Humanization - Transformers Wiki. Throughout the various Transformers canon, there have been several instances of Transformers with humanistic traits and having very human actions that possibly conflict with their status as mechanical robots. Many of these instances can be dismissed as stylistic choices by the artists or as gags not to be taken seriously. Much like Powerglide's . He also coughs while sleeping, and when amidst the smoky remains of an electrical fire. Ironically, Bulkhead later claims in the same episode that Autobots don't need to breathe. He also blinks for this reason. It could be argued that breathing serves the same . It's possible that Galvatron was trying to compress Hot Rod's neck until the Autobot's head popped off, but that isn't likely. Dark Voyage. Bumblebee is shown to be breathing heavily after trying to chase down Blurr, even though he quips in a previous episode that not needing to breathe is useful for an Autobot. Velocity. Blurr did the same thing when he had completed running all the way back to Cybertron. Trans. Warped. On the Nemesis, Megatron and Starscream's breath can be seen due to condensation in the cold ship.
Revenge of the Fallen. Kup breathes heavily as he runs in fear from Chaos and the slave mines on Dread. Chaos. Megatron is visibly breathing while in stasis. No Place Like Dome Air does not seem to be a requirement, however, as Rescue Bots operate perfectly well in space. Space Bots. Unfinished Business. Spitting. Throughout his term on the Marvel UK comic letters page, Soundwave would regularly say . This habit made an in- story appearance, with him spitting at Robot- Master despite his mouthplate. Second Generation! After Nightbeat escapes from the Decepticons's New Jersey base via a sewer, he spits as he complains about their poor choice of back door.. All This and Civil War 2. In the Beast Wars episode . Optimus Prime also has to spit his mouth clean after being blasted across a forest by Megatron. Starscream spits thrice: once at Sam while in the Broadwater Metal Works foundry, again when he mentions Prime's name and lastly when facing down Sam in Chicago. Leadfoot also spits, albeit for no real reason, when addressing Sam and the humans outside of Chicago in Dark of the Moon. Galvatron II is seen spitting and drooling while explaining the situation. Out of Time! Both Megatron and Galvatron II are seen both spitting on each other. Gross! Exodus! Crying. A twinkle of light that may not literally be a tear, but is clearly intended to imply one, can be seen in Omega Supreme's eye at the end of . The Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber! At the end of ! Code of Hero. When pondering Silverbolt's fate in Beast Machines, Blackarachnia is shown to shed a single tear from one of her spider eyes. This may be due to her technoganic nature though. I say we kill the Beast!Revelations Part I: Discovery. Surf's up—and I'm talkin' up! In the IDW continuity, Authorial intent is that this is an overheating of the optical gauze covering their eyes. Other Decepticons are disgusted by this practice. Forbidden Fruit. According to Bumblebee, Megatron eats Autobot. Directed by Victor Salva. With Eric Roberts, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Frank Novak. Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert. AFI FEST 2016 runs from Nov. 10 to 20 in Los Angeles. Visit our AFI FEST section. Protoforms for breakfast. But of course that could just be a rumour. Transform and Roll Out. Brains is seen chewing on a screw, while Igor and the hatchlings are clearly shown to be ingesting minerals. Dark of the Moon (film)Flatulence. In the Beast Wars episode . This could be due to Maximals having organic parts in their makeup. Happens every five minutes. You can set a clock by it. Home Is Where the Spark Is. Autoboot Camp. Transformers Cybertron Override blushes when speaking to Lori, which is an indication of the character's original male gender in Galaxy Force. Honor. Intoxication. In the G1 cartoon episode . Powerglide refers to this as . Dreadwind and Darkwing pay a visit to this establishment in a later story, and get so hammered that they don't even notice Quickswitch fighting with some Mecannibals. However, they never actually get drunk. Human Error, Part IMiscellaneous. Body parts. Mouths/teeth/tongues. The Generation 1 cartoon series is the only major piece of fiction to not present Transformers as possessing teeth and/or tongues. The features appear in both the Marvel and Dreamwave Productions comics, The Battlestars manga, the Beast Wars and Beast Machines animated series (where teeth would even be knocked out on occasion), the 2. Robots in Disguise cartoon, and the Unicron Trilogy cartoons and comics. In the case of, say, Optimus Prime, his teeth are mechanical cubes overlaid on each other, while Megatron has bona fide fangs. Optimus spits out a piece of his shattered faceplate in the second film, which is intended to resemble a boxer spitting out a tooth after a brutal match. Revenge of the Fallen. One of the most prevalent examples of this tradition is the Kiss Players manga, in which a Legion character is equipped with a distinctive prehensile (and phallic) tongue. The Search for Alpha Trion. Arcee and Springer clench their eyes shut when their ship is grabbed by a claw. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1. Cyclonus also closes his eyes when Galvatron is about to go through the Alya treatment and he cannot bear to watch. Webworld. Lyzack sports some pretty heavy- duty eyelashes for her brief appearance in the Victory manga. The Victory War. Ravage clenches his eyes shut when Bumblebee shines blinding headlights in his face. Autobots Fight Back. In Spotlight: Hot Rod, Hot Rod is shown to have what appears to be blast shields for his optics when he passes out after landing. Dealer's optics are mostly covered by his eyelids, so he looks half- passed out. Per an email query to IDW, their response is that Transformers do not have eyelids, that it's just artistic license. The robots in the live- action film series have eyes designed to resemble cameras, enabling them to dilate and blink. He also blinks frequently. Some also have visible pupils. Notably, they also replicate the involuntary saccades of the human eye when idle. Surrender! Bulkhead is virtually as wide as he is tall and is depicted as extremely round, with very short, stubby legs. It gives him more than a passing resemblance to a heavily obese person, or at best one of those huge, flabby, off- season wrestlers. Being big- chassised is no excuse to let yourself go. Although ordinarily this might be considered merely a feature of his transformation scheme (ala Trailbreaker), he is specifically designed to be a crotchety . Well, all the Sharkticons, really, but seriously. It's kind of comically appropriate that the robots which do absolutely nothing but hang out and eat stuff all day are so roly- poly. His buddy Hound, a fat ballerina, is also pretty darn bulbous, and though it got him stuck in a building once, his weight doesn't really slow him down too much. In addition to that, Energon's Bulkhead, the films' Optimus (who has a goatee), Ratchet and Jetfire and Animated's Scrapper, Mixmaster, and the other Wreck- Gar all have varying amounts of facial hair. Some females even have two separate and even more distinctly rounded breast- like protuberances, particularly in their fictional depictions. Blackarachnia, Antagony and Beta all fall into this category. One, Thunderblast, even has visible nipples. Sometimes, however, they will additionally have red or otherwise different/darker coloration to their lips, with an evident similarity to human lipstick. Such paint- mouthed femmes include Blackarachnia in Beast Machines, her Animated cousin, and the G1 Female Autobots. Generation 1 Orion Pax, Silverbolt, Streetwise, Overlord and Shouki, for instance, have lips that can easily compete with the females', as does Animated Optimus Prime. Movie Megatron also notes that he can smell Sam when the latter is trying to escape from him, and Ironhide remarks that he can . This would seem to imply that movieverse Transformers have a form of olfactory systems. The idea of noses is somewhat 'fixed' in Transformers Animated and Transformers Prime by having the noses be a visible part of the robot's helmet as opposed to being part of their face. This is somewhat nonsensical even within in the context of the show (the contents of Transformers chest cavities had been shown several times before), and is doubtless merely meant as a one- off sight gag. Joe crossover, Black Horizon Part 2. Later handwaved by explaining that the particular Unicron in the crossover came from the universal stream Gargent 9. Alpha and had taken on an organic brain in a similar fashion as the native Go. Bots. Back from the Dead Kup later attempts to rouse a vision- struck Optimus Prime by urging him to . Skids also has an on/off button in his dashboard. Heavy Traffic! In the The Headmasters cartoon, Mindwipe is able to use a form of hypnotism on the Autobots, which can include lulling them to sleep. In the Omni Productions dub, Grimlock notes the strangeness of a robot feeling sleepy. Some prime examples of this are. Megatron has been shown to sleep in the command chair of the Darksyde, while his dino head mounted on the end of his arm stays awake, looks around, and smiles slyly. Wonder what it thinks about.. Scavenger does the same on one occasion. Armada Megatron is also seen asleep twice in the episode . Transform and Roll Out. Also in Animated, when the Autobots feel tired after drinking an oil- nog (which Soundwave had spiked), they decide to go to sleep, pardon, to take a stasis nap. Human Error, Part INightstrike's screams put his victims in a sleep- like state, while also stimulating the . Even Robots Have Nightmares. Rewind falls asleep and has a bad dream about the Dark Dawn. State Games. Xaaron couldn't transform anymore because he was old. Some parts even fall off him when he transforms! However, he states that the reason for his decrepit condition is not just that he is very, very old, but mainly due to the fact that his Energon supplies are very low. While he was lying, his story was plausible enough for Slapper. On the other hand, Slapper is an idiot. Sleep has also been described as a behavioral state marked by characteristic immobile posture and diminished but readily reversible sensitivity to external stimuli. NREM and REM Sleep. Prior to the discovery and reporting of rapid eye movements during sleep, it was thought that sleep was a single state of passive recuperation in which the central nervous system was deactivated. Studies concerned with the measurement of central and autonomic activities during sleep have led to its division into two types: non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, also called orthodox or synchronized (S) sleep; and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (so called because of the rapid eye movements during this stage), also called paradoxical or desynchronized (D) sleep. On the basis of electroencephalographic (EEG) criteria, NREM sleep is subdivided into four stages. Stage 1 is observed immediately after sleep begins or after momentary arousals and is characterized by low- voltage, mixed- frequency EEG tracing, with predominantly theta- wave activity (four to seven hertz, that is, cycles per second). Stage 2 is characterized by intermittent waves of 1. Stages 3 and 4 consist of relatively high voltage EEG tracings with a predominance of delta wave activity (one to two hertz). The EEG patterns of NREM sleep suggest that this is the kind of apparently restful state that supports the recuperative functions assigned to sleep. NREM sleep is increased after physical activity and has a relatively high priority among humans in the recovery sleep following extended periods of wakefulness. Within 9. 0 minutes after sleep begins, an adult progresses through all four stages of NREM sleep and then proceeds into the first of a series of REM periods of sleep. Brief cycles of about 1. REM sleep recur throughout the night, alternating with various stages of NREM sleep. With each cycle, NREM sleep decreases and REM sleep increases so that by the end of the night most of the sleep is REM sleep, which is when dreams occur. While everyone dreams every night, many do not remember dreaming; most people are aware, however, that they dream more just before rising. In addition to the rapid eye movements that can be observed through closed eyelids, REM sleep can be recognized by complete relaxation of the lower jaw. Convulsions, myocardial infarction, and cardiac arrhythmias are more likely to occur during REM sleep. This is probably because of increased autonomic activity, irregular pulse, and fluctuations in blood pressure, which are all typical of REM sleep. Patterns of Sleep. Although the average adult spends approximately 2. REM sleep and 7. 5 percent in NREM sleep, the cyclic changes vary with individuals. The pattern of sleep, in addition to the REM and NREM states, also includes the periods of sleep and wakefulness within a 2. Factors affecting the total sleep pattern include age, state of physical health, psychological state, and certain drugs. Newborns follow a pattern of several hours of sleep followed by a period of wakefulness. REM sleep occurs at the onset of sleep in infants; it rarely does in adults. As the child matures there is an increasing tendency toward longer periods of nocturnal sleep. Elderly persons sometimes return to the shorter periods of sleep that are typical of infants. Benefits of Sleep. Sleep requirements vary greatly among individuals. Infants usually require 1. An adult usually requires 6 to 9 hours of total sleep, and requirements continue to decrease with aging. Most theorists agree that sleep has value as a recuperative and adaptive function in the lives of humans. The relatively high metabolic needs of mammals and birds to maintain a constant body temperature in a wide range of environmental temperatures suggests that the periodic decreases in metabolic rate and body temperature that occur in NREM sleep allow for recuperation and restitution of body tissues. For example, even though the function of stage 2 NREM sleep is not clear, approximately half of human sleep time is spent in this stage. It is also theorized that REM sleep provides a period of recuperation of mental activities and preparation for wakefulness. During REM sleep it is believed that there is increased metabolic activity in the brain so that during waking hours it is more receptive to new information and can assimilate it more easily. NREM to REM sleep, with repeated wakening and excessive daytime sleepiness; it occurs most often in middle- aged, obese males and is thought to have several causes, one being collapse or obstruction of the airway with the inhibition of muscle tone that characterizes REM sleep. The condition is arbitrarily defined as more than five cessations of airflow for at least 1. Among the minor disorders are sleepwalking, sleeptalking, enuresis, bruxism (tooth grinding), and nightmares. Sleepwalking is not considered serious if it occasionally occurs in childhood. It should be considered pathological, however, if it persists into adulthood. Sleeptalking is common to many persons and, while it may annoy others whose sleep it may disturb, it is not considered pathological. A sleep disorder occurring in early childhood, and not to be confused with nightmares, is sleep terror disorder. The child awakens with a scream, is in panic and cannot be consoled, and often is incoherent; the following morning, there is poor recall of the event. Treatment usually involves reassurance of the parents. Adults who experience night terrors often have some psychological problem requiring treatment. More serious disorders of sleep include persistent insomnia, narcolepsy, and chronic hypersomnia. Hypersomnia can occur with central nervous system damage or may be secondary to some physical and mental illnesses, particularly depression. The stages of sleep have been variously defined in terms of depth (light, deep), EEG characteristics (delta waves, synchronization), physiologic characteristics (REM, NREM), and presumed anatomic level (pontine, mesencephalic, rhombencephalic, rolandic, etc.). This type of sleep is associated with dreaming, mild involuntary muscle jerks, and rapid eye movements (REM). It usually occurs three to four times each night at intervals of 8. A natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli. During sleep the brain undergoes a characteristic cycle of brain- wave activity that includes intervals of dreaming. To be in the state of sleep. Etymology: AS, slaepan, to sleepa state marked by reduced consciousness, diminished activity of the skeletal muscles, and depressed metabolism. People normally experience sleep in patterns that follow four observable, progressive stages. A device such as an encephalograph is used to record the recurrent pattern of brain waves during the stages. During stage 1 the brain waves are of the theta type, followed in stage 2 by the appearance of distinctive sleep spindles; during stages 3 and 4 the theta waves are replaced by delta waves. These four stages represent three fourths of a period of typical sleep and collectively are called nonrapid eye movement sleep. The remaining time is usually occupied with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which can be detected with electrodes placed on the skin around the eyes so that tiny electric discharges from contractions of the eye muscles are transmitted to recording equipment. The REM sleep periods, lasting from a few minutes to half an hour, alternate with the NREM periods. Dreaming occurs during REM time. Individual sleep patterns normally change throughout life because daily requirements for sleep gradually diminish from as much as 2. Infants tend to begin a sleep period with REM sleep, whereas REM activity usually follows the four stages of NREM sleep in adults. See also Nursing Outcomes Classification. Good sleep hygiene is regarded as a component of good health: it enhances the immune system, and is beneficial for common colds, cardiovascular disease, longevity, recuperation from injuries and productivity. Sleep disorders Rest resulting from a natural suspension of voluntary bodily functions and consciousness. See Deep sleep, Delta sleep, Good habit, Light sleep, Microsleep, Non- REM sleep, Nocturnal sleep, Normal sleep, REM sleep, Twilight sleep. Cf Bad habit, Poor sleeping hygiene. The stages of sleep have been variously defined in terms of depth (light, deep), electroencephalographic characteristics (delta waves, synchronization), physiologic characteristics, and presumed anatomic level (pontine, mesencephalic, rhombencephalic, rolandic). Sleep requirements vary considerably in health, between about 4 and 1. The purpose of sleep is unknown but prolonged deprivation is harmful, causing depression and mental disturbances, including hallucinations. The person is momentarily unable to move respiratory muscles or maintain airflow through the nose and oral cavity. Believed to be the critical or necessary component of sleep. Called also 'sleep of the body' and paradoxical sleep. Called also REM. Patient discussion about sleep. Q. How to deal with sleeping problems? I wonder if anyone could help me. My problem is that I have problems sleeping, I usually stay an hour or two in bed trying to get some sleep. A. I though i would see if they really worked about a month ago and did not take a pill before bed time, and i went right to sleep and slep for about 1 1/2 hrs and was awake the rest of the night, so i never fail to take a tablet every night when i lay down. I go to sleep & use to wake up paralyzed in my sleep. I go to sleep & use to wake up paralyzed in my sleep. But not asleep, just laying there, eyes wide open paralyzed. I couldn't breath, I couldn't speak, move anything but my eyes. I could look around but I couldn't even breathe.
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