![]() The main real-world reason for all this can be seen from IDW Publishing's plans to introduce more women in 2014. There are some exceptions, most notably the recently introduced Strongarm and her distinctly boxy shape. Numerous female characters from the Aligned and Movie lines would turn into motorbikes, giving them thinner, daintier dimensions in robot mode. This, however, has dropped away in more recent years as toy technology changes. Perhaps the best counter-example of this type is Strika, who is female yet neither looks nor acts stereotypically feminine at all. Characters with toys could have been bulky and less overtly human-female-like, which was seen in the Unicron Trilogy series and some latter expansions of the Generation 1 series out of Japan, when the characters are often assigned to pre-existing "masculine" toys. Often they have a more than passing resemblance to a slender human female made of metal and wearing armor and kibble. In almost all cases female Transformers are portrayed as comparatively more graceful of form, and more rounded and curved in general, than their male counterparts. The appearance of female Transformers in most continuities would seem to suggest a level of "sexual" dimorphism is present in at least the more humanoid members of the Transformers species (the term sexual is used in a gender-based, rather than physical sense, see the reproduction link above for that whole kettle of robo-fish). The jury is still out whether Lugnut loves her more than Megatron. This is the first instance "mech" has been used to specifically refer to a male Transformer, whereas the term has been used as a gender-neutral common noun for Transformers in various stories.Īlternative words to denote a female Transformer, all used about twice in canon, include: femme-bot, fembot, girl-bot robot dame, and perhaps robotessa. Both terms have recently appeared in a piece of official fiction: Venus magazine.
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