>>149263886
It makes so much sense when you learn that part of the design aesthetic of BW is Guyver.
And while never stated like the Guver comparison was, I think Beast Machines Maximals were trying to be like Evangelion and other late 90s designs.
>>149263374
The tricky thing is Quickstrike comes along at a time when the day-to-day villain grunt stuff becomes less important. Season 1 at least let all the villains get one spotlight episode where something they did mattered or stood out- Quickstrike is just there to be a grunt. Megatron can basically handle himself alone and if anything his henchmen sometimes make things worse(which I wish they would've used as BM Megatron's motivation- Megatron lost because even the one Pred he thought he controlled betrayed him. Megatron being against individual sentience can work, but because it's Beast and Machines, they just had it be because he's the Machines part. )
Once he has Rampage(and later Dinobot II), everyone else starts to just be either a lesser extra hand, or at odds with him.
Biggest thing he did was pilot the OpOp suit, which was just him being wrangled into Tarantulas' scheme. Scorponok at least made his Cyberbee.