#maximal

[jayjuno]

Dinobot here with a public service announcement about global warming~🌎💔

[bagea]

i love his intestine gun

[511am]

[granatu888]

Maximal & predacons

[mk-wizard]

Maximal Elita

Friends, I give you my reimagining of Elita-One as a Maximal. In this version, she is simply known as "Elita" though she is still the wife of Optimus. Since War for Cybertron Elita-One kind looks an awful lot like a fox in a cool way, I made her beast mode a fox. Also since Optimus Primal was modeled after a samurai, she's modeled after a geisha-kitsune. I tried my best to not make her look like Windblade, and I think I did good.

Unlike the serious Optimus Primal, Elita is more playful, relaxed and artistic. She is captivated by Earth's natural beauty. She is also not officially a fighter as she is the team's medical officer. However, never mistaken her calm playful demeanor for weakness. Much like the fox, she most definitely has bite and she can definitely hold her own with be bladed battle umbrella which is both a shield and a weapon. While she is no muscle lady, Elita is not an easy target as she is swift, agile and acrobatic. Much to her disgust and annoyance, Megatron is openly and shamelessly attracted to her and sees her as a treasure to covet.

[transformers-comics]

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[loveandmad]

okay, so the Maximal/Predacon dichotomy as it is presented in Beast Wars and its related media was bugging me for a while and i think i've figured out why: the characters talk about it in two very different ways, and those ways are not compatible with each other.

on one hand, they treat it the same way the Autobot/Decepticon dichotomy was treated, as a faction: a group you choose to be a part of and can leave if you so wish. evidence for this interpretation includes Dinobot's entire deal and Rattrap in Double Jeopardy: no one is shocked at the idea of someone changing their faction; it's more of a 'i guess we're doing this now' than a 'how the fuck are you doing that'.

on the other hand, they treat it like it's a cultural or ethnic group: something that you are born into and cannot change, and (more alarmingly) has certain attributes or qualities that are innate to it. evidence for this interpretation includes how Dinobot is still referred to/refers to himself as a Predacon, and how characters talk about Maximals and Predacons as being/having certain traits or qualities (ex. Rhinox describing his experience being a Predacon as like 'being three gigs of attitude on a two gig hard drive' in Dark Designs, or Silverbolt mentioning Blackarachia's 'inner Maximal goodness' in The Agenda Part II)

then there's the rabbit hole of how characters can be reprogrammed to switch factions, which disproves BOTH interpretations: if it's a matter of one's internal programming, than it can't be a conscious choice on their part; but if it's a matter of choice, than what even is Maximal/Predacon programming?

therefore, i have concluded that the Maximal/Predacon dichotomy is a social construct, something that only has meaning because everyone involved agrees that it does; the only 'difference' between them is purely socio-cultural, i.e. something that is LEARNED.