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Tailgate Is Actually Really Smart

I saw some people post about how it was Tailgate that realized the planet-sized flaw in the plan and that got me thinking because, despite what most people (including myself initially), Tailgate is actually incredibly smart:

In mtmte #5, after Tailgate decides to become an Autobot and starts learning the Autobot’s code, Ultra Magnus informs us of a couple of important details about what said learning would entail:

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A ten thousand pages military manual.

which they’ll go through “word by word, line by line" while analyzing each and every one of them “subjecting them to a series of ethical stress tests of philological ambiguity”.

Now I’m no expert on the matter but I did a little googling and the estimated amount of pages a law school student reads in a year is between 7,500 – 8,000.

which means Tailgate should rightfully be terrified considering that Ultra Magnus then followed it up with this:

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A FEW WEEKS.

Tailgate is expected to cover more than a year of law school’s worth of reading material in great detail and deep understanding in A FEW WEEKS.

And the crazy thing is?

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HE DOES. he passes the test.

Now they are 2 things you might say to dismiss this incredible fit of his:

1. Every Autobot must have studied it, can’t be that hard, right?

OH NO.

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Everybody who didn’t need UM personal approval to become an Autobot learned the abridged version. I mean look at the standard Autobot. they did not go to law school to get there. sorry.

2. He says himself it wasn’t a good grade.

that might be it if you don’t take into account a very important fact:

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Tailgate is a terrible speller. 

not surprising considering he’s a very low-class bot, with probably less advanced linguistic programs. (which I am personally headcanoning as robo-dyslexia).

now I defy you to tell me Ultra fragging Magnus won’t take away points for misspellings. I DARE you. 

AND HE STILL PASSED.

so yeah. he might not be Perceptor or Brainstorm or Nautica but Tailgate of Rivets field is one brilliant little minibot.

teztime:

Thinking about MegsMags, how they like each other, and how everyone compare Rodimus to Starscream – but has anyone thought about how Ultra Magnus is totally Soundwave?

  • Big
  • Blue
  • Reasonable, sometimes the only sign of sanity on command
  • Loyal to ideas over people (See Ultra Magnus’s willingness to have Tyrest arrest Rodimus)
  • But here’s the real kicker: they both keep minibots inside of them.

thatswhyhesprime:

namafangirl:

Me:

Listen.  Okay?  I’m gonna go on a rant.  I thought that gif was faked or edited so it wasn’t actually that shippy?  But I watched the episode and HOLY CRAP, there is so much tension in that ONE SCENE??  And that ridiculous, suggestive eyebrow-raise– Wheeljack does that right after saying “I recalibrated your engines, you should expect a 10% increase in vector thrust”.  (Or something like that.)  That stupid suggestive winky-esque thing after that stupidly innuendo-like comment?  And Magnus’ reaction?  GAHH. 

Conclusion?  Wheeljack was definitely attracted to UM before the whole “let’s get over our differences” thing, and he decided that the best thing to do was fix his ship, walk up to him covered in lubricants, and make a blunt flirty comment at his by-the-book commander.