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Hidden Mythological Creatures in Transformers Prime

Emperor Kumquat

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We know TFP has vampires and zombies, but there are more creatures that may be hidden in their Cybertronian culture. Monsters, ghosts, ghouls, demons! And confirmed real creatures that influence their cultural fears such as energon-eaters, energon-vampires, Predacons, Sharkticons...

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20 Comments

@emperorkumquat Creator 4 years ago Pinned

As always, there are subtitles. Vehicons work a little extra so that every discussion video has them!
This was my research about supernatural creatures in TFP before I considered how I would place them into the story game Mercy

@justsomewritingfan2202 4 years ago (edited)

We all laugh when Cybertronians in any show or comic are scared by human horror stories.
But considering all the messed up stuff in a Transformers Universe, from Undead, Aetherial Creatures living in the void of space, Sparkeaters, Scraplets, Cosmic Rust and way way worse, a horror story might not be as much of a fiction for them as it is to us.

@Tom-oz7wk 4 years ago

The way Megatron says "...and I do not believe in spirits..." really humanises him and I love it

@dimdive7997 4 years ago

Things I love:
-Mythology and folklore
-Transformers
-Emperor Kumquat

@VAULT-TEC_INC. 4 years ago

I don’t think Unicron “creates life” but rather corrupts life and upgrades and augments powerful bots to be his avatars of destruction, like how he upgraded Megatron at the end of TFP.

@JoanneJovanna 4 years ago

"Megatron may be evil but he is no ghoul"

Megatron - Steals a deceased bot's arm to cheat his way into using Solus Prime's forge

@-Wayla- 4 years ago

I am still very much interested with the fact Dark Energon can infect mechanical things, giving them life. It's a cool concept, and they showed it once (twice if we count Nemesis)

@bonusbone5118 4 years ago

"I love robot cannibalism",is a sentence I thought I'd never hear

@blueink-2230 4 years ago

You know. hearing the little details like "All the stories end with the person getting eaten" It kind of highlights how a war can last so long

@patroclusilliad233 4 years ago

Outside of our more modern understanding of the word, i.e. fallen angels, 'demon' and all the words we translate to it, mainly refer to 'evil spirits'.
So Predaking calling Unicron a 'demon' fits because his understanding is 'that there is an evil supernatural force' controlling Megatron's body.
So if they understand the concept of 'spirits' they logically would understand the concept of 'evil spirits'. Also the example you give with Thunderwing, basically covers the 'Unicron-Spawn' term Beast Wars Megatron used to insult Tarantulas.

@rafal.qwerty 4 years ago

9:38 The word 'dragon' was unknown on the Cybertron. When the autobots first met Predaking, Miko called him a dragon, after which she had to explain to them what a dragon was. So when Unicron spoke to the resurrected Predacons about dragon fire, it was either a creator's error, or we can assume that since Unicron was Earth, he somehow got to know the concept.

@krazyfan1 4 years ago

i like the idea that its not exactly drinking energon from someone thats taboo, but the whole "taking it without consent, and taking so much the victim possibly dies"

@longshot9757 4 years ago

"Eaten by a giant space monster"

HAH

I'd forgotten that!

@longshot9757 4 years ago

You've gotta love how Dark Energon is essentially a drug now

@sharpwavethedecepticon6837 4 years ago

I wish we had a series on Knockout seeing human horror movies and then proceeding to get jumpy after watching them. Maybe he could have gotten Starscream to watch one with him.

@zara-hope5518 4 years ago (edited)

I would of loved it if transformers prime or rescue bots showed cybertonian wildlife in the shows. It would of been awesome if ravege was in both of them.

@autobot1stlieutenantjazz980 4 years ago

Im a little sad spark eaters didn't make it in. After seeing the spark eater that was on board the lost light , i haven't been able to rest without a sub-sonic repeater and a energon blade next to me since then.

@joinme5560 4 years ago (edited)

Thank you for this video, I absolutely love to dig in Cybertron culture.
For a long time I had a headcanon, that cybertronians are deeply weird or even gross out by human way of "refueling". Like:

- So, the meat you're eating is... came from a dead animal...?
- A cow, yes. It's a steak.
- ...Holy shit.

Because, well, y'now, they don't have to kill someone to eat in normal situations, not taking in picture cannibalistic individuals and the whole war thing.
Thank you again, you make such quality content!

@monochronous1661 4 years ago

If Starscream had an indestructible spark in Prime I'm sure his clones would've come back as ghosts.

@Furydragonstormer 4 years ago

I always assumed Dark Energon in the games was just a performance enhancement drug that was synthetic in nature, while the Dark Energon in TFP was Unicron's actual blood. Leading to the two to behave in different manners though still being similar in some cases (Bad for your system mainly)