#megatron could never. megatron had to have a whole alternate universe invented for him just to give him something heroic to do lol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lord-squiggletits · 2 years ago

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IDW Megatron stans can shit on IDW Optimus all they want but it won’t change the fact that IDW OP has something that IDW Megatron can only dream of having (a post-war character arc that directly addresses his/his race's culpability in historic Cybertronian imperialism and racism).

#squiggposting #like i like them both but it's just one more way that i've changed since ive gotten into this fandom #there are a lot of idw meg stans who shit on idw op for being a cop but like #idk bud optimus' character arc actually dealt with hard questions of culpability and historic prejudice and colonialism #megatron got like one line where he observed how fragile humans are and then at the end he got sent off to trial #that's not an arc that's just token mentions of his past crimes #like idk i came into this fandom as a megatron stan but now i'm just kind of like. in terms of idw? optimus is way better lmao #like sorry optimus is the one who had to deal with cleaning up megatron's messes on earth #optimus is the one who died to save his species (and earth) by reconciling with an alien who was wronged by the past primes #megatron could never. megatron had to have a whole alternate universe invented for him just to give him something heroic to do lol #some megs stans are like 'he was right!!!' and i'm like #cool. literally everyone agrees functionism was bad in universe #now let's talk about the simanzi massacre and grindcore and the entire fucking technoism thing #it's very annoying lol #like i love megatron too but not when i see ppl acting like he had no flaws #i'm not a megatron anti i just actually acknowledge that he did bad things and can reconcile that #with my enjoyment of his character lol #but yeah this is a mini rant about how tje more idw i read the less of a blind megatron stan i became lol #optimus doesnt have to apologize to megatron for shit

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