A few years ago, I was doing one of the voices in the TV cartoon series, “Transformers.” One week, the script featured an evil character named Abdul, King of Carbombya. He was like all the other cartoon Arabs. I asked the director, “Are there any good Arabs in this script for balance?” We looked. There was one other—but he was no different than Abdul. So, I told the show’s director that, in good conscience, I couldn’t be a part of that show. I wrote a letter to the President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvel Productions, Margaret Ann Loesch.
Carbombya
In the episode Five Faces of Darkness (Part 1), the character Abdul Fakkadi was introduced as the "Supreme Military Dictator, King of Kings, and President For Life of the Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya." This was an obvious play on tensions between the United States and Libya. Fakkadi's name is a near anagram of Libyan President Muammar al-Qaddafi's name. Reportedly, voice actor Casey Kasem, who voiced the character Cliffjumper and the Autobots' computer Teletraan I and who is of Lebanese descent, objected to the parody, and quit the show when it was not removed from the episode. Cliffjumper, despite having survived the movie, was phased out as of that episode, and Teletraan I was destroyed with the Ark in the episode Five Faces of Darkness (Part 5).
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