Talk:Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)

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"Explicable discrepancies"?

Do we really need a section that's basically TFWiki users attempting to Marvel No-Prize the movie's slip-ups?--Rosicrucian^Talk 01:35, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

NOPE. --ItsWalky (talk) 01:38, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

We've had this for the other movies, for common stuff like "Why did Astrotrain need to jettison weight?" Not defending the current content, but it isn't unprecedented. -- Repowers (talk) 08:19, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Cyclonus?

So, did Cyclonus appeared in this movie? Xenotime (talk) 05:40, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

No. Escargon (talk) 08:54, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Foreign names

[1] [2] [3] I found these as evidence off-hand. There are other, more direct examples, but after trawling through eight thousand of Walky's contribs and two thousand of Sipher's, I could no longer be arsed to keep looking. Additionally, as I mentioned, those names are clutter. The film is called either Age of Extinction or Lost Age--or a direct translation thereof--in all but a couple of languages. Ergo, we don't care about the French, Italian, Spanish, etc., titles, just the English one and those that are different from both it and from any other title. Pirateblue (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

All episode articles show foreign names regardless of whether they're direct translations or not. Movie articles aren't any different. Mimi (talk) 17:13, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Yes, cartoon episodes do show all foreign names. However, episodes are not the same thing as movies; episode pages note original airdate and discrepancies form the original. Movie pages do not, and should not, note this stuff; that belongs in Other editions. The bits that are notable, however, are the names that aren't "Age of Extinction" or "Lost Age": for example, the fact that in Mandarin, it's "Extinct Rebirth" or that it has no subtitle whatsoever in Argentina. Having no less than fourteen word-for-word translations of "Age of Extinction" in one big blob prevents the reader from seeing the interesting stuff. Pirateblue (talk) 18:14, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

"Lost Age" is the same title as "Age of Extinction"? --abates (talk) 18:43, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

No, it is not; there are, however, fourteen other names in that list that are. Pirateblue (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Synopsis

Wait, was that originally copied and pasted from Wikipedia? --abates (talk) 17:10, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Everything besides the Psittacosaurus scene that I added to the beginning is from wikipedia, I think. I changed parts of it, but other than that, it seems to matches Wikipedia's. Escargon (talk) 17:17, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

The copied parts kinda need to be rewritten in that case! --abates (talk) 18:03, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

"_______ Decepticon" generics

Wouldn't it better suit them to be called "_______ Vehicon"?--Carrion (talk) 21:48, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Well, Vehicon wouldn't really be correct either, since the only non-Kre-O AOE things to officially be named Vehicons are these toy-only guys, but I agree that 'Decepticon' isn't really appropriate either. Maybe '_____ robot'? Jalaguy (talk) 10:30, 30 June 2014 (EDT)

In the movie, the manmade Transformers are referred to be three designations: "KSI's newest civilian prototype robots" (by a KSI staff member), "the Prototypes" (by one of the main human cast members), and "Brothers" (by Galvatron). If they're to be referred to as anything in a general sense (meaning both before and after the film's climax), I'd say just "Prototypes" would be the safest term. --Sabrblade (talk) 22:34, 3 July 2014 (EDT)

Paleontology weeps

Why do we need this? The Dinobots clearly weren't made by the grenade blast, so there's no reason to presume they're anything but generically based on the fossils seen by the Creators -- their size, lack of organic carapace a la Alice, twin heads, and very non-standard spikes-every-gotdang-where should make it clear they're intended to be closer to the Animated Dinobots than direct scanning.

Plus, isn't that how virtually every series has done the Dinobots anyway?KrytenKoro (talk) 09:48, 30 June 2014 (EDT)

It's talking about a sequence at the beginning with real dinosaurs, although quite frankly, it's one of the most accurate depictions of dinosaurs I've seen in cinema. Escargon (talk) 10:42, 30 June 2014 (EDT)

But do we still need that last bit about the Dinobots not looking like dinosaurs? I mean, they're space robots and as has been said already, there isn't any reason to not presume that they were only generically based on ancient fossils instead of some direct scan. LordTacos (talk) 20:31, 4 July 2014 (EDT)