snavej wrote:At the time of writing, there is a serial murderer of cats loose in London, U.K. It could be Tarn, the meanie. That's his level.
Megatron fooled by a placebo, namely unrefined energon: I certainly don't think that would happen! He would have spotted it immediately. Transformers know energon intimately. If he somehow failed to sense it, Ravage would have. Ravage has superb senses. The whole thing is nonsense.
Megatron undone by a sniper: you'd think that he would have some mechanism to guard against this by now, after so many years of war. Again, nonsense.
Why did Megatron not take cover? He knew that he was facing Overlord, Tarn, et al.
Why did Megatron not fire on Overlord, Tarn, et al. when they were clearly visible on a ridge above and they were top targets?
As far as the unrefined energon goes, it's worth remembering that Megatron was recovering from a long series of injuries by the time he first started getting dosed up. He spent years in stasis before acquiring an experimental body, which was then put through the ringer by the Deceptigod. He spent months in the wilderness as little more than an exo-skeleton, before being transferred into yet another body, which was quickly disabled, operated on, and ripped in half. He hadn't exactly had time to settle in before being administered the Fool's Energon, and he was recovering from years of Shockwave's...ministrations, which he may have mistaken for the weakness and sickness he associated with the energon. It also does appear to have unpleasant short term side effects, which would have helped with the illusion.
I still want to wait and see what Megatron does next issue. It's possible that Overlord and Tarn did fire, and Megatron acted to dodge or block the shots. I can't see him giving up just because he lost his fusion cannon; he is, after all, more than just a gun.
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