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Fracture : good boss or bad boss toward his minicons? (love your analysis posts)

Adequate imo, especially by Decepticon standards.

While Fracture doesn’t seem to care if his aggressive outbursts hurt the Minicons, neither Airazor nor Divebomb fear their boss so I guess the audience has no reason to take this seriously? He also talks to them like a normal person, without threat.

I’m mentioning the lack of threatening demeanor because of how it compares to, among others: Megatron when he’s not talking to Soundwave or Shockwave, Starscream with his hired team in RiD, Motormaster with his team of Stunticons, and even Drag Strip with Wildbreak. Fracutre doesn’t try to intimidate his underlings or make them fear him.

Airazor and Divebomb both show admiration and appreciation towards Fracture – fantastic boss, does all the walking, most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, sometimes he smiles! – and they care when he’s in trouble, they always worry and rush to assist him.

So, I’d say Fracture passes for an adequate boss because his Minicons love him and I’m assuming he earned their loyalty. But if he was an Autobot, he’d require some sensitivity training. lol

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I see. So you don’t view Divebomb and Airazor as evil? By the way, do you think they both cared for each other just like the way Jetstorm and Slipstream did to each other?

I can’t take them seriously enough to consider them actually evil, especially
compared to villains that do harm or state evil plans. They’re also too adorable so I’m biased.

As for caring, well they show great adoration for their boss without any jealousy towards one another so I’d assume they’re on friendly terms, and they’re pretty synchronized like it’s the most natural thing in the world so there’s that little teammate bond going on.

Like, I recently rewatched some of the shorts and these two don’t just finish each other’s sentences, they speak sentences together part by part.

Speaking of the shorts, there’s a moment when the two are told by Slipstream and Jetstorm that they’ll be arrested. Divebomb keeps looking at Airazor during this exchange and then takes a step forward and stretches out his arm to put himself between Drift’s Minicons and Airazor – either to protect him from being dumb and starting another fight or to protect him from the others.

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But this show isn’t exactly known for giving Decepticons screen time, character, character development, or meaningful relationships. So insert shrug emoji here, hell if I know.