>>8194249Eh, that anon’s a ‘culture-warring’ ass, but he’s not 100% wrong on this one.
In Optimus Prime #23 it’s revealed Divisiun, the Micromaster-combiner colony world, had intelligent native inhabitants, who the colonist basically did to what most human colonies did to their natives (see: Native Americans, Aboriginals, Ainu, Polynesians, various African tribes and nations, etc.)
Plot-wise, I think it was meant to further complicates moral ambiguities of Optimus’s actions on earth by casting many of Slide’s(Divisiun colonist following Prime for pseudo-religious reasons, who becomes an embittered mini-Pyramid-Magna after her twin, who was also the rear half of her alt-mode dies in some conflict which she blames Prime for) criticisms of Optimus’s actions on Earth as hypocritical and/or un-self-awarely imperialist in nature. Which feels un-necessary as she was already pretty unlikable, frequently objectively wrong, and basically another all around constant annoying critic, and who un-like Pyra, is clearly motivated to that by a petty personal grudge instead of genuine ethical/religious convictions.
Seriously, considering Aleiron’s brief stint towards being that (for literally identical motivations), and the fact that Pyra both never actually went away or acted on any of her objections to Prime, I really don’t understand why the writer felt the need to have So Many instances of that exact same character archetype?
