TRANSFORMERS X CHAINSAW MAN: WEAPONFORMERS concept
chainsaw man is one of my fav animes and i think most of the weapon devils' humanoid forms (the hybrid forms) would look so badass in transformers. we have beastformers, weaponformers would be soooooo cool...
cybertronians who have their arms and helms transform into weapons. rather than transforming conventionally, they have wind-up t-cogs that require a trigger pull (throttle triggers for chainsaws, gun triggers for guns, pins for bombs just like in CSM). this means they can't transform at will or by command, they need access to their triggers to transform. it would sort of alienate them from rest of cybertron.
or perhaps they're a type of transformer within the larger umbrella of the transformers species. a vastly different biology...
like dawgggggggggggg the potential of that in a series like transformers in insane, especially when concepts like functionalism already exist. the idea of bots who are used as weapons due to their alts.. imagine that being a backstory for megatron or the decepticons.
they have three forms: regular bipedal, weapon-bipedal and then pure weapon. pure weapon is when they turn into the weapon itself. so a chainsaw alt would turn into an actual freaking chainsaw, a gun alt would turn into an actual gun, etc...
with this idea, i thought of a hypothetical for megatron:
Megatron needs to be a fusion-canon bro...
imagine the cannon being something he was inherently made with, the violence and need to be dominant an inherent part of his coding that makes him a slave to his nature which drives him to despise the authority of Cybertron that mandated his creation, only for that hatred to transform from 'authority of Cybertron' to 'Cybertronian society'.
it would also align with his 'might is right', 'rule of the strong' agenda cause he was literally made as one of the strongest weapons in canon. it also gives him a military background which would make him a deadly adversary and commander. i never truly understood how IDW megatron or TFP megatron just became successful commanders with no military experience: gladiatorial combat is not the same as war. Autobots struggling would make actual sense.
he's would be a literal walking, talking weapon of mass destruction... he's got a weapon that can decimate civilisations bound to his helm and servos.
also, since weaponformers have triggers to transform, it also means that others could force them to transform. it would be a huge violation of autonomy but if there's something pre-war Cybertron seems to hate in most iterations, its autonomy. there's a lot to explore in that idea, i feel.
weaponformers could have multiple arms so that they can have more space to wield weaponry. it would be like a tank that can just shred through enemies. of course, this is possible for simpler weapons like saws, swords and guns, not for more complex + heavy weapons like bombs or canons. i don't get why we don't have multi-limbed transformers yet... i think four-armed or six-armed transformers would look cool as shit. they're aliens, they need not always look human.
considering how wildly different their transformations are and the fact that they are literal weapons, i think there would be a lot of discrimination between them or calls to 'keep them in check' from the Senate... though, they would be essential to the Cybertronian empire's imperialist ambitions at the same time.
i would read the shit out of a fic involving this..
JUST LOOK AT THIS FIRE DESIGN (CROSSBOW devil)
there's more weapon devil in chainsaw man and all of em got these fire designs and trigger mechanisms, its a very interesting manga with... a lot going on BUT ITS SO COOL
here are a few more designs from the manga! [left: sphere, whip, long sword]
