Talk:House (group)

Just spitballing this here. Since Roberts has made this an actual thing, a sort of noble lineage comprised of bots with the same "last name" (IE Ambus, Magnus, Maximus, etc.) should we document it as a phenomenon in Cybertronian society?--Rosicrucian^Talk 20:01, 2 August 2013 (EDT)

I believe we should. --ItsWalky 21:42, 2 August 2013 (EDT)

House of Pax

I might be forgetting some piece of context, but with only one example is there any reason we should assume that Orion Pax is of the House of Pax anymore more than, say, Hot Rod is of the House of Rod? Jalaguy 16:51, 3 August 2013 (EDT)

Yeah I agree. There's no evidence that there is a House of Pax. I feel that we should only add Houses if there are either explicitly named a House or have at least two examples of characters with the same last name. Otherwise we could end up saying that there's a House of Grrr/Grr/Gur/Gar/etc. and a House of One because Hun-Grr and Elita One have two-part names also. Anyways, I'm removing the House of Pax entry though anyone is free to revert my edit if they have a good reason. LordTacos 7:43 PM, 5 October 2013 (MST)

It's still a family group even if you don't name the family

In neither Dreamwave nor IDW was anyone suggesting an actual house made of bricks or whatever. It's the House of Ambus - their family line - just like House of Lannister or House of Saud. Dreamwave Bludgeon says "I summon evil magic to bring ruin upon the house of my enemies," he is saying the exact same thing. Why should that be removed? --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 15:01, 7 May 2022 (EDT)

Agents of venegance--dark sciences have summoned you... and now we command you. Seek out our foresworn enemies... and in the name of the Chaos Trinity... bring down fire and fury on their house!

"House" here is clearly a poetic way to say where they're at/residing, not referring to a familial unit. The interpretation you're pushing makes no sense. Saix (talk) 15:06, 7 May 2022 (EDT)

"Clearly" it isn't, since when I first read it in 2003 I saw it as the olde-tyme use of "house" to refer to related group and not a building.

Escargon just said in comments that it was "a normal-ass metaphor used long before Transformers," and that's exactly right.  In 2004 there was a major current affairs book "House of Bush, House of Saud," and nobody thought for a minute "well see the SAUDS are a family but the BUSHes have a building in Texas."  --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 15:15, 7 May 2022 (EDT)