[gashatfreak]

I've been on a Transformers high recently and been watching a lot of Transformers media and something that stuck out to me is just how gung-ho violent Optimus is in the movies.

Like, okay, in the original cartoons he cracks jokes time to time like any Saturday morning cartoon protagonist. In the IDW comics he's a heavily flawed yet well-meaning guy. The Unicron Trilogy one...exists I guess (power of friendship and merchandising). And then there's movie Optimus who casually proclaims slaughter to his foes. The juxtaposition borders on hilarious and depressing. Hilarious in that he's so over the top with it, depressing because the movies don't have much substance to them so it just feels like Optimus bein violent is for the sake of being violent rather than having any actual weight to it.