Thread:Shado supreme/@comment-25600892-20180308232135/@comment-26059868-20180308234652

If your gonna have a story, you have to develop the characters. I mean, look at ending RID: for all the times they've saved each other, for all the time they've worked together, Strongarm and Sideswipe are still arguing. They've barely changed at all since episode one.

Lets quickly go over Megatron's arch as an example:

At the beginning of the series, we know we want to have this cunning, brutal guy who secretly regrets some of his descisions. As the series progresses, and he sees Optimus becoming a hero to the humans, he realizes that he could've been a hero too, if only he had chosen differently. And this, this knowlegde that he could be the guy that the humans are cheering for and building statues to, that eats at him. Slowly, very slowly, he becomes crazier and crazier, not so much concerned about killing Optimus, but about making Optimus go crazy too, in order to show the public that Optimus is no different than him. Finally, at the height of his madness, Shockwave puts him in contact with his own secret master, Unicron, who transforms Megatron into Galvatron.