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duel is getting gay married 🔞 @mamiyawiki.com · 15/12/2024

what the fuck are you

Transformers Spotlight: Galvatron. He transforms from root mode into a weapon.

duel is getting gay married 🔞 @mamiyawiki.com · 15/12/2024

i really love arcee's sharp fang-y mouth. also the gender origin is interesting i like how mad she is about it

Transformers Spotlight: Arcee (comic)
Panel 1: "She."
Panel 2: "We use 'he' among ourselves and don't even think about it. It's just the pronoun of choice, right? Haven't you ever wondered why it's 'she' and 'her' with me? It's because you unconsciously SENSE a difference."
Panel 3: "Jhiaxus arbitrarily decided to introduce gender into our species. And I was his first test-subject. He tampered with my fundamental C.N.A, and you know why? Because he was curious. Because he COULD!"

duel is getting gay married 🔞 @mamiyawiki.com · 15/12/2024

ok so with the full continuity context. arcee was forcefemmed

Later stories will clarify it's not being a lone female in a boy's toyline that traumatises Arcee, but the fact of being experimented on against her will and then discarded.

Arcee states that she was the first female Transformer experiment and it is implied she is something rare and (perhaps) unique. However nothing in the issue states that she was the only female Transformer created due to Jhiaxus's program. Indeed, in Megatron Origin and All Hail Megatron a number of female Transformers make cameo appearances. However, as the comics went on, Arcee would be treated as the only female Transformer by other writers until "Dark Cybertron" introduced ones from other worlds. Lost Light #8 would later retcon that the female Transformer cameos were Cybertronians but weren't the result of Jhiaxus, instead the result of Cybertronians going offworld and coming to self-realisation that they were female.