What if they were that way about, say, Muppet Babies?
Could you imagine the long rants on forums with topics like: "Why did Gonzo love Piggy when they were kids and doesn't seem to even like her as an adult?"
Or the fanfics explaining how Skeeter either had a falling out with the rest or died, explaining why she's not in any of the "grownup" Muppet movies and shows?
How about Punky Brewster, where people wonder for pages and pages why the flying rat thing from the cartoon never saved anyone who was trapped in an abandoned refrigerator in the live-action show?
Or Alvin and the Chipmunks, where people wonder why the fuck chipmunks are human-sized in the 80s. (You thought the "what the hell is Goofy" from Stand By Me was bad?) Maybe they could try to reconcile the continuities of all the various Chipmunk revamps over the past fifty years.
And, slightly off topic but related to stupid fanboys: I think the bio for the new Transformers Classics Cyclonus should read as follows:
Constructed from the cast-off chassis of deactivated DECEPTICON® warriors, CYCLONUS was programmed by UNICRON® to be loyal only to GALVATRON®. Powered by nuclear engines, and a small fragment of his creator's supernatural power, CYCLONUS wields enough might to sterilize the surface of an inhabited world by himself. He never unleashes this power without his commander's leave, however, and he focuses all of his energy on ensuring that GALVATRON® is obeyed without question by those under his command.
Oh, and Bombshell becomes Cyclonus. Cyclonus has always been Bombshell. There is no doubt in the collective minds of Hasbro that Bombshell is Cyclonus and Skywarp and the other Insecticons become the Sweeps. Megatron becomes Galvatron, Thundercracker becomes Scourge, and Bombshell becomes Cyclonus. So suck it, fanboys.
