>>83978687It feels like Roberts has abused the whole "start to make a character deal with something but instead of having it lead into character development I'll kill them instead for cheap emotional impact."
Because the payout of those kinds of deaths, treating his characters like that, gives back diminishing returns the more he abuses it. Eventually people become desensitized and expect it to happen, which destroys the shock value. He doesn't even seem to really be using these deaths as character development for others reacting to their deaths. Rodimus' reaction to Trailbreaker lasted until the possible time travel resurrection failed and then they largely ignored it. Trailbreaker getting off the booze, given a job by Megatron, trying to live up to his new name - he was starting to make something of himself when he just died. Skids now dies thinking he was a monster when he tried to save people and was betrayed, but he'll never have to deal with it anymore because he's dead. Anything that comes out of his final revelation of the truth is gone, rendered moot.
I mean sure you can do this in writing, but when one author seems to make it his personal signature within the same comic run, doing it over and over again, it's pretty shitty.
