The Decepticons are defeated. What's next?

[superboyprime]

Yep, it's happened again. It wouldn't be a proper Transformers series if Optimus doesn't bite it at least once. There's a new twist on it this time around, though.











Later, Optimus splits the Matrix in half and gives one half each to Bumblebee and Rodimus. Then he makes good on his promise and leaves.

Comments

[kamino_neko]

They actually have rather a point on blaming the 'Bots - the 'Cons did the real wreckage (Thunderwing did the worst), but the war came about because the 'Bots (who were originally Senatorial guards and cops) passively aided and abetted - or even actively participated in - oppression of certain classes of bots.

Not all of them, of course - Orion Pax actually admired and spoke for Megatron, who started out trying to fight against the oppression of his kind, before the Senate, back before the latter went completely off his nut (it didn't do either of them any good) - but there was enough corruption in the Autobot forces and the Senate that Megatron was initially completely in the right - it was after the formation of the Decepticons and start of the war that he lost the moral high ground.

And even once the war had started and a lot of the corrupt Senators and Autobots had become Decepticons (Senator Ratbat, for instance), the Autobots had guys like Flame, who ended up imprisoned for war crimes. (This isn't new to IDW, Flame was created in the Marvel comics.) Or Whirl, who clearly still gets off on abusing the power given him. (His actions, and those of his friends in high places, were what prompted Orion to finally confront the Senate about the corruption and bigotry that had infested the system.) Or, even on a lesser note, bots like Prowl, who has a tendency to treat people as pawns (be they Autobot, human, Decepticon, Neutral, or whatever).

The Autobots are the good faction in the war, no doubt about that, but they're not without their bad apples, and they do own some complicity in the situation that ultimately led to the war.

[q99]

Quite. And all that looks even worse if you miss the middle bits.