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[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Music/TheBeatles "You say you want a revolution/Well, you know/We know/]][[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet We all want to change the world."]]]]''
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Music/TheBeatles "You say you want a revolution/Well, you know/We all want to change the world."]]]]''
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** Micromaster Run-Over speaks only in quote from The Simpsons. Its quite easy to do so--in this universe, the show ran for several thousand episodes (at the time the story was written, it was a little over 600).
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** Beast Machines-era Snarl, normally portrayed as a pretty good guy, is a Builder thug.
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** Beast Machines-era ''Beast Machines''-era Snarl, normally portrayed as a pretty good guy, is a Builder thug.
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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. [[spoiler:Derailment confirms that Triple-Threat ''was'' Optimus, but that he died sacrificing himself to take out The Swarm.]]
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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. [[spoiler:Derailment [[spoiler:''Derailment'' confirms that Triple-Threat ''was'' Optimus, but that he died sacrificing himself to take out The Swarm.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: One of the key points of this universe is that, unlike some continuities, Maximals and Predacons are not just smaller, more efficient versions of Autobots and Decepticons, but an entirely separate race altogether. This means the Beast Upgrade doesn't work on the Builders and their flunkies.
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* CompositeCharacter: Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command Security Force.
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* CompositeCharacter: CompositeCharacter:
** Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command SecurityForce.Force.
** Stockade the 2003 ''Universe'' tank-bot and Stockade the 2008 ''Universe'' Triceratops are made the same character.
** Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command Security
** Stockade the 2003 ''Universe'' tank-bot and Stockade the 2008 ''Universe'' Triceratops are made the same character.
** ''Beast Wars'' Megatron's megalomania and god-complex are absent, having been transferred over to Galvatron, [[spoiler:as has being the mastermind behind the Vehicon generals.]]
** Apparently, while Unicron did attack Cybertron pretty much as usual, this time around he only ate one of Cybertron's four (well, three afterwards) moons before getting done in.
** Stockade getting turned into a Vehicon. The ''2003'' Stockade was a repaint of Tankor. Here, the Vehicon virus starts turning her into a Tank Drone before her comrades try (and fail) to save her.
** Deluge mentions that previous Cybertronian incidents involving Earth involved "the Cube", "the Harvester" and "the Hate Plague".
** The fight between the Cybertronian Empire and the Autobots. "The Book of Logos" hints that Megatron (as in the ''original'' Megs) might've been involved somehow, in events not too dissimilar from the non-canonical ''Alignment''. (The confusion might have something to do with Logos jumping from time to time, so it's entirely possible the fight with the Swarm came before Unicron showed up).
** The exact specifics of Unicron's attack on Cybertron.
** While it is made clear Optimus got a resurrection, the story is amazingly unspecific as to ''how''.
** While it is made clear Optimus got a resurrection, the story is amazingly unspecific as to ''how''.
** Sunstorm blows himself up to save his congregation from Vehicons.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The hidden story of "The Inexorable March" contains many references to the events after the main story. Problem is, the guy narrating it is shown to be very unreliable as a journalistic source, suffering a bad case of cognitive bias, so anything he mentions should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
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** The Book of Logos, the hidden story of "Derailment", is written as a religious vision in pseudo-Jacobean English, which makes figuring out what's happening... a little difficult, to say the least.
** The hidden story of "The Inexorable March" contains many references to the events after the main story. Problem is, the guy narrating it is shown to be very unreliable as a journalistic source, suffering a bad case of cognitive bias, so anything he mentions should probably be taken with a grain ofsalt.salt.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the midst of their raid on the Forever Vaults, the Monster Go-Bots accidentally infect a hapless guard with the G-Virus, and think no more of it. That guard turns into a new Galvatron. Then, during the Vehicon Apocalypse, [[spoiler:this Galvatron witnesses Megatron using Waspinator to ward off the Vehicon hordes, and gets inspired to grab some drones of his own, which leads to at least one more bout with them.]]
** The Book of Logos, the hidden story of "Derailment", is written as a religious vision in pseudo-Jacobean English, which makes figuring out what's happening... a little difficult, to say the least.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the midst of their raid on the Forever Vaults, the Monster Go-Bots accidentally infect a hapless guard with the G-Virus, and think no more of it. That guard turns into a new Galvatron. Then, during the Vehicon Apocalypse, [[spoiler:this Galvatron witnesses Megatron using Waspinator to ward off the Vehicon hordes, and gets inspired to grab some drones of his own, which leads to at least one more bout with them.]]
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** "Micro-Aggressions" mentions that Hot Rod has the Aerialbots and Protectobots under his command, but despite the planet-shattering war, they're never seen again.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: During "Head Games", the Resistance has to kill several Micromaster guards to get through Fortress Maximus, with Cerebros noting their deaths (even the ones who were Decepticons), but it's okay because the Resistance are the good guys, right? In "Micro-Aggressions", we see their fellow Micromaster buddies hoping for a chance to get back at the Resistance for killing their buddies, who hadn't even been given full fuel rations by the Builder higher-ups, which might've saved them.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Optimus Prime's resurrection only brought him back for forty two cycles, and that was without him pulling an Optimus to save Earth.
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* CListFodder: One suspects part of the reason the story was able to go as grim as it did was this. The notoriously cruel Builder Assembly, for instance, have their most famous members being Ratbat, Crosscut, and a CanonImmigrant version of [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Knock Out]]. Who cares if ''Crosscut'' is evil?
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** The Convoy Council also includes Armada Convoy and Galaxy Convoy, who going by the names are based on ''Armada'' and ''Cybertron'' Optimus Prime.
** The Book of Logos mentions an unidentified villain, probably the Liege Maximo, waiting for "the alignment". ''Alignment'' being a convention story written by Simon Furman explaining just what was up with the Liege.
* PaintingTheMedium: During ''Derailment'', during a section written from Twinstrike's POV, the text splits in two, to represent Twinstrike's two heads.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Averted. Apparently here Lio Convoy and Lio Junior aren't related at all. Likewise, Galvatron from ''Beast Wars II'' and Megastorm have no relation.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Averted. Apparently here Lio Convoy and Lio Junior aren't related at all. Likewise, Galvatron from ''Beast Wars II'' and Megastorm have no relation. However, ''Beast Wars'' Galvatron is treated as a reincarnation of G1 Galvatron, as opposed to his anime version, who just took the name.
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** Dante the Cyberdroid wasn't even supposed to be here today!
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** Ikard orders a drink, hot, much like one [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] likes his earl grey hot.
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** The Commandoes are Maximals, rather than brainwashed-into-evil Decepticons, as they were in ''Robots in Disguise''. Though "heroism" is pushing it, given the whole "suicide bomb" thing...
** Override and Nitro Convoy. One's a Builder, the other a Commandron in the 34th century.
* EyepatchOfPower: Scylla, to go with the improved piratical theme she's got going on.
* InterspeciesRomance: Heavily implied to have happened between Rapticon and N'ell.
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** 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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** During "Broken Windshields", Autopedia, the Autobot database from ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'', makes an appearance. On 24th century Cybertron, it's just used to track the many stupid laws the Builders write.
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** "Broken Bridges" has Nuke as a popular stimulant.
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** "Broken "Burning Bridges" has Nuke as a popular stimulant.
** One of the Micromaster squad in "Safe Spaces" is Crunch, who previously showed up as a hi-and-die in the Dreamwave ''Micromasters'' miniseries. His luck isn't any better here.
** Steeljaw shows up leading The Pack, much like how his cartoon counterpart led another Pack. As in ''RID'', Steel-Jaw likes scratching everyone's faction insignia, though here it's to establish their membership, not to disable tracking devices.
** Rodimus' disastrous leadership of the Autobots.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: At the beginning of "Derailment", Tarantulas tries using the Robo-Smasher on Grimlock. It doesn't work.
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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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* 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. The only one who breaks this is Rampage, due to taking the name on spur of the moment when someone else mishears him.
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* TalksLikeAPirate: Scylla be talkin' all pirate-like, yar.
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** At the climax of "Safe Spaces", Gaidora is last seen tackling Cheetor and Ser-Ket into the arena, just before the Vehicon Apocalypse breaks loose. Her fate isn't given, but... doesn't look too good for her.
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* 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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* WholePlotReference: Yes, the Games do resemble ''Franchise/TheHungerGames'' ''Film/TheHungerGames'' on purpose, both in and out of universe. Eject took the idea from an old broadcast he caught.
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** According to Blackarachnia's Collector's Club bio, she and Nightscream killed Optimus Primal long before the start of the ''Uprising'' stories after he refused to turn on their Autobot masters.
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* CompositeCharacter: Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command Security Force.* ConflictBall: Deliberately 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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* CompositeCharacter: Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command Security Force.Force.
* ConflictBall: Deliberately invoked by the Builders when putting ship crews together. The Predacon workers have Maximal officers, which naturally prevents them working togethereffectively.effectively.
* ContinuitySnarl: The screen capture comic ''A Change to The Agenda'' presents the Uprising universe as the result of the Maximals failing to [[Recap/BeastWarsS2E13TheAgendaPart3 stop Megatron from killing Optimus Prime]], leading Blackarachnia to kill the original G1 Megatron in retaliation. This doesn't fit with previously established facts from the preceding stories. In particular, if Megatron had died millions of years ago, then Galvatron--stated to be prominent figure in the last Great War--shouldn't exist at all. The comic was apparently made without the input of the writers of the series.
* ConflictBall: Deliberately invoked by the Builders when putting ship crews together. The Predacon workers have Maximal officers, which naturally prevents them working together
* ContinuitySnarl: The screen capture comic ''A Change to The Agenda'' presents the Uprising universe as the result of the Maximals failing to [[Recap/BeastWarsS2E13TheAgendaPart3 stop Megatron from killing Optimus Prime]], leading Blackarachnia to kill the original G1 Megatron in retaliation. This doesn't fit with previously established facts from the preceding stories. In particular, if Megatron had died millions of years ago, then Galvatron--stated to be prominent figure in the last Great War--shouldn't exist at all. The comic was apparently made without the input of the writers of the series.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Know that in this universe, Razor-Claw has no relation to either Tigatron or Airazor, and exists entirely as a separate individual.
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** As with IDW, Bumblebee and Goldbug are separate characters (Bumblebee is mentioned as being long dead in "Head Games", while Goldbug is alive by "Derailment").
** Know that in this universe, Razor-Claw has no relation to either Tigatron or Airazor, and exists entirely as a separate individual.
** As with IDW, Bumblebee and Goldbug are separate characters (Bumblebee is mentioned as being long dead in "Head Games", while Goldbug is alive by "Derailment").
** Know that in this universe, Razor-Claw has no relation to either Tigatron or Airazor, and exists entirely as a separate individual.
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The coda story, ''The Inexorable March'', ends in the 34th century AC.]]
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** Eject laments the fact that all the truly great Cybertronians like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Prowl and Starscream are long gone. He includes Bumblebee in that list, but Bumblebee lives on as Goldbug.
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** Eject laments the fact that all the truly great Cybertronians like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Bumblebee, Prowl and Starscream are long gone. He includes Bumblebee in that list, but Bumblebee lives on as Goldbug.gone.
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* 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''.
* ConflictBall: Deliberately 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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* CompositeCharacter: Wolfang is Wolfang and Wolfang. That is, he looks like Beast Wars Wolfang, but he's actually his true identity is the Predacon Wolfang Takara released during their ''Beast Wars Telemocha Series''.
Series'', but he can change the appearance of his robot mode to make him look like Beast Wars Wolfang so he can spy on the Maximal Command Security Force.* ConflictBall: Deliberately 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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** 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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** Eject laments the fact that all the truly great Cybertronians like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Prowl, Bumblebee Prowl and Starscream are long gone.gone. He includes Bumblebee in that list, but Bumblebee lives on as Goldbug.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: ''Duran Duran'' apparently got some questioning looks when "Union of the Snake" came out, and had to assure people it had nothing to do with Cobra.
* AnArmAndALeg: Synapse's right arm is vaporized by Meduson as he's trying to kill Dead-End.
* BrickJoke: In "Broken Bridges", Overshoot notes that the Overcharge drone's user manual is a garbled mess. The hidden text is a translation of that manual, and it is indeed a garbled mess. Figures, when you buy Quintesson.
* EurekaMoment: Megatron is sitting there, pondering the way the war's going, as he thinks back to the ant-droid farm he had when he was Gnashteeth. That's when the idea of the Beast Upgrade comes to him.
** As shown at several points in the story, the Builders don't trust the proto-races to guard them. Either they get Micromasters to do it, or failing that, utterly inefficient and completely bone-brained drones.
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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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** Stiletto. She's ''damn good'' with knives. Or anything sharp and pointy.
** Overshoot snarks that the Overcharge drones are well-named, because the Builders paid too much for ludicrously inefficient clunkers.
** The Maximals got their name from Maxima, who get her name from Fortress Maximus. Meanwhile, the Predacons got their name in part from Preditron.
** Stiletto. She's ''damn good'' with knives. Or anything sharp and pointy.
** Overshoot snarks that the Overcharge drones are well-named, because the Builders paid too much for ludicrously inefficient clunkers.
** 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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** ''Micro-Aggressions'' establishes the first human AI was build in 1985 (a reference to TORQ III, from the original cartoon).
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** Hidden text in ''Micro-Aggressions'' establishes the first human AI was build in 1985 (a reference to TORQ III, from the original cartoon).
** Also, during the same story, Packrat loots a Stasis Pod from the [[WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise Alchemor]].
** Early on in "Derailment", a character muses he'll end up like Trailbreaker "after the DJD were through with him", a nod to the poor guy's graphic fate in ''The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye''.
** Toward the climax of "Derailment", a character mutters disbelief at how the war's come to everyone fighting a giant, screaming head. The much-mocked ''Combiner Wars'' webseries had Starscream turn into a giant, screaming head that everyone had to fight. Another reference shows up earlier on, when Lio Convoy tries bashing his sword as a sign of authority, but the sound it makes is a less-than impressive "doink". Said sound effect was a brief meme after some lousy sound editing from aforementioned series made the Mistress of Flame bashing her staff against the ground more comical than intended.
** Antagony and Cataclysm show up working for Shockaract at the end of "Derailment", just as they did in their first appearance. Here, Antagony comes out on top of her rival.
** The hidden text in "The Inexorable March" has a moment where Headmasters (tiny robots who turn into a larger robot's head) are conflated with Titanmasters (the renamed version of the Headmasters from ''Titans Return''). Also, Lio Convoy's supposed Titanmaster partner is apparently called "Moon Usagi", after Moon - one of the few ''Beast Wars II'' characters not to show up in the story.
** Early on in "Derailment", a character muses he'll end up like Trailbreaker "after the DJD were through with him", a nod to the poor guy's graphic fate in ''The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye''.
** Toward the climax of "Derailment", a character mutters disbelief at how the war's come to everyone fighting a giant, screaming head. The much-mocked ''Combiner Wars'' webseries had Starscream turn into a giant, screaming head that everyone had to fight. Another reference shows up earlier on, when Lio Convoy tries bashing his sword as a sign of authority, but the sound it makes is a less-than impressive "doink". Said sound effect was a brief meme after some lousy sound editing from aforementioned series made the Mistress of Flame bashing her staff against the ground more comical than intended.
** Antagony and Cataclysm show up working for Shockaract at the end of "Derailment", just as they did in their first appearance. Here, Antagony comes out on top of her rival.
** The hidden text in "The Inexorable March" has a moment where Headmasters (tiny robots who turn into a larger robot's head) are conflated with Titanmasters (the renamed version of the Headmasters from ''Titans Return''). Also, Lio Convoy's supposed Titanmaster partner is apparently called "Moon Usagi", after Moon - one of the few ''Beast Wars II'' characters not to show up in the story.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In the backstory, Thunderwing's rampage with the Underbase did a lot of damage to the Autobots and Decepticons, but it also restored Cybertron's bio-diversity.
** The Grendel Gambit, Galvatron's last zany scheme to get at mankind. The exact specifics aren't clear, thanks to ''The Book of Logos'' being written in pseudo-Jacobian speech, but the general indication is he and the Decepticons tried disguising themselves to get past mankind, and it ''really'' didn't work.
* TheParanoiac: Killer Punch. It's not enough to save him, but he does manage to reveal Synapse's murderous intent.
** The Builders' last-ditch order to make sure the Vehicons don't come near them is General [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Order 66]].
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* TakingYouWithMe: Rampage to Lord Imperious Delirious. [[HealingFactor Of course Rampage survives.]]
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** Banzaitron and Tidal Wave ram Broadside, taking down Scylla.
** Rampage to Lord Imperious Delirious. [[HealingFactor Of course Rampage survives.]]
** Banzaitron and Tidal Wave ram Broadside, taking down Scylla.
** Rampage to Lord Imperious Delirious. [[HealingFactor Of course Rampage survives.]]
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* UncertainDoom: After Scylla's killed in the Battle of Yuss, Cybershark is put in charge of the forces remaining there. Later on, the fleet falls to the Vehicons, and Cybershark goes missing, presumed dead or assimilated.
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* ZergRush: The Pack versus Erector's forces. Steel Jaw and Ramulus acknowledge they could take the Builder forces this way, but they'll loose a ''lot'' of troops in the effort. The desperate situation of the Vehicon Apocalypse forces them to do it anyway.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The first mention of the Uprising universe came in a profile of Blackarachnia in the Transformers Fan Club magazine, which is also the only place that explains what became of Optimus Primal, Rhinox and Silverbolt - they died, which prompted Blackarachnia, Cheetor and Nightscream to go rogue. Depth Charge's absence from the stories was explained with his Fan Club exclusive toy, since he went after Blackarachnia and Nightscream when they fled the universe.
* CommanderContrarian: Ram Horn of the Tripredacus Council, who counter-argues every choice his fellow councillors suggest. They're very much aware of this, and use it to manipulate him into going along with them.
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** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''. Scylla is killed when Banzaitron rams her ship with Tidal Wave. Springload is killed by the Vehicons.]]
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** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''. Scylla is killed when Banzaitron rams her ship with Tidal Wave. Springload is killed by the Vehicons. Steel Jaw is felled by a stray shot to the back of the head.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Ram Horn shoots Cicadacon after Tripredacus is forcibly separated, not because of any altruistic motive, but because he saw what Cicadacon and the deceased Sea Clamp thought of him. The guy still had it coming.
* LegendFadesToMyth: By the time of the 124th century, information creep means that Optimus Prime is barely remembered by historians, who think Optimus ''Convoy'' probably didn't really exist.
* TheResenter: A lot of Builders, towards their smaller descendants. And the Micromasters, and anyone who can move.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Resistance has some pretty legitimate grievances against the Builders, but they're willing to do an awful lot of unsavoury actions to get their freedom.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Resistance has some pretty legitimate grievances against the Builders, but they're willing to do an awful lot of unsavoury actions to get their freedom.
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** In the 34th century, Cybertronian historians believe that the [[ComicBook/ROMSpaceknight Solstar]] [[ComicBook/RomIDW Order]] represented humanity during the drafting of the Pax Cybertronia.
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** Megatron and Scorponok's story in ''Identity Politics'', that of someone forced into crime, which he turns out to be ''really'' good at, and becomes more ruthless as he goes on, takes some cues from ''Series/BreakingBad''.
** The Convoy Council of the 34th century are reluctant to go outside the Milky Way to avoid "lions, tigers and bears", as Megalo Convoy puts it.
** Megatron and Scorponok's story in ''Identity Politics'', that of someone forced into crime, which he turns out to be ''really'' good at, and becomes more ruthless as he goes on, takes some cues from ''Series/BreakingBad''.
** The Convoy Council of the 34th century are reluctant to go outside the Milky Way to avoid "lions, tigers and bears", as Megalo Convoy puts it.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Star Dasher's profile mentions how the Star Seekers were brought in by a pair of Headmaster boun- ''freelance peace-keeping agents''. The first is Devcon, but the second goes unidentified, other than their partner being called Spratt. [[ComicBook/DeathsHead Unsolvable mystery, right?]]
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Stories from this series include:
* ''Alone, Together'', a club-exclusive comic featuring Trans-Mutate and Protoform X, dealing with the mysterious Destructons.
* ''Broken Windshields'': Lio Convoy, agent of the Builders, is inspired to revolution after a meeting with a Maximal called Blackarachnia.
* ''Head Games'': Hapless Predacon Buzzclaw starts going up in the world when the Resistance recruits him for an important mission. But there's this nagging voice in Buzzclaw's head...
* ''Broken Bridges'': Burnt-out MCSF officer Stilleto has to deal with her own twisted memories, at the same time she holds off a Resistance attack.
* ''Micro-Aggressions'': Former Autobot troublemaker Grimlock's back, and has a plan to get at the Builders, involving the horrific G-Virus.
* ''Intersectionality'': Out on the fringe of Cybertronian space, the good ship ''Dinosaur'' runs into several problems, including someone murdering the crew.
* ''Trigger Warnings''': Jaded cop Wolfang has to deal with a murder, a mysterious dame, his bosses and his own conflicting loyalty, as he stumbles on a terrible secret.
* ''Identity Politics:'' Long before the Uprising, an ambitious Predacon named Gnashteeth, and his underling Scorponok decide to go into business for themselves, yeeeess...
* ''Not All Megatrons'': Megatron decides it's time for the Uprising to get beastly.
* ''Cultural Appropriation:'' A rag-tag bunch of misfits (and one immortal psychopath) team up to stop a group of mighty robots making trouble for everyone, mankind included.
* ''Safe Spaces'': Cheetor and Preditron fight for their lives in the arena. But attempted murder is about to be the least of their problems.
* ''Derailment'': The big finale, as it's Resistance versus Builders versus everybody, as Galva Convoy's weapon is unleash.
* ''The Inexorable March'': A coda to the finale.
* ''Alone, Together'', a club-exclusive comic featuring Trans-Mutate and Protoform X, dealing with the mysterious Destructons.
* ''Broken Windshields'': Lio Convoy, agent of the Builders, is inspired to revolution after a meeting with a Maximal called Blackarachnia.
* ''Head Games'': Hapless Predacon Buzzclaw starts going up in the world when the Resistance recruits him for an important mission. But there's this nagging voice in Buzzclaw's head...
* ''Broken Bridges'': Burnt-out MCSF officer Stilleto has to deal with her own twisted memories, at the same time she holds off a Resistance attack.
* ''Micro-Aggressions'': Former Autobot troublemaker Grimlock's back, and has a plan to get at the Builders, involving the horrific G-Virus.
* ''Intersectionality'': Out on the fringe of Cybertronian space, the good ship ''Dinosaur'' runs into several problems, including someone murdering the crew.
* ''Trigger Warnings''': Jaded cop Wolfang has to deal with a murder, a mysterious dame, his bosses and his own conflicting loyalty, as he stumbles on a terrible secret.
* ''Identity Politics:'' Long before the Uprising, an ambitious Predacon named Gnashteeth, and his underling Scorponok decide to go into business for themselves, yeeeess...
* ''Not All Megatrons'': Megatron decides it's time for the Uprising to get beastly.
* ''Cultural Appropriation:'' A rag-tag bunch of misfits (and one immortal psychopath) team up to stop a group of mighty robots making trouble for everyone, mankind included.
* ''Safe Spaces'': Cheetor and Preditron fight for their lives in the arena. But attempted murder is about to be the least of their problems.
* ''Derailment'': The big finale, as it's Resistance versus Builders versus everybody, as Galva Convoy's weapon is unleash.
* ''The Inexorable March'': A coda to the finale.
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* {{BFS}}: Lio Convoy's Solipsistic Staff gets reforged into a sword by ''Derailment''.
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* {{BFS}}: Lio Convoy's Solipsistic Staff gets reforged into a sword by ''Derailment''."Derailment".
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** 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''.
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** Tidal Wave appears as a battleship in ''Derailment''.
"Derailment".
** The conclusion of''The "The Inexorable March'' March" has the good guy ship crewed by 'bots from the aborted Chinese version of ''Transformers: Online''.
** The conclusion of
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** Buzzsaw is the main character of ''Head Games''.
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in ''Burning Bridges''.
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in ''Burning Bridges''.
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** Buzzsaw is the main character of ''Head Games''.
"Head Games".
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in''Burning Bridges''."Burning Bridges".
** Stiletto, a character from an old fan club text story, in
* CrazyMemory: Galvatron's not remembering everything properly. It helps that he's not actually the original Galvatron, just a recreation.
* GenreShift: "Trigger Warnings" has the story briefly go from sci-fi to crime noir, Cybertron style.
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** "Broken Bridges" has Nuke mentioned.
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** "Broken Bridges" has Nuke mentioned.as a popular stimulant.
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* NonIndicativeName: The fact that Overrun is called Overrun is made a plot point, when Wolfgang realises his name has ''nothing'' to do with his jet alt-mode. [[spoiler:Because he's actually a Targetmaster.]]
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* OutsideContextProblem: The Renegades, thanks to their tech not only being alien from Cybertron, but the universe in general. Thanks to that, despite mankind being ahead of them, they could have incapacitated and killed the team sent to retrieve the Stone of Sky Warp.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Know that in this universe, Razor-Claw has no relation to either Tigatron or Airazor, and exists entirely as a separate individual.
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The coda story, ''The Inexorable March'', takes place in the 34th century AC.]]
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The coda story, ''The Inexorable March'', takes place ends in the 34th century AC.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Humans, as part of their overall ''Star Trek'' homage, use "futuristic" versions of common sayings.
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* MythologyGag:
** Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Point-One Percenters.
** Nuke is mentioned.
** Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Point-One Percenters.
** Nuke is mentioned.
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* MythologyGag:
MythologyGag: Many, especially since the text stories are written by Jim Sorenson, who ''loves'' mythology gags.
** "Alone, Together" establishes Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Point-One Percenters.
** "Broken Bridges" has Nukeis mentioned.
** "Alone, Together" establishes Trans-Mutate and Rampage are Point-One Percenters.
** "Broken Bridges" has Nuke
** The end of "The Inexorable March" is one great, big, glorious homage to the opening of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' (with some ''Beast Wars II'' and ''Beast Wars Neo'' thrown in).
** According to "The Inexorable March", somewhere after the 24th century, Cybertronians had a run-in with the Ammonites. They got through it, but whatever happened made them decide not to go wandering out of their galaxy.
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** ''A Brush With Infamy'' explores exactly what would happen when you have robots the size of cities duking it out - massive environmental damage.
** During ''Derailment'', Preditron fights Tripredacus. [[spoiler:He gets beaten into the ground and dies. Valiant warrior-king or not, he's severely outclassed by the combiner.]]
** During ''Derailment'', Preditron fights Tripredacus. [[spoiler:He gets beaten into the ground and dies. Valiant warrior-king or not, he's severely outclassed by the combiner.]]
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** ''A "A Brush With Infamy'' Infamy" explores exactly what would happen when you have robots the size of cities duking it out - massive environmental damage.
** During''Derailment'', "Derailment", Preditron fights Tripredacus. [[spoiler:He gets beaten into the ground and dies. Valiant warrior-king or not, he's severely outclassed by the combiner.]]
** During
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:In ''Derailment'', Hot Rod and his Micromaster underlings ignore Ratbat's orders to play meat-shield, and go rogue. It saves their lives.]]
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During ''Cultural Appropriation'', Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During ''Cultural Appropriation'', Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:In ''Derailment'', "Derailment", Hot Rod and his Micromaster underlings ignore Ratbat's orders to play meat-shield, and go rogue. It saves their lives.]]
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During''Cultural Appropriation'', "Cultural Appropriation", Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During
* WeUsedToBeFriends: On a species-wide scale. The hidden text of "Micro-Aggressions" says mankind and the Autobots did work together at first, but by the 2030s, the relationship was pretty much dead.
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** ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard from again.
** In ''Intersectionality'', Synapse is arrested by the Dinosaur's crew, and told he'll be sent back to Cybertron and put on trial when everything's over. He's never seen again. Trans-Mutate, meanwhile, is entirely absent from ''Derailment'' after apparently returning to Cybertron with everyone else. ''The Inexorable March'' suggests she was looking for answers about her and Rampage's creation.
** At the climax of ''Cultural Appropriation'', [[spoiler:Monsterous is defeated, and separates back into his component parts. What happened to them afterward is unknown.]]
** In one of the most extreme examples of this trope, ''humanity as a whole''. In the 25th century, the Human Confederacy fell into civil war. In the 34th century this is documented as "The Fall of Man" by Cybertronian historians but what's become of the human race by the 34th century is never revealed.
** In ''Intersectionality'', Synapse is arrested by the Dinosaur's crew, and told he'll be sent back to Cybertron and put on trial when everything's over. He's never seen again. Trans-Mutate, meanwhile, is entirely absent from ''Derailment'' after apparently returning to Cybertron with everyone else. ''The Inexorable March'' suggests she was looking for answers about her and Rampage's creation.
** At the climax of ''Cultural Appropriation'', [[spoiler:Monsterous is defeated, and separates back into his component parts. What happened to them afterward is unknown.]]
** In one of the most extreme examples of this trope, ''humanity as a whole''. In the 25th century, the Human Confederacy fell into civil war. In the 34th century this is documented as "The Fall of Man" by Cybertronian historians but what's become of the human race by the 34th century is never revealed.
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** ''Alone, Together'''s "Alone, Together"'s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', "Derailment", they're never heard from again.
** In''Intersectionality'', "Intersectionality", Synapse is arrested by the Dinosaur's crew, and told he'll be sent back to Cybertron and put on trial when everything's over. He's never seen again. Trans-Mutate, meanwhile, is entirely absent from ''Derailment'' after apparently returning to Cybertron with everyone else. ''The "The Inexorable March'' March" suggests she was looking for answers about her and Rampage's creation.
** At the climax of''Cultural Appropriation'', "Cultural Appropriation", [[spoiler:Monsterous is defeated, and separates back into his component parts. What happened to them afterward is unknown.]]
** In one of the most extreme examples of this trope, ''humanity as a whole''. In the 25th century, the Human Confederacy fell into civil war. In the34th 124th century this is documented as "The Fall of Man" by Cybertronian historians but what's become of the human race by the 34th century is never revealed.
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** [[spoiler:The Vehicons, originally just {{Mooks}} who died if you so much as sneezed at them, are portrayed as a nigh-unstoppable zombie horde.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Megatron is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression and be independent with their new beast modes. Contrast that to the time travelling, Spark absorbing conqueror. Mind you he still has a lot of wealth and political power to gain from all this but he's not risking the entire space/time continuum to satisfy his ego and god complex.
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** Rampage, who wasn't exactly a slouch in ''Beast Wars'', gets a boost in sheer toughness, becoming a Point One Percenter, able to [[spoiler:regenerate from atoms]].
*AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationalHeroism:
** Rampage is not as much of a demented murder-monster as his ''Beast Wars'' counterpart. He still likes threatening people with colourful death, but hardly ever follows through on them.
** Megatron is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression and be independent with their new beast modes. Contrast that to the time travelling, Spark absorbing conqueror. Mindyou you, he still has a lot of wealth and political power to gain from all this but he's not risking the entire space/time continuum to satisfy his ego and god complex.
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** Rampage is not as much of a demented murder-monster as his ''Beast Wars'' counterpart. He still likes threatening people with colourful death, but hardly ever follows through on them.
** Megatron is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression and be independent with their new beast modes. Contrast that to the time travelling, Spark absorbing conqueror. Mind
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** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weird, taking a penguin alt-mode.
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** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weird, weirder, taking a penguin alt-mode.
** Gnashteeth doesn't like his given name, finding it ill-fitting and uncomfortable, and eventually decides to have it changed.
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** 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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** Some Autobots and Decepticons downsized to Micromasters. The Builders don't treat them any better than they do the Maximals and Predacons. Up until slightly after Megatron's StartOfDarkness, Micros weren't even allowed on the Builder council.
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** Gnashteeth's former underling Budora turns on his boss and suggests maybe it'd be best if he ducked out quietly. Later on, Gnashteeth decides to have a "talk" with Budora.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The hidden story of "The Inexorable March" contains many references to the events after the main story. Problem is, the guy narrating it is shown to be very unreliable as a journalistic source, suffering a bad case of cognitive bias, so anything he mentions should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Galvatron II recruits "his" old gang, whatever leftover partners of his, Scourge and Cyclonus' that he could find, but by the time of the Vehicon Apocalypse has gotten fed up of them. Afterward, he's got three Vehicon drones ready to go, and all they need is some Sparks...
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Circa 1984, Starscream led a raid on the British Museum and during the battle, Brawn threw some worthless stone that got lodged in Skywarp's air intake. Upon the stone's removal, Skywarp found a use for it as a paper weight and the Maximals and Predacons eventually put it in a museum of Decepticon artifacts. The stone's human name? ''The Rosetta Stone''. Its rightful owners eventually reclaim it but considering the fate of human society, it might have been kinder to leave it on Cybertron.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Circa 1984, Starscream led a raid on the British Museum and during the battle, Brawn threw some worthless stone that got lodged in Skywarp's air intake.cockpit. Upon the stone's removal, Skywarp found a use for it as a paper weight and the Maximals and Predacons eventually put it in a museum of Decepticon artifacts. The stone's human name? ''The Rosetta Stone''. Its rightful owners eventually reclaim it but considering the fate of human society, it might have been kinder to leave it on Cybertron.
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** 11 million years ago, Cybertron was once a technologically powerful society that became factionalized and fell into brutal civil wars. In the 24th century, humanity is technologically powerful and became factionalized. By the 34th century, humanity has fallen into civil wars.
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** 11 million years ago, Cybertron was once a technologically powerful society that became factionalized and fell into brutal civil wars. In the 24th century, humanity is technologically powerful and became factionalized. By the 34th century, humanity has fallen into civil wars.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Rampage to Lord Imperious Delirious. [[HealingFactor Of course Rampage survives.]]
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Circa 1984, Starscream led a raid on the British Museum and during the battle, Brawn threw some worthless stone that got lodged in Skywarp's air intake. Upon the stone's removal, Skywarp found a use for it as a paper weight and the Maximals and Predacons eventually put it in a museum of Decepticon artifacts. The stone's human name? ''The Rosetta Stone''. Its rightful owners eventually reclaim it but considering the fate of human society, it might have been kinder to leave it on Cybertron.
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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).
** Vector Prime is renamed Vector Convoy.
** 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).
** Vector Prime is renamed Vector Convoy.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Megatron is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression and be independent with their new beast modes. Contrast that to the time travelling, Spark absorbing conqueror. Mind you he still has a lot of wealth and political power to gain from all this but he's not risking the entire space/time continuum to satisfy his ego and god complex.
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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).
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* AdaptationNameChange:
** Scorponok is renamed Zarak,AdaptationalWimp: In ''Transformers Cybertron'', Vector Prime was the guardian of space/time being capable of freezing time and Zarak is renamed Fausto Borx. Their combined form is renamed Megazarak, accessing a la the ''Headmasters'' anime.
** Beast Wars Inferno is renamed Formikon (his name from the Italian dub).pocket dimension. Here he's just a regular Cybertronian.
** Scorponok is renamed Zarak,
** Beast Wars Inferno is renamed Formikon (his name from the Italian dub).
* AxCrazy: Befitting someone called Galvatron.
* [[HumansAreSurvivors Cybertronians Are Survivors]]: The Cybertronian race went through pretty much eleven million years of continuous warfare ending in the 24th century with their planet and race being sent to the brink but by the 25th century, they've got their house back in order.
* EveryoneHasStandards: ''Rampage'' is disgusted by the attitude of Chak, Una and humanity as a whole.
** Neither humans nor Cybertronians like each other.
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* {{Fauxshadowing}}: During his talk with the Oracle, Overshoot is told one day mankind and Cybertronians will work together to fight something "beyond good, beyond evil". Sadly, the stories never show this happening.
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* {{Fauxshadowing}}: {{Fauxshadow}}: During his talk with the Oracle, Overshoot is told one day mankind and Cybertronians will work together to fight something "beyond good, beyond evil". Sadly, the stories never show this happening.
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* 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.]]
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* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:At the very end of ''Derailment'', Rampage manages to recover from being atomised.atomized. And as a major DeathSeeker, he's understandably pretty pissed.]]
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* HeroicLegacy: Magna Stampede makes mention of being a descendant of Pyra Magna.
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* HeroicLegacy: GreaterScopeVillain:
** The human race. They don't appear very often but they're why the Cybertronians are stuck in such a small part of space with few resources.
** The original Galvatron. His actions caused the human race to enforce the above blockade on Cybertronians.
** Unicron. He did a good chunk of the damage to Cybertron and the additional Point One Percenters (Rampage and Transmutate) were created due to many of the survivors of his attack being Point One Percenters.
** [[spoiler:The Megatron from ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Wars]]''. He succeeded in killing Optimus Prime which wiped out all the Maximals. Before she disappeared, Blackarchnia managed to infect the original Megatron with cyber-venom wiping the Predacons from the timeline and creating the "Uprising" universe.]]
* HeroicLineage: Magna Stampede makes mention of being a descendant of Pyra Magna.
** The human race. They don't appear very often but they're why the Cybertronians are stuck in such a small part of space with few resources.
** The original Galvatron. His actions caused the human race to enforce the above blockade on Cybertronians.
** Unicron. He did a good chunk of the damage to Cybertron and the additional Point One Percenters (Rampage and Transmutate) were created due to many of the survivors of his attack being Point One Percenters.
** [[spoiler:The Megatron from ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Wars]]''. He succeeded in killing Optimus Prime which wiped out all the Maximals. Before she disappeared, Blackarchnia managed to infect the original Megatron with cyber-venom wiping the Predacons from the timeline and creating the "Uprising" universe.]]
* HeroicLineage: Magna Stampede makes mention of being a descendant of Pyra Magna.
** 11 million years ago, Cybertron was once a technologically powerful society that became factionalized and fell into brutal civil wars. In the 24th century, humanity is technologically powerful and became factionalized. By the 34th century, humanity has fallen into civil wars.
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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. By the twenty-fourth century AC, they've actually overcome ''death''.
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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. By the twenty-fourth century AC, they've actually overcome ''death''. [[spoiler: As the later stories show however, it didn't take long for Cybertronians to catch up and eventually overcome the humans.]]
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* VillainousLegacy: Ser-Ket claims to be descended from a warrior lineage that stretches all the way back to Liege Maximo.
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** In one of the most extreme examples of this trope, ''humanity as a whole''. In the 25th century, the Human Confederacy fell into civil war. In the 34th century this is documented as "The Fall of Man" by Cybertronian historians but what's become of the human race by the 34th century is never revealed.
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** The Vehicons go from mindless drones that pretty much exploded if so much as sneezed on to an unstoppable juggernaut that manage to take out a significant chunk of Cybertron's population. [[spoiler:It helps that they can convert by touch.]]
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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.
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* AscendedExtra: AscendedExtra:
** Lord Imperious Delirious was a one-off villain in an old, ''very'' short-lived comic in the 90s. ''Alone Together'' makes him a major character, and he goes on to be a big problem in ''Intersectionality''.
** Maxima goes from a character who died after barely being on-screen in the "Combiner Wars" machima, to the very first Maximal.
** Lord Imperious Delirious was a one-off villain in an old, ''very'' short-lived comic in the 90s. ''Alone Together'' makes him a major character, and he goes on to be a big problem in ''Intersectionality''.
** Maxima goes from a character who died after barely being on-screen in the "Combiner Wars" machima, to the very first Maximal.
** Toward the end of ''Derailment'', everyone left decides to work together against [[spoiler:the Vehicons, and then Lord Imperious Delirious.]]
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: During his talk with the Oracle, Overshoot is told one day mankind and Cybertronians will work together to fight something "beyond good, beyond evil". Sadly, the stories never show this happening.
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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 ("Apparently", because the story that reveals this is told by Nucleon, who's biased on the subject of Autobots).
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* GoodIsNotNice: 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 ("Apparently", because the story that reveals this is told by Nucleon, who's biased on the subject ofAutobots).Autobots).
** The Oracle is very much aware of the Builders, and the Uprising, and the horrible things it will produce, but feels it needs to happen, destruction to allow better things to follow.
** 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 ("Apparently", because the story that reveals this is told by Nucleon, who's biased on the subject of
** The Oracle is very much aware of the Builders, and the Uprising, and the horrible things it will produce, but feels it needs to happen, destruction to allow better things to follow.
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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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* LaserGuidedKarma: After four centuries of hounding and oppressing Cybertronians due to the collateral damage of the Great War, humanity's technological empire collapses into brutal civil wars and a new dark age in the 25th century. By the 34th century, they're no longer a concern for Cybertron.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** The Builder Assembly spent four hundred years making everyone else's lives miserable out of petty jealousy, then ordered and condoned the creation of the Vehicons to put down the Uprising when the proto-races had enough of their crap. [[spoiler:Then they're betrayed by Galva-Convoy and turned into Vehicons themselves.]]
** After four centuries of hounding and oppressing Cybertronians due to the collateral damage of the Great War, humanity's technological empire collapses into brutal civil wars and a new dark age in the 25th century. By the 34th century, they're no longer a concern for Cybertron.
** The Builder Assembly spent four hundred years making everyone else's lives miserable out of petty jealousy, then ordered and condoned the creation of the Vehicons to put down the Uprising when the proto-races had enough of their crap. [[spoiler:Then they're betrayed by Galva-Convoy and turned into Vehicons themselves.]]
** After four centuries of hounding and oppressing Cybertronians due to the collateral damage of the Great War, humanity's technological empire collapses into brutal civil wars and a new dark age in the 25th century. By the 34th century, they're no longer a concern for Cybertron.
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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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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferent:
** During "Cultural Appropriation", the Oracle says as much about mankind and Transformers, in its own way.
-->''CAN YOUR LEFT HAND BE THE ENEMY OF THE RIGHT?''
** 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".
** During "Cultural Appropriation", the Oracle says as much about mankind and Transformers, in its own way.
-->''CAN YOUR LEFT HAND BE THE ENEMY OF THE RIGHT?''
** 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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* 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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* 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.thanks to Cerebros messing with them.
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** In ''Intersectionality'', Synapse is arrested by the Dinosaur's crew, and told he'll be sent back to Cybertron and put on trial when everything's over. He's never seen again. Trans-Mutate, meanwhile, is entirely absent from ''Derailment'' after apparently returning to Cybertron with everyone else. ''The Inexorable March'' suggests she was looking for answers about her and Rampage's creation.
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* ZombieApocalypse: The Vehicon Apocalypse is basically the Cybertronian equivalent.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After four centuries of hounding and oppressing Cybertronians due to the collateral damage of the Great War, humanity's technological empire collapses into brutal civil wars and a new dark age in the 25th century. By the 34th century, they're no longer a concern for Cybertron.
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** In the 34th century, Cybertronian historians believe that the [[ComicBook/ROMSpaceknight Solstar]] [[ComicBook/RomIDW Order]] represented humanity during the drafting of the Pax Cybertronia.
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* NotSoStoic: Kord the Cyberdroid, after [[spoiler:being removed from Fortress Maximus]]:
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* NotSoStoic: Kord Gran the Cyberdroid, after [[spoiler:being removed from Fortress Maximus]]:
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** 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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** The caption comic 'A ''A Change To The Agenda' 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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* 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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* RealityEnsues: "A RealityEnsues:
** ''A Brush WithInfamy" Infamy'' explores exactly what would happen when you have robots the size of cities duking it out - massive environmental damage.damage.
** During ''Derailment'', Preditron fights Tripredacus. [[spoiler:He gets beaten into the ground and dies. Valiant warrior-king or not, he's severely outclassed by the combiner.]]
** ''A Brush With
** During ''Derailment'', Preditron fights Tripredacus. [[spoiler:He gets beaten into the ground and dies. Valiant warrior-king or not, he's severely outclassed by the combiner.]]
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* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During "Cultural Appropriation", Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
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* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During "Cultural Appropriation", ''Cultural Appropriation'', Skavenger of the Constructicons wants to skip transporting a prisoner and go into a nearby casino.
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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.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: AmbiguousDisorder:
** Trans-Mutate is essentially a Cybertronian autistic.
** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weird, taking a penguin alt-mode.
** Trans-Mutate is essentially a Cybertronian autistic.
** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weird, taking a penguin alt-mode.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Rampage takes advantage of his healing abilities to save others from situations that would kill them. Well, we say "takes advantage". It's not so much he's trying to save them as he's trying to die, to no luck. On more than one occasion it leads to situations where someone thinks he's taken the bullet, only for Rampage to spring back to life, just as grouchy as ever.
* GotVolunteered: [[spoiler:In the midst of the Vehicon Apocalypse, Leatherhide and Packrat devise a means to protect the Darksyders from the swarm. But they need a guinea-pig. Naturally, it's Wasp who gets chosen, thanks to Scorponok and Terrorsaur grabbing him.]]
* GotVolunteered: [[spoiler:In the midst of the Vehicon Apocalypse, Leatherhide and Packrat devise a means to protect the Darksyders from the swarm. But they need a guinea-pig. Naturally, it's Wasp who gets chosen, thanks to Scorponok and Terrorsaur grabbing him.]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons:
** Lord Imperious Delirious uses Cybertronian tech to reformat himself into a dragon.
** Megatron skips past a T-Rex mode and settles for a dragon as his beast mode.
** Lord Imperious Delirious uses Cybertronian tech to reformat himself into a dragon.
** Megatron skips past a T-Rex mode and settles for a dragon as his beast mode.
* ShockAndAwe: Rampage has a set of Galva-conductors (no relation to Galvatron) which let him zap people. He uses them to incapacitate Lord Imperious Delirious, [[spoiler:followed by ripping his head off.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard from again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard fromagain.again.
** At the climax of ''Cultural Appropriation'', [[spoiler:Monsterous is defeated, and separates back into his component parts. What happened to them afterward is unknown.]]
** ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard from
** At the climax of ''Cultural Appropriation'', [[spoiler:Monsterous is defeated, and separates back into his component parts. What happened to them afterward is unknown.]]
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, and invoked, in ''The Inexorable March'', which has hidden cybertronix detailing a 'bot called Hatchet writing a paper about how Lio Convoy was a ruthless terrorist responsible for dozens of bad things, helped by [[spoiler:ten thousand years]] of misinformation and hearsay.
* AnyoneCanDie: In full effect by ''Derailment''. Of the many, many P.O.V. characters, a lot of them die.
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** Max-B is [[spoiler:one of Megatron's test subjects he had to put down]] in "Not All Megatrons".
** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''.]]
** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''.]]
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** Max-B is [[spoiler:one of Megatron's test subjects he had to put down]] in "Not All Megatrons".
Megatrons". [[spoiler:Paralon gets interrogated to death by Megatron later on.]]
** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''. Scylla is killed when Banzaitron rams her ship with Tidal Wave. Springload is killed by the Vehicons.]]
** [[spoiler:Break sacrifices his life to help the Resistance in ''Derailment''. Scylla is killed when Banzaitron rams her ship with Tidal Wave. Springload is killed by the Vehicons.]]
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* HeroicLegacy: Magna Stampede makes mention of being a descendant of Pyra Magna.
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* LargeHam: Know that Razor-Claw is a large ham, and that he will never stop talking about himself in the third person!
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:In ''Derailment'', Hot Rod and his Micromaster underlings ignore Ratbat's orders to play meat-shield, and go rogue. It saves their lives.]]
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** The Human Confederacy fleet look and act an awful lot like the Federation from ''Star Trek''. Captain Blix even has a sash like Worf.
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* UnwittingPawn: Bisk doesn't know or care what Megatron wants his services for, he's just in it for teh loot. Going by Megatron's inner monologue, Bisk's been used as a Darksyder patsy several times before.
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* VisionaryVillain: Megatron becomes determined to spread the Beast Upgrade across Cybertron, and for once that's the entire plan. There's no hidden mechanism behind it, or ploy. He just wants the proto-races to fend for themselves. Although it does happen to make him ''astoundingly'' rich (and the experiments cause the deaths of a few 'bots).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard from again.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Alone, Together'''s prologue focuses on Rattrap and Botanica leading a group of 'bots to bust Dynobot out of prison. Apart from Botanica getting a mention at the end of ''Derailment'', they're never heard from again.
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** Queen Rage, previously a cutesy {{Moe}} one-off character from the ''Beast Wars Neo'' manga, is reimagined as a take-no-prisoners warrior-queen who manages to carve out a fortified kingdom as civilization collapses.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: "Queen" Rage leads the fight against the Vehicons from the frontline and keenly feels the loss of every one of her soldiers.
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* AnachronismStew[=/=]TheThemeParkVersion: The Resistance arena in Protihex is deliberately designed to resemble ancient Earth... a Earth where the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower are all in driving distance of one another.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: ''The Inexorable March'' ends with a group of Transformers crash-landing on an alien world and gearing up for another adventure as they try to get back home.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: ''The Inexorable March'' ends with a group of Transformers crash-landing on an alien world and gearing up for another adventure as they try to get back home.]]
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* BreadAndCircuses: The games, mostly for the Builders, but it also keeps the Maximals and Predacons from doing much themselves.
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* BreadAndCircuses: The games, Games, mostly for the Builders, but it also keeps the Maximals and Predacons from doing much themselves.themselves. Then, once the war's in full swing, the Resistance starts setting up their ''own'' version of the Games...
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Probably one of, if not ''the'' darkest Transformers universes ever to see the light of day, depicting a war where most of the good ol' Autobots and Decepticons have aged into decrepit assholes, and their successors are perfectly willing to commit terrorism to achieve their ends.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A double-version at that: the Builders of Cybertron who forced the Maximals and Predacons to fight for their amusement are sent to the Games to entertain the troops. Unfortunately for the Resistance, those Builder [=POWs=] were also infected with the Vehicon virus and quickly overrun the Resistance's capital after succumbing.
