Way Better Pitch Than What Ego Went With.

Inside Out 2 showing Fear and Disgust as useless, whiny ingrates who contribute almost nothing and don't appreciate Joy's importance hits very differently when you remember their original actors refused to come back because Amy Poehler was getting paid way more than them.

I know it's way too early to start thinking this far ahead, but I just can't help it...

This whole insistence on everything being connected to the Bayverse would be funny, if not for the fact that Lorenzo is actively hurting the movies and the franchise as a whole by following this mindset and using his power as a producer to force these restrictions.

Thanks to him, all future Transformers films now have to be set before 2007 and can't have long-term changes that'll contradict it, and Megatron (who's "supposed" to still be frozen in the Hoover Dam) and most of the other main Decepticons can't appear in major roles in the live action ones. Everybody else working on these movies wants to use those characters and go all in on moving the franchise forward with the clean slate and the goodwill that Bumblebee gave them, but they can't do that, and it's solely because Lorenzo won't allow them to.

Keep in mind, The Last Knight full on underperformed, and any future sequels in that continuity were straight up cancelled specifically in favour of continuing a new story arc with Bumblebee (which was originally meant to be a standalone prequel). Meaning the Bayverse is already effectively dead, and Lorenzo is now hindering future films to (kind of) follow its continuity for literally no reason.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura desperately claiming every Transformers movie after The Last Knight is canon to the Bay movies

(Bumblebee shows him and the other differently-designed Autobots first arriving on Earth in the 80s)

Lorenzo: It's just a little G1-esque, it's still good, it's still good!

(Transformers: Rise of the Beasts shows Unicron invading Earth in the 90s rather than being the Earth itself)

Lorenzo: It's just a little retconned, it's still good, it's still good!

(Transformers One takes place on a different-looking Cybertron with entirely new actors and character designs)

Lorenzo: It's just a little animated, it's still good, it's still good!

Fans: It's rebooted.

Lorenzo: I know.

Wait…

Did I predict this…?!

In hindsight, with me getting obsessively into these franchises when they were both making a comeback at the same time, this was bound to happen sooner or later…

If the writers keep playing their cards right, this could be the best Sonamy dynamic of all time, and I'm not even exaggerating.

Season 1: Vi and Jinx both cling to memories of who the other used to be.

Season 2: Vi and Jinx confront and learn to accept each other (and themselves) for who they are in the here and now.

Po was saying this from the start!

Kung Fu Panda 4 spoilers ahead:

Ok look,

If they’re gonna make Po the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, can Tigress at least become Grand Master of the Jade Palace? Even if it’s sometime in the future, can we see this happen? She deserves it.

- Breaks into Caitlyn's home, knocks her out, dresses her and ties her up

- Sees the kitchen on her way out

"Y'know what, fuck it, I'm gonna make a cupcake."

The Furious Five - Concept Poster/Synopsis: Tigress

"Tigress' life in the Valley of Peace is turned upside down when she is revealed to be a missing princess from the far away Lǎohǔ Empire, and is summoned to finally assume her place on its imperial council. As she and the Five fight to uncover a decades-long conspiracy within her family tree, with the help of her long-lost sister, Tigress must begin to grapple with the thought of possibly leaving her friends and home behind."