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<p>75.62.127.22: </p> <hr /> <div>{{cleanup|April 2009|Needed: Storylinks, more elaboration on the examples, and elimination of header-linking.}}<br /> <br /> {{bigquote|We don't have to be the same outside to share the same feeling inside.|Alana speaks words every Autobot Commander dreads|&quot;[[Sea Change]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Sentient alien robots and humans can be friends, once they are able to communicate with each other. There is no reason this should not be, if we are to assume the existence of sentient alien robots; beings with the ability to reflect on &quot;life, the universe, and everything&quot; would have a lot in common.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Pgalove.jpg|right|180px|thumb|PGA PDA]]<br /> One definite lack of commonality, however, is the ability to [[Reproduction|reproduce]] together. Metal robots and flesh creatures just can't have babies, no matter how hard they try. The physiology is simply not compatible. (Several authoritative works have been written on relevant aspects of human biology. Readers are advised to seek them out for further reference.) Since the urge to engage in sex is often a major contributor to romantic interest, it may seem unusual for this attraction to exist between a robot and a fleshling — and yet, throughout Transformers fiction, such examples do exist. <br /> <br /> To write them off as silly plot contrivances is easy. It is, however, also easy to write off large sections of the fiction as silly contrivances, which leads us down a dangerous path. Therefore we must assume that, impractical and absurd as it may be, these incompatible species must be similar enough mentally to make romantic attraction, even in the absence of sexual compatibility, possible.<br /> <br /> A list of notable Transformer-fleshling pairs where an inter-species romance was either hinted at or outright stated, is given below.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel G1]] continuity'''''<br /> *[[Cloudburst]]'s [[Pretender]] shell identity and the [[First One]] of [[Femax]]<br /> *[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Charlene (cowgirl)|Charlene]]<br /> *[[Skullgrin]] and [[Carissa Carr]] in [[Monstercon from Mars!]]<br /> *[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and [[Joy Meadows]]<br /> *[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Cindy Newell]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''[[Generation 1 (cartoon)|Cartoon G1]] continuity'''''<br /> *[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] and [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]]<br /> *[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] and [[Alana]]<br /> *[[Lander]] is in the middle of a date but unceremoniously ditches his partner and rushes off to save the day after he gets a call from [[Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''[[Generation 1 (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave G1]] continuity'''''<br /> <br /> *[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Marissa Faireborn]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''Dreamwave [[Transformers/G.I. Joe]] continuity'''''<br /> <br /> *[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Scarlett]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''[[Beast Wars]] continuity'''''<br /> <br /> *[[Tigatron]] and [[Snowstalker]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''[[Armada (cartoon)|Cartoon Armada]] continuity'''''<br /> <br /> *[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Alexis]].<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''Unconfirmed G1 continuity'''''<br /> <br /> *[[Glide]] is known to pick up cute human girls and give them rides on his motorcycle mode.<br /> <br /> <br /> The 2006 [[Takara]]'s ''[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' introduced a whole line of Transformer/human pairings (that were somehow even ''more'' disturbing).<br /> <br /> *[[Autrooper]] and [[Atari Hitotonari]].<br /> *[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Shaoshao Li]].<br /> *[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Marissa Faireborn]].<br /> <br /> <br /> '''''Live-action film continuity'''''<br /> *[[Alice]] attempted to seduce [[Sam Witwicky]].<br /> *[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] and [[Mikaela Banes]]'s leg. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)}}<br /> <br /> <br /> The fact that most of these pairings are between nominally-male robots and apparently-female fleshlings can in part be blamed on the scarcity of [[female Transformer]]s. (The default assumption of heterosexuality is also part of it; the day when we have a canonical gay robot-fleshling romance in ''Transformers'' is probably still a long way off, although [[Magnificus]] and [[Ga'mede]] are pretty danged slashy. We've already got [[Tigatron|robot]]-[[Airazor (BW)|robot]] and [[Cain|human]]-[[Akira Serikawa|human]] pairings, so why not?)<br /> <br /> [[Category:Humans]]<br /> [[Category:Transformer culture]]</div>

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