#meant to post this on like tuesday but! it's been stuck in my drafts d/t mobile

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Welcome to Cybertron's Worst Bosses 3.0!

This poll covers post-Dark Cybertron exrid up to the beginning of Combiner Wars! Optimus Prime & co have returned to Earth in search of Alpha Trion, etc. etc., you know the drill

Propaganda under the cut!

Optimus Prime: This arc is the beginning of massive turnover within the Autobots, but we can't judge Optimus for what's going to happen. Despite him being very present in this arc, it's mostly him reacting to whatever Prowl is doing rather than taking initiative himself. He leaves for a while (honestly valid. who wouldn't want a break.) and leaves Prowl in charge (what were you thinking, man).

Galvatron: A Racist. Hates combiners, dislikes beastformers, et. al. Kills Daniel Witwicky and immediately lies about it, which I personally find really funny.

Starscream: Starscream only appears twice in this arc, once to insult Prowl and once to be gay with Wheeljack, but he's always scheming.

Marissa Faireborn: Her chemistry with Thundercracker is unfortunately overshadowed by the fact that she's in charge of the organization that's using the corpses of his former friends/fellow soldiers to create an army.

Soundwave: The only actual leading Soundwave does is hooking up with A Racist (see: Galvatron), which imo makes him a pretty strong contender for a terrible boss.

Prowl: Outside of that one chat with Optimus, he's struggling to have a meaningful conversation with anyone who isn't a constructicon. Like Starscream, he's ALSO always scheming, but his schemes have moved from the long game to the short term. While I think a mutiny arc was planned (and cancelled) for exrid, unfortunately we can't judge Prowl for things that only happened in my head.