it's just. so darkly funny that Wheeljack is introduced with an arc focused on how angry and resentful he is about being abandoned by the autobots, and then the very next episode, Megatron's cunning plan is... to sacrificially abandon one of his soldiers

The actual reason why Wheeljack basically disappears during Starscream's whole autobot arc is that he's too busy doing intense mental gymnastics to justify why this is fine, actually???

Wheeljack when he hears what the plan is: