Not to mention he's responsible for Skid's death. (If he hadn't dumped him on Necroworld, he wouldn't have died)
Finally. This feels like the old MTMTE again. Good to be back on the ship and listen to silly dialogue. Armed little bacteria with guns. LOL who pegged Blades as a jokester? Well Roberts writes this book like Star Trek and admittedly likes those shows, so... anyone remember Equinox from Voyager? I would not be surprised if there was a legitimate reason for them to be hiding from the Black Block...
They parallel in a lot of ways, but Megatron eventually just did wrong things entirely for the wrong reasons. Getaway hasn't been shown yet to have done something completely evil (though I suspect it's coming).
I'd say that what he did to Tailgate is pretty high up there, he wanted to get the kid killed to expose Megatron, at the very least he is a psychopath. We still don't know what he's done to Thunderclash, a bot who would not have got behind marooning fellow bots, even if one was Megatron. Homaging that cover instead of the JSA one could have been great with the mutineers foreground and the Protectobots in the background.
Tailgate isn't really a child. Naive, yes, but he's no more innocent than a bot like Getaway was when he was handed a gun right after he was born and sent into war. It was wrong to do it, but it's not quite on the level of Megatron who has according to Swerve "killed more people than have ever lived". He's a bit off, that much is true, but not quite evil. At least not yet. Thunderclash was either lied to like most of the crew, or maybe he's not as much on the up and up as people believe? He's always been shown as a little too one dimensional. Megatron getting off basically scot-free might be something he really cannot abide. Plus maybe this will lead to a reason why despite being shown as Mr. Perfect since the beginning that Rodimus for all of his flaws is meant to find the Knights of Cybertron while Thunderclash is not?
10 bucks say once Getaway gets informed of Skids' death, he goes into shock, and this happens: (unknown voice goes "ahem", Getaway turns around to find Skids' ghost) Skids' ghost: Bomp. Getaway: ...Oh ruddy hell.
@GizmoTron It was that he intended Tailgate to DIE, to force the crew into executing Megatron. It was underhanded and despicable, and *evil*. I find it amusing to see the Giant-Size X-men #1 cover, because my retort to Gateway is Wolverine\'s \"shut up, hannibal\" to Magneto in the first X-Men movie. \"You\'re so full of shit. If you were really so righteous, it\'d be you in that thing.\" Or to put another way, if Getaway weren\'t a psychopathic narcissist (ironically, just like Megs), he\'d have just assassinated Megatron himself, and used his trial to call out out the leadership on it, and gambled on being acquitted.
Ok fine, he’s mentally under developed due to being in a catatonic state for millions of years resulting in him being physically aged as the cybertronian equivalent of an adult while having the mentality of a teenager at best. See why it’s easier to just say he’s a child?
I knew what you meant. You're one of the few guys who always gets things right, so I expected you to know and not always wanting to write a paragraph like this now. If that helps you
he was kept, literally, in the dark for millions of years...he's naive to the world and carefree in most of his attitude.....he's not mentally stunted...it's easier to say child but it's wrong to say child. it paints an incorrect picture of the events and makes so many things grosser than they really are based on 'it's easier to say'. i mean when you refer to their relationship do you call cyclonus a pedophile because it's easier to say than 'ancient cybertronian in love with someone that's mentally under developed due to being in a catatonic state for millions of years resulting in him being physically aged as the cybertronian equivalent of an adult while having the mentality of a teenager at best '? people only say this because his robot mode looks childlike and his holomatter avatar was a baby...in reality in most instances rodimus acts like a child. he throws temper tantrums and most of his comebacks are basically "i know you are but what am i??" yet i don't see anyone saying getaway betrayed a child. because of his look the perception of tailgate is that he's a child...but reality is that he's not. you can say this about many transformers in this universe...MTOs are basically child soldiers but no one constantly calls them that...
he is most of the time...he and i agree constantly about things....but calling tailgate a child just doesn't represent him right. there's probably better ways to cut down his literal description other than 'child' just calling him a child warps perception of soooo many things in this book and makes alot look worse than it really is. it just paints things incorrectly...i mean if that's the case like i said..is cyclonus now a pedophile? does this mean roberts is pro-pedophilia? it just cascades into something horrible when it's not accurate to begin with
Essentially from a purely human perspective, cyclonus would be labeled as some sort of predator, though probably not strictly a pedophile. Tailgate is socially deficient stemming from his lack of interactions for millions of years. It gives a more child like quality to his mentality than rodimus, who lived through a civil war, was betrayed by a close friend, made the mistake of helping swindle, ran away from his problems to steal back the matrix and re-earn favor among the autobots, got murdered, got resurrected by the matrix and got a chunk of his crew killed because he didn’t have enough of a backbone to tell prowl no. Rodimus isn’t immature for the sake of it, he is immature because he is mentally broken and doesn’t know how to cope with the shit that has happened to him (some of it self inflicted).
okay fair enough about the rodimus thing...you got me there...i'm used to roberts writing rodimus as a tantrum throwing brat it's hard to remember all the baggage he hauls around from his time in IDW... but with tailgate being socially deficient (which he is) is very very different from being a child. saying cyclonus is probably not strictly a pedophile right there says we can't call tailgate a child...if cyclonus isn't being called a straight up pedo tailgate isn't a child. child-like and child are different. frankly naive is just as easy to say as child...and far more accurate.
Soooooooo excited to get back to the Lost Light and witness the beginning of the end for Getaway (or whatever ends up happening). I just hope Anode & Lug make their way on board because I've grown quite fond of those two over the first 9 issues.
