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"The Touch" was originally inspired by a line from Louis Gossett Jr. in Iron Eagle, and written for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, but the record company decided to switch it to the Transformers movie instead.
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the Michael Bay movies are so ludicrously popular in China that they've been almost singlehandedly responsible for all of Hollywood changing their business strategies to court Chinese markets for as much money as possible. (2007- )
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After his complex character arc in Armada, Starscream is resurrected first as an amnesiac ghost, then as a mindlessly loyal follower of Megatron's in Energon, with absolutely no mention or connections of his past development or relationships from Armada. (2004)
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in Energon, Demolishor's character arc revolving around his uncertainty with the Decepticon cause gets resolved by having him sacrifice himself for Megatron and resurrected without memories.
He spends the rest of the show doing nothing but beating his chest and smashing things.
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the ROTF Movie Universe guidebook and the comic adaptation state that Megatron is a Triple Changer that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, but there is nothing to support this in the movie, where he simply turns into a flying tank. (2009)
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The red scars on Optimus and Megatron's faces in The Last Knight came about when Michael Bay asked ILM's animators to add them to their faces and come up with an explanation for them, with one of the artists suggesting that it was due to the influence of Dark Energon. (2017)
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Megatron was to have been in the Bumblebee movie with a G1-inspired design.
While the concept art of that design has never been released, it's likely very similiar this Josh Nizzi concept art for Prime 1 Studio's statue Superior Megatron. (2018)
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very early concept art for Movie Megatron. (2006)
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Silas' death in the Prime episode "Thirst" has the distinction of being the the first full "watch the light die from his eye" death, not only in Prime, but in western Transformers animation. (2013)
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Shattered Glass Windblade is done up in the same color palette as Stocking from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. (2016)
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the mural on the Bumblebee movie Soundwave toy. (2018)
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Dreamwave held a fan poll to let fans determine if they wanted a new comic series based on Beast Wars or RID 2001, with Beast Wars ultimately winning by a large margin.
Dreamwave went out of business before anything was published, rendering the whole thing pointless. (2004)
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the Marvel UK Annual text story 'State Games' depicted Megatron's past as a gladiator, and his eventual rise to power. (1986)
Despite the relative obscurity of this story, it has since become THE definitive modern backstory for Megatron that almost all new media has used.
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almost all G1 media ignores Ultra Magnus' "white Optimus" inner robot form, instead presenting his full combined robot form as his only robot form.
Dreamwave's comics broke the trend, showing Magnus' inner robot form for the first time. (2004)
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in Dark Of The Moon, Carly was held hostage in Trump Tower. (2011)
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a public appeal for Optimus Prime to come and solve the country's problems, to which the Conservative Party responded Brown had "more in common with the Decepticons" (2009)
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gotta love how Anthony Hopkins whips this thing out like a live grenade to blackmail people
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Jazz sits around and does nothing after Bumblebee gets his legs blown off. (2007)
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Designer Hironori Kobayashi got a job at Takara after he impressed lead designer Hideaki Yoke with a scratch-built G1 Arcee toy he made. (1998)
Many years later, he designed the Thrilling 30 Arcee toy, with its transformation being based directly on his old model. (2014)
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The Spanish (Latin) dubs of Cybertron and Energon are partially lost. Why they never got a DVD release like the rest of the shows is unknown.
An infamous fandubber called Piero Gionti has possession of most of the chapters of the lost dubs, but has refused to release them.
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For the longest time, western fans believed Beast Wars II and Neo to have taken place during the events of Beast Wars, due to catalogs that depict the BW and BW II cast existing in the same time, as well as Neo depicting Cybertron as still being mechanical and not technorganic.
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