Where do Transformers come from?

[barricade505]

My son asked me that question.How are they Produced?In a factory in Detroit?Cybertron?A cabbage Patch???How do their Cybertronian forms come to be?In the Cartoon version,a planet of robots is devoured by you know who.anyways that planet had children forms running around.in the transformers past story-lines,do they explain where they actually come from.Thanks!!It's hard to be a father these days...explainin'the robot birds and bees,now-a-days....

[OmarB]

There are 2 versions I know of. First one is that there was an original organic maker of the robots, the organic life died away but the intelligent robots survived even in Cybertron's thin atmosphere and lack of water.

Another is that they evolved on Cybertron from a silicone base much like all life on earth is carbon based. So just like anything that evolves on a planet they just kinda grew, adapted and followed a similar evolutionary path that we did except that they retain their chameleon like ability for camouflage.

Note that these may not be the definitive version of the story, jjust two different origins I came across in comics from separate companies.

[megatron42]

alpha trion knew how the autobots and decepticons were made
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Trion

[Double]

The great thing about alien movies, is doesn't have to make sense here on earth. That's why they're aliens.

Look at War of the Worlds, hardly anything the aliens did made any sense. Coming up out of the ground? C'mon! But hey, they're alien, they have their reasons.

[xXRavenXx]

This is how it was in the Cartoon:

Quints made robots to do their work. The ones with the autobot symbol were workers and specialty robots. The Cons were given the job of protection. There were also giant guardian bots (omega supreme is the last). A young con named megatron started going crazy and so the Autobots who knew not much of battle took up arms to stop from getting destroyed. That's when a young Bot named Orion Pax (Prime) got his new name and transformers were born as we know em.

EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember it being they also only had forms that they maintained in order to do work. Not all were able to transform. Infact most of the early autobots couldn't. It was something they had to be rebuilt (and since they ran the factories) recruited workers to modify them with weapons.

[barricade505]

thanks for the info,now explaining this won't be so hard.now i just have to wait for him to ask where do babies come from.......uhhhh....uhhhhmmmm.....yeah.....

[OmarB]

Another thing is that the Decepticons were the first ones to fly because of their intended purpose of protection.

[Bumblebee1983]

This is how it was in the Cartoon:

Quints made robots to do their work. The ones with the autobot symbol were workers and specialty robots. The Cons were given the job of protection. There were also giant guardian bots (omega supreme is the last). A young con named megatron started going crazy and so the Autobots who knew not much of battle took up arms to stop from getting destroyed. That's when a young Bot named Orion Pax (Prime) got his new name and transformers were born as we know em.

EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember it being they also only had forms that they maintained in order to do work. Not all were able to transform. Infact most of the early autobots couldn't. It was something they had to be rebuilt (and since they ran the factories) recruited workers to modify them with weapons.

Boy it did all turn out to be just the opposite. The Decepticons are the destroyers and the Autobots are the protectors. Interesting.....