>>124721777This is an idea I never considered before.
At best you can say he was siding with the corrupt regime and Zeta for a long time for IDW, but by the time Zeta turned Prime Megatron was already on a murder rampage so you cannot accuse them being responsible for the escalation, let alone Orion alone.
>Then he could have some of that genuine misery pathos writers seem to want him to have.You are right. It would make so much more sense that way. A very common problem I have with modern media is how they handle inner conflicts MCs have. On the one side they want a more complex character that struggles, on the other side though they are too afraid of giving them flaws. So you get those half-assed, annoying arcs in which flawless characters feel guilty for no fucking reasons and it's threated as if it was a big thing when in reality all you can see is the MC being a whiny bitch.
