Given all the hype about a 1986 Movie accurate Unicron toy being released, time to bring up an old and much discussed (and admittedly rehashed) discussion that’s been taking place over the past 33 years:

Everyone knows that Skywarp and Thundercracker got reformatted. And so did some Insecticons. And in return we got Cyclonus, Scourge & his huntsmen – the Sweeps. (For now we’ll put down ‘Armada’ as one of many animation errors, left over from when the original script called for Cyclonus to have clones of his own) So:

WHO DID UNICRON FORMAT INTO WHO?



The Seekers:

One get turned into a Cyclonus, one got turned into a Scourge/Sweep. So which is which?

*My theory
-Since a Seeker got transformed when Unicron was saying ‘Scourge’, I think the Seeker was turned into Scourge rather than a Sweep. And due to the colour scheme I’d say it was Thundercracker
-A Seeker got turned into a Cyclonus, though it was in the background rather than the foreground, so it’s possible it was transformed into the redundant ‘Armada’. I’d like to think however that Skywarp (again, colour scheme) got turned into Cyclonus.
Of course there is an argument that due to being a more honourable being, Thundercracker got turned into Cyclonus, but I tend to go with the colour scheme theory.

Insecticons or Clones? And who did they become?

Arguments abound about whether it was the original Insecticons or their clones that got reformatted by Unicron. Since they spoke (nay!) many think it was the actual Insecticons. Also Shrapnel had clone beams and a Shrapnel got turned into a Scourge/Sweeps, so it could have been the original.

*My theory
The Insecticon clones had always been shown to not continue to survive without the original three. So the fact that more Insections cropped up later in the movie and also several episode of season 3 makes me think it was clones that were thrown out. Also Bombshell cropped up in a book (I can’t remember which one – I think Paulbot has it) where he was mind-controlling Springer, much to the anger of Galvatron.
Also I think that since it was shown that there seemed to be an inexhaustible supply of Sweeps, and likewise Insecticon clones, it makes sense that the Sweeps were made of clones.

So to sum up I theorize:
*Skywarp became Cyclonus
*Thundercracker became Scourge
*Insecticon Clones became Sweeps
*The original Insecticons survived


So, who do you think got turned into who? What is your theory?




Extra Note: I can't believe I couldn't find a thread on here where this had been discussed before! It may well exist and I wasn't using the right search terms.