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Dinobot's Old Technology is an infamous Beast Wars fanfiction written during the early days of online fandom by one named MG-Dinobot. A straight rewrite of the episode "Code of Hero" (often considered the best in the series) in script format with very little changes, it was followed by several sequels that had more original plots.However, MG-Dinobot reportedly had a cursory at best knowledge of English and "translated" his writing word for word with a dictionary, with predictable results. Several lines from the fics quickly became memetic within the fandom, to the point that the series most infamous line (quoted above) was referenced in the AllSpark Almanac, and is the caption for his picture on TFWiki.net.An archive of the fics can be found here, and a Dramatic Reading of it by none other than Xander Mobus (and company) can be found here. |
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Non Sequitur |
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Non Sequitur: While contemplating his fate, Dinobot cannot resist dropping random exposition that has absolutely nothing to do with the situation at hand. |
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Left Hanging |
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Left Hanging: The last chapter ends with the appearance of Airrazor and Tigatron in a new, more powerful form. |
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Rouge Angles of Satin |
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Rouge Angles of Satin: The main source of humor. Several words are also left with their French spelling. |
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Spell My Name with an S |
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Spell My Name with an S: Silverbolt's name is repeatedly spelled as Silverboalt. |
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The entire thing was translated word for word from French to English by someone not fluent in the latter, and it definitely shows. |
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Word Salad Title |
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Word Salad Title: Which seems to be a garbled reference to one of Megatron's lines in "Code of Hero" ("Face it, Dinobot, you're old technology! Obsolete! What could you possibly do?"). |
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Due to the Dead |
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Due to the Dead: "Optimus Primal bring back Dinobot's body to the Maximal base and destroy it, WITH HONOR!" |
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Script Fic: The story is written in script format. |
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Written Sound Effect |
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Written Sound Effect: Explosions are written as "BOOM!" rather than described word for word. |
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Came Back Wrong |
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Came Back Wrong: Dinobot is resurrected as Mega-Rex, who's now a murderous maniac with a questionable combination of animals for his alt-mode. |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud |
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Reading The Stage Directions Outloud: Due to the combination of script format and poor grammar, some of the characters appear to be doing this. |
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Series Continuity Error |
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Series Continuity Error: In the first chapter, Megatron states that "Rhinox is death". However, Rhinox is alive and well in the last chapter, with nobody commenting on his revival. |
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Unexplained Recovery |
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Unexplained Recovery: Just how Dinobot is resurrected as Mega-Rex is never explained. |
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Translation Train Wreck |
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Translation Train Wreck: As stated in "Blind Idiot" Translation above, the story was translated from French to English by someone with a tenuous grasp on the latter language, which results in such lines as: |
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The Starscream |
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The Starscream: Terrorsaur betrays Megatron only two lines after declaring his allegiance to him. That must be some kind of record. |
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