Universal greeting

Eh, close-enough

The universal greeting in the Generation 1 universe, introduced in The Transformers: The Movie, is commonly transliterated as Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

It is used as a means to express good will toward alien beings when a language barrier is present. However, it does not always work that way. The Allicons on Quintessa initially reacted well to the greeting, but when Hot Rod and Kup ran out of energon goodies, they began chanting it as they attacked the Autobots. However, the Junkions on the Planet of Junk took it rather well even without treats and threw a party, indicating that the Universal Greeting can be roughly translated into "We come in peace", "Take me to your leader", and "Care to dance?", or whatever seems appropriate.

Strangely, humans had never heard of it before. Stranger yet the rest of the galaxy is populated by robots.

Japanese materials Romanized the universal greeting as "Berwip crawna-wi pinibon". Given the sketchy nature of most Japanese-born Romanizations, make of that what you will.

Universal Greeting Dance

In the Robots in Disguise continuity, there also exists a universal greeting dance, used to convince even the most implacable enemies of one's sincerity (presumably by convincing them that one is so willing to thoroughly humiliate oneself that they could not possibly harbor ill will).

External Links

Marvel UK #102's letters page, defining the Universal Greeting.

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