Rant Time!! (Yes it will be long, I apologize in advance)
⚠️Beastwars Spoilers season 2-3⚠️
Topic: BlackArachnia and SilverBolt, but mostly my dislike for SilverBolt as a character
Here’s my hot take: I don’t like BlackArachnia and SilverBolts relationship
I love their dynamic, An iconic girl boss warrior and her idiotic knight of a boyfriend. That’s amazing!
But I don’t care for them at all, specially SilverBolt
First of all, his first line of meeting her which was during a battle near the end of Season 2 Episode 4 at 17:38, THE FIRST TIME THEY MEET FACE TO FACE, he automatically dismisses her and says “No, my friend, it is not right to strike a female”. Which like yeah but you’re in a war and she tried to kill you? Also that phrase just dismisses Women basically saying they aren’t strong enough or worth it to fight. No one/Maximal in the entirety of Beastwars hesitates to fight her because they know she’s a dangerous warrior, except SilverBolt.
The next time we see a mention of their relationship was when BlackArachnia completely breaks character and calls him a hunk under her breathe in Season 2 Episode 6 at 14:40. This is coming from a character who is only flirtatious to deceive others. Its very out of character for her to fall for anyone, especially a maximal dog
I mostly hate their relationship because SilverBolt doesn’t respect BlackArachnia. He calls her a maximal because she is a maximal Protoform. She reminds him MULTIPLE TIMES throughout his arrival to Beastwars that she is a Predacon and wants to be referred to as so. Yet he still doesn’t respect her enough to call her one unless she threatens him. A healthy/good relationship shouldn’t have you threaten your partner for them to respect you.
What annoys me most about SilverBolt not respecting BlackArachnia by calling her a predacon. Is his persistence to get her to join the Maximals because she was reprogrammed. He wants to ‘save her’ from something she doesn’t want to/need to be saved from. Yet he doesn’t try to get Inferno, QuickStrike, or Rampage, If you want to be really specific (He was created by a maximal group of scientists to be a Pred killing machine, but he is/was a maximal war machine before being forced to be a predacon by Megatron). He never tries to save them so his argument of wanting to be a hero and save her falls apart.
He only wants to save BlackArachnia because he can’t stand the thought of liking a Predacon. Which aligns with his ‘righteous hero’ act he has. The hero can’t date the villain so he has to ‘save her’.
And his argument to converting her to be a maximal is that ‘Change is possibly because he was a predacon once’ which like- he was a predacon for less than 24 hours (it was at night when he first emerged from the pod and sunrise when he switched to being a maximal) also his argument falls apart because, by his logic, he was never a predacon because he was a maximal Protoform to begin with! So literally what is that hypercritical dog even doing?!
This makes me frustrated because he uses the same argument when Dinobot is caught after giving the Golden Disk to Megatron. SilverBolt tells Optimus to give him another chance because “I was a predacon once and you gave me a chance” dude it barely counts, you’re invalid, leave.
Before that he was bringing up Dinobot’s honor as a maximal and Dinobot States he is a Predacon and it is Predacon Honor.
If I was Dinobot I would have slapped SilverBolt across the face so hard lol
Things worsen in Season 3 when she finally joins the maximals, but reminds everyone she wishes to be called a Predacon still. SilverBolt continues to call her a Maximal despite her warnings, and constantly insists she is one. Even over small things like helping the Protohumans in S3 E4.
It all goes down hill E7: Blackarachnis over hears Primal and Rhinox discussing turning BlackArachnia back into a Maximal as she once was. Her, not liking the idea of being forced to be a maximal/being a maximal, runs away. She runs into Dinobot’s transmetal clone and chases Dinobot || through the jungle. When the clone calls her a maximal at 7:20 she states “Calling me a coward is one thing, but nobody calls me a Maximal”. Basically saying that calling her a maximal is an insult to her. SilverBolt believes she’s in trouble and goes to save her. When the threat is eliminated he makes her stay and talk to Optimus about being a maximal to clarify if the leader would do such a thing.
Primal states that the decision was always up to BlackArachnia, she wishes to stay a Predacon. But at 20:40 even after all that SilverBolt claims “We’ll make a maximal of you yet” to which she replies “In your dreams, I like myself just the way I am and I intend to stay this way”.
Basically girl boss wants to be a predacon, is that clear yet? Because it’s still not clear to SilverBolt.
LITERALLY AN EPISODE LATER, Episode 9
BlackArachnia wishes to be a Transmetal, SilverBolt disrupts the process, accidentally in his credit (though she told him not to) getting her seriously injured. She has to be taken to Rhinox to make sure she’s okay and she’s given another choice…
Taking any personal choice away from her. In SilverBolts credit he didn’t intend this, But it’s messed up to me that she’s given the illusion of choice only to be forced to be a maximal in the end.
And she does, because in a choice to be the one thing you hate or die, she chooses to live. And after that moment when she no longer has that predacon chip. First if all I don’t like her design, but that’s off topic. SilverBolt never brings up her being a maximal or predacon again.
In the end the disrespectful hypocritical dog gets what he wants.
‘Briefly’ talk about BeastMachines so spoilers for that
SilverBolt is forced to be a Vehicon by Megatron. When BlackArachnia saves him, this stupid Eagle gets all edgy and talks about how great it felt to be a Vehicon. YEAH MUST BE REAL NICE, and you’re telling that to the woman you kept trying to convert her to be a Maximal like you. Also don’t like BlackArachnia being obsessive with SilverBolt in BeastMachines because it completely 180s both of them
Can you tell I hate SilverBolt? I love his design, the fact he’s knight-like, idiot, and his voice actor, I just hate how he is with BlackArachnia
I’m okay that it’s like a star-crossed lovers thing, but don’t make one of those said lovers to gaslight the other into being the same as him when she doesn’t want to be.
Anyways that’s my take. I love Beastwars and I’m very passionate about it which is probably why I’m arguing over it (even though it has been over for years)
I hope you have a good Day/Afternoon/Night!