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* {{Hammerspace}}: His trailer.




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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: He seems to have it more than the others.




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* MeaningfulName: He loves music.



'''[[++[[color:red:Gears]]++]]'''

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'''[[++[[color:red:Gears]]++]]''''''[++[[color:red:Gears]]++]'''



'''[++[[color:red:Sunstreaker]]++]'''
* HeroicSociopath
* Jerkass
* RoboFamily: his twin brother Sideswipe.
* WordOfGay



* TheRival: Swoop with the Predacon Divebomb. It began when Swoop's name was Divebomb and that 'Con defeated him and took his name.




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* ReplacementScrappy



* DirtyCoward: Case in point: He was BrainWashed and almost defeats both Autobots and Decepticons. Suddenly, he recovers his senses and inmediately begs mercy to Scorponok.



* JokerImmunity




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* MeaningfulName: He transform into an '''astro'''ship and into a '''train'''.




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HumongousMecha: His bigger robot mode is city-sized in some continuities. His smaller mode (as Lord Zarak) is an inversion of the trope.

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* FanNickname: Robo Jesus.




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* PlotRelevanAgeUp: In most continuities, he gets injured and must be repaired into a more adult-like form, Goldbug.

'''[[++[[color:red:Gears]]++]]'''
* DeadpanSnarker
* GrumpyBear: Right, Transformers aren't a SugarBowl, but Gears is still this when compared to the other Autobots.




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* GeneralFailure


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* DracoInLeatherPants
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* FanNickname: Screamer.


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* DependingOnTheArtist: In the Marvel comic, Jose Delbo would draw Soundwave with an actual face. Previous and later artists would depict him with his more well-known faceplate.


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* TheFaceless save for his single eye.

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* DeathIsCheap



* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He survived the movie, but wasn't seen too much afterwards.




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-->'''Grimlock:''' Me Grimlock no like orders.
-->'''Slag:''' Me Slag no like ''anything''.



'''[[color:red:Cosmos]]'''
* CaptainCrash: While not remarked upon in the TV show, Cosmos is rarely in an episode without crashing into something. One of the few times he got through an episode without it, it seems like Optimus is TemptingFate by sending him out into space a third time in a day.

'''[[color:red:Tracks]]'''
* AmbiguouslyGay



* CombiningMecha: their combined form, Devastator.




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* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Scrapper
** TheDragon: Hook
** EvilGenius: Mixmaster
** DumbMuscle: Bonecrusher
** TheChick: Long Haul due no not liking his assigned job, and Scavenger due to being an underdog.

'''[[color:purple:Astrotrain]]'''
*CoolTrain




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* BadBoss



'''[++[[color:purple:Lord Zarak/Scorponok]]++]'''
BigBad
CorruptCorporateExecutive: under the alias "Mr Z"
EvenEvilHasStandards



'''[++[[Unicron]]++]]'''

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'''[++[[Unicron]]++]]''''''[++Unicron++]'''



* {Satan}: the equivalent in Transformer culture.

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* {Satan}: {{Satan}}: the equivalent in Transformer culture.

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** Or even a variation of the second one, fighting the Insecticons rather than Shockwave.
* OddNameOut: Grimlock is the only Dinobot whose name doesn't begin with S.




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* MultipleChoicePast



* SealedEvilInACan: By virtue of having run out of energy and being locked within his own Pretender shell. That is, until Bludgeon and his insane Pretender cult roused the beast from its slumber...

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* SealedEvilInACan: By virtue of having run out of energy and being locked within his own Pretender shell. That is, until Bludgeon and his insane Pretender cult roused the beast from its slumber...slumber...

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'''Quintessons'''
* AlwaysChaoticEvil

'''Primus'''
* ManipulativeBastard: And he's supposed to be the "good" one.
* PhisicalGod

'''[++[[Unicron]]++]]'''
* BiggerBad
* CosmicHorror
* PhisicalGod: Specifically, a dark god.
* PlanetEater
* {Satan}: the equivalent in Transformer culture.
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* ChaoticGood: Bordering on ChaoticNeutral at times.
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** TheLancer: Snarl.
** TheBigGuy: Sludge, Slag.

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** TheLancer: Snarl.
Slag.
** TheBigGuy: Sludge, Slag.Snarl.

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A quintet of wild and powerful Autobots with dinosaurs as their altmodes. They tend to dislike Optimus Prime, and are prone to going off on their own to do their own thing. Their members include their leader, Grimlock (a [[TyrannosaurusRex tyrannosaurus rex]]), Slag (a ''triceratops''), Snarl (a ''stegosaurus''), Sludge (an ''apatosaurus'') and Swoop (a ''pteranodon'').

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A quintet of wild and powerful Autobots with dinosaurs as their altmodes. They tend to dislike Optimus Prime, and are prone to going off on their own to do their own thing. Their members include their leader, Grimlock (a [[TyrannosaurusRex tyrannosaurus rex]]), Slag (a ''triceratops''), Snarl (a ''stegosaurus''), Sludge (an ''apatosaurus'') and Swoop (a ''pteranodon''). In some continuities, they were known as '''the Dynobots''' before coming to Earth and taking their dinosaur altmodes.
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'''[++[[color:red:The Dinobots]]++]'''
A quintet of wild and powerful Autobots with dinosaurs as their altmodes. They tend to dislike Optimus Prime, and are prone to going off on their own to do their own thing. Their members include their leader, Grimlock (a [[TyrannosaurusRex tyrannosaurus rex]]), Slag (a ''triceratops''), Snarl (a ''stegosaurus''), Sludge (an ''apatosaurus'') and Swoop (a ''pteranodon'').
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Other Dinobots follow me Grimlock because me Grimlock strongest! Me Grimlock ''king!''
* TheBigGuy: Collectively, they fill this role in relation to the other Autobots.
* BreathWeapon: They all breathe fire, and it's even hot enough to melt through the durable outer hull of Unicron!
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Well, ''duh''.
* FiveManBand: Like most subgroups, they form one on their own:
** TheHero: Me Grimlock ''king''!
** TheLancer: Snarl.
** TheBigGuy: Sludge, Slag.
** [[strike:TheSmartGuy]]: Us Dinobots no need puny smart guy! Us Dinobots trounce Decepticons with brute force!
** TheChick: Swoop.
* HulkSpeak: Me Grimlock talk this way most of time. Other Dinobots too, mostly.
* MultipleChoicePast: It varies by continuity. Were me Grimlock and other Dinobots built on Earth in 1980s by puny Wheeljack? Or did we Dinobots exist already and get stuck in black sticky stuff when fighting Shockwave in distant past?
* StockDinosaurs: Including a ''pteranodon'', which as we all know is ''not'' a dinosaur.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is black, or it is backwards? At one point, due to a limited palette, they both were blue in the Marvel comics.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is black, [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/RIRFIB or it is backwards? backwards?]] At one point, due to a limited palette, they both were blue in the Marvel comics.



- '''Wildrider'''

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- '''Wildrider''''''Wildrider'''

'''[++[[color:purple:Bludgeon]]++]'''
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: A master of the Cybertronian martial art of Metallikato, and prone to preceeding his sentences with a heartfelt '''"Fools!"'''
* CoolTank: His altmode.
* LawfulEvil: He holds to the arcane codes of honour set forth in Metallikato, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality vicious and alien though they may be.]]
* [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Samurai Skeleton Robot]]: Thanks to his Pretender shell.

'''[++[[color:purple:Thunderwing]]++]'''
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the IDW comics, his experiments with [[strike:Pretender]] [[NotUsingTheZWord polydermal grafting]] technology made him unfathomably powerful and nigh-indestructable, at the cost of obliterating his sanity and turning him into a mindless engine of destruction. The Autobot and Decepticon armies took on Thunderwing, combined and in their entirety, and even then they ''still'' couldn't kill the monster he had become.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: While he wasn't the only factor contributing to Cybertron's decline, he was definitely the one to push things over the edge and leave the planet a barren, radiation-choked wasteland utterly inhospitable to Transformer life.
* SealedEvilInACan: By virtue of having run out of energy and being locked within his own Pretender shell. That is, until Bludgeon and his insane Pretender cult roused the beast from its slumber...

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* CoolOldGuy




'''[++[[color:red:Bumblebee]]++]'''

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\n'''[++[[color:red:Bumblebee]]++]'''* EnsembleDarkhorse

'''[++[[color:red:Bumblebee/Goldbug]]++]'''



'''[++[[color:purple:Megatron]]++]'''

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'''[++[[color:purple:Megatron]]++]''''''[++[[color:purple:Megatron/Galvatron]]++]'''



-->"Soundwave: superior. Constructicons: inferior."



* DependingOnTheArtist: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is black, or it is backwards?

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is black, or it is backwards?backwards? At one point, due to a limited palette, they both were blue in the Marvel comics.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Rumble can create earthquakes and Frenzy sonic screeches, or both create earthquakes?
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** And everytime a new BigBad surfaces in the comics, Soundwave keeps his Dragon status.


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* BigBad: In comics only, but he shows he's a much better Decepticon leader than Megatron.


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'''[++[[color:purple:Ravage]]++]'''
* UndyingLoyalty: To Megatron. In fact, Ravage was his first recruit.

'''[++[[color:purple:Rumble and Frenzy]]++]'''
* DependingOnTheArtist: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is black, or it is backwards?
* SingleMindedTwins: They both are punks with a knack for destruction.
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* ThatsUsingYourHead: Ramjet, as one would expect, likes to ram things with his conehead--in and out of vehicle mode. [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/6/6e/Ramjetinpast.gif Case in point.]]


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* ThatsUsingYourHead: UseYourHead: Ramjet, as one would expect, likes to ram things with his conehead--in and out of vehicle mode. [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/6/6e/Ramjetinpast.gif Case in point.]]

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* UsingYourHead: Ramjet, as one would expect, likes to ram things with his conehead--in and out of vehicle mode. [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/6/6e/Ramjetinpast.gif Case in point.]]


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* UsingYourHead: ThatsUsingYourHead: Ramjet, as one would expect, likes to ram things with his conehead--in and out of vehicle mode. [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/6/6e/Ramjetinpast.gif Case in point.]]

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'''[[color:purple:Thrust]]'''
* TedBaxter: Thrust believes himself to be ''far'' more competent than he actually is, [[DoubleEntendre and he wants you to know that he's coming.]]
* UnfortunateName: See the above DoubleEntendre, and keep in mind the fact that Thrust is a Conehead Seeker.

'''[[color:purple:Dirge]]'''
-->"[[BlatantLies Death comes to he who crosses me.]]"
* TheDreaded: His morose and silent nature causes people to fear him, but if he finds himself in a situation over which he has no control, [[{{Irony}} Dirge will find himself crippled and paralyzed with terror.]]
* TheyKilledKenny: He tends to die or get severely damaged a lot in every version of the G1 continuity in which he appears. A lot. The fandom, naturally, has picked up on this tendency [[CharacterExaggeration and run away with it.]]


'''[[color:purple:Ramjet]]'''
* UsingYourHead: Ramjet, as one would expect, likes to ram things with his conehead--in and out of vehicle mode. [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/6/6e/Ramjetinpast.gif Case in point.]]

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* TheBigGuy: Ol' Ironhide often found himself fillin' this role. Might have to do with his Texas drawl, or the fact that he's one o' the Autobot mos' likely ta forgo usin' weapons an' start bustin' Deceptichops with his bare hands.



* JerkAss: His StrawVulcan tendencies make him come off as this more often than not, which led to the widely-held belief that Prowl is a prick.



* GadgeteerGenius

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* GadgeteerGenius
GadgeteerGenius: That said, his inventions have displayed a noted tendency to literally blow up in his face.



* TerseTalker

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* TerseTalker
TerseTalker: Page quote: achieved.

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-->"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."




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* TheMedic



* HumongousMecha: Status: indisputable. Firepower: [[MoreDakka considerable]].

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* HumongousMecha: Status: indisputable. Dimensions: [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scale questionable.]]
* MoreDakka:
Firepower: [[MoreDakka [[UnderStatement considerable]].


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-->"As you command, Megatron."


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-->"Don't think. Just do."

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'''[++[[color:red:Omega Supreme]]++]'''
-->"Omega Supreme: always prepared."
* HumongousMecha: Status: indisputable. Firepower: [[MoreDakka considerable]].
* TerseTalker




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* DumbMuscle: Easily one of the stupidest Decepticons. The only time Skywarp actually becomes a credible opponent for the Autobots is when a more intelligent Decepticon, like Megatron or Starscream, is present to supervise his teleportational shenanigans.
* PaletteSwap: Like Thundercracker, he's one for Starscream. Personality-wise, however, the three Seekers are drastically different.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The ''only'' Decepticon with the built-in ability to teleport. While one might think this would make Skywarp a crafty and dangerous adversary, in truth the Seeker is far too dimwitted to employ his unique talents for anything more than pulling childish pranks, [[MemeticMutation like pushing his comrades down a flight of stairs.]]

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* AnAxeToGrind




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'''[++[[color:red:Hound]]++]'''
* BecomeARealBoy: He wouldn't mind being human, apparently.



* EpicFlail




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* EvilBrit: Well, he was meant to sound similar to David Warner of Tron.

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* TheChosenOne
* IHaveManyNames

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* TheEngineer
* GadgeteerGenius
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'''[++[[color:red:Wheeljack]]++]'''
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* TheEvilGenius: Guess who designed the space bridge system?

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* CyberCyclops
* TheDragon: Megatron's controller on Cybertron while he's away.
* TheStoic
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* TheCaptain




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* TheBumblebee: Always the guy working with the kids.




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* BigBad: Is only ''not'' this when [[EldritchAbomination Unicron]] is about.
* EvilOverlord




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* CreepyMonotone
* TheDragon: Always Megatron's most faithful and competent subordinate.
* MakeMeWannaShout



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'''[++[[color:purple:The Constructicons]]++]'''Constructicons]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:purple:The Stunticons]]++]'''
- '''Breakdown'''

- '''Motormaster'''

- '''Drag Strip'''

- '''Dead End'''

- '''Wildrider'''

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'''[++[[color:red:Ironhide]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Prowl]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Ratchet]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Jazz]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Bumblebee]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime/Rodimus]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Ultra Magnus]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:red:Kup]]++]'''
* CoolOldGuy



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'''[++[[color:purple:Starscream]]++]'''
* TheStarscream: [[TropeNamer Though that goes without saying.]]

'''[++[[color:purple:Soundwave]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:purple:Shockwave]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:purple:Thundercracker]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:purple:Skywarp]]++]'''

'''[++[[color:purple:The Constructicons]]++]'''
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![+++[[red:Autobots]]+++]

'''[++[[red:Optimus Prime]]++]'''

![+++[[purple:Decepticons]]+++]

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![+++[[color:red:Autobots]]+++]

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![+++[[purple:Decepticons]]+++]

'''[++[[purple:Megatron]]++]'''
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'''Optimus Prime'''

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'''Megatron'''

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'''Optimus Prime'''

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![+++[[purple:Decepticons]]+++]

'''[++Megatron++]'''

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