Transformers just retconned the overall purpose of the Decepticons' descendants, the Predacons, shedding new light on how Megatron corrupted these warrior robots in the Beast Wars comics.
In the Beast Wars TV show, the Predacons are a splintered faction of warriors who are lower in the social order than the Maximals as a result of a peace agreement that keeps the former robots in check but with the promise of a return to power albeit slowly. The major ruling body of the Predacons believes that complying with the accord is the best course of action and plans to overthrow the Maximals when the time is right. Although this promise for future glory has pacified some Predacons, there are others like Megatron who are dissatisfied with this course of action and form their own renegade armies to attack the Maximals themselves.
In Transformers: Beast Wars #5 by Erik Burnham and Josh Burch a very different story. Upon his surrender and subsequent capture, Predacon deserter Dinobot reveals the truth about his kind to the Maximal Nyx in Transformers: Beast Wars #5 by writer Erik Burnham and artist Josh Burcham. Dinobot finds himself behind bars because of how he acted after Megatron and his followers dishonorably tortured their then-prisoner Nyx. Disgusted by their behavior, Dinobot freed Nyx, renounced himself as a Predacon, and attempted to join the Maximals. The Maximals understandably didn't trust the rogue Predacon outright upon his request and decided that the best course of action was to detain him. During his imprisonment, Dinobot is confronted by Nyx, and the conversation inevitably leads to the Predacons and how they are obviously terrorists. Dinobot believes she couldn't be more wrong in her assessment so he feels it is his duty to educate her.
Predacons, he reveals, are meant to be warriors, but in the event of peace, they have been content in finding and immersing themselves in other forms of conflict that don't necessarily have to be violent. For example, many Predacons have become scientists to battle groupthink. Others have even found a calling as peacekeepers. Although not explained in full, it can be assumed that peacekeepers keep the peace through force when necessary. It is because Predacons seek conflict that Dinobot agreed to join Megatron in the first place. The Predacon leader sought to take the Golden Disks from the Maximals by force, and since the Maximals had been hiding their significance from the general public, Dinobot felt that this was a conflict that needed to be rectified. It was only when Megatron and his followers began enacting and carrying out overly cruel policies that Dinobot began to doubt his leader's intentions. Megatron resorting to torture was the last straw.
Although Dinobot doesn't say so directly, he's implying that Predacons don't and aren't meant to start conflicts. Instead, they seek and support conflict that already exists. It can therefore be deduced that Dinobot felt that the Maximals had created their own when they refused to share the significance of the Golden Disks. So taking and utilizing what made them significant was therefore the appropriate response as doing so only added to the conflict. But Megatron broke that code in Dinobot's eyes. Dinobot might describe Megatron's actions as being dishonorable, but, using the above logic, Megatron essentially created his own conflict unnecessarily. If Dinobot's description of the Predacons is accurate and not just his own interpretation of their ideals, then the comics' portrayal of this militant faction is not only more honorable than its counterpart from the Beast Wars TV show but than its Decepticon ancestors.
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