Talk:Autobot Scrum Combination
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Why is this 'Scrum' combination instead of 'Scram' combination? I see Su-Ku-Ra-Mu and think Scramble City. (I know that Scramble City would have a different katakana, but then this is a shortened version.) I'm sure there's a good reason for this choice, I'd just like to know what it is. --Jimsorenson 22:03, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- Scram definitely makes a heck of a lot more sense. --Detour 22:23, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- McFeely had to explain this to me a while back. The word "scrum" is a term used in Rugby to describe a group of people joining in close to form a wall. It's where the football term "line of scrimmage" comes from. "Scrum" is used all the time in Masumi Kaneda-written Transformers stories, including FSRL #3 (Robo Combination Scrumbuster) and 2010 #2 (Scrum formation). "Scrum" is an obscure word, yeah, but it makes sense. Additionally, "Scramble Power" or a shorthand version of the term wouldn't really make sense, anyway. "Scramble" isn't used as a synonym for "combination" in Japan, but to describe certain types of combiners who can swap their limbs and doesn't apply to these guys, who are just moving in tightly in a scrum and shooting lasers out of their asses. --DrSpengler 22:27, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- That makes sense. But do we know these guys can't swap their limbs? I mean ... they're repaints of Scramble City guys. --Jimsorenson 23:00, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- Well, even if they could, I don't think it would apply to this attack since it doesn't involve limb swapping in any way. Plus, it remains consistent with Kaneda's previous use of the "scrum" term in earlier issues of the manga. --DrSpengler 23:33, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- That makes sense. But do we know these guys can't swap their limbs? I mean ... they're repaints of Scramble City guys. --Jimsorenson 23:00, 11 December 2009 (EST)
- McFeely had to explain this to me a while back. The word "scrum" is a term used in Rugby to describe a group of people joining in close to form a wall. It's where the football term "line of scrimmage" comes from. "Scrum" is used all the time in Masumi Kaneda-written Transformers stories, including FSRL #3 (Robo Combination Scrumbuster) and 2010 #2 (Scrum formation). "Scrum" is an obscure word, yeah, but it makes sense. Additionally, "Scramble Power" or a shorthand version of the term wouldn't really make sense, anyway. "Scramble" isn't used as a synonym for "combination" in Japan, but to describe certain types of combiners who can swap their limbs and doesn't apply to these guys, who are just moving in tightly in a scrum and shooting lasers out of their asses. --DrSpengler 22:27, 11 December 2009 (EST)