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They did in the first episode of Transformers Animated. Granted, that was a cartoon, which made it infinitely easier to have them float in zero gravity than a live action movie.
That's the episode where for some reason the Deception jets turn into triangles and after sleeping for 6 million years Optimus wakes and just says "thanks" and throws Teletran-1 a thumbs up and also Casey Kasem is there right
The triangles are supposed to be their cybertronian forms before they disguised themselves as earth vehicles.
But in their robot forms they still looked like jets
Could be an oversight or animation error
It wasn't
Cough, Undiscovered Country.
Even when the life support systems have completely lost power, everyone is dying, etc. Gravity is the one system too critical to reroute.
I find not many things are destroyed unless integral to the plot but there are times where it does because the story wanted it to. I think its more incommon with video games though as it makes a nice alternate gameplay thing to have in.
Adrian Tchaikovsky has some sci-fi books that make use of this idea.
starships have redundancies most likely, much like the life support systems. its like artificial gravity isnt coming from an actual generator, but the whole ship itself in some unknown mechanism, most scifi genre dont explain how its being created, it looks more like an energy field throughout the whole ship generated from every "system" in the internally.
Sounds expensive... what if we just chalked it up to magic?
Not magic. The artificial gravity stabilizers are directly enhanced by the production budget stabilizers, which keep them in check.
I prefer it that way.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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