Diving into The Transformers Fan Wiki
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@@Lucky_Limes you will never feel the loving touch of a woman.
Also ratio.
As someone who lives in Louisiana, I hope Transformers wasn't right about the rest.
Rule of thumb: any community who cares enough to get their own domain rather than use fucking FANDOM is going to be absolute gold.
Fandom wikis are unbearable to go through without an adblock
I have an AdBlock and it wasn't enough! Fandom is just too voracious and strong, it ate all of my memory!
Edit: typo
RIP gamepedia
why?
@@kjj26k Why?
They took the list of continuity errors and factual errors in Transformers *AND MADE THEM CANON REALITIES.*
Yeahs
"It's time to get wacky motherfuckers"
Oh baby, wait until you discover Ask Vector Prime :)
So like those Undertale drawings that someone made a fanfic about them being different variants?
I love that the rule for what Transformers canon is in TF is that if Hasbro or Takara was in some way involved, it's canon. It's glorious. So literally every crossover, no matter how minor, has then permanently fused all of the series into transformers lore.
The deep lore of transformers confuses and frightens me.... Especially the idea that obiwan has permanent high ground in his starfighter transformer incarnation.
Truly A Being To Match The Elders
Wait really?
I think I had that as a kid.
You had the high ground?
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder i think i still have it
EmperorTigerstar could probably do an entire "Horrible Maps" video just on the maps on that wiki…
90% would achieve the vaunted Nope/10
Could probably do a whole series
He already did one on the Europe we saw in the start haha
IDW comics had a series in which the main antagonists were a death squad of decepticon serial killers, apparently they realised due the fact that all their characters were robots they could get away with horror level scenes while still avoiding censorship. The acts of the villains included; Slaughtering a ship full of surrendering civilians, ripping out robotic entrails resembling metal intestines, eating autobot corpses, torturing an autobot into being a loyal pet in the form of a robotic attack dog, torturing loved ones in front of each other, and removing an autobots brain and shoving it into their mouths to see if they will bite down and kill themselves. Lots of lovely stuff like that.
Which comic?
I read somewhere that Arcee had like a brutal forced sex reassignment in a comic or something, crazy stuff
What the fuck
@@revisionreader1922 I can't remember which one specifically but the villains called themselves the Deception Justice Division if that helps any.
This is my favourite comment
The Transformers wiki is wonderful. Also, explanation for why Carbombya is a pacifist utopia in that one entry? Its the mirror universe continuity. And yes. One of the evil mirror Autobots does have a goatee.
It’s not as impressive as the chins of Animated, but it’s good enough.
And its called the "Ottoman Confederacy" so its some kind of federation involving both turkey and carbombya
Cool, Cool cool cool.
You mean Rodimus
@@saladv6069 I guess in this timeline the Ottoman dynasty never became the Sick Man of Europe. Not sure how a bunch of giant living robots caused this to happen but whatevs.
Believe it or not, but there used to be even more puns. There was at least one joke for every image, and many paragraphs had at least a little satire. A few years ago, someone decided they should go around "cleaning."
Really? Killjoys...
Although at the same time, now we live in the timeline where it's very explicit on calling pete sinclair a cunt, so at least we've got that.
All right, but who did this, and was it just one person or were there a bunch of these killjoys that did the deed?
@@billauditore6636 No idea. I came back to the wiki one day a found the aftermath. I only learned about what actually happened by digging through discussion pages.
@@nottelling6598 Could you give me a link to these discussion pages? If possible, thank you.
2:30 _Shattered Glass_ is the Mirror Universe of the setting. Sickeningly nice Decepticons, and _completely bats**t crazy_ Autobots right out of a dystopian horror movie. _Shattered Glass_ Grimlock speaks eloquently and in full sentences. It's horrifying.
So the _Shattered Glass_ version is the exact opposite of the 'normal' version.
I see someone else shared my knee-jerk to that. :P
Megatron is good and a mathematician
To mirror optimus who is a teacher in the normal dimension
@@crawlingboy what is Optimus then? A monster with more war crimes than a whole population of a planet?
@@edgieststalker8141 yes also he has tubes with remains of different decepticons(good) and sees them as trophies
@@crawlingboy Optimus has never been a literal teacher, SG!megatron is a mathematician because some versions of the tyrant Megatron were poets
I remember doing this a few weeks ago trying to find something on Energon. God I was unprepared for this.
I'm Reading the book and boy its bad
The trivia on B.O.T. is one of my favorite bits from that article. Just the gradually intensifying "Argh"
@@TheBonkleFox "Good God, I need a stiff drink."
whoever made that wiki was def having a fun time
It’s made by random fans who use the site
@@thexplodenator3007 They regularly reach out to other fan-groups and creators of the show. They're probably some of the most successful lost-media hunters out there.
The reason a lot of the captions hit as hard as they do is because they're a reward you get for continuous, outstanding wiki editing behavior (Keeping a formal tone on articles that aren't inherently a joke, citing sources for any additions, etc).
I specify "articles that aren't inherently a joke" because while they do try to make an article for EVERYTHING, they also have two major factors going into these articles that parody wikis themselves.
1) If it's a cross-promotion, they try to describe it exclusively in how it pertains to the Transformers franchise, and thus any information not given in a transformers-related media is treated as speculation that shouldn't be listed on the page no matter how obvious it is for anyone else. For example, Darth Vader being Anakin Skywalker is covered due to a Star Destroyer toy that has both a Republic/Anakin mode, and an Empire/Vader mode, but most of his history - including the fact that he's Luke's father - is treated as speculation due to Transformers/Star Wars not actually covering most of his story, just vaguely referencing it through back-of-box descriptions and toy designs.
2) If there is an inherent lack of information about something, the article itself exists to highlight the absurdity of wikis that try to cover literally every little thing about a franchise, and often treats the concept as either mysterious and unknowable, or a footnote that kind of just exists.
It’s mostly built by my cousin Ricky, he used to work for Hasbro. His cat, Meowscream has more pages than Optimus.
Transformers wiki predicted Ukraine conflict, wow. Better then mike sparks.
Tbf pretty much anything is better than Mike Sparks.
Especially the AeroGavin.
Lazerpig, is that you?
@@thesolidangel3086 Fellow Lazerpig fan is that you?
Lazerpig fans unite
Isnt a high bar to pass
The Transformers Wiki is one of the few pop culture databases to perfectly balance information gathering with taking the piss. From what I can tell, TVTropes is coming in at second.
Probably why the two of them have good relations.
On the ruler of Carbombya page, it says that he's a notorious pacifist because it's listed under the Shattered Glass continuity, where everything is completely the opposite as the normal universes.
Basically, Megatron is the good guy and Optimus the bad guy.
Thanks Dyno.
I’m sorry, but my brain just short circuited at the thought of an evil by default Optimus Prime.
Like, I knew that at least a couple had to exist due to the Multiverse and all, but the idea still confounds me.
@@nicholaspeters9919just look at the bayformers movies
Long fan of Transformers here, that wiki has always been a goldmine of humorous writing. But it's also quite thorough in content. 10/10 wiki.
This wiki is a rabbit hole I go on at least once a year, an internet gold mine and why I'm proud to be a transformers fan.
I’d forgotten about them but I owned half of the Star Wars transformers as a kid.
yeah i have a bunch of memories flooding back to me
wait, that shit actually existed? people werent just putting random crap on the wiki?
@@quantum5661 nope all of them were real, I think I owned the Anakin, Obi wan, Darth Vader, and Luke ones
I still have Han Solo and Chewbacca transformers that combine to make the millennium falcon
Good times
@@kieranwalsh2058 oh crap I forgot about those, I’m pretty sure I had them too
2:32
(Pushes up glasses) Um, akshually, the pacifist version of Fakkadi resides in a different universe entirely, one where the Decepticons are heroic freedom fighters and the Autobots are despotic dubbed the "Shattered Glass" universe. It's a riff on the more well known "Mirror Universe" popularized in Star Trek...
Seriously, though, as a Transformers nerd, it gives me so much joy watching other people get exposed to all the sprawling, insane deep-lore
Hats off to the guys at the wiki, for both their dedication and their sense of humor. Trust me, folks; you have no idea how deep the Transformers franchise/lore is.
To clarify, “Shattered Glass” is the alternate multiverse where everything is opposite. Good and evil are switched, yadda yadda.
For next time, I highly recommend Skywarp (G1), as the wiki categorized him as a Decepticon that likes to push others down stairs, and the toys page for both G1 Megatron and Optimus Prime. For example, there are toys out there of an Optimus Prime that transforms into a PlayStation, and a Megatron that transforms into a Sega Mega Drive. There’s also Erector (G1), JaM, and Trukk not Munkey.
Just, don’t look into Kiss Players. We don’t talk about Kiss Players.
The wiki page for Wheelie is also a goldmine.
There's like 3 different wiki pages for optimus prime toys. They keep on hitting the page size limit.
omg... i... i didnt need that on my google search history. why!? why would you even mention them, omg!?
You think Playstation is out there? They have an Optimus prime that transforms into Sneakers
@@canisarcani They TOLD YOU NOT TO DO IT!
Ah yes, Tfwiki, Honestly accuracy is good and all, but they're all just entertaining as heck.
I don't think there is another fan wiki that is as hilarious( at least ones not intended to be satirical),the fact it doesn't use the fandom engine for website is a plus too.
To the person/people on the Transformers wiki who wrote the descriptions under the pictures, I want you to know I love your work.
(Side note: I love how bad geography is a consistent factor across the entire transformers franchise)
TFWiki is the wiki with mods that honestly don't care, and it's amazing
There's 1d4chan too. You want Warhammer lore but taken as unseriously as possible (and also sometimes goes into details about the piece of lore it's talking about, rather than just expose it and be done with it like other wikis), that's your place to go.
The mods do care, but about transformers and not “formal tone” or “treating everything seriously”
so true
i mean they do have obvious rules. the hiroshima prime article is watched very closely and making the obvious joke will get you banned. it's more that they know that chronicling every detail of this media based on toylines is silly so they have fun with it.
I remember TFWiki, such a fantastically fun and punny wiki. Definitely not what you want if you want an actual introduction to the series, though, or simple information about it. It's a FAN wiki in the most extreme sense - it's full of injokes and meant FOR people who are already fans.
Yeah the Transformers: The Basics video series here on CZcams is definitely the best introduction for people who just want to understand the lore.
So what wiki would I go to for actual information, too many pages are filled with jokes or personal opinions, which means it hard to tell what a fact or a shitpost. Usually joke wikis and canon wikis are separate things for a reason.
@@radiokunio3738 well, its mostly restricted to the image captions
@@radiokunio3738 the reason the tf wiki isn't recommended for new viewers of tf is, in part, because of how SPRAWLING the lore is. there is so much and the wiki is so thorough it's hard to parse through and can be very overwhelming for a new fan to try and get an understanding using it. googling individual characters in individual continunities? sure! trying to get a grasp on the sheer scale of tf and all the iterations and the differences in characters? god no!
the trick is picking a subject to focus on vs trying to hop pages all around continuities and lore. like most wikis i suppose!
One of the best captions I ever read was about an issue from MTME where Megatron (who became an Autobot in the IDW series) utterly decimates the Decepticon Justice Division. The caption said something along the lines of:
"As an Autobot leader, the DJD failed to realize that Megatron now had The Touch.
The Touch of Destruction."
We Transformers fans both love each other very much but also exist to put each other into eternal pain with various weapons. The lead killers are the writers, and James Roberts is just the spawn in which the fandom wrote too much fanfiction and he made it into a reality. And for whatever reason we were put on this earth solely to gather more victims lmao
Go look at the archived versions of the Star Wars wiki (may she rest in Wikia-murdered peace) for "chair" and other household goods.
Don't look up genitals.
Just don't.
Wikia version of wookiepeida does have "menustration was"
Water was a good one last I checked
@@AbsolXGuardian I guess at some point between a long time ago and now we've defeated menustration in hand to hand combat.
horse was still up there last I checked
i mean, the star wars wiki has other things too, like "gender" and "death"
overwhelming majority of star wars articles are pretty good and just give information, but there are the small number of articles like these that are just batshit crazy
As a transformers fan, it’s a godsend to have a wiki as funny and informative as this one. Also it’s a good way to introduce some of the more confusing lore of the series. Anything but those goddamned fandom wikis is better though.
fandom wikis are legitimately unusable. so many ads, loading, and banner ad pop ups that constantly appear when you're about to click something that gets moved ALL THE WAY up the page. spending even a few seconds on one makes my adblock go nuts
Especially for understanding the JG1 world, which had become a complex set of connections between multiple universal streams including microcontunities
Or to put it another way, it's become multiple messy trainwrecks of continuity
TFWiki is a wonderful place, just don't get lost. No one wants to end up around Kiss Player Alley.
The TFWiki is a superb, incredibly comprehensive, insightful, fair, witty database. Truly a treasure.
All of us Transformers fans are absolute menaces. This wiki was and continues to be absolutely nuts, and I probably wouldn't be a fan any other way.
Please make more videos like this, you have no idea how far the iceberg goes
This is fucking wild. Whoever made that is a legend. Also, imma need the rest of that paradox quiz show from you vale.
the transformers wiki is what happens when someone makes full fledged lore using only two diecast cars and puts a side of hilariosity just in case readers get bored
As a formerly frequent contributor there, particularly with captions, it used to be MUCH more surreal before the shift to FANDOM.
"I'm not the droid you're looking for."
I'm in love.
Watching this in night time feels like a fever dream
i googled transformers fever dream and got taken to the wiki about a transformer named fever dream lmao
Transformers more than meets the eye
It's always great seeing someone's first reactions to the TFwiki. I don't even want to know how long it took to write Wheelie's page.
5:40 I never knew we bordered France. Have to consult the chronicles of forefather Ciech. Our transformer's wiki version has to be way cooler, it seems.
"Ciech Tabr"
The Ciech of that world must be fearsome warriors to have fended off both Mega-France, Austria, and an expansionist Russia.
The amount of random lore shit that this series has is absolute insanity. Being somebody who used to read up the wiki a lot as a kid and watched a lot of the shows, this was a really funny video to me. Seeing people discover the chaos that is Transformers is always a fun time.
"Who made this wiki?" The answer is Chris McFeely, who runs Transformers: The Basics here on CZcams!
My favorites are Supertoilet (first image on the "fan mode" page), and Dewbot (which has its own page). The page explaining the punishment of removing one's emotions and face also has a great one where this particular unfortunate fellow had his entire head replaced with a flat screen: "I have no face, and I must screen."
As a Transformers fan: We know, it's madness, we all pick and choose our personal headcanon.
Carbombya was despicable, and I'm glad Kasem stood up against it.
The funny thing is y'all haven't even hit the tip of the iceburg yet (at least, in the video). I'm not disappointed, I'm just jaAM. (Also, to explain the Shattered Glass thing about Carbombya, Shattered Glass is just a setting where all the bad guys are good and vice versa)
Dear god was that anime one the Transformers Kiss?
6:12 *Ah, yes, the aftermath of a standard Paradox game.*
I found this wiki from playing angry birds transformers and even that part of the wiki is pretty much almost complete. Even the editors are amazed the game is still active and that they have so much information jammed in that corner of tfwiki
Hey Vale, you're probably not going to see this but these past couple of weeks have been horrible for me. Literally your videos have been the only thing that has made me laugh as if nothing was wrong and I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thanks for the content and I hope you have fun transitioning to a regular upload schedule.
i feel its important to note. I, as a child, owned the Obi Wan and Grievous transformer figures. I have no way of proving this, you will just have to trust me.
The wiki is full of gems like this. Maybe try looking up Death's Head, Gutcruncher, and Shattered Glass Nightbeat. You won't regret it.
Just whatever you do, DON'T look up kiss players.
The deaths head and night beat comics go so hard tho
@@revisionreader1922 I was bringing up wiki pages that went into character while talking about said bots.
I imagine a jackass dude with frosted tips and sports sunglasses snickering to himself when he wrote those Carbombya episodes.
The Carbombya stuff was pretty soon after that one airliner hit and Qaddafi sheltering as many of the perps as he could.
Yeah its pretty obviously based off of him and Libya
The EDF fan wiki is also a blast
Especially the line bellow images
'one the pin is pulled Mr grenade is no longer our freind' for a out of context one
Gosh, this brings back memories. I forgot how much of an amazing time the transformers fan wiki is, they always are in-depth with a ton of great jokes.
As a Scot I can testify that the WiFi can be s#*t unless you get a cable connection which is almost impossible.
As a transformers fan I love this wiki, it's very informative and also hilarious, one of my favourites pages is a favourite character of mine, most of the page is just the wiki editors calling him a prick and posting panels from comics of getting his shit kicked in while also very thoroughly explaining the media and plot arcs he's involved in. Never stop TFwiki, I love you.
The crazy thing is that G1 cartoon Prowl is totally fine 😭 It’s the other incarnations that need an attitude adjustment
Thanks for coming back vale, when i was a boy i loved watching your content. Now, as a woman, i will continue to enjoy your content :)
wait what
@@masturch33f66
They transformed
Ah yes I do remember giving the decepticons to the Klingon High Council.
I have never seen a single one of your videos, but this is easily one of the greatest things youve ever produced
You can tell the guys writing this wiki are having a lot of fun and I'm all for that
TFWiki is an interesting and WILD place.
as a transformers fan its so bizarre seeing people from outside the community reading the wiki, some of the stuff there is genuinely wild
I didn't realize that you were Scottish, Vale!
Honestly, that explains so much...
i need more of this it’s just gotten more crazy since this video
Hell yeah I love TFWiki, it's the best fan wiki there is.
The part that notes Abdul Fakkadi as a pacifist is in the Shattered Glass universe, which is an alternate universe where everything is "mirrored" like the Autobots are the evil ones and the Decepticons are the good guys. Makes sense that the guy attacking cruise ships for fun would be a pacifist in SG.
“Wales is a state in the US!” About damn time that happened, it was inevitable.
This was wonderful, I hope you did more stuff like this, this is hilarious
Spiraling down in the rabbit hole that is tfwiki surely is one of my favorite procrastination techniquea
To shed some light on 2:40 transformers has a parallel universe called shatterglasd
Basically the good guys are bad
And the bad guys are good
Hence why he’s a pacifist in shatter glass and a xenophobic guy in the original universe
You guys *barely* scratched the surface on the absolute madness that is this wiki...
I find it funny that this is how people who are new to TF should go through cause its the best possible way to understand it genuinely
My personal favorite entry on the site is a page titled "Ruined FOREVER". I'll post the summary of the article itself here;
"Fans realize something Hasbro does not: that robust 38-year-old billion-dollar franchises, while seemingly healthy, are in actuality as fragile as two bricks tied together with tissue paper. One mistake, one bad mis-step will cause the entire thing to shatter and fall apart; and Transformers would be ruined forever.
Fortunately, there is hope. The Transformers fanbase has resolved to remain ever vigilant against something that could Ruin Transformers Forever, and call out a warning if they see something that could potentially do so.
Some Transformers conservationists suggest a more extreme approach, that Transformers should abandon all attempts at re-invention and instead cater exclusively to the old-school collectors. Though attractive, this approach may prove impractical as a long-term solution.
Ruined Forever remains a serious threat to Transformers now and in the foreseeable future, though it's possible a proposed initiative requiring all Transformers fans to purchase an annual plastic offset could ensure our fragile brand's existence through the mid-21st century."
They proceed to have a list of link to other pages as examples of things that have 'ruined Transformers forever in the past' with such appealing links with names like "Hippies", "Bees, My God", "Radical Feminist SJWs", "Perverts" and "Munkies" among others.
I swear the TFwiki is probably both the most informative AND self aware fan wiki in existence
This entire video is blursed and I'm here for it 🤣
As a certified transformers nerd, I would like to point out a few details that may have been missed.
During the Carbombya Segment, Vale touches on how Shattered Glass Carbombia is ruled by Abdul Fakkadi, a pacifist. This is due to Shattered Glass being an alternate dimension where every role is basically reversed, with the good guys being the bad guys and all that.
At 9:00, the anime girl is known as 'Minerva', an Autobot Headmaster Junior.
no cap the best video you've ever made! excited for more :)
Loved seeing the Attacktix and the Star Wars Transformers. Very nostalgic for us zoomers
"Russia encorporates Ukraine" part made me laugh too hard
This is such a wild video, glad you're back
The best part about TFwiki is it only uses info from Transformers canon. So for the crossover articles it doesn’t use the OTHER PARTIES SOURCE MATERIAL AND MEMES ABOUT IT
The luke Skywalker page was a hit of nostalgia I was not expecting 😂 thank you
I'm glad the beauty of Transformers wiki is getting recognized by more people.
This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a month or 2. Keep it up.
ive known about this wiki for YEARS and NO ONE BELIEVES ME ITS REAL
not only is it real, its the first search for transformers stuff, AND its super informative in a super fun way
Alternative Title Me and the Boyz reading transformer fanfics
FYI: The reason why Fakkadi is a pacifist in Shattered Glass is because Shattered Glass is basically the franchise's Mirror Universe; Autobots and their allies are evil and Decpticons and their allies are good
The anime face you saw is actually completely SFW. its the headmaster minerva, who forms the head of her transtector body. Basically, she has a mech that is a transformer.
Just a quick note: He’s only a pacifist in the shattered glass timeline as everything is opposite there.
I can't believe they glossed over Signal Lancer, clearly the best transformer of all time
The wiki is so self aware and funny.
5:17 "you never them in the same room"
there was an episode of the muppets where mark hamil and luke skywalker appeared as seperate characters and appeared together
This is amazing content and Im here for it.
I actually have one of the general Grevious transformers irl. I didnt expect to see him on one of these videos
I would have figured with a name like carbombia that it was an alternative name for the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪
I woke up from a nap, checked my phone and saw that vale uploaded. I am now still convinced i never woke up and still reside within a fevered dream state from eating a BBQ Double Stackticon
Mark Hamill and Luke Skywalker were on the same screen on an episode of the Muppet Show
Oh god he wasn’t joking
As a transformers expert this is absolutely hilarious to watch.
We need like a five hour version of you guys going on a deep dive on the transformers wiki
Whoever made this wiki has consumed an incalculable amount of drugs
This is just barely scratching the surface of the tip of the iceberg. The TFWiki is a WILD place.