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 by Sabrblade » Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:14 pm
With so many names and terms being used within the Transformers media, ever notice that there's an awful lot of them that end in the suffix "-tron"? Ever wonder just how many of these terms there are? Well, let's count'em.  Now, there are several cases of duplicate terms to refer to more than one thing (like how there's more than one "Megatron", and "Cybertron" refers to both the TF homeworld and the Japanese name for the pre-2007 Autobots), but let's just count each as one term with multiple uses. And, this isn't restictied to just English TF names/terms. Those of any language are welcome to this too. So, without further ado, these are the ones I can think of at the moment. Megatron Cybertron Tigatron Destron Galvatron Magmatron Combatron Insectron Velocitron I'm sure there's way more than that.  EDIT: Later submissions. Gigatron Yoketron Banzai-Tron Dinotron Computron Stuntron Omnitron Terrortron Horrortron Jetron Cassettron Tripletron Animatron Blendtron Blentron Terranotron Mechatron Seibertron Dancitron Grid Deltron Alligatron Guinea pig-o-tron Tahtib-tron "Teletron" ( It's "TeleTRAAN!"  ) Toxitron Albitron Mototron "When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -- C.S. Lewis
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by TriPredRavage » Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:43 pm
Tron, Tron: Legacy...
Gigatron
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by Wing Saber » Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:51 pm
Yoketron
Banzai-Tron
Dinotron
Computron
Stuntron
Omnitron
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by Sabrblade » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:01 pm
Some more: Terrortron Horrortron Jetron Cassettron Tripletron Animatron Man, I wonder how long we'll be able to go with this? This could take a while.  "When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"
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by TriPredRavage » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:03 pm
Blendtron
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by Sabrblade » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:15 pm
TriPredRavage wrote:Blendtron
And "Blentron". "When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"
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by TriPredRavage » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:16 pm
Sabrblade wrote:TriPredRavage wrote:Blendtron
And "Blentron".
That, my friend, is definitely wrong.
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by Sabrblade » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:22 pm
TriPredRavage wrote:Sabrblade wrote:TriPredRavage wrote:Blendtron
And "Blentron".
That, my friend, is definitely wrong.
Not quite. "ブレントロン" = "Burentoron", no "D". IDW renamed them "Blendtrons" to make more sense in English. Same case as changing Elphaorpha ((エルファオルファ = "Erufaorufa") to "Elephorca". They apparently don't seem to get that their names were a case of " Because poor literacy is kewl!" "When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -- C.S. Lewis
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by TriPredRavage » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:38 pm
Sabrblade wrote:Not quite. "ブレントロン" = "Burentoron", no "D". IDW renamed them "Blendtrons" to make more sense in English. Same case as changing Elphaorpha ((エルファオルファ = "Erufaorufa") to "Elephorca". They apparently don't seem to get that their names were a case of " Because poor literacy is kewl!"
Dude, if that were the case, Leo Prime's Japanese name would be Rio Comboy. And here's the thing, I've watched all of Beast Wars Neo, and it sounds like they say "Blendtron" and "Elephorca", not the strict romanization of the Japanese symbols as you have. But to be fair, we are trying to make sense out of a language completely unlike our own. A perfect example of a name where the direct translation of the sound fails us is Cohrada, whose name is supposed to sound like "Colada" (as in "Piña Colada"), but doesn't because the Japanese can't pronounce those sounds. Eitherway, though, the official version is Blen dtron now.
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by Wing Saber » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:57 pm
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