AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Quint wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
I think that speaks more to the contrived means of his "surrender". A publicly made propaganda speech, renouncing himself and his actions. The -Ations said it best, the only difference between the two factions in IDWverse is the brands they wear. Every planet that fell was crushed between the two factions, in equal measure. Everything other than one side achieving supremacy was deemed acceptable losses, to Megatron and Prime.
Among other things, the Autobots didn't engage in the infiltration process, which led to the extinction of myriad organic species through the Phase Six onslaught. Guys... this is textbook false equivalency, come on
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
Of course not, that is why they made him "Auto-Megatron". In the same respect as they didn't know how to "end" a four million year civil war of attrition, so you got faux peace instead.
Yeeeeeah... specious reasoning there. See above.
Cute but no
When you actually read between the lines of what's in print, your entire counterpoint is based on the premise that the Autobots were not just as equally entrenched in the same worlds as the Decepticons. Which is nonsense.
They were on these worlds together. The Autobots were never fighting to free these worlds, they were fighting the Decepticons on just another battlefield. Each trying to hamper the resources of the other. The inhabitants of each world were irrelevant to both sides, a means to an end.
Think back to their discussions on Phase Six, the Autobots were sketchy on the details, because by that point they had already written off that particular front and moved onto the next.
Again, this isn't me pulling out silly ideas out of thin air, this is based on the printed page. Interesting to read none the less, but you're wrong in your assumptions.
Your argument is becoming still more nebulous , I'm afraid.
At this point you're going to have to show me specific references. Which issue states or, ha, implies "between the lines", that Prime's Autobot army directly and intentionally committed genocide
If it helps you as a starting point, try addressing Rewind's rationale for killing Megatron in MTME 38. No arbitrary abstractions such as 'reading between lines' required
Also, try not to refer to any unreliable narrators, even if there are such examples of the convention available to you. Instead, rationalise the actions in the comics depicted firsthand, such as in All Hail Megatron. Where is the Autobot equivalent?
A stretch, megs, nah I think the architect was being seeded before he was even a bot.
