So, in the first episode of Transformers...

They didn't get drunk because it was " synthetic energon converted from earth's electricity", they got drunk because they had too much. The type of energy doesn't matter.

The Autobots are friendly with multiple governments and notable scientists, and have recharging pods. The Movie is kicked off by needed to go to Earth to grab some of the energon stockpile the Earth team Autobots have. They're getting it somewhere, and somewhere willing to give it.

It's not the same universe, but over in the concurrent Marvel comics the Autobots are explicitly getting help with their energy sources from humans.

deepticons were good guys. autobots were using humans to help fight their war and beat the decepticons. turns out htey were the real decepticons the entire time. absolute subversion.

Retard

They're getting it somewhere, and somewhere willing to give it.

It's downplayed in the final film but Autobot City was always meant to be an energy farm. The only real aspect of this in the final beyond the doomed shuttle run is in the panning shot when Hot Rod's driving up Lookout Mountain. You can see the Autobots have set up many alternative sources for getting energy, with visible windmills and a hydroelectric dam.

Astrotrain is such a sick name. Why do the Decepticons get all the cool names?

Not necessarily in Astrotrain’s case, but in general Bob Budiansky pushed for Decepticon names to sound “ scarier”. Hasbro almost rejected Megatron’s name until he convinced them the scariness of the name works for a bad guy

At the first there wasn't energon.

I love when things have subtle retcons that hope you weren't paying attention

episode 1: "Um, the Decepticons were putting energy into SOME KIND OF CUBE?!"

a few season later: everyone in the universe has energon

The epilogue that followed the pilot saga openly stated that mankind made a deal with the Autobots to provide them with all the fuel they would need through the series.
Some episodes also show the Autobots trying to develop new energy sources for themselves AND mankind as well.

Anon, the original G1 Transformers was meant to be just a 4 parter saga that ended with the Ark being rebuilt and the victorious Autobots returning to Cybertron so the writers wrapped things up there, only to be told the series would continue so they had to unwrap everything to keep the Autobot-Decepticon war going.
Heavy Metal War was another attempt to wrap things up and give the series a decent finale only to once again being told that the series would keep going.

why do women like starscream so much? is it because he gets abused, and beat up, and torn apart, and resurrected, and torn apart again, and his wings clipped and his arms ripped off and his head crushed and beaten to death and beaten to death and and and and oh my goodness gracious

I know this is bait but in general discourse we're reaching peak "le bad guys are... le gud!" retardation

I like to think they give themselves cool names to compensate them being some of the dumbest mfs alive

Women like bad boys because they think they can fix them, Anon.
Plus, Starscream is funny as fuck.

he's so fucking funny. why is he so funny?

even his tf:prime form is funny. he has such shitty posture but wears stilettos.

what's the hottest way starscream can die? he's the sluttiest. what's his sluttiest death

season 1 of any 80s-90s show is always batshit crazy. just look at pokemon. eventually they look at the shit that worked and minmax what gets autistic fans happy.

If you pay attention they collaborate with the government frequently and technology starts going crazy fast with shit like Cybertronian scale robots and so on, and later the EDF is formed and they work with them, so I'd assume the implication is that they're making deals with the UN or the US for power and it's just never mentioned because it's not as relevant as punching the fuck out of Megatron's latest crazy Decepticreep who just showed up.

Fun fact, according to the writers, the Hasbro execs once requested that every single character be on-screen at all times.

When writing GI Joe Hasbro once made a request to have them submit scripts with all the names blank so they could decide what characters to advertise. The showrunner at the time had to put their foot down at that one and tell Hasbro you literally can't make a cartoon like that.

If you watched the end of episode 3, they explain the world governments are giving the Autobots gasoline. Essentially payment for protecting against the Decepticons.
The Decepticons are unironically retarded. The technology the Transformers have would more than make up for the gasoline we could give them. Fucking Wheeljack figured out how to freeze particles in place, achieving the theoretical absolute zero temperature.

in the concurrent Marvel comics the Autobots are explicitly getting help with their energy sources from humans.

From not-Tony Stark

They should've kept Spike writing on his diary through the show instead of dropping it after the opening miniseries
That was a fun element

Get some of that He-Man style moral at the end of the episode too.

"And Cliffjumper really thought Mirage had gone traitor! I guess it shows you shouldn't just make a judgement without first taking time to see the larger picture... and of course, talking it out too!"

Where would you like to work?

Women?

Many times the Autobots have shown that they need energy but they will work out with Earth to get it instead of stealing it. By the time of the 1986 movie it was shown in the script that in the year 2005, the Autobots have made Autobot city a hydro dam on Earth that makes them unlimited Energon that they send to the Moon Bases to continue the war on Cybertron

More like Why Do Women in the Transformers fandom like Starscream

First the be a female fan in the Transformers community is already a level of mental illness. They were not boys playing with boys toys and have that connection, they somehow find romance and an abbusive relationship HOT with a robot. Again, a female in the Transformers community is always a red (or rainbow) flag

Not for free, no. But they're an advanced alien race. I'm pretty sure any given world government would be very amenable to a trade of some kind.

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They want a girlfriend with a robodick.

What does Shockwave do?

Soundblaster

The Marvel comics used fuel instead, with the twist that it needed to be compatible with a Cybertonian body ot it wouldn't work.
The Autobots install converters into their bodies to be able to consume the gasoline provided to them by not Tony Stark, the Decepticons steal the formula for a compatible fuel and later Shockwave develops the energy cube technology to convert any energy source into fuel.

he heads the department in charge of sexually harassing the 3 office ladies. And meanwhile the 3 office ladies' duty is to sexually harass human men.

You may know him better as New Soundwave

Decepticons are for handholding and marriage.
Imagine the harem drama during pregnancy.

We're getting fucked on both end by Cybertron either the Decepticons take our oil or we give it to the Autobots. Oldest scam in the universe.

Autobots developed transformation way before the Decepticons

Autobots develop highly advanced technology

Autobots have a good relationship with world governments, receiving energy in exchange for both military and domestic deeds

Megatron's retardation was cemented the moment he took a japanese sexbot as his wife.

no they sold loads of toys

you NEVER go Astrotrain!