#also megatron groomed a lot of guys but we just ignored that

[mainenorth]

I fucking hate how Getaway is so mischaracterized in the fandom. It’s so obvious that half of the people here only read MTMTE for the ships.

I’ve seen so many people say that Getaway is a pedophile. How? Tailgate isn’t a child, he’s a grown ass man. If Tailgate is a child, then wouldn’t Cyclonus also be a pedophile? He isn’t a child though, so it’s not a problem.

What is a problem is that the fandom takes all of his reasons for doing what he did and erasing them completely, only leaving the fact that Getaway is an evil child-lover.

Getaway is a bad person to everyone else, but to him, he is righteous, he had to do all of these things because Megatron—the one who started everything! The one who was always shown as evil!—was on the ship and was getting redemption.

Getaway’s first moment alive was getting dropped into a battle field, his first emotion was fear, the first thing he saw as he opened his optics was dead bodies. So, obviously he is going to want to get revenge.

He shouldn’t have groomed Tailgate, he shouldn’t have fed his crew to Sunder, he shouldn’t have made people who trusted him into spark-eaters, but he isn’t a pedophile.

In conclusion, Getaway isn’t a pedophile, he is a well made character with feelings and thoughts that are quite obvious throughout the comic.