Water

Cybertron gave up water eons of your Earth years ago.

Water is a chemical substance. As it makes up close to 70 percent of their bodies and its consumption at least once every 3 days is necessary for their survival, it can be considered the human equivalent of energon. Water can be an irritant substance to Transformers as it may cause their bodies to rust.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Water is so rare on Cybertron that Wide Load and Rollbar had never even heard of it.

It cures Scraplets. The Cure!

Cybertron's surface is covered by at least a few seas, but these seas are not of water. The Rust Sea, for example, is a sea of, uh, rust. There are chambers deep inside Cybertron which also run with liquid, The Primal Scream Out of Time! but they have been confirmed to be not water. Darn 'n' Blast #303

The Transformers who are unfamiliar with water are likely confused or just not very worldly, as several humans later managed to exist without environmental protection gear on Cybertron without drying up like old corn. Not all Transformers are unfamiliar with water; in the very first issue of the Marvel comic, Ironhide mentioned his "water gun," and Bumblebee was excited to learn that so much of Earth was covered with water, since he loved a good swim. Before the Scraplets crisis, Ratbat devised a fuel-harvesting scheme involving an Earthly carwash, which of course used water.

The Transformers cartoon

Water applied to a human's epidermis frees him from the controlling effects of Soundwave's hypnotic ultrasonic suggestions. Auto-Bop

Trypticon seemed to end up getting tossed into water quite a bit. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5 Thief in the Night The Ultimate Weapon Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 6

Generation 2

Some Transformers, namely the Aquaspeeders, Stormtroopers, and Color Changers, use high-pressure water-cannons as armaments. This is after they apparently re-discovered water, or something.

Cybertron cartoon

After scanning a fire engine as his new alternate mode, Optimus Prime began carrying a supply of water which he could spray from his cannons to extinguish fires and on one occasion a Decepticon warp gate. Inferno Trust Revelation Most of the other Autobots were also capable of carrying water, although their efficacy at extinguishing flames was not as great. Unfinished

Animated cartoon

Optimus Prime was armed with a high-pressure water cannon. Transform and Roll Out

When facing off against space barnacles, Sari Sumdac used boiling hot water to burn them off Prowl and Bumblebee. Nature Calls

Wreck-Gar would end up immersed in the stuff for quite some time. Garbage In, Garbage Out Human Error, Part II

Sentinel Prime hates most features of organic planets, and water is no exception. He especially hates that it falls from the sky on Earth. Jazz, on the other hand, was highly appreciative of a planet that could double as a car wash. Where Is Thy Sting?

EarthSpark cartoon

The Earth-born Terrans did not run on energon, instead subsisting off the water that had birthed them. Friends and Family

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron

The Kaon prison complex was seen in what appeared to be heavy rainfall. War for Cybertron

Transformers: Devastation

Kranix considered the large amount of water on Earth made the planet impractical for cyberforming. Devastation

Notes

• Occasionally, the fleshlings like to hand out minuscule samples of this substance as promotions for their documentary footage of Cybertronians.

External links

• Transformers #303 Letters Page on Transfans.co.uk