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lord-squiggletits · 1 month

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Every now and then I see Hot Takes about Megatron's ending in IDW1 that drive me nuts like dlskfdjlskf some people really get caught up so much in JRO's sad old man Megatron that they deadass think that Megatron getting sent off to trial to face either execution or lifelong imprisonment wasn't just a bad ending, but was specifically some sort of "fuck you" or punishment to say that villains aren't allowed to have nice things or whatever. Girl do you know what the fucking genre/tone is of the comic you just read? IDW1 is a heavily political, morally gray universe leaning heavily towards realism in terms of its handling of plot themes and you're seriously out there saying that Megatron, a war criminal with crimes/deaths stretching to the billions, is being unfairly punished by the writers by getting sent off to trial? You know, like what makes sense for the realistic kind of universe IDW1 is?

I mean fuck man JRO literally plotholed/handwaved major lore about the Matrix and Cybertronian-organic relations with that "oh lots of religious organics recognize the sacredness of the Matrix" and completely undercut the emotional weight of Megatron's (and everyone else's) ending by having his quantum copy get to fly off and have adventures in the universe forever and ever.

What in the FUCK else do you want from an author (JRO) who's already a flaming Megatron apologist that whitewashed Megatron's personality, gave him so many sympathetic backstory points, and then invented an entire alternate universe as an excuse to have Megatron save billions of lives to contrast with the ones he killed. Like god I love Megatron too but some of you ppl are fucking blind

#squiggposting #negativity #megatron stans will look at canonical megatron apologism for 50+ issues straight and go #'this war criminal got sent off to trial as an appropriate response for the crimes he committed. this means the writers/IDW/hasbro hate him #'and also they hate morally gray villains and villain redemption and revolutionaries and oppressed people and minorities and--'#can you stfu like for real #also the whole 'megatron was a revolutionary against oppression so killing him has bad implications' line is so fucking funny to me #bc megatron also oppressed and killed the fuck out of multiple alien civilizations and did colonialism too yknow?#and the decepticons being anti organic imperialists who want to colonize organics for their own ends has been here LITERALLY SINCE G1 #they didn't make that shit up just to slander idw megatron specifically lksdfjalksdlkf #all these stans wanna be political so bad and fail to realize their logic of 'you depicted this therefore you endorse it'#could easily be reversed for people to go 'well megatron colonized ppl so if they redeem him it means theyre excusing his crimes'#oh but megatron stans HAAAAATE IT when that logic gets applied to them. they bitch so much about it #the lack of self awareness really is astounding and i cant believe ppl are like this 6+ years after idw1 ended

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