#thunderbee

[rubski02]

Ended up sketching the theory/au idea I rambled about earlier where TC betrays the Cons and goes into hiding under the Autobot’s protection, his handler being Bee (also in hiding lol). They become unlikely friends, and I think with TC wanting a more quiet life vs Bee itching to go back into the battlefield and help Optimus, it would make for a funny roommate dynamic lol. And TC gets to follow his writing passion, becoming quite well known (under a pen name) for his works on the Transformers comics ;D

Also imagining that he rejoins Bee and reluctantly becomes a mentor as well, but more on the history side, teaching the Terrans about the war and what was happening on the Decepticon’s side.

I am very invested in this lol.

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[pocoslip]

There's Lots of Reasons Why I Prefer the G1/IDW Versions of the Transformers Way More than "Bayformers"

(The Bumblebee X Thundercracker Art belongs to @_raspado_ from Twitter)

#transformers #autobots #decepticons #bumblebee #thundercracker #seekers #minibots #maccadam #transformers legacy #transformers memes #transformers generations #transformers bumblebee #autobot bumblebee #g1 bumblebee #thunderbee #transformers idw #transformers 2007 #bayformers #transformers g1 #studio series

[swervesfirstblaster]

yuri thunderbee 😩😩

#nobody gets them #thunderbee #bumblebee #thundercraker #maccadam

[halenhusky309]

Me *looking at folks shipping Starbee sadly when realizing Thunderbee is just a literally void now (Why do my ships are so rare and few in between 🥲🥲🥲)

I just had this ideas (from the Transformers AU! I'm stewing up in my head) about Bumblebee and Thundercracker (I like these two together because at least in IDW, they actually share similar values and beliefs)

Both TC and Bumblebee distant from their factions (TC completely defected from his faction, while Bee was only Autobot in name due to great "disagreement" and discontent with Autobot authorities. Also, Optimus Prime was MIA in this universe with Megsy playing a very big role as well as Autobot councils in making OP MIA.....).

So these two were peak enemies to lovers, and they ended up Conjunx Endura later in life and lived together in a "Autobot colony" (ran by my OCs) where mechs who are loyal to OP or defect from Autobot/Decepticon factions want to find a refuge away from the pointless civil war. One time, they stranded on Earth and these two sillies (Mostly TC though) adapted themselves to lives on Earth and blended themselves with the locals. Bee was obsessed with growing a garden and taking care wildlife creatures, where TC wanted to be a writer (and later screen-writer).

It would be funny if TC was the one who's responsible for most TF shows and movies, resulting how Bumblebee were on most of the shows and movies, being portrayed as cute, naive, funny and child-like mascot (When in reality, Bee is very serious and has this no-nonsense attitude, and while he looks cute, he's a efficient and ruthless killer who would offline you in seconds). However, the reason TC keeps portraying Bumblebee as carefree and happy characters in the shows because he knew Bumblebee used to be like that before the war according to Bee's familial unit and amicas. He hopes to show Bumblebee this innocent portrayal of him as a hope for Bumblebee to feel this innocent carefree life that he completely lost when his caretaker, Optimus who presumably sacrificed his life to secure advantage for the Autobots to take back Cybertron from the Decepticons.

#Transformers #Transformers AUs #Bumblebee #Thundercracker #Thunderbee #I need to put this out today #headcanons #Fics idea

[wyrm-with-a-why]

How do people host ship weeks

I have silly ideas

#transformers #ship week #kilomegs #kilotron #metroblade #thunderbee #those are the ones I’d love

[bumblebeem]

Why I Think Everyone Should Care More About ThunderBee

An essay, because I can't stop thinking about this.

Let me tell you the whiplash I suffered when IDW dropped their delicious slowburn of Thundercracker's budding friendship with Bumblebee only to hand his ghost off to Starscream. Then to add insult to injury, literally everybody and their mother started shipping that instead.

HellO?

I mean I'm not here to bash StarBee by any means, but the way Bumblebee and Thundercracker become acquainted is so much more romantic. Theirs is a friendship based on mutually beneficial exchanges and interests the whole way through - their arc was so nicely thought out and so, so wholesome - they even featured in each other’s Spotlight issues! And we got this adorable cutscene moment in Transformers Devastation:

I for sure thought we'd see more of them together because they have a great dynamic.

But after Bumblebee died, IDW literally abandoned ship. What started out as a rarepair to begin with was consigned to the fate of -1 fanart and even less fan fiction. Devastating.

So here's a little run down of everything Bumblebee and Thundercracker got up to; an ode to ThunderBee 💛💙

As far as this canon goes, chronologically, I believe their first significant interaction is in Spotlight: Thundercracker, where seeing Bumblebee willing to die for the sake of someone else gives Thundercracker the courage to stick to his own convictions.

He was already doubting his allegiance but it’s the events of his Spotlight issue that make him realise what he wants to stand for. In this issue he says to Bumblebee, “You know, if all Autobots were like you... Well, never mind. That just isn’t the case,” suggesting that he would switch factions if the Autobots shared more of Bee's spirit; too bad (as far as Thundercracker and later even Megatron is concerned) that Bumblebee is one of a kind, huh?

Nightbeat jokes that Spotlight: Thundercracker might be another “Bumblebee makes a friend story” in reference to the alien lifeforms they’ve all just saved, but it’s also a nod to his developing relationship with Thundercracker, who we remember saved Bumblebee’s life on Earth in issue #6 of The Transformers (2009):

A little later in the same arc, Bumblebee returns the favour, saving Thundercracker from his self-imposed isolation in issue #11 by reminding him of who he is deep down - a loyal and honourable warrior. He’s able to relate to Thundercracker’s interest in human culture as this is an interest of his too, and that’s what butters the Seeker up - he might not consider Bumblebee a friend yet, but how can he deny someone who just gets him, you know?

And sorry but Guido Guidi had to know what he was doing when he drew these two this handsome, like. C’mon.

Not only does Bumblebee acknowledge Thundercracker's battle prowess (which before he settles down with Buster, is a big part of Thundercracker's identity), Thundercracker openly compliments Bumblebee on his own expertise; they're both very good at what they do (or used to do) and happy to compliment each other on those skills - uh, Power Couple, anyone?

Unfortunately, this venture is what sets them on diverging paths. Thundercracker is gravely injured in the aftermath of the favour he does for Bumblebee, and this pushes him to leave his days of being a warrior behind. He is a dog that wants to stay on the porch after all. Following the example Bumblebee set for him long before Earth, he has given everything he can give to this war. He's tried to impede further casualties, and all it has earned him is more betrayal, more heartbreak.

Bumblebee's own brush with death doesn't deter him, however. It only makes him more determined to prove himself.

By the time he and Thundercracker regroup in his own Spotlight issue, we see they can no longer relate to each other. Learning from his experience, Thundercracker wants remake himself, whereas Bumblebee is only more consumed by his sense of duty towards Earth and the Autobots that elected him as leader.

Note this issue and issue #6 of The Transformers (2009) marks an important feature of Thundercracker's and Bumblebee's acquaintanceship - they both try to convince the other that their allegiance doesn't suit them, and yet neither of them would ever defect to the other side. Star-crossed lovers. This ship literally writes itself.

So Thundercracker tries to counsel Bumblebee as Bumblebee once counselled him, demonstrating another fascinating aspect of their relationship: they seem to know each other on an intrinsic level and want the best for each other.

Long before Bumblebee flounders and fails as a leader on Cybertron, Thundercracker can see that's not who or what he is, and he tells him as much. Bumblebee might want to be a leader, he might feel he has to fill that role, but the other Autobots are never going to accept him in it. He'll never be good enough for them.

Thundercracker is speaking here from his own experiences - the Decepticons wanted a ruthless warrior, but when he couldn't meet their expectations they abandoned him. Thundercracker is warning Bumblebee that the Autobots are treating him in the same way but naturally, Bumblebee can’t see that. He’s never been one to run from a challenge anyway.

Younger, and more idealistic, Bumblebee is willing to keep sacrificing himself and for all Thundercracker might like this little yellow Autobot, he is on a new path of self-discovery - he's putting himself first for a change. He has to let Bumblebee and all he stands for go if he has any chance of finding his own happiness.

In retrospect, had Bumblebee taken Thundercracker's advice, he could have been happier, too. The tragedy of it all.

Instead, Bumblebee follows his misplaced sense of duty to its depressing conclusion... and this is where their relationship development ends.

In issue #28 of Robots in Disguise, Thundercracker gives us his last word on how he feels about Bumblebee:

He reaffirms the affection he has for him - if Bumblebee had been the one to land on his doorstep, turning him away wouldn't have been so easy. Sensing some familiarity between the two (which he doesn't quite understand, given he was MIA for most of it), Optimus informs Thundercracker of Bumblebee's passing. He tries to comfort Thundercracker with his belief that Bumblebee died for the greater good, but all Thundercracker gets from that is an upsetting confirmation: during their last ever conversation, he was right after all.

Bumblebee should have found his own happiness and not thrown his life away for anyone else’s sake.

There is so much potential for them and it was rough getting through Bumblebee’s ghost era and eventual reincarnation only for there to be no reunion. Not even so much as a quip in passing as the 05 continuity wrapped up IIRC...

Overall, I think probably the reason why people don’t talk about ThunderBee more is because the majority of their development happens before or outside of the RID/MTMTE split, and that’s the jumping on point for most newer fans of the comic books. There’s far more material of Bee with Starscream in Robots in Disguise and the Windblade stories that follow so I can see why that pairing caught on.

ThunderBee deserves more appreciation though - the material is there, I promise!

#Then IDW2 Came Out with No Thundercracker in Sight. my disappointment was Immeasurable and my Day RUINED #thunderbee #thundercracker #bumblebee

[anastoundingmango]

fuck it *beams thunderbee propaganda directly into your brain*

#thunderbee #transformers #thundercracker #bumblebee #idw g1 #i suppose. #This is a rough sketch. Fuck accurate size fuck clean lines we ball. #art stuffs #fanart #Something something foils for motivation #something something tragic way one is disillusioned and wants to get away from the war while the other also wants the war to stop but is #too tied to his sense of duty #getting out of a hopeless conflict by leaving it vs getting out by trying to #push through to the hope #what can I say. I’m a goofy guy. #tf #just a goofy guy who loves a doomed star crossed love #they watch dorky earth films. you can have that snippet of happiness. I’ll probably sketch some of that fluff next

[transingthoseformers]

Thundercracker and Bumblebee accidentally get each other pregnant

Oo? That'd have interesting results, especially with their respective dynamics with the teams

#maccadam #transformers #Bumblebee #Thundercracker #i imagined a mix of idw and earthspark design wise #thunderbee

[wonderwomanpleasesteponme]

OwO what's this?

#transformers #maccadam #transformers idw #idw thundercracker #idw bumblebee #Thunderbee #El reads comics

[seraphim-seeker]

I need to scream into the void about G1 ThunderBee to ScourBee because I like ✨Drama✨ and the Hurt/Comfort Potential is LOUD but also the unbearable amounts of SMUT that could be Written

I want to shout from the Rooftops about Frenzy x Bumblebee x Rumble and BeeBite in general ngl

And TFA BlitzPrime is glaring at me with Murderous intent

#send help #transformers #nova’s rambles #transformers rarepairs #rarepair #thunderbee #rumble x bumblebee x frenzy #Scourge x Bumblebee #istg #beebite

[brawlsbigbadonkers]

Why don’t we talk about thunderbee more? Like- yeah sure, ok, starbee. BUT THUNDERBEE?! Good shit. Hot single dog dad thundercracker who writes screen plays paired with-….what ever the fuck bumblebee got going on- both of them being in love and watching buster together, thunder cracker ranting to bumblebee about old earth films that they likes and bumble just listening. Cmon y’all, peak romance.

#transformers #tf #maccadam #thundercracker #bumblebee #thunderbee #hear me out yall #please #IDW #gay all of them #kyotalks

[cosmics-beings]

is thunderbee a ship?

#thunderbee #thundercraker #bumblebee transformers

[pocoslip]

Anyone Else still Love Thunderbee????

(Starbee and Skybee is Okay but I Love Bee X Thunder more)

#transformers #autobots #decepticons #bumblebee #thundercracker #minibots #seekers #maccadam #transformers legacy #transformers 1984 #transformers generations #the transformers #transformers idw #g1 bumblebee #g1 thundercracker #thunderbee #takara tomy #hasbro #transformers g1 #transformers memes

[swervesfirstblaster]

thunderbee is such a underrated duo they have one of the best enemies to allies to friends dynamics in the tf comics

thundercraker gets inspired by bumblebee and immediately gets a soft spot for him then we jump to thundercraker saving bumblebee one time and bee is immediately like who wants to be besties!!?? and thundercraker is so annoyed by him but cant tell him to go away bc in the end he knows bee is good (and very persuasive)

they just have great chemistry and challenge each other about their views and struggles while having great respect and understanding between them. also they have much in common, especially their interested for humans/earth stuff

its a real shame they never interact again after the war ended, we only got thundercraker emphasizing how bee was his favorite autobot and that he deserved better, in Robots in Disguise #28. i can easily imagine how bee would love buster and have fun with thunder's scripts

so if anyone wants to read their comics together you can start with Spotlight Thundercraker then go to The Transformers (2009) #6 #10 #11 and Spotlight Bumblebee

#thunderbee #bumblebee #thundercraker #they would be too powerful if writers put them more together #idw1 #idw transformers #maccadam #transformers comics #idw tf

[thunderbeeprime]

There are times she does smile in public, even if it is a small one

#splatoon #nintendo switch #nintendo #splatoon 3 #splatoon fanart #thunderbee art #digital art #art #fanart #videogames #my art

[exocynraku]

If you ever get to this one (and haven’t done it) toadstep and lionblaze hypokits?

thunderbee

#lionblaze #toadstep #warrior cats #wc #hypokits #ray art