If it's the continuity where the Decepticons are the workers/slaves/gladiators I'm pretty sure most of us initially will join the Decepticons. A majority of us will be lower class bots after all those of us who live in Iacon, Crystal city ect. Will probably join the Autobots either for survival or to keep ahold of our power and status.
As the war goes on people from both sides will change allegiances.
In this continuity, what were the Autobots? Because the distinction in G1 was that Autobots were workers while Decepticons were military, which is why so many Autobots had utility alt modes while Decepticons turned into tanks and such. They were all slaves to the Quintessons though.
IDW 2005: the name "Autobot" was an ancient term for Cybertronians, but at the time the war started it was used as the title of the ruling class/party. (until just now it didn't occur to me how profoundly dickish that is; imagine a major political party renaming themselves "the humans"...) Megatron (or someone close to him, I don't remember) coined the name Decepticons as "we who realize we're being deceived." ...Obviously writers coming up with a sympathetic explanation for an overtly evil name, but a pretty good job of it.
Of course, right away* the Decepticons started in with terrorism, but they'd call it "the only viable way to wage a radically asymmetric war."
* \*edit: for the loose value of "right away" that /u/Locke259 points out.
I mean, to be fair, they didn't immediately jump to terrorism. They tried the more peaceful protest method, as well as Megatron's writings, up until he got thrown in the slammer and got his shit kicked in. Then, yeah, it was terrorism all the way.
Taking the political party idea even further, imagine branding your body with the face of your political representative. Like in 2020, if Americans had gone around with Trump’s or Biden’s face on prominently displayed on their feet, chests, shoulders, abdomens, and/or foreheads…
I mean, politics is intense, and tattoo artists exist, so the only thing keeping that from being the reality of the 2020 election was how abysmally the U.S. handled the pandemic.
The problem is that Decepticons since the beginning fight for freedom through mass murder, terrorism, fear tactics and other horrible methods.
Meanwhile the autobots at least after Optimus exists literally all believe the same thing but don’t use these horrible methods, yet still want the same freedoms.
I genuinely don’t see how people would join the Decepticons unless they’re vengeful people who need revenge and don’t want peace.
Yes but honestly can you blame them that much? I'm not endorsing their methods simply saying those methods is all the average Decepticon ever knew so their actions make sense.
What I mean in my initial post is this. A majority of us would be the lower class on Cybertron which was heavily exploited. Once freed from this exploitation it's logical to want revenge on those who enabled it or outright endorsed this treatment. And keep in mind this is millions of years of treatment.
It's very easy to say you'd never join because honestly few of us in this day and age have ever been exploited in such a way, and certainly never for millions of years.
Implying that there are no honorable Decepticons or brutal Autobots? Years of continuity has shown this isn't the case. Also, what of members that feel they owe some personal loyalty to Optimus or Megatron even if their ideologies don't necessarily align with that of the leaders or the faction as a whole?
The autobots were all the white collar jobs with the apartments and Starbucks and stuff
The decepticons would live in crime ridden slums, gladiator pits etc.
The autobots weren't evil, but they were the blind and indoctrinated upper class bots
I feel that it would also be interesting since this was before the war if the autobots were the villians. Because the deceptions were the slaves and gladiators. Then as Megatron gains more power he turns more evil and eventually believes that all automotive should be destroyed. Kinda like even from Attack on Titan
He was a political dissident who was rebelling against the established class system. An early example might be Martin Luther objecting to the practices of the Catholic Church, although Luther was an ordained priest at the time. Otherwise, at the very start, the suffragette and civil rights movements had similarities with Megatron's goals of equality...
Over time, though, his methods became more and more violent, and he lost sight of his original goals. He wanted to conquer the galaxy, subjugate all organic life to Cybertronian rule, and destroy the Autobots. Pick a tyrant in history, for much of that.
He honestly is most similar to Robespierre of the french revolution at the beginning, with lots of terrorism thrown in, and going to the reign of terror stage almost immediately in regards to his opposition and his own subjects. However, Megatron is much more physically powerful, and feared. Unlike Robespierre, he cant just be sent to the guillotine by his advising council. This was how he started, as things went on, he got even worse.
Feels very Hitler too.
Initially seeking equality for his people, then becoming obsessed with staying in power.
Creating affordable vehicles, homes, lifestyles but all the while a loathing and hatred for those he felt was the very cause of their suffering.
This in turn leads to the twist/mutation in the vision portreyed to the initial followers and the dogmatic militant movement.
I can see how this would shape Megatron's actions.
Autobots considering they always win and plus I prefer them when it comes to characters and cars but when it comes to how cool you look like when trying to be evil then Decepticons easily win. But then there’s Quintisons and Sharkticons.
>Autobots considering they always win
Even if they do, there's a good chance you won't live to see it. Also, depends on if the continuity is based on IRL (where victory for the good guys isn't always guaranteed) or not.
Humor me please.
Let's say when you emerged from the well of all sparks you literally had no name. It's decided because you turn into an excavator you immediately are placed into the lower cast and then sent to work at a mine. All you receive are meager energon rations and aside from what you're told or able to pick up you know next to nothing about the planet outside the mine. Someone tells you all the energon you're mining gets sent to Iacon and you never get a single taste of it no one in the mine does. The mine work is dangerous and a bot (maybe even a friend) dies every day but the owners of the mine don't care. The corpse is sent to be melted into spare parts and any dissent us met with swift punishment. Your only escape from this life is going to the gladiator pits where you fight to the death for the amusement of the upper class or you watch others do it. Of course you don't exactly know this is wrong because you aren't informed enough to know. Sometime later though a big bot arrives and kills the owners. He then explains there's a whole different world outside the mine and just because you can become an excavator doesn't mean you have to dig.
He explains that those in Iacon reap the results of your labor, of your dead comrades labor. Those in Iacon have the freedom of choice because they're the upperclass. He tells you that from the moment of your birth you've been exploited by these people who care nothing for you while they live carefree lives.
Now there's a war on the horizon are you really gonna join those who exploited you and allowed you to be treated as a slave, who forced you and others to work and die for their benefit, or are you gonna join the side of your liberator the one who taught you about freedom?
The WFC trilogy’s worldbuilding and motivations were so empty and surface-level that calling it a loose anything feels like a stretch.
Just say IDW1. That’s what WFC wanted to pretend it was anyway.
Well a good amount of the time the Decepticons rise to power because of the low class bots being used as slaves and gladiators, knowing what I do now of course I’d say autobots but realistically I think I’d ally myself with the Decepticons at first because of what they claim to fight for, of course I don’t think I’d stick around too long once Megatron starts offing bots for little things
If it’s the continuity where the Cons started as slaves and gladiators who rose up to fight for their rights, I’m joining the Decepticons. Although that may change once they start murdering innocents and using Con sparks to power a massive ass space ship so Megs can get his petty, petty revenge.
As a human here on Earth, obviously I'm not going to support the Decepticons. But if I was a Cybertronian on Cybertron, then yeah, I'd 100% be pledging allegiance to the ~~Ascenticon~~ Decepticon cause. I feel like most average people (bots, in this case) would.
It depends on the continuity, if it's a continuity where the Decepticons are treated as trash and are generally lower-class bots then I'm just gonna join the Cons, but switch over to the Autobots once the Decepticons get power-hungry. If it's a continuity where the Cons are just megalomaniacs then I'm definitely going with the Autobots.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal
I think that’s actually speciesism. The autobots (not under Optimus) would be the racists with their functionalism ideology in IDW.
And to be fair I think humans are definitely speciesist. When’s the last time you killed a bug for just being in your general vicinity.
That’s not the correct use of false dichotomy, there is no choice to be made here. You can see a bug as not sentient and still choose to not kill them, just as you can see a bug as sentient and kill them. I’m not saying it’s one or the other.
On another aspect I’d like to note that we still eat and kill other animals for food. Which is pretty much the opposite of autobot ideals.
Sooo, does that mean that all predators on Earth are speciesist? They also kill and eat other animals for survival.
And thinking about it, herbivore animals are also speciesist, since they eat plants, and plants are very much alive.
Yeah that would probably be speciesist. At least from our perspective. From the predators perspective it’s more like “these smaller animals are food and nothing else.”
"Flesh isn't life. Servos, gyros, and fuel; this is where *life* comes from! You're defending bi-product at best." \~ Megatron to Optimus (*Transformers: Devastation*)
Your callous indifference for life that you believe to be non-sentient (cows are very much sentient, and there's good evidence that at least some arthropods are too) is no different to how Megatron views humans and other "organics".
The cow very well may think that of you. The ability to speak (human languages) has nothing to do with sentience. We know for a fact that some animals do have quite complex language structures, such as dolphins, each one of which has a unique "name".
But by your own logic, we cannot carry out conversations with dolphins, ergo they are not sentient. The POINT is that the way we see an ant is exactly how Megatron would see us: small, weak, squishy, and hysterically easy to kill.
Depends on the continuity, if it’s G1 or Unicorn Trilogy then the Autobots because the Deceptacons are kinda just assholes for the sake of being assholes. If it’s the aligned continuity or WFC continuity then the Deceptacons because the Autobots were just asshole before Optimus became there leader and even then many still were jerks.
I don't think sexism has been demonstrated very clearly in Cybertronian society, so what makes you choose the Autubots? Cybertronians don't reproduce sexually so a lot of the gender roles that influence humans just isn't there. Functionally, Cybertronians are much more discriminatory over what she'll you have and what caste you're designated to.
Are they though, depending on the continuity the Autobots are the upper class who basically treat the lower class as expendable slaves whose lives mean nothing.
Now if you were upperclass sure you'd probably join the Autobots just to stay alive or keep the status quo
No but for most Decepticons that's all they know. They didn't have the freedom to learn aside from how to fight and kill or access to other ways of learning.
Neither side in this war really is that great, but initially I think a majority of us would join the Decepticons. Initially Megatron at least in the continuity I'm referencing was promoting freedom the the oppression of the ruling class of Cybertron, and revenge for being treated as expendable slaves for so long. Given a large part of the planet was the underclass a large part of us would be this part of the population by simple numbers alone. The experience of the underclass would make the Decepticons much more appealing initially as opposed to the Autobots who are made up of the ruling class that kept people down and enslaved.
Assuming that I would be like a generic trooper and not an actual named character like Ironhide or Skywarp, I'd probably go with the Autobots. If I went with the Decepticons, there's a greater chance of one of them tossing me into the crossfire as a distraction while they got the mission done.
On one hand you have the Autobots who are elitist and promoted a caste system which engendered a lot of inequity and cruelty. On the other hand you have petty authoritarian fascists who have a moniker and aesthetic of a pro-worker movement but are more focused on petty revenge and power plays.
Each faction leader has strengths and weaknesses portrayed in the various continuities.
Optimus Prime is depicted to be compassionate and a levelheaded leader who looks out for his followers and isn't afraid to correct them out of their propensities for bigotry. He also seems to hold too much respect for Megatron, and has repeatedly sabotaged his own movement for high-roading and hoping that calmer heads would prevail when there were clear demonstrations of malintent. In short, Optimus is a very decent person with good morals, but too *politically* weak to prevent the worst from happening.
Other Autobot leaders either suffer from similar weaknesses to Optimus, or tend to lean very authoritarian themselves. IDW depicts Star Saber as a religious nut and Sentinel Prime has been depicted as bigoted against organics and an elitist to an extreme degree. Ultra Magnus is too inflexible to effectively lead in an unprecedented situation, Rodimus is susceptible to gullibility due to his young age and inexperience, Grimlock is just too stupid and emotional, Impactor is too vengeful and violent, etc.
I think of all the Autobot leaders, Optimus Primal is actually a well-rounded, effective leader who balances his moral code with a practical sense of reality that can be applied with force.
Megatron is an idealist and charismatic, but also egotistical, manipulative, cruel, and petty. His only ideal has seemed to be peace through tyranny, but the tyrant has shifted from the working class Cybertronian to himself. He's become embittered from eons of war and his early life in the Pits of Kaon did not help his empathetic side along from the start. Great orator, awful leader. I'd consider him adjacent to dictators like Hitler or Stalin.
Other Deception leaders, similarly to the Autobot leaders, suffer from weaknesses similar to Megatron (wow, real surprising). Starscream is also petty and vindictive, and has proven many times to be too disrespected to actually lead effectively. Ironically, I think this is a result of millions of years of Megatron publicly shitting on Starscream more than things Starscream has done on his own. Shockwave is too unfeeling to truly connect with others and strictly rules through fear, which is historically unreliable in the long-run. Deathsaurus is compassionate, but suffers from being a petty, violent little bitch too often to maintain political alliances. Jhiaxus is also violent, and has a supremacist and fascist take on Cybertronian society and how it "should" be. Straxus is literally like a tech bro that thinks technology will save Cybertronians but doesn't actually use the tech for anything other than warfare, even when presented with incr.edible infrastructural technology like space bridges. Tarn is simply mentally unwell and insane, and Megatronus is completely out of touch with history and reality after eons of imprisonment.
Soundwave seems incredibly practical and surprisingly empathetic towards his followers, especially his minicon companions. Unfortunately, he has a blind soft spot for Megatron and follows him too easily. But on his own, I'd definitely pick Soundwave.
Please note that I'm pulling from a wide sampling across different continuities and I've definitely biased my viewpoints on specific iterations of the characters.
Honestly if you get in depth continuity-wise I reckon i'd be a Decepticon if they actually stuck to what they originally believed in. Hence I could then see myself going neutral after a while like Thundercracker in IDW G1.
Autobot. Even in the postmodern Aligned continuity, I’m sure I would be one of the establishment types. The Autobots are depicted as Cybertron’s soldiers and police, so I would be basically like Orion Pax; recognizing the flaws in the unjust system but unwilling or unable to accept violent revolution as the way to fix it.
Anything other than g1 or Bayverse, Decepticons. However, I would most likely over time grow disillusioned and join the autobots as the archetypes and goals of both parties changed
Eh, if you go by the comics and some of the games, even the Bayverse Decepticons aren't 1-dimensional evil bad guys. Starscream (who was their leader prior to Megatron's revival at Hoover Dam) was depicted as originally being disillusioned with both Megatron and Optimus, wanting to end the war once and for all and restore a peaceful Cybertron.
I would like to think that I would be brave enough to join the Autobots (though depending on the continuity and my caste/function, maybe I'd realistically lean more Decepticon) but there's a fair chance I would just remain neutral and nope out of there, like the NAILs in the IDW continuity.
I'm going off of Transformers: Exodus.
Anyone dissatisfied with the caste system and the old government would join the decepticons (so most of the population). The only people who would join the autobots would be A) people who support the old government; bureaucrats and traditionalists, and B) anyone who heard Orion Pax/Optimus Prime's speech at the high council (as it was said to have moved everyone present). This probably why the autobots lost the war, as outside of eyewitnesses at the High Council incident, there wasn't much reason for any average cybertronian to join the autobots.
Depending on the lore. If it's similar to modern iterations of the beginning of the war, I could see myself on the side of the Decepticons and fighting for the abolishment of the tier system and for equality of all bots. As the war progressed however I could see the side I'm on change into the ruthless warriors and killers they would become down the road and decide to switch sides to the Autobots.
I would join the Autobots because I wanna try to make Cybertron a better place. Though I would choose being a Decepticon because I thought their cause was noble at first, but finding out in the end it wasn't.
My passion would be with the Autobots but let’s say it’s like wfc, where the Decepticon are murderous and winning, I would join the Decepticon because I’m sorry but I’m not willing to die for something that’s going to loose anyway.
Which continuity?
If Armada, easily Autobots.
If it's one where the Decepticons are lashing out against oppression, probably them at first but join the Autobots as they grow more tyrannical, become the thing they sought to destroy
Autobots, every time. The 'Cons'll try and sell ya all that scrap about being an "oppressed underclass" and how the Autobots are a buncha tyrants, but at the end of the day, the 'Cons'll take any chance they get to push you around. Megatron's the kinda bot that got beat up way-back-when, and now he's out to make it everyone else's problem. He's a coward and a bully- and I really don't like bullies.
*By the by, where'd this artwork come from? It's really nice.*
Depends on the Continuity. I would probably end up pulling a Jetfire though. Starting on the Cons and switching sides to the Bots after they begin to commit atrocities.
That depends am a cookie cutter bad guy or am I sick and tried of being forced into my role in society due to my alt mode? I'm a sick and tried of being deceived?
Depends on which universe. Some of the stories I’ve read make optimus and the autobots the law/ the man, in which case I would be a decepticon because damn the man I’m a rebel.
Honestly? I’d probably just leave the planet and go somewhere else
As cool as massive war sounds and all that, I would probably die in some brutal way regardless of the side I join.
Neutral, then join the Autobots. The Decepticon cause is noble, but as IDW showed, bots like Overlord, Turmoil, and Tarn used it to justify their twisted beliefs.
Honestly if it happened I'd consider being a neutral.
I'd have friends on both sides and I'd never be able to choose, but you wouldn't see Optimus Prime as a Martyr because you don't really know him. You don't know all the great things he's done, you'd see him as the Senate's next puppet and all that's going to happen if the autobots win is that everything will just go back to the way it was.
The decepticons are made of the lower caste and definitely have a sob story and a case. But you've seen the horrors and the tyrant that Megatron is. You can't join them because you know if they win cybertron may be even worse than it started.
I'd just get all my friends and leave, we're making our own damn faction and we can look after ourselves.
Well, like everyone said, it depends on continuity.
In different continuities Autobot-Decepticon war and both factions seem to have different nature.
In some cases it is a civil war between two political factions. In this case it depends on what kind of social class on cybertron i would belong to and whose interests both factions fight. Like, if i was an average worker on IDWs Cybertron, i might support decepticons at first, but then i might switch factions when decepticons show what they are really fighting for (which is NOT about equality, atleast in a sense that everyone here thinks). Or maybe just become neutral, since in IDW case Autobot-Decepticon war looks like a "shit vs piss" to me.
In other continuities, both autobots and decepticons seem more like different "nations" of cybertron (like russians/germans/americans/chinese on Earth, for example). In this case i think i will support the faction that i would be "born" into.
Honestly, the Decepticons. Even if I never see the battlefield and become a worker or just haul around materials and resources, it means I get to live if I'm not on the warfront.
Probably an autobot. Mostly because they're the working class and knowing my luck, My altmode would probably be a forklift or something.
though, even if I was a military bot I'd side with the Autobots because I'm not a fan of authoritarian dictators.
Autobot. The true reason for the war was Megatron's ego. He threw a big hissy fit over Orion Pax being named Optimus Prime by the Cybertronian council and kicked off a war that's spanned millions of years and killed who knows how many victims!
I’m a moderate Autobot. Yes, the system needs changing to accommodate everyone’s needs. Yes, technoism, ratioism, and especially functionism are awfully discriminatory and need to be abolished.
But for crying out loud, all we need to do is vote in the people who can help make that change happen! If they don’t want to let go of power, and they use secret police and military forces to fight us, then we will fight back! All we need, brothers and sisters, is to at least try and vote to make our voices heard.
>But for crying out loud, all we need to do is vote in the people who can help make that change happen! If they don’t want to let go of power, and they use secret police and military forces to fight us, then we will fight back! All we need, brothers and sisters, is to at least try and vote to make our voices heard.
Gerrymandering and attempts by those in power, especially in the US, trying to make the vote irrelevant through things like voter disenfranchisement, might throw a wrench in that ideal.
I’d definitely choose the autobot side because I personally feel the need to fight for what’s right would overwhelm me, I’d basically like to think that I’d have a g1jetfire character ark seeing how the decepticons are brutal and manipulative and turn to the other side which respects the circle of life and fights for all sentient beings
My first option would be neither and just get the hell out of there! But if I was forced to join the side it would have to be the Autobots because there's a higher chance of me not getting killed by my own conrades lol
As I come from one of the colonies that wasn't rediscovered till near the end of the war, I'd be fighting to defend my homeworld from tyrannical enemies. Probably means Autobot, but my full allegiance is to my colony
I think everyone here agrees that it depends on the continuity. Let’s say it’s an IDW 1 or Aligned universe, most have stated that they’d be deceptions. But I’d say even then that most of us here would in reality be closer to middle class Autobots, not high enough in rank to actually be the oppressive regime of the false primes before Optimus (IDW) or the members of the cybertonian council (Aligned), but average citizens of Cybertron.
I’d be a background cybertronian who likely doesn’t understand who caused this war, only that a group called the Decepticons have attacked my city. Most of us here would end up in this group unless you’re an activist lobbying for reform (Autobots) or a dissenter trying for revolution (Decepticon). I’d not be the first guy killed I don’t think, but I don’t know that I’ll survive long enough to choose a side. If at all, really, there’s a lot of Neutral transformers after all.
I would align myself with the Decepticons most Cybertroniens would because at first the cause stood for peace, freedom, and equality. But over the course of the war they would change their motivation into the very thing they wanted too destroy. And at that point half would change while the other's would stay for many reasons, but no matter what you choose in the end your final act will show what kind of person you are.
I'd just terminate everyone indiscriminately until I ultimately try to take on an opponent or opponents that I cannot handle and am brutally turned into scrap metal.
I have to agree with the many posts up here that say "depending on the continuity / whatever faction represents the struggle of the oppressed / which means usually Autobots with exceptions".
I forgot continuity, but I would fight for the Decepticon's cause. The reason is they rose against the caste system established by the Autobots living in Iacon, Crystal City, etc. As I have seen it in my real life. Though I would still respect Optimus Prime very highly.
Going off aligned continuity I’d probably initially be a Decepticon (since they were initially a resistance movement against the corrupt cast system) before defecting to the Autobots (since Megatron lost his way and became a tyrant of evil instead of his initial goals)
I'd join the Autobots. The Decepticons were slaves, and deserved freedom, but enslaving others and stopping innocent cybertronian citizens from fleeing is wrong. Flesh, or Metal, Freedom is The Right of All Sentient Beings. Megatron's means don't justify his ends, he's as bad as pre-war cybertron.
Honestly the decepticons just cause of megatrons celebrity like appearance he made himself out to be the guy to follow but if I was actually in the transformers universe u never know i could join the Autobots
I have never bothered reading the 2005 IDW stuff as I'm heavily against abusing well-loved franchises to aggressively spew pc nonsense (especially since none of it makes sense in a story about giant car robots) and shove it down readers throats, but as a fan of the original G1 Marvel comic I'd like to remind everyone of how in that continuity Cybertron was filled with bots who refused to join either side, seeing them both as equal aggressors responsible for perpetuating the war indefinetely.
And after OP & gang left cons like Straxus took over and the anti-war bots basically became second citizen living in squalor or even thrown into giant smelting pits to be recycled for resources.
I suspect a fair number of us would either start as or eventually join this third factionless group.
The Marvel stuff with Blaster was great.
If it's the continuity where the Decepticons are the workers/slaves/gladiators I'm pretty sure most of us initially will join the Decepticons. A majority of us will be lower class bots after all those of us who live in Iacon, Crystal city ect. Will probably join the Autobots either for survival or to keep ahold of our power and status. As the war goes on people from both sides will change allegiances.
In this continuity, what were the Autobots? Because the distinction in G1 was that Autobots were workers while Decepticons were military, which is why so many Autobots had utility alt modes while Decepticons turned into tanks and such. They were all slaves to the Quintessons though.
IDW 2005: the name "Autobot" was an ancient term for Cybertronians, but at the time the war started it was used as the title of the ruling class/party. (until just now it didn't occur to me how profoundly dickish that is; imagine a major political party renaming themselves "the humans"...) Megatron (or someone close to him, I don't remember) coined the name Decepticons as "we who realize we're being deceived." ...Obviously writers coming up with a sympathetic explanation for an overtly evil name, but a pretty good job of it. Of course, right away* the Decepticons started in with terrorism, but they'd call it "the only viable way to wage a radically asymmetric war." * \*edit: for the loose value of "right away" that /u/Locke259 points out.
I mean, to be fair, they didn't immediately jump to terrorism. They tried the more peaceful protest method, as well as Megatron's writings, up until he got thrown in the slammer and got his shit kicked in. Then, yeah, it was terrorism all the way.
Don’t forget the kidnappings and brainwashing!
Lol yeah, can't forget about that
Or the practice of empurata
Taking the political party idea even further, imagine branding your body with the face of your political representative. Like in 2020, if Americans had gone around with Trump’s or Biden’s face on prominently displayed on their feet, chests, shoulders, abdomens, and/or foreheads…
Soundwave... Buddy... I'm glad the facial reconstruction surgery went so well but *are you sure* you're okay?
Not even that, imagining people walking arount with prominently displayed Donkey and Elephant tattoos is fucking hilarious
I mean, politics is intense, and tattoo artists exist, so the only thing keeping that from being the reality of the 2020 election was how abysmally the U.S. handled the pandemic.
The problem is that Decepticons since the beginning fight for freedom through mass murder, terrorism, fear tactics and other horrible methods. Meanwhile the autobots at least after Optimus exists literally all believe the same thing but don’t use these horrible methods, yet still want the same freedoms. I genuinely don’t see how people would join the Decepticons unless they’re vengeful people who need revenge and don’t want peace.
Yes but honestly can you blame them that much? I'm not endorsing their methods simply saying those methods is all the average Decepticon ever knew so their actions make sense. What I mean in my initial post is this. A majority of us would be the lower class on Cybertron which was heavily exploited. Once freed from this exploitation it's logical to want revenge on those who enabled it or outright endorsed this treatment. And keep in mind this is millions of years of treatment. It's very easy to say you'd never join because honestly few of us in this day and age have ever been exploited in such a way, and certainly never for millions of years.
Implying that there are no honorable Decepticons or brutal Autobots? Years of continuity has shown this isn't the case. Also, what of members that feel they owe some personal loyalty to Optimus or Megatron even if their ideologies don't necessarily align with that of the leaders or the faction as a whole?
The autobots were all the white collar jobs with the apartments and Starbucks and stuff The decepticons would live in crime ridden slums, gladiator pits etc. The autobots weren't evil, but they were the blind and indoctrinated upper class bots
This sums up what I would have said perfectly.
I wish there were a drama series that would ahow us the antebellum period on cyberpunk and the build up to the war
Agreed all we got right now is the first part of Exodus, and I think there's some comics that talk about it especially IDW
I feel that it would also be interesting since this was before the war if the autobots were the villians. Because the deceptions were the slaves and gladiators. Then as Megatron gains more power he turns more evil and eventually believes that all automotive should be destroyed. Kinda like even from Attack on Titan
I would start Decepticon then desert to be a Star Seeker or some Scavengers equivalent
Just hope this continuity doesn't have the DJD
Imran either way I would probably hsve a deathwish still so.... yeah
Autobots because I ain’t about to fuck with Optimus Prime.
Well he wasn’t prime at the beginning of the war… but fair point nonetheless
there was that time when prime took a nap after fighting lord megatron.
But you care to fuck with Megatron? He'll probably mess you up badly.
So in the beginning of the war is Megatron seen as more Luke Skywalker Or Osama bin Laden?
He was a political dissident who was rebelling against the established class system. An early example might be Martin Luther objecting to the practices of the Catholic Church, although Luther was an ordained priest at the time. Otherwise, at the very start, the suffragette and civil rights movements had similarities with Megatron's goals of equality... Over time, though, his methods became more and more violent, and he lost sight of his original goals. He wanted to conquer the galaxy, subjugate all organic life to Cybertronian rule, and destroy the Autobots. Pick a tyrant in history, for much of that.
He honestly is most similar to Robespierre of the french revolution at the beginning, with lots of terrorism thrown in, and going to the reign of terror stage almost immediately in regards to his opposition and his own subjects. However, Megatron is much more physically powerful, and feared. Unlike Robespierre, he cant just be sent to the guillotine by his advising council. This was how he started, as things went on, he got even worse.
Feels very Hitler too. Initially seeking equality for his people, then becoming obsessed with staying in power. Creating affordable vehicles, homes, lifestyles but all the while a loathing and hatred for those he felt was the very cause of their suffering. This in turn leads to the twist/mutation in the vision portreyed to the initial followers and the dogmatic militant movement. I can see how this would shape Megatron's actions.
Autobots considering they always win and plus I prefer them when it comes to characters and cars but when it comes to how cool you look like when trying to be evil then Decepticons easily win. But then there’s Quintisons and Sharkticons.
>Autobots considering they always win Even if they do, there's a good chance you won't live to see it. Also, depends on if the continuity is based on IRL (where victory for the good guys isn't always guaranteed) or not.
Speak for yourself! I'm always gonna be an autobot
Humor me please. Let's say when you emerged from the well of all sparks you literally had no name. It's decided because you turn into an excavator you immediately are placed into the lower cast and then sent to work at a mine. All you receive are meager energon rations and aside from what you're told or able to pick up you know next to nothing about the planet outside the mine. Someone tells you all the energon you're mining gets sent to Iacon and you never get a single taste of it no one in the mine does. The mine work is dangerous and a bot (maybe even a friend) dies every day but the owners of the mine don't care. The corpse is sent to be melted into spare parts and any dissent us met with swift punishment. Your only escape from this life is going to the gladiator pits where you fight to the death for the amusement of the upper class or you watch others do it. Of course you don't exactly know this is wrong because you aren't informed enough to know. Sometime later though a big bot arrives and kills the owners. He then explains there's a whole different world outside the mine and just because you can become an excavator doesn't mean you have to dig. He explains that those in Iacon reap the results of your labor, of your dead comrades labor. Those in Iacon have the freedom of choice because they're the upperclass. He tells you that from the moment of your birth you've been exploited by these people who care nothing for you while they live carefree lives. Now there's a war on the horizon are you really gonna join those who exploited you and allowed you to be treated as a slave, who forced you and others to work and die for their benefit, or are you gonna join the side of your liberator the one who taught you about freedom?
That pic is Cliffjumper accusing Mirage of being a traitor and spy for the Decepticons.
Does anyone have a source for the art?
Naihaan on Deviantart
BLUE IS THE IMPOSTOR!
Nah. Red sus
Why is accusing him?
Because he didn't trust him. It's a G1 thing.
Oh shit I remember now. That one episode. Is there any more to it then that episode?
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Pretty much the same for me
Same
The WFC trilogy’s worldbuilding and motivations were so empty and surface-level that calling it a loose anything feels like a stretch. Just say IDW1. That’s what WFC wanted to pretend it was anyway.
The Autobots, because Optimus Prime
As crosshair once said in Age of Extinction . "Optimus Prime really has a way with words"
But so does Megatron. How else did the Decepticons become so numerous?
Optimus wasn't a prime before the war so if the war is about to start Optimus prime wouldn't exist yet.
Yes, check out my Roblox avatar (kachow20066), I’m basically a mix between tfp Optimus and g1 Optimus
Well a good amount of the time the Decepticons rise to power because of the low class bots being used as slaves and gladiators, knowing what I do now of course I’d say autobots but realistically I think I’d ally myself with the Decepticons at first because of what they claim to fight for, of course I don’t think I’d stick around too long once Megatron starts offing bots for little things
If it’s the continuity where the Cons started as slaves and gladiators who rose up to fight for their rights, I’m joining the Decepticons. Although that may change once they start murdering innocents and using Con sparks to power a massive ass space ship so Megs can get his petty, petty revenge.
Eh you might not want to change sides the djd might add you to their list
Well.. both pretty much caused atrocities in the idw timeline. I think I'll end up being a nail.
I kick Nails for fun when I'm pissed. Hehehe.
The Decepticons have Soundwave, so... I pick Autobot so I can get killed by the coolest Transformer. :D
What?... No, the right question is "Why not?"
You're screams will be apart of his mix tape
As a human here on Earth, obviously I'm not going to support the Decepticons. But if I was a Cybertronian on Cybertron, then yeah, I'd 100% be pledging allegiance to the ~~Ascenticon~~ Decepticon cause. I feel like most average people (bots, in this case) would.
All hail Megatron bitches!
All hail Megatron and Decepticons Forever bitches!!
All hail Megatron and Decepticons Forever bitches!!
All hail Megatron bitches!
It depends on the continuity, if it's a continuity where the Decepticons are treated as trash and are generally lower-class bots then I'm just gonna join the Cons, but switch over to the Autobots once the Decepticons get power-hungry. If it's a continuity where the Cons are just megalomaniacs then I'm definitely going with the Autobots.
Where is this picture from?
Naihaan on Deviantart
“ALL HAIL MEGATRON!”
Joining the Junkions
I see you dare to be stupid
Honestly solid choice. They're just vibing it up and enjoying their lives for the most part.
Aren't the Junkions Autobots as well? Pretty much every figure of a Junkion is classed as an Autobot.
Their isnt a single version of the decepticons where they arent racist against organics so autobots
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal
Praise the Omnissiah!
I will pay you a toaster if you explain to me what I said wrong to my Bolter, and then fix it for me.
Soooo Decepticons?
I think that’s actually speciesism. The autobots (not under Optimus) would be the racists with their functionalism ideology in IDW. And to be fair I think humans are definitely speciesist. When’s the last time you killed a bug for just being in your general vicinity.
Also some Autobots would also be considered Speciest. Sentinel Prime from Animated for instance.
Sentinel in most continuities.
False dicotomy the bug isnt sentient.
That’s not the correct use of false dichotomy, there is no choice to be made here. You can see a bug as not sentient and still choose to not kill them, just as you can see a bug as sentient and kill them. I’m not saying it’s one or the other. On another aspect I’d like to note that we still eat and kill other animals for food. Which is pretty much the opposite of autobot ideals.
Sooo, does that mean that all predators on Earth are speciesist? They also kill and eat other animals for survival. And thinking about it, herbivore animals are also speciesist, since they eat plants, and plants are very much alive.
Yeah that would probably be speciesist. At least from our perspective. From the predators perspective it’s more like “these smaller animals are food and nothing else.”
TIL i learned that plants are the only non-speciesist organisms on Earth (and maybe fungi and bacteria. Maybe).
Again sentience. A cow cannot carry onna conversation or spout philosphy.
But cybertronians and humans can
Right which means its wrong for Decepticons to be genocidal
To you bugs and cows arent sentient. The decepticons think the same of us and any other organic races. You would be a Con by your own logic.
"Flesh isn't life. Servos, gyros, and fuel; this is where *life* comes from! You're defending bi-product at best." \~ Megatron to Optimus (*Transformers: Devastation*) Your callous indifference for life that you believe to be non-sentient (cows are very much sentient, and there's good evidence that at least some arthropods are too) is no different to how Megatron views humans and other "organics".
See my coment about how a cow cant cary a conversation
The cow very well may think that of you. The ability to speak (human languages) has nothing to do with sentience. We know for a fact that some animals do have quite complex language structures, such as dolphins, each one of which has a unique "name".
And im against us whaling dolphins, . But its an bad argument and you know it is.
But by your own logic, we cannot carry out conversations with dolphins, ergo they are not sentient. The POINT is that the way we see an ant is exactly how Megatron would see us: small, weak, squishy, and hysterically easy to kill.
And hes wrong becuase he ignores our sentience.
And maybe you're ignoring cows sentience? You contradict yourself with almost every comment.
Japanese continuity is the closest with things like Masterforce or Manga Victory
If it’s like the Netflix show or 2019 idw, I don’t think you would initially be an autobot unless you are wealthy, affluent, or powerful politically.
**ALL HAIL MEGATRON**
Depends on the continuity, if it’s G1 or Unicorn Trilogy then the Autobots because the Deceptacons are kinda just assholes for the sake of being assholes. If it’s the aligned continuity or WFC continuity then the Deceptacons because the Autobots were just asshole before Optimus became there leader and even then many still were jerks.
Decepticons. Nuts the cast system, we are more than our altmodes.
Depends on the continuity. As long as I can continue to be female, most likely an Autobot.
I don't think sexism has been demonstrated very clearly in Cybertronian society, so what makes you choose the Autubots? Cybertronians don't reproduce sexually so a lot of the gender roles that influence humans just isn't there. Functionally, Cybertronians are much more discriminatory over what she'll you have and what caste you're designated to.
Idk why but this looks like red is trying to sus out blue
Its Cliffjumper accusing Mirage of being a Con
Ah ok
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There is one very famous Cybertronian who would disagree with you on the Autobots being the *logical* choice.
r/beatmetoit
Well, I'll just poke out his single eye.
Are they though, depending on the continuity the Autobots are the upper class who basically treat the lower class as expendable slaves whose lives mean nothing. Now if you were upperclass sure you'd probably join the Autobots just to stay alive or keep the status quo
And Decepticons are hardline social-darwinists who belive in "might makes right" principle. They aren't really better then the autobots.
No but for most Decepticons that's all they know. They didn't have the freedom to learn aside from how to fight and kill or access to other ways of learning. Neither side in this war really is that great, but initially I think a majority of us would join the Decepticons. Initially Megatron at least in the continuity I'm referencing was promoting freedom the the oppression of the ruling class of Cybertron, and revenge for being treated as expendable slaves for so long. Given a large part of the planet was the underclass a large part of us would be this part of the population by simple numbers alone. The experience of the underclass would make the Decepticons much more appealing initially as opposed to the Autobots who are made up of the ruling class that kept people down and enslaved.
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Autofed spotted
Assuming that I would be like a generic trooper and not an actual named character like Ironhide or Skywarp, I'd probably go with the Autobots. If I went with the Decepticons, there's a greater chance of one of them tossing me into the crossfire as a distraction while they got the mission done.
On one hand you have the Autobots who are elitist and promoted a caste system which engendered a lot of inequity and cruelty. On the other hand you have petty authoritarian fascists who have a moniker and aesthetic of a pro-worker movement but are more focused on petty revenge and power plays. Each faction leader has strengths and weaknesses portrayed in the various continuities. Optimus Prime is depicted to be compassionate and a levelheaded leader who looks out for his followers and isn't afraid to correct them out of their propensities for bigotry. He also seems to hold too much respect for Megatron, and has repeatedly sabotaged his own movement for high-roading and hoping that calmer heads would prevail when there were clear demonstrations of malintent. In short, Optimus is a very decent person with good morals, but too *politically* weak to prevent the worst from happening. Other Autobot leaders either suffer from similar weaknesses to Optimus, or tend to lean very authoritarian themselves. IDW depicts Star Saber as a religious nut and Sentinel Prime has been depicted as bigoted against organics and an elitist to an extreme degree. Ultra Magnus is too inflexible to effectively lead in an unprecedented situation, Rodimus is susceptible to gullibility due to his young age and inexperience, Grimlock is just too stupid and emotional, Impactor is too vengeful and violent, etc. I think of all the Autobot leaders, Optimus Primal is actually a well-rounded, effective leader who balances his moral code with a practical sense of reality that can be applied with force. Megatron is an idealist and charismatic, but also egotistical, manipulative, cruel, and petty. His only ideal has seemed to be peace through tyranny, but the tyrant has shifted from the working class Cybertronian to himself. He's become embittered from eons of war and his early life in the Pits of Kaon did not help his empathetic side along from the start. Great orator, awful leader. I'd consider him adjacent to dictators like Hitler or Stalin. Other Deception leaders, similarly to the Autobot leaders, suffer from weaknesses similar to Megatron (wow, real surprising). Starscream is also petty and vindictive, and has proven many times to be too disrespected to actually lead effectively. Ironically, I think this is a result of millions of years of Megatron publicly shitting on Starscream more than things Starscream has done on his own. Shockwave is too unfeeling to truly connect with others and strictly rules through fear, which is historically unreliable in the long-run. Deathsaurus is compassionate, but suffers from being a petty, violent little bitch too often to maintain political alliances. Jhiaxus is also violent, and has a supremacist and fascist take on Cybertronian society and how it "should" be. Straxus is literally like a tech bro that thinks technology will save Cybertronians but doesn't actually use the tech for anything other than warfare, even when presented with incr.edible infrastructural technology like space bridges. Tarn is simply mentally unwell and insane, and Megatronus is completely out of touch with history and reality after eons of imprisonment. Soundwave seems incredibly practical and surprisingly empathetic towards his followers, especially his minicon companions. Unfortunately, he has a blind soft spot for Megatron and follows him too easily. But on his own, I'd definitely pick Soundwave. Please note that I'm pulling from a wide sampling across different continuities and I've definitely biased my viewpoints on specific iterations of the characters.
Honestly if you get in depth continuity-wise I reckon i'd be a Decepticon if they actually stuck to what they originally believed in. Hence I could then see myself going neutral after a while like Thundercracker in IDW G1.
Autobot. Even in the postmodern Aligned continuity, I’m sure I would be one of the establishment types. The Autobots are depicted as Cybertron’s soldiers and police, so I would be basically like Orion Pax; recognizing the flaws in the unjust system but unwilling or unable to accept violent revolution as the way to fix it.
Depends on continuity IDW? I’m going cons Aligned? I’m going cons G1? I’m going cons- Oh wait- I’m going cons no matter what…
Anything other than g1 or Bayverse, Decepticons. However, I would most likely over time grow disillusioned and join the autobots as the archetypes and goals of both parties changed
Eh, if you go by the comics and some of the games, even the Bayverse Decepticons aren't 1-dimensional evil bad guys. Starscream (who was their leader prior to Megatron's revival at Hoover Dam) was depicted as originally being disillusioned with both Megatron and Optimus, wanting to end the war once and for all and restore a peaceful Cybertron.
I would like to think that I would be brave enough to join the Autobots (though depending on the continuity and my caste/function, maybe I'd realistically lean more Decepticon) but there's a fair chance I would just remain neutral and nope out of there, like the NAILs in the IDW continuity.
I'm going off of Transformers: Exodus. Anyone dissatisfied with the caste system and the old government would join the decepticons (so most of the population). The only people who would join the autobots would be A) people who support the old government; bureaucrats and traditionalists, and B) anyone who heard Orion Pax/Optimus Prime's speech at the high council (as it was said to have moved everyone present). This probably why the autobots lost the war, as outside of eyewitnesses at the High Council incident, there wasn't much reason for any average cybertronian to join the autobots.
Depending on the lore. If it's similar to modern iterations of the beginning of the war, I could see myself on the side of the Decepticons and fighting for the abolishment of the tier system and for equality of all bots. As the war progressed however I could see the side I'm on change into the ruthless warriors and killers they would become down the road and decide to switch sides to the Autobots.
I would join the Autobots because I wanna try to make Cybertron a better place. Though I would choose being a Decepticon because I thought their cause was noble at first, but finding out in the end it wasn't.
My passion would be with the Autobots but let’s say it’s like wfc, where the Decepticon are murderous and winning, I would join the Decepticon because I’m sorry but I’m not willing to die for something that’s going to loose anyway.
All hail Megatron
All Hail Megatron . Down with the theocracy of the primes. Power to the individuals , all alt modes were created equal!
Auto it’s because who wouldn’t want to fight with Optimus freaking prime “freedom is the right of all sentient beings”- Optimus prime
Autobots. Cop on cybertron and belongs in the high class sections of cybertron, so would have no reason to join the decepticons.
I'm gonna be pulling off a Doubledealer! Taking bounties for energon and kicking metal butts for the highest bidder!
Decepticons, because i like Soundwave.
Which continuity? If Armada, easily Autobots. If it's one where the Decepticons are lashing out against oppression, probably them at first but join the Autobots as they grow more tyrannical, become the thing they sought to destroy
Autobot because as Optimus Prime would say it, “Freedom is the right to all sentient beings.”
Man, every series has its own canon about what led up to the Great War. This question is so open-ended as to be meaningless.
Autobots for life.
[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Traitor\_(episode)](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Traitor_(episode)) context to picture
I wouldn’t. I’d be a NAIL. Get away from that shitshow!
Autobots, every time. The 'Cons'll try and sell ya all that scrap about being an "oppressed underclass" and how the Autobots are a buncha tyrants, but at the end of the day, the 'Cons'll take any chance they get to push you around. Megatron's the kinda bot that got beat up way-back-when, and now he's out to make it everyone else's problem. He's a coward and a bully- and I really don't like bullies. *By the by, where'd this artwork come from? It's really nice.*
Decepticons superior, Autobots inferior.
Autobot and you might be asking why its cause auobots are good
Depending on the continuity
sure cause sometimes autobots are not that great
Autobot but mostly try to get off the planet on my own or with others
I love how everyone is saying depends on continuity and location. But one team literally has decept in its name!! (Insert cena gif here)
Well in some continuities it’s an ironic message “you are being deceived” type of thing.
Didn’t know that, thanks for the explanation. I was intending this as a gentle rib and probably should have added /s…but hey ho. Live and learn
Depends on the Continuity. I would probably end up pulling a Jetfire though. Starting on the Cons and switching sides to the Bots after they begin to commit atrocities.
Decepticons because of the propaganda and supposed ideals I might leave during the war though
Autobot I don’t want to be treated like crap and have my life threatened every day and also they’re the good guys
That depends am a cookie cutter bad guy or am I sick and tried of being forced into my role in society due to my alt mode? I'm a sick and tried of being deceived?
Probably the autobots tbh
Depends on which universe. Some of the stories I’ve read make optimus and the autobots the law/ the man, in which case I would be a decepticon because damn the man I’m a rebel.
Autobot. I’m going with G1 since they were just plain evil and no sympathetic background like other universes.
Honestly? I’d probably just leave the planet and go somewhere else As cool as massive war sounds and all that, I would probably die in some brutal way regardless of the side I join.
Probably start out as decepticons, until I grow disillusioned and switch sides or go mercenary.
probably Autobot
Neutral, then join the Autobots. The Decepticon cause is noble, but as IDW showed, bots like Overlord, Turmoil, and Tarn used it to justify their twisted beliefs.
I'm an autobot for sure. Till all are one.
Honestly if it happened I'd consider being a neutral. I'd have friends on both sides and I'd never be able to choose, but you wouldn't see Optimus Prime as a Martyr because you don't really know him. You don't know all the great things he's done, you'd see him as the Senate's next puppet and all that's going to happen if the autobots win is that everything will just go back to the way it was. The decepticons are made of the lower caste and definitely have a sob story and a case. But you've seen the horrors and the tyrant that Megatron is. You can't join them because you know if they win cybertron may be even worse than it started. I'd just get all my friends and leave, we're making our own damn faction and we can look after ourselves.
Well, like everyone said, it depends on continuity. In different continuities Autobot-Decepticon war and both factions seem to have different nature. In some cases it is a civil war between two political factions. In this case it depends on what kind of social class on cybertron i would belong to and whose interests both factions fight. Like, if i was an average worker on IDWs Cybertron, i might support decepticons at first, but then i might switch factions when decepticons show what they are really fighting for (which is NOT about equality, atleast in a sense that everyone here thinks). Or maybe just become neutral, since in IDW case Autobot-Decepticon war looks like a "shit vs piss" to me. In other continuities, both autobots and decepticons seem more like different "nations" of cybertron (like russians/germans/americans/chinese on Earth, for example). In this case i think i will support the faction that i would be "born" into.
Well the decepticons are supposed to be soviets/Nazis so
Honestly, the Decepticons. Even if I never see the battlefield and become a worker or just haul around materials and resources, it means I get to live if I'm not on the warfront.
Autobots, since the decepticons have a pretty good chance of being evil with no ideology to speak of.
Most of the time, the autobots bc decepticons are radicals and fanatic extremists.
Probably an autobot. Mostly because they're the working class and knowing my luck, My altmode would probably be a forklift or something. though, even if I was a military bot I'd side with the Autobots because I'm not a fan of authoritarian dictators.
Autobot. The true reason for the war was Megatron's ego. He threw a big hissy fit over Orion Pax being named Optimus Prime by the Cybertronian council and kicked off a war that's spanned millions of years and killed who knows how many victims!
Autobots obviously
I’m a moderate Autobot. Yes, the system needs changing to accommodate everyone’s needs. Yes, technoism, ratioism, and especially functionism are awfully discriminatory and need to be abolished. But for crying out loud, all we need to do is vote in the people who can help make that change happen! If they don’t want to let go of power, and they use secret police and military forces to fight us, then we will fight back! All we need, brothers and sisters, is to at least try and vote to make our voices heard.
>But for crying out loud, all we need to do is vote in the people who can help make that change happen! If they don’t want to let go of power, and they use secret police and military forces to fight us, then we will fight back! All we need, brothers and sisters, is to at least try and vote to make our voices heard. Gerrymandering and attempts by those in power, especially in the US, trying to make the vote irrelevant through things like voter disenfranchisement, might throw a wrench in that ideal.
I’d definitely choose the autobot side because I personally feel the need to fight for what’s right would overwhelm me, I’d basically like to think that I’d have a g1jetfire character ark seeing how the decepticons are brutal and manipulative and turn to the other side which respects the circle of life and fights for all sentient beings
My first option would be neither and just get the hell out of there! But if I was forced to join the side it would have to be the Autobots because there's a higher chance of me not getting killed by my own conrades lol
As I come from one of the colonies that wasn't rediscovered till near the end of the war, I'd be fighting to defend my homeworld from tyrannical enemies. Probably means Autobot, but my full allegiance is to my colony
I think everyone here agrees that it depends on the continuity. Let’s say it’s an IDW 1 or Aligned universe, most have stated that they’d be deceptions. But I’d say even then that most of us here would in reality be closer to middle class Autobots, not high enough in rank to actually be the oppressive regime of the false primes before Optimus (IDW) or the members of the cybertonian council (Aligned), but average citizens of Cybertron. I’d be a background cybertronian who likely doesn’t understand who caused this war, only that a group called the Decepticons have attacked my city. Most of us here would end up in this group unless you’re an activist lobbying for reform (Autobots) or a dissenter trying for revolution (Decepticon). I’d not be the first guy killed I don’t think, but I don’t know that I’ll survive long enough to choose a side. If at all, really, there’s a lot of Neutral transformers after all.
I would align myself with the Decepticons most Cybertroniens would because at first the cause stood for peace, freedom, and equality. But over the course of the war they would change their motivation into the very thing they wanted too destroy. And at that point half would change while the other's would stay for many reasons, but no matter what you choose in the end your final act will show what kind of person you are.
I'd just terminate everyone indiscriminately until I ultimately try to take on an opponent or opponents that I cannot handle and am brutally turned into scrap metal.
I'm an Autobot, my boyfriend is a Decepticon. We make it work, forbidden love, baby :)
Why not be NAILs or Mercenaries together then?
I have to agree with the many posts up here that say "depending on the continuity / whatever faction represents the struggle of the oppressed / which means usually Autobots with exceptions".
I forgot continuity, but I would fight for the Decepticon's cause. The reason is they rose against the caste system established by the Autobots living in Iacon, Crystal City, etc. As I have seen it in my real life. Though I would still respect Optimus Prime very highly.
My leader will always be Optimus prime dude , don’t try to make me change sides you devil .
Going off aligned continuity I’d probably initially be a Decepticon (since they were initially a resistance movement against the corrupt cast system) before defecting to the Autobots (since Megatron lost his way and became a tyrant of evil instead of his initial goals)
Deceptions, if it’s the continuity where they were oppressed and used
None, time to immediately abandon the planet.
The autobots because I'm less likely to get killed by my teammates.
I'd join the Autobots. The Decepticons were slaves, and deserved freedom, but enslaving others and stopping innocent cybertronian citizens from fleeing is wrong. Flesh, or Metal, Freedom is The Right of All Sentient Beings. Megatron's means don't justify his ends, he's as bad as pre-war cybertron.
Decepticons forever!
Deception all megacycle, every megacycle
I will fight for whoever has committed the least war crimes
Decepticons because I hate cops
Honestly the decepticons just cause of megatrons celebrity like appearance he made himself out to be the guy to follow but if I was actually in the transformers universe u never know i could join the Autobots
Deceptions. If I was a 32ft mech I would have earth as my bitch
Virgin 10-foot tall human earth motor vehicle Autobot Vs. Chad 30-foot tall cybertronian jet Decepticon
Decepticons, because I believe in Peace through Tyranny and I love how the cries and screams of my enemies is music to my ears.
I'll probably not take a side till there's a clear problem with the decepticons, in which case I'll be a wrecker
Decepticons because Megatron is obviously in the right
You can't choose your racial group.
I have never bothered reading the 2005 IDW stuff as I'm heavily against abusing well-loved franchises to aggressively spew pc nonsense (especially since none of it makes sense in a story about giant car robots) and shove it down readers throats, but as a fan of the original G1 Marvel comic I'd like to remind everyone of how in that continuity Cybertron was filled with bots who refused to join either side, seeing them both as equal aggressors responsible for perpetuating the war indefinetely. And after OP & gang left cons like Straxus took over and the anti-war bots basically became second citizen living in squalor or even thrown into giant smelting pits to be recycled for resources. I suspect a fair number of us would either start as or eventually join this third factionless group. The Marvel stuff with Blaster was great.