History Characters / TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEyeLostLightCrew

** 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.]]

* UnfortunateName: Dipstick.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's a clinical sociopath with a near-total LackOfEmpathy (beyond the bare minimum necessary to understand how to make people do what he wants them to do in the short term). He's also got a severe inferiority complex and wants to become the universally beloved messiah of his civilisation. Needless to say, it ends up being an absolute nightmarish fiasco that ends terribly for him and everyone around him.

* NotSoDifferent: An insecure, ambitious, attention-seeking jerk who uses superficial charm to cover up deeper manipulations, and whose Autobot sympathies don't prevent them from being amazingly deeply flawed. [[Characters/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEyeTeamRodimus Sounds like another captain of the Lost Light, doesn't it?]]

* ShadowArchetype: To Rodimus. They have most of the same flaws; it's just that Rodimus, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold on some level]], cares about his crew, and Getaway doesn't.

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Has devolved into this by the end of ''Lost Light''. He's a very good schemer and his manipulations make him an excellent big bad alongside someone like Tarn. However, try as he may, the Grand Architect is just the bigger threat, and winds up being DemotedToDragon just to save himself, and even that doesn't win him any points.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In spite of his sociopathic tendencies, even he's disturbed at the prospect of sacrificing some of his crew to pay off Sunder. It's later subverted when he ultimately goes through with it to keep the crew under control.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His complaint (that Megatron is being allowed to escape his deserved punishment) isn't entirely without merit, but the ways he goes about fixing this problem are ''way'' over the line.]]

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.

* ArchEnemy: Rodimus seems to consider Getaway to be this to him. Getaway considers Thunderclash to be his due to the latters matrix affinity.

* 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."

* 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.

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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: He ''loves'' movies from Earth and brought some along with when he joined the crew.

* BiTheWay: Flirts with both Tailgate and Firestar.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:After he's turned into a sparkeater, Ratchet shoots him and manages to hit a fuel line, causing Bluestreak to explode.]]

** 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".

-->'''Getaway:''' Seriously, can someone explain to me how the war can end with the '''instigator''' being [[KarmaHoudini allowed to go about his business as if nothing happened]]? The death camps! The massacres! The cities razed to the ground! Apparently all of them were just missteps - painful but necessary - on Megatron's path to self-discovery! ]]

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Has devolved into thos by the end of ''Lost Light''. He's a very good schemer and his manipulations make him an excellent big bad alongside someone like Tarn. However, try as he may, the Grand Architect is just the bigger threat, and winds up being DemotedToDragon just to save himself, and even that doesn't win him any points.]]
* BatmanGambit: A lot of his manipulations rely on this trope. A core to many of his schemes is his understanding of people and how their personalities inform their actions and by pushing them in the right direction, Getaway can be a truly powerful puppet master.

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Shares the role of the main antagonist of the series in Season Two. He's the mastermind of the Megatron revenge club, though likely on orders from Prowl. We later find out that his true plans are bigger still when he orchestrates TheMutiny of any who were sympathetic to Megatron, and unwittingly sets them up to be killed by the DJD. When the DJD are wiped out, Getaway is left as the sole BigBad for ''Lost Light''...at least until the Grand Architect begins making its presence known.]]

* 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.]]

* TheChosenOne: Allegedly shows signs of Matrix Affinity. [[spoiler: Deep down, his belief that he's destined for greatness is behind much of his behaviour.]]

* EvilIsPetty: Says some ridiculously nasty things to Riptide before [[spoiler: apparently killing him via scraplet]] about how nobody cares about him or will even remember him, because Riptide failed to be impressed by Getaway ranting at him about Rodimus. [[spoiler: This actually plays into Atomizer's eventual HeelFaceTurn and RedemptionEqualsDeath moments the next issue, when expresses his displeasure with those remarks.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler: Getaway is both convinced he's destined to be a Prime and ''hideously'' insecure. His attempts to reconcile this involve tricking people into trusting and respecting him rather than earning it. Froid outright eggs on his behaviour just to observe such a "multifaceted inferiority complex" in action.]]

** As much as he's done in the name of the Autobot faction and their mission, [[spoiler: it's clear that Atomizer is having difficulties with Getaway's more unhinged moments. He also looks distinctly unhappy when Getaway kills Riptide by having him devoured by scraplets.]]

* MetaGuy: He criticizes stories in ways that function as a sort of TakeThat to transformers stories. In Bullets he discusses Fisitron's repeated phrases (a nod to Simon Furman's writing habits), and in issue 50 he snarks that 2nd seasons aren't always where the stories hit their stride (a bit of SelfDeprecation on Roberts's part on how season 2 hasn't been as well received as season 1)
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Fed up with Getaway's actions since taking control of the ship, Atomizer turns on his comrade at the last moment and buys time for First Aid and Riptide to escape the ''Lost Light'' with a wounded Thunderclash on Star Saber's stolen shuttle by shooting Saber with the nudge gun, stunning him long enough for them to get away. Getaway literally tears Atomizer apart in private, and then has Sunder, after the requisite payment, change everyone's memories so that they remember Thunderclash killing him before escaping.]]

* BadassBookworm: 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.]]"

* 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. [[spoiler: Played straight, due to a time loop. It turns out he was the one who finished creating the quantum engine in the past from the knowledge he gained by working on it in the future, so he really just taught himself chronologically out of order... somehow...]]
* PetTheDog: He's the most understanding of Brainstorm's motivations and actions after "Elegant Chaos" and personally applauds him after he comes clean. It turns into KickTheDog, however, when [[spoiler: he still participates in Getaway's mutiny, but like everyone else who isn't Atomizer, isn't aware that Getaway has gotten the Galactic Council involved, much less the Decepticon Justice Division. When he finds out, he's justifiably angry and is among the group that wants to turn the ship around and go back.]]

* 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. This foreshadows [[spoiler: him being coerced into participating in Getaway's mutiny]].

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Had one about participating in Getaway's mutiny when he came to believe that Getaway had sicced the DJD on Rodimus and the others, and tries to warn the returning Protectobots about him, only to be interrupted mid-explanation by Getaway himself. Interestingly, it turned out in season 2 that Getaway ''hadn't'' sent the DJD after Megatron, but actually the Galactic Council...or did he?]]
* TheImmune: [[spoiler:First-Aid thinks he might have a resistance to the nudge-gun's effects, he also speculates it might be due to his [[TooDumbToFool lack of intelligence]]]].

* TheHandler: [[spoiler: Shock and Ore were to Skids and Getaway.]]

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Happens gradually, over the course of a few weeks. The mutiny starts to fall apart almost the second that Getaway terminates the call with Rodimus and Megatron, with none of them aware that Getaway had been erasing the memories of people who wouldn't stand with them with a nudge gun, or that he'd gotten the Galactic Council involved to have Megatron executed (they all thought the plan was merely to get Megatron and his sympathizers off the ship, nothing more). Things get worse when Getaway tells them to ignore a distress call from a planet caught between the Council and Black Block Consortium, simply because saving innocent lives would be "another distraction" from their quest, followed almost immediately by the distress signal from Necroworld being picked up and hearing that they also abandoned Rodimus and the others to the Decepticon Justice Division. Getaway is forced to fall back on Froid and Sunder to basically brainwash most of the crew (the ones he doesn't feed to Sunder as payment, at least) to remain in control, and lock others in a recurring memory loop.]]

** [[spoiler: Being members of the Diplomatic Corp, Shock and Ore probably apply for this as well.]]

** In addition to the characters listed above, [[spoiler: Blaster, Siren, Grapple, and Jackpot are the other members of Getaway's mutiny that we've seen so far.]]

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: [[spoiler: Suffice it to say, none of them realized what they were getting into by backing Getaway. For starters, they had no idea he'd used the nudge gun on dissenters ''or'' that he'd made a deal with the Council - they thought the plan was just to get Megatron off the ship. Then Getaway starts ignoring distress signals, much to Blaster and Thunderclash's shock.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: To keep him contained in the brig, the rest of the crew is forced to remove his limbs and even ''his voicebox'', leaving him immobile and with a gaping hole in his throat/face.]]

* ControlFreak: [[spoiler: Scrape away his surface charm, and this is basically what you'll find. His "captaincy" of the Lost Light devolves into him mind-wiping the crew into obedience within weeks.]]

** Ends up making one with [[spoiler: Sunder]] to keep the crew under control after the mutiny. [[spoiler: Sunder will use his remote memnosurgery abilities to keep Thunderclash in a closed memory loop, and make the crew of the ''Lost Light'' believe that Megatron, Rodimus, and the others left the ship of their own accord, but Sunder wants entire lifetimes worth of memories to feast on as payment, taken directly from his victims' life cords because the rush is greater that way. And to alter the memories of 200 people, Sunder's "rate of exchange" is ''twenty five victims''. Getaway is talked into agreeing by Froid, using the list they made up of where people would stand during the mutiny; the first twenty-five "undecideds" are sacrificed. Atomizer later notes after Sunder also alters the security detail to make them believe anyone Getaway sics them on is an undercover Decepticon, as well as trapping the Protectobots in a closed memory loop like Thunderclash that they're "running low on cash" to pay Sunder, meaning even more of the undecideds have been fed to him a this point.]]
** He makes another one with [[spoiler: Star Saber]] the next issue; become chief of security to help Getaway keep the ship in line, and in return [[spoiler: Getaway will let Saber have another go at Cyclonus.]]
* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: After Getaway shows up on Mederi, the ''Lost Light'' is suddenly sporting the symbol of the Architects on its hull, and he's apparently started working for the Grand Architect.]]

* EscapeArtist: His profession, which is why [[spoiler: the crew went to such extreme measures to confine him.]]

** [[spoiler: To say nothing of the fact that he let the Grand Architect transform the entire ''Lost Light'' crew (at least the ones still remaining at that point) save himself and Star Saber into ''sparkeaters'' for no other reason than to set them loose on Rodimus and his team at Mederi.]]

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: A shot from Thunderclash blows part of his mouthplate off, along with a small chunk of Getaway's head, though it doesn't seem to bother him overmuch.]]

* TheHeart: [[spoiler: Subverted, as of ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme''.]]

** Not to mention, after the mutiny starts to go south on him, Getaway decides to trust [[spoiler: Sunder and Froid to help him stay in power. And get even ''worse'' when he decides to bring in ''Star Saber''.]]

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A huge part of his InferioritySuperiorityComplex. [[spoiler: Due to apparently displaying signs of Matrix affinity, Getaway's main goal in finding the Knights appears to be to have himself made Prime, and fulfill his "great destiny".]]

* IronicHell: [[spoiler: After his scheme is revealed, the rest of the crew struggles to keep him contained in the brig due to his escape artist abilities and skill at smooth-talking. They end up having to remove his arms, legs, and even ''voicebox'', leaving the silver-tongued and athletic Getaway hanging in his cell, [[AndIMustScream unable to talk or move.]] Yikes.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: His mutiny is played out for justifiable reasons, but the methods and lengths he resorts to leave a lot to be desired.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: When his crimes are revealed, he reveals an unexpectedly venomous personality, doing things like mocking Whirl's mental illness or making backhanded compliments to Cyclonus.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: His complaints with the co-captains are, in many ways, completely correct; Megatron ''has'' been let off shockingly easy and Rodimus ''has'' shown himself to be a rather poor captain. What ruins his argument is the grim plans Getaway resorts to.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: If Getaway had a flying alt mode, he'd be close to achieving escape velocity from the slippery slope. Once he actually gets command of the ship, he wastes no time obliterating any credibility he still had, resorting to massive amounts of brainwashing via his nudge gun, along with sacrificing his own crewmates to Sunder to support said brainwashing. With some of them being turned into Sparkeaters as well.]]

** A flashforward in issue 50 reveals that [[spoiler: he'll come to feel this way about his mutiny, due to it (seemingly) leading to the destruction of Necroworld at the hands of the Galactic Council.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Though he makes a deal with the Galactic Council to get rid of Megatron, he makes it explicitly clear that he ''only'' wants to hurt Megatron and merely intended to kick Rodimus and the other loyalists off the crew unharmed.]] A FlashForward makes clear that [[spoiler: he isn't lying, as he's shown mourning the loss of the people the DJD killed, with visible remorse.]]

* TheSadisticChoice: Forces one on [[spoiler: Atomizer]] of all people to try and ensure his loyalty. [[spoiler: Kill either a helpless and incapacitated First Aid or Rook to prevent the Protectobots from forming Defensor, or Getaway will kill ''him'' instead. Because now, with [[WeHardlyKnewYe Rook dead]], Atomizer is just as far gone as he believes Getaway himself is.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Oddly enough considering how carefully he worked out everything else. He actually thought [[spoiler: The Galactic Council was going to honour their word.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In a sense; [[spoiler: he makes a deal with the Galactic Council, telling them where Megatron is so they can get rid of him, making clear that he wanted them to not hurt anyone else. The DJD was waiting there for them which leads to the Council using a geobomb on Necroworld.]]

* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: Of the Mutineers arc, where he relays the entire process of the coup to Froid, as well as chronicle his struggles to keep the crew under his thumb.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: His complaint (that Megatron is being allowed to escape his deserved punishment) isn't entirely without merit, but the ways he goes about fixing this problem are ''way'' over the line.]]

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The solution to most of Getaway's problems tends to be [[spoiler: "shoot them with the nudge gun", to the point where he wears the gun out, preventing him from wiping Riptide's memory of seeing Getaway and Atomizer disable Thunderclash due to overuse. Riptide even mocks Getaway to his face for relying so much on it.]]

* SurvivorsGuilt: Issue 40 strongly implies that he's been suffering from depression after [[spoiler: Trailcutter was murdered by Kaon]]. Fortunately Ratchet convinces Rung to talk with Hoist about it.

* AggressiveCategorism: He's extremely 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]]. [[spoiler: He also later participates in Getaway's mutiny, seemingly to get rid of Megatron and, by extension, Ravage.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Shot in the head with the nudge gun to forget how to transform, and dumped into the scraplet-infested fuel reservoir to be devoured, by Getaway and Atomizer. Though thanks to Riptide's...[[BookDumb natural immunity]] to the nudge gun's effects, it actually ''fails'' to kill him.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: He ends up taking part in Getaway's mutiny.]]

* DirtyCoward: A tragic example if his backstory is to be believed; he was an MTO but when sent into his first battle he froze up, dropped his gun, and fled in terror. According to him, this is the real reason he's called "Getaway" and he feels shame over the fact that his first act was one of (perceived) cowardice.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: If Getaway had a flying alt mode, he'd be close to achieving escape velocity from the slippery slope. Once he actually gets command of the ship, he wastes no time obliterating any credibility he still had, resorting to massive amounts of brainwashing via his nudge gun, along with sacrificing his own crewmates to Sunder to support said brainwashing.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Shares the role of the main antagonist of the series in Season Two. He's the mastermind of the Megatron revenge club, though likely on orders from Prowl. We later find out that his true plans are bigger still when he orchestrates TheMutiny of any who were sympathetic to Megatron, and unwittingly sets them up to be killed by the DJD. When the DJD are wiped out, Getaway is left as the sole BigBad for ''Lost Light''.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He organizes the mutiny because he is angry about Megatron being essentially let off the hook for four million years of war and atrocities, being allowed to wear the Autobrand, and then given co-captaincy of the ship to help them find Cyberutopia. Getaway refuses to accept this and wants to see Megatron punished. [[spoiler: But he has no problems whatsoever with bringing on ''Star Saber'' of all people to help him keep control of the ''Lost Light''. The Star Saber who attempted to instigate an atheist holocaust. Who betrayed the Circle of Light to Tyrest. Who murdered Dai Atlas, and helped Tyrest in his insane plan to kill off an enormous chunk of the Cybertronian race because in his madness Tyrest believed the constructed cold to be evil. Who was, at the ''very least,'' complicit in imprisoning and ''torturing'' Getaway for a full year. And when he's questioned about all of that, Getaway's response is that Star Saber was JustFollowingOrders and that it's all water under the bridge now.]]