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Like I sorta understand why some people would be uncomfortable about it, cus it’s, y’know... an uncomfortable topic to talk about whether a man who has been responsible for so much death and destruction, even if it was in the name of good, deserves to live. (It also helps that he is fictional... To some people this seems like a way to excuse horrible things, though thats a discussion i have had many times and I’d rather not have it again lol)

Tbh I think most people look at his redemption arc from the wrong angle. Redemption doesn’t always mean that a character may clean their conscience by reversing their crimes, in fact that’s definitely not what redemption arcs are really about... It’s about the hard and perilous journey of changing yourself for the better, even if what you have done was terrible, because what is done is, unfortunately, done. (A good example of this is Prince Zuko from atla)

Megatron did try and redeem himself, and he did okay imo... He didn’t think so, though, even at the very end of LL, and by then he had probably saved as many lives as he had destroyed, even making his iconic cannon into a med kit.

Furthermore, MTMTE/LL didn’t really focus on politics as much as ExRiD did. It focused more on mental health, character relationships and growth, which is seen in all of the characters, from prominent characters of the main cast like Whirl and Cyclonus, which you mentioned, and some that showed up a bit less like Fort Max, who overcame his horrible PTSD and became friends with Decepticons who he would have not hesitated to tear apart with his bare hands in the start of MTMTE. I find it useless to try and view MTMTE/LL as something political, because it only uses politics as a means to tell the emotional story Jro is telling. Like spice in a dish.

I also like to mention this because I don’t see a lot of people point this out: While Megatron most absolutely definitely was responsible for the war and many trillions of deaths... No one of the survivors of that very war wasn’t a murderer. Even the most wholesome of Autobots have killed, which is pointed out when the crew meets the Necrobot.

It’s weird, really, because Drift goes through a redemption arc as well, but no one really bothers to mention that either... He used to be a notorious Decepticon known for being unreasonably murderous even for Decepticon standards. Yet by the end of LL, he has found himself and after a lot of ups and downs he has found a balance (and a husband)

And that’s just Drift. It’s worth mentioning a lot of prominent characters started out as bad people, like Whirl, Cyclonus and The Scavengers (remember when they made a campfire of an Autobot that was still alive and then shot him dead? Yeah what the fuck james roberts). Rodimus is seen making a game out of murdering enemies with Drift, for godssakes.