Transformers
Transformers
[Two "Transformer"-esque robots are visible.] First Robot: Transform! [Both robots run to the right.] [Each robot reaches a tree and begins to climb it.] [The camera focuses on the nearer of the two robots, which is placing itself into a chrysalis hanging from the tree branch.]

The comic is a parody of Transformers , a fictional group of robots that can transform into vehicles. Transformers typically are able to transform instantaneously, often mid-stride, by manipulating and rearranging their mechanical parts. In this comic, however, Randall has the Transformers "transform" in the same manner that caterpillars "transform" via metamorphosis into butterflies or moths.
The first two panels show action scenes that would be appropriate for a Transformers comic. However, the third panel shows the Transformers climbing a tree, and in the final scene they wrap silk around themselves, apparently forming a cocoon or chrysalis.
The title text furthers this parallel, describing a newly transformed helicopter — presumably the post-metamorphosis state of one of the Transformers in the panels — in a manner that would be more appropriate for a freshly-emerged butterfly or moth.
This xkcd comic is one of the few ones not showing just simple stick figures .
[Two "Transformer"-esque robots are visible.] First Robot: Transform! [Both robots run to the right.] [Each robot reaches a tree and begins to climb it.] [The camera focuses on the nearer of the two robots, which is placing itself into a chrysalis hanging from the tree branch.]
