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Recently I saw a post about the rivalry between Soundwave and Blaster (specifically g1 and a lil bit of idw) and it got me thinking about their dynamic. Specifically how much I really don't like/care for it? Especially Blaster specifically, I LOVE soundwave and am always down for more soundwave dynamics/relationships. But something about their rivalry specifically is just so unsatisfying to me. Mainly due to how unbalanced the rivalry is. Blaster in g1 pretty much exists to counter Soundwave, but it always felt so 1 sided to me no matter how often g1 had them match off. Like, there's no specific reason why they dislike each other, they just do. What really bugs me is how Blaster has such a bare bones personality outside of hating soundwave and dancing. Soundwave is allowed to do and be so much more outside of Blaster, but Blaster does almost nothing else aside from fighting Soundwave. It doesn't feel like a real rivalry. Soundwave just straight up doesn't care about Blaster lol. It's so unsatisfying, at least it is to me. Idw tried to make it more even/reasonable by giving Blaster a reason to hate Soundwave, but Soundwave still just doesn't care about Blaster at all. It doesn't really matter either because Blaster does damn near nothing throughout the entirety of idw and the only time their "rivalry" is even discussed is in the Blaster spotlight iirc. I really want to like Blaster cause he's a cool concept, but his singular defining dynamic/relationship is uninteresting to me and Jazz just does everything he does as an autobot/personality that he does but way better. I also just don't think rivalries suit Soundwave, he's much more concerned with Megatron and the decepticon cause to fret about an individual autobot. Especially when there are traitorous bastards like Starscream afoot lol.