HAMMER TIME

My artfight:

I know that when Starscream asks if it disturbed Knock Out to be experimenting on Breakdown's corpse and Knock Out says "Not really," that that sounds like he never actually cared about him at all. However, I interpreted that as Knock Out having accepted that that ISN'T Breakdown anymore—it's Silas using Breakdown's body. He isn't torturing Breakdown, he's torturing the guy who's wearing his dead body like a suit of armor. He's MAD, not detached

Yes, Knock Out's a sadist, but he was CLEARLY emotional over Breakdown, and that emotion was very obviously anger over what happened to him, and he rightfully took that anger out on Silas (before the whole vampire-zombie infection plot line completely obliterated any meaningful character development regarding something that should have in some fashion more strongly affected Knock Out). I'm not saying they were definitely canonically together or anything like that, but to say Knock Out didn't care about someone he clearly saw as at least a friend on some level is just silly to me