I’d make a 300 joke, but…so overdone.
Poor eradicon is getting abused by Starscream. This scene always makes me laugh because it’s like Starscream is saying GTFO in a non verbal way and Knock Out is like “wait what are you doing?!”.
Yup, laughing every time. Though actually, Starscream did say GTFO only in a much “kinder” way if you will XD
Knock Out actually cracks me up the most in this because he actually seems to take issue with Starscream’s action, it’s like he actually gives a scrap for poor Steve.
NGL, it is part of my headcanons that KO has a soft spot for the Vehicons, especially the grounder ones. He calls them in for tune-ups whenever he has the time and the spare parts, despite Starscream forbidding him on wasting resources on cannon-fodder.
I like that headcanon. It actually makes since. Here’s my headcanon. My headcanon is that the Decepticons give flyers better treatment than grounders. Grounders are seen as the misfits since flyers have more advantages combat wise. In Deus Ex Machina Starscream shows complete disgust to Knock Out when he said “You’re one of those” which I think was a way of him saying “Ew you’re a grounder”. But Knock Out is not really bothered by this when he said “I love how I look in steel-belted radials”. So Knock Out looks out for Breakdown, the ground eradicons, and any other grounder whenever he can.
I love all this KO headcanon.
Mine is…well, I can’t shake my own theory that KO’s caste before the war upon first being created was medic to the gladiators (Cybertron being even that specific in my castes is another headcanon), and it’s how he meets Soundwave and Megatron and basically joins their cause. Perhaps the big reason he’s interested is that he does like the idea of free choice instead of abiding by the caste system, because he’s well—well, Knock Out’s a good medic, he’s a perfectionist, he would like to do things right, but he’s not sure if he would’ve chosen that career if he had a choice in the matter (though he still appreciates his medic skills, especially when the war gets underway). KO does genuinely love racing—and another headcanon of mine is that Cybertron did have a racer caste, and KO would sneak out of the gladiator pits to compete. I actually want to do pastfic on KO.