>>10591353>He might have been behind, but Megatron outlasted and outplayed him.Depends on where you draw the line of the canon. In the 3H continuity, Tarantulas actually survived getting blown apart (which makes sense - it's happened numerous times before on the show, including when he was standing point-blank next to Ravage's ship's exploding Transwarp Drive) and went on to start a second phase of the Beast Wars right after Primal and co. returned to Cybertron while gaining Vok powers; there was a whole thing with him and Primal Prime waking up all of those forgotten Stasis Pods during the events of Beast Machines, and he survived THAT and went on to kick off the 2006 Universe storyline, which takes place after Primal and Megs die and the Great Reformatting happens; then he goes universe-hopping for a bit to help kidnap people for Unicron's Cauldron, and after a showdown with Silverbolt and Blackarachnia before ambiguously slinking off, possibly surviving THAT ordeal as well. So he may have actually both outplayed AND outsmarted Megatron in the end, too, if you consider those comics canon to the BW-BM continuity.
>>10591370>I always though that tarantulas was the BW shockwave just like terrorsaur was starscreamIirc, while Shockwave as a character predated him, Tarantulas was a mad scientist long before that portrayal of the former was a thing.
