I like to imagine that in Transformers One, Dr. Ratchet is one of the few Cogged citizens of Iacon who actually cared for the Cogless miners in his own grumpy way and found the Cogged's poor treatment disgusting. And he knows Orion Pax, who is like The Jack Darby. Being young, reckless and likes to prove himself. Oh and Jack Darby did drag in Bumblebee to take part of the illegal race like Orion dragged D-16 to illegally take part of the Iacon 5000.
Except Jack is not reckless. He entered the race with Bee because of peer pressure and to not let down Sierra. The reckless one is Miko by all means lol
Fun fact, the reason why all the Seekers look alike is because it makes it harder for the Cybertronian equivalent to the IRS to figure out which is Starscream... Starscream made all his friends get cosmetic surgery so that he could commit tax evasion... Edit: holy shit, how the hell did this get 1k likes in just a few days???????? Thanks... I guess... idk
He'll be a Grumpy War Vet by the time the War comes to an end so close enough, right? I can't wait to eventually see Him do some stuff in whatever movie comes next, given he has a cog now.
That's one of the issues I personally have with the movie. Characters like prowl and Ironhide lost their core traits for simply adding more familiar faces in scenes. Even wheeljack could have at least been a repair bot for equipment
@@j-sant-animations8105You do realize that this all basically takes place millions of years before the on-Earth segment of Transformers, right? They have plenty of time to develop into the characters we know them as, but they’re not those people yet.
I like your theory about ratchet. Also, the designers probably did this to save money as it would’ve still been too expensive. We should cut them some slack on identical bots. But they need to be more careful with names and when they identify characters.
@Fishfellow_II you missed the one that clearly looked like Ratchet. Yes there was Prowl but there was one that looked like Ratchet as well. Though it could've also been another future medbot.
From what I read, chromia had an updated character model (which was still blue arcee but slightly tweaked) that is used elsewhere in the film but they didn't use it for the race scene
Someone made a video with that theory that some point in production of the movie and toy designs. Blur, Mirage and Chromia all got got mixed up. Their proof was a toy that came out that was named Mirage but looked more like Blur so Mirage's design had to be given a different name, but Blur already existed in the background so they picked Chromia, forgetting they already had a minor Chromia design.
But impossible because ratchet is older than most characters except if they retcon like they do with op and meg but this helpful because orion and meg age is always ambiguous to other character.
@@Jazzys.Prime.Chilling.Time127 all the cogless are the youngest bots, at most only 50 cycles old, because Sentinel only started taking cogs after his betrayal and he only did it to newborn bots to keep the illusion that they were born without one. And 50 cycles to them is very young, considering the bots were at war with the quintessons for thousands of cycles
I thought Rachet was both a miner and a doctor since only the cogless would really care about the cogless. No reason in my head that they cant be one and the same
@@mimorisenpai8540Ratchet doesn't have to be old, he was probably a Doctor for cogless bots as he was one as well. So he probably was sent to take care of Orion and D-16
@mimorisenpai8540 says who? Nothing in the film even suggested that doctor work was for cog bots only. Hell, with how big Sentinel was in the med bay I'd assume that having Cogged bots as medics there would be inconvenient as hell
It's funny that Cogged citizens of Iacon are composed of would-be Autobots and Decepticons, and they all joined the newly formed Autobot faction with the former Cogless miners that can transform now at the film's ending. Megatron unintentionally alienated powerful Decepticon groups such as Stunticons (Motormaster, Dragstrip, Deadend and Breakdown), Vehicon Generals (Tankor and Jetstorm) and Combaticons (Swindle) by going on a rampage with his High Guard. All because he see the people of Iacon guilty as Sentinel's followers despite they just turned against him by the truth broadcasted to them.
honestly, it'll be really interesting to see if the sequel - if we're lucky enough to get it - builds on that. I'd love to see how autobot combaticons could play out, and how an arc of them gradually being swayed to join the Decepticons would work. EDIT: fuck Hasbro and the horse they rode in on. _The next day?_ seriously?
@@booperdooperproductions2545I actually did see a few names on the Iacon Grand Prix monitor. Along with some other names like Skyfire, Cliffjumper, Powerglide, Hotrod, Mirage, Jetstorm, and even an obscure reference to my Beast Machines: Tankor.
What are the odds that a number of these would attempt to betray Optimus and his Autobots over wartime policies and strategies against the Quintessons😊
Two reasons. Firstly, I'm sure they're trying to save money with expensive character designs. Second and more importantly, YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE BANES JOHN???? Exactly, they just have similar names and looks like people 😂
I mean I think people need to remember that the original story for transformers had the quintessons mass-producing protoforms so there's not a whole lot of variation in G1 lore but for transformers one we all know it was just to you know reuse models a little bit and to make it seem like Cybertron was more full.
the medical bay does seem somewhat built for cogless bots, the doorways are short and full transformers have to duck into them to fit, so it could make sense that ratchet has two jobs, both as a miner and a doctor
This was most likely done because it would probably be too hard to create so many different body types and redesigns. I honestly don’t mind that they used the same body types and identical appearances in multiple areas. They should’ve just been more careful with the names. But for transformers, they should make sure multiple characters don’t share the same. It can be confusing and annoying to readers.
Production designer Jason Scheier explained that miner Chromia was just an internal name associated for her color palette, that they wanted to re-use the color in the mines, stating that the racer version of Chromia is the correct one.
Well it's transformers there's always been copy characters some might say it's lazy but I kinda like it, IF it's done right and they don't look exactly the same
Using the same body types and bot design is all right. They just gotta make sure they have noticeable color changes when they are doing a citizen and make sure people don’t suspect the citizen to be a new character.
Actual answer: to save money and make it easier to animate This has been done multiple times For example in the bayformers. A lot of smaller charcaters have the traits of others and even assets. Like how onslaught has stuff from long haul
People seem to forget in the end that they're sentient transforming Robots so Of course your going to have a lot of Bots and Cons that look near identical to you
As an artist, I can say outside of lore reasons for similar characters, a lot of characters will look the same or just be recolored models is a technique called crowding. And its used for having a lot of similar species in one area, so it saves money on creating a bunch of unique models or designs for the artists to animate. Tons of shows do this and its a useful technique amongst the film industry, which is why if you hear about people hand drawing scenes where its full of people or characters, or every model in the crowd is unique, its a really awesome thing. Someone put a lot of work into making it a realistic and in-depth shot. Animation love🧡✨
The real world explanation is space. In animation depending where the setting is greatly depends on how many characters need to be present to fill in space so animators reused character assets in order to filled in that said space. These background characters are only going to appear one or twice and thats it.
Asset re-use is the reason for this, but it also goes much deeper. It goes back to the G1 toys, where Hasbro was trying to figure out how to squeeze as much money out of as little molds as possible so they wouldn't have to make new ones. That's why you get characters like Ironhide and Ratchet, or Sideswipe and Red Alert. They still do that to this day with all of their action figure lines.
Essentially; The bots without cogs have more basic designs, essentially looking like simple robots to serve similar purposes. Once they install the T-Cog a part of their spark influences how they appear and they transform to better represent that appearance
Also mirage, when the iacon 5000 started, you can see the list of racer, and one of them is mirage. But when orion goes back to iacon and punch darkwing you can see another cybertronion that looks identical to mirage’s G1 design
Seekers were all part of the same combat class. So they all had mirroring bodies and outlines. In some canons they were clones of starscream that were recolored for differentiation.
Even in humans there are people who named the same. There are also people who are totally not related that looks like each other. Why not in transformers too. And as for alt mode there there will always be a tendency to look the same. If you are created to carry things you should have a flat back. If for flying fast something aerodynamic. In irl explanation animators don't need to spend alot of time for a robot that will be seen only in a few seconds in the background
It also makes sense that in a large enough population there will be individuals who resemble each other. It happens with humans, and it would seem to be even more likely in a species like the cybertronians.
It’s possible that during the early stages of the war those characters died and that the ones who resembled them took their names to honor their memory
while the original transformers continuity can be explained away by simple cheap redesigns of the same models to make production easier, in later iterations, such as the transformers sky bound comic, it’s stated that some autobots and decepticons have “clans”, which seem to be groups of transformers made on the same assembly lines, probably designed for similar purposes or something along those lines. if you’ve ever watched thomas the tank engine you have similar concepts there, with certain engines having “brothers” or “sisters”. some transformers even follow this concept like sideswipe and sunstreaker who are often considered brothers of some sort
Honestly, this would make for a great videogame, trying to sneak through a town that overrun body snacher style while triyng to break a record from your youth
For all the folks saying the one he referred to as Ratchet is Prowl: it’s not. You see Prowl’s transformation in background later and can catch him in multiple scenes, he doesn’t have the red so prominent on most of him not to mention he has his red chevron on his head from the start. There are just many miner bots that look somewhat similar. You could, of course, argue it was Bluestreak instead though (as the bot who is shown in video with more red on him)
I mean d-16 changed his name based off of his idol. This could happen with the other cogless bots as well with ratchet being inspired by Dr. ratchet and chromia being inspired by the racers chromia
Cuz they didn’t wanna make every citizen on screen and it was easier to just copy paste to fill the background with some reskins and cuz the G1 toys and cartoon copied characters and just repainted them. Comics tried to explain it, it’s just how it is. I’d imagine it as Primus just didn’t wanna make a completely different model that time, or it’s like how some of us are born looking VERY similar to another. Like doopelganger close
I think it would be cool if the cogless miner that looks like chromia is the actual one and she inherits the name from the other could add a touch of extra depth to the character
cybertronians are built in a sort of factory. they are made in batches and with molds so of course there are going to be characters sharing the same body type. but the colors will almost always differ. especially so with their alt mode. voice. personality. and experiences in life
I feel like a good way to explain it is that the cogless miners kind of just look alike because they have no way to differentiate themselves due to not having a cog
Bayformers: -Blackout & Grindor looking like each other as their choppers are almost the same. -A larger Bonecrusher fighting Ironhide compared to the one fighting Optimus. -The same Constructicons making up Devastator while also chasing Sam. -Overhaul's head being reused once or twice. -Nitro Zeus and Shockwave being cyclopses. Prime: -Skyquake being a green Dreadwing but with a different weapon. -Screamy and his jet allies, Skywarp & Thundercracker. And that's just the tip of the cybertronian iceberg.
Probably also for budgetary reasons. They can only make so many original models and have to reuse for just background characters. Plus it fits for the Transformers brand too.
OK look if you look in the background after jazz lose his leg you see ratchet like trying to repair him so it’s saying that right shit is a minor who is also classified as a medic for the minors and other transformers
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I like to imagine that in Transformers One, Dr. Ratchet is one of the few Cogged citizens of Iacon who actually cared for the Cogless miners in his own grumpy way and found the Cogged's poor treatment disgusting.
And he knows Orion Pax, who is like The Jack Darby. Being young, reckless and likes to prove himself.
Oh and Jack Darby did drag in Bumblebee to take part of the illegal race like Orion dragged D-16 to illegally take part of the Iacon 5000.
This isn't the aligned continuity
@@A-Microwave Yeah, but it has some inspiration from it
This may not be connected, but this is a really good observation.I never even thought about it
Damn good perspective. This film is masterful
Except Jack is not reckless. He entered the race with Bee because of peer pressure and to not let down Sierra.
The reckless one is Miko by all means lol
Fun fact, the reason why all the Seekers look alike is because it makes it harder for the Cybertronian equivalent to the IRS to figure out which is Starscream... Starscream made all his friends get cosmetic surgery so that he could commit tax evasion...
Edit: holy shit, how the hell did this get 1k likes in just a few days???????? Thanks... I guess... idk
Damn, he pulled an Alpharius… I’m actually kinda proud.
IDW had so many great ideas
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 Demon👀
Bro is NOT paying taxes
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384Why would you be proud? You’re not even Alpharius, I am.
It’ll just be hard to not see ironhide as a grumpy old war vet considering he’s just as young/old as the rest of them
He'll be a Grumpy War Vet by the time the War comes to an end so close enough, right? I can't wait to eventually see Him do some stuff in whatever movie comes next, given he has a cog now.
That's one of the issues I personally have with the movie. Characters like prowl and Ironhide lost their core traits for simply adding more familiar faces in scenes. Even wheeljack could have at least been a repair bot for equipment
@@j-sant-animations8105 he did make the mine explode.. which is a core part of wheeljacks character
@@j-sant-animations8105You do realize that this all basically takes place millions of years before the on-Earth segment of Transformers, right? They have plenty of time to develop into the characters we know them as, but they’re not those people yet.
@@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514you mean prime wheeljack right?
Various Autobots and Decepticons with similar body types have been a thing since Transformers Generation 1 and many shows after it follow the trend.
Agreed
Maybe ratchet has two jobs as a miner and a doctor
I like your theory about ratchet. Also, the designers probably did this to save money as it would’ve still been too expensive. We should cut them some slack on identical bots. But they need to be more careful with names and when they identify characters.
It comes from the toy line. It is much cheaper to use one mold for multiple characters in different colors.
@@redalert923Nah. That miner was supposed to be Prowl, not Ratchet
Ratchet is hella busy, working in the mines, working at the racing circuit, working as a doctor
No wonder he's grumpy
Ratchet: I worked 3 jobs and you're tailgate was a problem in ALL of them!!!
Optimus: 😶
Ratchet’s not a miner though, that’s Prowl in the mines
@Fishfellow_II you missed the one that clearly looked like Ratchet. Yes there was Prowl but there was one that looked like Ratchet as well. Though it could've also been another future medbot.
I'm fairly certain the cogless "ratchet" is actually prowl, and that the fogless "chromia" is actually moonracer.
It is showed on designs that the Cogless Chromia is actually Chromia as well...maybe she took after her like D-16 took after Megatronus?
That’s a fun idea.
Was about to say it looked like either prowl or bluestreak
From what I read, chromia had an updated character model (which was still blue arcee but slightly tweaked) that is used elsewhere in the film but they didn't use it for the race scene
Yeah, that looked like moonracer to me! 😅
If you look closely at the racer identified as Chromia, you can see elements of G1 Mirage in their design.
Cause it was supposed to be mirage, but they changed it to chromia
Someone made a video with that theory that some point in production of the movie and toy designs. Blur, Mirage and Chromia all got got mixed up.
Their proof was a toy that came out that was named Mirage but looked more like Blur so Mirage's design had to be given a different name, but Blur already existed in the background so they picked Chromia, forgetting they already had a minor Chromia design.
And we can see a Cogless Miner who resembles Mirage when Orion throws Darkwing at the street fighter game
i thought ratchet was a cogless bot, who just climbed up the ranks and was more skilled in the medical bay than in the mines.
But impossible because ratchet is older than most characters except if they retcon like they do with op and meg but this helpful because orion and meg age is always ambiguous to other character.
@@mimorisenpai8540doesnt mean that without cog are everyone young
@@Jazzys.Prime.Chilling.Time127 all the cogless are the youngest bots, at most only 50 cycles old, because Sentinel only started taking cogs after his betrayal and he only did it to newborn bots to keep the illusion that they were born without one. And 50 cycles to them is very young, considering the bots were at war with the quintessons for thousands of cycles
No, ratchet was always a doctor here. The bot in the mines is Prowl.
I thought Rachet was both a miner and a doctor since only the cogless would really care about the cogless. No reason in my head that they cant be one and the same
Well the problem is
Ratchet is old a f because most cogless miners are young and impossible for cogless bot to get that job.
@@mimorisenpai8540Ratchet doesn't have to be old, he was probably a Doctor for cogless bots as he was one as well. So he probably was sent to take care of Orion and D-16
@mimorisenpai8540 says who? Nothing in the film even suggested that doctor work was for cog bots only. Hell, with how big Sentinel was in the med bay I'd assume that having Cogged bots as medics there would be inconvenient as hell
I think the miner is Prowl
The miner is Prowl, not Ratchet
Fun fact: in WFC Trilogy Ironhide's, Sideswipe's, Mirage's & Cog's body types were used for countless autobots.
It's funny that Cogged citizens of Iacon are composed of would-be Autobots and Decepticons, and they all joined the newly formed Autobot faction with the former Cogless miners that can transform now at the film's ending.
Megatron unintentionally alienated powerful Decepticon groups such as Stunticons (Motormaster, Dragstrip, Deadend and Breakdown), Vehicon Generals (Tankor and Jetstorm) and Combaticons (Swindle) by going on a rampage with his High Guard.
All because he see the people of Iacon guilty as Sentinel's followers despite they just turned against him by the truth broadcasted to them.
We never see any of them so it’s still possible they’re among those who left or are in other cities that Megatron conquers
honestly, it'll be really interesting to see if the sequel - if we're lucky enough to get it - builds on that. I'd love to see how autobot combaticons could play out, and how an arc of them gradually being swayed to join the Decepticons would work.
EDIT: fuck Hasbro and the horse they rode in on. _The next day?_ seriously?
@@booperdooperproductions2545I actually did see a few names on the Iacon Grand Prix monitor. Along with some other names like Skyfire, Cliffjumper, Powerglide, Hotrod, Mirage, Jetstorm, and even an obscure reference to my Beast Machines: Tankor.
What are the odds that a number of these would attempt to betray Optimus and his Autobots over wartime policies and strategies against the Quintessons😊
Two reasons. Firstly, I'm sure they're trying to save money with expensive character designs. Second and more importantly, YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE BANES JOHN???? Exactly, they just have similar names and looks like people 😂
I mean I think people need to remember that the original story for transformers had the quintessons mass-producing protoforms so there's not a whole lot of variation in G1 lore but for transformers one we all know it was just to you know reuse models a little bit and to make it seem like Cybertron was more full.
In the part where cogged Orion Pax does his little speech to the miners, you can see green and yellow variants of Jazz
the medical bay does seem somewhat built for cogless bots, the doorways are short and full transformers have to duck into them to fit, so it could make sense that ratchet has two jobs, both as a miner and a doctor
But he’s not a miner, the bot in the mines is Prowl
@@Fishfellow_II prowl was another one I'm pretty sure
Acting like the Seekers haven't been clones since the 80s
This was most likely done because it would probably be too hard to create so many different body types and redesigns. I honestly don’t mind that they used the same body types and identical appearances in multiple areas. They should’ve just been more careful with the names. But for transformers, they should make sure multiple characters don’t share the same. It can be confusing and annoying to readers.
Yeah my buddy John ran into a copycat the other day it blew his mind that more people could be named John
Thats like watching a cartoon of humans and being confused why some have the same facial features
Nah remember this movie takes place on their planet just how you could share a name with multiple people they also share names
Production designer Jason Scheier explained that miner Chromia was just an internal name associated for her color palette, that they wanted to re-use the color in the mines, stating that the racer version of Chromia is the correct one.
Well it's transformers there's always been copy characters some might say it's lazy but I kinda like it, IF it's done right and they don't look exactly the same
Using the same body types and bot design is all right. They just gotta make sure they have noticeable color changes when they are doing a citizen and make sure people don’t suspect the citizen to be a new character.
Actual answer: to save money and make it easier to animate
This has been done multiple times
For example in the bayformers. A lot of smaller charcaters have the traits of others and even assets. Like how onslaught has stuff from long haul
People seem to forget in the end that they're sentient transforming Robots so Of course your going to have a lot of Bots and Cons that look near identical to you
As an artist, I can say outside of lore reasons for similar characters, a lot of characters will look the same or just be recolored models is a technique called crowding. And its used for having a lot of similar species in one area, so it saves money on creating a bunch of unique models or designs for the artists to animate.
Tons of shows do this and its a useful technique amongst the film industry, which is why if you hear about people hand drawing scenes where its full of people or characters, or every model in the crowd is unique, its a really awesome thing. Someone put a lot of work into making it a realistic and in-depth shot. Animation love🧡✨
I’m fairly certain that the Cogless forms we see are just Protoform bodies and once they get cogs, they become more individualized.
I think that ratchet looking miner is supposed to be prowl since the two often look similar
but the thing is
prowl does exist with his own model
@@st2dgpthat’s definitely Prowl in the Mines, we even see him get a cog in the ending scene
The real world explanation is space. In animation depending where the setting is greatly depends on how many characters need to be present to fill in space so animators reused character assets in order to filled in that said space. These background characters are only going to appear one or twice and thats it.
Asset re-use is the reason for this, but it also goes much deeper. It goes back to the G1 toys, where Hasbro was trying to figure out how to squeeze as much money out of as little molds as possible so they wouldn't have to make new ones. That's why you get characters like Ironhide and Ratchet, or Sideswipe and Red Alert. They still do that to this day with all of their action figure lines.
Imagine if the transformers came off an assembly line and you have multiple copies of each character, but each one has a different personality.
...or it could just be that they only look like the transformers with their but aren't actually them
Essentially;
The bots without cogs have more basic designs, essentially looking like simple robots to serve similar purposes.
Once they install the T-Cog a part of their spark influences how they appear and they transform to better represent that appearance
I also kinda see this as a similar concept to us humans sharing the same names
Also mirage, when the iacon 5000 started, you can see the list of racer, and one of them is mirage. But when orion goes back to iacon and punch darkwing you can see another cybertronion that looks identical to mirage’s G1 design
Seekers were all part of the same combat class. So they all had mirroring bodies and outlines.
In some canons they were clones of starscream that were recolored for differentiation.
Even in humans there are people who named the same. There are also people who are totally not related that looks like each other. Why not in transformers too. And as for alt mode there there will always be a tendency to look the same. If you are created to carry things you should have a flat back. If for flying fast something aerodynamic.
In irl explanation animators don't need to spend alot of time for a robot that will be seen only in a few seconds in the background
_Calling Dr Rachet, Dr Ratchet to emergency
Ratchet_ Ratchet Rachet.
Imagine an alien race saying why do all humans look the same regardless of color.
Heres mine:
Ratchet is not Just a Miner, Hes a Medical Officer too
And for Chromia, The Cogless version is Actually Moonracer
moonracer did have a model its just female hound
@@hadijahali-abutazil8487ik but the other Chromia we did see is Possibly Moonracer
Ratchet’s not a miner though, that’s Prowl
You can always see it as sending the message that in the large scheme of things they are "expendable" to the bigger forces in this universe.
I didn't see the movie but that "miner" has a similar head type to prowl, silver streak, blue streak and ratchet... Just saying.
I think the cogless "chromia" was actually moonracer but idk for certain, I will say her helm did look alot like chromia's though
Could also have been suposed to be blurr
Tf cyberverse bots:
I was so excited by that paging Dr Ratchet sound bit in the theater haha
I thought they were like:
"fuck it, I'm lazy and it's hard, let's copy and paste"
Simple answer: to save money on assets
Or to replace dead miners faster
It also makes sense that in a large enough population there will be individuals who resemble each other. It happens with humans, and it would seem to be even more likely in a species like the cybertronians.
none of these are copies, theyre just a toy Hasbro is planning on milking 💰💰
Was literally playing a drinking game while watching saying “take a shot everytime u see Ironhide, 1/2 shot if it’s a recolour”
It’s possible that during the early stages of the war those characters died and that the ones who resembled them took their names to honor their memory
while the original transformers continuity can be explained away by simple cheap redesigns of the same models to make production easier, in later iterations, such as the transformers sky bound comic, it’s stated that some autobots and decepticons have “clans”, which seem to be groups of transformers made on the same assembly lines, probably designed for similar purposes or something along those lines. if you’ve ever watched thomas the tank engine you have similar concepts there, with certain engines having “brothers” or “sisters”. some transformers even follow this concept like sideswipe and sunstreaker who are often considered brothers of some sort
This is common in Transformers Bumblebee/Cliffjumper Cheetor/Tigatron
I always figured that there were always copies and duplicates regardless. It’s a continuity error that became a trend for the franchise.
This makes sense. You wouldn't be able to differentiate until they get their cogs.
I remember in Transformers Animate they make reference to different bots (namely Bumblebee and Wasp) being made from the same "mold".
Their all living robots, im sure there is models, like body type and stuff
I mean it's like finding a stranger that looks like you. It's not too unexpected
Well there are multiple conversations in the comics about how all the good names are taken
I like how bumblebees alt form is just the one from the war for cybertron games
I like the idea that like in human societies some cybertronians just have the same name
Ratchet in TF1 : Full-time Miner, Part-time Doctor
Nah, he’s a full-time doctor. The bot in the Mines was Prowl
In the idw series they showed that a lot of bots were put in prefab bodies, giving a canon reason for moldsiblings
Honestly, this would make for a great videogame, trying to sneak through a town that overrun body snacher style while triyng to break a record from your youth
Seakers were looked like copycats of each other since g1
I was thinking that Ratchet not only worked as a minor- I mean miner but also a medical professional.
that is addressed in Animated, Bumblebee and Wasp came from the same protoform mold and thus have similar bodyshape and abilities
Honestly there's a lot of transformers look alike like Ginrai and Optimus for example.
Well, Ginrai is a special case since his body was intended to be Optimus Prime's body.
Nah Ratchet just has 2 jobs, even being a Doctor in Cybertron isn’t enough to afford Energon when Sentinel keeps giving it away
you can always find cliffjumper as he's always dead
SOOOOO MANY RED ALERTS MY ARMADA NOSTALGIC ASS COULD NOT HANDLE IT
“Why are there 2 of the same car models in different colors?”
The best transformers movie ever
Top best explanation,Circumcised miners since their existence.
My guess as to why they all look similar is that it harkens back to G1 but also because how they were built by using already known or used parts.
They probably didnt have the budget to give EVERY bot a unique design
For all the folks saying the one he referred to as Ratchet is Prowl: it’s not. You see Prowl’s transformation in background later and can catch him in multiple scenes, he doesn’t have the red so prominent on most of him not to mention he has his red chevron on his head from the start. There are just many miner bots that look somewhat similar. You could, of course, argue it was Bluestreak instead though (as the bot who is shown in video with more red on him)
fun fact, the seekers all look the same because starscream had them rebuilt to look like him.
I love the like three seconds of Ratchet in the beginning... I swear that was Ratchet
When I saw the cogless miner “chromia” I instantly assumed it was moonracer
It makes sense for bumblebee and cliffjumper to look the same since they had the same body type in the g1 cartoon
its also a good time saver. Its easier to recolor 1 body type 50 times than to make 50 body types
I mean d-16 changed his name based off of his idol. This could happen with the other cogless bots as well with ratchet being inspired by Dr. ratchet and chromia being inspired by the racers chromia
Maybe Ratchet was volunteering to help at the hospital as reference to his G1 counterpart d
Cuz they didn’t wanna make every citizen on screen and it was easier to just copy paste to fill the background with some reskins and cuz the G1 toys and cartoon copied characters and just repainted them. Comics tried to explain it, it’s just how it is. I’d imagine it as Primus just didn’t wanna make a completely different model that time, or it’s like how some of us are born looking VERY similar to another. Like doopelganger close
Dude when I saw iron hides mohawk come in, I was so fucking hyped.
I think it would be cool if the cogless miner that looks like chromia is the actual one and she inherits the name from the other could add a touch of extra depth to the character
cybertronians are built in a sort of factory. they are made in batches and with molds so of course there are going to be characters sharing the same body type. but the colors will almost always differ. especially so with their alt mode. voice. personality. and experiences in life
I feel like a good way to explain it is that the cogless miners kind of just look alike because they have no way to differentiate themselves due to not having a cog
Holy shit.. that Jazz-frame at the very start is G1 Jackpot (Actionmaster). I've seen this movie three times and just now noticed him.
he could be the same guy working 2 jobs, and for Chromia one is named, one kinda looks like her but with moonracer colors
To be fair animation errors and inconsistencies are also a G1 tradition.
Using the same models for different robots saves on time and money when making the movie. Ratchet is also a name fit for a doctor robot
It's called cold forging, it's possible that shells are rapidly manufactured and sparks cloned into them
Bayformers:
-Blackout & Grindor looking like each other as their choppers are almost the same.
-A larger Bonecrusher fighting Ironhide compared to the one fighting Optimus.
-The same Constructicons making up Devastator while also chasing Sam.
-Overhaul's head being reused once or twice.
-Nitro Zeus and Shockwave being cyclopses.
Prime:
-Skyquake being a green Dreadwing but with a different weapon.
-Screamy and his jet allies, Skywarp & Thundercracker.
And that's just the tip of the cybertronian iceberg.
Who can blame them having to make that many models for a few seconds.
Probably also for budgetary reasons. They can only make so many original models and have to reuse for just background characters. Plus it fits for the Transformers brand too.
Poor Moonracer can't catch a break. Let the girl have her spotlight for once, it's always Chromia snagging it.
OK look if you look in the background after jazz lose his leg you see ratchet like trying to repair him so it’s saying that right shit is a minor who is also classified as a medic for the minors and other transformers
I'm gonna start calling ratchet "right shit" from now on after that autocorrect fail 😂
But that’s prowl, not ratchet
There are to sideswipes in the Beginning of the video
In some scenes you can see that there are Starscream clones with orange+white and yellow+white colors.😂