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* [[Characters/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEyeLostLightCrew Lost Light Crew]]

These are the characters that appear in the comic book series ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''.

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!!Vis Vitalis Crew

[[folder:Vis Vitalis Crew in General]]
A crew of motley adventurers, scientists, and heroes on a quest to find the legendary Knights of Cybertron. [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Seem to be having a much better go at it than the Lost Lighters]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To the whole Lost Light crew.
* CoolStarship: It doubles as a massive life-support system.
* FamedInStory: Thunderclash and his crew are much more beloved by the general public than the Lost Lighters.
* TheMole: Paddox was this for the Ammonites.

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[[folder:Thunderclash]]
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thunderclashthumbnail_9998.jpg]]
One of the most heroic Autobots around, the noble Thunderclash travels the universe looking for the Knights of Cybertron, while at the same time righting wrongs, saving the innocent, rescuing civilisations, and just being all-round perfect and magnificent. Not surprisingly, Rodimus is a teensy bit jealous of this guy. Due to injuries sustained during one of his adventures, Thunderclash is now connected to the Vis Vitalis, which serves as a sort of super life support machine.

* TheAce
* ArmCannon: One on each arm.
* [[spoiler: BusCrash: His condition worsens greatly between issue 22 and issue 41, and when we see him again he's near dead. This turns out to have ''not'' been caused by his injury though...]]
* BusFullOfInnocents: His ship was damaged while rescuing orphans from an exploding sun.
* ChekhovsGunman: Rather than being just a one-off ParodySue, he's the only hope the ''Lost Light'' has of finding the Knights of Cybertron [[spoiler:once Rodimus' Matrix half is destroyed.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: During the fall of Grindcore Prison, Thunderclash took a shot to the spark, a near fatal injury that made the Vis Vitalis a necessity to live. Since then his perfection has been curbed by the necessity of being in proximity of his ship so he can't do anything ''too'' amazing. In issue 41 [[spoiler:he was repaired by a Character Tick, who needed him alive for her species]] and in issue 42 [[spoiler:he makes a full recovery, no longer needing the Vis Vitalis to survive]].
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He's been having visions in his sleep that are seemingly telling him where he needs to go to find the Knights of Cybertron.
* {{Expy}}: Has been noted to be ''supiciously'' similar in characterization to [[Series/RedDwarf Ace Rimmer]]. What a 'bot!
* GrammarNazi: Not as much as Ultra Magnus, but it's noted that he made sure to include a correctly-placed apostrophe in [[spoiler: his warning message, despite the fact that doing so caused him to have even less time to live.]]
* HandicappedBadass: His condition mean that he can't go very far from the Vis Vitalis, but he continues to go around doing badass things.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's about the same size as Ultra Magnus.
* NiceGuy: Exceedingly pleasant toward the Lost Light crew, and promised that if he found the Knights first, he'd give them credit for helping.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Virtually ''all'' of his great acheivements are NoodleIncidents and InformedAbilities.
* ParodySue: He makes [[PerpetualFrowner Ratchet]] smile, [[ComicallySerious Ultra Magnus]] hugs him, and he treats Drift with [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers respect]].
** When Rodimus sarcastically calls him "The Greatest Autobot Ever". Optimus Prime ''immediately'' recognizes he means Thunderclash, which annoys Rodimus.
--->''Rodimus'': '''Argh-''' The very fact that you knew who I was referring to just - Ahem!
** Countdown, known as the "hero of a thousand worlds" in other continuities, views him as a teacher, a trainer, a mentor, [[LongList a role model, a counselor, a thinker, a sage, an idol, an inspiration]], [[OverlyLongGag and a friend]].
* UnknownRival: Clearly oblivious to Rodimus's jealousy.

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[[folder:Firestar]]
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A tall and boisterous dancer/actor/acrobat and Nautica's amica endura. Though friendly on the surface, she soon turns out to not be as nice as advertised.

* AlphaBitch: Played With. According to Nautica she fit all the criteria, she was an expert in the arts, and as such is heralded as successful in a society that emphasizes them. Though Nautica also notes that she was very hard to get a long with, and nobody wanted to undergo amica endure with her, so she and Nautica got paired off.
* AttentionWhore: As Nautica explains, it's not enough for Firestar to be a skilled actor, artist, and dancer; everybody else has to know it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts nice on the surface, but quickly turns out to actually be a jerk.
* FauxActionGirl: While a talented acrobat, and ship commander, none of that really counts toward actual fighting prowess. While Velocity and Nautica choose to engage the Personality Ticks, she ducks out, and later admits that adventuring isn't her thing.
* FemBot
* FlamingHair: Her headpiece projects a small flame on the top of her head, giving her this look.
* {{Foil}}: To both Nautica and Rodimus:
** Like Nautica, she's socially awkward and was very lonely on Caminus. However while Nautica is shy and submissive to the point of being an ExtremeDoormat, Firestar is boisterous and dominating to the point of being an AlphaBitch.
** Like Rodimus, she's very egotistical and constantly seeks attention. But where Rodimus's ego is subdued when it needs to be and is more [[PlayedForLaughs endearing]] than anything, Firestar can't control her ego, which makes her own life more difficult.
* FreudianExcuse: It's suggested that her jerkish personality came about because she was cripplingly lonely, so much so that she pressured/manipulated Nautica into being amica endura.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: She was Nautica's amica endura, living with her when Nautica lived on Caminus. However issue 41 reveals that it wasn't really the nice, healthy relationship that Nautica had implied it was.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She's loud, boastful, and likes being the center of attention, but it's a cover to distract from her faults, namely her loneliness from pushing others away with said personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: She subtly bullies Nautica around, calling her a mean nickname (one that she knows Nautica hates), pressuring her into dancing when she doesn't want to, and making a number of insults disguised as compliments.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Later, in issue#42, Firestar suggests to Nautica that they should end their friendship, due to their polar opposite personalities, and that she hasn't been the best friend to Nautica; however, she decides to be the one to end it, letting Nautica avoid being shamed because of their culture of unity. Nautica manages to talk her out of it, and they remain amica enduri.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's drawn to be a good head taller than Rodimus and most of the other crew members.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Crew Members]]

!!Javelin
A one-eyed member of the Vis Vitalis crew.

* CyberCyclops: Though interestingly, WordOfGod notes that she's ''not'' an Empurata victim like Whirl.
* PurpleIsPowerful

!!Proxima
A scientist on the Vis Vitalis.

* ExtraEyes: In addition to her main visor styled eye, she has three extra optics (ala Lugnut), two with the ability to move around her head.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Alex Milne describes her as a genius on Perceptor's level.
* StraightGay: Is mentioned to be in a relationship with another female Transformer named Acceleron.
* {{Workaholic}}: She's designed to give off a vibe of constant multi-tasking.

!!Roadmaster
A large warrior on the Vis Vitalis.

* ActionGirl
* [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]: Noted to be almost as big as Ultra Magnus.
* BrawnHilda: Milne designed her for power, and her massive boxy frame conveys that. He specifically compares her to [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Strika]], though he feels Roadmaster would be shorter.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Unlike most female Transformers, she has a very boxy design that can make her look masculine from a distance. She's practically as wide as she's tall.

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!!The Scavengers

[[folder:The Scavengers in General]]
Imagine if you will, the cream of the Decepticon crop. The Scavengers are not those Decepticons — according to Tarn's analysis of Banzai-Tron's files, they are in fact the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits six worst Decepticons in history]].

Still, they've survived when countless others have died. That's got to count for something.

!!In General
* TheAtoner: After the events of issue 46, they decide to help the various disenfranchised Decepticons in the galaxy.
* AmbiguouslyEvil
* DespairEventHorizon: Learning of Megatron's side-change and Starscream's election pushes them towards this. They abandon their plan to return to Cybertron and basically become bums, floating about the outer rim while occasionally taking odd jobs.
* LuckyBastard: All of them, but Crankcase in particular, having survived an attack by Thunderwing, who it should be noted managed to shrug off the combined firepower of the Autobot and Decepticon armies, with nothing more than a head-wound.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: They're more a danger to themselves than anyone else.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Issue 45 [[http://36.media.tumblr.com/0f465b09857c1001b39a0103af3e778a/tumblr_nv35naLR6F1r2yzfso1_1280.jpg shows]] that they apparently got up to some rather insane adventures during the time skip between seasons 1 and 2.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* SanityBall: Mostly passed between Krok (the most logical and practical of the group), Fulcrum (the most moral and a mostly rational thinker) and Crankcase.
* VillainProtagonist
* VillainsOutShopping: A lot of their appearances feature them doing normal stuff like anybody else, only they're Decepticons so it becomes rather humorous. For example, when we catch back up with them in season 2, they're playing around with nerf guns.

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[[folder:Fulcrum]]
-->''No, I'm '''jumping!'''''
A cowardly but loyal techie with an impressive chin. Fulcrum was forcibly turned into a suicide bomber as punishment for fleeing in the middle of a battle. He survived and is now on the run from the DJD.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fulcrum_2826.png]]

* AffablyEvil: Really friendly guy, as long as you're not an Autobot or organic.
* CanonForeigner: He's the only one of the Scavengers that was completely made up for the series.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite the fact that he's not much to look at (and the EpicFail mentioned below), Fulcrum apparently devised an apparently flawless plan to bust Misfire out of a high-security Galactic Council detention facility ''alone''. And it would have ''worked'' too, if Misfire hadn't insisted on stopping for ''snacks''. [[spoiler: Well, that and their pick-up, the other Scavengers (save Grimlock, who's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not much help]]) being busy getting killed by the Universal Killswitch.]]
* DelayedReaction: It takes him a few seconds to realise Misfire's holding his fuel pump. Which he needs to stay alive.
* DisabilitySuperpower: His intense fear of death was strong enough that it overrode the automatic transformation that gets wired into K-Class Decepticons when they're dropped.
* EpicFail: He's the equivalent of a suicide bomb thad didn't explode out of fear.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Highlighted in his [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speech]] to the Decepticon Justice Division. He might not have a problem with killing organics or the Decepticon cause in general, but he is disgusted by the sadists and psychos who use it as an excuse to inflict pain and suffering.
** In issue 45 he objects to selling Grimlock to Demus on moral grounds.
* FakingTheDead: Is doing so unintentionally; after his botched HeroicSacrifice, the DJD think he's dead.
* FantasticRacism: Sees no problem with killing organics.
* GotVolunteered: Was going to be executed for abandoning his post, until Megatron ordered the creation of the K-Class.
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted. He attempts to use his bomb alt mode to blow up or at least scare away the DJD. With him seemingly dead, they abandon the rest of the Scavengers to hunt down Overlord, but as it turns out, Spinister had removed Fulcrum's explosive components.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Despite being a Decepticon.
* LovableCoward: He tends to run at the first sign of trouble, but will stick by with his friends when it really counts.
* NightmareFetishist: He's fascinated by the EldritchLocation ship they find.
* NonActionGuy: He has no seen weapons and a useless alt mode.
* ProperlyParanoid: Suspects Demus to be up to something in issue 45 and is proven right almost immediately after.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to the DJD, and even tells Tarn to shut up and listen to it.
** He later gives another one to Krok, calling him on the hypocrisy of [[spoiler: wanting to help people with mental illness but being willing to sell the disabled Grimlock to Demus.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crankcase]]
-->''Bah!''
A perpetually grumpy and cynical mechanic/pilot with a dream of being a big-name Decepticon. Has a horrific head wound from a past battle that has done nothing but make his foul mood even worse. [[GiverOfLameNames Is horrible at naming things]].
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crankcase_5850.png]]

* BrilliantButLazy: He's one of the most competent members of the team and would probably be a good leader, but is too lazy to take the lead.
* BodyHorror: His head wound not only almost exposes his brain, but in issue 45 it's revealed that it's causing him to suffer facial paralysis.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* TheCynic
* GiverOfLameNames
* GrumpyBear
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: His dream is to be respected as a great warrior and/or leader like famous Decepticons such as Sixshot or Shockwave.
* {{Irony}}: Despite aspiring to be a respected leader, he's shown to be really lazy and unmotivated to actually take charge on the WAP even though he'd probably do a pretty good job.
* KickTheDog: In issue 45 he seriously considers selling Grimlock to Demus in order to buy a better ship.
* LazyBum: He's remarkably unmotivated to do anything, to the point that he actually gets ''nervous'' when the possibility of getting an actual job comes up.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Half his brain is exposed due to injuries sustained battling Thunderwing.
* PerpetualFrowner: He's frowning all the time, partly because he's cynical, partly because the head wound sometimes causes facial paralysis and leaves him with a scowl.
* ShootTheDog: When confronted with Maximus, Crankcase distracts him by [[spoiler:sending a communication about Grimlock to Misfire all the while knowing it will be intercepted]]. He weighed up the options and feels that [[spoiler:Fort Max would rather rescue an Autobot than waste his time killing 5 Deceptions]]. Even if [[spoiler:Grimlock]] is sent to jail, hey at least nobody's dead.
* TheSmartGuy: He's a grumpy guy, but he's also a good pilot, and tends to have his head in the game more than most of his team.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Fighting Thunderwing's pretty much a death sentence, especially for someone as unimportant as Crankcase. Despite being stomped flat, he survived, though a similar fate befell Twin Twist who also made it out alive.
* VillainousValour: He's surprisingly brave and resourceful when danger rears it's head despite his relative small size and lack of combat skill.
** During the fight with the DJD is issue 8 he calls out Fulcrum for being a coward and not helping fight.
** When Fortress Maximus has them all cornered, Crankcase takes the opportunity to blast him in the back when he turns away from him.
* WhatTheHellHero: He is ''not'' happy when he sees Fulcrum hiding and than running rather helping fight the DJD in issue 8.

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[[folder:Krok]]
-->''We're '''scavengers''' -- we're gonna do what we do '''best'''. We're going to make use of what's been left behind.''
A calm, paternalistic commander and war historian on a quest to find his old squad whom he got separated from many years ago. Desperate to keep his idiotic band of friends in line.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krok_2027.png]]

* AnxietyEndangeredTheCat: His increasing stress and desperation to get the Scavengers to do something with their lives leads to him considering selling Grimlock to Demus and [[spoiler: getting the team in Fortress Maximus's sights by interacting with Demus.]]
* ButtMonkey: Even compared to the rest of the team he really gets smacked around a lot.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Issue 45 reveals that he used to have a pet, one so dear to him that when it died, he took up it's name to honor it.
* AFatherToHisMen
* FacialHorror: The result of Vos's "face" left him in pretty bad shape, though by his next appearance his face has been fixed.
* HeelRealization: He has one about his voting to [[spoiler: sell Grimlock to Demus for half a billion credits because he wanted to use his half a billion to open a center to help other Decepticons traumatized and mentally scarred from the war receive counseling and treatment. When Fulcrum angrily explains that those bots include Grimlock, Krok realizes he was wrong for wanting to sell him in the first place.]]
* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler: He's been in denial about the fate of his squad for years, convincing himself that they weren't actually dead and he just needed to find them. Eventually he makes himself understand they're dead, but still doesn't really come to terms with it until the encounter with Fort Max makes him realize how much the other Scavengers care for him.]] [[invoked]]
* LargeAndInCharge: Inverted, he might be the highest ranked of his group, but he's the smallest.
* TheLeader
* TheMentallyIll: [[spoiler: He started to suffere from delusions and bouts of anxiety after his old squad was wiped out by the Wreckers. His brushes with mental illness caused him to decide to open a mental health facility after the war ended. When the deal with Demus falls through, he settles for helping other Decepticons in the galaxy the Scavengers come across.]]
* NervousWreck: Starts becoming one after Megatron's side-change as his already serious anxiety and frustration with his teammates gets steadily worse.
* NobleDemon: He's ruthless in combat, willing to kill Autobots even off the battlefield since they're enemies. However out-of-combat he's stern but polite towards others and holds no true ill feelings towards the Autobots as he understands that there really isn't as much difference between the two sides as most think.
* NotSoStoic: After months of the Scavengers screwing around in the outer rim, he loses his cool and bitches out the rest of the group for not doing anything with their lives.
* OnlySaneMan: Tries to be this, with mixed results.
* TheResenter: He resents a lot of other Decepticons who have found new purposes in life after the war for being so successful when he's stuck living hand-to-mouth.
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the war he witness his squad get wiped out by the Wreckers. It definitely left it's mark on him.]]
* SuperOCD: He obsessively holds and clicks a small device in his hand that he claims is keeping the WAP's communications suite running, thus sending a message to his old squad. He's so dead-set on doing so he continues holding and clicking it in the middle of fights. [[spoiler: Issue 46 reveals it's actually the finger of his deceased friend Radar who transformed into a satellite; clicking it transformed over time into a nervous tic for him after he began trying to use it to find his old squad.]]
* TheStrategist: Was a tactician during the war, though according to Skullcruncher he wasn't actually that good at his job.
* TheStoic
* TeamDad
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:During the scene that shows the aftereffects of the Killswitch.]]
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: His clicker is actually the finger of a deceased squadmate. When he finally accepts his old squad's death, he plugs it into the WAP's navcomp so the Scavengers can track down and help other disenfranchised Decepticons.]]
* TwoferTokenMinority: He's both constructed cold and a monoformer.

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[[folder:Flywheels]]
-->''Primus spare my spark. Primus my spark.''
A jittery and optimistic hypochondriac who's recently found religion. Suffers from a mental disorder so rare that it's probably made up, which causes him to transform whenever he lies.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flywheels_8918.png]]

* TheAtoner: Was possibly one at the time of his death. [[spoiler: Issue 48 reveals that he used to work in Grindcore Prison, a nightmarish glorified death camp where he was given the job of implanting gruesome devices called "mouth flowers" in prisoners.]] It's likely that his reconnection with his faith was linked to this.
* TheCameo: Makes a brief flashback appearance in issue 47, [[spoiler: as a worker in Grindcore.]]
* TheChick
* CharacterDeath: He is shredded by Tesarus in ''Who's Afraid Of The DJD?''
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Though he probably had it better than most of the 'bots and 'cons Tesarus has killed.
* TheFundamentalist
* [[{{Hypochondria}} The Hypochondriac]]
* PinocchioNose: He reflexively transforms whenever he lies.
* SayYourPrayers: When he hears that the DJD are coming, and again right before Tesarus executes him.
* WeHardlyKnewYe

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[[folder:Misfire]]
-->''I'm '''thinking''' magnets, but I'm '''hoping''' magic powers.''
A rude and overly-hyper junkie with absolutely abysmal aiming skills and a love of talking. A strong believer in the mystical Necrobot and seeks to find it in his travels.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misfire_3734.png]]

* AppropriatedAppellation: It's implied Misfire isn't his given name.
* ArchNemeses: With Skids, apparently.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: According to his bio.
* BigEater: He refuels so much that he'll stop for food ''during a jailbreak''.
* CloudCuckooLander
** BewareTheSillyOnes
* EpicFail: He's a [[{{Understatement}} really really bad shot]].
* EvilCounterpart: Rewind suggests that he might be Swerve's.
* TheLancer
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his rudeness, he's hinted to genuinely care about the other Scavengers in issue 45, especially Grimlock.
* TheMillstone: The Scavengers would probably be at least halfway effective if it weren't for Misfire. From accidentally shooting his own teammates during fights to nearly ruining a jailbreak by stopping for snacks, there are times where it seems like he's intentionally trying to get the others killed.
* MisterExposition: Introduces us to the scavengers.
* MotorMouth: Lampshaded and justified. He'd siphoned some fuel out of a soldier who'd been taking circuit speeders, and had sampled the goods without bothering to check. He is therefore quite high when we meet him.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Skids describes him as such.
* PetTheDog: He tries to teach Grimlock how to read and write again and even works on his temper to keep from lashing out at him. Later he's the one to most vocally object to selling Grimlock to Demus.
* TheStoner: While not explicitly said, it's implied a couple of times. The first time when it is mentioned he likes to taste the goods in the first issue he appears in. The second when, during his rescue from Death Row, he pretty much botched it because he took a detour to get munchies.

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[[folder:Spinister]]
-->''The fire is giving me weird looks. I think I'm gonna shoot it.''
A daydreamy and possibly mentally disabled bot who's also somehow a master surgeon and a skilled bomb defuser. Cares for his friends but flits between childlike joy and surprising acts of violence with distressing ease.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spinister_1342.png]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: A delusional paranoiac who floats between acting like a child and acting like a violent mentally ill man who lashes out at inanimate objects.
* TheBigGuy[=/=]TheSmartGuy
* BookDumb: He seems to struggle with counting.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Interrogates his hands, but he manages to defuse an incredibly powerful explosive charge with no problem.
* CloudCuckooLander: Amongst other things, he thinks random objects are sentient and evil and believes that squirrels live in peoples' heads.
* ContemplatingYourHands: He doesn't even have to be on drugs to do it.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his apparent mental disability, he seems to be a decent fighter and it turns out that he's a savant with his complex machinery.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Maybe he's an idiot, but he's the first to notice that the DJD have apparently miscounted before anyone else does.
** Questions why someone felt Grimlock, who is well know for his hatred of 'cons, was worth keeping alive.
* IdiotSavant: Surgical genius with his hands. Idiot with everything else.
* KickTheDog: He considers Demus's offer to buy Grimlock in issue 45.
* ManChild: Most of the time he acts like a fairly friendly and harmless child. However during his more delusional moments he edges dangerously close to PsychopathicManChild.
* TheMedic
* PetTheDog: He leaves behind instructions on how to repair the beast-form cybertronions that Demus lobotomized, allowing Fort Max to save them. Notably this happens shortly after his above-mentioned KickTheDog moment.
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say much compared to the others.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Compared to previous versions of the character. Although, given this series, there may be more to this than we know.
* TriggerHappy: His first response to anything out of the ordinary is to shoot at it. With a very loose definition of "out of the ordinary."

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grimlock]]
-->''Me... Grimlock.''
Former leader of the Dinobots and once a proud warrior, Grimlock disappeared after a stint in Garrus 9 and is found by the Scavengers in a mysterious Decepticon ship, having suffered brain damage. He becames an honorary member of the group due to their hope that he could keep them from being arrested or killed once they got to Cybertron, but when those plans fell through, they decided to keep him around as a sort of "pet".
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grimlock_6356.png]]

* {{Badass}}: The Scavenger's plan? Point Grimlock at the DJD and pray.
** HandicappedBadass: Even without his higher brain functions, Grimlock is still capable of putting up a good fight. At first, at any rate.
* TheBusCameBack: Missing since ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]''. It is unclear what happened to him during the interim.
** CameBackWrong: with serious brain damage in this case.
* CloudCuckoolander
* TheDreaded: Decepticons used to tell new recruits about him, to terrify the oil out of them.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: He's a Dinobot, who turns into a T-Rex. Doesn't apply to Decepticons.
* HairTriggerTemper: After the time-skip between seasons 1 and 2, he begins to experience tantrums where he rampages about the WAP for seemingly no reason and has to be stunned into submission. Given that his pre-brain damage self had a notoriously bad temper, one can't help but wonder if this is his old self shining through...
* IdiotSavant: When it comes to fighting. Even when partially brain dead, he still managed to do some damage to the members of the DJD.
* ManChild: Due to his brain damage he can't read or write anymore, sometimes wets himself, and begins to act out more.
* MoralityPet: Becomes one for Misfire.
* NoodleIncident: He's apparently caused trouble for Tarn before, based on Tarn commenting he's "forgotten how much I hated you".
** Seems he was once a Decepticon in this continuity. Fortress Maximus indicates such, and there is a panel in an early issue showing him holding both an Autobot and Decepticon badge in his hands, as if making a SadisticChoice.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Issue 46 hints that he's either starting to regain his mental faculties or is hiding them for some reason.
* SixthRanger: Even moreso than Fulcrum.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Only in the sense that he's the only Autobot member.
* VerbalTic: Making its first real appearance in this continuity, as a result of aforementioned brain damage.
* WhamLine: "Thanks. I appreciate that."

[[/folder]]

!!The Decepticon Justice Division

[[folder:The DJD in general]]
-->''Find. Kill. Cleanse.''
The Decepticon Justice Division is a division that handles justice. And by justice, we mean "unmarked graves". Traitors and deserters to the Decepticon cause are targeted by these feared enforcers of Megatron's will.

!!In general:
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Any Decepticon that hinders Megatron's quest for galactic domination in any way meets with the same punishment: brutal execution.
* BadassCrew: The five of them are shown to be capable of [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] both Phase Sixers and [[spoiler:almost the entire crew of the alternate ''Lost Light''.]]
* BandOfBrothers: Their loyalty to the Decepticon cause is matched only by their loyalty to each other. [[SympatheticPOV This in no way diminishes the fact that they're all sadistic mass-murderers]] -- or, in Nickel's case, a mass-murderer facilitator.
* BerserkButton: ''Turncoats''. They were persuaded by [[spoiler: Brainstorm to spare the quantum-duplicate ''Lost Light'' crew in exchange for killing Overlord, and were going to do just that, but seeing Drift made them ''lose their shit'' and massacre the crew.]]
* BloodKnight: They ''really'' enjoy their job.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:They return with a vengeance in Issue #32 to destroy the alternate ''Lost Light'' off-panel.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Their specialty. Several of them turn into torture implements, and all of them ''are'' torture implements.
* CombatSadomasochist: They seem to derive perverse pleasure from inflicting pain on others. Especially noticeable when [[spoiler: they're massacring the alternate Lost Light crew]]; they're all visibly enjoying themselves and making their kills as violent and over-the-top as possible. Tarn, at least, tries to hide it behind a veneer of sophistication.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The DJD execute traitors and deserters in the messiest fashion possible to make an example of them:
** Tarn's specially modulated vocal processor causes his victim's spark to self-destruct.
** Vos is able to remove his face, the inside of which lined with numerous spikes, drills, and hooks that deploy at the flick of a switch. He forces his victims to wear it.
** Kaon can generate thousands of watts of electricity which discharged directly into the cranial chambers of his victim. He also turns into an electric chair.
** Helex has the ability to smelt his victims inside his chest. He's also fond of removing their brain modules and placing it into their mouths.
** Tesarus has a turbine built into his chest. Victims are lowered into this gnashing pit, but are rarely fully dropped into it.
* {{Cult}}: Among other things, they're a cult centered around the Decepticon cause. In ''The Permanent Revolution'', there's a brief moment where they pray to a statue of Megatron shortly after finishing with their latest victim.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: [[spoiler: On the alternate Lost Light, they could've just killed Overlord and been on their way, but instead they chose to slaughter the entire crew, indulging in their own personal ventures. It's explained that the DJD had every intention of leaving the ''Lost Light'' crew alone on their pursuit of Overlord, but encountering Drift (a former Decepticon) "triggered" them, forcing them to kill everyone.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: They'll kill Decepticons for being imprisoned, or for deviating for whatever insane standards they hold every other Decepticon to.
* TheDreaded: Among their own faction to boot. Even 'cons stranded on [[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Cybertron]] are afraid of them.
* EvilVsEvil: Their whole purpose. Their targets include Black Shadow, Deathsaurus and Overlord. Though Riptide reassures his fellow crew members that they target Autobots too.
* FatalFlaw: Quite possible their one major weakness is that they can never do things the quick and easy way -- they always have to make it as bloody, brutal, and prolonged as possible. See DickDastardlyStopsToCheat. Issue 39 shows that this is at least partly because they power themselves up on Nuke, which is a highly addictive and makes it's users highly violent and possibly delusional.
* FiveBadBand
** BigBad: Tarn.
** TheDragon: Helex
** EvilGenius: Kaon.
** TheBrute: Tesarus, Helex again.
** TheDarkChick: Vos.
** TheMedic: Nickel.
** TeamPet: The Pet.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For the entire Decepticon faction, and with good reason.
* GottaKillThemAll: Any Decepticon who wavers from the cause, any Decepticon who so much as gets captured, must die in horrible, horrible agony. And the Autobots, but that one's a given.
* HeroKiller: They kill every single crew member on [[spoiler:the alternate ''Lost Light'', save Rewind. Soon after Kaon kills our Trailcutter.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: They apparently make a habit of breaking the same rules they kill others over:
** They violently murder Black Shadow for taking bribes in return for turning against the Decepticons, but it's perfectly okay for Tarn to take bribes from Pharma in return for letting the Autobots hold a potentially important strategic position. Tarn needed those T-cogs in order to live, but it's explicitly noted that he could easily get his medical condition treated.
** In ''Slaughterhouse, Part 1'' [[spoiler: they ignore a direct order from Megatron and kill the alternate Whirl.]]
** They view religion as a baneful thing and punish Decepticons for practicing it, but not only do they worship Megatron and his ideals in a distinctly religious manner, but Vos is suggested to be a believer in Primus.
* IllegalReligion: No matter how small or quiet or pleasant the religion or its believers may be, even a religion of one must be dealt with. The Decepticon utopia cannot justify religion. [[{{Hypocrite}} It's a form of control, after all.]]
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: Seemingly lesser infractions can land you on their list.
* TheJuggernaut: As issues 32 and 33 demonstrates, they can wade through [[spoiler:the crew of the Lost Light]] without taking so much as a scratch. This cost them though; [[spoiler: the Galactic Council and Black Block Consortia's forces managed to nearly kill Vos and Kaon while the DJD were tired from that slaughter.]]
* LegacyCharacter: The "First Five" all operate under codenames, and the lineup is implied to change semi-regularly. Two previous holders of the name "Vos" have been mentioned, one who was really big and had hooks in place of his hands and feet and another who was [[spoiler:Agent 113]].
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Subverted. They leave Neutrals alone, but due to Tarn's bigoted beliefs it basically narrows down to "Never Hurt A ''Cybertronian'' Innocent". They're totally cool with killing organics.
* NighInvulnerable: Some of them can take hits from a Cybernaught, later shown to able to kill someone like Ultra Magnus with ease, and it barely hurts them.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Even the Terrifying monstrous [[KnightOfCerebus Knights of Cerebus]] bicker and act like unruly children much like the Scavengers and Lost Light crew.
* OddlySmallOrganisation: For a ''division'', there only seem to be five of them doing the main work. However, they do have agents and informants all over the place, like Nickel and [[spoiler:Brainstorm]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The main members of the [=DJD=] are only known by their codenames, all after the first five cities to fall under Decepticon rule.
** ThemeNaming
* OutOfFocus: Following their introductory two-parter, they're mostly unseen throughout the first season as they head off to find Overlord, though Tarn and Kaon make a brief appearance in the ''Remain In Light'' arc. Their lack of appearances is finally explained in Issue #32 and #33; they've been very busy.
* PetTheDog: Horribly subverted; [[spoiler: they were going to spare the alternate Lost Light crew and only kill Overlord, but because they had just taken a bunch of Nuke, they lost control when they saw Drift and started a fight, leading to them slaughtering the crew.]]
** In a straighter example, they never attack Neutrals like the Necrobot.
* PsychoSerum: They use a super-fuel called Nuke to enhance their performance. It's Nucleon altered by quantum energy released by Brainstorm's time travel shenanigans. It leaves them ''very'' unstable.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:A past member]] was an Autobot spy in the group known as [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Agent 113]], who passes on the members on the list to the Autobots by shooting the "enemy" with inert data bullets. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that 113 was a previous Vos.]]
* RasputinianDeath: They usually won't let a victim die until each member has had a turn torturing them. If that option isn't available, they'll just make sure their victim dies painfully.
* RulesLawyer: According to WordOfGod [[spoiler: Megatron's order to spare Whirl can be ignored if he's directly threatening the soldier's life. The DJD used this as an excuse to disobey Megatron and kill the alternate Whirl, despite the fact that he couldn't possibly have hurt them.]]
* TortureTechnician
* ToylessToylineCharacter: All 7 were created for the comic, and Hasbro confirmed at Botcon 2015 that there were no plans for DJD figures.
* TrueCompanions: They're all incredibly loyal and caring towards one another, in stark contrast to how they treat others.
* VillainTeamUp: They ally with Deathsaurus' army to take on Megatron and the ''Lost Light'' in ''The Permanent Revolution''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Tarn"]]
-->''The war is not over until Megatron '''says''' so.''
The ruthless leader of the DJD and the BigBad of the series. He puts on a show of being a cultured lover of music and literature to cover up both his sadism and his addiction to transforming. He's completely and psychotically devoted to the Decepticon cause and possesses the power kill people with ''his voice''.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tarnthumbnail_7537.jpg]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Unlike most Decepticon commanders, he appears to respect his team, never belittling or insulting them. For example, the genuine concern he shows Kaon when the latter is affected by the kilswitch, and later refuses to kill his crew to forge an alliance with Deathsaurus.
* ArmCannon: A double-barrelled one.
* AscendedFanboy: In-universe, he's a very obvious Megatron fan, and was personally taught by the guy.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBureaucrat: Tarn runs the DJD like a bureaucracy (with all the paperwork that implies), with him as their manager. This is entirely deliberate -- in his own words, "the Decepticon empire will stand or fall on the strength of its internal administration".
-->"For what is the Decepticon Justice Division if not a form of extreme performance management?"
* BerserkButton: Asking him to take off his mask, and insinuating he's a coward for wearing it, will get you turned right back over to the more sadistic DJD members for execution. Also, invoking the NoManLeftBehind trope.
* BigBad: Roberts has identified him as the series' BigBad, but he has yet to actually meet the [[spoiler: non-quantum duplicate]] ''Lost Light'', leaving him no room to actually personally menace the gang. He serves as the BiggerBad of the Delphi two-parter, as he's behind Pharma's actions, but he appears to be finally stepping up as the series' true BigBad as of ''The Permanent Revolution'', where he's allied with Deathsaurus' army to not only take over the Decepticons, but to wipe out Megatron and the ''Lost Light''.
* BloodKnight: Played with. ''Return Of The DJD'' implies he's the only member who ''doesn't'' enjoy torturing and violence, but hides this fact from the others because he believes that his duty is necessary. However, in ''Who's Afraid Of The DJD'', he describes the hatred he has for Grimlock as "intoxicating" and was clearly enjoying slaughtering [[spoiler: the crew of the duplicate Lost Light, in the ''Slaughterhouse'' arc]]. Based on his comments, it seems that once he's started killing, he just can't hold himself back.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: His bio lists him as a "music lover, classical scholar, and mass murderer.”
* BrokenPedestal: He is DrivenToSuicide upon hearing of Megatron's defection. He gets better when he decides that he's in the end more loyal to the cause than any one figure.
* BrownNote: He can modulate his voice to a certain pitch that will make the listener's spark explode.
* CaptainPatriotic: An evil one. He's named after Megatron's home town, and he has the Decepticon symbol as a mask.
* ChainsawGood: Kills [[spoiler:the alternate Overlord]] with an Ununtrium-bladed one.
* CoolMask: Has a Decepticon symbol over his actual face. One panel in ''The Permanent Revolution'' indicates he's got a whole ''wall'' covered in battle-damaged but otherwise identical masks.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As revealed in ''Return Of The DJD'', [[spoiler: Tarn is actually disgusted by the torture that the DJD inflicts and has great difficulty watching it. He wears his mask partly to hide the fact that he closes his eyes, every time the rest of the team indulge in their bloodlust.]] In the same issue, he berates himself for mocking a dying victim who was struggling to speak, noting in his internal monologue that it was petty and beneath him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Claims that the only reason the Autobots protected the organic races of the galaxy from Megatron's plan to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe them out]] was to "put an upstart miner back in his place."
* EvilSoundsDeep: Alex Milne [[WordOfGod has said]] that he imagines Creator/KeithDavid as the voice of Tarn.
* EyeScream: During his fight with Deathsaurus, the con sticks his (sharp) thumb into Tarn's eye hole. However due to the way he'd grabbed Tarn, and partly moved his mask, the thumb didn't go all the day through the optic, and just damaged the eyehole.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Just as his faceplate masks his true identity, his calm, sophisticated demeanour hides the ruthlessness with which he performs his duty.
* FemmeFatalons: The tips of his figures have sharp points.
* FunctionalAddict: Deconstructed. Tarn is addicted to both transforming and Nuke but carries on his duties regardless. As a result he constantly burns through transformation cogs, resulting in damage which can occasionally lead to a slight case of... dead. Ratchet points out it can be cured, but Pharma states Tarn doesn't ''want'' to be cured.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has exposed circuitry visible around his right eye. His mask also has two small scratches on the same eye. He also seems to have something similar to burn scars around his mouth.
* KickTheDog: While preparing to kill Blip, he mocks the guy while he was struggling to speak due to his injuries. {{Lampshaded}} in his internal monologue, berating himself for doing something so petty.
** When Tesarus complains about Vos and Kaon getting left behind on Ofsted, Tarn responds by threatening to murder him for questioning his knowledge of the Decepticon code.
* KnightTemplar
* LogicalWeakness: While it leaves him far from defenseless, Deathsaurus points out that his main weapon, his voice, can be avoided by the victim shutting off their audio-receptors. Unless, of course, he's insinuated himself into their poorly-secured comms systems beforehand.
* MysteriousPast: Exactly who Tarn is (or was) is a matter of debate. There are several strong hints he may well be [[spoiler:Roller]].
** He's a Point-One Percenter.
** He knows or knew Skids, back from his days at the Academy. And Skids has the Empyrian Suite stuck in his head, noted to be Tarn's "theme tune".
** [[spoiler:Roller]] remarked that he was envious of the Outlier's amazing skills and abilities, lamenting he had none. Tarn specifically mentions that he went about much of his life without an Outlier power before discovering his special voice later in life.
** His body is quite obviously not the one he started off with, and a flashback panel shows it being worked on by the same scientists found in the Institute.
** Tarn is addicted to transforming. [[spoiler:Roller]] was shown to have an addictive personality in the past, specifically for circuit boosters.
** Tarn is an avid reader of Megatron's Decepticon manifesto, ''Towards Peace''. In the past, [[spoiler:Roller]] was encouraged to read Megatron's earlier, less radical works by none other than [[spoiler:Orion Pax]], who claimed it was "powerful stuff".
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite making a big show of being a sophisticated scholar, it becomes clear during several fights that he's just as vicious and bloodthirsty as the rest of the DJD.
* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: ''The Permanent Revolution'' implies he's not nearly as much of a psychopathic sadist as his teammates.]].
* PetTheDog: His interactions with his team serve to humanize him.
** He shows concern for Kaon in the ''Remain in Light'' story arc, when the latter is affected by the killswitch.
** He rescued Nickel and gave her purpose. While Roberts admits this action could have easily just been indoctrinating a scared trauma survivor into his cult, from Tarn's point of view he's being merciful.
** When asked to kill his teammates in order to accept Deathsaurus as an ally, Tarn is surprised at how quickly and firmly he refuses.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's shown in issue 39 to be a somewhat paranoid racist, believing that organic races are inherently violent towards mechanical races.
* SoftSpokenSadist: [-And softer-] [--and softer--] [---and softer...---] '''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath *VOMF*]]'''
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Quite literally.
* TragicVillain: ''The Permanent Revolution'' reveals that [[spoiler: he's actually disgusted by the violence his team commits, only performing his job because he genuinely thinks there's no other choice.]] If the hints that [[spoiler: he's actually Roller]] are correct, than he counts even more so.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Believes that Megatron will create a perfect society when the war is over, and that until then, any Decepticon who wavers from the cause must die, and that so long as it intimidates even one troop into obedience, it's worth it. He appears to be the only member that believes in it.
* VillainousBreakdown: It's minor, but he's clearly not enjoying that the Scavengers were able to get a couple over on him in ''Who's Afraid Of The DJD?''
** Finding out about Megatron denouncing and renouncing the Decepticon cause puts him in a major one, and he nearly commits suicide via super-Nucleon overdose. He snaps out of it after seeing Nickel's face and realizing there's another way out.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He sees himself and his division as this. The reality is a little different...
* WickedCultured: Will quote Megatron's works and play classical music as he kills you.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Vos II"]]
-->''Wear my faaace.''
The newest member of the DJD, who transforms into a sniper rifle and speaks almost exclusively in the Primal Vernacular. Also, he can remove his face, which has ''hundreds'' of spikes, drills, and other torture devices inside.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vos_9062.png]]

* {{Badass}}
* {{BFG}}: turns into one.
* BlackSpeech: He speaks in Primal Vernacular, and knows very few words of Neocybex, the modern Cybertronian language.
* TheDarkChick: The newest DJD recruit.
* {{Determinator}}: After being near fatally injured and receiving limited medical care from First Aid and Trailcutter, he gets right back up and starts attacking the Autobots.
* EquippableAlly: Turns into a sniper rifle.
* EyeScream: Subverted. His face has all sorts of drills and needles underneath it, but the eyes are unaffected. He still needs to see, but the victim will also still be able to see the rest of his tortures. Later Vos plays it straight [[spoiler:by pulling the alternate Chromedome's needle fingers off and ramming them into his eyes.]]
* EvilGenius: His bio mentions that he's a scientist, though his scientific prowess hasn't been shown yet and Kaon is arguably a better fit.
* FashionableAsymmetry: He's noticeably less symmetrical in robot mode than the other DJD members, though it's justified by his atypical alt mode and tiny size.
%%* FragileSpeedster: While still very tough, he's still the smallest and weakest of the DJD. Whereas the others could wipe out a battalion by themselves, Vos needs Kaon as back-up to deal with four Autobots.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Possibly. The D.J.D. does not approve of religion, yet if his near-death mutterings are any indication, he's got some Neo-Primalist leanings he's kept hidden.
* LeanAndMean: The smallest and least physically imposing member of the DJD, but it wouldn't be a good idea to write him off because of this.
* LegacyCharacter: He's not the first person to bear the name "Vos". At least two previous holders of the title are mentioned; one was much bigger and had hooks on his hands and feet and the other was [[spoiler:Agent 113]].
* MadeOfIron
* PintsizePowerhouse: For someone so small, he's incredibly strong and durable.
* NightmareFace
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: In contrast with the other DJD menbers, he appears to have a heavily modified intellectual class body-type, and he is the only one without an even vaguely vehicular mode.
* ReligiousBruiser: Issue 34 implies that he's religious, with him praying to Primus when severely injured.
* TortureTechnician
* UngratefulBastard: He attacks Trailcutter after he risked his life to save him, [[spoiler:and doesn't do a thing to dissuade Kaon from killing him.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Kaon"]]
A blind member of the DJD and owner of the Pet. He transforms into an electric chair and has the power to generate electricity.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaon_7725.png]]

* AxCrazy
* {{Badass}}: Brought the cybernought-wearing Crankcase to his knees with a lightning attack. Keep in mind that Crankcase had just incapacitated Tarn, Helex, and Tesarus, far and away the most physically imposing members of the DJD.
* BlackEyesOfEvil
* ElectricTorture: Transforms into an electric chair for torture purposes, though he can still generate lightning in robot mode for offensive purposes.
* EnergyAbsorption: He can feed off energy sources in the immediate area. [[spoiler:Forcefields, for instance.]]
* EvilCripple: He's blind -- and completely merciless to his victims.
* EvilGenius: Maintains the list of the DJD's targets.
* EyelessFace: It's not clear ''why'', though.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: In ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'', he bids Bluestreak, Mainframe and First Aid a friendly farewell...not long after having ripped Trailcutter to shreds.]]
* HeroKiller: As much as any of the other members. However, he's the first D.J.D. member to kill a non-quantum duplicate member of the main cast: [[spoiler:Trailcutter.]]
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: [[spoiler: In ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'' his presence isn't revealed until Trailcutter's forcefield accidentally revives him.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's incredibly venomous and cruel to his victims.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Casually crushes the dead Trailcutter's brain for no other reason than First Aid asking that his remains be treated respectfully.]]
* PsychoElectro
* ShockAndAwe
* SlasherSmile: Upon killing [[spoiler: Trailcutter.]]
* StealthPun: He has no eyes. When you look at his face, you're looking at ''the pits of Kaon''.
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:During the "Remain in Light" story, while affected by the killswitch.]]
* TortureTechnician
* WhenHeSmiles: ''[[http://media.tumblr.com/bf2ff1316af9de8e9f1660177b27ead9/tumblr_inline_n0tez5NWw11r3qjju.png Look at this.]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Helex"]]
-->''Oh, Misfire... Your timing is as bad as your targeting.''
A massive and stoic member who transforms into a giant smelter. Perhaps the most physically powerful DJD member.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helex_8834.png]]

* {{Badass}}
* BadassArmFold: When not in use, his smaller, secondary arms are generally doing something of this bent.
* BrainFood: He makes people eat their brains. Sometimes he puts them in their mouths post-mortem, sometimes, like with Blip, he leaves them connected to the head via wires, and places it into the victim's mouth, so they can chew their own brain and die. Nickel's comments about him having cranial fluid in his mouth implies that either he eats their brains as well, or bites off the caps of their heads to get at their brains.
* TheBrute: The largest and most physically powerful of the DJD, though he shares the role of Brute with Tesarus.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DualWielding: He's scene dual-wielding pistols with his smaller arms [[spoiler:during the Lost Light Massacre]].
* FacialMarkings: The glowing lines going down from his eyes. They might just be the same stuff he uses to melt people.
* FourFingeredHands: His larger pair of arms only have three fingers.
* ImmuneToBullets: He easily shrugs off Spinister's gunfire during their fight with the Scavengers. Roberts attributes this to his thick armored build even going so far to say that he could take a hit of Gideon's Glue, and not only survive it, but store some of it away to be used in some bold and innovative ways.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He has a smaller pair of arms around his smelting chamber, presumably to help load unwilling victims inside.
* MythologyGag Alex Milne [[http://markerguru001.tumblr.com/post/64445270060/so-here-we-have-the-djd-they-are-probably-my confirmed]] in his [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/ce2e5427e4d83882171cbca00861b1b1/tumblr_muwbbqkiQP1s05q39o4_1280.jpg concept art, that Helex]] was based on the [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/0/07/TheSmeltingPoolUS17.jpg Decepticon Harvester from the Marvel series.]] Where the Harvesters dumped bots into the Smelting pools, Helex turns into one.
* PerpetualFrowner: Barely ever seen smiling. Usually he's frowning, or his [[FaceFramedInShadow face is obscured]]. He smiles only rarely like when [[spoiler:the D.J.D found the duplicate Overlord]], or when he's poking fun at Nickel's doting.
* RedOniBlueOni: Snarkier and more reserved than Tesarus. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience This is reflected nicely]] in their respective color schemes.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Though we haven't actually gotten to see this dynamic in the comic, their large builds, chest weapons, and joint occupation as TheBrute all point to him and Tesarus being this.
* TortureTechnician

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Tesarus"]]
-->''Stop struggling and '''come inside''', Flywheels.''
A sadistic BloodKnight who has a huge shredder built into his chest. He's the cruelest DJD member and is easily bored when not fighting or torturing.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tesarus_2879.png]]

* {{Badass}}
* BloodKnight: Tesarus is always eager for a fight, the lack of action just bores him. Tarn describes him thusly:
-->'''Tesarus'''. Sullen. Capricious. Ferociously violent.
* TheBrute: Less ambiguous than Helex in this regard.
* {{Embarrassing Nickname}}: When Nickel tears into Tarn, Helex, and Tesarus for not keeping up their personal hygiene, she addresses Tesarus as "Tess".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He wasn't happy about leaving Kaon and Vos behind, and when he voiced his concerns to Tarn (saying that's not what Decepticons do), Tarn beat him down and threatened to use the voice on him for daring to insinuate what Decepticons do or don't do.
* EyelessFace: Doesn't have eyes in the conventional sense. The X seems to be how he sees.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has a secondary pair of arms mounted on his shoulders, though unlike Helex who's four arms all function as arms, Helex's back arms work more like grabbing cranes and he only uses them when he needs to work.
* NoManLeftBehind: He's ''very'' upset when Tarn is forced to abandon Kaon and Vos.
* RedOniBlueOni: In contrast to Helex, Tesarus is shown to be rather sadistic and easily bored when not killing people. Funnily enough, their color schemes are blue and red, respectively.
* XMarksTheHero: Inverted, as he's a villain.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Helex, if their numerous physical similarities and joint role as TheBrute are any indication.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nickel]]
-->''Just because I'm the size of an Energon Cube doesn't mean I can't put you in your place.''
A small medical/engineering bot in charge of keeping the DJD running. The sole survivor of the Prion colony, she's remarkably blunt and brave, treating the DJD more like misbehaving children than assassins who could easily kill her.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8469c1784c11518ac943a95386f3f92c.jpg]]

* {{Adorkable}}: For someone who's part of the DJD.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: WordOfGod has clarified that she is just as monstrous as the rest of the DJD since she facilitates their murdering and torturing and is "cute" only in terms of her design.
* TheChick: Given that she appears to be non-action type character.
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why she joined the Decepticons, particularly the [=DJD=].
* LadySwearsALot: Performs a non-verbal variety, with several obscene gestures directed at Tarn and Helex when they tease her.
* LastOfHerKind / DoomedHometown: The Last Survivor of the Prion colony, that was wiped out after an attack by the Black Block Consortia.
* TheMedic: She actually berates everyone for not keeping proper hygiene, thus making her work even more difficult.
* MoralityPet: Her introduction is the first demonstration that the DJD has ''much'' more depth than simply being a band of sadistic mass-murderers.
* MouthyKid: Not really a kid, but comes across this given her size and looks, and that she puts all of the DJD in place with just a few words.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Really small bot, with wheels for feet and a gauge on her forehead.
** Her vehicle mode is also unusual. She has three alt-modes, but unlike Springer, Sixshot, or any other triple+ changer, they're all similar in shape and build just altered slightly for sea, air, and ground travel.
* [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity Restored My Faith In The Decepticon Cause]]: Her defection to the Decepticons serves as this to the wearying Tarn, and it's her love for her team and the cause that stops Tarn's attempted suicide.
* TeamMom: As 'Tarn' says, she just really worries about her team when they're on the field. When Tarn is on the verge of suicide, she's in tears.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female in their group. In fact, the only female Decepticon in the IDW continuity so far.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"The Pet"]]
A Sparkeater in the form of a turbofox and Kaon's pet/makeshift guide dog. The DJD like to have it chew their victim's sparks for added torment.
* AnimalisticAbomination: It's a Sparkeater in the form of a turbofox, though it won't eat sparks, instead preferring to chew them a bit.
* RightHandAttackDog: Kaon's.
* TeamPet: Kaon's its handler, but the whole team seems to enjoy its company.

[[/folder]]

!!Luna-1

[[folder:Chief Justice Tyrest]]

-->''Fully deserved.''
The neutral Chief Justice of the Cybertronian race who created the Tyrest Accord, a set of universal laws that all races in the galaxy must follow in times of war. He's Ultra Magnus's former boss and suffers from a guilt complex due to his murky and dark past. By the time the crew encounters him, his guilt has driven him mad.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: His ultimate goal is to gain redemption for his actions by killing every single Cybertronian who was constructed cold, then use the Space Bridge he's building to join Primus, the Guiding Hand, and the Knights of Cybertron in Cyberutopia. He fails.]]
* ATasteOfTheLash: Self-inflicted variety. He is into self-flagellation, although rather than whipping himself, he drills himself.
* TheAtoner: His actions in "Remain In Light" are attempted atonement for [[spoiler:his creation of the process of draining the Matrix to create new sparks to be constructed cold.]] In practice, however...
* BadassCape
* BigBad: Of the ''Remain in Light'' storyline. He's also responsible for the Circle of Light's disappearance.
** NonActionBigBad: Not a warrior himself, he relies on his Enforcer Star Saber, Lockdown's Titan Hunters, and his own force of Legislators to do his dirty work. [[spoiler: After his paralyzation signal goes offline he's taken down fairly quickly.]]
* BodyHorror: Mild, but his body appears to be heavily pockmarked, or riddled with bullet holes, including a hole in his forehead. Turns out it's a form of self-flagellation.
* CompellingVoice: Tyrest's weapon of mass suggestion, when activated, can make anyone do anything says.
* CoolCrown: His head looks like one.
* ExitVillainStageLeft: [[spoiler:It turns out he has a recall system similar to the Magnus Armor's as well, and uses it to teleport away after the events of Remain In Light, despite being comatose.]]
* DeathByIrony: Tyrest represents Law gone bad; in the end he's crippled by the devoted law enforcer Ultra Magnus.
* FaceFramedInShadow: In his first appearance in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''.
* FallenHero: A brilliant scientist and negotiator who helped millions of Cybertronians flee the war, once.
* TheFundamentalist: Wasn't originally, but fell into this after the Aequitas trials.
* GuiltComplex: Has developed one based on his role in [[spoiler:inventing the process that drained the Matrix to create sparks, which he believes has led to the creation of a race of Cybertronians predisposed to sin.]] He wishes to purge himself of this guilt by way of KillEmAll.
* HeroicBSOD: Experienced one during the Aequitas trials, when he realized that [[spoiler:every criminal he tried had been constructed cold using the Matrix-draining process he himself had developed under Nova Prime.]] The shock of realizing this caused him to suspend the trials and go into seclusion, where he began drilling himself as a form of penance, before drilling his ''head'' and going off the deep end.
* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassHasAPoint: In pointing out some of Ambus' recent faults [[spoiler:as Ultra Magnus.]]
* TheJudge
** HangingJudge
** JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: His solution for dealing with every single Cybertronian who was constructed cold.]]
** FinalSolution
** DepopulationBomb
* KnightTemplar: Changing the Tyrest Accord, making new laws as he sees fits, and charging others for crimes they were not even aware about.
* KnightInSourArmor
* LawmanGoneBad
* LightIsNotGood: Obsessed with the pursuit of justice and purity, but cares little for anyone who might stand in his way.
* MadnessMantra: ''Tyrest, come closer, come closer, come closer. Tyrest, come closer, come closer...''
* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:Getting shot with a foreign thought urging you to resign from your position? THOUGHT CRIME! Arrest those Diplomatic Corps agents! But using the exact same technology to implant the idea to your enemies that they can't move, completely immobilizing them? Well that's okay, because now you can go forward with your "divinely approved" plan to exterminate a large portion of your own people and go to the Transformer equivalent of Heaven as a result.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Draining the Matrix to create new sparks under Nova Prime's direction. He believes that the sparks he created in this matter are "predisposed to sin" since all of the criminals he tried during the Aequitas trials were constructed cold, and guilty of some of the worst war crimes imaginable.]]
* PathOfInspiration
* PetTheDog: Despite his insane, wicked ways, he's at least decent enough to explain to Magnus what's wrong with him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Prowl's plan backfires because Tyrest brain-damaged himself with all the drilling, therefore rendering the 'nudge' gun useless against him. Lampshaded by Getaway, when he calls Tyrest' plan an 'unintended consequence' of Prowl's plan failing.]]
* StaffOfAuthority: Carries an ornate golden staff that most likely serves as a badge of office. [[spoiler: Tyrest can also use it to strip the current Ultra Magnus of his PoweredArmour by pressing a button on the shaft and later uses it to paralyze Rodimus and his Away Team by projecting the idea into them that they can't move.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
* WalkingSpoiler
* WingedHumanoid: Has this appearance in robot mode, but remains to be seen if he is actually capable of flight.
* YouHaveFailedMe: To [[spoiler: Ultra Magnus. He then proceeds to strip him of his PoweredArmor and leave him as his real identity, Minimus Ambus.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Star Saber]]

-->''Will anybody pit their faith against mine?''
A religious KnightTemplar and former Circle Of Light member who now works for Chief Justice Tyrest. Brutal and powerful in combat, he enforces Tyrest's laws with an iron fist.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starsaber_4125.png]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: The original Star Saber was your typical squeaky-clean paragon of justice.
* ArchEnemy: Dai Atlas, for their conflicting views on faith, and also because Star Saber betrayed the Circle of Light to the Legislators.
* {{Badass}}: One thing can't be denied; this guy can seriously kick ass when he wants to.
* TheBigGuy: Even by Cybertronian standards, he's huge.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: In his eyes, at least, everything he does is okay.
* TheBrute: [[spoiler:As the new Duly-Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord]], and also the one who actually manages to capture Skids and Swerve.
* {{BFS}}
* CurbStompBattle: He ends up killing [[spoiler:Dai Atlas]] quite effortlessly.
* ChurchMilitant
* ChurchPolice
* DeathByIrony: Star Saber represents Religion gone bad; he comes within inches of being killed by the highly spiritual Cyclonus.
* DeathGlare: His default expression is one of seething contempt.
* TheDragon: To Tyrest.
** CoDragons: With Lockdown.
* EgocentricallyReligious
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:How Cyclonus ultimately gets the upper hand on him.]]
* ExitVillainStageLeft: [[spoiler:After being blinded by Cyclonus, he decides to cut his losses and teleports away before Cyclonus can kill him.]]
* FinalSolution: Advocated an ''atheist holocaust''.
* TheFundamentalist
* {{Foil}}: To Dai Atlas.
* InNameOnly: Aside from his appearance and name, he has absolutely nothing in common with the heroic character from ''Anime/TransformersVictory''.
* {{Jerkass}}: '''And how.'''
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Wanted to instigate an "atheist holocaust" and kill all those who disbelieved in Primus and the Guiding Hand]].
* KnightTemplar
* TheMole: Within the Circle of Light group.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: He believes that every single thing he does, no matter how cruel or monstrous, is divinely sanctioned. Dai Atlas call him out on the arrogance of this view.
-->'''Star Saber:''' ''I fight because Primus ordained it.''
* PetTheDog: Barely so, but he knocks Swerve out rather than killing or severely injuring him, presumably because he knew Swerve couldn't have possibly hurt him.
* RedBaron: "The Dark Evangelist".
* ReligiousBruiser
* TheStarscream: To Dai Atlas and the Circle of Light.
* WalkingSpoiler

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lockdown]]

A vicious bounty hunter who leads a crew of Metrotitan Hunters. Him and his team have had several run-ins with the Lost Light crew.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lockdown_8020.png]]
* CanonImmigrant: Heralds from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', though his appearance is more based on his ''[[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen Revenge of the Fallen]]'' design.
* ChekhovsGunman
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler: Tyrest.]]
** CoDragons: With [[spoiler: Star Saber.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: First appearing in the Trailcutter spotlight.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: His attitude towards Pharma invokes this:
--> ''"Pharma, we really must sit down some time so I can explain to you why we all hate you. We'll start with your personality and go from there."''
* HookHand: A Lockdown standard.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He and his Titan Hunters disappear after delivering Rodimus and his Away Team to Tyrest. [[spoiler: Red Alert, Fort Max, and the Circle of Light stay behind on Luna-1 to track them down.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Legislators]]

-->''Nineteen. Eighty-Four.''
An army of monstrous drones that serve Tyrest. They're made from the corpses of hundreds of lawbreakers and are programmed to kill or arrest anyone who they view as breaking any sort of laws.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/legislatorsmtmte_6710.png]]

* ArcNumber: Turns out that whatever number the legislators are saying is the specific section of the Tyrest Accord that they are trying to arrest/kill you for.
* {{BFS}} and {{BFG}}: Granted, they're not that big compared to the Legislators, just to the people they actually get used on.
* [[HumanResources Cybertronian Resources]]: How they're made. Tyrest even uses some of the Circle of Light to replenish his forces after they've been captured.
* EyelessFace: [[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/511608023341887488 Justice is Blind]].
* GoldColoredSuperiority: It probably isn't a coincidence that the Legislators are completely gold (save their inner works).
* KillItWithFire: Some of them have built in flamethrowers in their mouths.
* TheLawOfTheConservationOfNinjitsu: Two Legislators give Skids something of a hard time. A whole army? Not so much. Slightly justified since Skids was amnesiac and unable to access his weapons the first time around. The second time, he's able to use his Outlier abilities to study them as he fights.
* MeaningfulName: They are in charge of enforcing the Tyrest Accord.
* MechaMooks: To Tyrest.
* VoiceOfTheLegion
* WeHaveReserves: They're mass produced by recycling all the prisoners executed by Tyrest.

[[/folder]]

!Other Villains

[[folder:The Sparkeater]]
A monstrous, supposedly mythological creature that devours Cybertronian sparks. The previous owners of the Lost Light trapped the creature in the ship's engine rooms, where it promptly escaped after the Lost Light's first quantum jump.

* BodyHorror: Looks like a walking corpse. Or going the other way, a half-formed Cybertronian.
* CombatTentacles
* TheDreaded: Sparkeaters are the stuff of Cybertronian legend.
* [FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: The Sparkeater found on the ''Lost Light'' was originally a security guard (and handler of Turbofoxes) who was shot by Cyclonus with Brainstorm's experimental weapon.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: In that it has a head, two arms and two legs. That's where the resemblance to anything human ends.
* MadeOfExplodium: It eats Sparks. Shooting it with a missile would produce an explosion several miles wide, forcing the crew to find other means of killing it.
* [[PowersDoTheFighting Powers Do the Killing]]: It doesn't even need to touch you to kill you, just make you vomit up your brain with telekinesis.
* PowerFloats
* ShroudedInMyth: No-one is exactly sure how this thing came to be. Drift mentions they're drawn to places of emotional trauma, in which case the Lost Light is an all-you-can-eat buffet...
* TeleFrag: A cleaner variant, but being shoved into the quantum generator was enough to kill it.
* [[spoiler: TragicMonster: It used to be a normal guard, but after Cyclonus was forced to shoot the guard with Brainstorm's sparkeater gun, it was horribly mutated into it's current state.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: It eats sparks.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pharma]]
-->''That was a nasty fall. Need a hand?''
A mad doctor and former head of staff on Delphi. Once a friend/protégé of Ratchet's, he was driven insane by the DJD and is now a murderer who's obsessed with proving his superiority to Ratchet.
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pharmathumbnail_5899.jpg]]

* AxCrazy
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Strongly implied in a flashback that he might have done this, or, given his later actions, been on the receiving end.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How First Aid apparently kills him.]]
* BrokenAce: He was a magnificent doctor among the Autobots, known for performing almost miraculous surgeries, until he snapped.
* ChainsawGood: After he came back.
* ColdBloodedTorture: In "The Divided Self" Pharma tortures Ratchet by ''scraping his scalpel against the latter's spark''.
* ControlFreak: Back when he was in charge of Delphi.
* DeathByIrony: Pharma represents Medicine gone bad; ultimately, he's killed by the medic First Aid.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Slices Ambulon in half]] and then runs off, keeping Ratchet distracted and unable to pursue him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: At the end of issue five. [[SubvertedTrope Then it turns out he's actually alive]].
* DrivenToMadness
* DrJerk: Even before he became a bad guy he was kind of a prick.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' prose story "Bullets".
* EvilFormerFriend: Ratchet's.
* EvilGenius: Of Tyrest's group.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler:All Pharma said was he'd cut Ambulon and First Aid in half, Ratchet. He never said anything about cutting them in half ''at the waist''.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the Joker]]. WordOfGod confirms Pharma even sounds like Mark Hamill's rendition of the character.
* FaceHeelTurn
* FallenHero: He was once a truly brilliant surgeon. [[spoiler:The pressure of what the D.J.D. forced him to do has destroyed his mind.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Foil}}: To Ratchet.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:After First Aid blows his head off, and the Legislators attack, Pharma's body is pulled through Tyrest's space bridge by a series of tentacles while everyone is distracted.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: He's incredibly jealous of Ratchet.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Towards Ratchet.
* {{Jerkass}}: Given his haughty/control freak nature, he wasn't exactly pleasant, even before he went mad.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KilledMidSentence
-->[[spoiler:'''Pharma''':''"Lengthways." Your '''face!''' It was an absolute pic-'']]
* LackOfEmpathy: When escaping from captivity in ''Remains In Light: Part 5'', [[spoiler: Pharma is unable to pass through Tyrest's guilt detecting forcefield. Is it because he feels ''some'' remorse and guilt for his actions? Evidently not, as he's ultimately unfazed by not being able to pass through, and even jokes about the murders of his patients and Ambulon towards First Aid. This earns him a BoomHeadshot.]]
-->'''First Aid''': "You're smiling. Everything you did at Delphi—all those patients you killed—and you're smiling?"
-->'''Pharma''': "I know, I know—I'm incorrigible."
* MeaningfulName: ''Threefold''. Most obviously, the prefix "pharma-" refers to medicine, but it's also phonetically similar to "farmer," which makes a twisted amount of sense given that he's harvesting organs. Most tellingly, leaving of the first and last letter of his name gives you "harm," [[AxCrazy which should give you an idea...]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* MorphWeapon: Apparently his new hands can turn into anything.
* TheMedic: Evil example.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Unusually, they did know where Pharma's body was after First Aid shoots his head off, but during the ensuing fight with the Legislators, his body gets dragged through the Space Bridge by tentacles without anyone noticing. In the prose story "Sound of Shattered Glass" Ratchet notices Pharma's corpse has mysteriously vanished and really wants it found.]]
* PlagueMaster: Designed a special rust virus to kill everyone at Delphi, just so he could get away from the DJD.
* RedBaron: After his FaceHeelTurn, he's known among Tyrest's group as Mad Doctor Pharma.
* SlasherSmile: Post-Delphi.
* SwissArmyAppendage: His new hands can turn into anything, or so he claims, though he favors chainsaws.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of Tyrest's other mooks like him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In "How Ratchet Got His Hands Back", it is revealed Pharma made a deal with the D.J.D. to ensure Delphi's safety, by providing their transformation-obsessed leader, Tarn, with transformation cogs. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope When the demand increased, however...]]
* {{Yandere}}: Towards Ratchet. With healthy doses of FoeYay.

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Sonic and Boom]]
A pair of {{Jerkass}} mercs the crew encounters on Delphi. They're kind of stupid.

* BullyingTheDragon: Despite knowing full-well what a badass Orion Pax is, they picked a fight with him anyways.
* CombiningMecha: They share an alt-mode.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Their sound bomb is the cause of the Rust Plague affecting the Delphi facility.
** They're also at the other end of it, at the hands of Fort Max.
* {{Jerkass}}: They're already dragging Drift off to the Institute for money, but they decide to beat the crap out of him anyway for giggles.
** They're also perfectly willing to shoot up a medical ward, for no real reason.
* LuckyBastard: These two survived the war.
* MookHorrorShow
* ShootingSuperman: They try fighting Orion Pax. He hands them their asses.
* TrojanHorse
* TyphoidMary

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Galactic Council]]
The central, overarching government of the known galaxy. Nearly every major spacefaring race is a governed by the Council and they wield a mighty peacekeeping force. They have a noted dislike of Cybertronians due to the massive amounts of damage the Great War caused. Currently they seem to be on the verge of war with the Black Block Consortia.

* AntiVillain: They just want to keep the peace.
* BiggerBad: Similar to Prowl, the Council never directly interacts with the protagonists. All we've seen so far are their enforcers.
* EnemyMine: They're perfectly happy teaming up with the Black Block Consortia when the DJD show up even though they were just fighting over which one got to salvage [[spoiler: the alternate Lost Light]].
* FantasticRacism: Downplayed. They don't really trust Cybertronians and have barred them from having a representative on the council, but only because of the huge amounts of collateral damage the war caused. They do admire the odd exceptions like Ultra Magnus and Tyrest.
* TheFederation
* TheGhost: The Council themselves have yet to be seen. However their presence is felt in many places and both the Lost Light crew and the Scavengers have had nasty run-ins with their agents.
* LikeAGodToMe: According to K'gard Ultra Magnus is revered amongst them for being a person who puts both duty and the law above all else. K'gard even offered Magnus a position in their ranks, which he was disappointed that Magnus declined. They may have also seen Tyrest as this, fully accepting of his galactic laws, and believing in his fairness. Though behind the scenes they were assisting the Diplomatic Corps. in their investigation of him.
* NotSoDifferent: They really condemn the Autobots and Decepticons for the war. Of course that doesn't stop ''them'' from getting into conflict with the Black Block Consortia.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: They're actually surprisingly reasonable at times and have apparently worked closely with the Diplomatic Corps. When Drift goes solo, he seems to defer to them as peace keepers, delivering renegade Cons to their stations, which both he and Ratchet seem free to walk about in.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seacons & Terrorcons]]
Two squads of Decepticons who met up on Temptoria and proceeded to set up a [[ImAHumanitarian pink alchemy facility]]. The crew encounters them on Temptoria, shuts down their base, and arrests them. They than spend most of Season 1 in the Lost Light's brig. At the start of season 2 Ravage breaks them out to try and help Megatron escape Cybertron. This attempt fails and they are left in the custody of Autobot Command on Cybertron.

* AffablyEvil: Nautilator and Blip.
* ButtMonkey: Collectively. Whenever they show up here, ''nothing'' good happens... to them. [[spoiler:The Terrorcons, however, become a substantially larger threat with Starscream's backing in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersWindblade''.]]
* CurbStompBattle: The crew took them down pretty easily. Justified by the fact that they were low on resources.
* ImAHumanitarian: They resorted to pink alchemy, a process where organic beings are gradually dissolved/processed into energon. Sinnertwin would later express an interest in eating Circuit.
* KilledOffForReal: Nautilator, possibly Seawing. Despite looking incredibly different [[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/581167251174383617 Roberts confirmed]] that the DJD's victim in issue 39 was Blip.
* ThePigPen: Blip shares a body-type, and general hygiene standards, with Blot. He leaks and drools energon everywhere.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Blip likes to call himself a Sparkeater, and the Devourer of Souls.
* TooDumbToLive: They try to mount a frontal assault on Megatron's trial, which is presided over by most of Autobot High Command and several former Wreckers. Very, very one-sided asskickery ensues.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after Megatron switches sides, they're still completely dedicated to his cause and try to bust him out of his trial.
* UnfortunateNames: Blip.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: It's implied that Snap Trap set up the pink alchemy lab out of desperation to survive rather than any malice towards the natives.
-->''Snap Trap:''' Every species has a right to support itself.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Overlord]]
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/overlordthumbnail_3886.jpg]]
-->''Run as fast as you can, you're already too late.''
A psychopathic Decepticon super soldier who went rogue years ago and was recently captured. Sadistic and manipulative, Overlord is obsessed with getting the final battle with Megatron that he feels entitled to. He thus became a depressed DeathSeeker after being fooled into believing Megatron was dead. He's responsible for Fort Max's broken mental state.

Visit the [[Characters/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers character sheet]] for ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' for Overlord's tropes.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ammonites]]
A faction of the Stentarian race who are embroiled in their own war with the Terradores. The crew encounters a small group of them on Hedonia and later battles their army in ''Dark Cybertron''

* AffablyEvil: The squad Whirl and Skids met on Hedonia were so friendly that the two thought the Ammonites were good guys.
* CombiningMecha: Their species is omnicombinational; each one is capable of merging with all the others.
* FantasticRacism: They look down on cybertronians, though an encounter with Whirl and Skids changes that.
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: They end up being wiped out in ''Dark Cybertron''.]]
* OutsideContextVillain
* ZergRush: Shockave employs ''70 billion'' of them and has them attack Cybertron.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deathsaurus]]
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3e8f7095c0a5c5f8b0170e146546bb6a.png]]
A rogue Decepticon warlord who abandoned the Decepticon army alongside his soldiers after becoming disillusioned with Megatron's methods. He agrees to join forces with Tarn after some... [[LetsYouAndHimFight expected maneuvering]].

* AffablyEvil: He's a very cordial host, and pleasant talker.
* AFatherToHisMen: He's devoted to any who follow him, and when Tarn offers to take him off the list, he demands that he nix all of his followers from the list as well.
* AntiVillain: He's a bad guy, but he's motivated largely out of desire to provide for his crew.
* {{Badass}}: He takes on Tarn one on one, and even shuts off his audio-receptors to block out his main attack.
* BenevolentBoss: He split from the Decepticons because he detested the WeHaveReserves mindset of Decepticon High Command.
* CombatPragmatist: He's more than happy to soften Tarn up with a little menial lifting beforehand... of high explosives. Ouch.
* ExtraEyes: Two on his forehead.
* GiantFlyer
* NobleDemon: Works for the Decepticons, but is unwilling to throw away the lives of his men and is very polite towards others.
* NobleFugitive
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gives one to Tarn when he asks the DJD leader to kill his subordinates as a show of good faith for his own crew. Tarn refusing to do so is what seals the alliance, as Deathsaurus would never back someone who would so ruthlessly kill his own underlings.
* SlasherSmile: Like many of his incarnations before, he can pull of a threatening smile when he needs to.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sunder]]
An infamous serial killer known as the "Tetraxian Ripper" who Rung and Froid investigated during their time as colleges. Believed dead after a ship crash, he makes an unexpected return many years later.

* EmotionEater: [[spoiler: He "feeds"/gets off on using his mnemosurgury to read repressed memories. He has Froid seek out people like Skids who suffer from Suppressed Memory Syndrome, than uses his remote eyes to feed on them.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He and his brother were a double act, killing people together. [[spoiler: Froid has since filled that role after Sunder's brother died.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler: Chromedome. He suffers from a similar "addiction" to mnemosurgury, only he's no longer satisfied with simply performing it.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: His eyes are removable computers that he uses to perform remote-mnemosurgury. Froid carries them around on his necklace until it comes time for Sunder to kill a victim.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't speak much, which makes it all the more striking when he does.
* SerialKiller
* SoftSpokenSadist: When he speaks, it's in a very calm and measured fashion.

[[/folder]]

!Past Characters

[[folder:Killmaster]]

A monstrous Decepticon who used to battle Whirl often. By the time of the story he's long-dead.

* ArchEnemy: To Whirl.
* NoodleIncident: Nearly every other character in the series claims to have, at some point, fought "Killmaster, you know, the one with the wand." None of these fights are ever shown, except a panel in ''Spotlight: Trailcutter.''
* PosthumousCharacter
* UndignifiedDeath: Whirl claims to have killed him while he was sleeping and then [[AssShove shoved a wand up his... ]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Despite being large, spiky and unfriendly looking, all anyone ever seems to remember about Killmaster is that he had a wand, if that.
* WeaponOfChoice: A wand.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Senator]]

[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/senator_783.png]]
[[caption-width-right:120:Click [[labelnote:here]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mtmteshockwave_2673.png[[/labelnote]] to see his new identity.]]
-->''Remember me as I was.''
An eccentric senator who's working to undermine and overthrow the Senate. Serving as Orion's mentor, he's a skilled scientist who's gathered a school of outliers. [[spoiler: After the Senate's torture and mutilation, he becomes a certain emotionless scientist we're much more familiar with.]]

Visit the ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Robots In Disguise]]'' [[Characters/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise character sheet]] for more information on him.
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[[folder:Roller]]
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roller_mtmte_7201.png]]
-->''You '''starting something''', buddy?''
Orion's partner on the force and best friend. He helps out Orion and the Senator but is suspicious of the Senator's intentions.


* TheBigGuy[=/=]TheSmartGuy
* BrilliantButLazy: He's really fond of lounging around and watch TV, but is a good hacker and a fellow cop.
* CantCatchUp: Has issues being surrounded by Outliers with fantastic abilities when all he's got is built-in super-strength.
* FunctionalAddict: He's addicted to circuit speeders.
* TheHeart
* HiddenDepths: As Issue #36 shows, he secretly feels inadequate compared to the Outliers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:He disappears in an explosion defending the Alyon hot spot. And given that Chromedome wiped his comrades' memories after, it's unlikely that Orion and co. found him.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: He has his doubts regarding Senator [[spoiler:Shockwave.]] While the Senator was actually a nice enough guy at the time, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron he's eventually proven right.]]
* PutOnABus[=/=]WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ratchet mentions that the events of Shadowplay were the last time all three were together. His only other mention in the comics was as a candidate for a exploration mission, one that Wheelie ended up going on instead.
** Issue #36 ''strongly implies'' he might just be [[spoiler:Tarn.]]
* SuperStrength: As a Point-One Percenter, he's incredibly strong by design.
** Deconstructed, as he reveals that he feels inadequate to the Outliers, who have amazing abilities, while he's stuck with super strength.
* UnskilledButStrong

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quark]]

A scientist from the pre-war era. He was friends with Nightbeat and while apolitical, he supported the Senate's heavy-handed tactics against the early Decepticons.

* TheLostLenore: For [[spoiler: Brainstorm, though it was unrequited]].
* NonActionGuy: He expressly feared that he'd die in the Decepticon revolution because he's a scientist with minimal military or labor skills. He was partly right.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long-dead by the present, having died in Grindcore Prison during the war. His impact on the plot is wholly posthumous.
* ProperlyParanoid: Was afraid that the Decepticons anti-Functionist rhetoric would spiral out of control. Felt that the government was spying on everyone and working to punish any dissenters. He's proven right on both accounts.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: Brainstorm initially developed his time machine to prevent his death before deciding to stop the war from happening altogether. His appearance in "Shadowplay" is very brief and is mostly there to provide a "man on the street" perspective on pre-war Cybertron, but Brainstorm's time machine has a major impact on the IDW timeline.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Senator Momus]]

A self-made senator who was murdered for expressing sympathy to the Decepticon cause. His death triggers Chromedome and Prowl's investigation into the Senate's conspiracy.
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* PosthumousCharacter
* PunishedForSympathy: He was sympathetic to the Decepticon cause, back when it was justified.
* RagsToRiches
* SelfMadeMan: Originally a mine facility foreman, until he's exempt after reporting [[spoiler:Overlord's birth]] to the authorities. He eventually becomes a Senator.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Outliers]]

!!Damus, aka "Glitch"

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A jittery but friendly outlier with the power to stop machinery.

* {{Adorkable}}
* BlessedWithSuck: Admittedly, his powers would be a lot cooler if he could properly control them and didn't cause him severe agony.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Started off as meek and slightly ditzy, with little control over his powers. After Orion and his team are branded outlaws, he quickly comes into his own, becoming possibly the most powerful outlier.
* TheCutie
* CyberCyclops: A victim of Empurata.
* MindOverMatter: Once his powers are fully realized, he can mentally shred tanks without breaking a sweat.
* NiceGuy: Even to complete strangers, he's exceptionally friendly.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His introduction indicates that "Glitch" is just a nickname. We learn his real name in Issue #36.
* ThePollyanna: Presumably, given he's not jaded as Whirl, another Empurata victim.
* PowersDoTheFighting
* TookALevelInBadass: To the point that he can hold his own in a fight where Skids is getting his aft kicked.
* WeakButSkilled
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Just like Roller, we have no idea what happened to him afterward.


!!Windcharger

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A hyperactive and imaginative outlier with the power of magnetism.


* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the most screentime Windcharger's received since the eighties.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny
* MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty: His "Magic Arms."
* PowersDoTheFighting
* SelectiveMagnetism

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ironfist]]
A fanboy engineer and future Wrecker who supplies Orion's crew with a fake Matrix for the heist.

For tropes regarding him, visit the [[Characters/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers character sheet]] for ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zeta Prime]]

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A future Prime and a protégé of the Senator. He seeks out Orion after the heist and seems nice on the surface, but is actually an extremist who wants to enforce law on Cybertron with brutality.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In Spotlight: Orion Pax, he and Optimus have a cordial relationship, but a few hints of a nastier personality slip through.
** Reformed the [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood Institute]] behind Orion's back.
* BoomHeadshot: Implied to be how he was killed as shown in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAutocracy''.
* TheChosenMany: He was one of a number of Cybertronians altered by the senator to be a potential Matrix bearer.
* CorruptPolitician: Becomes this.
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* KnightTemplar
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Made the Decepticon Registration Act compulsory. Needless to say, it only made the Decepticons angrier, which led to his death three days later.
* ObviouslyEvil: By the time of his appearance in Spotlight: Orion Pax, he's started looking like he does in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAutocracy''.
* PosthumousCharacter
* ThrowTheDogABone: Gave the Disposables rights. It's about the only nice thing we ever hear of him doing.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dominus Ambus]]
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Rewind's previous Conjunx Endura and a brilliant scientist who disappeared many years ago. Rewind joined the crew in an attempt to find him.

* TheAce: From Chromedome's description, at least. He was a scientist, philosopher, poet, activist, and explorer, among other things.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** Chromedome feels he's second to him in Rewind's eyes.
** His little brother, Minimus feels much the same (only without the Rewind part, obviously), given Dominus was a successful and accomplished person, and Minimus wasn't.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline, the Functionist Council replaced his head with a TV screen to shut him up. When that doesn't work they wipe his mind, leaving him unable to think or speak properly.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He must've gotten all the good sarcasm robo-genes or something, compared to his brother. He manages to be astoundingly sarcastic [[spoiler: in spite of only having a TV screen for a face in his only 'current' appearance]].
* LongLostRelative: Of Minimus Ambus([[spoiler:the current day Ultra Magnus]]). He's still nowhere to be found though.
** Minimus only says he's 'long gone'. Given his habit of ExactWords, he's probably still alive.
* NeverFoundTheBody: He's been missing for several million years now, and Rewind's been searching all that time. He still hasn't found any sign of what happened.
** Issue 44 makes it even more complicated: [[spoiler:Minimus is absolutely sure he's dead, the Necrobot has him recorded as dead... but he's never found Dominus' body.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Even more impressive given he was around during the time of the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, which frowned on 'bots going outside their primary function and assigned vocation.
* PornStache: And it's a family trait.
* ShroudedInMyth
* TheStoic: Wasn't very big on having fun, as he wrote in one of his works: "pleasure is a distraction from the truth".

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Terminus]]

Megatron's mentor, who was crippled in a mining accident. He encourages Megatron to use both words and force in his attempts to protest the Senate. In the present Megatron refers to him as "someone who taught me not to get attached".

* AnArmAndALeg: Among other injuries.
* CoolOldGuy
* TheMentor
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He encourages Megatron to use violence in his protests.


[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Senate]]


!The Senate

The Legislative Body of antebellum Cybertron. Though a few right-hearted members exist, by and large the organization is incredibly corrupt and completely invested in expanding its power base.

!General tropes regarding the Senate include:

* CorruptPolitician: The vast majority of the Senators fall under this category.
* EvilVersusEvil: As issue #36 reveals, the Senate and the Functionist Council didn't get on. It might just have had something to do with the fact that the Senate was in favour of using the Constructed Cold to bolster their security forces. The same Constructed Cold the Council hated.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Most members couldn't care less about the Cybertronian populace.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Crosscut, Sherma, Momus, Dai Atlas, and [[spoiler:Shockwave.]] Tellingly, only Crosscut survives his tenure unscathed.

!!Senator Proteus

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A cruel and manipulative senator who heads many of the Senate's corrupt activities. He's a bigot who wants to reinforce his control over the populace.

* BigBad: Of the "Shadowplay" flashback arc, with Sentinel as [[TheDragon his top henchman]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Is all smiles towards anyone he considers his equal, or when in front of a camera. Otherwise he's a scheming, corrupt fascist who has his enemies murdered, or worse.
* ConsummateLiar
* CorruptPolitician
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't like the Disposables, and has low opinions of anyone who does, like Senator [[spoiler:Shockwave]].
* FalseFlagOperation: Uses a couple of these to expand the powers of the Senate and deal with potential dissenters.
* ForTheEvulz: Some corrupt Senators just want more money, some want to keep living their comfortable lifestyles. Proteus just seems content with doing things because he ''can''.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: There is no immediate payback for his involvement in the events of ''Shadowplay''. However, he is executed by Starscream during Megatron's Decepticon Uprising.

!!Sentinel

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A future Prime and Senator Proteus's right-hand man. Ambitious and scheming, he's almost as corrupt and cruel as Proteus himself.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Seems to be par for the course after ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. Here, he's much more in keeping with his corrupt "Chaos Theory" portrayal than the HeroAntagonist featured in "Megatron: Origins". Understandable, since Roberts worked on both.
* AmbitionIsEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Proteus, and although Proteus is in charge, [[spoiler:Shockwave]] states that Sentinel is the one to worry about.
* TheDragon: Is this for the Senate, and Proteus in particular.
** DragonAscendant: Once he gets the Matrix, he stops listening to his bosses more and more.
* EvilerThanThou: Kills Nominus Prime when the Senate has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no more need of him]].
* FalseFlagOperation
* ForScience: In issue #36, he turns out to have been experimenting on Sparks, to try and create Outliers. Unfortunately, his experiments wiped out entire Hot Spots worth of Sparks.
* TheGhost: Doesn't once appear during the flashbacks, but his influence is felt.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: While he eventually dies later on, at the start of Megatron's rising, there is no immediate payback for his involvement in the events of ''Shadowplay''.

!!Kroma

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A thug who works for the Senate and Whirl's old handler.

* ContinuityNod: Last seen getting stabbed in the face by Orion while attempting to rescue Whirl from jail. Here, he spends about a day in prison for the failed attempt before being released.
* TheHandler: Formerly one for Whirl.
* TheHeavy: For the Senate in general.
* KarmaHoudini: We never see him get any kind of comeuppance for his actions.
* MysteriousPast: He and Shockwave have apparently met before. And given Shockwave's reaction, there's no love lost between them.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Pax and crew never would have learned about the bomb plot if Kroma hadn't run his mouth off in front of Whirl.
* NoCureForEvil: Averted. The last time he appeared, Orion had stabbed him ''through the face''. There's no sign of any scarring or damage when he reappears though.
* SmugSnake: He's very arrogant and self assured, and those traits really bring his success rate down.

!! The Heavies (Hammer and Anvil)

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A pair of massive but stupid gangsters who work for the Senate as enforcers.

* TheBrute: Two of 'em.
* EarlyBirdCameo: They first appear for a single panel in issue 6, as Whirl describes them destroying his life on the Senate's orders.
* EliteMook
* KilledOffForReal: Hammer gets an Orion Pax [[RammingAlwaysWorks through the chest]], while Anvil gets a bomb thrown at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Anvil briefly inflicts one on Orion Pax after he kills Hammer.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Anvil speaks like this, but in issue #37 Hammer is revealed to be surprisingly eloquent.

!!Trepan
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A sadistic mnemosurgeon who used to work at the Institute. He's long-dead by the present, but his actions have had a lasting effect.

* AssholeVictim: Though he seemed to have joined the Autobots after the outbreak of the war (or was at least conscripted), ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'' reveals a sadistic side when he tried to lobotomise [[spoiler:a young Megatron.]] To say nothing of the fact that he was already involved with The Institute.
* ChekhovsGunman
* FauxAffablyEvil: Best demonstrated when [[spoiler: conducting mnemosurgery on Megatron]] in ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'':
-->''"[[FalseReassurance Don't worry... I'm here to cure you.]]"''
* KarmicDeath: ''Remembrance Day'' reveals Overlord kidnapped Trepan to learn the secrets of mnemosurgery. Megatron eventually found out and had Trepan killed. [[spoiler: ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'' reveals Trepan once attempted mnemosurgery on an unwilling Megatron during the latter's mining days, making it highly unlikely that his later death was a coincidence.]]
* TheMentor: Of Overlord, albiet unwillingly.
* MindRape: Specializes in this with his mnemosurgery.
* PosthumousCharacter
* SoftSpokenSadist

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Functionist Council]]

-->''This is what happens when you act against us.''

A powerful council in Cybertron's old government who believed that a Transformer's purpose was decided by their alt mode. Trucks and construction vehicles are required to engage in manual labor employment, while a proton microscope would be forced to seek out intellectual pursuits. Their harsh ruling and bigotry helped give birth to the Decepticon movement.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Unlike most of the antagonists, they seem to be less motivated by ambition and greed, and act more like machines in thought and deed. This doesn't stop them from interpreting the GCT in a way that benefits them, however.
* CyberCyclops: The unifying trait of the twelve Council members.
* DeadlyEuphemism: [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide Mass recall]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Their bread and butter. Anyone who stepped out of line (questioned them, tried to get a job they weren't assigned to) was ''lucky'' just to get their hands and face cut off.
* EvilerThanThou: Issue 35 makes it clear that as bad as the Senate was, the Functionist Council was ''far'' worse.
* FantasticCasteSystem: Enforced by them.
* FantasticRacism: Their whole belief system is built around this, discriminating against both the Constructed Cold and the manual classes.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While One-Of-Twelve formally polite to his colleagues, when talking to [[spoiler:The Useless One, a.k.a. Rung,]] he politely addresses him by his famed title as a means to mock him.
* FlatCharacter: {{Invoked}}. Despite having different designs and occupations, they show very little in the way of individual personalities.
* FloatingContinent: Their Base, known as the Cog.
* FullCircleRevolution: In [[spoiler: an alternate timeline]], they unseated the Senate and started running things themselves. The result is a nightmarish police state where entire alt mode classes are casually wiped out just for not having a set job.
* [[HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Their rationale behind the mass recall of the [[spoiler:Data Sticks]] is that, while still potentially useful, their [[spoiler:data storing]] abilities make them a potential threat to the Council.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite acknowledging that the Data Slugs are still useful to society, the Council kills them all anyway because they feel threatened by their continued existence.
* KillEmAll: Their preferred method of ensuring that they have sufficient resources is the genocide of 'bots with functions deemed to be obsolete.
* KnightTemplar: Unlike the Senate, they seem to genuinely believe that they're in the right.
* LackOfEmpathy: They seem utterly devoid of any regard for life that falls outside the boundaries of what their Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy deems useful, and sometimes not even then.
* LightIsNotGood: Members One, Two, Four, Five and Eight all have bright color schemes.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Issue 37 reveals that they were in charge of the Senate before the war, and they were the ones who were behind every bad thing that happened to Whirl.]]
* PetTheDog: If someone were to find the Spark of a Point One Percenter, then the Council would automatically dub them "Alt-Mode Exempt", free to go and do whatever they wanted. Unless they were the poor sap who ''actually'' found it, since Point One Percenters fatally poison anyone nearby when they form.
** * Subverted with Sweep. One-Of-Twelve declares him "Alt Mode Exalted"... and then tells him to go right back to work, with no change in his life or living standards.
* RedOniBlueOni: Their cold-blooded, meticulous adherence to their agenda makes them a collective Blue Oni to the decadent, corrupt Senate.
* TheSpymaster: Ten-Of-Twelve analyzes the results of [[spoiler:the Rollout]], though given how the Council seems to work, he's probably not the sole Head of Intelligence.
* TheUnfettered: They care about nothing but imposing their ideals upon the Cybertronian Populace.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline, it is implied that One-Of-Twelve inadvertently brings about the apocalypse by shooting and killing Rung.]]

[[/folder]]



!!Other Characters

[[folder:Starscream and Rattrap]]
The current elected leader of New Iacon and his ever-scheming lackey respectively. The two of them seek to exploit current events to strengthen their political power.

For information on them, visit the ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Robots In Disguise]]'' [[Characters/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise character sheet]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Soundwave]]
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Ravage's stoic but well-meaning commander/friend. Feeling betrayed by Megatron's side-change, he sent Ravage to spy on the Lost Light crew and Megatron in particular.

For information on him, visit the ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Robots In Disguise]]'' [[Characters/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise character sheet]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Shadow]]
A Decepticon super soldier who went rogue like Overlord. Is swiftly killed by the DJD.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Black Shadow who showed up in ''Transformers Victory'' was hardly incompetent, but he was basically just a regular mercenary who lost a two-on-one fight against Greatshot in his sole appearance. ''This'' Black Shadow? Read the following tropes.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Tarn mentions he begged for his life. And sobbed. And pleaded.
* AnArmAndALeg: Loses his legs to Tesarus's shredder.
* AssholeVictim
* {{Badass}}: Shown fighting both Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus at the same time, in a flashback.
* {{Expy}}: Of Thunderwing, whose toys he's shared a mold with. IDW's Thunderwing is a much different character, but they wanted to channel his awesomeness from the original G1 comic, so Black Shadow was used.
* HeroKiller: Managed to kill three Wreckers when they fought.
* OneManArmy
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Is willing to commit any number of atrocities for the Decepticons, so long as he's paid.
* SellOut: The Autobots were able to bribe him into destroying a fleet of Decepticon ships.
* SuperSoldier
* TheWorfEffect: Killed to demonstrate how dangerous the DJD are.

[[/folder]]


[[folder:The Terradores]]
The foes of the Ammonites. Originally led by Imperius Drax, Whirl's bumbling attempts to help out some Ammonite bar buddies leads to a new leader taking over who proves to much more of a hardliner.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Turns out that Imperius Drax's incompetent leadership was the only thing keeping them from curb-stomping the Ammonites.
* CurbStompBattle: For the leader of an entire army, Imperius Drax dies very quickly. It only takes Whirl a few shots to finish him off.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: They used to be rather peaceful and their war with the Ammonites was dragged out for this reason. After Drax dies, the new leader kicks the war effort into high gear and pummels the Ammonites into seeking outside help.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Black Block Consortia]]
The other major government in civilized space. We don't know much about them currently but they seem to be rather warlike, currently being in conflict with the Galactic Council.

* TheDreaded: These guys apparently pummeled the Cybertronians to the point that the Senate ''sold Cybertron's moon'' just to get the Black ''Box'' Consortia to leave them alone. First Aid describes them as savages in issue 34.
* EvilCounterpart: To the Galactic Council seemingly. Where the Council is all about keeping the peace, the Consortia goes to war over not getting some metal.
* TheFaceless: Unlike the Galactic Counsel who's head species is a four armed organic race that K'gard's a part of, the Black Block Consortia's members have not been seen.
* FantasticRacism: Judging from Rewind's comments in issue 35, they aren't very fond of biomechanical beings like transformers. In issue 39, Tarn reveals they leveled the Prion colony and killed all Cybertronians except Nickel who escaped.
* VillainTeamUp: ''The Permanent Revolution'' indicates that they are forming an alliance with the Galactic Council and any other interested parties to wipe out the Cybertronian race.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Countdown]]
A decorated general and pupil of Thunderclash's who tracks down the Vis Vitalis after learning of Thunderclash's injuries.

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: He investigates the strange noises coming from inside Thunderclash's trailer, [[spoiler: and gets killed for his troubles.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: [[spoiler: The invisible monsters use his corpse as a makeshift nest.]]
* FamedInStory: Described as one of Thunderclash's most famous pupils.
* HumbleHero: He expresses dislike of the numerous awards and praises he gets. When he sees Thunderclash he immediately gives up his many patches and badges, as he considers them all worthless aside from the one he got from Thunderclash.
* NiceGuy: Described as a hero to millions and is shown to be very personable and humble.
* [[spoiler: WeHardlyKnewYe: Is killed by the invisible monsters on the Vis Vitalis in his first appearance.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Necrobot/[[spoiler:Censere]]]]
A mysterious, supposedly mythical neutral who travels the galaxy recording the fate of every single Cybertronian. He somehow has the power to discern a Cybertronian's name and cause of death by letting his shadow fall on them. Misfire is searching for him, but most mistakenly believe him to be a wartime myth.

* DontFearTheReaper: Some believe him to be this, some believe him to be a grim specter. [[spoiler:He is a kind benevolent bot, who's mission is to give some remembrance to the dead, and catalogue the Cybertronian race as it ebbs to it's inevitable conclusion. His discussion to Nightbeat about life after death is one of reassurance, as while he doesn't have the answers, he does give him hope.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: He makes a brief appearance in the first Scavengers focused arc, well over 30 issues before he actually plays a role in the plot.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Like the original 13, it's left ambiguous if the Necrobot is truly a divine being or just a regular bot (albeit with advanced sci-fi technology) who is deified. Nightbeat expresses an interest in it and [[spoiler:we learn that the Necrobot really is just an old neutral with advanced sci-fi tech, and not some deity]].
* MeaningfulName: Necro, a prefix that means death. [[spoiler:Censere, latin for appraise/estimate. The origin of the word census: acquiring and recording information about a population.]]
* MysteriousPast: Very little is known about his backstory. What little we do know of him was gained from secondhand descriptions from Krok and a brief summation of his past life given in issue 44.
* NiceGuy: Is amazingly polite and good-hearted, helping Nightbeat overcome his personal issues out of the good of his heart.
* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: [[spoiler: He's not some avatar of death nor a supernatural being, only a monk using the technology at his disposal to locate and record the dead.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Most people think he doesn't even exist.
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:He predates the Thirteen Tribes, making him one of the oldest Cybertronians still alive.]]
* TrueNeutral: He has no interest in the conflicts the rest of his race gets involved in; all he does is record their fates. {{invoked}}
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets a minor one from Nightbeat who notes that he could be using his skills to help prevent death rather than merely recording it.
** Also gives a fairly non-judgmental one, to the Cybertronian race as a whole. The flowers around each statue on his planet represent the lives that individual has taken, and he estimates that not a single one doesn't have any. He offers this not as a condemnation, but as a statement of fact: "You are all killers."
* TheVoiceless: The legends speak of him as a mute [[spoiler:but it's implied that this may have just sprung up as legends. He really can speak.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agent 113]]

An Autobot spy in the DJD who's developed eccentric methods of delivering intel; shooting fellow Autobots with inert "data bullets" containing information. [[spoiler: He's eventually revealed to have been a previous Vos and to have eventually had his cover blown.]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: His methods for getting intel to High Command are rather obtuse and bizarre, but he does his job skillfully.
* ComplexityAddiction: His methods reek of this. It's suggested to be happening because he's so terrified of getting his cover blown.
* TheMole: Within the DJD obviously.
* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter]]: Maybe. We're not sure if [[spoiler: he's alive or dead yet. However we do know his cover was blown, which doesn't bode well for him, given what the DJD do to traitors.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: He was right to be fearful of getting discovered.]]
* ReverseMole
* SanitySlippage: Possibly; it's mentioned that he's become increasingly eccentric and paranoid due to fear of what the DJD would do to him if he was found out.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Froid]]
An old colleague and rival of Rung's who used to work for the Senate. Disappearing during the war, he's later revealed to have become a traveling psychologist and seeks out the Lost Light to find Rung.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: He was the psychologist that signed off on performing Shadowplay on Megatron to halt his political writings when the future warlord was just a miner. It is implied that he has done this to other bots with similar "symptoms."
* ChekhovsGunman: He gets mentioned several times and makes a cameo appearance before his first major appearance in issue 48.
* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: [[spoiler: Because it isn't a real necklace; it's Sunder's ''eyes'', which Froid carries around so he can toss them to Sunder in emergencies.]]
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: He wears a necklace with a pair of fancy "primal beads" on it. [[spoiler: Or so he claims. They're actually Sunder's eyes.]]
* GemstoneAssault: [[spoiler: The "gems" on his necklace are actually Sunder's remote-mnemosurgury eyes. When in danger, he tosses them to Sunder who than paralyzes the attackers.]]
* InsufferableGenius
* JackTheRipOff: [[spoiler: He took over the role of Sunder's deceased brother and helped Sunder continue his murder spree.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Acts very rude towards Rung and is noted to be a plagiarist.
* [[spoiler: PsychoPsychologist: He lost his mind years ago and began helping his SerialKiller "patient" find new victims by tracking down people with repressed memories like Skids.]]
* TheRival: Rung's.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Rung laments that he and Froid weren't always bitter rivals.

[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]

!The Lost Light Crew


[[folder:The Lost Light Crew in General]]
The Lost Light is a starship utilized by Rodimus and over 230 other assorted Cybertronians on a quest to find the mythical Knights of Cybertron.

Apparently a former [=NAILs=] vessel. It's large enough to comfortably house more than 230 cybertronians, has a bar, a vast oil reservoir, and enough hangars to house smaller shuttles, like the Leading Light and the Rodpod. In fact, it's large enough that it [[WordOfGod apparently]] has a [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale footprint the size of]] [[RunningGag the Bronx and Brooklyn combined]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: '''All of them.''' Regardless of their [[DysfunctionJunction neuroses, disabilities, or personal drama]], they can and ''will'' pull it together to deal with the VillainOfTheWeek.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Most of the crew of the duplicate ''Lost Light'' suffered these at the hands of the DJD, with Rewind as the sole survivor.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: There's something fishy about the Lost Light. Its last owners were death-god worshippers, who found it abandoned and took it for themselves, and had no idea where it came from aside from that. And there's the EldritchAbomination lurking in the basement, which Drift claims is drawn to "emotional turmoil".
** The ship's past is revealed to be in part because of [[spoiler: the crew themselves in ''Elegant Chaos''. It was the crew who created the Sparkeater, its quantum engines were an accident, and it actually jumped into the future after Rodimus tinkered with it.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: A member of the Circle of Light sums it up well. There pretty much isn't a sane person among them (except Rung, and maybe Hoist). It gets worse once Megatron takes charge.
* [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse Expendable Quantum Duplicates]]: [[spoiler:At the beginning of Season 2, the crew stumbles onto the remains of an alternate ''Lost Light'', where the DJD massacred everyone... except for Rewind, that is. Turns out that the engine malfunction all the way back in Issue 1 caused TWO Lost Lights to exist due to quantum superposition. While we followed one of the Lost Lights, the other was expendable offscreen.]]
* SixthRanger: They pick up some new crew members after visiting Delphi and following the events of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron''. This eventually becomes a plot point when [[spoiler:the original crew starts disappearing when they find a ''Lost Light'' from another timeline and the later members have to find out what's going on.]]
* TheSmartGuy: Many, many members qualify: To wit: Rung is a psychologist, Swerve is a metallurgist, Brainstorm and Perceptor are top scientists, Ratchet and First Aid are superb medics, Rewind is a walking database, Chromedome is quite possibly the best mnemosurgeon the Autobots have, Skids is a theoretician, Nautica is an engineer and scholar, and Nightbeat is Sherlock Holmes. And these are just some of the most prominent ones.
* TeleporterAccident: [[spoiler:Due to the quantum generators malfunctioning aaaaall the way back in Issue #1, two ''Lost Lights'' were formed. One had all the adventures we see, the other was massacred by the DJD.]]

!!Lost Light Command

[[folder:Rodimus]]
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-->''They were known as they '''Knights of Cybertron'''. They're '''real'''. I'm going to '''find them'''. And I want all of '''you''' to come with me.''
The reckless, charismatic, and adventurous captain of the Lost Light. Despite his skill and high rank he's [[ManChild rather immature]] and rarely bothers planning ahead, much to the consternation of his crew. He believes that the Knights Of Cybertron will lead Cybertron into the future and made the choice to follow the Matrix Map and find them.

* AFatherToHisMen: He'd like to be one, but he doesn't actually take the time to get to know them, and his idea of comforting advice leaves a lot to be desired (namely, with Red Alert he told the notoriously unstable and paranoid bot simply that he thought he was "losing it", then got surprised when Red snapped).
* TheAtoner: Decides to become one after "Remain In Light," when he reveals to Magnus/Minimus that [[spoiler:he let Prowl and Drift talk him into letting Overlord onboard.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's ragingly jealous of Thunderclash, who is all the things Rodimus ''wishes'' he was.
* BrilliantButLazy: Of a sort. He has shown great skill as a warrior and leader, but generally does not take his responsibilities seriously and is content to just delegate to Drift or Ultra Magnus.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Till all are one! Lampshaded to hell and back by the other crew members, [[spoiler:[[ExploitedTrope and, at one point, weaponized.]]]]
* TheChosenOne: The Matrix certainly liked him far more than it ever liked Optimus, but beyond that the only one who believes he's chosen is Rodimus himself and Drift, based on a vision of the future he had during his near-death experience in ''Chaos''.
** TheChosenZero: No matter what might lie ahead for him, he's still a hilariously impulsive and egotistical jackass.
* CommanderContrarian: The best way to get Rodimus to not do something is to tell him to, something Rung notes as early as issue 6.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: The panel of him being rigged to the killswitch, in order to use him and his half of the Matrix to save the ones affected by it.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Straddles the line between Choleric and Sanguine.
* FaceShip: The Rodpod is essentially this. He thinks it's awesome, everyone else...not so much.
* GloryHound: And he does not react well to it being pointed out. [[spoiler: Prowl uses that to make him accept to take Overlord on board, by deliberately making is seem that if Rodimus refuses, its him acknowledging he can't handle it. Rodimus later admits he was fully aware of what Prowl did, but fell for it nonetheless.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: Had become one after Megatron became co-captain the ''Lost Light''.
* HotBlooded
* InsaneTrollLogic: When the crew finds a coffin drifting in space with what appears Rodimus' corpse from the future, he notices that his dead self has two arms. He reasons that if he cuts off his arm, he will avert the future where he's dead.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Rodimus wants to be a great leader and a hero, which often leads him to take risks and make poor decisions for the sake of his ego. Even his name is this: It's one he made himself, to style himself more as like a Prime. His real name is Hot Rod.
* IndyPloy: All the damn time.
* InsistentTerminology: As he told Fortress Maximus and Getaway, he's "Rodimus" now, not "Hot Rod".
* ItsAllAboutMe
* {{Jerkass}}: Drift mentions Rodimus has a tendency to swear at him if he doesn't answer Rodimus's calls instantly, before threatening to revoke his amnesty and have Ultra Magnus arrest him.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he makes some bad calls during his tenure as captain, his reaction to Red Alert's attempted suicide as well as [[spoiler: him trying to prevent Trailcutter's death]] establishes that he really ''is'' trying to be AFatherToHisMen.
* KarmicJackpot: [[spoiler: Asking Cyclonus to join them to Luna-1, and then agreeing to Cyclonus' request to bring Tailgate along, is what enables the team to rescue the Circle of Light, fend off Star Saber and stop Tyrest and his killswitch.]]
* TheLeader: Type III.
* {{Manchild}}: Borders on this until the back-to-back incidents concerning Overlord and Tyrest convince him to grow up. But then Megatron becomes captain, and he snaps right back.
* TheMcCoy
* MeaningfulRename: Used to be Hot Rod. He renamed himself to sound more like a Prime.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Confesses to Minimus that he agreed to have Overlord be brought onboard as part of Prowl's plan to create Autobot Phase Sixers.]]
** MoleInCharge
* NotQuiteDead: Interesting variation. Aside from flashbacks to before and during Megatron's trial, Rodimus didn't show up in MTMTE #28 or 29. And the revelation of what was in the coffin (a dead Rodimus with half of his head missing) made it ''seem'' that Rodimus was, in fact, dead. Turns out in issue #30 that Rodimus is still alive, albeit now he's a Main/{{Hikikomori}} (see above) and Dead!Rodimus is actually Rodimus' quantum duplicate.
* PowerTrio: With Ultra Magnus and Drift. Subverted, however, in that while Rodimus considers them one, he'd just ignore both of them and do whatever he wanted.
** FreudianTrio: While in charge, he's more of an inflated Id.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Discussed by Rodimus. He finds the idea to be cheap, saying instead that if one really want to make amends, one should live and try to actually make up for one's mistakes.
* PortalCut: [[spoiler:How he died on the other ''Lost Light'' while trying to kill the Sparkeater, losing part of his own head in the process.]]
* RedIsHeroic: That's the intent, anyway. In practice, Rody's got a long way to go yet.
* SirSwearsALot: Mention is made of him cussing, such as with Tyrest ("And that's when I started swearing."), or when Drift doesn't answer his calls, or when Ultra Magnus gave him some really bad news, though since the series averts the usual Transformers euphemisms, it's all kept off-screen.
* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn: Ultra Magnus wanted to scare him straight by having Rodimus track him to Tyrest. It kind of worked, but for the wrong reasons.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gets one from Ultra Magnus on how bad his leadership is, in Issue 21.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Early-IDW work had Rodimus as impulsive, yes, but nowhere near as bad as he's depicted here (though he started getting more impulsive and childish around the time of ''All Hail Megatron'').
* VitriolicBestBuds: Constantly argues and snarks with Megatron, but still gave him a Rodimus Star. One can't help but feel that the two have more in common than they like to admit.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gets this and TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Optimus after he confesses [[spoiler:his involvement on the Overlord affair.]]
** Gets another one [[spoiler: when Ratchet calls him out accessing the voting records. Then Ratchet reveals the voting records are actually fake because his name is not on the list.]]
** Gets one more from Ratchet [[spoiler: regarding how the crew is serving Brainstorm justice as compared to Rodimus' treatment of Drift.]]

[[folder:Ultra Magnus (Minimus Ambus)]]
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-->''Let me be be less '''abstruse'''. Screw up and I will '''demolish''' you.''
The Duly Appointed Enforcer Of The Tyrest Accord and Rodimus' second-in-command. He takes everything far too seriously and is increasingly stressed by the chaotic nature of Post-War life. He's trying his best to keep the crew in line and failing spectacularly. Towards the end of Season One, he's revealed as a smaller robot named Minimus Ambus, who keeps the legacy of the lond-dead lawman alive by way of a suit of PoweredArmor.

* BecomingTheMask: Being Ultra Magnus wasn't just a job for Minimus Ambus. It was his entire life. Ratchet even confides in him that he is the "true" Ultra Magnus to him.
* {{Badass}}: [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomps]] at least 5 or six Decepticons at once in issue #12, and, as Ambus, shoots Tyrest with a gun twice his size in issue #21. Tailgate was definitely awed.
-->'''Tailgate''':''You know you said Ultra Magnus was really good at fighting...''
-->'''Swerve''':''Not my exact words, but yes?''
-->'''Tailgate''':''He is '''really''' good at fighting.''
* ByTheBookCop: Why he didn't go to Garrus-9 with the Wreckers, because his job can't condone the things they usually do.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: In his defense, it was weapons-grade nucleon.
* TheComicallySerious: Until it turns out he's having a nervous breakdown. Then it becomes tragic.
* ComplimentBackfire: In season 2, he notes people have lost respect for him now that they know he's Minimus Ambus, he even finds a caricature of himself placed outside his door to mock him. [[spoiler:Ratchet finds out that it was actually a figurine sculpted by Ten and given to him as a gift because Ten looks up to him. Ratchet tells him, and he, as Minimus goes out for drinks with Ten]].
* ConsummateProfessional:
** In his duty as an enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, he's utterly stoic and humourless, refusing to break or bend any laws in his pursuit of criminals (usually).
** He is the only member of the Lost Light's command crew who acts halfway decent towards Megatron, rather than engaging in petty sniping and bickering, and even reassures him when he has a nervous breakdown. He also served as Megatron's attorney during his trial; court appointed, but he performed his duty without complaint, and is probably just about the only Autobot who would even attempt to do so.
* TheDarkChick: Of Tyrest's group, as Minimus Ambus. Even after losing the Magnus Armour, he still considers himself a subordinate of Tyrest's, and works to clear Rodimus and his shipmates of the crimes Tyrest has imprisoned them for. He's also at odds personality-wise with pretty much every other member of Tyrest's FiveBadBand, and also not much to look at physically when compared to Star Saber and Lockdown, the two heavy-hitters. His position doesn't stop Tyrest from having a Legislator crush his head when Ambus protests his plan to use the Universal Killswitch.
** TokenGoodTeammate
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Ultra Magnus has been dead for millions of years, killed under unknown circumstances.
* {{Depower}}: Tyrest strips Minimus Ambus of his PoweredArmor form and his name. It doesn't stick.
* {{Determinator}}
* FelonyMisdemeanor: He tends to be pretty anal about minor infractions.
-->'''Tyrest''': ''Badge Inspections! Doorframe Audits! Nanocons! Hugging! Hedonia!''
* {{Foil}}: To Rodimus.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic.
* GoshDangitToHeck: Should Ultra Magnus be moved enough to swear, it winds up being incredibly outdated swears.
* GrammarNazi: Misuse of apostrophes is considered mutiny in his book. He distrusts metaphor and simile, and considers using them a moral lapse. He even writes missives in a special font, one that features a lot of right angles.
* HiddenDepths: ''Our Words Will Always Rhyme'' reveals that he's actually an amateur poet.
* IncrediblyLameFun: Believes several months of 'cripplingly intense study' might actually be fun.
* TheLancer: Second in command of the ship.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Minimus's big reveal during the "Remain in the Light" arc has become more and more well known. Even Ultra Magnus's 2015 toy comes with a Minimus that fits in his chest.
* LegacyCharacter: There's been more than one Ultra Magnus, with the current incarnation being Minimus.
** LegacyImmortality: Magnus was known for miracle recoveries and surviving seemingly lethal injuries.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Regarding Tyrest's descent into madness and his plans for the Universal Killswitch before the start of Remain In Light.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:''Minimus'' Ambus, the real, "irreducible" Minimus Ambus, is actually about the same size as ''Rewind'' when not inside his suits of PoweredArmor. He barely comes up to Rodimus' waist.]]
* MemeticBadass: In-universe, he's one of the Autobots' greatest heroes, an epitome of law and order who is feared and respected by his allies and enemies in equal measure. It's the reason that [[spoiler:Tyrest chose to make him a LegacyCharacter after the original Ultra Magnus died, so that he could function as "the eternal lawman".]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He feels not going to Garrus-9 is this.
* '''NoSenseOfHumor'''
* NotQuiteDead: Survives getting his head crushed at one point. [[spoiler:But then, it's not his actual head...]]
** A recurring theme with Magnus was managing to survive injuries that for anyone else would've been fatal. [[spoiler:Though that's because Tyrest simply replaced the fallen Magnus, and no-one was the wiser.]]
* NumberTwo: To Rodimus and Megatron.
* ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Once tried to engage in casual conversation with Swerve (about statistics), only to get distracted by an out-of-place rivet, and tried to make a note of it. Only his promise to relax stopped him.
* OddFriendship: He has acknowledged twice his friendship with [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Verity Carlo]]. Not to mention using her as his holomatter avatar.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickName: Even after TheReveal about his SecretIdentityIdentity, most of the Lost Light crew just tend to refer to him as "Magnus" rather than his true name of "Minimus Ambus". Given the nature of the Ultra Magnus identity, this could even be a very strange case of EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: [[spoiler:Despite the fact that he's the same size as Swerve, Tailgate, and Rewind when completely unarmored, Minimus Ambus still has the superspark of a Point One Percenter, and thus has no problem picking up a {{BFG}} far bigger than himself, which not only allows him to disable Tyrest, but also to fight the horde of Legislators that get summoned afterwards. Minimus' superspark is also what allows him to wear two suits of PoweredArmour on top of each other without collapsing in on himself, because he's a special type of Point One Percenter called a "loadbearer" that allows him to withstand the strain the suits put on his frame]].
* PornStache: As Minimus Ambus, just like his brother Dominus. Apparently, it is a family trait.
* PoweredArmor: What "Ultra Magnus" technically is, with Ambus being inside of it. Although it turns out that the inner robot is ''itself'' a smaller suit of PoweredArmour with the actual, tiny Minimus Ambus inside that. It's how he survives his head being crushed by Tyrest's Legislator.
** MatryoshkaObject
** MetaMecha
* OddFriendship: With Verity.
* PowerTrio: With Rodimus and Drift.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Downplayed. It may not be immediately obvious due to his Super OCD, but when Red Alert is found headless in the oil reservoir, he's quick to call Rodimus and Drift on being idiots about Cyclonus' questioning.
** He's also one of few who gets on Swerve's case about his treatment of Ten. [[spoiler:Ten notices and appreciates it greatly]].
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:After the events on Luna-1 he decides to step down as Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, but does retain ownership of the Magnus Armor. Fortress Maximus becomes his successor.]]
* ThanatosGambit: Luring Rodimus to Luna-1 turns out to have been an attempt by Minimus at this; he'd been having serious doubts about Rodimus' ability to command ever since the start of the series, so when he was terminally injured by Overlord, he didn't simply teleport back to Tyrest, but instead let Tyrest take remote control of the armor and pilot it back to his location. This was because Minimus wanted Rodimus to follow his trail so Tyrest could read him the riot act for the way he'd been behaving and shock or maybe shame Rodimus into being a better commander; unfortunately, Minimus had no idea that Tyrest had gone insane or what he was planning. And he did all this with the expectation that he was going to die; he was genuinely surprised when Pharma was able to repair him.
** TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn: He thought this was going to be the only way to get Rodimus to understand what he needed to change about himself. He did learn the lesson, but the cost was high.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Rodimus points out that he does this in the Annual and it makes sense once you know that Ultra Magnus is an identity, not a person.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He opposes Tyrest as soon as he learns of Chief Justice's plan to exterminate a significant portion of the Cybertronian race.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord and Director of Security, along with several other titles we haven't heard of. [[spoiler: He eventually gives up his title of Enforcer to Fortress Maximus.]]
* SecretIdentityIdentity: His real identity is Minimus Ambus, Dominus' brother.
* TheSpock
* StatOVision: Not literally, but when looking at someone he's familiar with, he tends to envison their name and basic information, as well as likelihood of future criminal activity.
* SuperOCD
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Rodimus one on Luna-1, and later gives an impressive one to Prowl.

[[folder:Megatron]]
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-->''I lost the war the moment I gave the order to fight.''
The founder and former leader of the Decepticons who's suffered a HeelRealization and became "co-captain" after convincing those at his trial that only the Knights Of Cybertron could fairly judge him. Though rigid and strict, he hopes to redeem himself through the crew's quest and to rekindle his writer persona. [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Is hated by almost the entire crew]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Despite being a pretty adept captain, pretty much the entire crew hates his guts because he's ''Megatron''.
** In a twist however Skids and Getaway admit to one another that it's actually ''hard'' for them to hate Megatron - because his crimes are on such a large scale, it's almost impersonal (One death is a tragedy, a billion is a statistics) and hard to process an emotional response. On top of that Megatron is competent and rational on a personal level.
* AdaptationalHeroism: While Megatron pulling a HeelFaceTurn isn't an alien concept on its own, no aspect of the mythos has ever run with it to this extent. He's also portrayed as being as far less of a clear-cut villain than his previous portrayals in the IDW continuity itself.
** PragmaticHero: In his own word "If someone else volunteers to risk their life, let them" and "When everyone's lining up to make sacrifices - be at the back of the line".
* AFatherToHisMen: Like Rodimus, he ''wants'' to be this, even to the point of holding lectures to try and educate and talk with the crew. These attempts are hampered by the fact that pretty much everyone except Ravage (and possibly Getaway) hate and distrust him.
* AfraidOfNeedles: He's strongly against the idea of Chromedome performing Mnemosurgery on him during his trial. He also looks away in disgust when Chromedome performs Mnemosurgery on [[spoiler:the dead "Rodimus".]] ''Births, Deaths & Interventions", reveals that [[spoiler:Trepan attempted to conduct Mnemosurgery on him during his mining days.]]
-->'''Megatron''': Ugh.
-->'''Ultra Magnus''': Don't like needles?
-->'''Megatron''': Something like that.
* AndIMustScream: Frozen in mid-transformation by Wheeljack’s failsafe for the second part of RID Season One.
* ArmCannon: Averted. While he's still armed, his iconic cannon is absent from his new form as Optimus had him melt it down. This is a bit of an in-joke hearkening back to his novel "Towards Peace," where he states that it is his burden, and when the rejection of it is significant to no one else but himself, he will remove it from his arm. Unlike in his novel, this was removed in conjunction with him renouncing his ideals rather than fulfilling them and not needing it to fight.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As the former leader of the Decepticons, he could trade blows and win with some of his phase sixers.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInCharge: Now a "co-captain" of the ''Lost Light''. Yes, really.
** BadassInDistress: He's captured and tortured by Shockwave during ''Dark Cybertron''.
** BadassLongCoat: His holomatter avatar materializes with one when he first projects it to "Swearth" (it fits with his avatar's stereotypically villainous look), though when his team reaches the bar he's removed it.
** HandicappedBadass: His old form was severely damaged fighting D-Void's Deceptigod, and he spearheads the experiments in the wilderness as such before his upgrade. He also spends the better part of ''Dark Cybertron'' without his legs, but still beats Waspinator and even ''Gavatron'' without them. After the crossover, his insides are a mess of interdimensional portals after his space bridge broke down, to the point that it's impossible to safely extricate his spark or do anything else of much medical significance without killing him. He can still kick your ass despite (or maybe even with) them, as Whirl found out. He also mentions that he's really beginning to feel his age, even without the special fuel he's made to drink, and that his new body doesn't feel right.
* BigBad: Of ''Robots in Disguise'' “City on Fire" arc. Obviously, he was also this in the Great War, making his role here a lot more surprising. However the Decepticons considered (and some ''still do'') him to be the BigGood.
* BodyHorror: Not immediately obvious, but his insides are now riddled with space bridge portals as a result of Shockwave's meddling in ''Dark Cybertron''.
* BrokenPedestal: In the past, to a young Orion Pax. In the present, to everyone who follows the Decepticon cause.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Megatron is using a low-yield Energon that has a toxin included in order to sap his strength.
* ByronicHero: A textbook example.
* CharacterDevelopment: Since joining the ''Lost Light'' crew, he seems to have become more empathetic towards others.
* ClassyCane: His holomatter avatar first materializes on "Swearth" with a cane, but when Rodimus points it out, Megatron lets go of it, causing it to dematerialize. He doesn't bring it back, probably because it reminds Megatron of how old he is.
* CoolOldGuy: One of the oldest crew members, both physically and mentally, but still a total badass. That said there's also a hint of deconstruction to it; his increasing age and self-doubt means his badassery is slowing slipping away from him.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: He credits Whirl with teaching him the value of violence over peaceful protest.
** Becomes even more so when it turns out [[spoiler:a time-traveling Whirl is the one who preserved the timeline by putting the "point one-percenter" spark Brainstorm was carrying into Megatron's body after Rewind destroyed the original. Since the spark is a Cybertronian's soul, Whirl ''literally'' created Megatron]].
* CreepySouvenir: Wanders out of the Cybertronian wilderness carrying a bunch of Sweeps' heads that he strung together.
* DeathSeeker: Was apparently resigned to be executed at his trial that he pleaded guilty of all charges right at the beginning of it. [[spoiler:Until Starscream's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, ''intended'' to be the last nail in his coffin, restored his will to live, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain just to spite his former lieutenant]].]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: However dangerous the aforementioned portals might be to his own health, they also make it a [[PortalCut really bad idea]] to take him on.
* TheDreaded
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He finds Mnemosurgery repulsive, as well as the apartheid of the Constructed Cold.
** It's revealed that Megatron was [[spoiler:nearly [[MindRape mind raped]] by Trepan via Mnemosurgery, as well as being Constructed Cold himself (though has a Point-One Percenter spark).]]
** He considers the DJD to be monsters, based on the sadism they show on the [[spoiler:duplicate Lost Light]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: [[BigBad For obvious reasons]], very few members of the crew genuinely like him, and most actively distrust and hate him, barring Ultra Magnus (who treats him with the appropriate respect due the captain of the ship) and Rung (who is genuinely interested to learn more about how he thinks/thought). This ''may'' be slowly changing the longer he's with the crew though; Skids and Getaway admit that even though Megatron's indirectly caused loads of death and suffering, they're having trouble actually personally hating Megatron himself. Nautica also observes that the surprisingly large number of the Lost Light's crew who were brought online directly because of Megatron's actions basically owe their very existance to him.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Sort of. His body was reformatted after his change-of-heart, but nobody's about to call him "good" any time soon.
* GrumpyBear: Is frequently in a bad mood.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: For a five-issue span of ''Dark Cybertron'' after Galvatron tears him in half.
* HeelFaceTurn
** HeelRealization: During the events of ''Dark Cybertron''.
* HeinzHybrid: [[spoiler: The reveal is that he has a forged point-one percenter spark, in a constructed cold body.]]
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: He's still got that helmet of his, but at best it's anti-heroic.
* HostileShowTakeover: He takes command of the crew's mission. Needless to say, they aren't happy about it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He criticizes Rodimus for sulking around and contemplating his life rather than leading, but after the events of ''Elegant Chaos'' he does the exact same thing.
** When the crew are sent back in time, he's perfectly willing to trust them when it appears that [[spoiler:Brainstorm]] went back in time to assassinate Optimus Prime. But when it turns out the target was ''him'', he freaks out and suddenly they aren't up to the task.
* KarmaHoudini: Most of the crew see him as one, and do their damn best to make certain he knows it - some more... [[MurderIsTheBestSolution vocally]] than others.
* TheKirk: Stands between Rodimus's enormous ego and recklessness and Ultra Magnus's obsessively organized personality.
* LargeAndInCharge: By Cybertronian standards, he's pretty beefed-up. The "in-charge" part is a matter of debate between him, Rodimus and the rest of the ''Lost Light'' crew.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: It was blanked out on all the pages due to the story behind it still being underway, but there's no real way you're going to get around him joining the Autobots and becoming captain of the ''Lost Light''.
* LeaderFormsTheHead: After he gets his new body, he is able to combine and form the head of Devastator. He never really gets the chance to use it, though.
* LeaveHimToMe: [[spoiler:He orders his troops to leave Whirl alone for the entire course of the war, so that he might have the pleasure of giving the copter-bot an ironic death at his hands. Though WordOfGod also said that such an order could be disobeyed if one found themselves in a fight against Whirl with no choice but to kill him, this loophole is what Kaon uses to kill the Alternate Whirl.]]
* LivingMacGuffin: Becomes this for Shockwave, since his body houses space bridge technology.
* LovableCoward: ''Stet'' reveals he used to be this before his fateful meeting with Whirl. His reaction to Impactor starting a bar fight was to cower under a nearby table like a frightened child.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: By necessity, as his old body was trashed fighting D-void during the events of [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Chaos]]. This form also undergoes some noticeable changes in ''More Than Meets the Eye''.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Nearly falls victim to this during his days as a miner to Trepan's attempts at Mnemosurgery. In a conversation with Orion Pax, he mentions that he fears something was done to him, and he has no way of knowing.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He's not proud of what the Decepticons did any more. The fact that Starscream has wound up in charge of Cybertron really doesn't help.
* NobleBigot: Developing into this. Recent events and a harsh chewing out from Skids causes him to realize his bigotry towards organic races was wrong.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Has a fondness for doing this every time he's repaired, always aimed at Starscream.
* OddFriendship: Briefly develops a respectful repartee with Trailcutter and [[spoiler: is visibly upset when Trailcutter is killed by Kaon.]]
* OutOfFocus: While the De-Facto BigBad of ALL the Decepticons, he was not seen for almost a year in ‘’Robots In Disguise’’, and while he returns with a bang, he's captured and imprisoned at the end of the arc.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He acts aloof and grumpy, as if he's more matured than the rest of the crew, but nonetheless does things like performing slam poetry in Mirage's bar, accepting Rodimus Stars, or scheming with Rodimus to get out of going to Thunderclash's party.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: At first he won't risk his life to save non-Cybertronians, but a chewing-out from Skids causes him to realize that he's not making a big-enough effort to change and he reconsiders. Averted in regards to the discussion on the Forged and Constructed Cold, as he hates categorization.
* PragmaticHero: Even as a good guy, he thinks mainly of the quickest, most practical way to get things done. His advice to Getaway is to always get to the back of the line when people are making sacrifices.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's much more reasonable than expected, working with Trailcutter to fix his problems rather than punishing him and [[spoiler: letting Tailgate and Cyclonus off the hook when it becomes clear that Getaway set them up.]]
* RebuiltPedestal: In the present, to Orion Pax.
* RedemptionDemotion: Obviously, he's no longer commanding armies, and his [[StoryBreakerPower space bridge]] broke down during ''Dark Cybertron''. Subverted on pretty much every mental level, however: Megatron's formidable leadership skills are still very much present, and when he becomes captain of the previously lax ''Lost Light'', things ''turn around.''
* RedemptionEqualsLife: Abandons his cause at the end of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'', and makes it out of the crossover alive.
* [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity Restored My Faith In The Cybertronian Race]]: Bumblebee manages to do this for him in ''Dark Cybertron'', [[spoiler:though Bumblebee doesn't live to see it.]]
* RestrainingBolt: Forced to consume low-grade, mildly toxic Energon to sap his considerable strength. In private, Megatron confides to Ravage it isn't really necessary with his advanced age.
* StraightMan: Like Ultra Magnus, his serious nature contrasts wildly with the eccentricities of the crew, leading to several situations that leave him face-palming or getting aggravated at everyone's antics. Even when Thunderclash is brought up and his ParodySue nature makes everyone practically worship the ground he walks on, Megatron's reaction is basically: "He's an important Autobot, I tried to kill him a few times."
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Somewhat the impression he left on Orion Pax as a young miner writing speeches about society's injustices before the two would become mortal enemies.
* SixthRanger
* ThatManIsDead: How he views the old firebrand he used to be. Though Ravage raises the question of whether he really is...
* ThinkingUpPortals: His insides are literally ''[[BodyHorror made]]'' [[BodyHorror of them]].
* TookALevelInKindness: Thanks to Bumblebee.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Naturally, being the former leader of the very faction the ''Lost Light'' crew are/used to be up against.
* TragicKeepsake: [[WordOfGod Roberts]] confirms he is wearing Bumblebee's old Autobot Badge.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Some solicits for comics after ''Dark Cybertron'' gave away him joining the crew.
* {{Transplant}}: Leaves the cast of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' after the ''Dark Cybertron'' crossover for this series.
* TronLines: His current body has lines of glowing energy (most noticable on his shoulders), now an Autobot red rather than the Decepticon purple you'd normally expect.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Rodimus bicker constantly and act like they hate each other, but it's rather telling that Megatron actually holds onto the Rodimus Star that Rodimus made for him.
* VisionaryVillain: What he became during his revolution.
* WarriorPoet: He used to write poetry. Lots of poetry. Just ask [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Impactor]].
** As of issue #40, it seems he's trying his hand at poetry again. Nobody appreciates it.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Impactor, who was his fellow miner before the War. This winds up saving Impactor's life on at least one occasion, when he manages to scribble a sardonic "Not more of your poetry," on a piece of rubble just as Megatron was about to kill him. The realisation that he was about to kill his old friend stunned Megatron enough for Impactor to escape.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What do you expect from the founder of the Decepticons?
** NecessarilyEvil: He initially saw himself as this.
* WorthLivingFor: Starscream's speech at his trial lit up a fire inside him to live out of spite for his former lieutenant.
-->'''Megatron''':''I'd sooner live than allow him to write my epitaph.''

!!Scientists, Engineers, and Staff

[[folder:Rung]]
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-->''It's okay. It's alright. We're done. No more for today.''
The ship psychiatrist who's incredibly nice and well-meaning to just about everyone. Despite his affable personality he often goes unnoticed and secretly desires to be remembered. May or may not be more than he seems...

* AccidentalMisnaming: Rung is never correctly addressed by name when he is conscious or present. The other characters will either forget his name, mispronounce his name, or simply identify him based on his profession. However, characters do not seem to have this problem at all in prose stories or when he is not present.
** Skids utilises this to bring him out of his coma.
-->'''Rung''': "It's Rung. Forever."
** Even funnier when he misnames 'Quark' in Issue 37.
* {{Adorkable}}
* TheBait: The Sparkeater sought him due to the brightness of his spark. When Rodimus figures this out he grabs him and uses him to lure the monster into the range of the ship's engines.
* BigOlEyebrows
* BrutalHonesty: The reason why Rodimus ask Rung to go with him to Luna-1, because Rodimus admits he needs someone to tell him things he doesn't want to hear, especially after Magnus goes missing.
* ButtMonkey
* CassandraTruth: Rodimus dismisses his concerns regarding the "voice coming from the basement". [[spoiler:Turns out Rodimus knew what was in the basement.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: In 'Shadowplay', he's seen playing with a rather anachronistic model of the 'Lost Light', turns out it is because it was Future!Rung who traveled to the past.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: At first he appears to be a mere Psychiatrist used as a butt monkey, but several events have alluded that Rung is far more than meets the eye:
** He's positively ancient, being a contemporary of [[BadassGrandpa Kup]].
** His serial number is exactly 1 Million.
** He's met most of the famous Autobots (in fact, had most of them as clients).
** He's never changed his body since the beginning of the war. In fact, he's gone through it relatively undamaged (as commented by Ratchet) prior to getting his head shot off by Swerve.
** He was there at Megatron's descent into villainy, in fact him being assaulted was the event that started the chain of events that would lead to Megatron abandoning a pacifist approach and starting the Decepticon movement. In a way, Rung getting attacked in that oil house is what sparked the Great War. [[spoiler: It turns out this was Future!Rung]].
** In fact Rewind describes him as a "historical constant", somehow always present during significant events while remaining outside them. [[spoiler: Because he was time-traveling with Rodimus' team to said significants chasing Brainstorm]].
** He has the brightest (or possibly second brightest) spark on the ship, which draws the sparkeater to him.
** His Alt Mode is entirely unique and has no obvious function (the Functionist council classified it as an "ornament"). Even Nightbeat has tried figuring out what it is, with no luck. [[spoiler: In the alternate Functionist-dominated timeline created as a result of Brainstorm's timejumping, the Functionists and Rung both figure out what his altmode is, and apparently it is so horrifying, they sentence him to death for it.]]
* TheConstant: Rewind refers to him as a "historical constant"; he's been present at numerous major events throughout history, but almost never plays a direct part in them, almost as if he's just an outside observers. ''Elegant Chaos'' reveals that at least a few of these instances were caused by [[spoiler: time travel]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Not a moron by any definition, but he isn't much of a fighter. He's surprisingly good with a staff.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Issue 48 reveals that [[spoiler: he isn't actually a licensed psychiatrist like he claims. He was stripped of his license to practice after he became too close to one of his patients. The ship he was serving on crashed with Rung as the sole survivor, which he used to cover up his disbarment, much to his own shame.]]
* DistressedDude
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:It's briefly mentioned that Quantum Duplicate!Rung was killed in the initial quantum jump.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: His first appareance in the IDW universe, even if text-only, was in the ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' cast bios.
* EasilyForgiven: He has this attitude towards everyone.
--> '''Rung''': I've been around for awhile now... I've learned to forgive anything.
* EquippableAlly: Played for laughs, as Rung transforms into... a giant stick, which Swerves uses as a weapon to defeat Paddox in issue 22.
* {{Foil}}: To Drift, in a meta way. Drift was presented to the fandom as some really cool character (ninja, sleek car, respected autobots shilling for him). Rung is simply psychiatrist, is considered the weakest crewmember, others don't take him seriously and even keeps getting called by the wrong name, and transforms into an office ornament, of all things.
** It may work in another way too. Whereas Drift was hyped upon his introduction, he has since been played down and integrated with the cast. Rung was introduced quietly and casually, and is gradually hinted that he is going to be very important later. For example, his alt mode is ''not'' actually an office ornament. No one knows what it is, so the Functionists invented a new and complete BS category for him.
* GeekPhysiques
* KitschCollection: Of model spaceships.
* MeaningfulName: Rung's name is both a play on his alt form (which is, at first glance, functionally useless, much like how a ladder rung is useless without the rest of the ladder) and a reference to CarlJung. This is further confirmed by the name of the other Cybertronian psychologist, Froid, whose name is the last name of UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud as it is pronounced.
* MetaGuy: His [[AllThereInTheManual psychological analysis]] provided more background info for several characters in LSOTW, mostly the "Wrookies."
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: If [[spoiler: Functionist-timeline Rung's]] words are anything to go by, [[spoiler: Rung may be the indirect bringer of the apocalypse.]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline, Rung encourages his own execution at the hands of the Functionist One-of-Twelve, saying his death will herald the beginning of the end.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Implied to be how he feels about [[spoiler: covering up the fact that he was stripped of his license to practice psychiatry.]]
* NiceGuy: The best example among the ''Lost Light'' crew.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:In ''Births, Deaths & Interventions'' he saves Megatron from a lobotomy at the hands of Trepan. Though Trepan was a sadistic mnemosurgen, it was one the major events that led Megatron to found the Decepticons, and everything that followed.]]
** Not to mention being accidentally responsible for Megatron's initial arrest, which made the Senate aware of his writings in the first place.
* NonActionGuy: Lampshaded by himself when his internal monologue reveals he was happy when he was forced to sit out during the Battle of Temptoria.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: No other Cybertronian has his kind of build.
* OnlyFriend: The sole member of the crew trusted by Red Alert.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Which actually are glasses, as it eventually turns out.
* RecurringExtra: Before the events of the series. He's been described in-universe as a "historical constant."
* TheRedBaron: [[spoiler: His alternate self in the Functionist-controlled Cybertron is known by his devotees as "The Useless One" because of his altmode that defies the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy.]]
* TheShrink: Formerly to the Wreckers and now to the crew of The Lost Light.
* SimpleStaff: His WeaponOfChoice, as seen in MTMTE #24 (Dark Cybertron #4).
* SpottingTheThread: He was able to deduce [[spoiler: the true identity of Minimus Ambus.]]
* TeamMom
* ToylessToylineCharacter: Rung has no official toy as of yet, just a made-up figure featured on a comic cover. Though in the Combiner Wars Toyline, the Bios are written as Psych-Profiles by Rung.
* TreasureChestCavity: 90% of his body is made of compartments.
* WarriorTherapist: He knows how to study people and find physical and mental weak points, which he's more than willing to exploit in case he does get into fights.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Rung's first appearance, back in ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW, doesn't match his present design (his chest is far more rectangular than it should be, for one), which doesn't gel with the idea that his form's remained unchanged.
* YourHeadASplode: Barely survives having his head blown off by Swerve.

[[folder:Brainstorm]]
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-->''Don't. Mock. The briefcase.''
An egotistical and amoral workaholic scientist who loves developing deadly and outrageous weaponry. He's an old friend/coworker of Chromedome's and is virulently jealous of fellow scientist Perceptor. He's one of the more [[WalkingSpoiler ...colorful]] crew members who tends to get inspired a little too easily...

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:His ''Headmasters'' incarnation was a similarly frenetic idea guy, but with none of the whole "Decepticon plant" thing going on. However, his ultimate goal is noble and, despite being a Decepticon, he's not that bad a guy.]]
* AntiVillain: There's an awful lot of 'evil' tropes here, but he's really not all ''that'' evil.
* AlienBlood: Unlike the purple Energon everyone else has, Brainstorm's is reddish orange, possibly as a result of being a Dead Universe infectee.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: How Perceptor is presented in relation to him. [[GreenEyedMonster It shows.]]
--> '''Brainstorm:''' Okay, '''confession time:''' I '''may''' have overstated my expertise in this area. [[BlatantLies Unintentionally and uncharacteristically]], that '''may''' be what I've done. Maybe it's the pressure to perform, maybe it's because you're all staring at me —maybe it's because you're asking me to juggle the fundamental building blocks of life and death— but I'm a '''teensy''' bit overwhelmed.
--> '''Rodimus:''' Hey, I totally understand. Who '''wouldn't''' be overwhelmed? Who '''wouldn't''' freeze up? I guess the only person I can think of is Perceptor...
--> '''Brainstorm:''' Oh, well played, Captain. Well played.
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:His quantum duplicate is the one behind the DJD invasion in the "Slaughterhouse" arc, though to his credit he did try to keep the others safe. Once his other self is exposed, he takes a direct role as the main antagonist of the "Elegant Chaos" arc.]]
* BadassGay: Revealed in ''Elegant Chaos'' to be in love with [[spoiler:the deceased Quark.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Teleporting onto Messatine caused the evacuation that forced Megatron to abandon Terminus.]]
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Sometimes, the best place to find the enemy is to look for the guy dreaming up creative ways to kill them.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Insane as his inventions are, they usually tend to work. There's also the fact [[spoiler:that he's actually a Decepticon agent who invented GrandfatherParadox-free time travel.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: While mostly a supporting character in Season One, ''Dark Cybertron'' gives him more exposure, and he's at the heart of the first two arcs of Season Two.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: To put it mildly. On one occasion, Chromedome walks into his workshop to find him working on something while hanging upside down from the ceiling, and on another occasion wryly notes that "What is a giant naked human doing in your lab?" is a question most people would only need to ask once in a lifetime.
* CombatPragmatist: In Issue #33, [[spoiler:he walks into Swerve's and drops everyone by opening his his briefcase. It's later revealed that he'd been slowly contaminating the drinks over a period of time and opening the briefcase simply activated the toxins.]]
* CrazyEnoughToWork: His MO.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's implied in issue #16 that he once lost a Conjunx Endura, or somebody else he cared about.
** #38 reveals that [[spoiler:his unrequited crush, Quark, died in a Decepticon prison camp, and he never got over it.]] Of course, the ''rest'' of the series shows that this isn't the only think dark and troubled about his past...
* DeadAllAlong: More like undead all along -- you get the idea.
* DevilInPlainSight: [[spoiler:While morally ambiguous Autobots are by no means rare, Brainstorm ranks amongst the most gleefully amoral of the bunch. Turns out there's a ''reason'' for this.]]
* DirtyCoward: Doesn't like fighting, and in a bad situation he'll run away or cower, depending on his options. He also claims he's "allergic" to hostile environments. [[spoiler:As he could probably figure out to kill most people with little effort it's implied that this is his way of not being forced into using lethal force.]]
* DramaticUnmask: He's actually got a mouth, like his ''Headmasters'' incarnation. That much isn't a spoiler. [[spoiler: The Decepticon insignia painted on the inside of his faceplate most definitely is.]] Nautica (and virtually everyone else) didn't think he actually had one (similar to Empurata victims like Whirl).
* TheEngineer: He's the self-proclaimed "ship's genius."
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: As one of the more more morally dubious member's of the crew, he's a wellspring of ComedicSociopathy. His second scene in the series has him crack a joke about the horrific death of Ore. [[spoiler:When we find out he's a Decepticon spy, he becomes a straight example of the trope.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: Honestly, how else was keeping Nova Prime's corpse in his lab going to end?
* FaceFramedInShadow: After [[spoiler:knocking out everyone in Swerve's Bar following TheReveal he's a Decepticon mole.]]
* FanBoy: Of Perceptor. A highly conflicted fanboy. [[spoiler: With the later revelation that he's in love with Quark (who was based off of ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated'' Perceptor]], he's implied to be somewhat attracted to Perceptor due to his similarities to Quark.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The sparkeater passing him over in favor of another target. However high-functioning they may be, zombies' souls evidently don't taste that great.
** His preferred method of consuming Energon and Engex involves pouring it directly into a port on his forearm, as opposed to using a mouth or mouth port like everyone else. Though it's possibly justified by his altered physiology, [[spoiler:he can't safely unclip his faceplate in view of anyone else to do the same.]] In addtion, [[spoiler:it's revealed that he poisoned the Engex in Swerve's, in case he needed to incapacitate the crew.]]
* GadgeteerGenius
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Alternate Brainstorm informed the DJD where Overlord was, but demanded that no one else got hurt, claiming it would blow his cover. Tarn claims they originally planned to uphold the deal, but Drift's presence triggered a killing frenzy that ended with the Alternate Lost Light crew dead. Since the two Lost Lights were essentially crewed by the same people, Brainstorm knows his Alt would have done this since this is what ''he'' would have done.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: He excels at designing weapons which would only be used if the universe itself were threatened.
* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:Found a way to override it, and tries to prevent the Great War from happening.]]
* GunNut: It's even his title in his newer "Meet the Crew" bio.
* HeroicComedicSociopath
* HiddenDepths: Comes off as a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, which he often is, but is surprisingly couth when comforting Chromedome after Rewind's death.The reason for his surprising sympathy becomes tragic [[spoiler: when you learn that his crush Quark died in a Decepticon prison camp after the war started and Brainstorm has a ''really'' bad case of UnrequitedLoveLastsForever.]]
* {{Hikkikomori}}: At the end of ''Remain In Light'' he's holed himself up in his lab to obsess over the Point One Percenter spark he harvested from Luna-1, though he does emerge briefly in the prose story "Sound of Shattered Glass" to talk to Swerve.
* InsufferableGenius: A brilliant scientist, but he insists on behaving like Primus' gift to the Cybertronian race.
* {{Irony}}: Despite building his whole career off of making horribly deadly weapons that get people killed, [[spoiler:Brainstorm has deliberately never personally killed anyone.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: As a result of the ComedicSociopathy he puts forth.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His interactions with Chromedome following Rewind's apparent death seem to establish him as this -- even after the reveal that [[spoiler:he's a Decepticon spy]] we find that [[spoiler: his goals were much more noble than what was expected]]. He's also surprisingly nice to NaiveNewcomer Nautica, modifying her wrench with various doodads of dubious usefulness and chatting with her often.
* LackOfEmpathy: For the most part.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He supplies the first words in the first issue taking place after ''Dark Cybertron''.
-->'''Brainstorm:''' ''(as Nautica returns from an errand)'' And-- we're back! You were ages.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:The reason why he decided to unilaterally change the course of history was because [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Quark]] died in a prisoner camp during the war. To be fair, his original plan was simply to save Quark, but Rewind's death and Chromedome's subsequent emotional breakdown inspired him to change plans and just prevent the whole thing.]]
* MadScientist: Brainstorm is the sort of guy who'll ask, "Can it be done?" rather than, "Should it be done?" And even if the answer to the second question is a resounding "NO!", he'll probably go through with it anyway just to see what would happen.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight[=/=]SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler:His endgame is to travel back in time and prevent the war from starting at all. Initially he doesn't want to kill anybody at all. While he views this as the latter doing so would turn Cybertron into a Functionist-dominated dystopia.]]
* MetaGuy: Brainstorm has commented on story pacing, infodumps, and how often their titular race is called on to save the universe from destruction. He even creates a "Meta-bomb", which makes those affected by it believe they're part of a comic. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It works]].
** He comes up with a new "Early Early Warning System", which basically taps into meta-fiction and gives warnings like "Uh-Oh" or "Run for your life!"
* TheMole: Drift's accomplice.
* MoreDakka: After various disasters, Swerve asks him to provide his bar with a defense system. He takes this as an opportunity to install guns in the walls, activated by a big lever.
* {{Narcissist}}:
-->'''Brainstorm''': I'm too smart to die!
* NonActionGuy: He has mentioned throughout the series that he's too smart to die young and that he's allergic to hostile environments. In fact issue 38 reveals that [[spoiler: he's never taken a life by his own hand.]]
* NoodleIncident: His first foray into the joys of [[DisposingOfABody body disposal]] with Whirl.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: As Issue #33 shows, Brainstorm's manias aren't all they seem.
* OddFriendship: With Nautica. She's a [[GenkiGirl bright]], [[NaiveNewcomer innocent]] WrenchWench from a long-lost Cybertronian colony that completely missed the War. He's a Jerkass [[ComedicSociopathy Comedic Sociopath]] whose inventions are probably responsible for more death and destruction than most Transformers put together. They get along swimmingly, [[spoiler:and this relationship is the reason why Nautica takes the discovery of Brainstorm's treachery particularly hard.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Brainstorm" is just a nickname given to him at the New Institute, though like Chromedome, he seems to have adopted it as his actual name. [[spoiler:His real name is Genitus of Operation: Solar Storm.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: A flashback reveals that a lab accident with Nova's corpse rendered him undead right before the beginning of the series.
** NonHumanUndead
** TechnicallyLivingZombie: Inverted. While undead, he still continues to function pretty normally.
* PassFail: When the topic of Constructed/Forged Cybertronians comes up, Brainstorm quickly says that he was forged, hastily adding that he supported rights for Constructed Cybertronians. However, when the Universal Killswitch is activated, Brainstorm is shown writhing in pain along with the other Constructed Cold Cybertronians.
* PetTheDog: When grief begins forcing Chromedome toward a morally questionable solution, Brainstorm steps in and does his level best to persuade him otherwise. And of all the crew, ''he's'' the one who ends up taking Nautica under his wing.
* RedOniBlueOni: Whereas Perceptor favors caution and restraint, Brainstorm will always ask whether or not something ''can'' be done, rather than if it ''should'' be done. Case in point: harvesting the Superspark.
* ReverseMole: Brainstorm spied for the Decepticons, but deliberately never gave them useful information, so that he could [[spoiler: acquire the materials from both sides to build his Time Machine.]].
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Does this on Luna-1 after the hot spot ignites. [[MetaGuy He would, though]].
* TheSmartGuy: MadScientist variety.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The incorrigible smartass Wise Guy to joyless and by-the-book Perceptor's StraightMan.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Rung is ultimately able to talk him out of killing Megatron.]]
* TragicVillain: It turns out [[spoiler: he only used the Decepticons to further his plan to go back in time and prevent the war from happening at all.]]
* {{Troll}}: [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Back on Kimia]], he was fond of building horrendously over-the-top weapons solely to piss off the Ethics Committee.
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: [[spoiler:Quark may not have have even realized his affections, but Brainstorm was willing to create GrandfatherParadox-exempt- TimeTravel to save him. ''Our Worlds Will Always Rhyme'' reveals that he was constructed cold during the war, so he intended to ''sacrifice himself'' along with the timeline to save Quark.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: So many significant things are revealed about him that it's like a running gag without the laughs. In ascending order of importance, he's a former employee of the New Institute, Drift's chief accomplice, a high-functioning zombie, and [[spoiler:a Decepticon plant.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In the end, his goal was simply to save Quark and everyone else killed by the war.]]
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Well, yellow-orange, but he's still one of the most morally ambiguous members of the crew.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Via his Quantum Duplicate.

[[folder:Nautica]]
[[quoteright:100:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nautica-mtmte_3703.png]]
A cheerful if shy engineer with a love of machinery and literature. She desires to learn more about how the universe works and its history. Rarely seen without her trusty wrench.

* {{Adorkable}}: All the time.
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have difficulty socializing with others and has issues with telling when others don't want to be touched.
* AudienceSurrogate: For season 2.
* {{Bookworm}}: She read 4.3 million years worth of history in three weeks.
* BreakTheCutie: In ''Slaughterhouse, Part 2'', she's devastated upon finding out that [[spoiler:Brainstorm is a Decepticon mole.]]
* CannotTellAJoke: Actually, she ''can'', they're just completely inaccessible to people who aren't quantum engineers.
* CargoShip: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in a meta-example by [[WordOfGod James Roberts]] in an interview, saying that her relationship with her wrench is the same as Guzzle's with ''The Judge'', his favorite gun.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments.
-->'''Nautica:''' If I had sarcasm-powered legs, I'd do a happy dance.
* ExtremeDoormat: Gets pushed around by Firestar fairly easily and is in general a very quiet, non-combative person.
* FemBot
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In ''Slaughterhouse, Part 2'', she honestly believes ''Ravage'' would be willing to sacrifice himself to save some non-Cybertronians.
** And that he's an [[CutenessProximity adorable widdle kitty cat]].
* MagicTool: Brainstorm basically converts her wrench into a [[Series/DoctorWho Sonic Screwdriver]].
* NiceGirl
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: She's a mechanic, not a soldier. Best demonstrated in issue 42, where she desperately attempts to fight [[spoiler: the invisible monsters]], only to [[CurbStompBattle get decked with a single punch]].
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She seems to have trouble understanding when people don't want someone near them. This is especially bad with Ravage.
* NoSocialSkills: Case in point, ''trying to see if Megatron was ticklish''.
* SixthRanger: Joins up with the crew after ''Dark Cybertron''.
* SociallyAwkwardHero
* TheSmartGirl: There's a reason she's known as "The Savant" in-universe and out.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Her bright purple lips and navel.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Bots]]: Had something like this with Chromia when she first appeared in ''Dark Cybertron''. Seems to have established something similar with Brainstorm (and later Nightbeat) on the ''Lost Light''.
* WrenchWench: She has a tendency to brandish her wrench as a weapon. Take even further with her holomatter avatar, which has her dressed as a plumber.
** [[MrFixIt Ms FixIt]]

[[folder:Perceptor]]
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-->''Can we '''please''' not jump to conclusions.''
A stern but kind scientist with a tendency to ramble. He describes things with words that no one can possibly understand and is also an expert sniper.


* {{Badass}}: With him being a [[MemeticMutation Sniperer]] and all. In issue 38, [[spoiler: when Megatron demands to be sent back in time to stop Brainstorm from killing his unborn self:]]
-->'''Perceptor:''' ''"[[spoiler: No, Megatron. '''No.''' You're going to back off, calm down, and shut up - in that order.]]"''
* BadassBookworm
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The quantum duplicate version of him is shredded to bits in Tesarus' chest grinder... ''feet-first''.]]
* DemotedToExtra[=/=]OutOfFocus: For the first 13 issues or so, but then he takes a more prominent role in "Remain In Light."
* DeusExitMachina: Incapacitated for the entirety of the Hoist Spotlight.
* GeniusBruiser
* HighClassGlass: His crosshair eyepiece, though unlike other examples it serves a militant purpose and has nothing to do with rank. While originally he had his eye socket widened and had the bit installed, in this series it's just removable revealing a standard optic underneath.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the Hoist Spotlight, he has his legs fused into the floor of the shuttle when the heating coils overload. He gets better afterward.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: WordOfGod confirmed a lot of his talk about alternate universe was wrong, and the result of arrogant presumption on his part.
* MinoredInAssKicking
* MissionControl: During ''Elegant Chaos''.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: His tinkering with the Paradox Locks allowed the BadFuture AlternateTimeline to fully come into existence]].
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted, he didn't know a thing about quantum mechanics until he joined the Lost Light.
* RedOniBlueOni: Calm, cautious and the complete opposite of Brainstorm's egotistical insanity.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: It takes him several tries to dumb his language down to Rodimus's level.
* TheSmartGuy
* TheSpock
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The StraightMan to Brainstorm's Wise Guy.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chromedome]]
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-->''Try "Get out of my '''head'''." Or even better "Get out of my '''memories'''."''
A mopey and depressed mnemosurgeon with a DarkAndTroubledPast. He hopes to move on and make a new life for himself with his Conjunx Endura Rewind, whom he heavily relies upon. He resents his own talents as others constantly pressure or exploit him because of them.

* AntiHero
* AnArmAndALeg: Loses an arm in the slow cell door as he reaches for Rewind.
* BerserkButton: Any harm coming to Rewind. Prowl's emotional abuse and manipulation gets him fired up almost as much.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: His old job at the New Institute.
* BrokenBird: Used to be [[DarkAndTroubledPast a major one]]. Happens again when Rewind dies.
* BreakTheHaughty
* CartwrightCurse: ''Four times''. [[spoiler:Eventually, though, the last time undergoes a reversal of sorts thanks to Rewind II.]]
* CatapultNightmare: One side-effect of reading dead-people's minds is reliving their last moments (which are often fairly gruesome, considering what it takes to kill a Transformer).
* TheCynic

* DarkSecret: He's got one, though we don't know what it is yet. Evidently it's so bad that Chromedome promptly [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Prowl for trying to blackmail him with it.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Chromedome:''' Short answer: No. Long answer: No, don't be an idiot.
* DoNotCallMePaul: After Rewind dies, he gets quite angry at being called Domey.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:His quantum duplicate was killed by Vos this way, using his own finger needles.]]
* HappilyFailedSuicide: He probably would have gone through with it if Rewind hadn't distracted him. They ended up getting together.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Starts off Season 2 depressed and isolated in his hab suite.
* InterrogatingTheDead: He can read dead people's memories, but it's incredibly unpleasant for him. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Rewind is worried that one day it'll kill him]], and urges him to quit.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Blows up a cell with Overlord and Rewind in it in order to spare Rewind a worse death at Overlord's hands.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He couldn't deal with losing his past conjunx endurae, so he erased his memories of them.
* LooseLips: His blabbing that Megatron was still alive gave Overlord the motivation to break free. Also, non-discriminantly speaking your mind seems to be a side effect of having it read, especially if it's a memory both parties share.
* MindMeld: His specialty.
* MindRape: His response to Prowl trying to blackmail him was to forcibly invade Prowl's mind and delete the information that let him make the threat.
* TheMole: Brought into Drift and Brainstorm's Overlord operation at the last minute.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His actions in ''Remembrance Day'' result him breaking things in both comics series at the same time. He allows Overlord to find an opening during mnemosurgery, which allows for his escape. And his hasty mnemosurgery on Prowl allows for things to go really bad on Cybertron during the events of ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise.
* OfficialCouple: With Rewind.
* OnlyFriend: Brainstorm's.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is "Tumbler," but his head-themed nickname, a carryover from his work at the New Institute, is so pervasive even Rewind, his Conjunx Endura, calls him by it.
* TheSmartGuy
* TalkingInYourSleep: Leads Rewind to suspect that something is up.
* TooCleverByHalf: He's a damn good mnemosurgeon, but Overlord probably wouldn't have escaped if he hadn't let it get to his head.
* VisualPun: His real name is Tumbler, and he transformers into a Cybertronian vehicle with no small resemblance to the Batmobile from ''TheDarkKnightSaga''.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rewind displays minor shades of this toward Chromedome as the latter's explaining how he can get Overlord off-ship. Subtly played later by Brainstorm when he advises Chromedome not to wipe his memory of Rewind, because Rewind would truly be dead then.
* [[WeUsedToBeFriends We Used to Be Boyfriends]]: However close he and Prowl may have been in the past, it clearly doesn't extend into the present day.

[[folder:Mainframe]]
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A dorky member of the bridge crew and one of the Lost Light's helmsmen. He largely stays on the bridge during the crew's escapades, handling the ship's controls.

* AcePilot: He's a very skilled helmsman.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Issue 34, alongside Bluestreak, First Aid, and Trailcutter.
* AscendedExtra: He spent most of season 1 as a minor extra with one or two bits of dialogue before getting a bigger role in season 2.
* BridgeBunny: He usually stays up in the bridge.
* ExtremeDoormat: It doesn't take much pressuring Bluestreak to get him to move a wounded mech in issue 34, despite clearly being uncomfortable with it.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jackpot seemingly, though it's easy to miss. In Issue 29, he supports a drunk Jackpot down the halls from Swerve's. In Issue 41, when Rodimus addresses the crew on Thunderclash's "pre-wake", you can spot Jackpot's elbow resting on Mainframe's shoulder.
* MauveShirt: Mainframe shows up in the background a lot, and has spoken on occasion, but the amount of actual characterisation he's received is still pretty low.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: His alternate self got his head torn off by the DJD.]]
* TheSmartGuy

[[folder:First Aid]]
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-->''I think that sometimes -- just sometimes, mind -- '''life persists'''.''
A friendly and bookish medic who becomes Ratchet's protégé. Despite many eccentricities, he's a skilled doctor who's known for keeping cool in stressful situations. Has a [[BlatantLies totally harmless hobby]] of collecting Autobot badges.

* AllThereInTheManual: His appearance in ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' is only available in the trade paperback and hardcover version of the mini-series, in the "Bullets" short-story.
* ApocalypticLog: The narrative device used to introduce him at the start of the events in Delphi.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: A mild case. A really good doctor, better than his ward manager; even came up with a novel way to jumpstart "faders", and keeps his cool even under lots of pressure, but has some personality quirks, as noted by one of Rung's reports, which was actually used to demote him from doctor to nurse before being reinstated after the events of Delphi.
* EarlyBirdCameo: His first appareance in the IDW universe before being properly introduced in [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye More than Meets the Eye]], was in the LSOTW bonus short story "Bullets."
* FanBoy: Of [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Fisitron's Wrecker Files, and Springer as well]].
* GangstaStyle: How he fires guns.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: It's implied by Rodimus at the end of ''Remain In Light'' that he had such a moment after supposedly killing Pharma. He gets over it somewhat by the second season.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: After the events of ''Dark Cybertron'', he's become a shut-in, the only thing bringing him out is a dead body.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:It is irrelevant whether Pharma actually died, the fact that he went ahead and shot Pharma in the head did change him]].
* TheMedic: Along with Ratchet and Ambulon.
* PowerTrio: With Ratchet and Ambulon.
* SuperOCD: Had developed one prior to the events of [=LSOTW=], but seems to have grown out of it for the most part, even if he kept his collection of Autobot insignias.
** Although his obsession may have something to do with the job Springer gave to him.
* TakeUpMySword: Ratchet is training him to be his replacement, which comes to pass in ''Our Words Will Always Rhyme''.
* {{Transplant}}: He leaves with several other members of the crew to represent the ship during Cybertron's first contact with Caminus. In the meantime, he also serves as Mirage's doctor. He winds up taking part in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersCombinerWars Combiner Wars]].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:He delivers one to Ratchet, believing Ratchet's pride is getting the better of him by refusing to let him help treat Ambulon. When it's revealed Ambulon was already dead and Ratchet was actually working on an escape plan, First Aid starts to apologize, but Ratchet agrees with everything he says and promises that if they survive, First Aid will take his place.]]

[[folder:Hoist]]
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-->''You know why you can't get a handle on me? Because I'm an ordinary person. I'm '''normal'''.''
A snarky and bitter maintenance engineer with a fear of being alone. He's the OnlySaneMan of the crew (or at least likes to think he is) and feels that he's unrecognized in life.


* ADayInTheLimelight: His spotlight issue.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Is unintentionally this for Trailcutter.
* BadassNormal
* CombatPragmatist
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheEveryman: He's so generic, Swerve can't think of anything more descriptive about him than "he's green".
* FreudianExcuse: His bitterness and fear of being alone were caused by a traumatic incident before the war.
* HatesBeingAlone: Being completely alone is his greatest fear due to an incident years ago where he was trapped alone in a crashed shuttle for ''days''.
* IndyPloy: He improvises a lot. Unlike Rodimus he's actually good at it.
* NiceGuy: Towards Nautica.
* OnlySaneMan

[[folder:Velocity]]
A somewhat naive scientist/medic and old friend of Nautica's. Initially serving on the Vis Vitalis as Thunderclash's doctor, she joins up with the Lost Lighters as part of the medical staff.

* ActionGirl: Of a CombatMedic variety.
* ADegreeInUseless: Due to the culture of her birthworld, she thinks that her medical studies are this.
* ArmCannon: She has two small guns located in her wrists, though she averts BottomlessMagazines by mentioning they don't have a lot of ammunition.
* BookDumb: She's clearly pretty intelligent, but it's noted that she took so long to get her medical license because she kept flunking her exams and book work.
* CombatMedic
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Averted. Like Pyra Magna, Velocity does have wrist mounted projectile weaponry, in spite of her culture being predominantly anti-gun.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Due to Caminus's emphasis on performing arts as worthy, Velocity grew up believing that her medical studies and lack of interest in performance was weird and worthless.
* IChooseToStay: She decides to go with Nautica and the rest of the Lost Light, rather than return to Caminus.
* TheMedic: A newly graduated one.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]

!!Recreation

[[folder:Swerve]]
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-->''I'm here for the quest. Love a good quest. Haven't been on a quest since the whole Luna-1 thing. The Moonquest.''
A metallurgist and the ship bartender who joined the quest in hopes of doing something notable in his life. He's a MotorMouth who loves talking with everyone but is secretly very lonely and desperate for companionship. He loves pranking and irritating his fellow crewmembers.


* AcheyScars: He has an old war wound in his shoulder that acts up on occasion. [[spoiler: Because it has one of Agent 113's data bullets lodged in it.]]
* ATeamFiring: He's a terrible shot, particularly in the heat of the moment.
* BadBoss: He's quick-tempered and rather callous towards Ten. In fairness, he doesn't think that Ten is sentient.
* TheBartender: Wanted to be one since before the war broke out.
* BreakoutCharacter: Quickly became a fan favorite and is now heading up the recaps at the beginning of each issue.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Has a few such moments, such as dispatching a Legislator or knocking out [[TheMole Paddox]] with Rung.
* DeadpanSnarker: A pretty good one at times. Though given the sheer volume of stuff he says, probability dictates that at least some of it has to be this.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife
* EpicFail: Star Saber is standing right in front of him when he shoots. Star Saber is ''several'' times his size, and Swerve still manages not to hit him even once. Not to mention…
* FacialHorror: That time he '''''shot his own face off'''''.
* FanBoy: Of Blurr, particularly the speedster's pre-war racing career. He can quote the exact statistics of every single one of Blurr's races from memory.
** Subscribed to [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Fisitron's Wreckers Declassified]], though he complained about the repetitive phrasing.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: He accidentally shoots Rung in the head, and later blows his own face off (fortunately neither case was fatal).
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He's secretly very lonely and desperately wants true friendship.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Swerve can be a bit mean and doesn't believe himself to truly make friends, there are bots he truly cares about. Demonstrated in Issue 18, where Swerve is concerned over Skids' safety after the Lost Light is overrun by Legislators.
* KickTheDog: He treats "Ten" horribly. Tellingly, "Ten" has not made a replica of Swerve in his diorama.
* MediumAwareness: While under the effects of Brainstorm's Meta-Bomb.
** Seems to still be going on. Issue 43 reveals that the issue recaps are ''canon'', and that he occasionally just turns to the wall and explains what's going on, because he [[MetaGuy suspects that there are readers observing him]]. And the entire issue ([[ItMakesSenseInContext involving him subconsciously creating an entire holographic earth that runs on sitcom tropes]]) was his way of dealing with his growing awareness that he is OutOfFocus in Season 2.
* MotorMouth: Is ''literally'' incapable of shutting up for more than a few seconds. [[JustifiedTrope This turns out to be because he has]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhea_(psychology) Logorrhea]].
* NonActionGuy: Describes himself as one of the weakest bots on the Lost Light and, according to Sunstreaker, he was voted "ship's coward." All of this is on top of his poor marksmanship and small size. Despite all this, he's had a few awesome moments of his own knocking Paddox out with a transformed Rung and destroying a legislator that was unfortunate enough to teleport into his bar with assorted weaponry.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Swerve has FourFingeredHands.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Most people forget that he was a researcher in Kimia. [[spoiler:In fact, he's the one that actually unravels Pharma's notes on how to treat Cybercrosis, Ratchet then makes the cure based on Swerve's theory.]] Lampshaded by Swerve himself.
-->'''Swerve''':''Who says you can't be a metallurgist '''and''' a bartender?''
* OutOfFocus: In the first half of season 2 he does notably little compared to season 1, largely staying in the bar. This turns out to be for a rather dark reason; see MediumAwareness above.
* SadClown: For all his jokes, he feels incredibly isolated, and is no stranger to loss. He mentions Cyclonus killed some of his friends during his [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW takeover of Kimia]].
* SecretStabWound: Seriously wounded in ''Spotlight: Hoist'' when the shuttle crashes, but he deliberately hides the injury to keep the others from panicking.
* TheSmartGuy: Mostly [[Downplayed]], but his metallurgy expertise proves critical in [[spoiler:deciphering Pharma's notes on cybercrosis]] and realizing that Metroplex is infected with an alchemical virus.
* StepfordSmiler
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Wise Guy to Skids' StraightMan.
* WallOfBlather
* WateringDown: He does this to the drinks in his bar. [[spoiler: It ends up saving the crew when Brainstorm poisons the bar so he can time jump out.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: ''My First Blaster'' [[TradeSnark ™]], a large gun designed to look like a children's toy, courtesy of Brainstorm.
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: When examining the Shoomer, he puts pressure on what he thinks is a secondary grip, but in reality it's the trigger (since it was Whirl's weapon, the trigger had to be sized up to accommodate his wider claws). It's what leads to the above FacialHorror.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Gets his head crushed by Tarn on the duplicate ''Lost Light''.]]

[[folder:Bluestreak]]
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An Autobot soldier and TalkativeLoon who suffers from PTSD after his hometown of Praxus was destroyed in the early days of the war. A longtime patient of Rung's, he joined the crew after Megatron's trial and became the ship entertainment officer.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Issue 34 alongside Trailcutter, First Aid, and Mainframe.
* AggressiveCategorism: Played With. He's extremely distrustful and hateful of Decepticons, most likely due to the loss of his hometown. When the possibility of the patient in issue 34 being a Decepticon comes up, [[KickTheSonOfABitch he's the first to refuse to help]]. Though in Issue 41, he's casually having a drink with Ravage while the two snark at Swerve's expense.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: He ''loves'' movies from Earth and brought some along with when he joined the crew.
* DoomedHometown: His city of birth was razed by the Decepticons during the war.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He adores Earth culture, but appears to have some rather poor understanding about what some of it actually ''means''. For example, he's convinced that comic books are the human equivalent of novels.
** When Rodimus describes a primer on earth behavior as "Humanity 101", Rung thinks the term is a reference to Room 101 from [[{{Literature/NineteenEightyFour}} 1984]], Cyclonus thinks it refers to the British series {{Room 101}}...and Bluestreak thinks it means [[{{Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians}} 101 Dalmations]]. Which he calls "101 Damnations".
* MistakenForProfound: He's prone to thinking minor human cultural tidbits are much more important than they actually are.
* MotorMouth
* PaletteSwap: He looks just like Prowl but with a different color scheme. Lampshaded by Swerve, who tries to stop him joining the crew because of it.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* StepfordSmiler
* TalkativeLoon: Though only as a way of coping with his trauma.
* TechnicalPacifist: He hates violence but he hates Decepticons more.

[[folder:Crosscut]]
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An ex-senator and amateur playwright/adventurer with a love of theatricality. He strikes up something of a friendship with Swerve.

* TheAce
* CaptainObvious: He calls a play about information creep, "Information Creep".
* FamedInStory
* GiverOfLameNames: The names of his plays are rather uncreative to say the least.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He had his own adventures during and prior to the war. He was also largely unaware of the main cast's goofing around until Season 2.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted (probably). Mention is made in issue #11 of another Crosscut who served in the Primal Vanguard before the war, and got trapped in a shard of Forever Glass. However, in issue #38, Tailgate mentions that "this" Crosscut was once trapped in a funhouse mirror (According to his play, at least). And like the Primal Vanguard, Crosscut does have a large amount of built-in weaponry.
** He also shares a name with a deceased member of Squadron X.
* PaletteSwap: Shares a body-type with Skids, though his head is different.
* ThePrankster: He sometimes helps Swerve out with his pranks.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Got this as his introduction. Justified by the large size of the Lost Light. Also parodied/inverted; the other cast members knew who is was but Crosscut didn't know about a lot of the stuff the other cast members were doing during Season 1.
* ShovelStrike: Given the title of one of his plays, ''My Shovel, Your Face'', it sounds like he's had some experience with this. To say nothing of apparently having saved a town with one, somehow, or Tailgate's claim he once defeated a turbfox with a shovel.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Was presumably this for the Cybertronian Senate, given how corrupt they were.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's afraid of Nanocons.

!!Others

[[folder:Rewind]]
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-->''Everyone's shape serves a purpose.''
A friendly and trusting archivist and Chromedome's Conjunx Endura. He discovered the Matrix Map and supposedly joined the crew to find the Knights, but actually joined in hope of finding his long-missing previous Conjunx Endura, Dominus Ambus. He's highly protective of Chromedome and wants him to quit using mnemosurgery. Midway through Season One, he apparently dies trying to halt Overlord's rampage, but his body is never conclusively found.

At the beginning of Season 2, the crew finds the remains of a second ''Lost Light'' created in the quantum mishap at the beginning of the series. Its Rewind, the sole survivor of a DJD massacre, unexpectedly survives the overwriting of his ship and joins the crew.

!!Tropes which apply to both Rewinds:
* {{Adorkable}}
* CameraFiend: Keeps his camera on at all times, in case what he films is significant.
* CoolOldGuy: He's actually pretty old, but seeing as he has the outlook and enthusiasm of a much younger bot, you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.pts o
* CrazyJealousGuy: A benign version, but he doesn't really react well to Chromedome bringing up his past relationship with Prowl.
* CunningLinguist: He has a pretty good grip on Old Cybertronian and its predecessor language, though he still mistranslates something fairly important.
* TheCutie: Is he ever.
** BreakTheCutie:
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Before the Functionists detonate his obsolescence chip in the alternate timeline, he throws a pretty badass speech their way.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:Each version of him attempts at least one.
** Rewind I locks himself in the slow cell with Overlord while disengaging it from the hull. This one seems to have stuck, as we haven't seen him since Chromedome destroyed the cell.
** Rewind II attempts one in his introductory arc by way of pressing the ResetButton, but he somehow survives. Later he attempts this [[spoiler:on behalf of the ''entire Cybertronian race'' by trying to stop the architect of the Great War from ever coming to be.]]
* {{Keet}}: Though usually quieter than most.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Chromedome's.
* MadeASlave: Was around when the Functionist Council came up with the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, which reclassified 'bots like him as Disposable, not considered proper Cybertronians.
* NiceGuy: [[BerserkButton So long as you're not Prowl]].
* NonActionGuy: Officially, though his search for Ambus usually leads him into battles anyway.
* OfficialCouple: With Chromedome.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Old enough to remember Nova Prime ''before'' the guy went off the deep end. That's somewhere to the order of six million years old. It doesn't exactly show.
* [[PluckyGirl Plucky Guy]]: Despite being for all intents and purposes male, he fits this trope better than {{Determinator}}.
* SitcomArchNemesis: His and Prowl's attitudes towards each other are certainly reminiscent of this.
* TheSmartGuy: Archivist-style.
* UniquenessValue: One of the last few living Disposable class Cybertronians, and with his sheer wealth of knowledge, he's too valuable to risk in combat.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Suffers this fate at the hands of the Functionists in the alternate timeline.]]


!!!Tropes which apply to the first Rewind:
* KillTheCutie: Seems like it, though we're not sure yet.
* DeadManWriting: Issue #22 is mostly the rough cut of a movie Rodimus had him put together.
* MercyKill: Chromedome blows up the slow cell with him and Overlord in it to spare him a worse death at Overlord's hands.
* NeverFoundTheBody

!!!Tropes which apply to the second Rewind:
* DeathSeeker: Becomes one after "his" Chromedome is killed, but ceases to be so when he survives his attempted HeroicSacrifice and is united with "our" similarly bereaved Chromedome.
* EasilyForgiven: The ''Lost Light'' forgives his [[spoiler:shooting the unborn Megatron]] in ''Elegant Chaos'' by virtue of him still coping with the trauma of the DJD massacre, among other things.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany:[[spoiler:As horrible as Functionist Cybertron is, only Rewind realizes that preventing the war will save untold billions more organics.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: Worries that he and this ''Lost Light'''s Chromedome will devalue each other as these.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Witnessing the DJD's atrocities has traumatized him.
* BackFromTheDead: Sorta. He's a Quantum Superpositional duplicate, as real as the other Rewind, and one that survived the DJD massacre when they attacked his own Lost Light.
* BreakTheCutie: In his own way, and he gets it arguably even worse than the original Rewind.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Shoots an unborn Megatron, creating the [[BadFuture Functionist world]].]]
* PowerOfLove: Nightbeat jokingly states that's the reason why he survived/remained after the Quantum Engines were shut off on the duplicate ''Lost Light''.
* ResetButton: Presses one and somehow avoids falling victim to a RetGone.
* RetGone: [[spoiler:Brainstorm's BadPresent slowly starts overriding him, much to his horror.]]
* SoleSurvivor: The only one who survived the DJD's rampage.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Whirl]]
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-->''If I'd known '''that''' was the best you got, I'd have said something '''genuinely''' offensive.''
A Manic-Depressive ex-Wrecker who loves to fight and antagonize others. He claims to hate everyone (himself included) except his therapist Rung. He joined the crew pretty much by accident and has a strong rivalry with Cyclonus.

* AnArmAndALeg: Shears off one of his own arms in Megatron's malfunctioning internal space bridge while trying to kill him.

* {{Badass}}: One of the few Wreckers still alive and intact? He counts for this.
* BashBrothers: He and Cyclonus certainly aren't buddies, but they fight pretty well as a team.
* BerserkButton: Senate goons will set him off. And doorknobs. And asking him the time. As his history is revealed this third one becomes clearer.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Even when he's giving good advice, the way Whirl looks at the world is a little different to everybody else...
--> '''Whirl:''' ''(kicking open a door)'' Time to weapon up, wallflowers! Rewind! You're wanted up front!
--> '''Rewind:''' ...By who?
--> '''Whirl:''' By me! I want you to take some footage of me limbering up before I land on foreign soil and start killing for the greater good! It's for my biopic: Harder, Faster, Wrecker.
* BloodKnight
* TheBigGuy: He's by far one of the tallest and strongest crew members; Rodimus finds him extremely useful for his fighting skills and readiness to fight.
* BreakTheHaughty[=/=]BreakTheBadass: Forced to question his own abilities when Megatron reveals [[spoiler: Whirl only survived the war because Megatron ordered his troops to leave him alive]].
* BrokenAce: WordOfGod [[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/491619477390643200 confirms]] that he used to have hands as masterful as Ratchet or Pharma before he was subjected to Empurata.
* BrutalHonesty: Whirl always says exactly what he thinks, with no regard for the opinions of others. [[spoiler: It's the reason why Cyclonus seeks him for advice.]]
* CombatPragmatist: As Killmaster and Megatron found out, though Megatron comes away far better than the wand-wielder.
* CyberCyclops: After Empurata was inflicted on him as part of a concentrated effort to punish him for daring to change jobs.
* DeadpanSnarker: He possesses the perfect poker face, and even he doesn't know if he's being sarcastic - or maybe he's being sarcastic about that; it's ''impossible'' to tell.
** Depending on the artist, Whirl can betray some degree of emotion through his body language and the tilt of his single optic, but it's still very hard to tell.
* DeathSeeker: As an Ex-Wrecker, this is inevitable.
* {{Determinator}}
* DrillSergeantNasty: He spent some time as a flight instructor, and scarred [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Rotorstorm]] for life.
* EpicFail: Almost everybody on the Lost Light is some kind of failure. Whirl's schtick is that he is ''so'' crazy and impulsive that he managed to get himself kicked out of the Wreckers. An Ex-Wrecker is usually a corpse.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Whirl has a long line of despicable and / or violent acts to his name, but even he [[spoiler:objects to tricking Tailgate into aggravating Megatron into killing him just to get Megatron kicked off the ship for murder.]]
* EyepatchOfPower: His holomatter avatar has one, representing his [[CyberCyclops face]] on a human body.
* FearlessFool: There doesn't seem to be anything that Whirl won't fight, any odds he won't challenge, nor any battle he'll leave. You don't send Whirl into a fight you might want him to pull out of later.
--> '''Whirl:''' So this is what running away feels like? I'm not keen. It's like fighting, but in the wrong direction.
--> '''Cyclonus:''' Rodimus told us not to engage.
--> '''Whirl:''' He did, yes, he absolutely did. And I'm going to interpret that as a veiled order to attack... Care to join me?
* FreudianExcuse: He's a {{Jerkass}} because the Senate ruined his life, mutilated him, used him as an enforcer, and hung him out to dry.
* GirlishPigtails: On his holo-avatar.
* GunNut: Loves hearing Brainstorm talk shop. He has a particular fondness for the smell of new guns.
* {{Foil}}: To the calm, stoic Cyclonus.
* HeroicComedicSociopath
* HiddenDepths: Who knew a guy like Whirl would become a fan of Creator/JeanLucGoddard?
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Every so often he shows concern for the other members of the Crew in his own special, rather obnoxious way. More importantly, when he does something nice, he has not yet been known to ask for anything in return. For example, when he donates a Jump-Start to Rewind...
-->'''Chromedome:''' Thankyou. If I can ever do anything - '''anything''' - I mean it Whirl, you saved two lives today.
-->'''Whirl:''' ...Okay, enough with the hugging.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: ZigZaggingTrope. It is true that Whirl would like his hands back, but at the same time, he uses the PowerOfHate to cushion himself from having to act normally or feel bad about the bad things he's done.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Not very obvious at the beginning, but he prefers to tag along with others rather than being a genuine loner. It becomes more obvious in Issue 22, when Whirl tries to introduce himself as Skids' friend - which Skids denies, and in Dark Cybertron #1, where he defends Cyclonus from Hardhead's criticism.
* {{Irony}}: He's partly responsible for Megatron. [[spoiler:Not just for showing him the importance of violence when he beat him up when he was a cop, but by giving him a point-one percenter spark after his original spark was destroyed by Rewind]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Even when he's nice to people he prefers to do it in a Jerkish way.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shooting Nautilator in the head in ''Before & After''. Granted, Nautilator was pretty AffablyEvil, but then remember [[ImAHumanitarian what the Decepticons were doing to the natives]].
** ''Cybertronian Homesick Blues'' reveals he killed Killmaster - the one with the wand. With the wand.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Loves the works of Creator/JeanLucGodard.
* LargeHam: Instructs Trailbreaker on the importance of this. It's kind of necessary too, if you don't have a face to express yourself with, that you need to do it in other ways.
* LeanAndMean: His design is very unique in that he's drawn pretty "skinny" for a robot, with his legs and arms as thin as [[GeekPhysiques Rung's]], but still unusually strong.
** The "lean" part is averted with his appearances in the past, where he was slightly more blocky, though the mean part is still there.
* MarkOfShame: The Empurata. He's never bothered to get it fixed because he's worried he might start feeling bad about all the really bad things he's done.
* MyGreatestFailure: It's implied a few times that being indirectly responsible for the war weighs on him much more than he would like to admit.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A lot of people, himself included, blame Whirl for turning Megatron into the mech he is today. [[SarcasmMode It's almost as if Megatron shouldn't be blamed for the war at all!]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite normally acting pretty much batshit insane all the time, and a complete jerkass, there are times when Whirl comes up with some really smart ideas - it makes sense since you'd have to be pretty smart to make watches.
* OnlyFriend: How he sees Rung.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: In ''Stet'' he brutally murders a Senate mook to vent his anger at the Senate mutilating him.
* PetTheDog: Despite how much of a jerk Whirl can be, he's still an Autobot. In issue 12 he turns out to be the only person with a compatible spark to jump-start Rewind's, and volunteers even though we're told the process can be painful and risky. Later he [[spoiler:gives Cyclonus the HealingShiv idea which saves Tailgate's life.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: His holoavatar appears to have aged a few years, now resembling a mid-teen punk girl. Maybe he's matured a little...
* PoliceBrutality: His shtick as an agent of the senate in the past. Not all of it was done willingly on Whirl's part.
* PortalCut: Loses an arm in this fashion while trying to kill Megatron.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Makes disparaging remarks about monoformers in Issue #13, and appears to be bigoted on the whole forged/constructed cold issue as well. It is sometimes suggested he says these kinds of things to irritate people, more than because he believes them.
* ThePowerOfHate: Has rationalized that all the bad stuff that has happened to him means he can feel angry and bitter all the time, and if he got his hands fixed he wouldn't know how to deal with feeling otherwise.
* PsychopathicManchild: Not to mention his holo-avatar is a little girl brandishing a pair of uzis.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Zig-zagged. It's all about perspective. [[spoiler:Whirl certainly ''sounds'' selfish in his reasons for saving Megatron - but while a data-slug like Rewind would have a lousy life without Megatron, Whirl wouldn't have lost his job as a law-enforcer and his whole life would be great. They both make sacrifices. It's just that they're different people.]]
* RoboticPsychopath
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: When he fights beside Cyclonus.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Well, not ''really'' evil, but certainly the biggest jerk they've got.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Door handles.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets vetoed out of the Wreckers by Roadbuster for trying to MercyKill a [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers comatose Springer]] right before the events of the series. He explains that he hated the idea of Springer just fading away in a coma.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: He tries to bait Megatron into attacking him, as part of a scheme to get Megatron kicked off the ship. Megatron sees through it and refuses to bite.

[[folder:Cyclonus]]
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-->''Everyone can die. Trust me, I know about these things.''
The former right-hand man of the warlord Galvatron, Cyclonus is a proud patriot who's disappointed by the current state of his homeworld and wishes to find the Knights to restore it to it's former glory. Extremely stern and abrasive, he has difficulty forming attachments to others and struggles with his increasingly strong friendship with Tailgate.


* BackFromTheDead: At the end of ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW, Vector Sigma restores him to [[OurZombiesAreDifferent proper life]], for aiding in stopping Galvatron. [[spoiler:It actually becomes a plot point in Issue 21, where he uses the residual energy to cure Tailgate.]]

** BadassGrandpa: One of the oldest Cybertronians still alive.
** HandicappedBadass: Gets impaled by a Legislator during the "Remain in Light" arc, and receives what could only have been a rushed fix from the Circle of Light. He spends the next few issues helping them destroy a horde of Legislators, and he's the one who ends up forcing Star into a retreat.
** During ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'', he's infected by the Dead Universe and begins bleeding out corrupted Energon. He ''still'' manages to take on Nova Prime long enough [[spoiler:for Orion to get a HeroicSecondWind.]]
* BashBrothers: Becomes one with Whirl for the "Remain in Light" arc.
* BerserkButton: Being analysed by Nightbeat made him angry enough to threaten to kill everyone present, which also included Optimus, Rodimus and Hardhead.
* {{BFS}}: He gets to keep one at the end of "Remain in Light".
* BlackSpeech: His singing in primal vernacular sounds like this.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Starts vomiting up black Energon when the Dead Universe infects him.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Helex kills his quantum duplicate this way.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Back when he was working with Galvatron. A lot of 'bots tend to overlook this fact when they bring up the things he did during that time, though it doesn't help that Cyclonus is unapologetic about what he did.
* BrokenBird
* [[BulletproofHumanShield Bulletproof Cybertronian Shield]]: Plants himself between Rewind and a bomb, and later [[spoiler:blocks Tailgate from a barrage of fire from the crew.]]
* BullyingADragon: In Issue 12. Yeah, it was really nice of you to remind Whirl you want to kill him, which immediately causes Whirl to lock him up in a room with a bomb inside it.
* CharacterDevelopment: He's slowly doing almost a complete 180 in terms of kindness thanks to his deepening friendship with Tailgate.
* CoolOldGuy: On occasion.
* TheCorruption: Reinfected by the Dead Universe during ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron''.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* {{Determinator}}
* EarAche: Loses one of his horns in a fight with Whirl in the first issue. Because of his religious beliefs, he doesn't get it fixed until the end of "Remain in Light."
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Proud Warrior? Check. Puts a lot of emphasis on honor? Check. Looks like a living Tosei Gusoku armor of the samurai? Check.[[spoiler: Has a {{BFS}}? Check!]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Not to the same extent as Tailgate, but he's from a much different Cybertron than everyone else on board, and spent several million years stuck in the Dead Universe. Part of the reason he joined the Lost Light is because he didn't feel at home on the reborn Cybertron.
* {{Foil}}: To Whirl. And to Drift, seeing that both made a HeelFaceTurn, both evoke japanese motiffs (with Drift being a [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Ninja]] and Cyclonus being a [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Samurai]]), both place high value on honor, both are spiritual, and both [[spoiler: have swords now.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Thanks to the crew stereotyping him as a Decepticon. The fact he participated in several notable Autobot massacres after the war doesn't help. However, as his CharacterDevelopment goes on, he is accepted by the crew after events like saving Rewind and Tailgate's lives. He even leads the crew in a sing-along of "[[Film/BackToTheFuture The Power of Love]]" at the end of ''Elegant Chaos''.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HopeIsScary: He apparently was more idealistic and optimistic when younger. Until the Dead Universe changed that.
* HornedHumanoid
** HornAttack: Right in Star Saber's eye. Ouch.
* {{Hypocrite}}: But heartwarmingly so. [[spoiler:He explicitly told Tailgate not to hope for a cure in case he would be let down, but Cyclonus pretty obviously isn't following his own advice.]]
* ImagineSpot: Has one of these when he imagines killing Whirl by pushing him into a smelting pool following his duel with Star Saber, but ultimately agrees to call off the vendetta.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: This trope becomes evident in ''Before & After'' when he befriends Tailgate and saves Rewind's life. It shines through more as the series progresses.
* KarmicJackpot: Deciding not to kill Whirl, even though he fantasized about it, is why he was able to save Tailgate, as it was Whirl the one with the idea of trying the HealingShiv method to cure Tailgate.
* KickTheDog: His behavior towards Tailgate in issues 4-12.
* MadeOfIron: He walks away with a patch job after an explosion that very nearly killed Rewind, who he was deliberately shielding. Later, a Legislator impales him on a {{BFS}}, which he immediately shrugs off. It's a JustifiedTrope-- he's basically supercharged with the energies of Vector Sigma, making him pretty damn hard to kill.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Tailgate asks him to give him one. At one point, it seems Cyclonus is going through with it, but is instead a case of using a HealingShiv method to try to cure him.]]
* NightmareFace: He outright looks demonic when facing Star Saber.
* NoSocialSkills: Played subtly. He has extreme difficulty forming attachments and the friendships he does forge either take a long time to develop or begin as very awkward. When problems start arising between him and Tailgate (due to [[spoiler: Getaway's manipulations]]), they get worse very quickly because Cyclonus is too stoic to actually talk to Tailgate and fix things.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Best demonstrated by his reaction to [[spoiler:Tailgate's illness.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Was undead for all of ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW, then Vector Sigma restored him to life due to his actions against D-Void. Is back to being undead due to a mishap during his incursion to the Dead Universe during the events of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron''.
* PerpetualFrowner
* PetTheDog: It becomes clear that he's not a completely bad person in ''Before & After'' when he starts treating Tailgate better and saves Rewind from the bomb in Snap Trap's base.
* PurpleIsPowerful
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* TheQuietOne
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* ReformedButNotTamed
** ReformedButRejected
** EasilyCondemned: Whenever something bad happens, he tends to get the blame for it, like when Red Alert tried to kill himself, or when everyone and everything starts disappearing.
* ReligiousBruiser: Downplayed. While spiritual, he comes in pretty toned down vis a vis Drift and the Circle of Light.
** NayTheism: He seems to believe there's something larger out there, perhaps the Guiding Hand itself, but thinks they're not the infallible figures myth makes them to be.
** RageAgainstTheHeavens: Since he feels whatever God is out there allows [[spoiler:Cybertronians like Star Saber seemingly go on forever doing their atrocities with impunity, and on whatever deity's behalf, while innocents, like Tailgate, go on to die in cruel and pointless ways.]]
** MissionFromGod: Funnily enough, Cyclonus says, maybe God gets it right from time to time by giving him a chance to correct one of God's mistakes, like Star Saber. Although he seems to say this just out of spite towards Star Saber.
* SelfHarm: After he finds out [[spoiler:Tailgate is dying]], Cyclonus slices his claws across his own face, seemingly to help deal with how he feels.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: He angrily leaves ''Swerve's'' in disgust when he sees Getaway flirting with Tailgate.]]
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: He does feel, he's just awful at expressing himself constructively.
* SugarAndIcePersonality
** {{Tsundere}}: with Tailgate.
* SustainedMisunderstanding: Everyone seems to think he's a Decepticon for some reason. Must be the purple.
* TakingTheBullet: In ''Before & After'' he throws himself in front of Rewind to protect him from the bomb in Snap Trap's base. Both survive and it's strongly implied that Rewind would've died had Cyclonus not done so.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Though not to the same extent as Whirl.
* TookALevelInKindness: Post ''Remain in Light.''
* WhenHeSmiles: Cyclonus' benign smiles are rare, but always significant. Of course, he indulges in [[PsychoticSmirk other]] [[SlasherSmile smiles]] which should always be considered an invitation to cut and run.

[[folder:Tailgate]]
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-->''Must admit I was hoping for a more '''imposing''' avatar.''
A naïve and child-minded bot who was trapped underground for eons before escaping and joining up with the Lost Light crew. Due to the massive change in the intervening time, he's struggling to adapt to the modern world and find a place to belong. He forms a close friendship with Cyclonus.

* AscendedExtra: In a meta-sense for the entire franchise, this is the first time that a character with the name of Tailgate has ever gotten a starring role, let alone characterization (at least on the scale he has).
* {{Adorkable}}
* AmbiguousGender: There's been several hints ([[ThrowItIn mostly accidental]], according to James Roberts) that Tailgate might actually be a "she".
* AnArmAndALeg: Lost both of his legs when he fell into that pit.
* AudienceSurrogate
* BadButt
** TookALevelInBadass: If working on the bomb enough to reduce its blast radius wasn't enough, [[spoiler:slowing down Tyrest on his own]] long enough for the others to recover should seal the deal.
* BigDamnHero: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Remain in Light''.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Life started ganging up on Tailgate from two weeks after his birth, and hasn't really let up since.
* CrosscastRole: While the AmbiguousGender trope is getting played up more and more as of late, currently male (as far as we know) Tailgate is played by Susan Blu in the Botcon 2014 script reading.
* DeadManWalking: [[SubvertedTrope Not anymore!]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Torturous sessions with Ultra Magnus tend to bring this out.
** DisabledSnarker: While he would be snarky every now and then, he becomes a lot snarkier when [[spoiler:he found out he was dying.]]
* DisabilityImmunity: [[spoiler:His cybercrosis renders him deaf to certain frequencies... like the one Tyrest uses for his "weapon of mass suggestion".]]
* FallGuy: [[spoiler: Due to his naivete, he's groomed by Getaway to be this and basically sets him to do something really stupid to Megatron that would likely end up in his death.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: By six million years. Tailgate's understandably a bit behind on modern events.
* HumanPopsicle: Except not quite. He spent most of that time unconscious, but not frozen or suspended.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The reason why he lied about being a bomb disposal expert. All he really wanted was to be a hero for once.
** IJustWantToBeNormal: After finally doing a heroic deed, he confesses to Cyclonus that being a hero is overrated and he would give anything for another movie night.
* [[IllBoy Ill Bot]]: Sitting in a hole for six million years was not good for Tailgate's health.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:This was done to his quantum duplicate by one of the DJD.]]
* MercyKill: Asks Cyclonus to give him one to spare him the agony of the final moments of the cybercrosis. Cyclonus does seem to come through with it, but is instead a case of Cyclonus trying a HealingShiv method to cure him.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: He ends up [[ItMakesSenseInContext indirectly causing the start of the Great War by making Rung get him a curly straw]].]]
* NaiveNewcomer
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He's seen "crying" in an exaggerated fashion whenever he gets upset or scared. Other characters are shown doing this, but only rarely or much more subtly. This is [[FridgeBrilliance most likely because]] [[spoiler: he's basically a child]]. InUniverse, he's noted to be built different from most cybertronians since he was never around to get upgraded.
* NotNowKiddo: When he and the other members of the team are imprisoned on Luna 1, he offers some suggestions for escaping their cell, which are promptly ignored. Two issues later, escapologist Getaway has joined them and comes up with a successful plan to escape...which bears a striking resemblance to the ideas Tailgate had.
* OddFriendship: With Cyclonus and Getaway.
* PhonyVeteran: The "-osal" writing on his arm isn't part of "bomb disposal" like he claims, but "waste disposal". He was never a member of the Primal Vanguard.
* PutOnABus: Absent throughout the whole of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron'', while he's recovering from Cybercrosis. He returns once it's over[[note]]This was because James Roberts initially intended Tailgate to succumb to cybercrosis, and would have been, well, dead.[[/note]].
* SecretlyDying: For a while after his diagnosis, though he later comes out about it and is cured not too long after.
** YourDaysAreNumbered
* SeriesMascot: Tyrest refers to him as the "ship's mascot" when he threatens to kill Tailgate, who he's using as a HumanShield.
* ShootTheHostage: [[spoiler:Invoked by him, asking Rodimus to just shoot him anyways when Tyrest takes him hostage as a HumanShield.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:To Tyrest in a big way. Tailgate's cybercrosis deafens him to the frequency that Tyrest's paralyzation command travels on, leaving him unaffected. This allows him to surprise Tyrest from behind and shut off the signal paralyzing the rest of the crew who aren't being killed by the activation of the killswitch, which ultimately leads to Tyrest's defeat and the stopping of the killswitch. And then, after Tyrest is defeated but the crew is being swarmed by his Legislators, Tailgate is able to use his extensive knowledge of the Tyrest Accord that he learned from Ultra Magnus to revert the Accord back to its original form, causing the Legislators to cease their attack, saving the crew.]]
* TemptingFate: Played with. He is discharged, gets his Autobot badge, others acknowledge him and treat him with respect, which promptly causes him to question how his day could get any better... then a Legislator appears right on top of him. Fortunately it turns out to be Swerve's bouncer.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He reveals to Cyclonus that [[spoiler:he'd only been alive for two weeks before he fell into the Mitteous Plateau and spent the next six million years out of commission.]]

[[folder:Skids]]
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-->''Let's '''Dance!'''''
An amnesiac theoretician/diplomat searching for the answers to his past. Skids is highly protective of his fellow crewmembers and tries to be friendly despite his fatalistic worldview. He's a "super-learner" capable of mastering skills that he picks up in a matter of minutes.

* TheAce
* AmnesiacHero: When we first see him, he's forgotten everything about himself. He quickly remembers the essentials, but two large chunks of his life remain missing.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite having a very fatalistic view of the world, he always strives to do the right thing and helps others.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Described as a "super-learner" and capable of picking up skills quickly and easily. Case in point: he quickly masters the attack patterns of Legislators and defeats an army of them alone.
** It also makes him incredibly bored once he learns everything about a subject.
* {{Badass}}: One of the best fighters the crew has.
** BadassAbnormal
** BadassAdorable: He was quite TheCutie in the "Shadowplay" flashbacks.
* CatchPhrase: He has a motto, but he doesn't think much of it.
* CombatPragmatist
* TheCynic
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even though he doesn't remember it. If Chromedome says your past sucks, then it probably does. [[spoiler:Tarn is apparently involved.]]
* GrapplingHookPistol: One of his hands turn into this.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Back when he was a student at the J.A.T.T. before the war.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Courtesy of the Nudge Gun, around a year's worth of memories before he first appeared are gone, completely.
* LightningBruiser
* MysteriousPast: While much of his past was explained in "Remain In Light," a pretty big chunk of his earlier memories were subconsciously removed before then.
* OneManArmy: Dispatches swarms of Legislators during "Remain In Light."
* OnlyFriend: Appears to be Swerve's.
* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: [[spoiler:Of the three 'bots who try to enter Tyrest's space bridge-- himself, Rung, and Pharma-- only Skids is actually able to pass through because he carries no "guilt", and not just because he's not a criminal. Rung hypothesizes that only those who are truly at peace with themselves and carry no self-doubt or anguish can pass through. Skids is able to enter the portal because since discovering the truth of his identity, he is completely at peace.]]
* PintsizePowerhouse: While being only average-to-short height for a Cybertronian, he's disproportionately powerful among the lot.
* ReligiousBruiser: Was this at one point.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Part of the reason he's lost so much of his memories; he went through something so traumatic that [[spoiler: when he used his nudge gun on himself, he wiped his memories of Grindcore Prison to escape the mental torment]].
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: StraightMan to Swerve's Wise Guy. Same with Getaway.
* ThatManIsDead: Subscribed to this at first, taking his amnesia as an excuse to act however he felt like, but after the visit to the Crystal City he reconsidered, and decided to try and find out who he was.
* TookALevelInBadass: Skids started off as a puny theoretician, easily intimidated by large 'bots like Roller. Compare that to the WalkingArmory {{Badass}} secret agent he is now.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: A large part of his memory is still missing, and whatever it was that caused it, Chromedome refused to see. All we known is that a piece of music known as 'the Empyrean Suite' is involved. [[spoiler: Issue 48 reveals that it also involves him being sent to Grindcore Prison, one of the worst prisons in the galaxy, and getting interrogated by Tarn.]]
* WalkingArmory: Has many, many concealed weapons on him.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Might be a clever bit of {{Foreshadowing}}. Present-day amnesiac Skids might not be that sneaky, but in all likelihood, Diplomatic Corps Skids was. Kinda comes with the job.

[[folder:Getaway]]
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-->''Bomp!''
An eccentric and excitable escape artist/former secret agent who was once Skids' partner-in-crime. Joined up with the crew after they rescued him from his captors. However, Getaway soon turns out to be more sinister than his demeanour lets on.

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:The mastermind of the Megatron revenge club, apparently, though likely on orders from Prowl.]]
* BatmanGambit: He slowly builds one up in season 2, which culminates in issue 47. He relies on the patterns of behavior others exhibit to lead them where they need to be. [[spoiler:Ultimately his plan fails because everyone defies his expectations. Whirl acts against him based on his consciousness, Cyclonus acts in Tailgate's interests, and Megatron himself is able to see the situation for what it is and prevent it from escalating]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems like an oddball, friendly escape artist, [[spoiler:but, as issue 47 reveals, he's a ruthless manipulator willing to emotionally lead an unwitting child to his death.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* TheCasanova: Flirts with Firestar during issue 41.
* TheChosenOne: Allegedly shows signs of Matrix Affinity. [[spoiler:Given that he's lied about pretty much everything else at this point, it's probably safe to assume this is bullshit.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: One of the bigger ones.
* EscapeArtist
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: In issue 41, he unknowingly gets infested with the eggs of the personality ticks.
* HandshakeSubstitute: He tends to bomp other characters, while saying 'Bomp'.
* TheHeart: [[spoiler: Subverted, as of ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme''.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: Does not think much of the Wreckers [[spoiler:as a member of the Diplomatic Corps.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: Takes a shine to Tailgate after the little bot saves his life on Luna-2. [[spoiler:Except no, he doesn't. Getaway's only interest in Tailgate is essentially as a SacrificialLamb in his plan to kill or frame Megatron.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: When his crimes are revealed, he reveals an unexpectedly cruel personality, doing things like mocking Whirl's mental illness or making backhanded compliments to Cyclonus.]]
* {{MacGyvering}}
** LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Lampshaded by Getaway himself when he mentions he's now locked in with a bunch of other Cybertronians.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Oh ''holy hell yes.'' He spends almost the entirety of Season 2 grooming Tailgate so he can set him up to die at the hands of Megatron.]]
* MeaningfulName: Since he's an EscapeArtist. [[spoiler:Also fitting in that one had best ''get the hell away'' from him.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Gradually evolves into this role throughout the course of ''Dark Cybertron''. Given ''his'' personality quirks, this is rather telling.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: In ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'', he lies to Tailgate to try to drive him and Cyclonus apart in order to spend more time with him alone, and poor, young, naive Tailgate can't see it.]]
* RescueRomance: Strongly implied to have feelings for Tailgate. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turns out he doesn't. He's just using the little guy.]]
* SixthRanger[=/=][[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Getaway displays almost all the traits of an antisocial personality: Superficial charm (which he generally oozes but ramps up especially for Tailgate's benefit), an inherently manipulative nature (again used during his grooming of Tailgate and subtly present in his interactions with the rest of the crew), a need for stimulation (hence his constant EscapeArtist antics), and a truly stunning lack of empathy or shame (which is codified in pretending to fall in love with Tailgate and ''plot his indirect murder,'' while shitting on any such feelings people around him actually experience throughout.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: He's one of the few crew members who doesn't actively hate Megatron. He attributes this to the fact that the larger a crime is, the harder it is to generate a response. [[spoiler:As issue 47 reveals, this is misdiresction-- Getaway's ultimate endgame is his murder or reimprisonment.]]
* VerbalTic: Bomp!
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: A Kiwi accent, per [[WordOfGod James Roberts]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:His ultimate plan would place Tailgate squarely at the mercy of a panicked Megatron, fully intending for him to die.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Subverted; [[spoiler: he tries to drive wedges between Tailgate and Cyclonus seemingly to have Tailgate to himself. However it's revealed that he's actually trying to groom Tailgate to be his FallGuy.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After Whirl fails to bait Megatron into a fight and starts having second thoughts about setting Tailgate up to die, Getaway has Atomizer wipe his memories of the conspiracy.]]

[[folder:Nightbeat]]
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-->''Not worried. '''Intrigued'''.''
A brilliant but antisocial detective who was believed (and sort of) dead for many years. He's obsessed with solving mysteries and riddles and desires to use the Lost Light's quest to solve the biggest mysteries of the galaxy.

* AllergicToRoutine: If he's not facing a mystery or riddle of some sort he seems disinterested and detached, as if he spontaneously becomes lethargic. In issue 41 he spends a fun party literally staring at the ceiling until getting fed up and going off to snoop around.
* BackFromTheDead: ''Maybe''. It's still a little unclear how Brainstorm got all the Dead Universe infectees functional again. The important thing is that Nightbeat and the others ''are'' functional.
* BoomHeadshot: How he originally died.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When Orion and co. find him in the Dead Universe, he's still Nova's ManchurianAgent, though he hides this fact to lead them into a trap. Rodimus eventually devises a way to free him.
* BrutalHonesty: Tact is not his strong point.
* CoolOldGuy: Since he's one of the first Constructed Cold, that makes him one of the oldest Cybertronians still functioning.
* CrisisOfFaith: In issue 44 he reveals that he's been suffering one ever since his near-death, which has caused him to fear that the afterlife doesn't exist. He overcomes it thanks to a talk with [[spoiler: the Necrobot.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: In a WorldOfSnark, Nightbeat still manages to be head and shoulders above almost everyone else. He even does it while BrainwashedAndCrazy.
-->'''Nightbeat:''' I'm sure if I was in full control of my mental faculties, I'd feel bad about betraying you.
* DefectiveDetective: His deep love of solving mysteries has clearly left him with difficulty socializing.
* [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Riddle]]: Rodimus poses a question to him in an attempt to shake his ManchurianAgent programming. It works.
* {{Jerkass}}: While not of the venomous variety, it's clear that his mysteries and riddles mean more to him than his fellow crew members do, and he's casually dismissive of their emotional attachments.
** JerkassHasAPoint: As antisocial and insensitive as he can be, a lot of the minor things he has investigated have turned out to be pretty significant in the long run.
* ManchurianAgent: The reason why Hardhead killed him in the first place, but his manchurian programming is gone thanks to Rodimus.
* TheMole: Albeit completely unwillingly, and he's later freed from this programming.
* NoSell: Swerve tried to outsmart him during the bogus Crewditions. Didn't end well.
* NoSocialSkills
* NotAGame: Gets called out by Megatron for caring more about the riddle than what was actually happening.
-->'''Megatron''':You failed. You solved the mystery, but only after everyone was taken. You were too slow to save them.
-->'''Nightbeat''':Yes, but at least I worked out what was happening. That has to count for something, doesn't it?
-->'''Nightbeat''':''(Dejected)'' [-Doesn't it?-]
* TheNothingnessAfterDeath: He doesn't remember seeing any sort of afterlife when he was shot in the head. This has caused him to fear that the afterlife may not exist at all.
* OddFriendship: With Nautica.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Was one of the first of the first to be Constructed Cold, during the age of Nova Prime.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Thanks to the Dead Universe, although he can function normally now thanks to Brainstorm.
* SherlockScan: Well, ''duh''.
** SherlockHomage:
* ShoutOut: Hyper Intelligent DefectiveDetective, with a questionable grasp on morality, so of course his Holomatter Avatar is [[{{Series/Luther}} John Luther]] as played by Creator/IdrisElba. Who [[SherlockHomage were you expecting?]]
* SkewedPriorities: If there's a mystery that needs solving, Nightbeat will usually be more interested in that than anything else going around, like [[spoiler: what's up with the alternate wrecked ''Lost Light'' than the fact that its version of Rewind is still alive and is the ship's only survivor.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He's smart, but not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
* TheSmartGuy: Detective flavor.
* SixthRangerTraitor[=/=]SixthRanger: Starts off as Nova Prime's brainwashed lackey, but immediately reverses allegiances when freed. He later becomes the SixthRanger in a different sense, joining the crew after the events of ''Dark Cybertron''.
* VillainHasAPoint: He found himself agreeing with a lot of the pre-war Decepticon ideology. Lampshaded when Megatron discusses Decepticon double agents and suggests that Nightbeat's the type.

[[folder:Riptide]]
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A mischievous, BookDumb Hydrobot who enjoys the simple things in life. He was going to be part of the original crew, but missed the launch after an altercation with the previous owners of the "Lost Light''. As a result he joined up after Megatron's trial and is having trouble catching up on current events.


* AllergicToRoutine: He bores easily and feels directionless when he isn't doing something.
* BookDumb: He's not particularly good at (and very afraid of) academic education.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In issue 37, he takes out a Senate goon by bashing the guy over the head with Brinstorm's briefcase.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is essentially good hearted, but has occasional moments of insensitivity.
* MotorMouth: Not ''nearly'' as bad as Swerve and Misfire, though.
* OutOfFocus: Out of the new additions to the crew for season two, he's done the least, despite being one of the select few to star in ''slaughterhouse'' and joining the mission in ''Elegant Chaos''.
* ThePrankster: Not as much as Swerve, but he still convinces a drunken Trailcutter to steal Megatron's tainted Energon and partakes in the bogus "Crewditions."
* RememberTheNewGuy: Averted. He shows up on the Lost Light as part of the Aquabots, characters who, like Crosscut, haven't been seen onscreen but have been mentioned as hanging out in the background. However, Riptide was beaten up and left unconscious on Cybertron when the Lost Light left, so his introduction to the audience is his introduction to the crew.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Though, disturbingly enough, he seems more traumatized by his MTO training than the massive war he fought in.
* SuckySchool: As an MTO he was basically raised in one. It's definitely left it's mark on him.
* TrainingFromHell: Suffered this as an MTO. He was traumatized by it and still has difficulty talking about it to this day.

[[folder:Ravage]]
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A calm and collected spy who's stowed away on the Lost Light following Megatron's trial, than became an honorary member of the crew after being caught. He's undyingly loyal to Megatron and is a master of stealth who can detect people's emotions through smell.

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Notably averted. He thinks Swerve and Bluestreak are wasting their time on human culture. In fact he seems to be one of the only crew members who doesn't enjoy human movies.
* BerserkButton: Don't treat Ravage like an animal -- that includes petting him.
* CatsAreMean
* CharacterFocus: Continuing his characterizaton from ''Robots In Disguise'', this version of Ravage has received more focus and screentime than most, who are usually just snarling beasts.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's far from the most heinous of Decepticons and genuinely believes in the best the cause has to offer. Which is why he decides to stay on the ''Lost Light'' after seeing the aftermath of a DJD rampage.
* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cat]]: His enhanced senses cause him to notice the invisible monsters on the Vis Vitalis.
* HatesBeingTouched: Or more accurately, hates being petted like a cat. Since Nautica is a minor CuddleBug who thinks Ravage is adorable, she annoys him greatly.
* LivingLieDetector
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yeah he's a Decepticon, but he genuinely believes in the cause and thinks that they'll lead the galaxy into an age of peace and equality. And while he's dour and stoic towards others, if you actually get him to open up you see that he's a decent person deep down.
* TheMole: He's spying on Megatron and the rest of the crew for Soundwave.
* MookFaceTurn: He was originally a henchmen for Soundwave. By the end of issue 33, though he hasn't gone as far as to renounce his Decepticon membership, he's genuinely joined the crew due to seeing how monstrous the DJD is.
* NobleDemon: Was this during the war.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Whereas most Transformers are at least vaguely humanoid, he's built like a cat. This is due to him being part of the "beast" class; a Transformer who's forged or constructed body is designed to look like an animal of some sort.
* TheNoseKnows
* NotSoStoic: He absolutely ''freaks out'' when he encounters the monsters on the Vis Vitalis.
* OnlyFriend: For Megatron.
* PantheraAwesome
* PerceptionFilter: He uses attention deflectors to help himself hide. In a bit of light deconstruction, he got so used to being able to hide whenever he wanted that he nearly suffered a panic attack when he encountered the personality ticks, which could see through his deflectors.
* PragmaticHero: His proposed solution to the [[spoiler: alternate Lost Light's]] spreading quantum foam (which may or may not have devastated Ofsted XVII if not stopped) is to get back in the shuttle and fly away as fast as possible.
* TheSneakyGuy: He's a master of stealth and often hides or spies on the rest of he crew when he doesn't want to be bothered. He does it so much that Getaway has Brainstorm make a device to counter his attention deflectors in order to see if Ravage is spying on him.
* StealthExpert
* TheStoic: He doesn't talk very much, though he [[NotSoStoic breaks somewhat during a heart-to-heart with Megatron]].
* TastesLikePurple: Although to a lesser degree than his boss, Soundwave.
* {{Transplant}}: Leaves the cast of ''Robots in Disguise'' after ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDarkCybertron''.
* TwoferTokenMinority: A fantastical version; he's both constructed cold and a beast class mech.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Megatron. It's why he followed him onto the ''Lost Light''. He also makes it clear that if Megatron said so, he and Soundwave would just kill Galvatron in a second.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: In the past he suffered from discrimination under the Functionist regime because of his beast class body. Averted in the present; after Functionism died out everyone treats basically as any other Cybertronian, with the only exception so far being Nautica for an extremely brief time when she first met him, as Caminus doesn't have beast class Cybertronianss and she didn't know he was sentient.

[[folder:Atomizer]]
An interior-decorator-turned-bow-wielding assassin. While mostly background fodder in the first season, the second sees him step up to take an active role in the plot. Wherever he goes, trouble tends to follow.

* AgentPeacock: Before becoming an assassin, he was an interior designer.
* ArcherArchetype: Uses a bow.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sure seems like a friendly and amicable guy. So it's more than a little surprising when he manipulates Rodimus into accepting a (fake) list of those who voted against him. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he's Getaway's-right-hand 'bot...]]
* ChekhovsGunman: He seemed pretty unimportant, only making brief appearances. This made it more surprising when [[spoiler: he was revealed to be Getaway's right-hand man.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: To Getaway.]]
* PunnyName: StealthPun flavor. An atomizer is used for paint dispersal and a valued component of interior design.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:When Getaway's plan is discovered, Atomizer opts to fight Ultra Magnus rather than let Getaway be taken. There had been no evidence of his involvement, Tailgate didn't know about Atomizer, and Whirl's memory was blanked, so if he'd stayed quiet he could have avoided detection all together]].

[[folder:Ten]]

-->''Ten.''

A reprogrammed Legislator who Swerve uses as a bouncer. Due to his brain being damaged, he can only say "Ten." Though Swerve writes him off as a mindless drone and accordingly treats him poorly, there's a lot more to "Ten" than there initially seems.

* {{Adorkable}}: Ratchet asks if he likes Ultra Magnus. Ten's response is to look away and quietly stammer "ten" repeatedly.
* AnnoyingArrows: Apparently fought Atomizer when the Legislators stormed the ship. As a bouncer the arrows still stick out of him, and he moves around fine. Though in ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'' he gets cleaned up and has the arrows removed when he goes drinking with Minimus.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ultra Magnus is the only one who takes Swerve to task over treating Ten like dirt. It does not go unnoticed.
* ButtMonkey: Ten suffers a number of humiliations at Swerve's hands, including not being allowed to sit on bar stools, being whacked across the head, and getting the words "I failed the Ambus Test" spray painted on his back.
* TheDogBitesBack: A subtle, but very poignant example of this. It's very telling that he's not made a toy of Swerve, who's been humiliating him since day one.
* EyelessFace: Like his fellow Legislators, he doesn't really have eyes.
* FanBoy: He's a huge fan of Ultra Magnus.
* HiddenDepths: Ten isn't the mindless drone he appears to be. He's actually capable of independent thought, and artistic expression. Also, he really doesn't like his new "boss" Swerve.
* MookFaceTurn: A dead Legislator that Swerve patched up and reprogrammed to act as the bar bouncer.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: Pun intended. Despite appearing as a mindless drone, he's not only sentient, but a gifted artist.
* PerpetualFrowner: Due to damage around Ten's eye dents, and the way his mouth is structured, it makes his face look sad all the time.
* PokemonSpeak: "Ten."
** VerbalTicName: Got his name because it was the only thing he could say.

[[folder:The Lower Deck]]
Pretty much any crew members who aren't important enough to warrant their own section. These include Spoke and Lockstock, Blaster, Animus, Xaaron, Sunstreaker, Bob, Dipstick, Hound, Shock and Ore, Brawn, Jackpot, Mirage, Hosehead, Groove, Huffer, Ammo, Gears, and various others.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Hoist and Sunstreaker in the Hoist spotlight.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Shock. [[KilledOffForReal But not for long.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Ore is resurrected by the Metrotitan's spark in the Annual.
* BreakTheHaughty: Sunstreaker. [[ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron Pre-broken, even!]]
* BridgeBunny: Hound though to a lesser extent than Mainframe.
* ChekhovsGunman: Ore in the Annual. [[spoiler:The Duobots are also revealed to have been Skids' handlers in "Remain in Light" and the entire reason his path intersected with the ''Lost Light'''s.]]
* CommunicationsOfficer: Blaster.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Animus has his brain pulled through his mouth and his spark eaten by a demon, Ore is fused with the quantum generator, and Shock is forced to vomit up his brain before having his spark comsumed.
* DemotedToExtra: Sunstreaker, Hound.
* DueToTheDead: Shock and Swerve respectively leave a phial of innermost Energon and a drink at Ore's feet at different occasions.
* TheGamblingAddict: Jackpot. Issue 4 notes that losing a bet is the only reason he's on the Lost Light in the first place.
* TheGhost: Spoke and Lockstock.
* TheHandler: [[spoiler:Shock and Ore were to Skids and Getaway.]]
* GunsAkimbo: Gears, Huffer, Hound.
* FamedInStory: Spoke and Lockstock
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Spoke and Lockstock. We are always told of what great things Spoke and Lockstock do, but we haven't even see them once in the comic, we just hear about them.
** Blaster, Sunstreaker, Siren, Gears, and Perceptor in their untold story for the first storytime project Rewind organized for Rung. Xaaron, Dipstick, Atomizer, Slapdash, and Sprocket, for the second session.
** [[spoiler: Being members of the Diplomatic Corp, Shock and Ore probably apply for this as well.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sunstreaker.
* LastOfHisKind: Bob the Insecticon.
* TheMole: Shock and Ore put [[spoiler:Overlord]] on the ship under Prowl's orders, [[spoiler:and are members of the Diplomatic corps.]]
* NominalHero: The Monsterbots, who join the crew in the second 'season', count as this on their best days.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Brawn's one of the shortest crew members, but he's always at the head of fights. [[spoiler: When Overlord gets loose on the ship, not only is he one of the first to attack but he does so ''[[{{Badass}} armed only with his fists]]''. It gets one of his arms torn off but the fact that he ''survived'' taking on [[ImplacableMan Overlord]] is impressive.]]
** Seems to be something of an InUniverse MemeticBadass too; requesting a Brawn is how Trailcutter orders a "very short, very ''powerful'' drink".
* RedShirt: Tripodeca, Deftwing, Animus.
* {{Narcissist}}: Sunstreaker.
* NoIndoorVoice: ''Siren.'' Full stop.
* OffWithHisHead: Deftwing meets this fate at the hands of the Legislators.
* PosthumousCharacter: Ore is dead the second the ship takes off and Shock follows him soon after. From than on the two still impact the story, but only through their actions before their deaths.
* PunnyName: Say "Shock and Ore" in a British accent.
* RetiredBadass: Hound used to be a member of the Primal Vanguard.
* TeamPet: Bob the Insecticon.
* ThisIsADrill: Ore has one on place of one of his hands
* ThoseTwoGuys: Shock and Ore, Spoke and Lockstock.
* UnfortunateName: Dipstick.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The [[MauveShirt Mauve]] and [[RedShirt Red]] shirts.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Bob is terrified of Metroplex, given that the big guy wiped out his fellow Insecticons.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Hound is apparently very high in the chain-of-command, as he took command of the ''Lost Light'' while Ultra Magnus' team was inside Metroplex.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ammo has a case of Corroda Gravis, a horrifically fatal rusting disease which has no known cure.

!Former Crew

[[folder:Ratchet]]

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-->''I've been doing this '''too long'''.''
The grouchy and snarky chief medical officer, Ratchet is starting to feel the effects of age and joined the crew in their quest in the hopes of finding a worthy successor. His staunch atheism and rational personality cause him to often bicker with the overly-superstitious Drift.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Delphi two-parter and ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'' revolve around him - notably, the latter was the first time he'd been in the spotlight for quite some time.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: [[spoiler:He figured Ultra Magnus was a LegacyCharacter from the very beginning.]]
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa: Ratchet has very much an old man POV on life and is so worndown that his hands are seizing up. He also kicked the crap out of Pharma and his immediate reaction to Overlord popping up behind him was to turn on a dime and shoot him in the face.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Used to have this, back when we first saw him in this continuity.
* ColdBloodedTorture: On the receiving end of this, courtesy of Pharma, though Ratchet refuses to scream or give Pharma any satisfaction. ''Spotlight: Orion Pax'' reveals that Ratchet been tortured before by Bludgeon, who's "hurt him in ways only a doctor could understand," which may explain Ratchet's ability to resist here.
* CoolOldGuy: On full display in ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'', where he helps a majority of the main cast with their issues [[spoiler: such as Nautica forgiving Brainstorm or helping Minimus with his poetry before leaving the ''Lost Light''.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:His quantum duplicate suffered a nasty one, where Helex forced him to swallow his brain.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Expy}}: If Pharma is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the Joker]], then Ratchet is NOT Batman, but rather [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke Commissioner Gordon]]. Especially considering the torture he receives at the hands of Pharma is a means of breaking him, and just like Gordon, he endures it.
* FanBoy: Turns out he was subscribed to the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Fisitron's Wrecker Files]].
* FlatEarthAtheist: He doesn't believe in the creation mythos.
* {{Foil}}: To Pharma.
* IWillFindYou: He leaves the ''Lost Light'' to track down Drift and bring him home.
* LosingYourHead: Pharma removes his head (and spark) to show off his surgical skills after they meet again on Luna 1.
* TheLostLenore: Believes he could've been able to save [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Ironfist]].
* {{MacGyvering}}: Rigging [[spoiler:Ambulon's corpse]] to make a one-shot energy gun to dispatch a Legislator.
** CombatPragmatist
* {{The McCoy}}
** CombatMedic: Make no mistake, Ratchet's perfectly willing to fight, as Pharma learns.
* TheMentor: To First Aid, whom he sees as his replacement.
* NervesOfSteel: Ratchet's been held hostage by experts. He's long since gotten bored of maniacs holding guns at him.
* PutOnABus: Leaves to find Drift on his own in issue #40.
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler: He's known all along that "Ultra Magnus" has actually been a succession of 'bots in PoweredArmor, all the way back to the very first, original Magnus, but never saw a point in letting people know. He also considers Minimus, the longest holder of the title to be the "true" Ultra Magnus.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran
* SherlockScan: Can pull these off, such as figuring out First Aid's transformation cog wasn't working when they met at Delphi. Given he's one of the most skilled medics alive, it's not surprising.
* TakeUpMySword: He's been training First Aid to become his replacement, [[spoiler: which finally happens when he leaves the ''Lost Light'' in ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'' to find Drift.
* TookALevelInCynicism: He used to be more pleasant, though everything that's happened to him throughout the ''four million year war'' has evidently taken its toll on him.
* {{Tsundere}}: A non-romantic version towards Drift. Ratchet does honestly care about him, but is unwilling and unable to admit it before he left. This might just have something to do with Drift's history of mass-murder, given Ratchet mentions he thinks about the time he and Drift met constantly.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drift.
* WhatTheHellHero: When Ratchet refuses to let First Aid [[spoiler: assist in fixing Ambulon]], First Aid calls out him out on his supposed inflated sense of pride. [[spoiler: Turns out Ambulon was already dead, and First Aid apologises for his rant, though Ratchet still agrees with him.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: A smile from Ratchet is vanishingly rare, what with his general grumpiness, but when it does happen, it's amazing to behold.

[[folder:Drift]]
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-->''My faith will protect me. My faith and my sword.''
An ex-Decepticon and Rodimus' former third-in-command, Drift recently found religion after a near-death experience. Relentlessly and offensively upbeat ([[StepfordSmiler on the surface]]), he was the most spiritual member of the crew and frequently clashed with the atheistic Ratchet. Following the Overlord debacle, he was exiled for his part in it. He has his own miniseries covering the interim, ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift: Empire of Stone]]''.

* TheAtoner
* {{BFS}}: His Great Sword, though he rarely uses it.
* TheBigGuy: Among the bots in charge.
* TheBusCameBack: His appearance in ''Empire of Stone'' is his first in about a year and a half.
* ConMan: It's implied that before he switched sides, he stole at least a billion Shanix from the Decepticons war funds.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Underneath his annoyingly positive exterior is one of the deadliest warriors in Cybertronian history.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:On the duplicate ''Lost Light'', Helex forces him, Ratchet and Hound to eat their own brain modules.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* DependingOnTheWriter: Generally, when his creator Shane [=McCarthy=] is writing him, he becomes more of a brooding FlatCharacter as opposed to the more fleshed-out take on him written by James Roberts.
* DisposableVagrant: Nearly. Sonic and Boom tried to kidnap him as a test subject for the institute, but were stopped by Orion Pax.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He confesses to Rodimus that when he stabbed himself during the events of ''[[ComicBooks/TheTransformersIDW Chaos]]'', he saw a future where [[spoiler:Rodimus was needed to save it, which is why he decides to take the fall for Rodimus.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Deadlock was one of the most prolific murderers the Decepticons had. Ratchet's treatment of Drift is probably a deliberate aversion of this.
* TheExile: After issue 16. [[spoiler:Issue 21 reveals it was prearranged.]]
* FallGuy: [[spoiler:He takes the blame for Rodimus.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No-one in the cast has an especially high opinion of Drift. Not even Rodimus, who Drift mentions berates and insults him frequently, or even threatens him with being jailed for his crimes just for not answering his calls quickly.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he was a homeless junkie who managed to become one of the most dangerous mass-murders the Decepticons had.
* TheFundamentalist: Although it's implied to be at least partially an act.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: He begs Ratchet to kill him when infected with the red rust virus and he thinks the DJD might be coming. Ratchet refuses.
* IOweYouMyLife: Ratchet saved his life back before the war, and Drift is fairly protective of him in the present.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: Rodimus strips him of his Autobrand before exiling him.
* KaleidoscopeEyes: apparently he can change his eye colors, as noted by Thunderclash. The art doesn't reflect this, though.
* KatanasAreJustBetter
* TheKirk
* TheMole: Worked with Prowl to smuggle Overlord on board the Lost Light.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler:He says he will take the blame for Overlord, so that Rodimus can continue with the Knight quest, as Drift believes something ominous is approaching and Rodimus, and the Knights of Cybertron are needed to stop it.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When it becomes obvious that Crystal City was attacked, he's clearly ''pissed.''
* ParodySue: Not as obvious as Thunderclash, but every now and then he has flashes of this.
* PowerTrio: With Rodimus and Ultra Magnus.
* PutOnABus: Following his exile due to his involvement in the Overlord affair.
* ReformedButRejected: To a far lesser extent than, say, Cyclonus, but he still isn't widely liked or trusted. Magnus in particular has to resist the urge to arrest him on sight.
* ReligiousBruiser: Ever since he survived skewering himself, he's become far more religious.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Especially in ''Empire of Stone''.
* StepfordSmiler: When asked if he has any regrets, he just buries his face in his hands. And during the Shadowplay arc, he briefly mentions what Rodimus says about him, before instantly breaking out a wide grin and changing the subject.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:He claims sole responsibility for the Overlord fiasco, only naming himself and the Duobots (both of whom are dead by that time) as the ones involved.]]
* ThatManIsDead: In ''Spotlight: Drift'', he declares that Deadlock is dead, [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya and that his name is Drift.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Deliberately, to get on Ratchet's nerves, and Ratchet names the trope while calling him on it.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: ''The Permanent Revolution'' reveals that the DJD were planning to leave and spare the alternate ''Lost Lighters'' after killing Overlord, but the sight of turncoat Drift set them off and they went into a psychotic killing spree.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ratchet.
* WarriorPoet: He writes most of Rodimus' speeches.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is called out by Ratchet after his first instinct towards Dent was to kill him.
* YesMan: Ratchet comments that he was appointed to the command structure for only telling Rodimus what he wanted to hear.
* ZillionDollarBill: His currency card seems to have at least 1 '''BILLION''' shanix of funds in it.

[[folder:Red Alert]]
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-->''Best ears in the business.''
The ship's hyper-paranoid head of security. He's constantly fearful that others are planning against him and spends a lot of his time spying on his fellow crewmembers.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Was a 'guest' of the Institute at one point.
* ByTheBookCop
* CassandraTruth: No one believes him, not even Rung, initially... until he proves him otherwise.
* TheChick: Amongst the commanding officers on the ship.
* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse. He acts as MissionControl for Fortress Maximus, but his only source seems to be [[TheWikiRule Autopedia]], a Cybertronian Wiki that anyone can edit. Backfires when dealing with the Scavengers, as they've taken to vandalizing it, and their entries describe them as dangerous badasses instead of barely competent losers.
* DoubleTap: [[spoiler:During the DJD raid on the second ''Lost Light'', his quantum duplicate goes out this way against Helex.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: At least it seems that way. Turns out he really did try to commit suicide.
** BungledSuicide: If we're to believe the report.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Though he did actually attempt suicide, he's kept in stasis [[spoiler:to prevent knowledge of Overlord escaping.]]
* LosingYourHead: He actually tore his own head off. Apparently on older 'bots, it's easy to do, if you know how...
* MissionControl: Becomes this to Fortress Maximus in season 2.
* TheParanoiac: Out of the 208 original ''Lost Light'' crew members, Rung is the only one he trusts. It's implied at times that he doesn't even trust ''himself''.
** ProperlyParanoid: Some of his fears have proven to be accurate. Specially since "Shadowplay" shows us that he's been tampered with by the Institute, more specifically, a victim of mnemosurgery.
* PutOnABus: He's comatose following his bungled suicide. After he's brought back out following the conclusion of Remain In Light, he decides to stay behind on Luna-1, along with Fortress Maximus and the remains of the Circle of Light to guard the place and Chief Justice Tyrest.
* SanitySlippage: Much in the same vein as Ultra Magnus, he handles the transition to peace extremely poorly, suffering a relapse of his earlier, more extreme paranoia.

[[folder:Fortress Maximus]]
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-->''The '''receiving end'''. How does it feel to be '''on it?'''''
Former warden of the Garrus 9 Prison and an Autobot war hero. Due to a traumatizing encounter with the Decepticon psychopath Overlord, he's emotionally unstable and prone to lashing out.

* AnArmAndALeg: Overlord sawed his arms and legs off.
* AndIMustScream: His horrific torture at the hands of Overlord rendered him comatose. By the time the Wreckers found him, his brain was wired into Aequitas' outer lock and his eyes were melting in his head.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: After becoming the new Tyrest Accord Enforcer, he proves to be a very brutal and ruthless cop. He's still going after criminals, but he has no problem blowing their brains on the spot and threatens the fairly-innocent Scavengers.]] He rethinks this strategy after [[spoiler: Spinister leaves him a way to cure the beast-form cybertronions Demus lobotomized, making him realize not all Decepticons are amoral scumbags.]]
* AxCrazy: Goes on a psychotic rampage in "Interiors."
* {{Badass}}: He's got guns in his knees.
** BadassBoast: He claims that he walked out of Simanzi Massacre smiling.
** BadassInCharge: He was the warden of Garrus-9.
** BadassInDistress
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: More like unstable and prone to bursts of rage, but you get the idea.
* BerserkButton: Anything relating to [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Overlord]].
* TheBigGuy: lampshaded by himself when he said he's too wide to get through some areas of Delphi.
* BodyHorror: What he went through in [=LSOTW=]. [=MTMTE=] is about his recovery.
* TheBusCameBack: Twice.
** He's been in a coma since the fall of Garrus-9, and in issue 4, he comes back into the story.
** In issue 45 the story checks in on him again [[spoiler:as he chases down Demus and comes into conflict with the Scavengers]].
* ChildSoldier: He's a Warborn, meaning he qualified as the Cybertronian equivalent to this.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Subjected to it by Overlord. To his credit, Max didn't divulge the information Overlord wants, even when threatened with the murder of his men.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:During the second Scavengers arc.]]
* MemeticBadass: In-universe. Guns in his legs and all.
* MyGreatestFailure: How he feels about Garrus-9.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Following the events of Remain In Light, Ultra Magnus chooses Max to succeed him as Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord and he remains behind on Luna-1 with Red Alert and the remains of the Circle of Light to guard the place, and Chief Justice Tyrest.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Due to his run-in with [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Overlord]].
* {{Sucksessor}}: [[spoiler: Issue 45 shows that he may not have been the best choice for Enforcer after Ultra Magnus stepped down; he's become much more brutal and rule-breaking than Magnus, executing some criminals on the spot rather than arresting them.]]
* SupportingLeader: He's left in charge of the ''Lost Light'' while Rodimus takes a team down to Luna-1 in ''Remain in Light''.
* TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Remain In Light'' he agrees to become the new Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, becoming Ultra Magnus' true successor instead of Star Saber. Presumably, he'll be enforcing the original version of the Accord from before Tyrest went insane and started making amendments to it.]]
* WorfEffect: Was the victim of this in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''. Part of his character development in this series deals with the aftermath and trying to overcome it.