[Starscream Gaga]

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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

Not sure what you mean by this. The voice actors for Skids and Mudflap took creative liberties and acted pretty much the way they wanted to... their "stereotyping" doesn't apply when the voice actor for Mudflap was Reno Wilson and he has mentioned he didn't find it stereotypical in the least as to how he and Tom Kenny played the twins.

Just because Reno Wilson isn't offended by them doesn't stop them from being negative stereotypes. It is completely irrelevant if he thinks it is a stereotype or not, because it very clearly was and not just in their speech, but their overall designs too, which Orci has publicly said did not reflect the designs implied in the original script. It was Michael Bay that OK'd the gold-toothed, rude, violent, street talking, illiterate robots so the blame is on him, not the ad-libbers.

Luckily, I think after the entire world called him out on his BS in ROTF he slowly improved on his racist caricatures. Drift back in his ROTF or even DOTM days would never have been as reasonable as in AOE.