Master Post Of All My Transformers Analysis Posts And Essays!

Master Post of All My Transformers Analysis Posts and Essays!

Since I just realised I make a ton of these, and my Transformers analysis posts tend to be my most popular content, I figured I’d make it easy on people to find anything they might be interested in. 

I’ll update this regularly as I make more essays and analysis posts! :) 

Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :) 

27 July 2023: This list requires some updates– I’m working on it! :) 

Listed in order from most recent to oldest:

Language and Communication 

TFP: Ratchet and Raf: Teaching Language is Teaching Culture

TFP Cybertronian Linguistics: Soundwave and Multimodal Communications

Various TF Media: Chirolinguistics and Cybertronian Sign Language + Disability in Cybertronian Culture

Language in TFP

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Medical Analysis

Earthspark: Hashtag and Starscream’s PTSD

IDW 1: Drift and Rodimus: How to Approach a Hallucinating Ratchet 

IDW 1: Pharma, The DJD, and Psychological Resilience 

The Ecosocial Theory of Embodiment As Applied to Cybertronians

MTMTE / Lost Light: Velocity and Gaining Experience as a Medic 

MTMTE Analysis: Ratchet, Tailgate, and Cyclonus - Foreshadowing, Delivering Difficult News, and Receiving It

TFP Bulkhead’s Wrecking Ball Fists and Real World Industrial Drilling Bits

Cybertronian Medical Conditions, Classifications, and Causatives

IDW 1 Ratchet and Potential Pharmaceutical Abuse

TFP, IDW 1, and TFA: Cybertronian Cultural and Medical Distinctions Regarding the Physical Form 

Various TF Media, TFP, and TFA: What Are Cybertronians Made Of? Nanites and Human Equivalents (Uses my own FBC blood test results as example case study.) 

IDW 1 Rung and Cybertronian Psychology + Psychiatric Medical Practice in Canon

IDW 1: Tailgate and Stages of Cybertronian Development 

G1 - Basic Cybertronian Structural Anatomy (Storyboard Analysis) 

Various TF Media: Potential Risks to Cybertronian Health on Earth 

G1 Marvel Comics - Sleep, Stress, Syncope, Trauma, and Cybertronians

TFP - Cybertronian Medical Ethics and Best Practice Standards 

IDW 1 - Drift’s Tendency to Rely on Interpersonal Relationships for Sense of Self-Concept and Self-Identity 

TFP - Megatron and How Dark Energon Affects Him Psychologically 

TFP - Ratchet and the Use of Real World Psychological First Aid Techniques to Reassure Miko 

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Politics, Society, and Culture 

IDW 2: Codexa and Going Immersant

IDW 1: Cybertronian Facial Markings: Spirituality and Grief 

TFP: Cybertron and the Functionist Indoctrination of Youth: Smokescreen and Ratchet

IDW 1 Beginning of the Decepticon Movement + Real World “Fire and Rehire” Workplace Abuses 

IDW 1 Folklore and Folk Magic in the Mines of Kaon

IDW 1 The Differences Between the Leadership Styles of Optimus and Rodimus

IDW 1 - Differences Between Optimus and Rodimus (Additional Commentary)

IDW 1 Cyclonus and Cybertronian Music History 

TFP - The Cybertronian Class System 

TFP / Aligned Continuity: The Nature of the Autobot/Decepticon Conflict 

IDW 1 - Interpreting “Same Face Syndrome” in Comic Art in an In-Universe Context: Drift and the Circle of Light 

TFP - The Timescale of Cybertronian History: How old is Cybertron and the oldest Cybertronians when compared to Earth and Humanity?

IDW 1 - Whirl and the Baby Scraplet: Semiotic Analysis 

IDW 1 - Exploring the Concept of Primal Lineage 

Holiday Special: Cybertronian Holidays and Celebrations

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Cybertronians and Humanity

TFP: What if Cybertronians Never Adapted to Working With Humans? 

IDW 1 / TFP: Cybertronians and their View of Human Beings

TFP: Ratchet’s Assumptions about Human Capabilities 

G1 - When Bots Influence the Development of Other Civilisations 

TFA - Isaac Sumdak and Depictions of Human Aging in Animation

TFP - Ratchet and Raf: The Effect of War on Children 

TFP: Cybertronians and Road Rules / Vehicle Safety on Earth 

TFP: Ratchet’s Science Projects and his Memories of Cybertron

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Miscellaneous 

TFP: Quintus Prime and the Quintessons: Colonialism in Space 

Earthspark - Optimus Prime’s Face Shield and Audience Accessibility 

TFP: Ratchet and Bulkhead: Comic Cover Analysis 

IDW 1: The Characterisation of Cop!Optimus and Revolutionary!Megatron - Analysing Audience Response 

IDW 1 The Autobot Code 

Meta Analysis: Hasbro’s Anti-Union Hiring Practices 

Meta Analysis: The Influence of Eastern European Sci-Fi Media on Western Sci-Fi (Including Transformers) 

G1: Character Designs Inspired by Real World Fashion Patterns 

G1 - Spike Witwicky’s Design vs Real World Fashion Pattern

G1: Transformers in Human Form: Character Design vs Real World Fashion Patterns

TFP - Kaonian Culture vs Real World Punk Scene

G1 Cybertron’s Colony World: Paradron 

TFP - Orion Pax’s Cybertronian Design Analysis

Meta Analysis: The US Military’s Involvement in the Cybertronian Presence on Earth and in Real World TF Media Project Funding and Production 

Meta Analysis: Iconic Music from Various Transformers Media (With Links to Audio)

IDW 1 / Meta Analysis: The Implications of Megatron Being Left Handed 

IDW 1 - One Sentence Analysis of Drift’s Character Development Arc as Biblical Narrative 

TFP - Miko and the Humans: Character Design and Development Discussion + Basic Character Building Workshop

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Thank you for being interested, and I look forward to covering more deep dives into Transformers lore, culture, anatomy, and other subjects! :)

(Bonus: Here’s the start of my TFP Russia AU concept, which is still in the works, the past few months have been…intense, lmao, but updates are being worked on!) 

Bonus 2: Here’s my master list of Transformers media available on the Internet Archive! Content is included from across a wide range of Transformers franchises/media.