Say Hi to Anode. She's transgender and IDW is gonna shove her right down your throat

Say Hi to Anode. She's transgender and IDW is gonna shove her right down your throat.

Willis even has her as the featured article on his wiki.

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I hope lug dumps her. She deserves better than anode

I don't care, when's more Cosmos content coming

Never.

We have snowflakes to pander to.

image literally has a snowflake in it

>Willis even has her as the featured article on his wiki.- 4 posts shown.
tfwiki.net/wiki/Anode
>This article is a featured article, and considered to be one of the most informative on this wiki.
What the fuck is this? They didn't even caption most of the images on the page, and the wiki autists love their captions. Anyway, Anode is a garbage character, and that has nothing to do with her being robot trans, no one liked her from her premiere.

Nigga it's a robot, why wouldn't she be able to change her form to whatever the hell she feels like transforming herself into (inb4 'le attack helicopter' replies).

As long as she's well written I could care less

She isnt well written is the problem

She's a transformer or a former trans? :P

How much longer do IDW have all the Hasbro characters for? This is proof that we're ready for a full reboot now.

>even has a tranny nose

That's hilarious

Sure is a good thing I only go to the wiki to see if anything has been added to the Animated continuity.

>Willis even has her as the featured article on his wiki.
Wait, does he really run the wiki? I thought he was just needlessly influential.

Decided to use "she" instead of "he" because of meeting aliens of different genders after spending millions of years on a planet full of everyone referring as "he".
She decided to change that just like how robots change their appearances.

Sounds normal when you're not forcing human perspectives, but nah. This is the internet and we must rage about something. Tranny Arcee is old news anyways.

The bigger issue is that Anode self-centered, reckless, and took over the plot suddenly out of nowhere. Anode even harms the existing cast members and is a generally awful person.

So it's personal. Ok.

If she's just switching pronouns, then she isn't transgendered to begin with. Do transformers even have a gender to be trans against?

>>Arcee
Oh god. It's like arcee all over again.

>robots that reproduce asexually by assembling protoforms

how can a robot have gender disphoria?

All she has done was did a quick explanation why she decided to use "she" when asked. That's it. Nothing more.

No massive forced trauma like Arcee, or a long journey to switch out her shift stick.

Wait, so she's basically Carla from Dumbing of Age? That explains so much.

Don't Transformers have names whenever the feel like it, too? Sounds par the course for their kind.

Alright. Objections withdrawn. With that context it's idiotic to call her transgendered. It's ALSO idiotic to freak out about her being called transgendered.

I mean it's barely a case to call her really gendered to begin with.

Pretty much.

>Bitching about Anode
>Not including Lug who also switched

You're just sour.

I meant to say change names, but glad to see my post came across clearly.

>when's more Cosmos content coming
He's not even in Lost Light. Optimus Prime is where your question should be directed.

lug isnt awful in every other way too

Because, despite the fact that literally everyone changes their body for no fucking reason in the transformers world, and no one ever notices or cares, this particularly character SPECIFICALLY states she changed her body because she's now a she, not a he, and someone who knew her from, like, 4 or 5 million years ago.

There's not one fucking robot that hasn't changed in those times unless they were literally inactive.
and that includes the ones stuck in another universe for 4 million years.
It'd be stranger if she HADN'T changed her body

Not to mention the one to notice isn't a long time friend. It's just a guy she knew.
Who instantly recognized that she had changed
from a race that's ALWAYS changing

it was the worst way of interjecting issues into a comic.
That and the character is a terrible character who literally, in this same issue, let's a newborn cybertronian die to save a friend (that has already died once). That's understandable you say? You wanna know what her job is? The cybertronian version of an obstatrician.
She delivers transformer babies.
And she let a newborn die.

To be fair, I think she was kicked out of the baby delivering business due to malpractice.

She changed body too, though there's no real difference in female or male bodies with transformers, it's been described that the difference is more about how their processes work.
I mean, shockwave has a giant rack
Anode never experienced gender disphoria, she just up and decided the new word she heard, female, fits her, and changed her look to match.
What she did was basically becoming a trap.

But IDW is starting to retcon all male/female differences now.

>how can a robot have gender disphoria?
arcee (who's now been retconned as always being female, I think) was originally a male that had been forcibly turned into female, with her brain patterns rewritten
so she literally had true gender disphoria. Her body (female) didn't match how she saw herself (male) and she had two different sets of competing mental processes (male and female) which caused her stress and sometimes even pain when she couldn't combine the two

On top of that, she literally put out a transmission she couldn't stop that told everyone to call her female.

>it was the worst way of interjecting issues into a comic.

These robots literally give no fucks about the pros and cons of TRANSFORMING in the eyes of other species. They're not humans with deep human gender dilemmas.

I'm imagining asking some random transformers what gender they are.

>ME GRIMLLOCK IS KING OF DINOBOTS. GRIMLOCK GENDER IS KING.

>Sportscar. And a high performance one at that.

>From a scientific standpoint, we reproduce asexually, so the question is moot.

>WE ARE DEVESTATOR

>Decepticon. What a stupid question.

>I'm a police car, so my gender is blue? Or is it black?

>I have all their albums!

>My maximal form has a gap, that I can use to store extra explosives, so I guess my alt mode is female.

>Well, I ain't not expert on these things, but I gots me this plasma cannon right here in front. I guess that means I'm a male.

>I dunno. Ask rachet.


>I'm due for a chassis refit soon. Which gender goes faster?

>so she literally had true gender disphoria.
Thanks Furman

>I mean, shockwave has a giant rack
So do prowl and jazz.

It would have been a lot smarter of them to play up the idea that Transformers don't understand gender, at all, even answering to all pronouns, because they can literally become whatever they wanted.
But I also felt like gender in TF should be treated more like race, just another "type" of transformer that can be mixed with any other type.
gender to anything that doesn't reproduce at all is kind of stupid.

Don't forget Breakdown's beautiful bosom.

> play up the idea that Transformers don't understand gender, at all, even answering to all pronouns, because they can literally become whatever they wanted.

Anode kinda explains the same.

Huh?
looks like she's saying the exact opposite.
She's literally saying that NOT having gender was limiting, and that use of additional genders "make perfect sense"

She's pretty heavily implying that changing to be whatever they want is the exact opposite, and that using the new genders are ways to feel better about who you are.

It's literally the argument about using planets as a gender

>gender to anything that doesn't reproduce at all is kind of stupid.

You're mixing up gender (social) and sex (anatomy)

The part she says" I didn't understand the significance. What difference did it make? But after we left Cybertron and started to meet other races... yeah. Then it made sense."

I must of mis-understood what you were saying. If it's the opposite then it's what Furman was trying to do for a very long time. It didn't work.

Why did you make a new thread about a topic that's already been discussed in an already active thread? Use the catalog, genius.

>You're mixing up gender (social) and sex (anatomy)
No I'm not.
The concept of gender only occurs BECAUSE of sexual dimorphism
Like, the concept of race only exists because of inheritable visual characteristics
Something that doesn't have sexes could never have genders.

hey now, user is trying to contain all the arguing so people can actually talk about the rest of the IDW stuff in the other thread. Don't fault them for that.

But that's my point. This has already been discussed over in the other thread, and they've moved on to other things. Just read that thread for all the things being said here. There's no need for this thread, it's superfluous.

the point I was making was that the smart thing to do is to establish that they don't consider gender a valid discriptor at all.

Basically all TFs are gender fluid at least, and agender at most (or the other way around?) because, in IDW they've taken away the idea that there's any internal difference between males and females, meaning it's JUST about pronouns, and now vaguely about how your body is shaped.
in a race where everyone changes their name, their colors, their alt modes, their limbs, their EVERYTHING, the idea of anyone adhering to the very concept of gender is kind of silly.
But IDW has always struggled between making their robots TOO robotic, and making them waaaaay too human

I dunno, a lot of this thread seems to be specifically analyzing anode and how terrible she is as a character too.

Which was done in the other thread.

The Finnish uses hän when referring to people. It is gender neutral.

Hungarians also does not have gender-specific pronouns and lacks grammatical gender. Must be easy for them.

>Transgender transformer
So she's a man in disguise?

and so do the japanese
I don't see how that's relevant
we're not talking about gender as a language construct
if we were, good god, french is the worst offender I think.

>gender as a language construct
Wouldn't that more sense though? The entire time on Cybertron before earth they would be speaking Cybertronian. We are reading as if it's been translated for us to better understand. So "he" was used. They would be referring to themselves whatever the hell it would be but we wouldn't understand at the time. Reason why gender roles didn't make any sense to them until they got off world.


It's 2am and I'm pretty fucking amused right now.

Gender and gender roles aren't the same thing though.
I agree that they're clearly speaking cybertronian and that we're just seeing the translated version, but why the fuck can't they simply not have gender pronouns? Why can't there be an asterisk saying "Transformers don't have gender, we're merely translating to use terms the audience understands"

Basically, there's 2 ways to handle it

They have gender, always had gender, but gender was never an issue because it was basically just a descriptor, not an identity. "oh you're female? I'm red"

Or

They don't have gender, they never had gender, and the concept of gender just doesn't apply to them because they aren't a species that has sexes or genders, and pronouns are simply used by others that lack the understanding of their species.

The weird part is anode basically saying it wasn't that other species didn't understand cybertronians, it's that cybertronians didn't understand themselves, and needed another species to teach them.

She's a TRANSformer.

Well that explains why me and my friend both thought she was a dude should have stayed a guy desu she'd have a cute trap body and I'd be able to tolerate her for the porn

If her brain patterns were rewritten then how does she have dysphoria?

He owns the stupid thing. Last year some other writer was triggering him by adding Gobots stuff to the articles and he threatened to shut it down. Wish he went through with it.

Why did Roberts have to add two new characters who add nothing to the story other than MUH PROGRESSIVE TRANSES WOMYN just make Velocity trans. Boom done. Use what you have and have yet to develop before adding new characters you hack.

Lug didn't take over the comic and make everything about her

Can't wait until she dies so we can move on

>killing a 'female' even if it is a tranny
Can't just put them in the fridge anymore, user.

Remind me again why people were glad idw picked up sonic?
Transformers is pandering garbage
Hanazuki is just episode rehashes
Mlp is fucking trash storylines that contridict the show.

You know I think I may be a hasbrofag.

This is what I hate most of all about Anode, you can't just kill her or the backlash would be fucking insane and she's already taken over the comic so you can't introduce some guy to replace her (even though she basically stole rodimus from the spotlight but he's a boy bot so it's okay) meanwhile best boy characters like megatron and overlord get left in alternate dimensions until some other writer takes over or are left...somewhere else. Is it possible to save this comic? I love mtmte but my god I hate lost light.

>Knockout wipes forehead with towel.png

>Remind me again why people were glad idw picked up sonic?
1. Having comics is better than no comics
2. Hoping that the reboot would push more characters from the video games than from the old cartoons.

they're doing fine with TMNT

because he doesn't want to write existing characters
Like, let's look at the new crew we've been focused on since it became LL
>small arc about rung (OC donut steel) that focuses on Rodimus and Megatron
>tiny side story about tailgate and cyclonus
>rather a lot of panels for new characters anode and lug, despite them not really being relevant to anything
Well, surely it won't be so bad
>Megatron written out
>tailgate written out
uh oh, I know where this is going
>girls night out issues starring 4 donut steels
>almost every new character, even off world is a donut steel
I mean seriously, the only non-OC character in this issue was fucking flame
an OC donut steel from fucking marvels comics

The story would be genuinely so much better off if Lug and Anode didn't suddenly appear and hog the page time.

My main problem with her is that her main purpose is to push the trans thing.

As people have said, this is a race that are constantly changing their bodies and looks and don't reproduce, the whole idea of changing being a big deal would be silly, but we still HAVE to be aware that she's trans (Willis wants to make sure we know) for virtue signalling.

I always thought the whole gender thing in Transformers made no sense. I couldn't understand why there are simply some transformers who looked male and went by "he" and some who looked female and went by "she" with no deeper difference in them.

Hell, Anode could've been a perfect opportunity to make that point. She went by "he" until she realized she had more in common with females of other races and decided to go by "she" instead. But that is a matter of aesthetic preference. like what name you go by. She's not trans, she had no dysphoria. her species would make "trans" a non issue.

But whatever, have to tack politics on outer space robots to push some bullshit

...Flame was in it? Where?

Wipe-Out too.

fuck i hate this terrible art

Underrated post

>Character is garbage in every way
>Basically a parasite that has taken over the comic

>Can't kill her or thr backlash would spark a 5 million year war
>Can't banish her to a different dimention or the backlash would be biblical
>Can't just "get rid of her" without people/bots asking 'where's Anode?'

>Have to literally deal with her shit until the ride is over
>The ride is never over
Why can't The Anode Show just fucking END?

Sounds more like /d/ than Tumblr then desu

Does anyone even actually like her, aside from the TFWiki spergs?

Not that I've seen.

But now Willis can act righteous about Transformers the way he acts about his own comic.

>Decepticons think gender means their alt-mode
>They ask TFA Megatron his gender
>tumblr goes on suicide watch

There's more ways than death to remove a character. Hopefully her sheer unpopularity lessens any backlash.

I do, I like having asshole characters

>Blitzwing's heads all have different answers
>Lugnut just yells MEGATRON

Sexy.