Transformers: just a note about Trines

Okay, so this is a little random, and wont really be understood unless one indulges in the transformers fandom, but here it is any way.

So, for some reason I don't comprehend, I've noticed the transformers fandom has come up with some pretty wide spread... I really don't know what to call them, tropes maybe? that are generally accepted by the fandom at large to be fact. 

Such things as Ratchet throwing wrenches at people...

Why use a Wrench when you could just do this?

Totally False by the way.

Or that Prowl's battle computer is some sort of big deal, when it's only ever mentioned once...

And it's never mentioned again...

But one of the bigger ones is that Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are part of a thing called a Trine.

According to most this means that they are bonded on a sparklevel(usually), the relationship ranging from platonic brother stuff into some creepy areas, and involving a rather broad amount of cultural things among their frame type, and that they are generally inseparable and care deeply for each other. 

That is all a complete load of slag...

For some odd reason most people believe that seekers, the starscream frame type, travel in threes because of this, and Trineing, the act of being in/forming a trine, is solely done by said seekers.

So many people think this is cannon, but seriously, it isn't.

First of all, the actual definition of Trine is as follows...

. Trine - A subgroup of three, such as the Insecticons.

Trinemate - Used by one member of a trine when referring to another member. 

So the term really just another word for a small group with three members consisting of pretty much anyone, who consider themselves buddies.

See, this is technically a Trine of humans.

Second, despite what it may show in the G1 cartoon opening,

These guys don't care a flying flip about each  other. Example? How about when Starscream throws the other two out an airlock to go die in space while he seizes power? No, seriously, after the battle for Autobot city in Transformers The Movie, Starscream literally asks them if they want to be thrown out into space, due to them being damaged in the fight

Then when they say No, he ignores them and throws them out anyway...

Yeah, really feeling the brotherly love there...

I mean sure, they don't really die, but they do get remodeled by the ultimate transformer evil and converted into practically mindless servants, but still, the only group these guys are in is the one where you can sell the exact same toy under a different coat of paint.

So, to recap, the whole elite Trine thing is Bull, and there is no cannon proof for it. I'm not saying I dislike the whole idea of it, after all there are some pretty cool stories out there that involve it, I'm just saying it is and always will be completely non-cannon.