Do you ever wonder how in most Transformers series, the transformers can move their mouths as if it were skin? Like, in shows like G1 and the unicron trilogy, They have human like faces that are made of metal, with no seams or articulation lines on thair faces. Rescue bots and the movies are the exceptions.
It’s because it’s important that faces are illustrated clearly to demonstrate character emotion, and putting a billion clockwork gears into a semblance of lips clouds that considerably.
Otherwise you get, like, this:
which, while technically more plausible, is a fright to behold
I love Don, don’t get me wrong, but I actually cannot tell if Hot Rod supposed to be screaming, grinning, or just really surprised.
MTMTE AU where everything’s the same, but Rodders still looks like this
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 