![]() ![]() Sure, he was brutal, but would you really be expected to be gentle if someone was out to deprive you of life and limb? Megatron counterattacked in self defense. It was the Autobots who fired first, both figuratively (through manipulations of corrupt government) and literally (with the attack on the mining team that Megatron was on the receiving end of). "All warfare is based on deception."ĭid the Decepticons start the war? Nope. And how do you go about fighting a corrupt government with a powerful military at their disposal? Through terroristic tactics. So, Megatron found himself at the vanguard of a movement to destroy the corrupt Autobot leadership. Anything else would have been an impotent half-step, an incomplete effort that would have done nothing more than invite the corrupt to improve their ways and make another attempt at takeover. The only recourse left to him was all-out revolution. It was illegal for him to speak up and illegal to organize, and the entire political system was engineered to keep things that way, to keep the ruling class Autobots in power. Megatron was effectively trapped in a system where nothing he could do within the law could have a positive effect on the society he was a part of. They were fighting for their fair share of energy and a better standard of living, something the corrupt Autobot government would not allow purely for profit-driven class reasons. The Decepticons didn't fight for conquest, they were fighting for their rights. It was through this corruption that birthed Megatron and the Decepticons. The Autobots ran Cybertron and a great deal of the Cybertronian government bolstered by the Autobot military (led by Sentinel Prime) was corrupt. In the generally accepted comic book canon Megatron was an energy miner - a nobody, in the grand scheme of things. The Decepticons are the true heroes, and Megatron is about as pure as they come. I believe the Autobots are the evil ones. As a child I accepted this at face value but as I got older - and especially as different continuities appeared - I found myself disagreeing with this assertion. Throughout all of the Transformers continuities (the notable exception being Shattered Glass) there have always been the "noble Autobots" and the "evil Decepticons". I've talked a little about this before but thought I'd consolidate and flesh it out a bit here. ![]()
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