@Inkan1969
Well, Hasbro did not kill off the Mane Six. They also nearly killed them off a lot of times in the movie. They even nearly killed off Twilight Sparkle in that film. Similar to how Hasbro is too close to kill off Duke in the G.I. Joe movie thanks to the fan backlash of Optimus Prime’s death in the Transformers movie.

Well, that’s sort of what happened in G5, though we’ve assumed the Mane 6 are dead just because of the passage of time.

@Background Pony #26C7
Well, they technically did not kill off Megatron in the movie. Because Megatron stated that he still function despite being majorly wounded after his final fight against Optimus Prime and his successfulness of killing the Autobot leader. Later on in the film, after being jettisoned out into deep space out of Astrotrain and floating through space with a group of dead caracasses of Decepticon casualties of the Battle of Autobot City, Megatron was encountered by an even greater threat than the Decepticons that the Autobots could ever face, Unicron. And the reason why the movie nearly killed off Megatron is because Unicron reformatted the Decepticon leader and changed his name to Galvatron because Galvatron’s toy replace Megatron’s toy. And like Jazz and Laserbeak, Megatron return in season three after surviving the events of the film despite his toy being discontinued in 1986. Except that he’s now called “Galvatron” But unlike them, and like Bumblebee, Megatron got a new toy with a new name that replaced the old toy being discontinued.

@Garth01  
Well, technically, the Beast Wars cartoon and sequel series Beast Machines are technically not a sequel to the G1 cartoon or any G1 media. But both Beast Wars and Beast Machines do have some elements and facets from the G1 cartoon and the G1 Marvel Comics.

I predict that Hasbro indeed will kill off the Mane6 to introduce a new line of ponies.

I like to think Ultra Magnus is thinking, “Hm. Optimus gave me the Matrix and I was blown to smithereens in the next 30 minutes. NO WAY am I going to find out what happens if I put THAT in me.”

@Background Pony  
G1 Transformers and Beast Wars Spoiler Alert
 
Starscream’s Spark ( his soul ) is immortal. In Se3 ( after the movie ) he posses several transformers, and in the first Season of Beast Wars he posses Waspinator.
 
So ya in the G1 universe Starscream can’t die.

Shut the fuck up and take my goddamn money, ALL OF MY GODDAMN MONEY!

Was anyone else hoping Galvatron would show up to blast Twilight during her coronation?
 
Just me, then?

LOL…DA FUQ?!?!…XDDDDD

@Background Pony  
Exactly.

@williamcll  
So, same reason as everypony watching Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash on Screwattack’s Death Battle?

@Background Pony  
But people watched because they want starscream dead.

Eh could be worse, could be Twilight Sparkle committing suicide over allegedly cheating a video game.

@Background Pony
 
THE GREAT AND POWERFUL GALVATRIXIE DISAGREES.

@Background Pony  
He gets better.

@Background Pony  
No Sweetie Belle is Rodimus, Sunset is Megatron.

That would actually be kinda awesome.

I would watch the hell out of that.

So Sunset Shimmer is Rodimus?

I was a fan of the original cartoon as a kid, though I didn’t watch the movie until it was shown on cable a couple of years after its release. Mass character slaughter in battle scenes? Megatron dying? Optimus dying? Yeah, sure, just give me a good story.
 
Then they killed Starscream.
 
I switched the channel. To this day I’ve not seen any of the movie that happened after that point.

Hell yeah

That’s funny, because I saw that move ages ago and had no dea what it was about until now.