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Have you ever wondered why enormous Decepticons such as Devastator, Demolisher, Astrotrain, and Tidalwave are content to be subservient to Megatron? Anyone of them could easily defeat him by literally just crushing him under their feet, and they could take over as leader of the Decepticon faction. As a matter of fact, how does Megatron keep such ginormous individuals like them under his command? He can't threaten them with physical violence or beat them up like he does with Starscream.

Does he even have a contingency plan if any one of them decides that they are going to kill him and take over?

What do you think?

I think it's a mix of:

1. None of them particularly want his job. Would you? Being in charge of millions of people is indescribably difficult. He's basically the leader of a small nation. His job isn't just strategy, battle tactics, and shooting at autobots. He has to keep everything under control. He has to manage people, make executive decisions, ensure they're fed + housed, and a hundred more things, around the clock, without rest. It's a lot to deal with, an insurmountable amount of pressure without the luxury of a reprieve. Most people aren't jumping for the chance to take on that much labor. And even if they were, they'd constantly be at the very top of autobots' Kill On Sight list, and inviting that sort of negative attention isn't something a smart person would want to do longterm. Getting Megatron's job comes with too many downsides and not enough perks, honestly

2. In the case of the combiners, they don't want to take over from Megatron because they aren't permanent, nor is it what any of their components want. Combiners, the way I understand them, are more than just the sum of their parts, but their baseline personalities and motivations are drawn and formed directly from the mecha that make them. None of the stunticons, combaticons, or destructicons have ever expressed a desire to lead the decepticons, to my knowledge, and even if one of them did, they're only 16-20% of the whole group. That wouldn't be enough to overpower a combiner's entire psyche and make them revolt. Megatron makes sure each individual piece is either afraid of him or wholly dedicate to him and the decepticon cause, so his weaponized behemoths never turn on him

3. As for the likes of massive triple changers, usually I'd be inclined to agree with you, but we know that cyberverse Astrotrain was so afraid of his Megatron that he willingly skipped dimensions and started working for our Megatron and was happy with that. So, for them, it very well could be that they're afraid of what he could do to them and stay in line because of that. That could definitely be part of it. But if that's not a satisfactory answer, then refer to point #1, and in addition to that? I think they like working for Megatron. Shuttle/train class mecha, like them, weren’t treated particularly well on Cybertron, as so many weren't. Often forced to fulfill the role of public transport, denied higher education or other work opportunities, and so, so many buildings were built too small for their size. Hospitals, schools, restaurants, you name it: unless it was built and/or owned by someone of their size, they were often forgotten about snd lrft without accommodation, not to mention harshly ridiculed outside of their home city of Kalis for being "big dumb clumsy flyers".

They like being decepticons because nothing is ever too big for them. They can walk through the bases with ease, the hangars have plenty of space for their alt modes, and the medics actually know how to work on them. They get to stomp biggots into paste and if someone is rude or out of line while using their alt mode, they can toss them around or yell at them. They have freedom with the decepticons, freedom they never did before, and they believe in Megatron's cause. They don't turn on him because at the end of the day, they like the life he's given them, and if he's gone their lifestyle would be gone too

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Open world transformers game when

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So, look at what I just came across on DeviantArt, Sentinel Prime screams like a little girl by PaintStroke203 on DeviantArt

You willing to bet that is exactly what happened to Sentinel after D-16/Megatron tore him apart? I bet you that the 13 primes were all waiting on his ass when his soul went to the Well of Allsparks.

Lmao true. I like to imagine that TF1 Sentinel was the first soul to ever be turned away from the Allspark. He was so wicked and evil even Primus' grace couldn't cleanse him, and he was damned to the Pits. The first citizen of cybertronian hell, if you will 😌 it's what he deserves

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Cyberverse was a gift

his sassy little thigh shift with his hands on his hips like he did something (he didn't) (the only one who rlly helped was laserbeak pretty much LOL) and then awkwardly going back to join the celebration just so he can stand there awkwardly and continue to do nothing

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BEHOLD!! At last, proper designs and visualizations for the cybermorphs! As I'm sure you can guess, these three are civimorphs, the subspecies sired by Orion Pax 🤭 such precious little morphlings!!

Full art credit goes to @avisitor160721 who did just god-tier work on this commission! I couldn't be happier with it 🥰 I'm still losing my mind over their wittle heart-shaped tails tbh AND the little xenomorph doll!!

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Alita ask

I like the movie a lot ( and the fandom are wanting for the sequel), the protagonist starts a little naive but it's justified/makes sense

Good to know! Thanks for rhe recc :)

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You ever read that tfa fanfic where overlord is Optimus carrier?

Uhh once, I think?

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Have you watched Alita: battle angel?

It's a parcial adaptation of a cyberpunk story, parcial because their just adapted the first part of the story

If you're not interested in the movie or manga, that's okay!

Can't say that I have, tho I do remember thinking the trailers looked kinda cool. Is it worth watching?

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Thanks for the well wishes 💖 day hasn't been great, but I appreciate it nonetheless

Birthday :)

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Birthday :)

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I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.

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Consider that consideration... considered 👀

Consider!!!!! Blurr in heat/rut

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This is the single greatest thing I've ever seen in my entire life

HOW COULD I MISS THE ULTIMATE STARSCREAM SONG FROM MY PLAYLIST

anyway

(It's a Command Trine song, tbh! Skywarp and Thundercracker are killing it too, but don't say that to Star or he'll be jealous)

EDIT: I FORGOT THERE IS ALREADY AN ANIMATIC BY THE INCREDIBLE EARTHERSTAR ON YOUTUBE!!! Please please please go give them a like and a comment! This animation is incredible and so much fun!

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Do you think if given the chance, the High Council would have extracted Skyfire from the snow while Starscream wasn’t around to see it and Empurata’d him into becoming their weapon?

Because me personally, I think they would.

It certainly wouldn't surprise me if they did something so twisted, but I don't think they would solely because the cost would be hard to justify. Think about it: it'd take them a lot of resources (money, time, energon, etc) to even travel to that solar system, then they'd have to spend time locating a single mech on a decently sized planet, and the Senate is nothing if not a bunch of corner-cutting greedy hoarders. Even if they could make him into an appropriate weapon, the initial cost to get their hands on him wouldn't be considered worth it. A single mech can only generate so much profit (be it actual monetary profit or profit in the sense of having smthn effective against their enemies), so I highly doubt they'd ever seriously explore that idea

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What makes it annoying (also) is that the writers try to give too much active participation to the humans.

Charlie is one of the few likable civilian humans in the franchise and she doesn't do much beyond providing sanctuary/a resting place for an injured Bumblebee and being a friendly presence.

Fowler, despite everything, and Dot are military who know that their role in the situation is limited and only got involved in specific reasons.

Exactly. It's unfortunately something that a lot of media with non-human characters gets wrong. If the namesake of the movie/show/comics/whatever isn't humans and then you insist on making humans the star of the show... it kinda defeats the purpose. Great example is the 2014 Godzilla film. In a two hour movie, Godzilla is on screen for less than 20 minutes. As a result, it's a miserable, boring slog. If I'm going to a movie about godzilla and the movie is less than 20% godzilla, it is not a good movie. The live action ninja turtles movie sucked for the same reason: the first 40 minutes is nothing but April O'Neil. That's nearly a third of the run time where the main characters--or rather, who is supposed to be the main characters--aren't even on screen. A lot of transformers media does the same damn thing, and it's aggravating. Like I DO NOT care. I don't care about the stupid humans and their bullshit, I never have cared, I never will care! Gtfo with that, give me cybertronians! If my transformers show is less than 90% transformers, then something is WRONG. You wouldn't watch a baking show that's 50% actually about the chefs playing chess. You wouldn't watch a sports match where 80% is actually the players knitting tea cozies. You wouldn't watch a marvel movie if it was less than 20% marvel characters. That's not what you signed up for, correct?

The best human characters in transformers are the ones that don't exist, the second best humans are the ones that stay in the background, form meaningful relationships with the protagonists, and don't ever overshadow them. Charlie and Dot are excellent examples of that, I love both of them. Their chemistry with their cybertronian friends is great, but they never steal the show, the show is never about them. That's the way it should be and I will die on this hill

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may i ask why you dont like human characters? no hate or anything, seriously just curious

Siiiiiigh

Ok. I'm gonna try to answer this without devolving into angry ranting and assume you really are asking in good faith. There's a number of reasons, personal and practical, but I'm gonna try to keep this short for my sanity's sake

1. Humans are always always always always always the worst part of a transformers show. Always. They rarely add anything but a pointless macguffin or, somehow, end up magically being a foil for the decepticons. The human characters are almost always a bunch of children that the bots end up having to babysit. I'm here to watch alien robots fighting a war, not to watch them looking after someone's snotty crotch goblins. I will admit, part of my distaste is because I just really fucking hate kids that aren't mine. I can't stand them. If I never had another child within 20 miles of me, I would be a much happier, healthier person. The only time human characters actually add anything is when they're allowed to have peer-to-peer relationships with cybertronians, and even then, it often falls flat because the adult humans oft work with the government so it's more of a coworkers/employees/boss sort of relationship. See Agent Fowler from Prime, all of NEST from bayverse, or Marissa from the comics. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have actually enjoyed (not just tolerated, enjoyed) a human character. Charlie from Bumblebee, Dot from Earthspark, and Chief Burns from Rescue Bots. That is literally it.

2. The writers often try way too hard to make the kids either endearing or hyper-relevant to the plot, and it falls so flat. It takes far too much attention off of the actual transformers, aka, the NAMESAKE OF THE SHOW. In the bayverse movies, it takes about 40 minutes for transformers to start transformers-ing. That is unacceptable. Earthspark started off strong but quickly became more about Mo and Robbie, not the transformers. TFP was constantly cramming Miko's obnoxious shenanigans down our throats to make her "cool" and "relatable", but all it did was make me want to strangle her. Having Rafael able to rival Soundwave in terms of hacking skill is ridiculous. Having Sari be a techno-organic abomination was ridiculous. Making Jack a temporary Prime is ridiculous! They try so hard to make the humans cool to draw in the kids in the audience that it takes attention off of the ones who the show is actually supposed to be about. That's why I hold cyberverse in such high regard: it had no human protagonists and focused solely on the cybertronians. In my opinion, that's the way it should be. If I wanted to watch a show about my own species, I would watch literally anything else. But I don't, so I'm not doing that.

3. And this last one is the most personal, I find human beings disgusting. I'm so heavily aromantic + asexual that I find 99% of us repulsive. They make me so uncomfortable to look at aksjskaka. I don't even like the texture of my own skin, ffs. We're walking talking microcosms of bacteria and disease, and the last thing I want is my nice sterile mecha contaminated and overshadowed by an organic skinsuit full of pressurized blood and organs. Pass

Tldr: they never add anything of value, they distract from the characters who should actually be the protagonists, and I personally find humans gross + unsettling. Hope that clears it all up

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I really want a scene in a movie where it looks like Optimus is going to sacrifice himself again, but then his human friend gives his life for him, and Optimus is devastated by it. Imagine the pain in Optimus' eyes as he holds his friend in his arms. (Did that sound a bit sadistic?😅)

I mean thats fun. I really hate human characters so this has 0 appeal to me, but good for you if thats your thing. You wanna torment Optimus by killing his friends? Go for it