#get me a DreadWing redemption ark

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I will forever stand by how DreadWing should have been the one to get the late redemption.

First of all he is the only one in transformers prime whose death didn’t benefit the narrative in some way. CliffJumpers death served as a catalyst for most of the shows events happening, for the Autobots meeting the human cast, for the Autobots learning of what dark energon is, and for Arcee’s character development. SkyQuake died not only for the Shadow Zone being found but also for DreadWing being in the show at all. It was his death that caused his spark twin to fly halfway across the galaxy to confirm that his twin did infact die. Breakdowns death lead to Synthetic Energon being completed through many hoops including the episode Thirst which wouldn’t have happened if BreakDown didn’t die.

DreadWings death never served the narrative. He was never even mentioned after he died. The last major impact DreadWing made for the narrative was something he did before he died and that was give The Forge to Optimus. There is no narrative reason he should have died. If he lived no major plot point wouldn’t have changed.

I will say however that it was in his character to try and kill StarScream as revenge. No amount of talking to could have changed his mind on not doing that.

However I’m going to counter and say that his plans could have been delayed. Optimus couldn’t have convinced DreadWing to join him but what if Optimus convinced DreadWing to just stop and think for a minute so he can plan this out, not do anything brash or anything he’ll regret. To carry out this assassination logically and after everyone is done trying to revive Cybertron.

Have him be like Predaking in Predacon rising where he does not side with AutoBot or Decepticon for their crimes against his kind but he is really pissed off at the Decepticons so for now he works with the AutoBots.

Maybe he saw the Decepticons attacking the base and decided to go shoot at them like WheelJack did. Maybe they got captured together. Maybe WheelJack put aside their differences and helped DreadWing escape because the Autobots need all the help they can get after their base got nuked. Maybe DreadWing goes on his own from there but comes back to take down the Decepticons at the end. Maybe he joins the Predacons because they too have been wronged by Decepticons. Maybe this maybe that. I just want him to live that’s all. It’s not really a redemption but always he’s not dead. Maybe they could work on his morality.

Maybe he takes that break and realizes that he shouldnt do revenge because that won’t even make him feel better about SkyQuake. Maybe then he truely integrated into the Autobots.

Anyways DreadWing deserved to live