Diving into The Transformers Fan Wiki 

I'm sure some funny people will bring up the fact that 7:03 has become a _bit_ more prescient than it was in 2021. So now that I have your attention, please donate to support the people of Ukraine at www.care.org/ or your preferred charity.

Rule of thumb: any community who cares enough to get their own domain rather than use fucking FANDOM is going to be absolute gold.

They took the list of continuity errors and factual errors in Transformers *AND MADE THEM CANON REALITIES.*

The deep lore of transformers confuses and frightens me.... Especially the idea that obiwan has permanent high ground in his starfighter transformer incarnation.

The Transformers wiki is wonderful. Also, explanation for why Carbombya is a pacifist utopia in that one entry? Its the mirror universe continuity. And yes. One of the evil mirror Autobots does have a goatee.

EmperorTigerstar could probably do an entire "Horrible Maps" video just on the maps on that wiki…

Believe it or not, but there used to be even more puns. There was at least one joke for every image, and many paragraphs had at least a little satire. A few years ago, someone decided they should go around "cleaning."

IDW comics had a series in which the main antagonists were a death squad of decepticon serial killers, apparently they realised due the fact that all their characters were robots they could get away with horror level scenes while still avoiding censorship. The acts of the villains included; Slaughtering a ship full of surrendering civilians, ripping out robotic entrails resembling metal intestines, eating autobot corpses, torturing an autobot into being a loyal pet in the form of a robotic attack dog, torturing loved ones in front of each other, and removing an autobots brain and shoving it into their mouths to see if they will bite down and kill themselves. Lots of lovely stuff like that.

I remember doing this a few weeks ago trying to find something on Energon. God I was unprepared for this.

2:30 _Shattered Glass_ is the Mirror Universe of the setting. Sickeningly nice Decepticons, and _completely bats**t crazy_ Autobots right out of a dystopian horror movie. _Shattered Glass_ Grimlock speaks eloquently and in full sentences. It's horrifying. So the _Shattered Glass_ version is the exact opposite of the 'normal' version.

whoever made that wiki was def having a fun time

Long fan of Transformers here, that wiki has always been a goldmine of humorous writing. But it's also quite thorough in content. 10/10 wiki.

On the ruler of Carbombya page, it says that he's a notorious pacifist because it's listed under the Shattered Glass continuity, where everything is completely the opposite as the normal universes. Basically, Megatron is the good guy and Optimus the bad guy.

Transformers wiki predicted Ukraine conflict, wow. Better then mike sparks.

The Transformers Wiki is one of the few pop culture databases to perfectly balance information gathering with taking the piss. From what I can tell, TVTropes is coming in at second.

2:32 (Pushes up glasses) Um, akshually, the pacifist version of Fakkadi resides in a different universe entirely, one where the Decepticons are heroic freedom fighters and the Autobots are despotic dubbed the "Shattered Glass" universe. It's a riff on the more well known "Mirror Universe" popularized in Star Trek... Seriously, though, as a Transformers nerd, it gives me so much joy watching other people get exposed to all the sprawling, insane deep-lore

I’d forgotten about them but I owned half of the Star Wars transformers as a kid.

To clarify, “Shattered Glass” is the alternate multiverse where everything is opposite. Good and evil are switched, yadda yadda. For next time, I highly recommend Skywarp (G1), as the wiki categorized him as a Decepticon that likes to push others down stairs, and the toys page for both G1 Megatron and Optimus Prime. For example, there are toys out there of an Optimus Prime that transforms into a PlayStation, and a Megatron that transforms into a Sega Mega Drive. There’s also Erector (G1), JaM, and Trukk not Munkey. Just, don’t look into Kiss Players. We don’t talk about Kiss Players.

Hats off to the guys at the wiki, for both their dedication and their sense of humor. Trust me, folks; you have no idea how deep the Transformers franchise/lore is.

Ah yes, Tfwiki, Honestly accuracy is good and all, but they're all just entertaining as heck.

To the person/people on the Transformers wiki who wrote the descriptions under the pictures, I want you to know I love your work. (Side note: I love how bad geography is a consistent factor across the entire transformers franchise)

This is fucking wild. Whoever made that is a legend. Also, imma need the rest of that paradox quiz show from you vale.

I remember TFWiki, such a fantastically fun and punny wiki. Definitely not what you want if you want an actual introduction to the series, though, or simple information about it. It's a FAN wiki in the most extreme sense - it's full of injokes and meant FOR people who are already fans.

TFWiki is the wiki with mods that honestly don't care, and it's amazing

All of us Transformers fans are absolute menaces. This wiki was and continues to be absolutely nuts, and I probably wouldn't be a fan any other way. Please make more videos like this, you have no idea how far the iceberg goes

One of the best captions I ever read was about an issue from MTME where Megatron (who became an Autobot in the IDW series) utterly decimates the Decepticon Justice Division. The caption said something along the lines of: "As an Autobot leader, the DJD failed to realize that Megatron now had The Touch. The Touch of Destruction."

We Transformers fans both love each other very much but also exist to put each other into eternal pain with various weapons. The lead killers are the writers, and James Roberts is just the spawn in which the fandom wrote too much fanfiction and he made it into a reality. And for whatever reason we were put on this earth solely to gather more victims lmao

As a transformers fan, it’s a godsend to have a wiki as funny and informative as this one. Also it’s a good way to introduce some of the more confusing lore of the series. Anything but those goddamned fandom wikis is better though.

TFWiki is a wonderful place, just don't get lost. No one wants to end up around Kiss Player Alley.

As a formerly frequent contributor there, particularly with captions, it used to be MUCH more surreal before the shift to FANDOM.

Watching this in night time feels like a fever dream

the transformers wiki is what happens when someone makes full fledged lore using only two diecast cars and puts a side of hilariosity just in case readers get bored

It's always great seeing someone's first reactions to the TFwiki. I don't even want to know how long it took to write Wheelie's page.

The TFWiki is a superb, incredibly comprehensive, insightful, fair, witty database. Truly a treasure.

"I'm not the droid you're looking for." I'm in love.

Go look at the archived versions of the Star Wars wiki (may she rest in Wikia-murdered peace) for "chair" and other household goods. Don't look up genitals. Just don't.

5:40 I never knew we bordered France. Have to consult the chronicles of forefather Ciech. Our transformer's wiki version has to be way cooler, it seems.

Transformers more than meets the eye

Hey Vale, you're probably not going to see this but these past couple of weeks have been horrible for me. Literally your videos have been the only thing that has made me laugh as if nothing was wrong and I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thanks for the content and I hope you have fun transitioning to a regular upload schedule.

The funny thing is y'all haven't even hit the tip of the iceburg yet (at least, in the video). I'm not disappointed, I'm just jaAM. (Also, to explain the Shattered Glass thing about Carbombya, Shattered Glass is just a setting where all the bad guys are good and vice versa)

My favorites are Supertoilet (first image on the "fan mode" page), and Dewbot (which has its own page). The page explaining the punishment of removing one's emotions and face also has a great one where this particular unfortunate fellow had his entire head replaced with a flat screen: "I have no face, and I must screen."

I found this wiki from playing angry birds transformers and even that part of the wiki is pretty much almost complete. Even the editors are amazed the game is still active and that they have so much information jammed in that corner of tfwiki

The amount of random lore shit that this series has is absolute insanity. Being somebody who used to read up the wiki a lot as a kid and watched a lot of the shows, this was a really funny video to me. Seeing people discover the chaos that is Transformers is always a fun time.

"Who made this wiki?" The answer is Chris McFeely, who runs Transformers: The Basics here on RU-vid!

The Carbombya stuff was pretty soon after that one airliner hit and Qaddafi sheltering as many of the perps as he could.

As a transformers fan I love this wiki, it's very informative and also hilarious, one of my favourites pages is a favourite character of mine, most of the page is just the wiki editors calling him a prick and posting panels from comics of getting his shit kicked in while also very thoroughly explaining the media and plot arcs he's involved in. Never stop TFwiki, I love you.

Thanks for coming back vale, when i was a boy i loved watching your content. Now, as a woman, i will continue to enjoy your content :)

i feel its important to note. I, as a child, owned the Obi Wan and Grievous transformer figures. I have no way of proving this, you will just have to trust me.

As a Scot I can testify that the WiFi can be s#*t unless you get a cable connection which is almost impossible.

As a Transformers fan: We know, it's madness, we all pick and choose our personal headcanon. Carbombya was despicable, and I'm glad Kasem stood up against it.

I imagine a jackass dude with frosted tips and sports sunglasses snickering to himself when he wrote those Carbombya episodes.

The EDF fan wiki is also a blast Especially the line bellow images 'one the pin is pulled Mr grenade is no longer our freind' for a out of context one

I didn't realize that you were Scottish, Vale! Honestly, that explains so much...

6:12 *Ah, yes, the aftermath of a standard Paradox game.*

TFWiki is an interesting and WILD place.

The wiki is full of gems like this. Maybe try looking up Death's Head, Gutcruncher, and Shattered Glass Nightbeat. You won't regret it. Just whatever you do, DON'T look up kiss players.

I have never seen a single one of your videos, but this is easily one of the greatest things youve ever produced

Hell yeah I love TFWiki, it's the best fan wiki there is.

Ah yes I do remember giving the decepticons to the Klingon High Council.

You can tell the guys writing this wiki are having a lot of fun and I'm all for that

as a transformers fan its so bizarre seeing people from outside the community reading the wiki, some of the stuff there is genuinely wild

Gosh, this brings back memories. I forgot how much of an amazing time the transformers fan wiki is, they always are in-depth with a ton of great jokes.

This was wonderful, I hope you did more stuff like this, this is hilarious

“Wales is a state in the US!” About damn time that happened, it was inevitable.

Loved seeing the Attacktix and the Star Wars Transformers. Very nostalgic for us zoomers

no cap the best video you've ever made! excited for more :)

This is such a wild video, glad you're back

The part that notes Abdul Fakkadi as a pacifist is in the Shattered Glass universe, which is an alternate universe where everything is "mirrored" like the Autobots are the evil ones and the Decepticons are the good guys. Makes sense that the guy attacking cruise ships for fun would be a pacifist in SG.

My personal favorite entry on the site is a page titled "Ruined FOREVER". I'll post the summary of the article itself here; "Fans realize something Hasbro does not: that robust 38-year-old billion-dollar franchises, while seemingly healthy, are in actuality as fragile as two bricks tied together with tissue paper. One mistake, one bad mis-step will cause the entire thing to shatter and fall apart; and Transformers would be ruined forever. Fortunately, there is hope. The Transformers fanbase has resolved to remain ever vigilant against something that could Ruin Transformers Forever, and call out a warning if they see something that could potentially do so. Some Transformers conservationists suggest a more extreme approach, that Transformers should abandon all attempts at re-invention and instead cater exclusively to the old-school collectors. Though attractive, this approach may prove impractical as a long-term solution. Ruined Forever remains a serious threat to Transformers now and in the foreseeable future, though it's possible a proposed initiative requiring all Transformers fans to purchase an annual plastic offset could ensure our fragile brand's existence through the mid-21st century." They proceed to have a list of link to other pages as examples of things that have 'ruined Transformers forever in the past' with such appealing links with names like "Hippies", "Bees, My God", "Radical Feminist SJWs", "Perverts" and "Munkies" among others.

This entire video is blursed and I'm here for it 🤣

i need more of this it’s just gotten more crazy since this video

You guys *barely* scratched the surface on the absolute madness that is this wiki...

To shed some light on 2:40 transformers has a parallel universe called shatterglasd Basically the good guys are bad And the bad guys are good Hence why he’s a pacifist in shatter glass and a xenophobic guy in the original universe

This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a month or 2. Keep it up.

Spiraling down in the rabbit hole that is tfwiki surely is one of my favorite procrastination techniquea

"Russia encorporates Ukraine" part made me laugh too hard

The luke Skywalker page was a hit of nostalgia I was not expecting 😂 thank you

This is amazing content and Im here for it.

As a certified transformers nerd, I would like to point out a few details that may have been missed. During the Carbombya Segment, Vale touches on how Shattered Glass Carbombia is ruled by Abdul Fakkadi, a pacifist. This is due to Shattered Glass being an alternate dimension where every role is basically reversed, with the good guys being the bad guys and all that. At 9:00, the anime girl is known as 'Minerva', an Autobot Headmaster Junior.

Oh god, pls tell me someone has already started to make a HOI4 mod from this.

I actually have one of the general Grevious transformers irl. I didnt expect to see him on one of these videos

The anime face you saw is actually completely SFW. its the headmaster minerva, who forms the head of her transtector body. Basically, she has a mech that is a transformer.

The best part about TFwiki is it only uses info from Transformers canon. So for the crossover articles it doesn’t use the OTHER PARTIES SOURCE MATERIAL AND MEMES ABOUT IT

Alternative Title Me and the Boyz reading transformer fanfics

I would have figured with a name like carbombia that it was an alternative name for the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪

5:17 "you never them in the same room" there was an episode of the muppets where mark hamil and luke skywalker appeared as seperate characters and appeared together

Mark Hamill and Luke Skywalker were on the same screen on an episode of the Muppet Show

I think I actually had quite a few of those figures at 4:03

Watching Valefisk while getting my nails done!!! 💅💅💅💅💅

I woke up from a nap, checked my phone and saw that vale uploaded. I am now still convinced i never woke up and still reside within a fevered dream state from eating a BBQ Double Stackticon

We need like a five hour version of you guys going on a deep dive on the transformers wiki

The wiki is so self aware and funny.

Oh god he wasn’t joking

Haha there's an Auralnauts quote under the Obi Wan picture at 3:52. "Would you like to buy some drugs, Larry?"

omg! You reminded me of the itme my parents got me some star wars transformers. Legit, i remember never being able to finish transforming either my obi or vader ones

I swear the TFwiki is probably both the most informative AND self aware fan wiki in existence

This wiki is why you don't go cold turkey on meds.

1:36 Fun fact: Theres a page about a literal autobot called Godbomber in TF wiki

Didnt know who you where and i must say that the RU-vid algorithm has blessed me today because gotdamn this was a wild ride!

I can't believe they glossed over Signal Lancer, clearly the best transformer of all time