User talk:Nhaz

Understood. Nothing is ever a reference, Transformers series over the years are completely unique and do not draw elements from each other in any way, especially in the Aligned universe whose aim was stated to be accumulating of all Transformers mythos into a single continuity. Got it.

There's a difference between "intentional reference" and "vague parallel stemming from the fact that Transformers is a 35-year old franchise and thus various incarnations draw on similar tropes that are common across all forms of media". -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 09:09, 15 July 2019 (EDT)

I'd still argue that those parallels aren't as vague when the tropes are executed under a number of very particular circumstances. Example: Megatron shoots Optimus to death and gloats - obviously not a reference. Megatron stabs Optimus in the back, fires his fusion cannon through Optimus' spark and gloats about his weakness, camera angle is similar - ROTF reference. But if the wiki has another definition of reference, I'll leave it alone. -- Nhaz (talk) 09:16, 15 July 2019 (EDT)

Except most of the references you've been trying to insert are the former, not the latter. That Starscream "reference" you tried to add to Mini-Con Madness wasn't a case of the creative team making an intentional callback to Beast Wars, it was Aligned Starscream just behaving in-character. It wasn't a reference when you tried to add it three years ago, and it still isn't a reference now. The same is true of almost all the others you've tried to insert. Just because there are vague similarities doesn't make it an intentional reference. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 09:23, 15 July 2019 (EDT)