How Transformers Reproduce? Why Do Female Transformers Exist? - Everything Explained 

They're not robots, they're aliens....

if they have culture like we do why wouldnt they also have a "gender" as a way to express themselves

Names because it's cool and to feel pain is to feel what's wrong

They are alien not robot ,sentinel was right about y'all "on cybertron we we're God ,in here they call us machine"

The real question is why not

HA!!!! Absolutely well stated ..! Mic 🎤 drop my friend

This reminds me of the rock bashing two toys against each other in that family guy clip

Perhaps the very first two Cockacon and Vaginicon came together with tons of motor oil.. who knows right ? I swear to god if it comes up in a already over done movie addition .. lol 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

And she hated it when you stuck a finger in her tailpipe.

Lmao

Cybertronian politics goes hard

Optimus is basicly old enough to be arcee's dad. Holding hands doesn't always mean love.

I beg to differ on Arcee and Prime.

@friends with benefits if you remember in transformers prime like battle partner human Jack or whatever his name was

People also love to forget that you can be platonic lifepartners as well. Romance is not needed to be a couple.

they were still not in a relationship, just a soldier and leader relationship.

As Interesting as this is, I would like some Sources for this just so I know that it's not Fannon.

@@garrisonmoncher5461 Seconded. Also wondering where IDW Primus being a psychiatrist fits into the overall mythology.

@@garrisonmoncher5461 Source on "The One", it's from the DK Publishing 'Transformers: The Ultimate Guide'. Stated in it, The One, a being that existed before the present Transformers universe, created Unicron and from it Primus to explore the universe. Something never mentioned but alluded to, is that Primus, Vector Sigma, and the Oracle are either all the same or all work towards the same goal as Primus. They've been interchangeable due to the long lore and multiple retcons in the past. And the weird inconsistencies between both Japanese and Western lore. Such as the fact that the Transformers were not the first creations of Primus. But there was a prototype race called Trans-Organics. As shown in the Japanese G-1 continuity. The Trans-Organics were more akin to animals, and considered a failure since they weren't smart enough to communicate. These were created by Vector Sigma. In Beast Machines, it is talked about how Primus/Oracle/Vector Sigma wanted to revert and restore the balance between both organic and inorganic life. The thing is, this is all given to Optimus and Megatron through a "prophecy" from the Oracle. And time and time again has shown that Transformers don't actually have true agency. In Beast Wars, Megatron rewrites Rhinox into a Predacon. In Beast Machines, Megatron has multiple generals with Sparks who are programmed to be loyal. This is an allusion to the point that Optimus Primal and Megatron did not actually have agency. Prophecy in Transformers talk is just programming. This is where the idea that Transformers were always just imitations of life comes from. Because they're just robots to be programmed still. Sparks only give life, but the programming of the body still overrides "agency". From IDW's 2005 continuity, there is a great discussion with a Transformer named Rung. This is because in this continuity there is the "Functionist Council" of the Transformers. The idea was that each Transformers had a purpose, and their purpose was tied to their alternate forms. The problem came from the fact that no one could figure out what Rung's alternate mode was, and it clashed against the idea that each Transformer had their own place in society. So, they eventually just clarify Rung as an ornament. Not knowing the truth that he was Primus and his alternate mode was to create the new Sparks of life for Transformers. He had just lived for so long that he had forgotten everything. This continuity also is the first time to introduce one of modern Megatron's motivations. Revealing that Megatron was a mining bot who dreamed of being more. But his ideas clashed against the Functionist Council, and would eventually start the Great War. There is a story in this continuity that actually explains why Megatron rejects being a mining bot. In this continuity there are two forms of reproduction, Forged and Cold Constructed. Forged was the natural way, Cybertron would produce Sparks and Protoforms that would choose their form. And in unique scenarios, Cybertron would create "Point One Percenter" Sparks, just special Sparks with more power and agency. Cold Constructed, was where Sparks were induced and forced into prefabricated bodies. This is where it gets complicated. Someone decided to go back in time to kill Megatron before he was created by the Cold Constructed method. This plan was stopped and obviously Megatron would still be created. However, this is where it is revealed that Megatron is a Point One Percenter, and its Spark fell into the pile of Cold Constructed Transformers, forcing Megatron into a body that it did not choose. And would eventually lead Megatron into always feeling that something was wrong with its life. It is also in this continuity that we get Arcee, and this may get controversial but please just understand this is just what was written. Arcee is explained to have been originally a male Transformer, who always felt "different". It is in this continuity that we learn that in the way past there were equal abundance of both male and female Transformers. But that Transformer would just eventually settle on that they could live genderless and focused on the Functionist Council's role on practicality and assigned roles in Transformers society. Arcee not happy with themselves, allowed Jhiaxis to experiment on them. Jhiaxis was curious about the purpose of the two genders in the past and wanted to reintroduce it to Transformers society. And thus converted Arcee from male to female. Now, one of the biggest "problems" of Transformers lore is how they attempted to rectify all the lore. We're going to delve into the Transformers Equivalent of DC's Crisis on Infinities Earths. So, prior to 2015 I believe at the start of Transformers Armada (2002), beings like Primus and Unicron were designated as Multiverversal Singularities. Meaning prior to 2015, all stories about Multiversal Singularities had some shreds of truth to them. But that each different universe saw the same being but explained their origins to the best of their abilities. It's basically that one can't truly understand God-like beings. So all of the origin stories of Primus and Unicron were "true". But this caused a major headache with each new subsequent series and each new origin. So, in 2015, they had an event that would nullify Multiverversal Singularities and split them into their own continuities. So, everything prior to 2015 is considered one canon in a sea of multi-canon; and everything after the event was now its own thing but also recognizing that each past story is also now its own thing. Generally speaking everything before 2015 can be combined in some way or form if it was about origin stories, but after 2015 you couldn't, but they still were. Honestly it's complicated, because a lot of the stories prior to 2015 played with the Multiverversal Singularities idea, and then after they no longer did. So, for reproduction and the idea of gender in Transformers, prior to 2015 all of it was somehow one canon. Afterwards, it's an all new canon. But who knows for how long.

@@docsavage4921 Rung being a psychiatrist means nothing in the continuity. The purpose of that story was that Transformers society had assigned everyone with a job at birth. And that there were those whose purposes could not be ascertained, like Rung. Megatron would be a foil to this idea, in that Megatron was supposed to be a Transformer who could've chosen its own purpose as a Forged Transformer, but due to time traveling, its Spark would end up in a Cold Constructed body. Again paralleled again with Arcee, who felt uncomfortable in a male body. And eventually transition into a female one. Because the assigned purpose at birth was a bullshit reason in Transformers society.

@@ArcDragoon Thank you for that. I still need to watch the Jp G1 series and to look through the IDW series but the rest I remember seeing or hearing.

Yeah but they needed a reference image that had something to do with “transformers” and “love”. What? You want them to put rule 34 instead? I bet you would, Tullock.

@@crazybobert5243 Tw T great now I have "those" comics in my mind thanks a lot jackass Tw T I hate my life

🤣🤣🤣

@@crazybobert5243 i-it was a joke

Ahh yes! Just like a Real woman!

Decepticon porn

Wow, that's lame and not supported by any canon. They're robots.

@@skyatollah2skyharder276 They are mechanicaloids, not exactly robots.

@@stanleyteriaca2184 The fuckin' tagline is "Robots in Disguise."

@@skyatollah2skyharder276 That's what she said

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Bro I got mad that he mentioned BOTANICA AND RATTRAP... AND YET NO SILVERBOLT AND BLACKARACHNIA???? 🤦🏻‍♂️😒

Yes!

Optimus and elita?

Even had the gall to show Airrazor and Tigertron, but not mention them! The audacity! But seriously, those two relationships carried a good portion of Beast Wars and Beast Machines for me.

That's Transformers Animated (Tfa), one of the best transformers series ever.

That same show had Ratchet fall in love with Arcee before Lockdown took her out

@@kylem7917 Not sure they actually fell in love, but certainly Ratchet feels some responsibility towards her, especially since he took the job of Omega Supreme baby sitter for her because she was too incapacitated to do it herself.

*Elita

I think it was said somewhere that elita was still alive after the events of the movie tho

@NYC/lyricists Bkborn maybe optmius could hsve created hit rod to be his ultimt welo. Again st megtron so transfomers. Breddi b

You're antrhopomorphising to a fallacy here - a trap many people fall into when looking at alien races in science fiction. It's also Exhibit A of why the human race isn't even remotely ready for first contact with an advanced alien race - especially if that race is significantly alien to us. The sex robot theory fails whichever way you slice it. Firstly it was established in "The Key To Vector Sigma" that Transformers are only really alive when they're given sparks by Vector Sigma. In other words, Transformers aren't biologically reproducing in this continuity (Beast Machines is a completely different story, but it's also a radically different biology where the Maximals are concerned). At this point, the key to Vector Sigma was also destroyed. Prime does merge with Vector Sigma using the shell of the Matrix in "Rebirth Part 2", however Prime's dialogue in that scene, makes it clear that he's playing a hunch and has never done it before. Secondly, I completely agree that the Transformers as consumer goods, were created as companion robots in some cases - it's the logical explanation for why romantic relationships exist, when they are completely biologically incompatible with it. However corellation=/=causation. Even if you were to argue that Transformers were made to be sex robots (and being all metal, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny that they're sex toys), there's nothing to suggest that this included Transformers gestating and giving birth to offspring in this continuity. Thirdly, you're talking about mimicry, which C3P0 is a great example of. I forget the exact wording Anthony Daniels used when describing him in an interview I saw him in once, but it was essentially words to the effect of "he's considerate, caring and polite, but he has no idea what any of those things mean". The fallacy you're making here is presuming that just because Sunbow continuity Transformers mimic romantic relationship drives, that those artificial mimicries are automatically going to follow through to the natural tendencies they lead to, when they occur naturally in us. Fourthly, a very likely explanation for Prime's reaction to Hotrod was explained in the official companion comic to the G1 DVD Box set that was released here in Australia. It's set in 2001, during the very early stages of Metroplex's construction. Optimus Prime decides that he wants to keep the Matrix of Leadership hidden on Earth for safekeeping, only the Decepticons have caught wind of this and Soundwave and the cassettes are dispatched to steal it. Hotrod intercepts them and winds up physically coming into contact with the Matrix, where among other things, he has visions of his battle with Galvatron in the depths of Unicron. When the battle ends and hot Rod returns the Matrix to Optimus, it comes up that Hot Rod has has had a transformative encounter with the Matrix and Prime acknowledges that the Matrix has picked Hot Rod out for a special destiny. Why wouldn't that place extra pressure on Prime if the Matrix had singled out Hot Rod for a manifest destiny. In short, whichever way you slice it, the sex robot theory completely fails to hold up to scrutiny.

Matt Patt needs to do an episode on this theory!!!

@@georgeso4364 It doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all, see my response where I completely debunk it.

It’s wild that some guys feel the need to ask “Why do women exist?” as if women need a reason to exist. Or worse, they act as if our only purpose is to sexually reproduce, so the idea of a species that reproduces asexually having females is weird.

Personally I like the idea that their names back home are just incomprehensible to us, so they pick catchy names. Though that only really works for autobots. It's possible for a lot of them that their names are literally translated or some shit idk man

@@eta_carithebrightlord3396 y chromosome look more younger but this robot cybertronian are immortal

Fanfic writers come up with some of the stupidest most convoluted explanations for the simplest things. Just have Cybertronians reproduce like humans and call it a day. It's not that hard! Replace the female ovum with a nanomachine and the male sperm with grey goo, and Boom! Cybertronian reproduction that doesn't need to go into weird territory. If you don't want to involve Allspark/Vector Sigma mumbo jumbo, just have the newborn Spark "bud" off of the parents. Or if you want to keep that you could have the newborn protoform placed in an incubation pod and lower it into the Well of Allsparks or something. Actually didn't Animated do something like that? Prowl's mentor was in charge of a nursery full of protoforms, wasn't he?

@@jonathanprince707 You must not know about the Mech Preg tag on AO3. The ovum is called a gestation chamber and sperm is called nanites. It's surprisingly consistent across stories despite not being based on any canon from any of the shows. Even the biological terms for body parts are repeated across stories. And they are all treated as a hermaphrodite species which I guess compensates for how there seems to be more male Cybertronians in shows than female.

I have seen somethings in fanfiction 😳

Most fics I've seen have it basically be pretty much the same way humans do it.

By the time beast machines came about transformers technology evolved beyond vector sigma which was still around in beast machines I mean a lot happened since transformers rebirth I mean nebulans was just becoming binary bonded to transformers and then we saw the pretenders, micromasters and actionmasters Then the Japanese transformers was some other whole ish too how advanced they wass

The creator of Rescue Bots Academy said that the recruits are children.

There are child transformers in the manga version of Victory. My guess is that some bots heard about families and want to give it a try, so they built their own child.

so gay?

@@akumetsu7656 gay

That's never been established in fiction at all. God, why are Transformers fans like this?

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@@skyatollah2skyharder276 Because they are only "built" in the original series. They are either never said how they are existed or not, but it should be noted that not all life of fiction should be organic. Like I said "in my thinking" which means "headcanon", not fact. I never presented this as fact. If you don't like "Cybertronians are built, not born", why did you click on this video?

so im *not* the only one who looked this up

Me too, dude. Only preventing me from getting one thing is rude people :[

The last part reminds me of the Jack x Arcee porn comic from Fred Perry

@@creerlloydllanos9044 come again?

@@shawerful5209 I already did😏

@@shawerful5209 Fred Perry is an artist, he created multiple full colour porn comics depicting Jack, Arcee and a couple others engaging in some high quality interspecies cooperation.

@@sirapple589 this is the thing that caused the great cataclysm

Guess they’re called TRANSformers for a reason

@@trollverse171 genders in disguise

But no this bs aswell thought out as it is because there have been femmes with the body shape of Brawl.

@@nationstremblebeforeme1487 if ur talking about Strika, then I think she thinks like a female while in a masculine protoform. Which only adds on to my theory about them choosing what they are before they’re made (unless vector sigma/ the all spark are experimenting which I personally do not prefer…

@Trsum_ I dunno, my best guess is that it’s their choice what they look and sound like…

What the fuck man...

@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon I don't mean it like that man I mean like as friends or as optimist prime said it family

@@wolfzilla1237 I'm afraid to ask for more, so please, stop.

Didn't Jetfire mention a mother?

@@ernie9538 Yup.

I imagine they would be more like marsupials

I commented the same thing and it looks like they deleted my comment..

Nah, Bumblebee is with windblade

@@balikpapankota7578 stasrscream and windblade

The problem is that the talents of the writers were eclipsed by their ambitions. That much is clear when you have the kind of overly anthropomorphised depictions of a radically alien race, as compared to our own, which are Exhibit A as to why the human race isn't even remotely ready for first contact with an advanced alien civilisation.

Springer and Arcee was bullshit, They only did that to Isolate Rodimus so he's doubt himself more. Think about It Optimus had Elita throughout his time on Cybertron. In the movie she was clearly into Hot Rod yet dumps him once he becomes Rodimus? Oh No Springer was almost killed, meanwhile Rodimus nearly loses his hand saving everyone from the thing that killed Springer. Hey Kids if you want a Girl to like you don't do anything heroic just Neary Die! Explains the 90's to a Tee.

@@Fenris30 I won’t take sides in any love triangle. Honestly I never saw it that way. What ever the writers reasons any real life set of people ( or aliens robots or other wise) finding themselves in a love triangle and one of them effectively becoming “the leader” could have many reasons the girl chooses one over the other ( something we might not see on screen).

The romantic bonds in the Sunbow cartoon had nothing whatsoever to do with sexual reproduction or any kind of natural pair bonding. It was established in "Five Faces of Darkness" that the Autobots were originally created as a line of home assistance/companion/worker robots ("consumer products" was the exact description, as opposed to the Decepticons, which were "military hardware"). The Autobots in the Sunbow cartoon were as capable of sexual reproduction, as the androids in "Detriot Become Human" or the Synths in "Humans" were. Furthermore their all metal design, all but expressly rules out the possibility of them being glorified sex toys. I mean there's a possibility that some alien race out there had that masochistic a level of kink, but it's highly unlikely that they'd have been a large enough market to shape the entire production line.

@@andrewrichards312 I wasn’t implying that form of reproduction was the case in G1. But that the video completely skipped several. In the Bayverse movies we see other things implied however. To separate storylines.

@@patmacken5130 I recognise that it's different in different continuities, and many of them feature terrible universe building, which is representative of the very kind of anthrocentic thinking which is why the human race isn't even remotely ready for first contact with an advanced alien race. Many people don't even understand why the gender spectrum, range of sexual orientations or the very act of pair bonding, are the way they are in their own species. The fact is that as much as social constructionists will suffer a burst aneurysm from me saying this, our biology frames the nature of our range of sexual orientations, gender spectrum and even the very act of pair bonding. When you break down the act of pair bonding, the nature of our range of sexual orientations and our gender spectrum, it's all framed by us being a bisexually reproducing species. If we were a trisexually reproducing species or a monosexually reproducing species for example, those things would manifest themselves radically different to how they do. In Sunbow they things were the way they were because Transformers were made to be house robots for biological species who were bisexually reproducing, so it worked from the aspect of mimicry. In Beast Wars, Transformers were robot/animal chimeras, so things worked there because of the animal portion of their chimerism. Then ironically, for all the hate it cops, Beast Machines is the most compatible with it, because the Maximals are technorganic and appear to also be bisexually reproducing. Yes other continuities set up things like gaiasexual reproduction (for want of a better term) with IDW for example (the planet being the sole source of reproduction for a sterile race), or something similar with the Allspark being the sole source of reproduction, with no additional factors like chimerism or mimicry to make the relevant human traits or dynamics plausible. However those things in those continuities, make as much sense when you hold them up to scrutiny, as if you, as a human being, were born from a mother who was a crocodile, who was in turn inseminated by a father who was a bengal tiger. That's the levels of implausibility we're talking about. The problem is with many of these continuities is either you wind up with people who should stick to explosions and set piece car chases like Michael Bay, who don't understand science fiction and alien races (from memory, he wrote ROTF due to the writer's strike), or you wind up with things like the IDW comic continuity, where Scott and Roberts cared first and foremost about the message, while creating the universe to make the stories conveying that message plausible in the first place, came dead last. At the end of the day, people need to realise that while there is a heap of stuff that's just redundant and taken for granted, when you're writing stories solely about human beings, that luxury goes right out the window when you're dealing with alien races. We will be similar where the roots of certain traits and social phenomena are similar. However the moment you have aspects of their biology which are fundamentally alien to ours, the related social phenomena will be equally as alien to their counterparts in our society.

Rock lord

@@jahey4763 Thank you I could not find the name.

Those are Gobots, genius.

You're thinking of Gobots/Machine Men. They were originally biological humanoids who transfered themselves into robotic bodies. Completely different franchise.

And they were dating in G1.

Yeah, but this fanbase is full of total weirdos who think this shit through on depth while ignoring that the concept of Transformers aren't high art.

The problem is that Aligned also sufferers from bad universe building by drawing on the movie origins. There are really only 3 scenarios where sex, gender, sexual orientation and/or pair bonding work in Transformers. The first is mimicry like with G1 - minus sex and sexual reproduction. The second is chimerism, like with Beast Machines; sex may be possible but the sexual reproduction is unlikely. Ironically, the third scenario is when Transformers are technorganic and for all the hate it cops, the example where everything is on the table and makes the most sense, is the Maximals in Beast Machines. With everything else, where the transformers are sterile beings, produced by either Planet Cybertron or the Allspark, they make zero sense (and yes, I'm saying that the 13 Primes is a textbook example of why Michael Bay should stick to explosions and set-piece car chases).

Well, ya see, they're robots. That's how robots tend to be built. It's a toy brand aimed at kids. You lot seem to think it's more complex than it is.

First ever couple I saw in any transformers media