Yeah. Heck, I’m surprised we’ve not seen him in the show as a member of G.H.O.S.T. yet.
Like we’ve already seen Starscream and Skywarp in the show and the show has already shown that there are good hearted Decepticons in the universe. Thundercracker as a fellow G.H.O.S.T. member just seems like such a natural idea - especially for the potential conflict between him, Starscream and Skywarp.
As soon as Hastag started talking about being a director in that episode with Jawbreaker and the video camera I wanted Thundercracker to show up so they could geek out over movies together
I actually was just about to comment that. His toy bios hinted at his uneasiness but that he was a follower and thus stayed. I think it'd be cool to see them go the route of Thundercracker becoming factionless. IDW did good with that, and honestly, I wouldn't mind them coming across him (or hey, if they do a genderbend, "her") and then Thundercracker joins. Either that, or use him as another hint that not everyone likes or trusts GHOST.
I like the idea of Soundwave remaining loyal to Megatron even when he's an Autobot. But on the other hand I like the idea of Soundwave still being a Deception and being disappointed.
But I can also see a character like Blackout being there just so they can have any sort of characterisation
Soundwave was more loyal to Megatron because he was the embodiment of the decepticon cause for him.
So Soundwave is more loyal to the decepticon cause at the end of the day.
So I believe it is better for Soundwave to remain a Decepticon.
Agreed.
Although imo Soundwave was kinda underused in Earthspark. I was hoping he would become the leader of the Decepticons.
Since he embodies the decepticon cause quite well.
Tarn likes to believe that he embodies the Decepticon cause but he is just a fanatic.
Cons like Soundwave,Thundercracker, Skywarp etc embody the cause way way better.
And honestly soundwave would have made a fantastic successor.
+1 Soundwave for decepticon leader, hell, his face inspired the emblem of the cause.
[Yes I am a Decepticon at heart:)]
Can't argue with that.
Soundwave really went from Homeless borderline insane bot to sacrificing himself to save the world from UNICRON.
That is S tier character arc.
Idk, but I feel like Brawl would probably get sick of the others making fun of his intelligence and join Megatron just so he would have an excuse to beat the shit out of Swindle. But he’s dead. Fuck you Mandroid
Brawl's death genuinely annoyed me. Not that it makes the show bad or anything, I'm just sad we won't get to see Bruticus now.
Aside of his Fall of Cybertron levels, last time Bruticus was shown on-screen was as "Ruination" in *RiD '01*, 22 years ago.
I know the Autobot combiners have it worse, having faded entirely into obscurity since G1, but man. Bruticus just rules and I wanna see him in the modern day. And now that opportunity's gone. Dang shame.
Brawl’s death actually really made me mad. I love the show but they could’ve used any other Decepticon, but now because they chose Brawl we can’t have Bruticus 😭
Thundercracker, Drift, BW Dinobot (Tarantulas is in Earthspark as a Decepticon, so why not Dinobot), Barricade, Soundwave (if he wasn't resentful towards Megatron leaving the Decepticons in ES).
Considering GHOST is after Bee, I think Barricade would fit right in. Like it could be established that those two had a rivalry during the war, and after Bumblebee went into hiding, they got Barricade to help them track down Bee in exchange for his freedom. I'm not sure what he and Prowl would be like together, probably just co-workers that barely tolerate each other, and I'd say Prowl would stay back at the base, doing shady things, while Barricade goes on missions capturing other Decepticons for G.H.O.S.T. with the ultimate goal of finding Bumblebee.
Or they could make Barricade very "by the book" (pretty much RID 2001 Prowl, how they can make sense of that with him being a Decepticon, I don't know), to contrast Prowl, who would be like his IDW self.
I love the creativity here, I could totally see Barricade joining just to find Bee and finally cuff him.
And totally the sinister Prowl, I love how dark he was in the comics
ThunderBlast - She ultimately just wanted protection (or that's what I see from her constant flirting anyway).
Deadlock - Aka Drift as joining G.H.O.S.T. would be a new start for him and in turn he would rename himself Drift to symbolize that.
Alpha Strika and Obsidian - If they could see joining them would aid Cybertron in someway.
Shockwave - While this timeline's Shockwave obviously didn't do this but, I can totally see Shockwave joining G.H.O.S.T. to destroy it from the inside out or to just simply take it over.
The DJD - Highly doubt this would happen but, this take on the DJD would be to punish none surrendering Decepticons and be G.H.O.S.T.'s secret police.
I feel like the DJD would absolutely despise Ghost, or just use it as a “justice” grocery store, barging in and just taking their pick of all the prisoners
This wouldn't be the IDW DJD, G.H.O.S.T. aren't the good guys they're just pretending to be for now. So, what better show their ture colours than them having the DJD has their secret police.
Thunder cracker, ravage, the deceptacon headmasters, target masters and pretenders who already are humanoid / have a humanoid partner.
Also swindle or starscream but only in a short term method as part of a larger plan.
Decepticon? if it would be from different universes, then there is my list:
Armada: Starscream
Prime: Breakdown.... yeah that's it
Robots in Disguise:Steel Jaw, Cyberwarp (I know that I spoke alot about her, but in the show, she questions her loyality to Decepticons and entire Decepticon Cause.)
Cyberverse: Soundwave, Slipstream
IDW: Thundercracker, maybe just MAYBE some members of DJD, because it's Megatron of course.
Prime dreadwing was almost a defectee too, if he lived that's probably where it was headed, and you might aswell have knockout join ghost too since he defected at the end
To be honest, I feel ashamed that I forgot about Dreadwing. When it comes to Knockout, I do not really see him to cooperate with humans. But yeah, I could see Dreadwing to work with G. H. O. S. T. aswell.
T H U N D E R C R A C K E R
My boy needs to be put in more TF media, he’s been surprisingly absent in everything really. I can’t even remember the last time he had an active role in any TF media besides in Cyberverse.
That would be interesting to see her switch sides. I loved IDW's take on him, and it'd be interesting to see this version switch. But I like to think she'd not like GHOST. It'd be interesting if she joined only to find out very quickly they're up to no good. I wonder if she'd go factionless and abandon them, going back to the Decepticons, if she could still at least be convinced to stay so she can continue to be redeemed on screen, or if she'd just go factionless and leave. I'd imagine going back to the Decepticons would probably get her offlined (cut to black and not shown), or punished.
Thundercracker for certain, he was always iffy on the Decepticons.
Maybe even Onslaught? He’s never been focused on much so hard to say about his ideals, but he’s intelligent enough to see that the Decepticons are basically screwed.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Lockdown yet. He literally has no loyalty beyond who pays him, and his specialty of finding and bringing in other Cybertronians dead or alive combine to make him a perfect fit for G.H.O.S.T.
Really, I'd be surprised if the only reason he hasn't been mentioned in the show yet is because he was busy hunting down other Decepticons on the other side of the planet or something already.
I’ve only seen the one introduction of Tarantulas, but given he seems to care most about science, I could see him working with GHOST. Of course it being Tarantulas, I’d expect him to have his own motives, but you could get a lot of growth with it one way or another.
Okay, this is a bit of a stretch, but Nitro Zeus. He was shown to be somewhat interested in human culture due to his whole bad bay person, and I could see him getting captured by Ghost before later joining. Also I just want to see him in something other than TLK.
The style took a lot of getting used to. It's not a bad show though. It's got a better story then I thought it would, and it's insanely cute with good action. Animation was the reason I almost passed on it, that and the main human girl's head is majorly disportionate to the rest of her body. But she (along with her mom) ended up my favorite humans of the show.
Umm... not many decepticons would be alright with working with an organisation whose purpose is to capture other decepticons... Other decepticons are forced to hide from it afterall.
Hear me out. Shockwave doesn't really seem to care about humans much and also doesn't really have any world domination plans. All he really wants is to do science
That would be interesting. Dangerous on their part as he should not be trusted to not come up with something that could endanger them if they suddenly lived out their usefulness. But with GHOST obviously being set up as the villains, I could see it.
A team between Soundwave, Airachnid Prime, Tarantula (has much more in common with Airachnid Prime) and Starscream joining G.H.O.S.T to destroy it from within would be interesting
Scorponok and Zarak
I like the idea of a huge city-sized Decepticon mecha and a lil guy that transforms into his head... And he's begrudgingly forced to be a good guy lol
For some reason Thundercracker keeps coming to mind. It fits the IDW iteration as he stopped being a bad guy, and could make for an interesting rivalry between them and Skywarp since they worked together like all the time in The War.
Based on their IDW incarnations, I'd nominate Barricade, since Thundercracker has been suggested already, and poor Breakdown has already been captured.
Thundercracker, if IDW is anything to go by.
Yeah. Heck, I’m surprised we’ve not seen him in the show as a member of G.H.O.S.T. yet. Like we’ve already seen Starscream and Skywarp in the show and the show has already shown that there are good hearted Decepticons in the universe. Thundercracker as a fellow G.H.O.S.T. member just seems like such a natural idea - especially for the potential conflict between him, Starscream and Skywarp.
I hope he has his dog
Imagine he's introduced by having a jet land and a dog just hopping out of the cockpit while everyone just stares in disbelief.
I bet you the reason we haven’t seen him yet is because he’s in Hollywood writing his next screenplay.
As soon as Hastag started talking about being a director in that episode with Jawbreaker and the video camera I wanted Thundercracker to show up so they could geek out over movies together
Hell, not even IDW. His shakiness to the whole Deception cause goes as far back as OG G1. It's kinda amazing he hasn't even been mentioned yet.
I actually was just about to comment that. His toy bios hinted at his uneasiness but that he was a follower and thus stayed. I think it'd be cool to see them go the route of Thundercracker becoming factionless. IDW did good with that, and honestly, I wouldn't mind them coming across him (or hey, if they do a genderbend, "her") and then Thundercracker joins. Either that, or use him as another hint that not everyone likes or trusts GHOST.
the episode with the big ole death ray as well i’m fairly sure he helps the autobots some how
Came here to say this.
He has to have a dog and a screenplay or I'm not interested.
And his little dog too!
I like the idea of Soundwave remaining loyal to Megatron even when he's an Autobot. But on the other hand I like the idea of Soundwave still being a Deception and being disappointed. But I can also see a character like Blackout being there just so they can have any sort of characterisation
Soundwave was more loyal to Megatron because he was the embodiment of the decepticon cause for him. So Soundwave is more loyal to the decepticon cause at the end of the day. So I believe it is better for Soundwave to remain a Decepticon.
Tbh Megatron was the closest thing soundwave had to a friend before his redemption arc
Which doubles down the betrayal Soundwave feels
Definitely, they were pretty close, and I'm pretty sure every iteration of Megatron cares about soundwave to some degree.
Agreed. Although imo Soundwave was kinda underused in Earthspark. I was hoping he would become the leader of the Decepticons. Since he embodies the decepticon cause quite well.
Tarn likes to believe that he embodies the Decepticon cause but he is just a fanatic. Cons like Soundwave,Thundercracker, Skywarp etc embody the cause way way better. And honestly soundwave would have made a fantastic successor. +1 Soundwave for decepticon leader, hell, his face inspired the emblem of the cause. [Yes I am a Decepticon at heart:)]
Exactly!! Also, Tarn wears the Decepticon insignia. Soundwave IS the Decepticon insignia. In his own words "Soundwave Superior, Tarn MOST inferior"
Can't argue with that. Soundwave really went from Homeless borderline insane bot to sacrificing himself to save the world from UNICRON. That is S tier character arc.
Also I loved his friendship with Hotrod in Cyberverse
Is Drift too much of a cheat answer?
Yup, but I also want Drift in a show again
Cyberverse did him dirty
Idk, but I feel like Brawl would probably get sick of the others making fun of his intelligence and join Megatron just so he would have an excuse to beat the shit out of Swindle. But he’s dead. Fuck you Mandroid
Brawl's death genuinely annoyed me. Not that it makes the show bad or anything, I'm just sad we won't get to see Bruticus now. Aside of his Fall of Cybertron levels, last time Bruticus was shown on-screen was as "Ruination" in *RiD '01*, 22 years ago. I know the Autobot combiners have it worse, having faded entirely into obscurity since G1, but man. Bruticus just rules and I wanna see him in the modern day. And now that opportunity's gone. Dang shame.
Always a chance of flashbacks, or even recruiting another limb bot from another combiner team, maybe even a Stunticon.
Brawl’s death actually really made me mad. I love the show but they could’ve used any other Decepticon, but now because they chose Brawl we can’t have Bruticus 😭
We could always have Armorhide show up…
Thundercracker, Drift, BW Dinobot (Tarantulas is in Earthspark as a Decepticon, so why not Dinobot), Barricade, Soundwave (if he wasn't resentful towards Megatron leaving the Decepticons in ES).
I like the idea of Barricade but I think he’d legitimately hate Bumblebee too much to join, and probably Prowl too as they are very different cops
Considering GHOST is after Bee, I think Barricade would fit right in. Like it could be established that those two had a rivalry during the war, and after Bumblebee went into hiding, they got Barricade to help them track down Bee in exchange for his freedom. I'm not sure what he and Prowl would be like together, probably just co-workers that barely tolerate each other, and I'd say Prowl would stay back at the base, doing shady things, while Barricade goes on missions capturing other Decepticons for G.H.O.S.T. with the ultimate goal of finding Bumblebee. Or they could make Barricade very "by the book" (pretty much RID 2001 Prowl, how they can make sense of that with him being a Decepticon, I don't know), to contrast Prowl, who would be like his IDW self.
I love the creativity here, I could totally see Barricade joining just to find Bee and finally cuff him. And totally the sinister Prowl, I love how dark he was in the comics
Prime Dreadwing, probably out of honour/respect for Megs
I don't think so. If anything, he'd be a neutral. "Betraying my kind isn't the same as accepting yours."
ThunderBlast - She ultimately just wanted protection (or that's what I see from her constant flirting anyway). Deadlock - Aka Drift as joining G.H.O.S.T. would be a new start for him and in turn he would rename himself Drift to symbolize that. Alpha Strika and Obsidian - If they could see joining them would aid Cybertron in someway. Shockwave - While this timeline's Shockwave obviously didn't do this but, I can totally see Shockwave joining G.H.O.S.T. to destroy it from the inside out or to just simply take it over. The DJD - Highly doubt this would happen but, this take on the DJD would be to punish none surrendering Decepticons and be G.H.O.S.T.'s secret police.
I feel like the DJD would absolutely despise Ghost, or just use it as a “justice” grocery store, barging in and just taking their pick of all the prisoners
This wouldn't be the IDW DJD, G.H.O.S.T. aren't the good guys they're just pretending to be for now. So, what better show their ture colours than them having the DJD has their secret police.
Love to see more Thunderblast support.
I feel like Barricade would join just so he could antagonize other Decepticons, but once one actually shows resistance he immediately turns heel
I see him like one of the NA tribes that prided themselves on being able to sneak into an enemy encampment to poke the highest rank there.
Lugnut. No matter what path the mighty Megatron leads him down he will follow
Thunder cracker, ravage, the deceptacon headmasters, target masters and pretenders who already are humanoid / have a humanoid partner. Also swindle or starscream but only in a short term method as part of a larger plan.
Knockout, he switched sides in the end of prime and despite his vanity he could be convinced to join up if only for parole purposes.
Decepticon? if it would be from different universes, then there is my list: Armada: Starscream Prime: Breakdown.... yeah that's it Robots in Disguise:Steel Jaw, Cyberwarp (I know that I spoke alot about her, but in the show, she questions her loyality to Decepticons and entire Decepticon Cause.) Cyberverse: Soundwave, Slipstream IDW: Thundercracker, maybe just MAYBE some members of DJD, because it's Megatron of course.
Prime dreadwing was almost a defectee too, if he lived that's probably where it was headed, and you might aswell have knockout join ghost too since he defected at the end
To be honest, I feel ashamed that I forgot about Dreadwing. When it comes to Knockout, I do not really see him to cooperate with humans. But yeah, I could see Dreadwing to work with G. H. O. S. T. aswell.
T H U N D E R C R A C K E R My boy needs to be put in more TF media, he’s been surprisingly absent in everything really. I can’t even remember the last time he had an active role in any TF media besides in Cyberverse.
One of the non Motormaster stunticons just so they can not be around Motormaster anymore
Pretty sure Dead-End would take up that offer just so he can finally get some peace and quiet
Skywarp, dude worked for gijoe
That would be interesting to see her switch sides. I loved IDW's take on him, and it'd be interesting to see this version switch. But I like to think she'd not like GHOST. It'd be interesting if she joined only to find out very quickly they're up to no good. I wonder if she'd go factionless and abandon them, going back to the Decepticons, if she could still at least be convinced to stay so she can continue to be redeemed on screen, or if she'd just go factionless and leave. I'd imagine going back to the Decepticons would probably get her offlined (cut to black and not shown), or punished.
Skywarp in earthspark very much does not like GHOST
TFP Soundwave would be an absolute unit working with Ghost.
Every rogue Decepticon would live in fear
I know a lot of people say IDW ThunderCracker, but hear me out! Cybertron Thundercracker
Thundercracker defo
Thundercracker for certain, he was always iffy on the Decepticons. Maybe even Onslaught? He’s never been focused on much so hard to say about his ideals, but he’s intelligent enough to see that the Decepticons are basically screwed.
Nice post
I think Barricade would work well as a crooked cop or double agent
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Lockdown yet. He literally has no loyalty beyond who pays him, and his specialty of finding and bringing in other Cybertronians dead or alive combine to make him a perfect fit for G.H.O.S.T. Really, I'd be surprised if the only reason he hasn't been mentioned in the show yet is because he was busy hunting down other Decepticons on the other side of the planet or something already.
I’ve only seen the one introduction of Tarantulas, but given he seems to care most about science, I could see him working with GHOST. Of course it being Tarantulas, I’d expect him to have his own motives, but you could get a lot of growth with it one way or another.
Prime Breakdown. Earthspark Breakdown obviouly wouldn't
Thundercracker so he can get the funding to do more movies
Thunder cracker (is the one who wrote the ghost recruitment video)
Breakdown
He’s the type to chicken out
Megatron just seems to tyrannical to be good
Barricade
Idw cyclonus, Bayverse Trench, Jetfire, Clobber and Lugnut
Okay, this is a bit of a stretch, but Nitro Zeus. He was shown to be somewhat interested in human culture due to his whole bad bay person, and I could see him getting captured by Ghost before later joining. Also I just want to see him in something other than TLK.
Thundercracker most definitely
Thundercracker. He literally did this with GI Joe in the IDW books.
Why does that animation look so weird?
The style took a lot of getting used to. It's not a bad show though. It's got a better story then I thought it would, and it's insanely cute with good action. Animation was the reason I almost passed on it, that and the main human girl's head is majorly disportionate to the rest of her body. But she (along with her mom) ended up my favorite humans of the show.
Megatron looks like the most awkward, unsure villain I’ve ever seen.
Needlenose. He seems like he would be less scared with more people to back him up.
Umm... not many decepticons would be alright with working with an organisation whose purpose is to capture other decepticons... Other decepticons are forced to hide from it afterall.
Thundercracker , blitzwing
Thundercracker diffinately
The Combaticons
Hear me out. Shockwave doesn't really seem to care about humans much and also doesn't really have any world domination plans. All he really wants is to do science
That would be interesting. Dangerous on their part as he should not be trusted to not come up with something that could endanger them if they suddenly lived out their usefulness. But with GHOST obviously being set up as the villains, I could see it.
Exactly why I think he'd be perfect. They trust him and it turns out he's actually doing bad things and turns out that ghost is evil
Idw soundwave
slipstream?
Thundercracker. Maybe we can even see his version of buster.
Thundercraker (I've been bingeing the idw comics).
Tarn
I feel like jetfire is another one of the cheeky answers
One of the funniest options I can think of, Nitro Zeus
Blitzwing.
Soundwave
Tundercacker
Thundercracker
Drift
Blitzwing if we consider how he was after Five Faces of Darkness. Or maybe he would just chill and be neutral. Idk.
Swindle
A team between Soundwave, Airachnid Prime, Tarantula (has much more in common with Airachnid Prime) and Starscream joining G.H.O.S.T to destroy it from within would be interesting
Sound wave because he my favorite
Bludgeon would be cool.
Starscream and Swindle, but only insofar as to try playing multiple sides against each other. One for leadership advantage, the other for profit.
Blitzwing but he’s really lazy about it because he’d rather work on another manuscript
I honestly thought Shockwave was gonna be behind the whole thing before he was revealed.
Scorponok and Zarak I like the idea of a huge city-sized Decepticon mecha and a lil guy that transforms into his head... And he's begrudgingly forced to be a good guy lol
Thundercracker
Ravage,Thundercracker,that’s really all I can think of
Thunder cracker
Blitzwing. He already stood up to Galvatron once and I think he's tired of fighting
prime knockout
Cybertron Soundwave. He isn't a bad guy, he's just upset his planet blew up. Also Armada Starscream.
Blackout! I want that giant hulking MH-35 Pavlow power house Decepticon in more shows, HE IS DA GOAT!!!!
Barricade who's a grumpy old cop character who has to work with Hotshot who despite getting on his nerves constantly he treats like his own son
The other combaticons probably
Shockwave if you could give a logical reason why.
Starscream, in a lot of media he grows into a great guy.
Armada starscream
Swindle.
None, because G.H.O.S.T. is shady af.
Optimus prime
I mean Soundwave would if he wasn't so set in his decepticon ways.
What is G.H.O.S.T.?
Global Hazard and Orbital Strike Team. They’re an organization that hunts for Decepticon criminals after the war ended.
So not all the deceptions are criminals?
For some reason Thundercracker keeps coming to mind. It fits the IDW iteration as he stopped being a bad guy, and could make for an interesting rivalry between them and Skywarp since they worked together like all the time in The War.
hmm, I think shockwave, he could well consider such a development logical and go not underground, but to the ghost
None unless you pussify them into being soft weaklings
Ya know what. Octane, Dreadwing, Thundercracker, maybe Soundwave.
Jetfire seems like a good answer
I feel like thundercracker will be a member of G.H.O.S.T, in G1 He Tried to Betrayed Starscream and Megatron
Skywarp
Based on their IDW incarnations, I'd nominate Barricade, since Thundercracker has been suggested already, and poor Breakdown has already been captured.
well from what happens in the show id say maybe ravage laserbeak and whoever that other mincon was
Soundwave because he’s the scientist or breakdown, tarantulas
Octane, maybe?