Talk:Reformatting
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I'm not sure if G1 Megatron's transformation into Galvatron should be considered reformatting. The concept of reformatting doesn't (to my knowledge) involve a change in the subjects personality as it did in this case. --Cyberdine
- I'm not sure I see the point of your update or question. The definition that was there already includes the information you put into a new first paragraph, and also explicitly states that the Galvatron thing is an example of informal usage of the term which isn't strictly appropriate but which, nevertheless, occurs. Further, I can't recall any instances of a non-Transformer life form being reformatted. Also, where is this "mechaforming" thing from? I'm pretty sure in Beast Machines it was explicitly still called reformatting. --Steve-o 18:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'll need to re-read the Dreamwave comics to be more specific but as I recall Starscream attempted to reconstruct Cybertron into a war world, a process which was dubbed mechaforming. On the reformatting, if I understand the Cybertron series correctly a Transformer takes a scan of, for example, a vehicle and reformats themselves changing not only their alt-mode appearance but their robot mode appearance as well. The key difference is that their personality is the same every time they reformat. Megatron's tranformation into Galvatron was done by Unicron, giving him not only a new appearance but a new personality. Therefore the change wasn't a reformatting (at least by the definition of the Cybertron series and Dreamwave comics). I think using Megatron's transformation into Galvatron as an example of reformating would be misleading. --Cyberdine 23:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- I wouldn't say that Megatron's personality was actually changed by Unicron when he became Galvatron - in the cartoon, at least, Galvatron didn't go Screaming Yellow Zonkers until that lava-bath on planet Thrull fried his circuits. Until then, he was essentially Megatron Part Deux. --Monzo 23:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
