User blog comment:Lord Caesar/Marvel/Transformers universe/@comment-61022-20120927032202

To be honest, and please don't take this criticism too harshly.... But I think it's highly unoriginal.

If you've been on the internet as long as I have (17 years) and was a bit part of both communities (Marvel and Transformers) I saw a LOT of fanfiction based on this premise. Heck, there are some official crossovers as well (Namely Marvel's Transformers #3 that features Spider-Man as a guest star, and the more recent New Avengers/Transformers cross-over published by Marvel and IDW)

I always thought that any cross-over with Transformers, particularly with Hasbro's other popular property G.I. Joe.. To always be a little... Well lame. Because you have such a strange offset, humans versus giant sentient robots. Granted super-heroes have a bit more edge over a bunch of soldiers with machine guns, but it always struck me that there is a great disadvantage with the scale of the characters. Transformers are really big, and humans are small by comparison. Most heroes and villains, unless they were somebody like the Sentry or Thor, would easily get crushed, squashed, or vaporized in a mere instant before they could do any harm to a Transformer.

The only thing that really prevents that from being a story issue is the "child friendly" nature of Transformers, the Autobots preservation of all sentient beings, and the Decepticons complete contempt for humans leaves a very low body count on the human side and it's always been unbelievably disproportionate. I think the only time any writer has done that any justice was Simon Furman in his later Marvel Transformers run, and the writers who did All Hail Megatron for IDW. Where humans were more expendable. But of course, with commercial properties, they don't want to kill off all their characters because longevity = $.

As far as fanfics go... Well they're fanfics.... Even the most compellingly written story is just fluff.

But hey, that's my opinion. If you think it's a cool idea roll with it. The one thing about Fanfiction is you're unrestrained and can write whatever you want. I'm just an old fart with a lot of opinions.