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* {{BFS}}: Lio Convoy's Solipsistic Staff gets reforged into a sword by ''Derailment''.
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* CombiningMecha: Not so common on post-war Cybertron, though the Renegades use their combined form, Monsterous, to breach the Forever Vault. Rodimus isn't happy to hear that one. "Cultural Appropriation" reveals that Devastator- albeit a Micromaster-scaled version of his old self- remains an option for the newest incarnation of the Constructicons.
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* CombiningMecha: Not so common on post-war Cybertron, though the Renegades use their combined form, Monsterous, to breach the Forever Vault. Rodimus isn't happy to hear that one. "Cultural Appropriation" reveals that Devastator- albeit a Micromaster-scaled version of his old self- remains an option for the newest incarnation of the Constructicons. ''Derailment'' introduces Magnaboss and Tripredacus into the mix.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: When the Beast Upgrade starts hitting Cybertron, several characters take on Dinosaur-based altmodes, like Preditron's T-Rex form.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: [[spoiler:When the Resistance gets to the Builder Assembly, there's one last guard left. He decides fighting Lio Convoy isn't worth it, and stands down.]]
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** In the backstory, the EDC was formed from G.I. Joe's Star Brigade. Cobra gets a mention in the opening of ''Cultural Appropriation''.
** The humans maintain the Treaty of Prysmos, the name of the planet from short-lived Hasbro property ''Visionaries''.
** The humans maintain the Treaty of Prysmos, the name of the planet from short-lived Hasbro property ''Visionaries''.
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* GenderFlip: Lots of minor Transformers without much accompanying fiction, such as Oiler and Spaceshot, are re-interpreted as females. Other characters who never received any pronouns at all, like Buckethead, became female.
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* OneSteveLimit: In this universe, names don't repeat: every Transformer is given a specific name that no other Cybertronian shares. Hence we have characters like Scavenger and Skavenger, Dead End and Dead-End, Skywarp and Sky Warp, etc.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly ''who'' it was that became Triple-Threat Prime is unclear. It ''could'' be Optimus, given the partners he had are those who've usually been partnered with Optimus in other media, but no concrete details are given (especially since some of them are also those who could be partners of Ultra Magnus). And exactly what became of them is also unclear, though given the Triple Threat Master technology is stated to take years off a 'bot's life, the answer seems pretty clear.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weird, taking a penguin alt-mode.
* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly ''who'' it was that became Triple-Threat Prime is unclear. It ''could'' be Optimus, given the partners he had are those who've usually been partnered with Optimus in other media, but no concrete details are given (especially since some of them are also those who could be partners of Ultra Magnus). And exactly what became of them is also unclear, though given the Triple Threat Master technology is stated to take years off a 'bot's life, the answer seems pretty clear. [[spoiler:Derailment confirms that Triple-Threat ''was'' Optimus, but that he died sacrificing himself to take out The Swarm.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly ''who'' it was that became Triple-Threat Prime is unclear. It ''could'' be Optimus, given the partners he had are those who've usually been partnered with Optimus in other media, but no concrete details are given (especially since some of them are also those who could be partners of Ultra Magnus). And exactly what became of them is also unclear, though given the Triple Threat Master technology is stated to take years off a 'bot's life, the answer seems pretty clear. [[spoiler:Derailment confirms that Triple-Threat ''was'' Optimus, but that he died sacrificing himself to take out The Swarm.]]
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** Several Mini-Cons show up repurposed as Micromasters.
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** Several Many, many, ''many'' Mini-Cons show up repurposed as Micromasters.
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** Some of the Decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
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** Some of the Decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon. Strongarm is wired into the Maximal Command Security Force building, while Springload, Quillfire and Steeljaw appear through ''Derailment''.
** Tidal Wave appears as a battleship in ''Derailment''.
** The conclusion of ''The Inexorable March'' has the good guy ship crewed by 'bots from the aborted Chinese version of ''Transformers: Online''.
** The conclusion of ''The Inexorable March'' has the good guy ship crewed by 'bots from the aborted Chinese version of ''Transformers: Online''.
** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''.]]
** At the end of the Great War, what was left of the Cybertronians were beaten up by the technologically more advanced mankind and penned in to a small area of space, which the humans call the "Allowed Zone", and regularly take more and more from them. Ahem.
** Lord Imperious Delirious is disgusted by Cybertronian mecha-biology. [[spoiler:It spurs him to invent the Vehicons, to remove the spark from every living thing on the planet.]]
* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:At the very end of ''Derailment'', Rampage manages to recover from being atomised. And as a major DeathSeeker, he's understandably pretty pissed.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Pretty much how the plot kicks off. The Builders treated the Maximals and Predacons like crap for centuries, so naturally they turn on them.
* PetTheDog: Given their severe, often petty and irrational, attitudes towards Cybertronians, the fact that humanity let them keep the Energon Matrix is nothing short of astounding.
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* ShoutOut: Plasma tends to talk in shout-outs.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Plasma tends to talk inshout-outs.shout-outs, usually in poetry (though she also quotes The Beatles).
** Dante the Cyberdroid wasn't even supposed to be here today!
** Plasma tends to talk in
** Dante the Cyberdroid wasn't even supposed to be here today!
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Hot Rod and Full-Tilt are about the only Builders who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go. They're later joined by Buckethead and the Constructicons, who even agree to a cease-fire with the Resistance.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: TokenGoodTeammate:
** Hot Rod and Full-Tilt are about the only Builders who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go. They're later joined by Buckethead and the Constructicons, who even agree to a cease-fire with theResistance.Resistance.
** Una is about the only human who shows any sympathy toward Cybertronians. In the last story, she decides to ignore normal regulations and repay the favour when a bunch of them save her and her ship from an attack.
* UngratefulBastard: Optimus Prime sacrificed his second life, and the Matrix with it, to save humanity from the Swarm. Humanity responded by penning Cybertronians into a small area of space, and never once showing any gratitude.
** Hot Rod and Full-Tilt are about the only Builders who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go. They're later joined by Buckethead and the Constructicons, who even agree to a cease-fire with the
** Una is about the only human who shows any sympathy toward Cybertronians. In the last story, she decides to ignore normal regulations and repay the favour when a bunch of them save her and her ship from an attack.
* UngratefulBastard: Optimus Prime sacrificed his second life, and the Matrix with it, to save humanity from the Swarm. Humanity responded by penning Cybertronians into a small area of space, and never once showing any gratitude.
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* BackForTheFinale: Just about every character shows up for "Derailment".
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* AdaptationalBadass:
** Scylla goes from a ditzy, bad-tempered and easily distracted sort to a full-on badass sea pirate (complete with an EyepatchOfPower).
** [[spoiler:The Vehicons, originally just {{Mooks}} who died if you so much as sneezed at them, are portrayed as a nigh-unstoppable zombie horde.]]
** Claw Jaw, normally just background filler if he appears, appears briefly in ''Derailment'' portrayed as some kind of unstoppable leviathan in his beast mode.
** Scylla goes from a ditzy, bad-tempered and easily distracted sort to a full-on badass sea pirate (complete with an EyepatchOfPower).
** [[spoiler:The Vehicons, originally just {{Mooks}} who died if you so much as sneezed at them, are portrayed as a nigh-unstoppable zombie horde.]]
** Claw Jaw, normally just background filler if he appears, appears briefly in ''Derailment'' portrayed as some kind of unstoppable leviathan in his beast mode.
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler:Ikard is a weasel who forces captured soldiers to fight to the death, then tries to murder Preditron to make nice with the Tripredacus Alliance. He's one of the first to be infected by the Vehicons.]]
** [[spoiler:After their centuries of pettiness and spite, and just generally being jerkasses, the Builder Assembly, to a 'bot, get their sparks ganked out and turned into Vehicons by Galva Convoy.]]
** [[spoiler:Ikard is a weasel who forces captured soldiers to fight to the death, then tries to murder Preditron to make nice with the Tripredacus Alliance. He's one of the first to be infected by the Vehicons.]]
** [[spoiler:After their centuries of pettiness and spite, and just generally being jerkasses, the Builder Assembly, to a 'bot, get their sparks ganked out and turned into Vehicons by Galva Convoy.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bisk thinks his life is one great big video game. But he manages to infiltrate the Builder's ultimate fortress and get out without ever being detected, [[spoiler:and survives the Vehicon Apocalypse]], so he's definitely doing something right.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The coda story, ''The Inexorable March'', takes place in the 34th century AC.]]
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* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Blackarachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to rot.
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* ForWantOfANail: ForWantOfANail:
** The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Blackarachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them torot.rot.
** The final story implies that another, pretty major divergence was the absence of the Matrix.
** The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Blackarachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to
** The final story implies that another, pretty major divergence was the absence of the Matrix.
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* HistoryRepeats: The Malignus of Rebirth sided with the Decepticons to throw off an oppressive, autocratic regime. The end result was they were forced off of their planet by humans, and wound up under the thumb of an oppressive, autocratic regime.
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* HistoryRepeats: HistoryRepeats:
** The Malignus of Rebirth sided with the Decepticons to throw off an oppressive, autocratic regime. The end result was they were forced off of their planet by humans, and wound up under the thumb of an oppressive, autocraticregime.regime.
** [[spoiler:Both in a meta sense and an in-universe one, the final story ends with two Cybertronian ships [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars crash-landing on an unknown planet]].]]
** The Malignus of Rebirth sided with the Decepticons to throw off an oppressive, autocratic regime. The end result was they were forced off of their planet by humans, and wound up under the thumb of an oppressive, autocratic
** [[spoiler:Both in a meta sense and an in-universe one, the final story ends with two Cybertronian ships [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars crash-landing on an unknown planet]].]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Deluge argues as much about his efforts to create Point One Percenter Maximals and Predacons. [[spoiler:Rampage disagrees.]]
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* UniquenessValue: Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Maximal-born Point One Percenters, and apparently the only ones around. When the Builders learnt about them, they tried everything they could to figure out how that happened.
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* UniquenessValue: Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Maximal-born Point One Percenters, and apparently the only ones around. When the Builders learnt about them, they tried everything they could to figure out how that happened. [[spoiler:The last story reveals they are the only Point One Percenters, and that they're the final result of years of nightmarish experiments.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Maxima goes from a character who died after barely being on-screen in the "Combiner Wars" machima, to the very first Maximal.
** "Identity Politics" introduces Budora, of the "Go" Anime. He's later followed by Gaidora in "Safe Spaces".
** The Builder held hostage by the Monster Renegades is Highline, a character from the first movie's toyline.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]]. Are we talking about the Jews in Nazi Germany, or the Targetmasters?
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]]. Are we talking about the Jews in Nazi Germany, or theTargetmasters?Targetmasters?
** Preditron is considered the founder of the Predacons, but his writings are appropriated and "reinterpreted" by the Tripedacus Council for their own ends.
** A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]]. Are we talking about the Jews in Nazi Germany, or the
** Preditron is considered the founder of the Predacons, but his writings are appropriated and "reinterpreted" by the Tripedacus Council for their own ends.
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* MeaningfulName: The Maximals got their name from Maxima, who get her name from Fortress Maximus. Meanwhile, the Predacons got their name in part from Preditron.
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* NotSoDifferent: In "Safe Spaces", the Resistance (or at least one part of it) is forcing Builder P.O.W.s to fight to the death, just as the Builders were back in "Micro-Aggressions".
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Preditron, the first Predacon. Much like [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Dinobot]], he espouses a unique brand of honor and chivalry, which most modern Predacons don't.
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* UniquenessValue: Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Maximal-born Point One Percenters, and apparently the only ones around. When the Builders learnt about them, they tried everything they could to figure out how that happened.
* TheVirus: Starting with "Safe Spaces", [[spoiler:an apparent "upgrade" the Builders installed starts turning Micromasters into hulking drones, which tear out the Sparks of anyone they catch, turning them into more drones.]]
* TheVirus: Starting with "Safe Spaces", [[spoiler:an apparent "upgrade" the Builders installed starts turning Micromasters into hulking drones, which tear out the Sparks of anyone they catch, turning them into more drones.]]
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* CombiningMecha: Not so common on post-war Cybertron, though the Renegades use their combined form, Monstrous, to breach the Forever Vault. Rodimus isn't happy to hear that one.
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* CombiningMecha: Not so common on post-war Cybertron, though the Renegades use their combined form, Monstrous, Monsterous, to breach the Forever Vault. Rodimus isn't happy to hear that one. "Cultural Appropriation" reveals that Devastator- albeit a Micromaster-scaled version of his old self- remains an option for the newest incarnation of the Constructicons.
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* CrossOver: "Cultural Appropriation" sees a motley crew of Builders, Maximals, and Predacons go up against the [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots Monster GoBots]].
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* KillEmAll: According to Jim Sorenson, pretty much all the characters from 1984 are dead.
** Cyber Planet Keys are the reigning currency on Cybertron.
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During "Cultural Appropriation", Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
* ScrewYouElves: [[spoiler:Stiletto and Rampage tell the two humans who show up at the end of "Cultural Appropriation" how they feel about them. Stiletto calls them spoiled children who've never suffered real hardship, and Rampage calls them out on their habit of DisproportionateRetribution.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Full-Tilt is about the only Builder who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Hot Rod and Full-Tilt is are about the only Builder Builders who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go.go. They're later joined by Buckethead and the Constructicons, who even agree to a cease-fire with the Resistance.
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* AdaptationNameChange:
** Scorponok is renamed Zarak, and Zarak is renamed Fausto Borx. Their combined form is renamed Megazarak, a la the ''Headmasters'' anime.
** Beast Wars Inferno is renamed Formikon (his name from the Italian dub).
** Scorponok is renamed Zarak, and Zarak is renamed Fausto Borx. Their combined form is renamed Megazarak, a la the ''Headmasters'' anime.
** Beast Wars Inferno is renamed Formikon (his name from the Italian dub).
* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly ''who'' it was that became Triple-Threat Prime is unclear. It ''could'' be Optimus, given the partners he had are those who've usually been partnered with Optimus in other media, but no concrete details are given (especially since some of them are also those who could be partners of Ultra Magnus). And exactly what became of them is also unclear, though given the Triple Threat Master technology is stated to take years off a 'bot's life, the answer seems pretty clear.
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** Some of the decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
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** Twirl, of the "Linkage" mini-comic, is an important character of ''Trigger Warnings'', as is Over-Run, Armada Optimus' other Mini-Con partner.
** Some of thedecepticons Decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
** Some of the
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** Buzzsaw, in ''Head Games''.
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** Buzzsaw, in Buzzsaw is the main character of ''Head Games''.
** Bisk gets a whole section to his inner monologue during "Not All Megatrons".
** Nucleon, who also got a section of that story to himself, gets a sub-story told from his point of view, "A Brush With Infamy".
** Nucleon, who also got a section of that story to himself, gets a sub-story told from his point of view, "A Brush With Infamy".
* CompositeCharacter: Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, he looks like Beast Wars Wolfang, but he's actually the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series''.
** The Cyberdroids are second-class citizens, just barely above Maximals and Preds, looked down on for their alt-modes usually being either heads or engines.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Back when the Autobots could have even been considered good, during the war on Nebulos, they apparently used Fausto Borx's daughter Llyra as a distraction when he was fighting Fortress Maximus in order to win.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Back when the Autobots could have even been considered good, during the war on Nebulos, they apparently used Fausto Borx's daughter Llyra as a distraction when he was fighting Fortress Maximus in order to win.win ("Apparently", because the story that reveals this is told by Nucleon, who's biased on the subject of Autobots).
* HistoryRepeats: The Malignus of Rebirth sided with the Decepticons to throw off an oppressive, autocratic regime. The end result was they were forced off of their planet by humans, and wound up under the thumb of an oppressive, autocratic regime.
* HistoryRepeats: The Malignus of Rebirth sided with the Decepticons to throw off an oppressive, autocratic regime. The end result was they were forced off of their planet by humans, and wound up under the thumb of an oppressive, autocratic regime.
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** Megatron also has it done to Cryotek, to get control over his slice of the criminal underworld.
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** Megatron also has it done to Cryotek, to get control over his slice of the criminal underworld. Some characters do notice that Cryotek's started acting weird afterward, but don't make a big deal of it.
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* BodyHorror: Leatherhide is an Autobot who took on Maximal size, but has abandoned any kind of robot mode, only having two beast modes, with his robot mode head visible in his bat-form's mouth.
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* BodyHorror: BodyHorror:
** Leatherhide is an Autobot who took on Maximal size, but has abandoned any kind of robot mode, only having two beast modes, with his robot mode head visible in his bat-form'smouth.mouth.
** All of Megatron's failed upgrade attempts resulted in these.
** Leatherhide is an Autobot who took on Maximal size, but has abandoned any kind of robot mode, only having two beast modes, with his robot mode head visible in his bat-form's
** All of Megatron's failed upgrade attempts resulted in these.
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** Ser-Ket, a character from one of IDW's "Fall of Cybertron" tie-ins.
** In a slightly more literal fashion, a handful of Go-Bot Renegades have infiltrated the Predacons.
** some of the decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
** In a slightly more literal fashion, a handful of Go-Bot Renegades have infiltrated the Predacons.
** some of the decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
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** Ser-Ket, a character from one of IDW's "Fall of Cybertron" tie-ins.
tie-ins, shows up in "Head Games".
** In a slightly more literal fashion, a handful of Go-Bot Renegades who escaped the near-destruction of their universe have infiltrated the Predacons.
**some Some of the decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
** In a slightly more literal fashion, a handful of Go-Bot Renegades who escaped the near-destruction of their universe have infiltrated the Predacons.
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* TheCorruptor: [[spoiler:Galva Convoy hopes to corrupt his version of the Energon Matrix and all the potential Sparks within into Anti-Sparks.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live.
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live.
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* TheCorruptor: TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:Galva Convoy hopes to corrupt his version of the Energon Matrix and all the potential Sparks within into Anti-Sparks.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live. Fuel is scarce, most of the cities nigh-abandoned or run down, the police ludicrously corrupt or evil (or both), and the Builders crap on everyone.
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live. Fuel is scarce, most of the cities nigh-abandoned or run down, the police ludicrously corrupt or evil (or both), and the Builders crap on everyone.
** Max-B is [[spoiler:one of Megatron's test subjects he had to put down]] in "Not All Megatrons".
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Humanity's M.O. with Cybertronians. A Decepticon launches an attack on them that ultimately fails? Punish ''all'' Cybertronians by forcing them off their planets, regardless of alignment or involvement.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]]. Are we talking about the Jews in Nazi Germany, or the Targetmasters?
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]]. Are we talking about the Jews in Nazi Germany, or the Targetmasters?
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* EnemyMine: The resistance consists of Maximals and Predacons. They don't always get along too well.
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* EnemyMine: EnemyMine:
** The resistance consists of Maximals and Predacons. They don't always get along toowell.well.
** Autobots and Decepticons came together to [[spoiler:take down Thunderwing, which helped create the Builder Assembly.]]
** The resistance consists of Maximals and Predacons. They don't always get along too
** Autobots and Decepticons came together to [[spoiler:take down Thunderwing, which helped create the Builder Assembly.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Back when the Autobots could have even been considered good, during the war on Nebulos, they apparently used Fausto Borx's daughter Llyra as a distraction when he was fighting Fortress Maximus in order to win.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Humanity as a whole. They treat Cybertronians appallingly, punishing all of them for the crimes of a few, but have no problem allowing the Quintessons free reign.
** "Not All Megatrons" has Megatron committing mad science once again.
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** The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't clear.
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** The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't clear.
** Something called "The Rending".
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* TautologicalTemplar: Fortress Maximus was the one largely responsible for Cybertron's current crappy state. He thinks it's still better than any possible alternative, regardless of the fact that Cybertronians are still being made to live in a police state where at any point they might be made to fight and die for no real reason.
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* TautologicalTemplar: Fortress Maximus was the one largely is partly responsible for Cybertron's current crappy state. He thinks it's still better than any possible alternative, regardless of the fact that Cybertronians are still being made to live in a police state where at any point they might be made to fight and die for no real reason.
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** Thunderhoof shows up running a gang in Iacon.
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** Thunderhoof shows some of the decepticons from RID 2015 (Thunderhoof, Bisk and Paralon) make a appearance with the former showing up running a gang in Iacon.
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* BodyHorror: Leatherhide is an Autobot who took on Maximal size, but has abandoned any kind of robot mode, only having two beast modes, with his robot mode head visible in his bat-form's mouth.
* TheCorruptor: [[spoiler:Galva Convoy hopes to corrupt his version of the Energon Matrix and all the potential Sparks within into Anti-Sparks.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A group of people told they were being ReleasedToElsewhere, only to be met with [[spoiler:attempted genocide]].
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* MaddenIntoMisanthrophy: Or the Cybertronian equivalent. [[spoiler:Within a few cycles of being created, Galva Convoy has studied all of Cybertronian history, and comes to the conclusion that it'll all have to go - Maximal, Predacon, Autobot and Decepticon alike.]]
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* MaddenIntoMisanthrophy: MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Or the Cybertronian equivalent. [[spoiler:Within a few cycles of being created, Galva Convoy has studied all of Cybertronian history, and comes to the conclusion that it'll all have to go - Maximal, Predacon, Autobot and Decepticon alike.]]
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* RealityEnsues: "A Brush With Infamy" explores exactly what would happen when you have robots the size of cities duking it out - massive environmental damage.
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** Wolfang in "Trigger Warnings"
* CloningGambit: After Lio Convoy starts the revolution, Eject comes up with the idea of cloning him. [[spoiler:Then they decide to include the G-Virus into the mix, resulting in Galva Convoy, who starts hearing whispers from someone, and decides to forge his own plan, starting with corrupting his version of the Matrix.]]
* CloningGambit: After Lio Convoy starts the revolution, Eject comes up with the idea of cloning him. [[spoiler:Then they decide to include the G-Virus into the mix, resulting in Galva Convoy, who starts hearing whispers from someone, and decides to forge his own plan, starting with corrupting his version of the Matrix.]]
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* FantasticCasteSystem: There is mention of some very [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Functionist]] systems in place, if not functionism proper. Meanwhile, society is tiered with the Builders right on top, and the Maximals and Predacons at the bottom.
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* FantasticCasteSystem: There is mention of some very [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Functionist]] systems in place, if not functionism proper. Meanwhile, society is tiered with the Builders right on top, and the Maximals and Predacons at the bottom. Micromasters, Cyberdroids and anyone else lies inbetween.
** One of the worlds they destroyed was the planet Master, which had been taken over by Galvatron and the Decepticons, forcing the inhabitants, regardless of alignment, to flee to Cybertron to live as second-class (at best) citizens.
* HybridOverkillAvoidance: In the final days of the war, Galvatron became a mixture of Headmaster, Powermaster and Targetmaster - the Triple Threat Masters. It came at the cost of vastly reducing Galvatron's lifespan, but no-one involved cared so much.
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* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug. Just adding to the creepiness, it's state-sponsored, and no-one seems to have any problem with the idea of Predacons rummaging around in someone's head to remove unpleasant memories.
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* MindRape: MaddenIntoMisanthrophy: Or the Cybertronian equivalent. [[spoiler:Within a few cycles of being created, Galva Convoy has studied all of Cybertronian history, and comes to the conclusion that it'll all have to go - Maximal, Predacon, Autobot and Decepticon alike.]]
* MindRape:
** Hello, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug. Just adding to the creepiness, it's state-sponsored, and no-one seems to have any problem with the idea of Predacons rummaging around in someone's head to remove unpleasantmemories.memories.
** Megatron also has it done to Cryotek, to get control over his slice of the criminal underworld.
* MindRape:
** Hello, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug. Just adding to the creepiness, it's state-sponsored, and no-one seems to have any problem with the idea of Predacons rummaging around in someone's head to remove unpleasant
** Megatron also has it done to Cryotek, to get control over his slice of the criminal underworld.
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** Something called "The Scouring of Nebulos" was the final straw for mankind.
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** Something called "The Scouring of Nebulos" was the final straw for mankind. It's revealed in "A Brush With Infamy" to have been the war reaching the planet, and the battle between Fortress Maximus and [=MegaZarak=] utterly devastating an already battered planet, so much so it couldn't support life.
** An incident involving Thunderwing and the Grand Mal. [[spoiler:He got his hands on the Underbase, absorbed its power, and his troops, killed the Wreckers and merged with the flying fortress.]]
** An incident involving Thunderwing and the Grand Mal. [[spoiler:He got his hands on the Underbase, absorbed its power, and his troops, killed the Wreckers and merged with the flying fortress.]]
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** Thunderhoof shows up running a gang in Iacon.
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* ConflictBall: Deliberately invokved by the Builders when putting ship crews together. The Predacon workers have Maximal officers, which naturally prevents them working together effectively.
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* ConflictBall: Deliberately invokved invoked by the Builders when putting ship crews together. The Predacon workers have Maximal officers, which naturally prevents them working together effectively.
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* TheMole: A few Predacons are actually Go-Bots, having snuck in from another universe. During a raid on the Forever Vault, they spared Cop-Tur out of confusion as to whether he was ''their'' Cop-Tur, which he wasn't.
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* TheMole: TheMole:
** A few Predacons are actually Go-Bots, having snuck in from another universe. During a raid on the Forever Vault, they spared Cop-Tur out of confusion as to whether he was ''their'' Cop-Tur, which hewasn't.wasn't.
** Wolfang the Maximal Security Officer is secretly [[spoiler:Wolfang the Predacon Secret Police agent.]]
** A few Predacons are actually Go-Bots, having snuck in from another universe. During a raid on the Forever Vault, they spared Cop-Tur out of confusion as to whether he was ''their'' Cop-Tur, which he
** Wolfang the Maximal Security Officer is secretly [[spoiler:Wolfang the Predacon Secret Police agent.]]
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** According to Jim Sorenson, during the war on Earth, San Francisco got destroyed. [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationTwo Again.]]
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** During ''Trigger Warnings'', Blackarachnia first goes under the alias of "Venus" (after her first VA, Venus Terzo), then Elita (after her Animated counterpart).
** According to Jim Sorenson, during the war on Earth, San Francisco got destroyed.[[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationTwo [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2 Again.]]
** According to Jim Sorenson, during the war on Earth, San Francisco got destroyed.
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* NiceGuy: Gnashteeth is an affable, jovial sort, even willing to talk to Maximals. Then his mentor Double Punch screws him over in the name of politics...
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Thunderhoof unleashes one on Gnashteeth, bad enough to leave him in the CR Chamber for a deca-cycle, as a warning.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Thunderhoof unleashes one on Gnashteeth, bad enough to leave him in the CR Chamber for a deca-cycle, as a warning.
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* OffWithHisHead: Gnashteeth threatens to hang Thunderhoof's head from Iacon's spires. [[spoiler:When he becomes Megatron, he follows through on this threat.]]
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** In a slightly more literal fashion, a handful of Go-Bot Renegades have infiltrated the Predacons.
* CombiningMecha: Not so common on post-war Cybertron, though the Renegades use their combined form, Monstrous, to breach the Forever Vault. Rodimus isn't happy to hear that one.
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* FascistButInefficient: Cybertronian society is engineered in such a way that the Builders are in charge, and everyone else suffers because... because, and the Builders refuse to give up on old grudges. At one point, Scorponok comes up with a way to increase energon output by a good percentage, but Megatron points out that it'd get shot down just because a Predacon suggesting it.
* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Black Arachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to rot.
* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Black Arachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to rot.
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* FascistButInefficient: Cybertronian society is engineered in such a way that the Builders are in charge, and everyone else suffers because... because, and the Builders refuse to give up on old grudges. At one point, Scorponok comes up with a way to increase energon output by a good percentage, but Megatron points out that it'd get shot down just because a Predacon suggesting suggested it.
* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliationBlack Arachnia Blackarachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to rot.
* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation
* HopeSpot: According to Jim Sorenson, the rise of Rodimus Prime was one for the Autobots, which has something to do with his low status in the story's present.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
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** According to Jim Sorenson, during the war on Earth, San Francisco got destroyed. [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationTwo Again.]]
*NecessarilyEvil: NecessarilyEvil:
** Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
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** Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
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* ParanoiaFuel: The second time the Resistance tried infiltrating Fort Max, the team had been informed about his abilities. Unfortunately, this meant they all turned on one another thanks.
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* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe. The second time the Resistance tried infiltrating Fort Max, the team had been informed about his abilities. Unfortunately, this meant they all turned on one another thanks.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Full-Tilt is about the only Builder who thinks ''maybe'' treating the Predacons and Maximals like crap, and murdering them for utterly petty reasons isn't the best way to go.
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* NoodleIncident: The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't clear.
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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
** The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn'tclear.clear.
** Something called "The Scouring of Nebulos" was the final straw for mankind.
** The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't
** Something called "The Scouring of Nebulos" was the final straw for mankind.
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* TheRemnant: Cybertron itself, thanks to humanity, who eventually got fed up of their actions. Three hundred years ago the Autobots and Decepticons were given only four colonies. By the time the story starts, they'd been brought down to ''one'', while the Autobots and Decepticons continue pointless fighting rather than trying to rebuild their society.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The series goes out of its way to focus on obscure and underused characters from across the Transformers mythos, giving leading roles to C-list characters like Wolfang, Buzzclaw, Eject, Synapse, or Twirl.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: Thunderhoof and Terrorsaur mockingly call Gnashteeth "Megatron" when they beat him up. Later on, he decides to go with it.
* EvilIsPetty: The Builders treat Micromasters, Maximals and Predacons as second-class citizens out of jealousy for their mobility.
* FascistButInefficient: Cybertronian society is engineered in such a way that the Builders are in charge, and everyone else suffers because... because, and the Builders refuse to give up on old grudges. At one point, Scorponok comes up with a way to increase energon output by a good percentage, but Megatron points out that it'd get shot down just because a Predacon suggesting it.
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* GeniusLoci: Fortress Maximus, who is far too big and energy intensive to move, so he's been repurposed as a prison for political prisoners.
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* GeniusLoci: GeniusLoci:
** Fortress Maximus, who is far too big and energy intensive to move, so he's been repurposed as a prison for politicalprisoners.prisoners.
** [[spoiler:Trypticon is repurposed as a spaceship.]]
** Fortress Maximus, who is far too big and energy intensive to move, so he's been repurposed as a prison for political
** [[spoiler:Trypticon is repurposed as a spaceship.]]
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* ThePoliticialOfficer: They're Micromasters, there to keep an eye on the Maximals and Predacons. Synapse of "Intersectionality" is the ''Dinosaur'''s appointed officer, and he's a total skidplate. [[spoiler:And that's before he starts murdering people.]]
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* ThePoliticialOfficer: ParanoiaFuel: The second time the Resistance tried infiltrating Fort Max, the team had been informed about his abilities. Unfortunately, this meant they all turned on one another thanks.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: They're Micromasters, there to keep an eye on the Maximals and Predacons. Synapse of "Intersectionality" is the ''Dinosaur'''s appointed officer, and he's a total skidplate. [[spoiler:And that's before he starts murdering people.]]
* ThePoliticalOfficer: They're Micromasters, there to keep an eye on the Maximals and Predacons. Synapse of "Intersectionality" is the ''Dinosaur'''s appointed officer, and he's a total skidplate. [[spoiler:And that's before he starts murdering people.]]
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* StartOfDarkness: "Identity Politics" is one for Scorponok and Megatron.
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** ''Trigger Warning'' gives more details on the Extirpation. The Targetmasters were smaller beings who could transform into guns for larger Transformers, some of them being native Cybertronians while others were humans or Nebulan allies. In the mainstream universes, the primary advantage of the Targetmasters is having a weapon that can aim itself, allowing the wielder to focus on other matters. In the Uprising universe, the Targetmasters are described as granting enough firepower to level siege-works (the mainstream universe Targetmasters are also mentioned as being more powerful than regular weapons, but not to this extent). When the Great War ended, the Targetmasters were deemed too powerful for either side to have and so were gathered in order to grant them exile to a safe world of their choice where they never needed to fear being used as weapons again. [[spoiler]]The assembled Targetmasters were then massacred by their former comrades, with both Autobot and Decepticon taking part in the slaughter.[[/spoiler]]
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** ''Trigger Warning'' gives more details on the Extirpation. The Targetmasters were smaller beings who could transform into guns for larger Transformers, some of them being native Cybertronians while others were humans or Nebulan allies. In the mainstream universes, the primary advantage of the Targetmasters is having a weapon that can aim itself, allowing the wielder to focus on other matters. In the Uprising universe, the Targetmasters are described as granting enough firepower to level siege-works (the mainstream universe Targetmasters are also mentioned as being more powerful than regular weapons, but not to this extent). When the Great War ended, the Targetmasters were deemed too powerful for either side to have and so were gathered in order to grant them exile to a safe world of their choice where they never needed to fear being used as weapons again. [[spoiler]]The [[spoiler:The assembled Targetmasters were then massacred by their former comrades, with both Autobot and Decepticon taking part in the slaughter.[[/spoiler]] ]]
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** Hydra and Killer Punch get murdered in "Intersectionality", and Hardhead [[spoiler:gets his Spark carved out by Lord Imperious Delirious]].
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** Hydra and Killer Punch get murdered in "Intersectionality", and Hardhead Hard Head [[spoiler:gets his Spark carved out by Lord Imperious Delirious]].
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** ''Trigger Warning'' gives more details on the Extirpation. The Targetmasters were smaller beings who could transform into guns for larger Transformers, some of them being native Cybertronians while others were humans or Nebulan allies. In the mainstream universes, the primary advantage of the Targetmasters is having a weapon that can aim itself, allowing the wielder to focus on other matters. In the Uprising universe, the Targetmasters are described as granting enough firepower to level siege-works (the mainstream universe Targetmasters are also mentioned as being more powerful than regular weapons, but not to this extent). When the Great War ended, the Targetmasters were deemed too powerful for either side to have and so were gathered in order to grant them exile to a safe world of their choice where they never needed to fear being used as weapons again. [[spoiler]]The assembled Targetmasters were then massacred by their former comrades, with both Autobot and Decepticon taking part in the slaughter.[[/spoiler]]
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* AliensStealCable: By the 24th century, Cybertron is still picking up ancient Earth transmissions, and the Games were inspired by old broadcasts of ''Film/TheHungerGames''.
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* HumansAreSpecial: It took a little less than forty years for humans to reverse-engineer and surpass the limits of Cybertronian technology.
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* ConflictBall: Deliberately invokved by the Builders when putting ship crews together. The Predacon workers have Maximal officers, which naturally prevents them working together effectively.
** Mach Kick steps on a land-mine in "Micro-Aggressions"
** Hydra and Killer Punch get murdered in "Intersectionality", and Hardhead [[spoiler:gets his Spark carved out by Lord Imperious Delirious]].
** Hydra and Killer Punch get murdered in "Intersectionality", and Hardhead [[spoiler:gets his Spark carved out by Lord Imperious Delirious]].
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* TheEndsJustifyTheMeans: Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
* HumansAreBastards: Sure, mankind may have become a technologically enlightened people, capable of reviving people who've been dead for thousands of years... but they're also arrogant snobs, who won't revive people they don't like, and have boxed the Cybertronians in, not to mention that if they do something they don't like, humanity's perfectly prepared to take what little else they have. [[spoiler:Though they're alright if the Cybertronians do something positive.]]
* NecessarilyEvil: Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
* ThePoliticialOfficer: They're Micromasters, there to keep an eye on the Maximals and Predacons. Synapse of "Intersectionality" is the ''Dinosaur'''s appointed officer, and he's a total skidplate. [[spoiler:And that's before he starts murdering people.]]
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* ScaleMayVary: The art in "Head Games" doesn't quite jibe with the suggestion of the city-sized Fortress Maximus compared to the much smaller Maximals and Predacons.
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* TooDumbToLive: Hot Rod really comes across as this in "Micro-Aggressions", since he believes Snapper will be treated fairly by the Builders after he's arrested. This is while they're at an arena where those same Builders had just been planning to make prisoners of war fight for their amusement.
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* TheEndsJustifyTheMeans: Grimlock unsurprisingly believes in this, as he planned to release the G-Virus that would turn every Builder present into a raving maniac like G1 Galvatron. Since Builders are totally immobile, Grimlock reasoned that they would thus become harmless, as they wouldn't be able to give coherent commands or plan attacks on the rebels. This also means, however, that Grimlock was more than willing to infect every Maximal and Predacon who happened to be in the area as well.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
** Lio Convoy is willing to deceive and kill if it means overthrowing the Builders and giving the Maximals and Predacons the chance to create their own future.
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* EvilKnockoff: To counter Lio Convoy, Eject plans to create an evil duplicate with an Energon Matrix of his own.
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* ForWantOfANail: The caption comic 'A Change To The Agenda' claims that the crapsack Uprising universe came about because this is an alternate universe where Beast Wars Megatron successfully killed Optimus Prime and in retaliation Black Arachnia poisoned G1 Megatron with her cybervenom. Without Optimus Prime leading the Autobots, the battles they had with the Decepticons were apparently much more destructive, to the point that the highly advanced humans of the Uprising Era sealed the Transformers into a small sector of space and then left them to rot.
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* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Lio Convoy was considered the Builders' single best agent. Once Blackarachnia reveals the Energon Matrix in his chest, however, he decides to lead a rebellion to overthrow the Builders.
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** Eject laments the fact that all the truly great Cybertronians like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Prowl, Bumblebee and Starscream are long gone.
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* BloodKnight: Ser-Ket ''wants'' to be one, fighting actual wars on other worlds, rather than pointless games for someone else's amusement.
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** Ser-Ket, a character from one of IDW's "Fall of Cybertron" tie-ins.
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** Diver and Cohrada, in "HeadGames".Games".
** [[spoiler:Bighorn, in "Burning Bridges"]]
** Diver and Cohrada, in "Head
** [[spoiler:Bighorn, in "Burning Bridges"]]
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** While on guard duty, Stiletto finds an old [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Noisemaze unit]], and wonders if the building once held [[Anime/TransformersMasterforce [[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Guardminders]] as well.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Rhinox, Silverbolt and even the Boss Bot himself, Optimus Primal, are all dead by the time the story begins. Rhinox and Silverbolt because of Predacons. Optimus, however, was killed by Blackarachnia, Nightscream and Cheetor.
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* PosthumousCharacter: PosthumousCharacter:
** Rhinox, Silverbolt and even the Boss Bot himself, Optimus Primal, are all dead by the time the story begins. Rhinox and Silverbolt because of Predacons. Optimus, however, was killed by Blackarachnia, Nightscream andCheetor.Cheetor.
** [[spoiler:Cerebros, the actual intelligence behind Fortress Maximus, is long dead. But his thoughts live on inside the cyberdroids that manage his bulk.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Averted. Apparently here Lio Convoy and Lio Junior aren't related at all.
* ScaleMayVary: The art in "Head Games" doesn't quite jibe with the suggestion of the city-sized Fortress Maximus compared to the much smaller Maximals and Predacons.
** Rhinox, Silverbolt and even the Boss Bot himself, Optimus Primal, are all dead by the time the story begins. Rhinox and Silverbolt because of Predacons. Optimus, however, was killed by Blackarachnia, Nightscream and
** [[spoiler:Cerebros, the actual intelligence behind Fortress Maximus, is long dead. But his thoughts live on inside the cyberdroids that manage his bulk.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Averted. Apparently here Lio Convoy and Lio Junior aren't related at all.
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* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: From the sound of it, Wolffang speaks with a New York accent.
* BoomHeadshot: Overshoot manages to take out three 'bots with these in quick succession.
* BoomHeadshot: Overshoot manages to take out three 'bots with these in quick succession.
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** The rebels see any Maximal or Predacon who doesn't side with them as a traitor.
** Humanity meanwhile, lists the Witwicky family as criminals (most likely on account of being friends with the robots).
* CharacterFocus:
** Buzzsaw, in ''HeadGames''.Games''.
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in ''Burning Bridges''.
* CorruptCop: An awful lot of the Maximal Security Forces, according to Overshoot. Probably because most of the recruits just signed up to avoid getting sent off to the Games (the MSF have an exclusion clause).
** The rebels see any Maximal or Predacon who doesn't side with them as a traitor.
** Humanity meanwhile, lists the Witwicky family as criminals (most likely on account of being friends with the robots).
* CharacterFocus:
** Buzzsaw, in ''Head
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in ''Burning Bridges''.
* CorruptCop: An awful lot of the Maximal Security Forces, according to Overshoot. Probably because most of the recruits just signed up to avoid getting sent off to the Games (the MSF have an exclusion clause).
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The end of ''Burning Bridges'' mentions a "Targetmaster Extirpation".
* DeathByAdaptation: Cohrada, in "Head Games".
* DeathByAdaptation: Cohrada, in "Head Games".
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* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
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* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug. Just adding to the creepiness, it's state-sponsored, and no-one seems to have any problem with the idea of Predacons rummaging around in someone's head to remove unpleasant memories.
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** Engex is a popular drink order at Cybertronian bars, along with a component of makeshift grenades.
** While on guard duty, Stiletto finds an old [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Noisemaze unit]], and wonders if the building once held [[Anime/TransformersMasterforce Guardminders]] as well.
** While on guard duty, Stiletto finds an old [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Noisemaze unit]], and wonders if the building once held [[Anime/TransformersMasterforce Guardminders]] as well.
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* OpenSecret: Everyone ''knew'' about Betabear's nucleon habit. They just didn't see it as a problem until he tried to murder some schmuck and got a knife to the brains for it.
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The series consists of several text stories published on the fan club's website, along with a storyline in the fan-comic.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Builders of Cybertron are utter dicks, having created the Maximals and Predacons solely to fight in their stead when they couldn't, and then after that putting them in rigged arena combat just so they can bet on it.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Builders of Cybertron are utter dicks, having created the Maximals and Predacons solely to fight in their stead when they couldn't, and then after that putting them in rigged arena combat just so they can bet on it. They're also not above murdering people who've won previous games to "liven things up".
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* DemonicPossession: Anyone infected by the G-Virus [[spoiler:becomes a new body for Galvatron, like Cop-Tur.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a bad drug habit. Not a good thing when you're a bad-tempered riot control officer.
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a bad drug habit. Not a good thing when you're a bad-tempered riot control officer.
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* DemonicPossession: Anyone infected by the G-Virus [[spoiler:becomes a new body for Galvatron, like Cop-Tur. Grimlock wanted to unleash it on a crowd of builders and render them completely impotent, not caring it'd infect a lot more able-bodied Maximals and Predacons.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a baddrug nucleon habit. Not a good thing when you're a bad-tempered riot control officer. [[spoiler:His partner Stilleto had to put him down because it made him try and kill some sap who went near him.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a bad
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* FantasticRacism: Some Autobots and Decepticons downsized to Micromasters. The Builders don't treat them any better than they do the Maximals and Predacons.
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* FantasticRacism: FantasticRacism:
** Some Autobots and Decepticons downsized to Micromasters. The Builders don't treat them any better than they do the Maximals andPredacons.Predacons.
** Meanwhile, post-Singularity humans treat regular old humans like second class citizens.
** Some Autobots and Decepticons downsized to Micromasters. The Builders don't treat them any better than they do the Maximals and
** Meanwhile, post-Singularity humans treat regular old humans like second class citizens.
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* InternalReformist: Hot Rod's become one, trying to convince the Builders to downsize. Grimlock thinks he's wasting his time.
* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
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* InternalReformist: Hot Rod's become one, trying to convince the Builders to downsize.downsize, and maybe knock it off with the jackassery. Grimlock thinks he's wasting his time.
* MindRape: Hello,[[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
* MindRape: Hello,
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** Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Point-One Percenters.
** Nuke is mentioned.
** Nuke is mentioned.
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** One of the many things kept in the Forever Vault is some schematics for Madmachines, a evil device of the week from Anime/TransformersHeadmasters.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Ser-Ket to Lio Convoy, when she learns about the Resistance's plan for Fortress Maximus.
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** A great many Autobots are willing to enforce the system that makes the Maximals fight and die in pointless, rigged games.
* CanonImmigrant: Several Mini-Cons show up repurposed as Micromasters.
* DemonicPossession: Anyone infected by the G-Virus [[spoiler:becomes a new body for Galvatron, like Cop-Tur.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a bad drug habit. Not a good thing when you're a bad-tempered riot control officer.
* DrugsAreBad: Betabear had a bad drug habit. Not a good thing when you're a bad-tempered riot control officer.
* EnemyMine: The resistance consists of Maximals and Predacons. They don't always get along too well.
* FantasticRacism: Some Autobots and Decepticons downsized to Micromasters. The Builders don't treat them any better than they do the Maximals and Predacons.
* InternalReformist: Hot Rod's become one, trying to convince the Builders to downsize. Grimlock thinks he's wasting his time.
* TheMole: A few Predacons are actually Go-Bots, having snuck in from another universe. During a raid on the Forever Vault, they spared Cop-Tur out of confusion as to whether he was ''their'' Cop-Tur, which he wasn't.
* MythologyGag:
** On seeing one Builder in a crowd with a monocular head, Snapper reckons he's been subject to empurata.
** The G-Virus is said by Hot Rod to be fuelled by [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Dark Energon]].
** ''Micro-Aggressions'' establishes the first human AI was build in 1985 (a reference to TORQ III, from the original cartoon).
* NoodleIncident: The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't clear.
* MythologyGag:
** On seeing one Builder in a crowd with a monocular head, Snapper reckons he's been subject to empurata.
** The G-Virus is said by Hot Rod to be fuelled by [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Dark Energon]].
** ''Micro-Aggressions'' establishes the first human AI was build in 1985 (a reference to TORQ III, from the original cartoon).
* NoodleIncident: The last she was seen, Blackarachnia was in the Shattered Glass universe, with Alpha Trion. Exactly how she wound up back home, apparently without her stolen Transtech body, isn't clear.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Blackarachnia, Nightscream and two Predacons tried fleeing Cybertron. They wound up in Axiom Nexus.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Blackarachnia, Nightscream and two Predacons tried fleeing Cybertron. They wound up in Axiom Nexus. Blackarachnia wasn't pleased when she wound up coming back.
* SurferDude: For some reason, B'Boom talks like this.
* SurferDude: For some reason, B'Boom talks like this.
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* NotSoStoic: Kord the Cyberdroid, after [[spoiler:being removed from Fortress Maximus]]:
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Three hundred years into the future, and Cybertron's Great War is over. The Autobots and Decepticons have created the Maximals and Predacons to fight on in their stead. Confined to Cybertron, a whole new generation of Transformers fight and die for their creators' amusement. But some of their creations start to wonder ''why'' they have to do this, and so begins an all-new Cybertronian war.
A BadFuture interpretation of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', this storyline was first established in a bio of Blackarachina, during ''Franchise/TransformersTimelines'' visit to the Transtech universe. It was some years later before any readers got a good look at this universe, which was also the subject of a five-issue storyline, and assorted prose stories showing, among other things, the start of the war.
!!Tropes
* AbusivePrecursors: The Builders of Cybertron are utter dicks, having created the Maximals and Predacons solely to fight in their stead when they couldn't, and then after that putting them in rigged arena combat just so they can bet on it.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Beast Machines-era Snarl, normally portrayed as a pretty good guy, is a Builder thug.
** Bighorn, normally a GentleGiant, is a {{Jerkass}}
** Lio Convoy, the typical squeaky-clean BigGood, is willing to rig fights for his Builder masters, and on occasion murder survivors of previous Games on their orders. And then when he starts the revolution, he's still willing to do unethical things in the name of victory.
* BreadAndCircuses: The games, mostly for the Builders, but it also keeps the Maximals and Predacons from doing much themselves.
* CharacterFocus: Buzzsaw, in ''Head Games''.
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live.
* EarlyBirdCameo: This universe was first mentioned in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio, then Depth Charge's, some years before we really see it.
* FantasticCasteSystem: There is mention of some very [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Functionist]] systems in place, if not functionism proper. Meanwhile, society is tiered with the Builders right on top, and the Maximals and Predacons at the bottom.
* GeniusLoci: Fortress Maximus, who is far too big and energy intensive to move, so he's been repurposed as a prison for political prisoners.
* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
* PosthumousCharacter: Rhinox, Silverbolt and even the Boss Bot himself, Optimus Primal, are all dead by the time the story begins. Rhinox and Silverbolt because of Predacons. Optimus, however, was killed by Blackarachnia, Nightscream and Cheetor.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Blackarachnia, Nightscream and two Predacons tried fleeing Cybertron. They wound up in Axiom Nexus.
* TalkativeLoon: Fortress Maximus's components, on account of having more than one person's mind and history crammed inside their head. They don't even know who they are anymore.
* WholePlotReference: Yes, the Games do resemble ''Franchise/TheHungerGames'' on purpose, both in and out of universe. Eject took the idea from an old broadcast he caught.
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A BadFuture interpretation of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', this storyline was first established in a bio of Blackarachina, during ''Franchise/TransformersTimelines'' visit to the Transtech universe. It was some years later before any readers got a good look at this universe, which was also the subject of a five-issue storyline, and assorted prose stories showing, among other things, the start of the war.
!!Tropes
* AbusivePrecursors: The Builders of Cybertron are utter dicks, having created the Maximals and Predacons solely to fight in their stead when they couldn't, and then after that putting them in rigged arena combat just so they can bet on it.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Beast Machines-era Snarl, normally portrayed as a pretty good guy, is a Builder thug.
** Bighorn, normally a GentleGiant, is a {{Jerkass}}
** Lio Convoy, the typical squeaky-clean BigGood, is willing to rig fights for his Builder masters, and on occasion murder survivors of previous Games on their orders. And then when he starts the revolution, he's still willing to do unethical things in the name of victory.
* BreadAndCircuses: The games, mostly for the Builders, but it also keeps the Maximals and Predacons from doing much themselves.
* CharacterFocus: Buzzsaw, in ''Head Games''.
* CrapsackWorld: Put succinctly, Cybertron is a pretty terrible place for anyone to live.
* EarlyBirdCameo: This universe was first mentioned in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio, then Depth Charge's, some years before we really see it.
* FantasticCasteSystem: There is mention of some very [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Functionist]] systems in place, if not functionism proper. Meanwhile, society is tiered with the Builders right on top, and the Maximals and Predacons at the bottom.
* GeniusLoci: Fortress Maximus, who is far too big and energy intensive to move, so he's been repurposed as a prison for political prisoners.
* MindRape: Hello, [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye mnemosurgery]], for any 'bot who isn't diligent enough in their duties as a fascist thug.
* PosthumousCharacter: Rhinox, Silverbolt and even the Boss Bot himself, Optimus Primal, are all dead by the time the story begins. Rhinox and Silverbolt because of Predacons. Optimus, however, was killed by Blackarachnia, Nightscream and Cheetor.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Blackarachnia, Nightscream and two Predacons tried fleeing Cybertron. They wound up in Axiom Nexus.
* TalkativeLoon: Fortress Maximus's components, on account of having more than one person's mind and history crammed inside their head. They don't even know who they are anymore.
* WholePlotReference: Yes, the Games do resemble ''Franchise/TheHungerGames'' on purpose, both in and out of universe. Eject took the idea from an old broadcast he caught.
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