>>11039505It's like one of those toy concepts that's nearly impossible to translate into a story. Same thing with the clones; why are they clones? There's no explanation. They just came up with a cool toy idea and didn't think how it'd work outside of the play pattern. Pretenders are basically just Transformers who disguise themselves as Masters of the Universe, something they couldn't do within their respective fiction for obvious reasons.
I mean the beasts are even more overtly "generic 1980s animal toy with sci-fi trappings". Catilla is basically just Battlecat but yellow.
