I love that in Cyberverse, while the Decepticons are still a threat, they're also just kinda fucking stupid and silly in a way that lets them be characters OUTSIDE of evil. Imma just list the things that I thought were funny / silly / interesting
Megatron told the Decepticons to kill Optimus Prime and they'll be rewarded as Meg's new SIC (Starscream died, lmao), and Shockwave and Soundwave proceed to spend the entire episode trying to sabotage the other in very comedic ways
SOUNDWAVE WALKS UP TO SHOCKWAVE PLAYING INTIMIDATION MUSIC IT'S AMAZING
Soundwave in general. He has a theme for everything. He likes party dances. His favorite music genre is EDM and his favorite song is Decpacito because "he thinks it sounds very sad." All this while still being scary and baddass in plenty of scenes. (Also his voice is hot)
Slipstream seems scary and intimidating when she's with Windblade and Bumblebee, but then you see her actually COMMANDING the Seekers and realize that she acts like a tired and stressed mother. Also, the Seekers call her "sir" and it just makes me very happy. Agender Slipstream for the win!
Globber and Lockdown are literally the "OK 😔" reaction meme anytime Soundwave and Shockwave tell them to do something. They do realize they can say no to things... right?
Shockwave and Slipstream calling the Seekers "low intelligence" 😭😭😭😭. Out of all the Seekers though, I think Thundercracker is the most low intelligence one. I wanna make a compilation of Slipstream and him bcuz they're really fucking funny to me
Acid Storm is gender fluid and nonbinary. Their frame changes from a male frame a female frame often and, despite being reffered to with male probouns by Hasbro, they're voiced by Jamie Lamchick. This makes me happy
Shadowstriker and Soundwave are friends, apparently
Megatron has Optimus on speed dial. And Optimus answered immediately. This helps my theory that they just got a divorce and they're just bringing everyone down along with them
They had Hot Rod on their ship and surrounded by Decepticons, and they lost him because they were uncoordinated as hell. HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO LOSE A PRISONER LIKE THAT????
I'm watching this show and I keep thinking, "The Autobots are so chaotic. Optimus is like a tired dad who loves his kids but is also just tired. How did they win?" And then I watched the Decepticons and went, "Oh. It's like thr same thing. Except Megatron is an angry mother and Slipstream is the oldest daughter trying to keep this batshit family from completely going off the rails." And yeah, some people might not like this angle in Cyberverse, but my toxic traits is that my favorite transformers episodes are the ones where the characters are just dicking around, so this is absolutely amazing to me.
