Talk:Transformer funerary practices

Would the Maximals burning Dinobot's body be considered a Maximal practice, or the Maximals doing something out of respect for Dinobot's Predacon heritage? --FFN 09:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Since Dinobot mentions recyclong Primal's body with heavy implications it's a great honor for preds-- I'm guessing that the funeral thing was a Maximal practice.

(you might also want to throw in a bit about the wake/memorial they had for Tankorr in Beast Machines.) -Derik 10:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I have always assumed that Dinobot's funeral pyre was the very "recycling with honors" to which he had referred. --KilMichaelMcC 10:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to add something: Dinobot would not want a Maximal funeral. The Maximals know this. --KilMichaelMcC 11:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

...what did they recycle?

(Maybe they gutted him for parts before immolating him I guess, i admit a funeral pyre does seem Pred-y.)

OTOH, maybe the maximals just knew they couldnt' LEAVE his body on prehistoric earth, and didn't want to leave it in a storage closetin pieces, so they vaporised it. (Kinda like non-sailors can end up with a burial at sea if they die between ports- fundamental expediency.) -Derik 11:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

From the Code of Hero script:

ext. maximal base - night

The body of Dinobot (R) floats between three massive power-poles, his weapons crossed on his chest. SFX: "TAPS"-type music.

At the base of the structure, by the "recycling" symbol, Rattrap (R) stands with Rhinox (R) They gaze up as:

THEIR POV - OPTIMUS (V), CHEETOR (V) AND SILVERBOLT (B)

fly past overhead, in the "missing man" formation. As they do:

Rattrap pulls a lever. Dinobot’s exostructure is vaporized, its atoms whisking into the power-poles as we:

fade to black

Ta da? --Monzo 11:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Recycling symbol, ha! You win at Transformers.

probably not related to spark recycling, but still good stuff. -Derik 11:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Spark recycling? What is this? --KilMichaelMcC 15:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Funeral markers

I'm changing areas describing Funeral Markers to say 'memorial markers,' since I think the term funeral marker implies some direct connection to the death/body, and we've got at least two TF's with markers in multiple locations. -Derik 09:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)