People Really Need To Realise That “media Can Affect Real Life” Doesn’t Mean “this Character

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You know I kind of like the pettiness of Megatron and Optimus’s first meeting on one of the Marvel UK comics being Optimus acting as a referee or security for gladiator fights and interfering when Megatron is about to kill his opponent.

Unlike the nonsensical use of deathmatches in a species with a low reproduction rate in IDW and others, the games were meant to be a nonlethal way to blow off steam and ease past tensions between city-states.

…it didn’t work and soccer-fan like loyalties helped recruit for a terrorist attack.

Best Megatron Optimus Dynamic?

I really love the unrequited kismesis relationships Megatron has with Optimus in the G1 cartoon.

Megatron thought of himself as Optimus’s greatest arch-foe, while Optimus Prime only thought of him as “the current Decepticon leader”.

If Megatron ever found out that Optimus didn’t care about him as a person but only as a threat and symptom of the actual problem*:the Decepticon cause, I think he’d be crushed.

Megatron:“How can this be, I betrayed you and killed your coworkers back when you were a dockworker!”

Optimus:“You’ve killed alot of people. After a while its hard to take it personally. and unlike you I go to therapy”

*remember that in the cartoon they were on the Third Great War between Autobots and Decepticons. Megatron was not their founder in the original cartoon.

i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea

All the edgy grim dark stuff to “both sides” the autobots and decepticons in works bothers me because there is a perfect established moral failing across media for them: their ableism towards those in out-groups. Repeatedly the autobots are awful and contemptful to the “empties”, neutral noncombatants unwilling to join or unable to be accepted by either faction and who aren’t doing well. 

I want to see for once a human companion join them on a trip to cybertron and be horrified.

Old people got me feeling emotional

Greetings TFA fandom. We support characters having agency over their actions and not being boringly "perfect" in this house.

Robot disabilities. Robot who charges slowly and loses power incredibly fast and is always tired. Robot with malfunctioning lenses and can’t process visual information properly. Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down. Robot with limbs screwed on too loose/just can’t attach correctly, so if they’re not careful they fall out. Robot disabilities,,,