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jetcassette:

biorobo:

draqua:

“Other problems I had [with Tranformers Animated] were that both Arcee and Blackarachnia were totally stuffed in the fridge to get the drama going for male characters. Arcee at least got some minor revival time towards the end of the series, but Blackarachnia just…

I still fucking love TFA, but that doesn’t mean I’m not aware of its own flaws.
I agree completely with both Draqua and Biorobo.

Slipstream could have been an interesting female-identified character in TFA if you ask me.
Even though the things we could read about her in the Allspark Almanac II pretty much told us they had intended her to revive Starscream at some point and that particular plot twist could have turned out to either be a nice character study of Slipstream - or yet again be a rehash of the “femme is only there to keep mech’s plot going” theme TFA suffered from.

The best solution to write good female-identified characters is quite simple in my opinion: just have more of them being on the shows.
Many of the male-identified characters are in fact not really well written, we just don’t care that much because there are so many of them. So many different types of characters and backstories we can choose from.

That’s why I was a bit more miffed about Airachnid’s demise in TFP than Breakdown’s. She was 50 % of the female Cybertronian cast and even though many people had a problem with how she was written - compared to other token femmes she was one of the better written ones throughout TF history.

Really hope she still has a chance to come back.

Tagged: yes goodfemmesfembotsyesso much yes

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