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I agree with the above points, but the writers were also cowards for not making it clear that Misfire has three boyfriends, I mean, how else am I supposed to interpret him around Grimlock, Fulcrum and Swerve?
I feel like the IDW Transformers comics have kind of handled same-sex pairings in scifi fucking perfectly. It doesn’t paint a target on the characters or couples, but neither does it protect them. You have wholesome lovers who tend to each other, some of whom are helping each other get past histories of trauma some of whom don’t need to, you have the lovers whose romance is painful because they don’t find themselves worthy of their significant other or want to protect their SO from themselves, you get forms of manipulation and abuse like what Prowl did to Mesothulas to make him become Tarantulas… Even some transgirl rapscallions. The full fucking gambit. All niches covered outside of hypersexualization.
Now, the standard for Cybertronians is written as asexual/aromantic and opposite-gender couples are treated as just as normal for the species as a whole. Which also feels perfect for Cybertronians. But I guess what I’m trying to say is that if you want gay/pan/asexual characters prominently featured and featured with diversity of personality, IDW’s Transformers series is the place to go. (Completely ignoring Simon Furman’s run as head writer and starting with the post-war stories.) And none of it feels hamfisted or forced, it’s all organic, to use some rather ironic terminology.