Ooooh Whats Your Opinion On Sunstreaker?

Ooooh whats your opinion on Sunstreaker?

Ooo thank you for asking :00

Unfortunately he's not in a lot of things, so I really only have opinions about g1 and idw. I absolutely love g1 sunstreaker. He and tracks are The Guys With Funny Voices That I Like For Nebulous Reasons tm. There isn't much to them but they're silly and have fun designs :)). I think the biggest fumble regarding sunstreaker is that he should've been in more episodes and interacted with more of the cast lol. I'd love to have seen he and Sideswipe get into hijinks (probably caused by Sideswipe lol). As for idw Sunstreaker itsss hrrmmmm. I feel like there's a lot of ideas there that could've been executed better. He should've had more of a identity before what happened to him imo. Like, iirc, they kinda just drop him into the story, traumatized him, and then dropped him like that one Toystory meme w Andy after the d-void mess. I especially didn't like how, despite being the victim in all of this, Sunstreaker isn't really focused on as a person. Like, they do sometimes, but the story feels much more focused on the human character (forgot his name lol), Hot Rod, and setting up Skorponok. They do bring him up later on which I found a bit interesting, but it really frustrated me that Sunstreaker was still pretty much delegated to "guy who suffers" after being rescued by Ironhide and repaired by Alpha Trion. And after everything that he goes through, he's still placed on the side line and minimized to just his suffering/trauma. **What annoys me more about this is that we see him after d-void, he's in the background crew of the lost light and we see him briefly in Hoist (?) Spotlight. More couldve EASILY been added to his character, and we could have actually watched him grow and process his trauma. But we don't, he's just in the background the whole time which is such a waste. Especially because Sunstreaker was involved with some pretty inportant plot points ever since he was captured on eath. You'd think the character who RATTED OUT THE AUTOBOTS would get focus or at least some attention in a comic that focuses on characters relationships with the autobot and decepticon causes (Drift, Megatron, Tailgate, Cyclonus, and Brainstorm). The only possible reasons I can think of Sunstreaker getting next to no attention/development whilst aboard the Lost Light is due to the large cast or not wanting to be too connected to idw's previous stories ("Oh, Sunstreaker was involved with the plot a lot, maybe people will be tired of him"). I think both reasons are bullshit tbh, Sunstreaker doesn't have to be a main character to get focused on, Trailbreaker wasn't lol. And the second reasoning is just lazy (which is why I'd like to think that wasn't the reason lol).** I think that idw Sunstreaker could've been so good, but he was just fumbled cause the authors treated him as a vessel for angst more than anything >.>. Granted, I could be misremembering a lot of this, I read idw in high school and it's been awhile since then lol. Ultimately he's a cool guy who needs to be in more things. I feel like modern tf media just cycles through the same 5 guys, which is a shame cause tf is KNOWN for having like a billion characters lol. Please,,,,use them hasbro,,,I beg,,,,

Sorry about being vague when talking about idw, I don't know who has and hasn't read it, don't wanna accidentally spoil lol.

Edit: fixed some grammar/spelling mistakes. Added in a whole ass rant about Sunstreaker in mtmte/ll (inside the *'s), I realized I had more thoughts on the topic after I posted lol