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* NoodleIncident: "The Roadbuster Incident" was originally this. Then James Roberts tried to establish that it was [[{{Gorn}} ripping out a Decepticon's spine and beating him with it]]. Then Nick Roche went "hold my beer"...
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* BadassInCharge: Leader of the Wreckers [[spoiler:until his retirement at the end of ''Sins''.]]
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* BadassInCharge: When he takes over Garrus-9.
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* ButtMonkey: Has his arms brutally ripped off, gets pressed into the ground by Roadbuster's foot during the former's attempt at ColdBloodedTorture and just when it seems like Clawjaw's luck as turned, with him [[EvilGloating arrogantly talking down]] to the Wreckers [[spoiler: his head explodes like a popped zit.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Has his arms brutally ripped off, gets pressed into the ground by Roadbuster's foot during the former's latter's attempt at ColdBloodedTorture and just when it seems like Clawjaw's luck as has turned, with him [[EvilGloating arrogantly talking down]] to the Wreckers [[spoiler: his head explodes like a popped zit.]]
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* EvilerThanThou: While [[ManipulativeBastard Prowl]] [[Jerkass himself]] [[ItsAllAboutMe isn't]] exactly a fine example of moral fortitude, Tarantulas [[LackOfEmpathy callous disregard]] for those their secret projects hurt/killed was too much even for him to stomach.
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* EvilerThanThou: While [[ManipulativeBastard Prowl]] [[[[Jerkass]] himself]] isn't exactly a fine example of moral fortitude, Tarantulas [[LackOfEmpathy callous disregard]] for those their secret projects hurt/killed was too much even for him to stomach.
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* EvilerThanThou: While [[ManipulativeBastard Prowl]] [[[[Jerkass]] [[Jerkass himself]] isn't [[ItsAllAboutMe isn't]] exactly a fine example of moral fortitude, Tarantulas [[LackOfEmpathy callous disregard]] for those their secret projects hurt/killed was too much even for him to stomach.
* AssholeVictim: A smug, taunting little crap stain [[spoiler: nobody weeps over.]]
* ButtMonkey: Has his arms brutally ripped off, gets pressed into the ground by Roadbuster's foot during the former's attempt at ColdBloodedTorture and just when it seems like Clawjaw's luck as turned, with him [[EvilGloating arrogantly talking down]] to the Wreckers [[spoiler: his head explodes like a popped zit.]]
* ButtMonkey: Has his arms brutally ripped off, gets pressed into the ground by Roadbuster's foot during the former's attempt at ColdBloodedTorture and just when it seems like Clawjaw's luck as turned, with him [[EvilGloating arrogantly talking down]] to the Wreckers [[spoiler: his head explodes like a popped zit.]]
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* EvilerThanThou: While [[ManipulativeBastard Prowl]] [[[[Jerkass]] himself]] isn't exactly a fine example of moral fortitude, Tarantulas [[LackOfEmpathy callous disregard]] for those their secret projects hurt/killed was too much even for him to stomach.
* ForScience: What Tarantulas approach as a researcher ultimately stems from. That, if something is scientifically possible, you do it and see how far you can test it's limits. Ultimately this results in him doing incredibly "naughty" things...
* ForScience: What Tarantulas approach as a researcher ultimately stems from. That, if something is scientifically possible, you do it and see how far you can test it's limits. Ultimately this results in him doing incredibly "naughty" things...
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* PapaWolf: Majority of the Wreckers maybe very fucked up people, but Springer loves them like family and we'll jump at the chance to save any of them.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Makes zero attempt to pretend what he's doing isn't wrong. Totally reveling in the pain he inflicts on others.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He [[spoiler: doesn't take Snare's betrayal and assisting the Wreckers well at all.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Considering that [[spoiler: his job when working at Grindcore was to install devices into the prisoners skulls which fatally skewered them if they tried to escape, it's fitting that Stalker meets his end by way of Springer graphically impaling his head on Stalker's own Endoscopic Claw, the same tool he used to implant said devices.]]
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* ThreateningShark: A Hammerhead, unusually for the trope.
* ThreateningShark: A Hammerhead, unusually for the trope.
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* OnlySaneMan: Compared to most of his team, and even then Springer isn't without his own set of psychological issues, with PTSD being the biggest.
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* LongGame: His plan to [[spoiler: murder Kup, avenging the friends he slaughtered while temporarily insane. Guzzle is in no hurry to enact it, biding his time, waiting for just the right moment. Which finally comes near the end of ''Sins.'']]
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He never meant to [[spoiler: abandon Ostaros/Springer. Impactor shoved him through a portal to the Noisemaze and destroyed it before he could escape. You can tell Tarantulas feels immense guilt over not being there for him when they properly reunite in ''Requiem.'']]
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* MysteriousPast: It's never made entirely clear why Impactor joined the Autobots in the first place, especially since they evolved from the same fascist system which incarcerated him.
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* TheHeart: Ironfist, Roadbuster, Impactor and many others consider him this for the Wreckers. They aren't wrong.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: An odd example. [[spoiler: In ''Requiem of the Wreckers'', Carnivac uses his Outlier howl ability to force Overlord to split into his separate alt-modes. Springer then uses Tarantulus' Time Maze to send Overlord's jet into the future while sending the tank into the past.]]
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: While it was {{ambiguous|Situation}} just ''what'' he was, [[spoiler:the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' incarnation of Tarantulas was explicitly ''not'' Cybertronian, as when he attempted to cause the RetGone of the Autobots and Decepticons by destroying the Ark, he explained to Tigerhawk that he and the Tripredacus Council would remain unaffected by the timestorm, thanks to ''not'' being descendants of the Autobots nor Decepticons. Here, Mesothulas was a Cybertronian, being both a student of Shockwave's and a neutral party in the Great War, albeit one allied with Prowl.]]
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* DyingAsYourself: He shares a poignant final conversation with Springer. As he passes, Springer (who previously always referred to him as Tarantulas, having ony ever known what he'd become) finally calls him Mesothulas, an indication he'd finally forgiven his creator.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Even by Transformers standards, his name freaking rocks.
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* [[IllGirl Ill Woman]]: Very clearly unwell in ''Sins of the Wreckers,'' vomiting frequently and being generally woozy.
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