Disposables? IDW concept. MTO/cold-constructed second-class citizens? IDW. Shadowplay? IDW. Guiding hand? Exists in other continuities, but most of the info is from IDW. The Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy? The Functionist political movement? hey fun fact guess where those came from
Another one that really gets me is when people fuck up Optimus as a character just because "ignorant paternalism" is an easily generisable flaw. Optimus, in every other continuity, is defined by his worthiness -- IDW is the interesting outlier where he is not. Being a fan of both Optimus and Rodimus is made infinitely more alienating b/c Roddy fans can't seem to figure out that neither of them is a bad person, usually.
It is legitimately so alienating sometimes, and it sucks b/c with comics people running around swinging their worldbuilding dicks in other people's faces, finding generic TF stuff that isn't just IDW with serials filed off is a wasted effort. IDW fandom stop colonizing the rest of the TF fanspace.
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Date: 20/7/21 03:01 (UTC)Disposables? IDW concept. MTO/cold-constructed second-class citizens? IDW. Shadowplay? IDW. Guiding hand? Exists in other continuities, but most of the info is from IDW. The Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy? The Functionist political movement? hey fun fact guess where those came from
Another one that really gets me is when people fuck up Optimus as a character just because "ignorant paternalism" is an easily generisable flaw. Optimus, in every other continuity, is defined by his worthiness -- IDW is the interesting outlier where he is not. Being a fan of both Optimus and Rodimus is made infinitely more alienating b/c Roddy fans can't seem to figure out that neither of them is a bad person, usually.
It is legitimately so alienating sometimes, and it sucks b/c with comics people running around swinging their worldbuilding dicks in other people's faces, finding generic TF stuff that isn't just IDW with serials filed off is a wasted effort. IDW fandom stop colonizing the rest of the TF fanspace.