Quote Originally Posted by Ralph Wiggum View Post
But Transformers is far and large my favourite robot series, as it's one of the few franchises with mostly robot characters with human sidekicks rather than the reverse.
This is one of the frustrating things about the live action movies. All too often the Autobots are merely accessories for the human protagonists, and the Decepticons. They have about as much personality depth as the dinosaurs in Jurassic World.

When people ask me why I prefer Transformers over mecha anime franchises like Gundam, my response is that I like how the Transformers are a race of living and intelligent robots. They're not vehicles that need to be piloted by young emos.