#the perfect decepticon

[swervesbar]

Megatron is an old man and I love him so dearly

#tf #maccadam #megatron #ravage #worm art #megatron monday #STAY STRONG MY DECEPTICON WARRIORS #i am entirely projecting here #i want megatron's shitty old man body to be crumbling just the way my shitty worm body is #also #those doofy gamer-ass chairs the lost light crew uses. perfection

[singingcicadas]

I find it super ironic that Cyclonus has this highly romanticized, propagandic view of the Decepticons, because like:

This is him 🔽

And this is also him 🔽

Dude you yourself was a member of the ruling elite of the old order. Even if what you said about the Decepticons were all true, you're a big part of why people needed to be emancipated in the first place.

He was part of Nova Prime's inner cadre during a time when bigotry and oppression was even more predominant. Nova. who's literally the founder of functionism, which flourished and peaked under the so-called Golden Age of his rule. And Galvatron's... Galvatron, I don't even want to talk about him everyone knows what he's like. But Cyclonus was somehow fine with being yes-man to both?

The way he spoke about the Decepticons, it sounded as if he's this super dedicated sjw filled with righteous passion about stuff like liberation and revolution and emancipation and 'the people', when in truth it's shown that he'd never cared about any of those things before that point.

Nova Prime's ideology was literally this:

And Cyclonus didn't have a problem with it during his entire life before the Ark, compared to more decent people like Dai Atlas and Omega Supreme who eventually clashed with their group and got kicked off the Ark b/c they couldn't stand Nova and co.'s lack of a bottom line and misuse of the word freedom.

As a matter of fact Cyclonus still believed in Nova Prime after he became Nemesis - not that he was much of a better person as Nova. Where's his sense of justice against corruption? Nova got turned into a literal demon, surely it's hard to get more corrupted than that. But his only complaint wasn't about what Nova/Nemesis was trying to do, it's about the process being too much of a damn ordeal.

He's super excited over the anticipation of murder and has no scruples whatsoever about killing non-combatants. The same thing happened again at Kimia.

He finally grew enough of a conscience to break off from Galvatron in the end but notice his wording. It's not 'you forced me to hurt people', it's 'you forced me to hurt Cybertron'. He even said Cybertron twice for emphasis.

It's not mind control, he just thinks like that. The guy's obsessed with Cybertron - with what Cybertron once was. The Cybertron he lived in. Nova Prime's Cybertron. The Golden Age. He's shown to repeatedly lament over it in his internal monologues.

It's all about the loss of his 'perfect world.' The infrastructure. the scenery. the Tetrahexian real estate lmao. How about let's feel some sadness for the billions of Cybertronians who once lived on it? When did he ever spare a thought for all the people who died?

The Decepticons worked so hard to destroy this. It's a gilded carcass rotting from the inside. It eats people alive. The rot was already there in his own time. He was complacent in putting it there. But he only had eyes for the beauty and nolstalgia.

In the first panel he lauded the Decepticons for wanting radical change. Well he himself seemed to be dead set against change judging by the way he kept wanting things to go back the way they were 8 million years ago.

Back in the Golden Age he would not have looked twice at a bot like Tailgate. He was part of the people who didn't give a shit about the disappearance of one waste disposal bot. He still wouldn't have given a shit if circumstances hadn't forced them together over and over again.

Looks to me he's enarmored with the grandness of the concepts of liberation and revolution and emancipation for 'the people' in the Decepticons' (theoretical) ideology. The concepts of fighting against corruption and bringing down the old order. Just like how he bought into the concepts of Nova's 'spreading freedom to the galaxy' and the glittering prosperity of the 'Golden Age.' Does he know that the Decepticon ideology is a twisted lie built on terror and massacres and genocide and despotism? Does he know that Nova's idea of spreading freedom and enlightenment is galactical conquest and his beloved Golden Age is built upon a foundation of misery and suffering and systematic subjugation? Of course he knows he's not stupid. He's nose-deep in it, it's virtually impossible not to. But he's able to willfully ignore those ugly truths as well as his role in them by only engaging in shallow romanticism through rose-coloured lens and refusing to delve deeper.

It's either that or imperalist mindset and the endorsement of violence and casual murder resonates hard.

#on one hand Cyclonus would have made the perfect decepticon #he's got the hypocrisy down really well #moral standards align too #but he wouldn't be able to stand them after a while. and they wouldn't be able to stand him #their views about the past are fundamentally different. like class different #let's not forget the fanatic religion. the decepticons hate religion. being religious is enough to get the DJD sicced on you #and taking religion to the extremes is what legitimized functionism in the first place #he's someone who's REALLY good at ignoring thing he doesn't like and brainwashing himself into thinking they don't exist #idw transformers #transformers #mtmte #maccadam #Cyclonus

[phoenixisobsessed]

LITERALLY the best guy out there.

On the train leaving Austria again so decided to do a Starscream doodle. I think it is important to add the context that the only song I’ve listened to today (on repeat, yes all day.) has been IT GIRL so…might’ve influenced it a bit.

Anyway, all hail Starscream. :3

#transformers #art #decepticon #decepticons #maccadam #maccadams #tf fanart #transformers g1 #starscream #starscream g1 #tf #tf starscream #all hail starscream #he’s perfect #fanart #digital art

[transingthoseformers]

I wonder how many times G1 Soundwave just. Stared off into the distance and thought "one of these days I am going to beat each and every one of you to death with a rock."

#maccadam #transformers #v i o l e n c e #g1 soundwave #sometimes he's just so tired. so. so tired #does this refer to the decepticons or the autobots? yes. both. #his cassettes naturally would be the perfect accomplices #blaster's cassettes are exempt he's surprisr adopting those

[sobbingprincess]

<333

#idw soundwave #fictional crushes #fangirling #fangirl #hes so perfect #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #soundwave #decepticons #autobots #cybertronian #cybertron #hasbro #idw transformers #transformers idw #tf idw #tf idw1 #mtmte #tf ravage #tf laserbeak #tf rumble #tf frenzy #tf buzzsaw #minicons #other soundwaves too now #tfp soundwave #g1 soundwave #cyberverse soundwave

[sparklingpax]

this fight sequence lives rent-free in my brain, it's so chaotic and perfect for an example to aid describing how fights in G1 tend to go

all hail Megatron's legendary 180° hip-twist

#or that thing optimus did with his hands #this felt like a dance sequence ngl 💀💀💀✨ #oh and i say its perfect because its like anything is game in g1. stuff happens #suddenly everyone can just fly off into the sky but other times No. Only Decepticons Fly™ #ALSO LMAOO the way megatron was clearly internally going 'shit oh shit oh shit whatamigonnadonow--' *looks up* '--OH im saved' #its a miracle to me he was even in charge of the Decepticons #anwyays #sorry carry on I just wanted to laugh at this sequence (fondly) #transformers #kuni talks #tf #random #<3 #g1 #g1 for the win ✨ #transformers g1 #maccadam #megatron #optimus prime #video #thoughts #observations

[littledemo0n]

Watched last night across the spidervers and two days ago rotb

Im... gonna explode with the amount of everything going through my brain..

#shitpost #transformers #transformers rotb #spiderman across the spiderverse #i tried #i really tried to like miguel #but he is SO UGGGGGGGHHHHH #i really tried to like him but he's such a #spider punk my beloved♡♡ #i aspire to be like him so badly #also to everyone who keeps talking abiut the noah/mirage fuck scene in the movie are we thinking about the same scene or..? #cause there's like 2 scenes that fit that description you give perfectly but i cant tell which one everyone talks about #also so happy they kept optimus's hips♡ #they're not to noticeable but not to drastic #its perfect #really did thought there would be a postcredit scene with the decepticons though☹☹ #also who tf was the giant plane? #i never heard their name in the movie #also find it funny howy brother didnt wanna come but did last minute for food and ended up kid of invested in the movie #love elena with my heart and soul she deserves everything she got in the end and more #really wanna pull out my marvel oc and transformers oc just because of it #yes both ocs are old as myself

[lord-squiggletits]

Sorry for being negative, I’m just a bit disappointed that after looking through the Earthspark Optimus tags on and off on different occasions weeks apart, it seems like the only thing the fandom has to say about ES Optimus is finger snaps and dad jokes. :/ (And also a handful of people already trying to frame him as a bad person lmao)

Watch for it, when more episodes of Earthspark come out and a conflict with GHOST inevitably arises, people are going to be raging at Optimus for being “stupid” or “self-righteous” or “blind” for working with GHOST and start calling Megatron and/or the Decepticons right about everything because they spent so long focusing on “haha funny dad Optimus” that they forgot about the other parts of Optimus’ character like... idk, not wanting to colonize planets? Not wanting to start wars with entire species that didn’t want to be involved in the war in the first place? Being willing to make compromises even at risk to himself and his own because he wants to treat everyone fairly?

Idk I guess I’m just a bit salty because it genuinely seems like all this fandom wants is “funny dad Optimus” and nothing else. Like you will give them funny dad Optimus who’s ALSO complex and morally gray but people will only ever talk about the former part. And then when Optimus inevitably makes a mistake and bad things happen, people are probably going to treat him as if he’s stupid or an asshole when he ends up not being the Perfect Unproblematic Fave that people seemingly want him to be.

#negativity #the tf fandom has protagonist centered morality really badly #like yes we all joke/think that humans are the most boring part of transformers #but there's a difference between that as like a narrative preference in a story #versus literally acting like humans don't matter #and a lot of takes i see in earthspark and other continuities #seem to completely ignore the fact that cybertronians securing their future on earth and eliminating the people who want to do them wrong #would literally mean stealing resources from humans and killing them aka COLONIZING THEM #so i see people calling OP a bad leader or stupid or overly trusting for working with GHOST when he's literally no such thing #he explicitly says 'we are guests on this planet' and acknowledges that he sees GHOST merely as his best option and doesn't fully trust them #but ppl in this fandom have a really infantile perspective of optimus #where they want him to be Good All The Time or they just see him as an idiot for some reason #so they see OP making compromises to not hurt humans (people who didn't even want to get involved with cybertron's war) #and theyre like durr hurr he's stupid! he's ignorant! he's an asshole to the decepticons! #no he's not he's literally just trying to not hurt innocent people? and he has to balance both human lives and cybertronian lives #and that's fucking hard and there are no perfect options and there are no outcomes where no one will get hurt #and the existence of those bad choices doesn't make optimus stupid or malicious #it makes him a FUCKING PERSON #trying to navigate a HARD SITUATION and do the right thing #but we can't have optimus being an actual character who behaves like a human being #he has to be perfect daddy prime that does nothing wrong ever and if he does he's a STUPID ASSHOLE ugh

[eldritchships]

Alright, now I've finished Cyberverse. For real this time

They really said Fuck Elijah in particular

#Shockwave? Dead. Starscream? Dead. Soundwave? Dead #at least I have Wheeljack but cmon. Let my Con boys live #the finale wasn't that bad. I like The Perfect Decepticon more than the dinobot one #Soundwave's death was Impactful and Made Narrative Sense but fuck man. We've been through so much shdkshdk #Cyberverse spoilers #tagging just in case #edit: BLURR TOO. FUCK 😂😭

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#tik tok #talkin #dbz #kermit #cell #perfect cell #leader 1 #optimus prime #autobots #decepticons #transformers #dragonball z

[ballisterboldheart]

bonk

#s.txt #maccadam #perceptor's slutty lab for whores #the perfect decepticon speedrun

[scalproie]

THE MAIN WRITER OF TEKKEN BLOODLINE WAS ALSO THE WRITER FOR SOME OF THE BEST EPISODES OF TRANSFORMER CYBERVERSE EVERYTHING MAKE SENSE NOW

#GAVIN HIGNIGHT WROTE TERMINAL VELOCITY! BAD MOON RISING! PARLEY! THE LOOP! THE PRISONER! AND THE PERFECT DECEPTICON!!! #GNHNNHNGNGNGNNHNHNHNHNNH HNNGNGNGNNGNHNHNGNGNNGNHNHNHNNHNHNGNGNNGNGNHNNGH #YEAH THIS SUDDENLY EXPLAINS THE GOOD WRITING #TAGGING LATER

[thewiglesswonder]

I watched Bumblebee (2018) because of you live-blogging it the other day and I really enjoyed it

I’ve seen the first 2 live-action transformers movies (bc I kinda had a thing for young Shia Labeouf) and like yeah fuck Michael Bay those movies are exhausting and I liked Bumblebee a lot more :P

Happy to hear that! Yeah, “exhausting” is the best way I can think of to describe the Bay movies. Aside from the blatant male gaze/misogyny, you have to contend with Shia Labeouf, designs that make absolutely no sense, and near-constant explosions. As someone who attempted to watch all the Bay films in a day (why? I couldn’t really tell you, but it was a mistake and I had to stop at the fourth) it gets really old really fast. Bumblebee was like a cleanser to my mind.

#the designs actually make sense #there’s no gratuitous edgy shit #the Decepticons actually have personality #hailee Steinfeld is there #it’s perfect #asks #tf #knightverse #bayverse

[optimistpax]

I love that transformers overall has so many characters and bc you can’t focus on ALL of them every continuity is a little different and a lot of fans have an “ideal” cast of characters

#and even if that exact perfect ideal cast never happens it’s very fun to hear about them #example: my ideal cast of decepticons now always includes flamewar and shadowstriker bc they’re funny and I love them #optimist.txt

[transingthoseformers]

Cyberverse Megatron hello preggy with sooo many eggs

Alternatively - Megatron X demanding his Tarns to fill him with eggs

Happy Easter

YES

THE SECOND IDEA YES YES YES YES YES

And they willlll

For him💖💖💖💖

#valveplug #megatron x #perfect decepticons #cyberverse megatron

[hoe-days]

I want a live action movie with the autobots and decepticons with their designs from the opening scene of Bumblebee. They were so good in my opinion. Wheeljack had his fat ass ears and Starscream looks like he’s a whiney little bleep. It’s perfect.

Shockwave is such a baddie (as he should always be) and Soundwave looks badass

Rachet is also a baddie like why were his hips and thighs so thicc bro

#maccadam #transformers #bumblebee movie #soundwave #shockwave #transformers wheeljack #transformers ratchet #transformers arcee #transformers cliffjumper #transformers starscream