LOL Those essays are gold! I want pass off fanfiction as analysis, can I can I??
Speaking of poorly coloured Skorponok, what about gay-pride Armada Cyclonus?
In G1, what was Skorponok like? We all know in the comics Furman injected him with a lot of pathos and made him quite a symathetic character, but I've never seen the post-movie lameness - er, series. Is he a green Megatron or what?
On the mass-displacement shindig, I guess it *IS* undeniable that Transformers pull their weapons literally out of their asses. I think what the movie dudes are saying is that they don't nessecarily want excessive stuff that people will actually notice; for instance, most people don't know how big fighters really are, so won't be surprised that Prime is bigger than Starscream. But we all know that Lugers aren't 30ft tall
Another example - combiners. Each part gets much much larger when they Transform into their combiner form; the Connies are about waist high to Prime IIRC, but Devastator can pick him up with one hand... a Magical Hand, that comes from Nowhere....
