>Acclimatized to violence
>Might makes right mentality
>Brutal to his enemies
How the fuck is Grimlock an Autobot?
Acclimatized to violence
Jeremiah Barnes
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Caleb Wilson
He just hates Decepticons that fucking much, and Autobot command has enough sense to know they'd rather have him on their side than Megatron's
Andrew Wright
Grimlock believes might makes right, but he also believes that might should be used responsibly.
Grimlock is like the united states with a nuclear bomb. No one can be as strong as him, because they would use it despotically. So he must be more despotic than they are.
Megatron is Grimlock's Russia.
Brayden Bailey
>How the fuck is Grimlock an Autobot?
He's not, he's a Dinobot. But the reason why Optimus Prime puts up with them is that they're a force to be reckoned with. When The Autobots need shit smashed, they get The Dinobots. They can kick Devastator's ass
Brandon Lopez
he's got an vindictive action hero mentality which automatically makes him a good guy. also makes him the perfect foil for shockwave
Jacob Morales
user are you implying these United States are one of the good guys
Carson Adams
Are you implying the Autobots are the good guys?
Asher Thompson
Among Cybertronians, Autobot doesn't mean "good guy" it just means "not a Decepticon".
Grayson White
>Might makes right mentality
Simple really, he knows Optimus kicked Megatron's ass multiple times, witnessing many of these, so Optimus is stronger, ergo, he's an Autobot because of Optimus. It also helps that he got his ass kicked by Optimus too.
Asher Ross
Decepticons are tastier
Autobots are allowed to eat them
Oliver Mitchell
This. The Dinobots are for when the Autobots absolutely, positively must defeat their enemies and they do not care how much collateral damage there is and no amount of force is considered excessive.
Hudson Parker
How is/was Impactor?
Even that isn’t entirely true.
Jeremiah Davis
So the autobots had the technology on hand to make bots that were totally indestructible to the point of being able to handle combiners.
Why did they not make more of them? Or upgrade themselves? Autobots always seemed like the underdogs losing the war and running away through the whole series.
Jeremiah King
The only instance I know of addressing this is in the G1 comics, where Optimus is persuaded to create . . . I want to say Omega Supreme . . . as a super soldier to counter some big character the Decepticons had. Maybe Trypticon?
I can't remember all of the mealy-mouthed nonsense, but it had to do with it being considered immoral to use the Matrix to just create super-soldiers. Fuel was also a concern, I think.
Outside of that, the rationale for wildly varying power levels in Transformers had to do with some sparks being naturally badass, and the average spark that occurred naturally or was artificially created wasn't strong enough to power the kind of badass bodies that the Dinobots, Optimus, Megatron, and other big swinging dick characters had.
Nathan Lopez
I’m still upset that the Wfc continuity was mashed together with the shit ass Prime continuity, it was fucking stupid.
Grayson Hall
>Real reason
Toys.
>Show reason
Never given they just didn't mention it, Spark's weren't even a thing in the entire G1 or Headmaster shows.
>Later reason
Sparks are a huge factor in body, you couldn't stick Bumblebee's Spark in Grimlock's body or something.
Camden Cruz
Seems contradictory since they already had things like rebuilding little skinny bot into Optimus. And then building huge shit like Trypticon and Metroplex.
David Gomez
>little skinny bot
Eh, Matrix powers, or something.
Daniel Adams
It was a kid's show meant to sell toys, user.
Robert Morales
Because Wheeljack made those 5 retards and now the autobots are responsible for them, one doesn't go full deadbeat that just because your spawn is kind of troublesome
Noah Green
Basically... might make right and the strongest rule.
But that means that they also must defend the weak... ALL OF THEM! Grimlock is a violent sociopathic monster but a good one.
Bentley Miller
Aerialbots to defeat Menasor.
Liam Bennett
G1 continuity from the cartoon.
Marvel comics G1 continuity the Arc revived them, and mistook dinosaurs as the dominant technological life form, to counter Shockwave. Which of course means they were with the original crew. I don't think that was ever addressed further.
Jeremiah Young
>these are both valid points in Bayformers
Ethan Rivera
Grimlock done read too much Nietzsche as a child
Ayden Thompson
In the old G1 cartoon the Dinobots were difficult to control and defected or deserted multiple times. Hell, they did make more Dinobots (Snarl and Swoop) basically to go and take on Grimlock and co who'd gone and joined Megatron. Makes sense why the Autibots wouldn't want to build more potential loose cannons.
Jackson Green
Comic Dinobots also never seemed as strong as their cartoon counterparts. I don't recall them ever facing a Combiner (they did hold their own against Trypticon for awhile, but that fight was inconclusive since Ratbat recalled Trypticon). Also the comic Dinobots were just as much loose cannons as their cartoon counterparts. It seemed Optimus being around kept them in check and once he was gone Grimlock took over the Autibots and became King Tyrant Asshole.
Carson Russell
The original three had their intelligence upgraded, so they went from dangerous complete retards to dangerous retards, at least until post-movie when they were television cute retard comic relief, and Grimlock was turned into a super-genius who ended up giving that super-genius to Computron.
So it's not like the Dinobots need to be retarded. There's nothing out there intrinsically requiring building a Transformer as powerful as Grimlock means he has to be a retard.
Ryder Cook
what's the state of transformers cartoons on tv at the moment? I used to watch transformers prime a bit, but then I just sort of stopped. whats new in tranformers media?
Logan Anderson
>might makes right mentality
>hates decepticons
this never made sense in any continuity
Nathaniel Kelly
Landon Miller
Cyberverse season 2 just started, Rescue Bots ended with 4 seasons and more episodes than G1, I think its sequel series, Rescue Bots Academy just finished it first season, and you missed 4 seasons of Prime's sequel show, Robots in Disguise.
William Morgan
>Cyberverse season 2 just started
how is cyberverse? any good? think I might skip rescue bots, from what I've seen, it's not for me
> you missed 4 seasons of Prime's sequel show, Robots in Disguise.
oh fuck. I think I need to catch up, thanks for the update!
Colton King
Meanwhile the guy who actually wants peace between both factions is treated as a "traitor and "Con sympathizer" maybe the Autobots aren't as peaceful or righteous as they let on.
Luis Jenkins
Rescue Bots is actually pretty fantastic.
Joseph Turner
Grim hates weakness, but if there is one thing he hates more and with the power of a sun going nova is people who abuse their power and essentially make life for those under them miserable. Hence why in the end his spark is on the right side. That and it happens that Decepticons are the biggest abusers. Also he actually has grudging respect for Optimus.
Cyberverse is fun. And lately Megatron killed Starscream.
Henry Rivera
>spoiler
Starscream never stays dead for long.
Nathan Cook
Yeah, but it was fun to see those few times in Transformers history when Megs doesn't screw around and simply does it.
Benjamin Martin
In the cartoon, the Autobots used to keep the Dinobots locked in a storage room until they needed them for something, which contributed to them being surly and rebellious.
Blake Martinez
Cons would kill, or at least not avoid killing bystanders/innocents. Grimlock might see avoiding them as an annoyance, but he will do it, because they're not the enemy (or because he's under orders).
Tyler Foster
MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
I HAVE MIGHT
IF SOMEONE ELSE HAS MIGHT, THEY MIGHT BE RIGHT
GRIMLOCK WILL NOT BE CAUGHT IN A MIGHT MAKES RIGHT FIGHT
BUT GRIMLOCK WILL ENGAGE WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE DIFFERENT