The question asked was not "what were the consequences of Cybertron being destroyed".
It was "what was the universe of this timeline".
And the answer was "it wasn't originally one universe", which was based on the false idea of the published timeline containing "retcons" of that nature.
The...
GI Joe also was going to kill one main character (well, I assume Cobra Commander being written out was also intended as permanent at the time), not a third of the original cast.
If Optimus Prime was the only Autobot who died in TFTM, his death might not be seen as "failing to see that kids...
I'm not talking about the specifics of what the answer said.
I'm talking about what prompted it in the first place, where someone simply asked for a universal stream for the Japanese G1 timeline and the answer was entirely based around "explaining" why the timeline incorporated bits from...
Oh, so Binaltech itself was even less "convoluted" than I thought.
And almost every actually stupid part of it was the result of later sources just being factually incorrect about what earlier sources had said?
No, because the whole idea of anything Scorponok did altering any timeline is also...
To be fair, "Binaltech coming up with reasons for its duplicates to exist simultaneously" was a thing it was already doing before it got to the characters whose duplicates it connected to continuity errors.
That wasn't the order of events.
Binaltech used Chip Chase to tie "Prowl II" (from RiD) with Headmasters (because Prowl appeared in Headmasters despite having died in TFTM).
Then the Beast Wars Sourcebook tied that stuff into the fact that there were two Beast Wars Prowls, by saying the owl...
Because the point is reimagining major characters around the theme, not picking characters who already fit the theme.
(That being said I do wish it didn't have to be the exact same four for every theme.)
Collecting data for "age verification" for stuff that (I should certainly hope) is not actually age restricted should be the final nail in the coffin to anyone being able to get away with claiming this has anything to do with "protecting kids".
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