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!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.
* GeniusBruiser: On top of being a monstrous goliath towering over most other Cybertronians he was also a brilliant scientist with a myriad of unusual, deadly inventions. Even [[InsufferableGenius Brainstorm]] closely studied Killmaster's work.
* 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: [[spoiler: No, actually as it turns out.]]
* 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.

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[[folder:The Senator]]

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-->''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]]
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-->''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: For Orion Pax's circle of anti-Senate dissidents.
* 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

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[[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.]]

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[[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.


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[[folder:Outliers]]

!!Damus, aka "Glitch"

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

* 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

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[[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''.


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[[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.


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[[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".

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[[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.


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[[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

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[[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. In the Functionist timeline, they decide to wipe out all the organic intelligences for "lacking a place in Primus's grand plan".
* 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.
* TheFundamentalist: They make Star Saber look like a youth pastor.
* [[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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: What their religious fanaticism ultimately works itself out into being, since no matter what, they'll ''never'' be obsolete in the grand scheme of things. Ever.
* 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"... [[KickTheDog 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.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Nine-of-Twelve is the only one who seems to grasp that Cybertronians are people, rather than cogs in a machine. [[spoiler:It leads to him breaking with the Council; by Functionist Cybertron's crossover in "Lost Light" he's basically the only named ally Megatron has left.]]
* 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.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Was so thoroughly disgusted by Decepticon high command's [[WeHaveReserves callous disregard]] for their own soldiers that he just up and left.

** 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.

** * 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.

* HumanoidAbomination: In that it has a head, two arms and two legs. That's where the resemblance to anything human ends.

* PowerFloats

* MookHorrorShow

* TrojanHorse
* TyphoidMary

* FantasticRacism: They look down on cybertronians, though an encounter with Whirl and Skids changes that.

* AxCrazy

* DrivenToMadness

* FauxAffablyEvil

* OutsideContextProblem

* FaceHeelTurn

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope

* GiantFlyer

* NobleFugitive
* RedEyesTakeWarning

* FauxAffablyEvil

* SerialKiller

* PosthumousCharacter

* TheHeart

* CombatTentacles

* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: They end up being wiped out in ''Dark Cybertron''.]]

* KillEmAll: Their preferred method of ensuring that they have sufficient resources is the genocide of 'bots with functions deemed to be obsolete.

* FantasticRacism: Their whole belief system is built around this, discriminating against both the Constructed Cold and the manual classes.

* WeaponOfChoice: A wand.

* 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.

* UnfortunateNames: Blip.

* {{Yandere}}: Towards Ratchet. With healthy doses of FoeYay.

* {{Adorkable}}

* BiggerBad: Similar to Prowl, the Council never directly interacts with the protagonists. All we've seen so far are their enforcers.

* {{Badass}}: He takes on Tarn one on one, and even shuts off his audio-receptors to block out his main attack.

* LuckyBastard: These two survived the war.

* OutsideContextVillain

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* [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.]]