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Little headshots I made a while ago for my au. Idk if I've posted them or not. My sillies #theplagueiscoming

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starting new year with rare character

Mainframe!

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Feature Character of January

Mainframe the Autobot Action Master!

Toy bio:

"A program is only as good as its programmer." A walking, talking computer terminal. Would rather attack fourth order differential equasions than Decepticons. Totally committed to his work. Views the galactic conflict as an inconvenience he must tolerate rather than a struggle in which he must participate. Is often compelled to flex his intellectual muscle, when needed. Equipped with 200,000 mega-byte capacity. His pugnatious partner, Push-Button, prefers converting to self-propelled proton rifle mode and disintegrating Decepticons over his assigned task of debugging Mainframe's various programs.

Mainframe was introduced to the franchise in 1990! When he was introduced, he was a non-transforming toy with his smaller robot partner, Push-Button. His modern toy transforms into a large computer similar to Teletraan-1, complete with the Sky Spy.

His first was in Transformers Animated where he is a member of the Autobot Ministry of Science and he shows up in a few episodes, most notably working with Highbrow on the memory-wiped Arcee. His largest role was in the 2005 IDW story, More Than Meets the Eye, where he occasionally shows up and says some lines. He also pops up in the 2006 IDW Beast Wars comics, the Classics comics, the Of Masters and Mayhem, and the 2019 IDW continuity! His name is mentioned in a Transtech story and in Rescue Bots.

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I really wish one day a transformers series uses Mainframe as Teletraan I like the recent toy version.

Like, I know it doesn’t make much sense realistically, but I love the potential ideas of it.

Is there a difference between Teletraan I and Mainframe? Is Teletraan merely the name of his model of computer? Is Teletraan a basic AI which runs on Mainframe, and does Mainframe have access to teletraan when in robot mode?

Or does Mainframe loose his personhood when changing, and goes by Teletraan I since he’s basically just a computer AI while in that state? How does that affect him? Does he need to be reminded to transform if he does? Is he ashamed of being teletraan, or is he proud of being such an asset??

Story ideas are cool too - like maybe there can be conflict if Mainframe is captured, or maybe having to manage the ship while Mainframe is taking a break from being the computer. Or even silly moments like Optimus having to call him like “Hey Mainframe, sorry to interrupt your break, but we need to call the Decepticons. Yes, I promise you’ll get an extended break after this.” Or the Autobots are under attack and see a hole in the wall where teletraan is and Mainframe comes running through the door yelling “sorry!”” and transforms back into place and Prowl grumbles about him being late when he controls the damn ship.

I love the different ideas that could come through, and I’m always a sucker for seeing a large variety of alt modes with a variety of uses. And I love explorations of alt modes and why certain bots choose them (or don’t choose them).