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]

that's what it was like at the end of 4 million years. But how many years had it been like that?

Probably about 3 million, it's easy to slip into brutality when you start out with violence...

The point is not, however, that the Decepticons were a faction worth supporting, it's that the Autobots were as bad. The Autobots had more than their share of murderous thugs, and, again, supported the systemic oppression of a significant portion of the species.

Even after the Decepticons had slipped away from their original goals, even though Optimus Prime (one of the few Cybertronians who truly believes 'Freedom is the right of all sentient beings') was the leader, the Autobots only got marginally better. The greatest abuses - the actions of Flame, for instance - were clamped down on, but they still harboured Prowl, whose 'anything that wins us the conflict is fair game' attitude is not significantly different than Megatron's attitude at the outset, and leads to death and destruction (of Autobots, of Neutrals, of humans and other organics whose paths they cross) even when tempered by Prime's beliefs, and Whirl, whose attitude toward his 'lessers' is exactly the same attitude that created Megatron in the first place. (In fact, he, himself, was one of the bots who actively abused Megs before he finally snapped.)

[devastron]

Has anyone posted any pages from issues 22 and 23? They definitely shed some light on Megatron's goals and Optimus's past.

[kamino_neko]

Don't think so...I keep meaning to, but never got around to it.