#loreerasure

Hypocrisy, Erasure, and What the Show Refuses to Face

“No one returns to Cybertron. No one names their ancestors. No one admits what they are.”

Transformers: EarthSpark pretends to be about new beginnings, family, and empathy — but at its core, it’s a show built on refusal:

Refusal to reckon with the past

Refusal to respect canon

Refusal to let characters be accountable

Refusal to tell the truth — even inside their own fiction

Let’s talk about what EarthSpark hides — and why that silence fractures everything it tries to build.

🌌 I. Elita One Was Ariel — Daughter of Alpha Trion

In G1 and extended lore, Elita One was once Ariel, rebuilt by Alpha Trion. She was part of Cybertron’s ancient legacy, a direct daughter of one of its spiritual leaders.

EarthSpark never mentions this. Not once.

Elita, who leads and protects, who speaks of nature and peace, has no past, no people, no self.

Instead of honoring her roots, the show gives her hollow lines about loving Earth and talking to trees — while ignoring her planet, her trauma, her legacy, and her link to one of Cybertron’s most powerful myths.

Elita isn’t silent because she’s at peace. She’s silent because the show erased what she was.

🪨 II. EarthSpark Avoids Cybertron Because It’s Afraid of Guilt

The characters never go back. Not even to visit.

Why?

Because Cybertron holds:

War crimes

Abandonment

Cultural death

Children left behind

Colonies forgotten

Souls erased

Returning would force Optimus, Elita, Bumblebee, and others to see what they’ve done — or what they failed to stop.

So they stay on Earth, pretend Earth is the future, and act like history never happened.

This isn’t hope. It’s cowardice disguised as healing.

🔮 III. Emberstone vs. Allspark — Are the Gods at War?

The show frames the Emberstone as a mystical, benevolent force — but never answers how it relates to the Allspark, the mythic source of Cybertronian life.

This raises disturbing questions:

If the Emberstone births Terrans… is it competing with the Allspark?

Would the Allspark see the Terrans as aberrations?

Could the Terrans be seen as apostate children — born of a rogue force, a rival god?

The show sidesteps this. But in doing so, it avoids the cosmic stakes it quietly created.

If the Terrans are not Allspark-born — are they truly Cybertronians? Or are they the start of something the Allspark would reject — or try to destroy?

🤖 IV. Nightshade and Sam — Who Gets To Be Seen?

Nightshade’s identity is celebrated — but not examined. Their approval of human nonbinary teen Sam feels safe, surface-level, and overly sanitized.

What would it look like if EarthSpark truly addressed:

The Terrans’ lack of gender or identity formation without others?

The trauma of not knowing who you are unless someone reflects you?

The fear that without the Malto kids, they would cease to exist?

Nightshade’s nonbinary identity deserves to be honored — but it also deserves to be written with complexity, pain, and power.

Instead, we get platitudes — not reflection.

And the show doesn’t even touch the deeper symbolic tension:

If Sam Witwicky — the mythic human from G1 — were in EarthSpark, he’d either be ignored, rewritten, or flattened into an ally archetype.

EarthSpark doesn’t explore humanity. It selects it — to make itself feel good.

💔 V. Everyone Is Too Proud or Too Numb to See Each Other

The adults — Optimus, Elita, Dot — do not question themselves. The kids assume the Terrans are just like them. No one asks what the Terrans need, what they are, or what they might become if left alone.

Empathy is preached — but critical thinking is absent.

Everyone feels, but no one sees. Everyone speaks of peace, but no one names the wounds they refuse to treat.

And so, the Terrans:

Become mirrors

Become tools

Become symbols

Symbols for hope. Symbols for new beginnings. Symbols for a peace that no one has earned — and no one knows how to protect.

🧵 Closing Thought

“EarthSpark hides from its own legacy. And in doing so, it forces its new children to carry the weight of lies it was too proud to face.”