Mugshot wrote:So I was going through the Alchemor's prisoner manifest on TFwiki earlier today, and I was wondering if anyone else has asked themselves this question at some point during season one; "Where did Megatron /find/ these weirdos?" I mean you've got a few competent cons (Steeljaw, Thunderhoof, etc), but then you get nutters like Springload, morons like Quillfire, cowards like Clampdown, egomaniacs like Underbite, and creeps like Vertebreak. Really makes you wonder what kind of Energon Buckethead was on when he let these guys in.
Given this show's rather (intentionally?) vague time-period, we do not know if these are Decepticons who were all around during the war when Megatron started it, or if they are new Decepticons born from the Well after it was revitalized by Optimus's sacrifice.
If it's the latter, these would be post-war Decepticons not recruited by Megatron but instead having somehow become Cons at a point in time after Megatron had declared the faction disbanded. We do not know how the faction resurfaced or even if it ever went away despite Megatron's intentions (he could have declared it only to those who were in the movie while all other Decepticons would be unaware of this and continue being Decepticons regardless).
Some folks have even theorized that the meaning of being a Decepticon in this show might now just be synonymous with being a criminal, and that the
symbols could be branded on those criminals upon their capture (after all, their
symbols are used by the Autobots as a means to track their energy signatures, hence why Steeljaw scratches off those of himself and his Pack to make themselves undetectable).
Until we get any kind of answer, we can only speculate.
