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Dehumanizing
The opposite of humanizing, dehumanizing occurs when the writers of Transformers fiction deliberately remove "human" elements from the characters, replacing it with robot-specific elements. Examples:
"I got something in my optics." (Not "eyes".)
"I used to chase turbo-foxes back home." (Not "foxes".)
"I've 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."
Toyetic
"Toyetic" can refer to one of two things:
- A toy which can easily be marketed in a piece of fiction. (Like Transformers, but unlike a hula hoop, for example.)
- An element from a piece of fiction (a character, a prop, a location) which can easily be made into a toy.
The relevance to Transformers is obvious. Uniquely, Hasbro's impetus to create the Transformers brand began with neither a work of fiction they wished to adapt, nor specific toys they wanted to market, but rather simply a nebulous desire to create a new toy/cartoon/comic book property akin to G.I. Joe.
