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Dehumanization

The opposite of humanization, dehumanization occurs when the writers of Transformers fiction deliberately remove "human" elements from the characters, replacing it with Transformer-specific elements. Examples:

"I got something in my optics." (Not "eyes".)

"I used to chase turbo-foxes back home." (Not "foxes".)

"I got a bad feeling in my carburetor." (Not "gut".)

Sometimes this can get kinda silly.

"You can lead a Cybertronian robo-horse to an oil slick, but you can't make it lubricate."

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.