Generics explained




As seen in this picture, Megatron's original body-type was a drill tank, and he shared his looks with thousands of nameless miner back on Cybertron.

Welcome dear fellow readers, for this post I'm going to be talking about a simple thing used in all franchises, including transformers, and it's about Generics, the nameless bots who mostly never become characters.

So  to be simple, Generics are characters who aren't meant to be characters(contradictions I know) and instead meant to fill out the scenes within fiction, without generics we ether get a unrealistic(for fiction standards) scene with absolutely barely anybody.

Or worse, we have to many characters, and as time taught us over and over again, it's good to have few main characters to get people interested. Examples of Generics are Stormtroopers(Star wars) and Redshirts (Star Trek) 

In transformers case, the most common case of Generics are the Seekers from G1 and the  Protoform's from the live action series, though these aren't the only Generics, their the most remembered.

Sometimes some generics are canonised into actual characters, and here's a small list of them:

Sunstorm
Nacelle
Hotlink
Bitstream
Acid Storm 
Greenlight 
Lancer
Glyph 
Strika
Lickety-Split 
Lightbright
Chuffer 
Ion Storm
Nova Storm
Loader
Endo
Sentinel Minor 


Though most lookalikes are generics, some are characters from the start, for this hears a list of them:



As a bonus, I left this out for the end so  can showcase the most famous Transformers prime Generic, the Vehicons!:




Hope you enjoy it

Suleforger

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