![]() In his eyes, the humans - a species which he generally regarded with the same contempt as we humans regard cockroackes - allied themselves with the power-hungry socially-suppressive Autobot regime. The extension of the battle to Earth and the involvement of the humans was just another resource allocation to Megatron. In that regard, humans are no different from the Decepticons.Īnd that's exactly the kind of contempt that Megatron views humans and most other life forms in the universe. And why shouldn't we? Those "lesser creatures" don't have the same degree of sentience as we humans have and certainly aren't capable of understanding our needs or why we do what we do. In the broader sense of the world humans are responsible for mass deforestation and ecological rape for the sake of providing power, food and shelter for its population. We humans routinely stomp out ant nests, poison wasp hives, step on spiders, bomb cockroaches, evict bats, and run over squirrels without barely a second thought, and that's just in our domestic existence. So what about Megatron's obvious contempt for other forms of life? My response to that would be, so what? Humans are at least as contemptuous to other forms of life as Megatron is. If that meant tearing down an otherwise-unresponsive power base and all that supported it, and there was no other way to affect such a change, then wouldn't the end actually justify the means? And while the Autobots were fighting to maintain the status quo and keep the Autobots in power, Megatron was fighting for equality and the end to political corruption and oppression. You can blame Megatron for draining Cybertron of its resources all you want, but the fact remains that the Autobots were draining Cybertron at least as much as Megatron was. As the war raged on their pleas for peace were seen, perhaps rightfully so, as the pleas of a society which was almost ready to give up. Of COURSE the Decepticons aren't going to accept that. ![]() In the early stages of the war the Autobots never sought peace with the Decepticons, they sought surrender. 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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