"I have a solid guess," Loki says, "who the other you refer to must have been, based on what Megatron has told me. Everything I know is secondhand, but if you say he deserves the misery he has found, I believe you."

"And you are extremely dangerous," he tells Soundwave with a little grin. "I like that. It's easy to make assumptions about empaths and telepaths based on stereotypes, but I promise you, I know better."

The ones that seem soft and gentle are the ones you have to be careful not to run afoul of. That, and his sense of mischief and petty vengeance seems to be equal to Loki's. He's so very glad now that he opened himself up to the conversation.

"Personally, I'm a fan of spite. Really, it's only a slight twist of the innate desire for justice and balance, and those are noble pursuits."