Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist Ep.10 - The Transformers: The Bad Part

The media zealot took it so easy on the transformers - there were many more insults to them made so obvious just with the clips in the video (its long enough though). Nice job on this - really fun!

For Algo!

Go KIWI

To be fair, i think Megatron has something of a father son relationship with Starscream, he wants to eventually groom him as a successor when he is gone, i bet Meg's was like Starscream when he was "young" lol.

Carbombya! 🤣 Omg, I'm dying!

Admittedly given the drive of the decepticons obsession with destruction, conquest and conflict it doesn't surprise me that Megatron would Keep Starscream around. It may simply be to keep Megatron sharp and on his toes.

Do Cobra and GI Joe.

Starscream was a scientist!?!

Aren't all cartoon villains supposed to be stupid? They have to lose in every episode. I like it how ROBOT CHICKEN makes fun of these inept leaders; Cobra Commander, Cy-kill, Joker, Lex Luthor, Megatron, Mumra, Skeletor.

Soundwave is Megatron's Smithers.

The Decepticons have no need for a peacetime society, because they would never be at peace. Being military hardware, they desire conflict and conquest. If they ever really won, they would simply go on a universe wide crusade. And even if they somehow won that, they would fight amongst themselves for the sake of it.

2023 needs Butt Plug.

Whose bright idea was it to make the main antagonist in the entire show transform into the stupidest goddamn thing? Like it doesn't even make logistical sense yet alone to shit on your main baddie by turning him into a gun he can't even shoot 😒

So the dynamic between megatron and starscream makes perfect sense if you keep in mind that starscream is actually extremely powerful due to his null rays. This means that he will always put down anyone else who's trying to take over leadership of the decepticons and anyone who wants that knows they have to go through starscream before they even take a crack at Megatron. By keeping starscream around knowing that he can always defeat and outsmart him, Megatron puts a buffer between himself and all of the other decepticons who would gladly take a shot at him if they thought it would let them become leader. The other role that starscream plays is as a useful wielder of Megatron and his gun form. It's powerful as he is as a robot, Megatron is more powerful in his gun form, and he knows he can manipulate starscream by doling out access to that power. He doesn't trust starscream, but he does trust his own ability to manipulate starscream.

This is part of why in the movie as soon as Megatron becomes a canon instead of a handgun and can fire himself and he also is given access to an endless supply of troops in the form of the sweeps. The very first thing he does is execute starscream without even a fucking thought. Star streams usefulness is at an end. If any of the decepticons take a crack at him at that point he could just execute them as well and replace them with more sweeps.

Ultimately, all of the transformers have the problem of more or less having the personalities of children and not seeming to be able to grow past that. Even Optimus prime, who is slightly more mature than the other transformers, Only rises to about the level of a smart 12-year-old. Of course this is no coincidence is the show is designed to appeal to boys between the ages of 6 and 12.

At least the music kicked ass

I remembered telling friends that Star Scream could have easily overthrown Megatron because Megatron turns into a gun... THAT HIS UNDERLINGS USE...

Seriously Star Scream could have totally taken out Megatron; just put a transformer limiter on him while he is in gun form and wear him as a big iron for the rest of his life. The fact Megatron is stupid enough to trust his underlings not to just stick him in water after he changes into a gun while they are holding him is beyond me.

If Star Scream wanted power so badly; he literally could take Megatron out while he is that useless sidearm form and be done with it.

Go Kiwi!

Transformers G1: everything was Starscream's fault.

He’s the pettiest villain ever.

Reverse Flash: Am I a joke to you?

To be fair, unlike star wars, this was actualy targeted towards little kids. I never questioned any of these things when i was watching this on my crt tv.

Wait, not car bomb ya lmao

I am pretty certain that Starscream was supposed to be a female decepticon, a super hot female and Megatron was just a simp, but since this was a children cartoon, that plot line was dropped.

I'm a big fan, but that one was a bit disappointing. More supernatural horror, please!

Carbomya is peak stereotyping LOL

"you're too slow, rusty pants" is my new go-to insult

– Personally, I need proof
– Personally, I don't care what you need!

Sounds like every single faith vs atheism debate I've ever seen

thanks for sh¡tt¡ng all over one of my favorite cartoons as a kid....

In Phelous' review of the G1 series, he pointed out that he felt that Starscream's performance in the episode The Search for Alpha Trion showed why he was second-in-command of the Decepticons! Mind you Phelous may be a little biased cause Starscream is admittedly his favorite, though he does make a decent point! Sure Starscream's backstabbing and/or undermining of Megatron may be a detriment to them but then again the Decepticons are already prone to backstabbing anyway!

I personally think Megatron keeps Starscream around as someone to blame his failures upon & the fact that Starscream is somewhat competent when he's not trying to usurp Megatron! Also it could retroactively have something to do with Starscream's mutated spark (according to Beast Wars, Starscream was able to survive death due to having a mutation that made his Spark effectively immortal)!

I may have gone down the transformers wiki rabbit hole after this, and my god is it weirdly wide reaching

Yeah, we should invade Cybertron, search for Oil, and put them to make shoes for their own good.

Why don’t an advanced sci-fi civilizations too stupid to exist on the Drules and or Arusians from the original 1980s Voltron Defender of the Universe cartoon 🤔

Why do the transformers fly like superman? They have one knee up to theirs chests

The other theory is that because they are basically immortal, they will fight to the end of time, when all energy has been lost to entropy

Who's ever doing this program, come on already Transformers were geared towards a ten-year-old mind and you expected to be smart and witty? I get maybe you're running out of ideas but that's no excuse, die with some dignity.

never watched star trek, but ive decided that dude you quote constantly is my favorite character. nobody with solid quotes for literally every situation can be a bad character

I'm no expert, but they probably could ended the infinite war by producing few million solar panels. Or just build nuclear reactors. Or Dyson spheres.

Transformers prime continuity Is better than g1s

I never watched this. More my little brothers speed.

There really is a Tuvok quote for everything, huh?

Aren't you taking a little too seriously an 80's cartoon? The main reason for it's existence was to sell toys. Granted, I watched that cartoon growing up, and now as an adult, notice some of the stuff the writers would sneak in there. For example, the narrator in the first episode pretty much stating that how war was bad and how you'll end up wasting all your resources. Kind of ironic, huh? Since the transformers were always in a state of war, always looking for new resources of energy. In a way they could be a medford for how the rich countries treat the resource rich, but poor countries. Either going the route of the Autobots of just trading with said poor countries or doing like Megatron and his crew and just taking said resources, because they can. Another example of the writers sneaking stuff in was the two parter when Megatron actually used misinformation to turn the people of earth against the autobots. This was back in the 1980's, before the internet even existed.This was a good plan. Of course, since it was in a cartoon, Megatron has to blow up this very good plan. I mean, with the autobots being deport, earth would be helpless against Megatron and his crew. They could stuck the earth dry, with no one to stop them, but no, they messed that up too. Finally, the last example of the writers sneaking stuff in that I can remember is the one of the Autobots doing peace talks between two warring factions and finding out that the Quinnsons were selling weapons to both sides. Showing the two factions how the Quinnsons were playing them, they begrudgingly make peace. At the end of this episode, one of the Autobots looks at the two former warring parties and said something like, "All those years of war, and the only winners were the Quinnsons." Wow, pretty much saying that in war, the only winners are the weapons manufacturers. Of course a little after this episode was aired, the show got canceled. The gig was up. No more sneaking in things writers. The powers that be are on to you.

The softest metal targets ever

"ah shit, what are we gonna do now"
I learned this quote from the transformers movie as a kid 😂🤣

Only as an adult can I nod and realize life is the joke here

Starscream is the perfect example of why you shouldn't have a "wildcard" on your team.

"Wrong again, you dipstick tape deck!" You gotta admit that was awesome lol