 What If: G1 had Fems from day 1, Trust me, this will make sense |
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 Feb 15 2012, 11:49 AM
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 Stone by Day, Friendship by Night  Group: Supporter Posts: 8,459 Joined: 15-July 02 From: North Georgia Member No.: 1,219 Faction: Vehicon  |
So while on a TFwiki binge, I cam across an sandbox on Gender in TF's that got some wheels in my head turning.
What if Hasbro had actually decided to make some of the original G1 figures female from the get go? Back in the 80's Boys lines had no females typically (Scarlet, Lady Jane, and Cheetara being the only ones I recall off the top of my head), so what if suddenly Hasbro had decided to shake that trend and G1 had more female characters in it as their competitor Gobots did (Crasher and Smallfoot being main cast members as well as many supporting fems). Would molds with prominent... chests (Jazz, Prowl, Shockwave) have been good candidates, or would Tracks have been a fem all along perhaps. Would we have seen versions of Roadrage and Discharge in the casts perhaps? Thoughts, comments? -------------------- Clearing out some old TFs and Mugenbine in my BST Thread. You know you want some of these.
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Feb 15 2012, 12:02 PM
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 Suddenly, Batcure. Group: Supporter Posts: 18,822 Joined: 25-February 03 From: YES TOWN Member No.: 2,375 Faction: Lesbian Ninja |
Ratchet would have been the girl.
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Feb 15 2012, 12:15 PM
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Shockwave...as a female. Man. The Shipping man. The Shipping.
And then. ALL ARE DEAD. |
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Feb 15 2012, 12:15 PM
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 Mine is an evil grin! Group: News Manager Posts: 29,930 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 268 Faction: RIBFIR |
It would be my guess that female characters would still have been limited to the Minibots only. Just because it would be easier to "get away" with doing something like that as long as it's one of the cheapest toys in the line.
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Feb 15 2012, 12:46 PM
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Feb 15 2012, 12:53 PM
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 Cyber Key Power...linx! Group: Citizen Posts: 7,169 Joined: 14-January 02 Member No.: 355 |
a PARTY girl.
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Feb 15 2012, 01:22 PM
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 These little ponies really drive us bats. Group: Citizen Posts: 18,607 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Cybertron Member No.: 2,250 Faction: Decepticon |
So we went from Nurse Ratchet to Cool Hand Lube to Grumpy Doc?
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Feb 15 2012, 01:25 PM
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 Hawksaur Group: Supporter Posts: 7,922 Joined: 10-December 04 Member No.: 5,603 |
He's got gender issues.
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Feb 15 2012, 01:37 PM
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QUOTE(Kil @ Feb 15 2012, 12:46 PM) Wow. I had somehow missed this revelation. THAT would have been a pretty interesting character, Sooo... And I don't know if I really wanna ask this... But has anyone tried to imagine/sketch how a Deryized female version of the a Ratchet toy would have looked? -ZacWilliam, makes me wonder if there was ever a planed Con counterpart. Usually you got one girl on each side in the 80s... This post has been edited by ZacWilliam1: Feb 15 2012, 01:37 PM -------------------- Ever wonder about the speed of Turbofoxes?
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Feb 15 2012, 01:38 PM
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Hawksaur Group: Supporter Posts: 7,922 Joined: 10-December 04 Member No.: 5,603 |
She probably would have been a jet, regardless.
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Feb 15 2012, 01:43 PM
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These little ponies really drive us bats. Group: Citizen Posts: 18,607 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Cybertron Member No.: 2,250 Faction: Decepticon |
QUOTE(NICKSTART @ Feb 15 2012, 01:38 PM) She probably would have been a jet, regardless. Starscream as female would have made an interesting dynamic... -------------------- ***Signature removed by Staff due to size restrictions. Please keep to 500X200 images and text included.***
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Feb 15 2012, 04:03 PM
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I would have liked getting Glyph.
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Feb 15 2012, 05:38 PM
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QUOTE(Kil @ Feb 15 2012, 12:46 PM) Crazy. I thought it was going to be a link to TFA Red Alert being female and then getting replaced with Ratchet, but this is even more revelatory. |
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Feb 15 2012, 05:41 PM
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 Mm? What's that, my boy? Group: Supporter Posts: 2,397 Joined: 12-October 10 From: Indiana, United States Member No.: 13,734 Faction: Free Agent |
Ehh, given how G1 was, they would have probably spend most of their time being saved by the guys. Not to mention all the cringe-worthy jokes around 'those crazy women lol'.
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Feb 15 2012, 05:51 PM
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 Myastur Mispellur Group: Citizen Posts: 12,123 Joined: 12-January 02 From: TF Count 900+ Member No.: 246 Faction: Free Agent |
What about Micromasters some of thim could easly pass a female
Im really shocked that theres not a single female in the entire US G1 toy run Even He-Man had at least 3 This post has been edited by tec: Feb 15 2012, 05:52 PM -------------------- Currently out of touch with reality watching tons of anime
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Feb 15 2012, 05:52 PM
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QUOTE(Vestras @ Feb 15 2012, 11:49 AM) Would molds with prominent... chests (Jazz, Prowl, Shockwave) have been good candidates, or would Tracks have been a fem all along perhaps. Would we have seen versions of Roadrage and Discharge in the casts perhaps? Thoughts, comments? Why do people seem to think Tracks was gay? I never saw that. He sounds like Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island, but that's it. |
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Feb 15 2012, 05:54 PM
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Myastur Mispellur Group: Citizen Posts: 12,123 Joined: 12-January 02 From: TF Count 900+ Member No.: 246 Faction: Free Agent |
Wow its 1990s ATT all over again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-fire.gif)
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Feb 15 2012, 06:09 PM
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 Feeling like myselves again. Group: Citizen Posts: 19,696 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Ontario Canada Member No.: 1,958 Faction: Decepticon |
its just 'a thing' the fans older than me came up with...
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Feb 15 2012, 07:13 PM
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 NERV Wants YOU! Group: Citizen Posts: 7,304 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 8,919 Faction: Maximal |
See, for me (no comics, ignoring the toy bios, going only by the cartoon), G1 always had femmes. G1 was over by the time I realized that Swoop (with the chest, narrow waist, long legs, ponytail, and high-pitched voice) and Wheelie (with the high-pitched voice, childbearing hips, and tomboyish "baseball cap") were supposed to be guys.
And no, it never seemed the least bit noteworthy to me that there was a girl among the Dinobots. I understood that girls are more than capable of Smashing Stuff when they want to (hell, one of my grade-school bullies was a girl, and she left as many bruises and bloody noses as the guys). --------------------  |
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Feb 15 2012, 07:21 PM
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 God of a Thousand Forms Group: Citizen Posts: 22,401 Joined: 26-February 06 From: Tartarus Member No.: 7,941 |
I wish people wouldn't use words like Fems and Femmes. Dunno why, but it makes me uncomfortable.
Also Soundwave would totally have been female. -------------------- Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible — horrible beyond anything you can imagine — but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterward. I am still shuddering at what he showed. |
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