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The way that Cybertronians move is very important to me.
Doorwings and antennae and little bits of kibble moving around to express their emotions make me so happy. Humans don't really have anything like that, so it's almost animalistic, but in the best way. It's almost like they don't realize they're doing it sometimes.
Of course, some shows don't do it very much, but when they do!!! It makes me very happy.
Look at his doorwings!! They're going down! They're expressing his emotions!
Shockwave is supposed to be an emotionless, logical bot, but look at his little antennae!! They're going up and down!! He's feeling things!! He's alert!!
He's angry!! I love watching Prime!Starscream especially because he uses his wings to make himself look bigger sometimes, and he's so expressive with them!!
Optics!! My favorite example is Orion Pax, but the animators for Prime managed to make everyone's optics so expressive instead of just glowing lights. (Which is also fine and I love those too, but looking at Prime optics does something to me)
You can see the machinery moving!! You can tell it's one big ball behind the soft metal!! It gets smaller without Orion realizing like how our eyes get smaller in light!! But it's an emotional response instead!! And Optimus rarely lets his optics do this, so??? Is it something they can control??? Their optics??? Who knows but it looks cool!
In conclusion:
Rewatching TFP and Knockout's first introduction will forever crack me up.
Starscream basically says a Cybertronion version of a micro aggression to him by calling him "one of those" and saying he doesn't understand why anyone would want to be a grounder when they could choose to fly instead. And how does this absolute king respond?
"I like how I look in steel-belted radials"
For those of you who dont speak car, steel-belted radials are a type of high performance tire. Now jets and cars both use radial tires, so this is a weird comment... unless you look at their character designs. Starscream's tires aren't on display, But Knockout's are.
Where are two of KO's tires located? His feet. He's saying he likes his shoes. His legs look more like boots where Starscream has more delicate, slim legs. Which is a trait he shares with Soundwave, another flyer.
His other two tires are on his back. In the same place as Starscream's wings. Starscream. Who has a flight base alt-mode and is very proud of it. Starscream. Who probably takes great pride in his wings because he's proud of his flying skills.
He basically told Starscream "I'm prettier with a car alt-mode than I would be with an airplane".
Knockout is over here taking shots at his commanding officer's alt-mode. He dealt a micro aggression to answer Starscream's micro aggression.
I. Love. Him.
Rewatching TFP and Knockout's first introduction will forever crack me up.
Starscream basically says a Cybertronion version of a micro aggression to him by calling him "one of those" and saying he doesn't understand why anyone would want to be a grounder when they could choose to fly instead. And how does this absolute king respond?
"I like how I look in steel-belted radials"
For those of you who dont speak car, steel-belted radials are a type of high performance tire. Now jets and cars both use radial tires, so this is a weird comment... unless you look at their character designs. Starscream's tires aren't on display, But Knockout's are.
Where are two of KO's tires located? His feet. He's saying he likes his shoes. His legs look more like boots where Starscream has more delicate, slim legs. Which is a trait he shares with Soundwave, another flyer.
His other two tires are on his back. In the same place as Starscream's wings. Starscream. Who has a flight base alt-mode and is very proud of it. Starscream. Who probably takes great pride in his wings because he's proud of his flying skills.
He basically told Starscream "I'm prettier with a car alt-mode than I would be with an airplane".
Knockout is over here taking shots at his commanding officer's alt-mode. He dealt a micro aggression to answer Starscream's micro aggression.
I. Love. Him.