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* OpportunisticBastard: Nightflight again. He's the sort of person who would prefer to steal pocket change rather than put in the effort to rob a bank because the change was easier to take.

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* OpportunisticBastard: Nightflight again. He's the sort of person who would prefer to steal pocket change rather than put in the effort to rob a bank because the change was easier to take. This is also his only real plan for usurping power from Whisper: kiss every available ass at every available opportunity until someone with authority promotes him to command of the Air Strike Patrol.



* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The only way this bunch of backstabbing, squabbling rowdies get anything done.

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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The only way this bunch of backstabbing, squabbling rowdies get anything done. Tailwind, Nightflight, and Storm Cloud ''all'' want to overthrow Whisper ''and'' ensure their rivals do not succeed in taking over. Meanwhile, Whisper would rather save himself the headaches and simply shoot his disloyal subordinates. Decepticon High Command has not granted ''any'' of their requests, so the four of them are stuck with each other and forced to work as a team despite the fact they really don't like each other.

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Fixing indentation. Cool Tank is just a redirect to Tank Goodness.


* DinosaursAreDragons: Though whatever Cindersaur transforms into doesn't look like any real species of dinosaur, the fact that it's reptilian, breathes fire, and his name is Cinder''saur'' alludes to this trope. Newer Cindersaur toys straight up redeco/retool him from characters who transform into actual dinosaurs, changing his alt-mode to a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' (''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Megatron) or a ''Velociraptor'' (Dinobot Slash).



* HourOfPower: Forcibly separates himself eventually thanks to an automatic timer.



* KilledOffForReal: While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky.
** He also doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''.

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* KilledOffForReal: KilledOffForReal:
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While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky.
** He also doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''.



* CoolTank: Outside of his pretender shell, Bludgeon turns into a simple tank.



-->'''Bludgeon:''' Kill me. Finish what you started.
-->'''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]

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-->'''Bludgeon:''' Kill me. Finish what you started.
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'''Rodimus
Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]



-->'''Thundercracker:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards You're going to kill civilians with this stunt, Bludgeon. I thought we were supposed to be fighting on their behalf.]]
-->'''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].

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-->'''Thundercracker:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards You're going to kill civilians with this stunt, Bludgeon. I thought we were supposed to be fighting on their behalf.]]
-->'''Bludgeon:'''
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'''Bludgeon:'''
Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].



* TankGoodness: His alternate mode.

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* TankGoodness: His alternate mode.Outside of his pretender shell, Bludgeon turns into a simple tank.



* ThrownOutTheAirlock: See ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice above

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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: See ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice aboveabove.

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* YellowPurpleContrast: He's easily identified by his bright purple and yellow color scheme.


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* {{Gashadokuro}}: His Pretender shell is based on a Gashadokuro, and he's a huge robot with a skull face in a samurai armor.
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* DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed off in ''Classics'' and is replaced by Scylla.


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* PsychoPink: He has more pink than the other Seacons and he's the cruelest of them.


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* TheDividual: Like other combiner teams, the Pretender Monsters rarely receive characterization beyond serving as extensions of Monstructor.
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* CompositeCharacter: With the ''Beast Wars II'' Seacons in the Classics continuity.


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* TheDividual: As is usual with Combiner teams, but also given their lack of appearances, the team has never managed to stand out much from one another. Taken to its logical extreme in the ''[[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Super-God Masterforce]]'' anime, where they're an army of mass produced drones except for Snaptrap (or [[DubNameChange Turtler]]), who even then is mostly just a grunting brute.

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