumblebee means, the cassette, presumably a Cassetticon (because there is no way in hell Soundwave is carrying his mixtapes around in the middle of war) exploded in that way. However, this still doesn't sit well with me, because I remember seeing that one episode of Robot Chicken where Soundwave was in it, and these two guys took one of his cassettes out and started ripping the string thingy out, and he dead-ass mourned the loss of a brother. So, I'm assuming that Cassetticon is dead, the one Bumblebee is talking about.
Even if this isn't what Bumblebee meant, that could only point to a cassette literally popping. Like a bubble. Or a kernel in a popcorn bag. Or a boiled egg in a microwave. So Soundwave tried to free them and they were blasted into pieces, energon all over the place like a crime scene with Pepto Bismol and a glowstick's lovechild being the victim. For my sake, I'm assuming it's the former option, however, as it's most logical.
Still, a Cassetticon died. Which might explain why the G1 Cassetticon group differs a smidgen from the ES Cassetticon group. Think of it. G1 has Laserbeak, Rumble, Frenzy, and Ravage as the main course. ES only has Laserbeak, Frenzy, and Ravage. Frenzy's design looks like an emo or goth girl in the 2000s and probably listened to every rock artist under the sun. And Soundwave is a little too bitter, in my opinion, to only be pissed about Megatron defecting to the Autobots and leaving his army behind.
What I'm trying to say is; Frenzy changed their design (and gender ig?) to mourn the death of Rumble, who perished via exploding when ejected from a starving Soundwave. Unable to properly find energon due to the presumable lack of technology (I'm under the impression that it's been destroyed for the most part because energon isn't brought up like in Transformers: Prime), this was unavoidable. Or, is it? You see, Megatron's absence and Starscream's lackluster leadership skills might've been what torn the Decepticons apart, leaving the once-mighty army to be, well, a disjointed militia. What exactly went wrong is beyond me, but it left us with Shockwave essentially leading a small band of Decepticons, consisting notably of Soundwave and Breakdown (there's a predacon with them I think, but I can't recall their name).
Bumblebee, in the one scene referring to Soundwave when he was so hungry a cassette exploded when he tried to eject them, was probably talking about Rumble, which is why: 1, we don't see him in the show, 2, Frenzy looks like an emo goth girl, and 3, why Soundwave is particularly salty towards Megatron after he left them without tech to find energon (HeadCanon).
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