Talk:Decapitation

Any real death

So Brawl's, Blackout's, Megatron's, Ravage's, Optimus', Mixmaster's, Jetfire's, Jazz's and the protoforms deaths don't count as real? Eire 00.30 July 3 09 (UTC)

"Decapitation seems to only cause any real death in the movie continuity. With just a few instances leading to death in previous continuities." That means that the movie continuity is the only place where decapitation actually regularly results in death. In others, it's usually simply an inconvenience. --FortMax 20:00, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Why do we have this page?

Seriously... Is there any real point to it? While we're at it, why not make a page on Melting, or Disembowelment, or Crushing or Exploding? --Ascendron 21:48, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Decapitation is an oddity. Because sometimes it kills Transformers, but other Transformers have an entire gimmick based on removing their heads!

Plus, there's a lot of marginal errata on the subject, established in letters pages and such asking questions about where a Transformer's brain or spark is located, and how-why they survive/don't survive decapitation. In short- Decapitation is more interesting than crushing or melting because it has implications for Transformers anatomy. -Derik 21:53, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Meh, that's not limited to decapitation. Crushing Animated Blurr killed him (maybe), but lotsa Neo and RID guys transform by basically crushing themselves. TFs die when they get dropped into Unicron's gut-furnace, but dropping BW Megatron into lava made him into a dragon, and dropping G1 Megatron into lava did nothing at all. I'm not seeing why this wouldn't just be a subsection on To sell toys and/or Death. --Thylacine 2000 23:20, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Well it's nothing worth losing your head over. -Derik 23:21, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

It does have implications as far as Transformer biology goes... If decapitating a TF in one reality is fatal and not in another, we have to ask why? --abates 00:13, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

I can only assume that decapitation is a more visceral way of dying than having characters be shot. Think about it, this media is written for people (Cpt. Obvious, again) and the main thing we associate with decapitation is death. Besides, would you rather see a character slice off another's head, or would you rather see them just get shot and die?--AWT88 23:38, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Can't they just hug? :~( --abates 00:13, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

Probably not. Can anyone agree with me that Prime cut off a couple heads in The Veiled Threat? I know I read it, but am too tired, and lazy to look for it _{(also, I've had a few too many after work, if you catch my drift)}.--AWT88 01:55, 3 July 2009 (EDT)