Revenge of "Wing Shift"
You know, the constant bashing of Megatron is getting kind of annoying. Ohnoes, everyone thinks he's a horrible leader who has lost sight of the Decepticon cause. Ohnoes, he's so terribly incompetent and possibly insane. Ohnoes, he has a small dick
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The episode you're thinking of is Desertion of the Dinobots Part 2, by the way.
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The second... they're totally right. The Decepticons would do just fine without Megatron. Like they did at the beginning of Season Three. Heck, giant planet involvement aside, you can still accurately state the Decepticons held Cybertron until Megatron "died".
You know, an idea I've not seen in terms of the nine million year war... maybe on some level, consciously or unconsciously, Megatron doesn't want to win, because he's enjoying the challenge of battle too much. Would take a lot of work, but could be quite interesting.
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I would actually really enjoy a take on Megatron, consciously or unconsciously, deliberately prolonging the War for his own enjoyment. I know in one of my few "Megatron wins" universes, he then goes on to keep conquering and complains to Soundwave that actually running an empire is extremely boring. It's an idea about Megatron that really resonates with me.
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Greater words have never been uttered (or written) in the history of existence.
*wonders just what devices have been tested out on Starscream over the years*
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Also, I would pay good money to see Megatron's grand mercenarying adventures on the galactic rim. A few dollars, anyway.
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I need to write some of Blitzwing's grand, post-"Five Faces of Darkness", mercenarying adventures on the galactic rim.
Megatron tempts me, mm, but the setup... That's not really something you can open with him already out on the rim, not unless you start providing some immediate flashbacks or some idea that he's already exiled. Hmm. Open it in the middle of a conflict, take him through to the end, and then either immediately flashback and stay there for the process of his exile or interspersing flashbacks and info-dropping as it connects with the main plot of the fic. Because, if you're going to open the fic with him adventuring, then you have to tie his exile into the plot.
Or I could do linear-time, do his exile in one story, and then go on and write grand, galactic-rim adventures.
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I support any and all of these setups!
I also support Starscream's grand intergalactic rimming adventures, but that's neither here nor there.
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The Decepticon cause "I want that! *punches and takes it*", it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to lose sight of that unless they become a pacifist. Unless the fic wants to seriously say that Megatron has listened to too much U2 and gone hippy...
And if he's incompetent, why haven't they been beaten yet? Is Prime _more_ incompetent?
And if his small dick bothers everyone, they can club together to buy him an upgrade...
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The fic doesn't let little details like that stop them. Or-
Oh! That's not a connection I quite made before. There's strong suggestions that Megatron is at least adequately competent at planning assaults and seeing them executed, but that he's dangerously incompetent at managing people.
I will have to think on this. And possibly stab someone.
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