The TFA Decepticons are fucking vicious, actually.
Megatron only talks about freedom whenever he is manipulating or rallying the Decepticons. (Not to mention: Authorizing the use of chemical warfare, killing anyone who betrays him, etc…I could talk about his evil-doings all day).
Starscream creates sentient clones of himself to kill Megatron, (including hijacking the Lugnut Supremes as an attempt to literally destroy everything and everyone in Detroit, Megatron, most specifically).
Blackarachnia betrays a vulnerable bot (Wasp) into becoming an experiment for her own personal gain.
Shockwave traps and crushes his “fellow agent” (Blurr) into a box, sentencing him to a fate worse than death.
It’s implied that Blitzwing cannibalizes other Cybertronian parts. (Well, Random said it, so who knows with him?)
Lugnut’s P.O.K.E. (Punch of Kill Everything) can literally do exactly that.
And this is excluding their crimes in the AllSpark Almanac.
Yes, the TFA Cybertron Autobots are bad too, but let’s not forget that the Decepticons are Decepticons for a reason.
Alright i have been debating on whether or not to make this post about the great Bumblebee age debate. And i would like to preface this with saying this is not an attack on either side, this is simply something I've thought about in relation to the topic and i would like to present this point to the fandom.
How come no other character in the shown is treated like this?
First and most obvious is Bulkhead. Even if he is older than Bumblebee they still have to be in the same age bracket since they were in bootcamp together. But nobody gives him the same treatment.
And better yet: the bots created on earth. The dinobots, the constructivons, Wreck-Gar. They are all at the very most maybe like a year and a half old by the end of the show depending on your timeline of events. Nobody ever bats an eye at any content with those characters even though they are absolutely the youngest characters in the entire show.
Wreck-Gar especially has a lot of the same personality traits as Bumblebee, and he's arguably more childish but i have never seen anyone get mad over content involving him.