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* TokenGoodTeammate: Bumper and Fastback are the only unambiguously decent Autobots we meet during this very grim story. They're just two ordinary guys doing their jobs and never display any corrupt traits.
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** Bumper and Fastback are the only unambiguously decent Autobots we meet during this very grim story. They're just two ordinary guys doing their jobs and never display any corrupttraits.traits.
** Among the Decepticons Thundercracker seems to be this. He expresses some misgivings over shooting down a ship full of noncombatants even if they are members of the upper class. This bit of characterization would become super important later in the IDW continuity.
** Bumper and Fastback are the only unambiguously decent Autobots we meet during this very grim story. They're just two ordinary guys doing their jobs and never display any corrupt
** Among the Decepticons Thundercracker seems to be this. He expresses some misgivings over shooting down a ship full of noncombatants even if they are members of the upper class. This bit of characterization would become super important later in the IDW continuity.
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* NonIndicativeName: Thanks to ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' and the "Chaos" arc in the main ''Transformers'' title, ''Megatron Origins'' takes place ''after'' most of the key events of Megatron's origin. By the time of the riot where he takes his first life, Megatron was a widely known, increasingly radical figure in Cybertronian politics, with his presence at the offworld mine where the riot took place being a deliberate attempt at containment after two attempts to silence him had failed.
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* StartOfDarkness: The closing of the mines and Megatron's first, possible accidental, kill from the riots that broke out over it.
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* StartOfDarkness: The closing of the mines and Megatron's first, possible accidental, kill from the riots that broke out over it.it were originally intended to be this, although subsequent {{Retcon}}s would indicate that while he hadn't taken a ''life'' before, his experiences had already radicalised him quite a bit.
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** During Megatron's match with Cy-Kill the crowd chants the very familiar phrase [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Till "All Are One."]] Here with the far darker meaning of "Till All Are One ''In Death.''"
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** During Megatron's match with Cy-Kill the crowd chants the very familiar phrase [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Till "All "Till All Are One."]] Here with the far darker meaning of "Till All Are One ''In Death.''"
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* UnexplainedAccent: For some reason the unnamed Energon miner whose death started the opening riot has a Southern US accent, if him saying "y'all" is any indication.
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* CharacterEstablishingMoment: The Constructicons first appearance in this series, and continuity for that matter, sees them casually murder a few homeless for building material. This sets them up as the sadistic, one dimensional goons we'd see later on in future series.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The Constructicons first appearance in this series, and continuity for that matter, sees them casually murder a few homeless for building material. This sets them up as the sadistic, one dimensional goons we'd see later on in future series.
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* CharacterEstablishingMoment: The Constructicons first appearance in this series, and continuity for that matter, sees them casually murder a few homeless for building material. This sets them up as the sadistic, one dimensional goons we'd see later on in future series.
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* MythologyGag: A common one through IDW's continuity is that whenever stories were set in the past, Megatron wears a black-colored helmet. A nod to his appearances in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel 80s Marvel comic]] and his original concept art.
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* MythologyGag: Several examples.
** A common one through IDW's continuity is that whenever stories were set in the past, Megatron wears a black-colored helmet. A nod to his appearances in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel 80s Marvel comic]] and his original concept art.
** A common one through IDW's continuity is that whenever stories were set in the past, Megatron wears a black-colored helmet. A nod to his appearances in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel 80s Marvel comic]] and his original concept art.
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* BloodKnight: Future Defensor limb/notorious combat hungry maniac Blades sits antsy during Prowl's lengthy, pedantic debriefing on the growing Megatron issue before standing up to voice his readiness to go out and confront this problem head on.
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* TheGhost: A gladiator called "Betabear" is name-dropped by Rumble during their team match, yet it's hard to tell which if any of the generic fighters we see is meant to be him.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: The [[TheNameless unnamed]] Energon miner whose death triggered the riot where Megatron took his first life.
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* TheNameless: The southern American accented miner grunt who spoke up against the Senate's plan to automate.
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* TheDeterminator: As first demonstrated with his fateful tussle with the Senate guard, Megatron doesn't give up, especially when his life is on the line.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The Decepticons are a merciless terrorist group operating an illegal, underground gladiator death match circuit they use as a platform to recruit new members, but are a response to the Senate, an uncaring governmental body comprised of [[ItsAllAboutMe self interested]] political snobs who turn their noses up at the common man and employ Autobrand wearing thugs to keep the population in check, however, as demonstrated by [[TokenGoodTeammate Bumper and Fastback]], not ''every'' Autobot is a vicious bully.
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* AssholeVictim: Megatron laughs at a Senate guard, the same one he ends up killing in self defense, after he's knocked onto his butt. Said guard having struck down an unarmed, protesting miner grunt in cold blood just a few moments ago.
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* AssholeVictim: Several examples.
** Megatron laughs at a Senate guard, the same one he ends up killing in self defense, after he's knocked onto his butt. Said guard having struck down an unarmed, protesting miner grunt in cold blood just a few momentsago. ago.
** Senator Decimus is struck in the face by an energy pickaxe, kidnapped, held at gunpoint and finally slaughtered alongside his fellow politicians. None of this warrants tears because the comic establishes him to be a snobby aristocratic jackass completely indifferent to the welfare of the very people he's supposed to represent.
** Senator Ratbat is a weaselly, self serving wretch and, as we'd later discover, [[FantasticRacism scornful towards non-humanoid Cybertronians]], thus making Soundwave's enslavement of him as a Cassette minion quite cathartic to watch.
** Megatron laughs at a Senate guard, the same one he ends up killing in self defense, after he's knocked onto his butt. Said guard having struck down an unarmed, protesting miner grunt in cold blood just a few moments
** Senator Decimus is struck in the face by an energy pickaxe, kidnapped, held at gunpoint and finally slaughtered alongside his fellow politicians. None of this warrants tears because the comic establishes him to be a snobby aristocratic jackass completely indifferent to the welfare of the very people he's supposed to represent.
** Senator Ratbat is a weaselly, self serving wretch and, as we'd later discover, [[FantasticRacism scornful towards non-humanoid Cybertronians]], thus making Soundwave's enslavement of him as a Cassette minion quite cathartic to watch.
