10 Things We Want From Netflix's Transformers: War For Cybertron

In the 1989 Marvel UK comic book story, Time Wars, there's a scene that shows Galvatron being torn asunder by a universe whose rules of causality he's been flouting. Already in a fight that saw one half of his face burned off by a shot from a Pathblaster, we see the time-travelling Decepticon swept away by an apocalypse of his own making. Thirty-one years later, I still remember him being torn down to his exoskeleton and a panel where his eyes are torn out.

Despite being aimed at the same fans, the comic book showed injuries like this rather than the smoking bruises of the kid-friendly Sunbow Productions cartoon. It also showed the trauma of these injuries not just on the injured, but those on everyone around them. Ratchet's largest storyline centred on his feeling of despair that the medic couldn't get his comrades up and running fast enough after they were devastated by a war of attrition.

War is hell and that, according to Ron Perlman, never changes. Showing the true cost of the war through graphic injuries to the bots, as well as their psychological trauma from fighting their own people and losing their friends, would be a great way to set this apart from the kid-friendly cartoons that have come before.