Talk:Reformatting

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)

Possibly, however Galvatron refers to Megatron in the 3rd person. "I Galvatron will crush you just as Megatron crushed Prime." If they were one and the same then why not just say something like "I'll crush you just as I did Prime."? In reading the comics, where Galvatron travels back in time, Megatron doesn't look at him as his future-self but instead as a threat to his own power. I think the key in defining reformating is that after a reformat they are still the same individual. Much like the numerous reformats Megatron has done in the Cybertron series. His body will change but his personality is always the same.--Cyberdine 00:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

But in that very same movie, Galvatron says "First Prime, then Ultra Magnus, now you. A pity you Autobots die so easy or I might have a sense of satisfaction, now" which shows that Galvatron considers Megatron's victory over Prime as his own. I blame inconsistent writing. --DrSpengler 00:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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