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%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny

%%* PowersDoTheFighting
%%* SelectiveMagnetism

%%* CorruptPolitician: Becomes this.

%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters

** Before that, Terminus was the one to push Megatron to never back down or compromise, and to use violence if necessary. Following his advice is what eventually lead to Megatron [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming far worse than even those he originally fought against]].
** [[spoiler: He intentionally led Megatron to a false set of coordinates to make him stay in the Functionist Universe so he could help the AVL and then lied to Megatron that the others had left to "give him a second chance". Which disregards that Megatron saw his captaincy on the Lost Light as a second chance.]]

* CoolOldGuy

%%* TheMentor

* GreaterScopeVillain: If it wasn't for their horribly oppressive regime Megatron would've never suffered [[HeWhoFightsMonsters a fall from grace]] and ultimately turned the Decepticons from [[WellIntentionedExtremists freedom fighters]] into TheEmpire.

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

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Terminus decides fairly early on that he's going to remain in the Functionist Universe to try and help the Anti-Vocationist League fight back against the Functionist Council. He also really, really wants Megatron to do the same, but Megatron is firm in his desire to return to the prime reality and continue his quest, and eventually face judgement for his crimes. [[PoisonousFriend Except Terminus decided to take matters into his own hands to ensure that didn't happen.]]]]

* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: He intentionally led Megatron to a false set of coordinates to make him stay in the Functionist Universe so he could help the AVL and then lied to Megatron that the others had left to "give him a second chance". Which disregards that Megatron saw his captaincy on the Lost Light as a second chance.]]
** Before that, Terminus was the one to push Megatron to never back down or compromise, and to use violence if necessary. Following his advice is what eventually lead to Megatron [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming far worse than even those he originally fought against]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killmaster's defining trait is his WeaponOfChoice, his wand. [[spoiler: After using the wand to teleport Ten and Swerve, it gets turned on Killmaster himself when Cyclonus is able to get it away from him and sends him to his own prison dimension.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A wand.

* CanonForeigner: He was created for the IDW continuity. Normally Sentinel is Optimus's immediate predecessor as Prime whilst here he was the one who took the mantel after Sentinel's (seeming) demise.

%%* KnightTemplar

* [[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.

%%* FromNobodyToNightmare

* BaitTheDog: While his very first on-screen appearance has him as a raving violent monster, this trope was a major part of his character InUniverse. Zeta was one of several bots loyal to the Senator and friendly with the outliers and when Optimus first started his rebellion, Zeta was a major ally. When he was named Prime his initial societal reforms were considered a major step in the right direction after the Functionalist Council, Senate, and Sentinel Prime's rule. However, Zeta was eventually revealed to have continued several of the old guard's unethical practices, like the brainwashing, police brutality, and crackdown of dissidents. This eventually lead to the stint with the Vamparc Ribbon and Zeta burning several populated cities to the ground in his attempt to snuff out the Decepticons.

* PosthumousCharacter

* RagsToRiches

* TheCutie

* PowersDoTheFighting

* WeakButSkilled

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny

* PowersDoTheFighting
* SelectiveMagnetism

* CorruptPolitician: Becomes this.
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* KnightTemplar

* PosthumousCharacter

* ShroudedInMyth

* [[spoiler:TheCorrupter: Downplayed as he's not trying to revive the Decepticons but he does encourages Megatron to stay in the Functionist Universe and avoid his trial mainly because he determines that the Functionist Universe ''needs'' Megatron.]]

* TheMentor

* ConsummateLiar
* CorruptPolitician

* AmbitionIsEvil

* 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.

* FalseFlagOperation

* TheHandler: Formerly one for Whirl.
* TheHeavy: For the Senate in general.

* TheBrute: Two of 'em.

* EliteMook

* ChekhovsGunman

* TheMentor: Of Overlord, albiet unwillingly.

* PosthumousCharacter
* SoftSpokenSadist

* CapedMecha

* DeadlyEuphemism: [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide Mass recall]].

* FantasticCasteSystem: Encoded and enforced by them.

* FalseFlagOperation: Uses a couple of these to expand the powers of the Senate and deal with potential dissenters.

* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: He was in Stasis for the entirety of the Great War, giving him a completely different viewpoint on Megatron and his cause than just about everyone else. To him, Megatron the Warlord and the Decepticon cause are something he read and was told about, while Megatron the civil rights activist and writer, and the oppression of Functionalism, are things he knows of firsthand, and were from his point of view, quite recent, which colors his interactions with the latter and how he continues to push Megatron away from [[TheAtoner atoning for what he's done]], and is more focused on continuing their work overcoming Functionalism.

* {{Adorkable}}

* DarkIsEvil: Mortilus was a death god, and according to legends appeared black and red. He wanted to conquer the universe, and turned on the others. [[spoiler:Turns out this was all wrong. Mortilus was actually a stand-up guy. The red and black part's also accurate.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Members One, Two, Four, Five and Eight all have bright color schemes.

* TakeThat: One of the council has a head shaped like a GreenLantern power battery.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Nine-Of-Twelve is unceremoniously killed by a bolt of energy from the Magnificence/Epistemus/The Omega Guardians along with Froid and Sunder in issue #23 of ''Lost Light''.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Nine-of-Twelve, who while not technically a member of the Anti-Vocationist League, knowingly allows them to operate out of his city of Adaptica and even sits in on their meetings.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler: To Whirl, his archnemesis, since Whirl is forced to admit he's never actually ''beaten'' Killmaster when they find him on Necroworld.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Cyclonus manages to slice off his wand-holding arm, allowing him to throw the wand to Whirl, who uses it to maybe destroy Killmaster too.]]

* TeleportGun: He has a penchant for building these. [[spoiler: His iconic wand is one and can teleport things across universes.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Whether they actually existed or not. Certainly, ''someone'' created the Matrix, and ''someone'' wrote "The Guiding Hand" on the inside of the Matrix crystal. And Primus' opposite most ''definitely'' exists, but as to the others...
** [[spoiler: Turns out they do exist and have all been reincarnated as normal cybertonians]].
* DarkIsEvil: Mortilus was a death god, and according to legends appeared black and red. He wanted to conquer the universe, and turned on the others.

* JustSoStory: The story about them in the annual. Primus, warrior-god of light, felt a yearning in his chest, and let lose four Sparks. With a wave of their hand they created civilisation. Then Mortilus turned evil, and was killed, destroying Cybertron's first moon, and causing the end of the others - Primus merged with Vector Sigma, Adaptus became the first transformation cog, Epistemus became the first brain module, and Solomnus became the casing of the Matrix. And with Mortilus dead, Cybertronians became immortal. Except in the modern day older 'bots are prone to developing and dying of cybercosis, [[spoiler: at least that is until Swerve discovers a cure rendering that no longer an issue]], and Luna-1 is still very much intact.

* BigBad: Of the Council, Six-of-Twelve appears to be this, being the most visible member of the Council outside of rogue member Nine, and having his head reshaped to look like the Matrix due to his AGodAmI mentality.

* EvilerThanThou: Issue 35 makes it clear that as bad as the Senate was, the Functionist Council was ''far'' worse. When they overthrow the Senate it was because the Senate thought to go ahead with the Constructed Cold method of birth. As the main universe shows, Constructed Cold mechs weren't seen as equal to natural births, but the Senate was ok with their existence. The Functionalists killed the Senate and destroyed the initiative because they saw Cold Construction as an affront to God.

* AGodAmI: Six of Twelve's believes himself to be an agent of Primus having had the Matrix for so long. When he reappears he's redesigned his head to look like it.