“Inspired” by a similar chart I saw for the Legend of Korra fandom. I thought it was interesting/looked like fun, but since I’ve never actually watched LoK, I made a blank version for Transformers Prime instead. Lovingly done in glorious MSpaint.
I was originally planning on including the human characters (Hey, some people ship them!) but there simply wasn’t room. TFP actually has a pretty large cast even if a third of them are dead Decepticons. I also missed Makeshift, space for Eradicon OCs, and any ancient Cybertronians you care to name. So I guess you’d have to include any ships involving unlisted characters in little notations underneath or something…
Aligned Soundwave’s chronological design changes are weird af
I mean he goes from Barawave during the very beginning of the Great War:
To a retro G1-like style in War for Cybertron to Fall of Cybertron (this design is also in Dark Spark but I honestly have no clue if that game is canon in the Aligned Continuity):
Lots of IDW readers should be familiar with this design since it was later reused in the 2012 ongoing series Robots in Disguise (later dropped to avoid confusion with the upcoming 2015 cartoon that had the same name)
Then finally we go to the present where Aligned Soundy has his much more debatably iconic look which also brings back his old head:
Of course don’t get me wrong at all, I do not hate ANY of these designs, in fact I love’em and personally think they are kinda cool in their own ways. But I just think it’s pretty funny that over time he goes from a beefcake, to blocky boombox/truck/lamppost, to silent Slenderman.
… and possibly back to beefcake if the RiD2015 Warriors Class toy look is going to be canon in the show (and IF he returns again):
How's it hummin'? 