Lovecraft Meets Transformers

Neat little post about how Lovecraftian the Transformers are or can be interpreted as.

While the actual fiction of the Transformers franchise is as a rule non-Lovecraftian, it certainly dips into his turf from time to time. In the TV episode "Beast Wars: Code of Hero" we learn that humanity's existence, not to mention our technological development, hinged on the decisions of one tormented machine, millions of years ago. I.e., we owe our human condition to the intervention of aliens. (Not to mention the experiments of the Vok, whose rune-marked ruins might as well have "Welcome to R'lyeh" written on them.) In the comic book Underbase Saga, a vast library literally turns Starscream into a mass-murdering god, before consuming him. In the Generation 2 comic, Earth is wrecked in what amounts to a side-squabble between the Autobots and Decepticons, who then discover that they themselves are just an irrelevant footnote in the eyes of the ancient Cybertronian Empire . . . and then all are made victims by the consuming blackness of the Swarm, which (in a note Lovecraft could well understand) was the product of unrestrained Transformer reproduction. And then there's the movie's All Spark, which can turn any mechanical device into a feral beast.

And hey, let's not forget Primus and Unicron. Not only is there an entity out there who drifts from universe to universe casually consuming planets, but there's also Primus, whose body is Cybertron. Just as humans have to worry that their car may shift and change beneath them, the Transformers have to live day to day with the same worry about their world.