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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

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.

Last I checked, gold toothed, rude, violent, street talking isn't stereotypical to just a certain race or culture.

Besides the gold tooth, I know of a certain Teenaged Turtle trained in Ninjitsu that fits this bill pretty well. He's more of a green color too. Not too much racial/stereotypical profiling there.

I think in order to be racist, you first have to you know, hate a race.

As for illiterate? Where was this mentioned? Oh you mean the ancient Cybertronian that no current Transformer could read anyway?

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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.

The "entire world" overacted.

As for Drift, he's very much the stereotype. Being "reasonable", calm, etc. fits the bill more than the opposite of that. There are loads of Eastern culture cliches about the calm, silent, not willing to fight unless needed typeset.