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For a pair of fire safety vehicles these two seem to create a lot of sparks.

"You're mine. Don't even bother resisting; you'll only make it worse, and that could be painful."

— Megatron (to Starscream)

Since Cybertronians are a gender neutral species with a suspiciously large percentage of characters considered male, Ho Yay and homoeroticism between enemy lines collapse into themselves in an explosion of pink energon, purple Big Bads, and *ahem* brotherhood.

Might as well put it all together in one easily accessible page. You know, for efficiency.

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G1

The Transformers

• Megatron/Starscream:
  • Starscream glomps Megatron after returning from the past. Also note Starscream saying the beginning of what may be a Double Entendre: "Aren't you glad to see us?"
  • Usually when Starscream begs for forgiveness from Megatron, his cloying tone can be interpreted as a sweet and innocent tone.
  • In "Bruticus' Revenge", Starscream tries to convince Megatron that the Combaticons forced him to threaten him, Shockwave was the only one to respond while quoting "He is lying!".
  • In "Enter the Nightbird", the Decepticons gain a human-made Female robot called Nightbird, and Megatron apparently falls in love with her. Starscream becomes enraged and destroys her, really pissing Megatron off.
    Starscream: She's not so hot.
    Megatron: She's hot enough to replace you whenever I choose!
    Megatron: (witnessing Nightbird's fight with the Autobots) TERRIFIC!! You're definitely on my replacement list, Starscream. She's everything I've always wanted.
    Starscream (outraged): REPLACE ME!? NEVER! (punches Megatron)
  • Starscream's revenge towards Galvatron can be interpreted as a psycho ex-girlfriend getting back at her boyfriend.
• Megatron/Optimus Prime:
  • Megatron has a life-size working model of Optimus hidden in his closet. What could he have possibly meant by this?
  • Optimus forcing an unconscious Megatron to his gun-mode really sticks to the mind of the fans.
    YouTube comment: optimus transformed megatron againts his will. haha that would be classified as transformer rape.
  • In a very quick moment, Optimus grabs Megatron's aft at one point in The Transformers: The Movie. Much to think about.
• Before Starscream was the know-it-all second-in-command of the Decepticons, he was a know-it-all scientist and explorer. And Skyfire/Jetfire was his partner... lab partner, even.
  Skyfire: Are you... happier being a warrior than a scientist, Starscream?
  Starscream: Oh, yes! It's far more exciting! And one day I will be leader of the Decepticons and you will be my second-in-command.
  Skyfire: I will do my best.
• Soundwave's rescue of Megatron in The Movie sees him refuse to abandon his leader and Bridal Carry him away from the battlefield. It's genuinely tough not to take this act of supreme loyalty as being borne of affection.
• Cyclonus gets special mention. Always calls him "Mighty Galvatron," and is always by his side and genuinely caring about him, no matter how insane he gets... it's actually sweet. And at one point, when Cyclonus is in danger, Galvatron looks back, and hesitates just a moment (before leaving him and saving his own skidplate, of course). From the Ax-Crazy Bad Boss that is G1 Galvatron, that's a lot. He'd actually thrown some Mooks into the path of The Dweller to increase his own chances of escaping earlier.
• Megatron and Starscream have nothing on Inferno and Red Alert◊. While not Jazz/Prowl level, it is usually a consistant fact that they are in a relationship, or are at least very close.
• At one point, Hardhead stops Blurr's rambling by shutting him up in a fashion that makes it look like they're kissing.
• Tracks/Raoul. In both of Tracks' feature episodes ("Make Tracks" and "Auto-Bop"), Raoul is very heavily featured. In the former episode, when Raoul is captured by Megatron, Tracks personally threatens the leader of the Decepticon military. In both episodes, Raoul risks life and limb to save or otherwise help Tracks. The icing on the Ho Yay cake? Picture all of Tracks and Raoul's scenes playing out between a man and a woman. The Ho Yay practically jumps up and kisses you on the mouth.
• At one point, Cliffjumper hops into Mirage's lap, and the two hug while rolling over and over each other. It's exactly as it sounds. (This is how they make up after Cliffjumper suspects Mirage of treason.) And in the Japanese Dub, the line when Cliffjumper hops into Mirage's lap is "Do whatever you want with me."

Transformers: Devastation

• Transformers: Devastation's opening cutscene includes this bit of dialogue:
  Starscream: No Cybertronian has been able to tame it since... since the Golden Age!
  Megatron: Then stand back, Starscream, and watch me tame it... as I have tamed you.

Beast Wars (in the G1 continuity by way of Broad Strokes)

• Rattrap's got a few:
  • Rattrap, despite his talk about the femmebots back home, seems to be laying it on pretty thick with the guys of his team; he has no problem with telling Cheetor just how he "tickles his joystick", tries to talk Silverbolt into going to a robot strip club with him, and even kisses Rhinox on the cheek after "saving" him from a fall. He also gives Rhinox an ever so slight kiss on the lips during the season finale, when both are under the impression that they are going to die at the guns of the Nemesis. Rhinox doesn't seem to have a problem with it (the kiss, not the dying). He doesn't even give a nod to Airazor, and has nothing but contempt for Blackarachnia, the only two females in the series.
  • Of note is his Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic with Dinobot, which feels a bit too much like an old married couple. And Rattrap became Horatio to Dinobot's Hamlet (he held Dinobot's slaggin' hand until raptors went extinct AGAIN) in the end. We know how ambiguous THEY were, raising eyebrows in the theatre part here. Plus the scrapped episode of "Dark Glass" in which Rattrap defies orders to go on a suicide mission to resurrect his personal Pred in the clone. Heck, when Dinobot is about to Shoot Your Mate Rattrap, the Japanese dub has him utter "be gentle, I hear the first time hurts".
• The Megatron and Starscream we already know are unconscious in a volcano for 99% of this series, but this Megatron and Dinobot are ready to serve you with hours of prideful-ex-boyfriends-who-can't-stop-arguing action. Megatron's repeated attempts at cloning Dinobot and their arguments. Seriously, after Dinobot defects to the Maximals Megatron's repeated attempts at cloning him really come across as someone trying to fill the void that Dinobot left.
• Inferno's obsessed with his "queen," Megatron. Assuredly one-sided, and while he swaps it out for "Royalty" in season 3, Inferno's repeated use of such an LGBTQ term has raised quite a few eyebrows.
• Beast Wars II: Starscream's bordering on Camp Gay, but sadly, he'd rather backstab his teammates than Galvatron. Of course, you could say he's trying to work his way up to get closer to the one he loves...

Marvel comics

• Megatron's immortal quote of "Why? That's what they all asked me. Why him... why Starscream? Why, of all the Decepticons, did I decide to revitalize the one whose record of deceit and betrayal is legend? Because I'm an idiot, that's why!" could also be answered by "because you love him."
• When Prime dies, Megatron becomes unbalanced, to Ax-Crazy proportions. It's generally better for all involved whenever it finally turns out that Prime isn't as dead as Megs thought.

Transformers Zone

• With the page image, notice the kids at the bottom holding hands. They're Cain (the one with the green hair) and Akira (brown hair) from Transformers Zone, and are both quite male, and Akira doesn't usually look this feminine, and neither probably look as girly to the 1989 Japan as to us (especially the "hotpants," once standard 80s shorts length, and Cain's hair - it's anime, it's '89, 'nuff said.) Literally all toy-company-produced promotional materials have them holding hands affectionately, and in the OVA, they're very Ho Yay-tastic, with Akira practically landing in Cain's lap at one point, and both looking at each other, seeing how close they are, blushing, and... not moving away. In the end credits, there's more hand-holding. The only reason the idea that this could be unintended subtext and not an Official Couple stands up at all is the fact that it's Transformers, and cartoons that exist to sell toys to 6-to-10-year-old boys Do Not Work That Way. Shippers must be making too much of it and it must be completely platonic blushing and repeated affectionate touching and running through fields of flowers hand-in-hand — it must be!

Transformers War For Cybertron Trilogy

• There's a brief scene in Siege where Optimus leans in on a seated Megatron. It looks an awful lot like they're about to kiss (or Optimus is straddling him).

Transformers: Shattered Glass

• In Shattered Glass, Starscream is worshipful of Megatron to the point of practically mooning over him like a lovestruck teenager. He calls him "magnificent leader" and similar titles all of the time with utter sincerity. In one of the stories he gets very fussing and protective when Megatron is injured. In another he reacts with horror at the thought of having to leave Megatron behind stranded on Cybertron due to circumstances while he and the others go to Earth, and when he's forced to anyway he gets mopey about it. Then in the recent comics when Megatron is killed, Starscream throws himself on Megatron's body and wails about why couldn't it have been himself that was killed instead. While it's obviously intended as a reversal of The Starscream usually being a disloyal backstabber, it has the side effect of some seriously slashy overtones. Of course, being a mirror universe, this means that if everything character-wise is the opposite, if Starscream is gay for Megatron here, he isn't in the main timeline.

Other

• The "Starscream's Ambition" manga really makes no effort to hide it.
  Megatron: However, I'm more interested in that body of yours.
  Starscream: I'd be happy to give you a taste....of the power that I hold!

Robots in Disguise (2001)

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

• Transformers: Robots in Disguise gets what is pretty much a remake of the Cliffjumper/Mirage episode, but Ironhide gets the Cliffjumper role. When 'hide confronts Mirage, it all comes off like a breakup. In the original, Cliffjumper had simply jumped to conclusions, followed by Mirage actually getting brainwashed. In this version, it's a plan Mirage has but can't let the others in on because he's been bugged. Cliffjumper comes off as being totally out of his processor; not so much Ironhide.
  Ironhide: "What's happened to you, Mirage? I thought I knew you! I thought you were dedicated! I thought you cared!"
  Mirage: "Yeah, well, you thought wrong. I don't care about them, and I don't care about you."
  Ironhide: "I can't believe you're saying this! You and me are history!"

Unicron Trilogy

• Care to guess where the top quote comes from? In this one, Starscream is still a whiny nuisance, but he gets jealous of Megatron paying attention to the others sick of sucking up to Megatron for scraps and defects to the Autobots in Armada (Megatron will miss him when he's gone!). Megatron is offended by Starscream's audacity. So when Starscream returns in Energon without his memories, Megatron... helps. While Megatron is penetrating Starscream's body with a large object as the below dialogue plays, having started with this page's quote. At the end, Demolishor, watching the whole thing, says, "Whew! That looked like it hurt!"
  "What is my name, Starscream?!"
  "...Megatron..."
  "SAY IT AGAIN!"
  "Meg... a... tron!"
  • The point of this exchange was that Starscream had lost his memories and Megatron wanted to make it very clear to the confused mech that he lived for Megatron and Megatron alone. After this, Megs gets the perfect soldier: The rare Starscream who does anything that Megatron commands him to do, without question, and whenever Screamer does wonder who he is Megatron shuts him up and puts him back in the kitchen so that the 'rebelling/getting self killed' bit from Armada doesn't repeat itself.
• In Armada, Megatron becomes catatonic when Optimus Prime dies. First Screamer, then Prime!? Who is he supposed to punch?! He was naturally quite pleased when Prime came Back from the Dead.
• In Armada, Megatron/Demolishor:
  • Megatron actually exploits this. After manipulating Starscream into attacking Demolishor, Megatron heroically jumps between them and takes the blow. When Demolishor asks if Megs is all right, Megatron replies that it's nothing as long as Demolishor is OK, prompting Demolishor to give him a suspiciously tender look.
  • Demolishor’s got a few moments of Megs love, actually. For example, when collecting a Mini-con for the Decepticons, he says “Megatron will love me for this!” Later, after having lost it to the Autobots, Megatron points his sword at him, but eventually only threatens him with banishment. Demolishor begs, “No, please don’t banish me! Anything but that!” With a really big sword to his throat, he still considers that the worst thing that can happen.
• In the original Japanese version of Energon Mirage was 100% Gay-For-Galvatron. The dub either tried to cut it out, or never noticed it was there due to the rush job and incomplete translation, but one mention got in: when the Goldfish Poop Gang was jealous of Starscream getting all the credit, Mirage says, "But I've been so loyal! How could Galvatron not know how I feel about him?" The few times his Japanese counterpart's personality is carried over to the US version, it's even more hilarious, because he retains his deep gravelly voice from when he was Tidal Wave. If you haven't seen it, imagine the line as given by Darth Vader, delivered dead seriously. Mirage even pirouettes in front of a glowy pink cartoon heart when Galvatron calls for him.

Live-Action Films

Megatron and Starscream:

• These two are the only Decepticons with much verbal screentime, so their dependence on each other is highlighted. This is the only incarnation where a battle-damaged Megatron calls on Starscream to help him!
• Their only conversation in the first movie:

Starscream: I live to serve you, Lord Megatro—

Megatron: Where is the cube!

Starscream: The humans have taken it. :(

Megatron: You fail me yet again, Starscream.

• From Revenge Of The Fallen, three words:

Megatron: Starscream, I'm home.

• Megatron and Starscream have kids, too. If that isn't out of place and creepy enough, Megs gets back into domestic abuse form and roughs Starscream up around them, killing one of them. Though in all fairness, they're less 'kids' and more 'clone soldiers.'
• Megatron slapping Starscream with his severed arm was a nice touch.

• Megatron and Sam. No, really. Michael Bay's Megatron seems to be more obsessed with Sam than he's obsessed with Optimus. In the first movie, he sure as hell was really into to getting the boy, and then when he had him cornered he gives him the chance to live by becoming his pet. In the second movie, he gets all close to Sam, such as when he had him in the warehouse he holds him in a weird position on a dominating way, and then says he'll enjoy what he's gonna do, "slowly and painfully".
  Megatron: Oh, it feels good to grab your flesh!

• Transformers: The Last Knight features an Alas, Poor Yorick moment where Megatron fondly holds Starscream's head.
  Megatron: The end is near, my old treacherous friend. What a shame you'll be unable to see it.

Transformers: Animated

• The fact that the first two Season Finale battles both involve Optimus Bound and Gagged at Megatron's mercy is fascinating.
• At the end of their Enemy Mine episode, Lockdown invites Prowl to run away together. When Prowl turns him down, he even says "Don't be like that." Granted, this scene is halfway to being a parody of someone telling their admirer to "stop calling me", so Lockdown at least thinks he's fun to hang out with. At one point they refer to a "spark to spark" which some fans choose to interpret as some form of Transformer sex rather than the intended Transformers-version of "heart to heart."
• Despite Lugnut apparently having a consort in the form of Strika, he and Blitzwing have a lot going for them. Besides the whole hugging thing, after which Lugnut launches them both into the sky? In their first appearance, Blitzwing just iced Blackarachnia after she insulted Lugnut, despite the fact that he himself does it all the time. Um...
• Like with Inferno's complete and utter devotion with his Queen, it's not too hard to imagine Lugnut's devotion to his GRAND AND GLORIOUS master, Lord Megatron, to stem from actual romantic attraction.

• Optimus/Sentinel anyone? Optimus has always gone above and beyond to help his former Academy-mate, even when Sentinel clearly deserved whatever sticky situation he got himself into! There were even several instances where Optimus clearly cared more about protecting Sentinel than Elita/ Blackarachnia who was arguably the more logical love-interest for Optimus!
• There's also Wasp's obsession with Bumblebee. His planned revenge on the little bug is not only dressing Bumblebee up as himself in order to make Bumblebee suffer through the same persecution and ruined life as he did, but turning himself into Bumblebee.
• In the episode "Home Is Where The Spark Is", Bumblebee is pushed to the ground by Prowl and he blushes. Uh-huh... Normally, It Makes Sense in Context cancels many of these, but it's actually slashier in context. Prowl demonstrates his agility by pouncing on Bumblebee, and while on top of him, he's leaning right into Bumblebee's face with the biggest grin. And Bumblebee really does blush.

Aligned Continuity (Prime, Rescue Bots, and others)

Transformers: War for Cybertron

• In Transformers: War for Cybertron, Starscream and Megatron don't even start on the same side, but they can't stop talking about how "intriguing" they think the other is. The first instance of this happens roughly ten minutes into the first level.

Transformers: Prime

• Megatron/Starscream:
  • Episode Six where Starscream finds a near-dead Megatron. Ol' Screamer lands on top of Megatron and moves his face closer to his. Subtext? We don't need no subtext!
  • In ''Out of his Head" Starscream is gloating over Megatron's unconscious body:
    Starscream: Seems I possess the only means that will allow you to rise off that slab and walk again, my dearest Megatron.
  • Then in the next episode, Megatron gloats at a badly beaten (by him) Starscream who is lying on that same berth:
    Megatron: To think that but a short time ago it was you who were standing here while I was lying there, right after your failed attempt to terminate me. But know this, dear Starscream - our positions shall never again be reversed!
  • In "Rock Bottom", what drove Starscream to rescue Megatron is the idea of the approval it would give him. And, when Megatron found him stuck in a cave-in, Starscream tries a whole string of excuses to try and get Megatron to help him, Megatron responds with nothing but a smirk. Note that this is the same bot who would leave his henchmen to die without hesitation.
  • This quote from Partners:
    Megatron: "I don't care about some trinket! My second-in-command is a prisoner of the enemy!"
  • Yeah, it's because all Decepticon intelligence could be in Autobot hands, but the very fact that he's more angry about Starscream's capture, rather than the loss of a very powerful weapon, should be enough Fanfic Fuel.
  • We get lines like "my dearest Megatron" and such, going both ways. It usually means pain is about to ensue, though.
  • Even the humans start noticing it, as Agent Fowler reports to his superior (while summing up Starscream's entire character and purpose in the franchise) in a Recap Episode.
  Agent Fowler: Starscream really needs to decide: does he want Megatron's position... or his approval?
  • Not just the humans. The Decepticon's good doctor Knockout even picked up on it:
    Knockout (to Megatron): "Now tell me you love me more than Starscream."
    • Keep in mind this is after Knockout has seen Starscream leave and be replaced AND he was now currently witnessing Megatron show favor to Shockwave. And yet he still mentioned Starscream specifically for comparison.
  • Smokescreen's heard rumours about that stilleto-heeled creep...
  • Screamer's reaction towards Dreadwing's position as Megatron's new right-hand man?
  Starscream: "THAT'S MY POST"
  • But it's okay. Because after having an episode-long talk in Starscream's mind (via the psychic patch) Megatron forgives him, yet again, and allows him back into his ranks as his co-second-in-command. Yep, after seeing every ounce of Starscream's treachery in this series, Megatron still forgives Starscream (though not without some epic verbal punishment that deconstructs his character). Keep in mind he tries to have Airachnid killed after she betrays him only once.
  • And then, Megatron actually KILLS Dreadwing to save Starscream in the very next episode. Granted Dreadwing betrayed the Decepticon army after he found out that Starscream revived his brother from the dead and Megatron was going to help cover it up. But Megatron didn't know this at the time and so yes, he killed one of his (as far as he knew) most loyal commanders ever for a commander who's deceit and betrayal are every bit as well-known in this continuity as others.
  • In a later episode, Megatron says aloud what everyone already knows.
  Megatron(to Starscream): "You've been given more chances at redemption than anyone else in Decepticon history!"

  • And yet he just keeps granting them to him.
  • Starscream's hatred of Shockwave and Megatron's favoritism towards him COULD come across as attention-whoring from a greedy, insecure con...but it's probably easier to just call it jealousy.
  • Then, Starscream goes into a berserk vengeance-crazed fury when Megatron gets killed by Bumblebee. Yes, he cares about Megatron so much, it overrides his sense of self-preservation, self-centeredness, and tactics, also known as "the fundamental building blocks of his personality".
• Megatron/Optimus:
  • Prior to the war, when they went as Megatronus and Orion Pax, the two were actually friends. The war broke out when Optimus became a Prime, but Megatron got left in the dust. Megatron is still rather bitter about the affair and wishes Optimus would be by his side again, as if he can't get over him and Optimus breaking up.
  • In the One Shall Stand/One Shall Fall arc wrapping up season 1, Megatron saves Optimus from danger multiple times. Megatron eventually forms a temporary truce with the Autobots, complete with him and Optimus getting into each other's personal space constantly.
  • In the season 2 three-part opener, the Orion Pax arc, Optimus loses his memories after sacrificing the Matrix of Leadership to sacrifice Unicron. Before he regains his memories, he goes by Orion Pax as Megatron takes him under his wing, trying to convince him he was never a Prime to begin with, the war never happened, and they're still friends. He even tries to convince Orion into thinking Ratchet's actually "Warlord Ratchet, Doctor of Doom," in an attempt to make sure he won't come back to one of his oldest friends before the war.

• The tension between Bulkhead and Breakdown. Bulkhead is even convinced to help rescue Breakdown so that he can have a rematch of an earlier fight! And Breakdown even hesitates to fight Bulkhead after being rescued, despite having his loyalties to the Decepticons questioned.
• In the episode "Triage" Wheeljack and Ratchet team up to find an artifact. A lot of their conversations come off as Wheeljack basically flirting with Ratchet, calling him "sunshine" and other unwanted nicknames.
• Optimus frequently calls Ratchet "Old Friend", and their long history with each other is apparent in the trust they express towards each other, especially in the second season premiere where Ratchet insists that the amnesiac Optimus is still an Autobot inside despite joning the Decepticons. This is pretty exceptional for the usually cynical Ratchet. Several members of the fandom have commented on how the two act Like an Old Married Couple.
• Soundwave and Megatron too. Soundwave is so loyal to Megatron that he is ready to kick Airachnid's ass when she tries to overthrow him. Furthermore, Megatron always shows more respect for Soundwave than he ever did to anyone else and freaks out when Soundwave is captured by Autobots. And in the Titan comic, when Soundwave is injured, while Megatron could have run and let him die, he didn't. He was so enraged to the point of protecting him. Then, there is a cute moment between them afterward, where Megatron gives Soundwave a piggy-ride back even though he said he saved him because he needed generals. And that's one of the only times where Soundwave talks. And his word? "Thanks."
• From "Thirst" (S3:E08), as Starscream and Knock Out are hiding together in a room from the Terrorcons:
  Starscream: "If this is indeed the end, if we are to become Terrorcon chow... It has been an honour serving Lord Megatron with you."
  Knock Out: "You're no Breakdown, though I must confess I have always admired your... lustrous finish."
  [prolonged silence as Starscream smiles, flattered]
  Starscream: [clears throat] "Well then..."

Transformers: Rescue Bots

• Despite the tensions they've had, Blurr is pretty excited to be going on a mission alone with Heatwave in "The Need for Speed" (this despite Heatwave dismissively saying that no one else was available) and his jumping the gun on their rescue even seems to be out of eagerness to impress him.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)

• Grimlock and Bumblebee:
  • Their homoeroticism starts in episode 3 "Trust Exercises" with Grimlock catching Bee in a Bridal Carry which seems fairly unnecessary for simply trust exercises.
  • It then happens again in episode 7 "Collect Them All" with what sounds almost like flirting between the two:
  Bumblebee: Grimlock, we need you!
  Grimlock: Say it again, slooower?
  Bumblebee: Just get over here!

Note: I've commented out the IDW folder because a number of IDW characters are actually LGBTQ+. I know canon LGBT couples aren't allowed, but I'm not sure on everything else in the folder and I need more consensus.

Cyberverse

Transformers: Cyberverse

• Similar to Optimus and Megatron, Wheeljack and Shockwave have a dynamic similar to a divorced couple. What adds fuel to the ship is that they’ve both created the small spider like robots utilized by Shockwave from Seasons 1 to 3. Technically, they’re the little spider bots’ divorced dads!
• Where do we even begin with Jetfire/Skyfire? Not only do they have a bitter rivalry that expands for centuries, but they also work surprisingly well together when the Autobots and Decepticons joined together in the Quintessons arc. Hell, they’re a much healthier couple than their own leaders.
• Windblade and Starscream became a popular ship due to their banter in Season 1. The moment it exploded is when Slipstream got killed off by Bludgeon in “Parley.” This caused Windblade to seek revenge on the skull bot and succeeded in doing so in the three part opener of Season 3, with the help of Wheeljack and Teletraan X.
• It’s pretty much impossible to discuss Season 3 of Cyberverse without discussing perhaps the most popular ship in the entire show: Soundwave/Hot Rod. At first, they butted heads over leadership multiple times in, “The Prisoner.” However, after Hot Rod punched Soundwave in the face during one fight, the latter decides to cooperate with him throughout the arc. It then culminates in a friendship etween them, as they were able to get both of their sides to fight for their freedom from the Quintessons. Eventually, in “The Perfect Decepticon,” what caused Soundwave to perform his Heroic Sacrifice? It was seeing Hot Rod having the crap beaten out of him by Tarn. It even helps that Hot Rod’s voice actor Travis Artz supports the ship through sharing fanart of them on his Instagram.
  (Hot Rod lies on the floor after the beatdown.)
  Soundwave: *eyes turn brighter with rage* You will pay for this.
• Starscream including Optimus Prime as one of the two bots (besides Megatron) be brought to him alive for his Judgment as a Quintessons Judge in Season 3 can be read as him being enraged at Optimus for stealing Megatron away from him.
• Cyberverse has the most explicit in the romantic subtext to Megatron and Optimus's relationship in the franchise. For starters, their dynamic is that of a divorced couple whenever they interact outside of fighting. Additionally, Optimus still wants to patch things up with Megatron through many peace treaty talks they had over the years of the war. The cherry on top to this is how Megatron spent his last moments dying in Optimus’ arms. Cue all the shippers being devastated.
• Starscream including Optimus Prime as one of the two bots (besides Megatron) be brought to him alive for his judgment as a Quintesson Judge in Season 3 can be read as him being enraged at Optimus for stealing Megatron away from him.

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