In July 2007, screenwriter Roberto Orci divulged to IGN the reason that Arcee and any other female Autobots were excluded from the original Transformers movie, revealing that “the idea of a female Transformer needs its own explanation, and there just wasn’t going to be enough time.” This quote is memorably bizarre on many levels, including how the original Transformers found the idea of lady robots stupefying but was very chill with one of the Autobots (Jazz) being a Black caricature.
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