“how bad could the decepticons possibly be?” — some poor innocent fellow 4 million years ago, probably
(felt like this trend fit very well but I’m sure I missed a lot of things and the events are not in order I just went on the wiki page and pulled a bunch of things from the idw 2005 timeline + my brain)
also I forgot to include “all the abuse starscream suffered” or something along those lines because my poor boy deserved so much better but tbh this was intended to be directed towards the decepticon cause in general and not just megatron himself, though I think clearly everyone interpreted it like the latter
Throwing a fun wrench into things with the relationship between Soundwave and the cassettes is this quote from Starscream in All Hail Megatron #13. Don’t know if Starscream actually sees them as Soundwave’s children but
Yeah, I’m assuming Starscream was intending for that comment to be sarcastic and derogatory.
i'm aware the earliest example of where blaster stands when it comes to functionism is hinted at/shown in all hail megatron where he talks about how perceptor defiled himself to become a sniper.
however.
despite the autocracy trilogy being a huge mess, the blaster they introduced is my most favorite characterization in the continuity and to me it makes sense. blaster as a reporter who tries to bypass censorship, is at conflict with authority such as enforcers like orion pax, because while he may have stormed the senate and publicly called them out, he went right back to working for them under zeta, which blaster called out, and continues to question the newest iteration of a violent, flawed government interests me. he's not blind to the flaws of the institution and it's put him at odds with it. hell, it seems heavily implied he's even critical of functionism despite the writers failing to properly write the early days of the war and the motives of each faction.
basically, i wish blaster had his anti-autobot characterization from autocracy and circumstances forced him to join the autobots
reminding everyone that drift and ratchet have so much potential for a big reunion in All Hail Megatron. i’m going to think about it for a bit. maybe they’ll kiss