#tarantulas es

[nerves-nebula]

“GHOST likes to pretend to be noble all while they imprison or indenture bots.” <- he’s literally not even wrong lmao. And he’s right about the war starting up again like the war is decidedly NOT over they are rounding them up and shit like. Actively fighting.

I really like Tarantulas I don’t want him to go to jaillll he just wanted to save a protoform he thought was being enslaved 😭

[thrones-of-buer]

I love that Tarantulas' first reaction to Nightshade was "oh you're just a baby...go on, scram fella"

[nettledevil]

[patiann345]

Listen, listen, hear me out ok please-

I wanna talk about Tarantulas for a second, like specifically the multiple posts I've seen of people saying "Well ofc they toned down Tarantulas, it's a kid show"

I... ?? Listen I know you guys are all referring to IDW when ya'll say that, but BW Tarantulas was like, his own breed of fucked up and BW was for all intents and purposes a kid's show. He's not the same as IDW, but again he's got his own thing that's pretty fucky. And also like. Earthspark is really dark too? Or at least it's leading up to be??

SPOILER WARNING but uh, yeah no G.H.O.S.T is hella fucked up if you think about it for more than a minute. Everything they're doing to the cons with the memory wiping and generally how they're treated is really bad (in a good way I love this show-), and also labeling Bee a 'rouge Autobot' that they're trying to arrest, yeah not cool-

Plus. The last episode of Season 1?? Mandroid and his... EVERYTHING??? Bee having his fucking energon drained???? Did we all just forget that???????

I think they absolutely could've made Tarantulas really like, fucked if they wanted to. But I don't think they wanted that, I think they wanted a new take on his character? I mean, that's a huge part of transformers, no? Look at all the different conts and how characters change between them-

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Tarantulas was toned down due to mandates or anything, I genuinely believe they just,, wanted to put a spin on him and make him more chill and lonesome, and something of a tragic anti-hero cause,,, I dunno, they just thought it'd be neat!