Structure

[[Image:|right|200px|thumb|Click on this picture. Seriously. There's a detail that's kind of awesome.]] A structure is a term used to define the body of a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformer" title="Transformer">Transformer</a>. Without a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark" title="Spark">spark</a> or a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personality_component" title="Personality component">personality component</a>, the structure is a lifeless shell. The superstructure is the outer portion of the structure, generally containing components for the transformer's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alternate_mode" title="Alternate mode">alternate mode</a>, and is often changed during <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Reformatting" title="Reformatting">reformatting</a> in accordance with disguise protocols. The substructure contains a transformer's inner workings, and usually includes any special equipment or weapon systems.

At times, the spark-less bodies of deactivated Maximals have been referred to as shells.

A Transformer's structure varied depending on which form their personality inhabited. The Renegade Decepticons when freed by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28G1%29" title="Starscream (G1)">Starscream</a> developed new structures when their personality components were placed in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> vehicles.

<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Structure&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <a name="Generation_1_cartoon_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Structure&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Generation 1 cartoon continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Generation 1 cartoon continuity</span></h3> After being captured, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Renegade_Decepticon" title="Renegade Decepticon">Renegade Decepticons</a> had their personality components removed from their structures which were destroyed. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream%27s_Brigade" title="Starscream's Brigade">Starscream's Brigade</a></span>

<a name="Beast_Wars_cartoon"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Structure&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Beast Wars cartoon">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Beast Wars cartoon</span></h3> After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Planet_Buster" title="Planet Buster">Planet Buster</a> had been destroyed, a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quantum_surge" title="Quantum surge">quantum surge</a> followed in its aftermath. When the surge hit <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, several <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Maximals" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximals">Maximals</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29" title="Predacon (BW)">Predacons</a> were struck by its impact and their superstructures mutated into their <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transmetal" title="Transmetal">Transmetal</a> forms. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aftermath" title="Aftermath">Aftermath</a></span>

Later, when <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28BW%29" title="Megatron (BW)">Megatron</a> began experimenting with an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transmetal_driver" title="Transmetal driver">alien device</a> to create a new form of Transmetal, Cheetor was caught in the experiment and had his superstructure once again mutated into his Transmetal 2 form. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Feral_Scream_Part_1" title="Feral Scream Part 1">Feral Scream Part 1</a></span> <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Feral_Scream_Part_2" title="Feral Scream Part 2">Feral Scream Part 2</a></span> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackarachnia_%28BW%29" title="Blackarachnia (BW)">Blackarachnia</a> attempted to achieve the same result on herself, which was strugglingly met with success. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crossing_the_Rubicon" title="Crossing the Rubicon">Crossing the Rubicon</a></span>

<a name="Beast_Machines_cartoon"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Structure&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Beast Machines cartoon">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Beast Machines cartoon</span></h3> While exploring Cybertron in the wake of Megatron's conquest, Primal's team of Maximals came across an entire facility stacked with deactivated Maximal bodies, which (playing on both "graveyard" or "junk yard") they later referred to as the "shell yard". <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Darkness" title="Spark of Darkness">Spark of Darkness</a></span>