Beast mode

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[[Image:BWPart1_beastmodes.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Dat's so beast, dawg!]]
'''Beast mode''' is a term that is properly used to describe a Transformer's [[alternate mode]] when the alternate mode is of the form of an animal and has organic material integrated among the Transformer's mechanical form. Transformers would often initiate the process of converting from their robot mode by vocalizing the phrase "Beast mode!"
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==Beast Wars==
The term was first used officially in fiction relating to the [[Beast Era]]. When stranded on a planet with high levels of [[Energon radiation]], [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] took on beast modes from the native life on that planet. The partly-organic nature of the beast mode protected them from the radiation.

In taking on such beast modes, the Transformer did more than simply mimic the life form, he also took on some characteristics of the animal. This affected the Transformer in various ways.

* All characters frequently displayed characters consistent with their beast modes diets e.g. ([[Tarantulas|Tarantulas']] tendency to try and eat...everyone, [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot's]] carnivory, [[Optimus Primal|Optimus']] interest in bananas.

* [[Tigatron]]'s [[stasis pod]] was damaged causing him to take on characteristics of the tiger that was [[scanning|scanned]]. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}

* The energon radiation shielding was sabotaged at the [[Maximal]] base forcing them to remain in beast mode for much longer than they were used to. The extended time in beast mode caused the Maximals to become overcome with the mindset of their beast mode. They become feral and live as animals in the jungle. Tigatron, due to the accident with his protoform, is well adapted to his beast mode and routinely remains a tiger for long periods of time. Tigatron teaches the rest of the Maximals to embrace the beast within, which both frees them from being overcome with the bestial instincts and allows them to be more effective fighters in beast mode. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}

* For reasons that are uncertain, when [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]'s stasis pod activated he completely took on the characteristics of his ant beast mode. He thought he was an ant and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was his queen. {{storylink|Spider's Game}}

==Generation 1==
===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:SpotlightShockwave GrimlockSlag trexscan.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Me, Grimlock like it!]]
The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] took on organic flesh covered beast modes to protect them from high levels of Energon radiation on pre-historic [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

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GEEWUN

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'''GEEWUN''' is a snarky [[fandom|fan]] term for people who seem to have knee-jerk negative reactions to, and continuing difficulty in tolerating any of the post-[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] (aka "G1") incarnations of the [[Transformers brand|Transformers property]] (keeping in mind that for some, "post-G1" means "anything after 1985").

The earliest recorded use of the term "Geewun" (spelled as a normal word, not in all caps) originated with a [http://www.tfarchive.com TFArchive.com] user named Cliffjumper, who first used it in January of 2003.<ref>[http://www.tfarchive.com/community/showthread.php?t=13192 First known usage of the term on the TFArchive boards on January 2003]</ref> Since he has a tendency of coming up with mocking puns based on existing names and fandom terms, it's possible that he did indeed coin the term. The term didn't see widespread use until 2004, when it was apparently spread to other parts of the fandom (including [[alt.toys.transformers]]) by [[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]], himself a regular member of TF Archive. [[Mark Bristow]] (aka "Bodycount") presumably also helped popularize the term.

While the phenomenon of placing Generation 1 above everything else is [[Trukk not munky|nothing new]], when the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 live-action movie]] was in production, the [[fandom]] experienced an ongoing influx of mindlessly angry "Generation X" members who seemed to regard ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' not as a still-evolving cultural institution and [[To sell toys|business property]], but as a sacred relic of their halcyon, Reagan-era childhoods. These bitter young people made their voices heard by preemptively denouncing the movie... not because it would [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin Transformers forever]], but because it would [[Kiss Players (franchise)|"rape their childhoods"]] by deviating from their rose-colored—and often [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers| incorrect]]—memories of the first two seasons of the original cartoon. The singularly unfortunate phrase "[so-and-so] RAPED MY CHILDHOOD!!!!!" quickly became one of the more memorable used by this group, and used in criticism by this group's detractors, in which it seems to have taken on a life of its own and overtaken the original usage... so it goes.

For some reason, many GEEWUNNERS were particularly incensed by the fact that [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (the truck guy, not the tape guy) had flames painted on him, a detail that [[Michael Bay]] claims to have received death threats over. It probably would have been okay if the flames were [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 2|burning down some forests]], though.

The term is ''not'' intended as a catch-all nickname for ''anybody'' who likes Generation 1, only those who refuse to accept anything other than it (or at least how ''they'' remember it, correctly or not). It is, alas, often used in this way by those who do ''not'' like Generation 1 and are seeking to insult those who do. Additionally, "Geewunners" themselves sometimes trot the term around as evidence of "persecution", in the process misconstruing the term to make it appear worse (i.e., claiming that people that use the term hate Generation 1 and everyone who likes it).

==See also==
* [[True fan]]
* [[Trukk not munky]]

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
* [http://boards.transformersmovie.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14 Example of a breeding ground for GEEWUNNERS]
* [http://www.i-mockery.com/weeklies/weekly.php?type=movies&id=14 Allegedly humorous review of the movie, written by a GEEWUNNER]

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