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The [[Autobots]] launch their dead into space. | The [[Autobots]] launch their dead into space. | ||
<ref>[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in both the comic and the show.</ref> | <ref>[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in both the comic and the show.</ref> | ||
===Decepticons=== | |||
[[Image:Decepticon markers.gif|thumb|left|]] | |||
The Decepticons create '''markers''' bearing the likeness of their dead, lit by an eternal flame. Superstitious Decepticons believe a deceased Transformer's spirit may linger near it's marker, and it is bad luck to disturb one.<ref>Since Transformers have ghosts. The superstitious win out over the scientific rationalists [[Atechnogeness|yet again]].</ref> | |||
''It is unclear if these mark the place where a Transformers's remains are stores or not, at least two Transformers have markers in two locations.'' | |||
==Beast Era== | ==Beast Era== | ||
Revision as of 07:46, 4 January 2007
You can learn a lot about society's values by how they treat their dead.
Generation 1
Autobots
The Autobots launch their dead into space. [1]
Decepticons
The Decepticons create markers bearing the likeness of their dead, lit by an eternal flame. Superstitious Decepticons believe a deceased Transformer's spirit may linger near it's marker, and it is bad luck to disturb one.[2]
It is unclear if these mark the place where a Transformers's remains are stores or not, at least two Transformers have markers in two locations.
Beast Era
Predacons
The Predacons recycle their dead with honors. [3]
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