History Characters / TransformersAnimatedHumans

* {{Acrofatic}}: He's a {{Big Eater}}, but he can kick some serious ass.

* BadassNormal: He's a useful ally to the Autobots even though he's just a normal man.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: He doesn't really approve of the inconveniences of modern tech.

* ChronicallyCrashedCar: His car gets wrecked three times throughout the show.
* TheCommissionerGordon: He's the main authority figure the Autobots work with.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's often very grumpy, but he's an honest police officer and helps the Autobots whenever they need it.

* {{Tuckerization}}: Named and designed after [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Samantha_Lomow Hasbro exec Samantha Lomow.]] S. Lomow, [[IncrediblyLamePun get it?]]

* ChestInsignia: His suit has a black trapezoid with an orange, stylized N on the chest.

* ArcherArchetype: He's an archer/Robin Hood-themed crook.

* LaserGuidedKarma[=/=]BreakTheHaughty: After being a KarmaHoudini throughout Season 2, in "Black Friday", he gets tormented by Grimlock, loses a valuable piece of equipment, and Fanzone threatens to arrest him for being a "public nuisance". The third season begins with him being fired by Professor Sumdac and blasted out of Sumdac Tower by Sari when Professor Sumdac regains control of his company. Much later in "Human Error," he sells Soundwave toys based on Sumdac's original design. After the real Soundwave's villainous actions, however, Powell Powell is financially ruined by the refunds.

* DropTheHammer: The Almanac II even calls it a HyperspaceMallet!

* ItIsDehumanizing: Is on the receiving end of this when he and Ratchet get beamed to Cybertron in "This is Why I Hate Machines", the Autobots there being [[FantasticRacism so bigoted towards organics]] that they refer to Fanzone as "it".

* ButtMonkey: He has a lot of bad luck. Namely, he suffers from a RunningGag of constantly getting annoyed by malfunctioning machines, and another running gag of his car getting destroyed over and over.

* PeoplePuppets: His [=AllSpark=]-amplified remote allows one to control vehicles, which presumably allows him to rig the races.

** He gets mad when Sumdac insults his Headmaster unit.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: This guy might be an idiot, but outside of Meltdown, he's the only human that manages to actually pose a danger to the Autobots without any help from the Decepticons.

* CatchphraseInsult: He constantly calls people noobs.

* {{Expy}}: He's essentially the same guy as [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Control Freak]], since he's a hammy geek armed with highly dangerous technology and having an ego the size of a planet. Hell, he even has the same voice actor.

* RevengeByProxy: In his final appearance, he tries to get revenge on Sumdac by destroying him and his daughter, Sari.

* BadPowersBadPeople: His body is made of acid corrosive enough to melt through Autobots, and he's also a depraved MadScientist willing to perform human experimentation on even children.

* BaldOfEvil: He has no hair on his head and is a ruthless henchman of Prometheus Black.
* TheBerserker: His steroids give him super-strength but have the side-effect of making him extremely aggressive.
* DepravedDwarf: He’s a supervillain, and in his weak form, he’s the size of a child.

* DumbMuscle: He serves as this to Meltdown. He’s pretty tough, but in his second appearance, he’s outwitted by a little kid.

* CoolShades: He wears sunglasses, even after his mutation.

* EvilIsPetty: He tries to murder Sumdac just because he's jealous of him. He also chooses to kidnap his daughter, Sari, and use her as a test subject for his genetic experiments just to spite her father. He also thinks one of the reasons why he’s more deserving of success than Sumdac is because he’s “better-looking”.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He claims that one of the reasons why he’s better than Sumdac is because he’s better-looking than him. He says this ''after'' he gets mutated into a freakish monster made of acid.

* InsultBackfire: When Fanzone calls him a seriously twisted fruitcake, Meltdown replies “Flattery will get you nowhere, captain.”

* NeverMyFault: Prometheus blames Issac Sumdac for his fall from grace and mutation, but completely ignores the fact that he brought legal action on himself when Colossus Rhodes goes on a rampage as a result of the energized super steroids making him extremely aggressive, and he also ignores the fact that he chose to experiment on Bumblebee's internal fluid sample and it was ''his'' chemicals in ''his'' lab that ''he'' carelessly mishandled that caused his mutation into Meltdown.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: He once says Isaac Sumdac merely got lucky with his success in robotics; if only Prometheus knew the half of it...

* TheResenter: He absolutely loathes Isaac Sumdac, viewing him as being inferior to him in every way and a fraud who’s completely undeserving of his fame and riches.
* TokenSuper: He's the only human villain with real superpowers, though his condition came from exposure to Mech-Fluid, basically Transformer blood.

* WouldHurtAChild: When his experiments don't get the results he wants, he decides to try the procedures out on child test subjects. And then he decides to get even with Sumdac at the same time by abducting Sari. As Fanzone put it, he's a seriously twisted fruitcake.

* VillainRespect: In he congratulates Prowl for figuring out the whole situation after spotting the acid burns on Swoop's leg.