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* BrokenPedestal: It's kind of mutual between Optimus Prime and the Dinobots. Optimus Prime can't believe they can't let go of the war, and the Dinobots resent being called out on it. It's never really touched upon if they're able to patch things up towards the end.
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* BrokenPedestal: It's kind of mutual between Optimus Prime and the Dinobots. Optimus Prime can't believe they can't let go of the war, and the Dinobots resent being called out on it. It's never really touched upon if they're able to patch things up towards the end.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Acid Storm tells Sparkstalker that no, intimidating and taunting Optimus Prime is a stupid idea even if he is outnumbered.
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* ManOnFire: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside.
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* RedHerring: The Firecons, the Dinobots, and even Barricade. [[spoiler:It's really Sandstorm.]]
* ManOnFire: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside.
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* RedHerring: The Firecons, the Dinobots, and even Barricade.Barricade are all suspects in the murder case. [[spoiler:It's really Sandstorm.]]
* ManOnFire: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside.]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: Sparkstalker freaks out over attacking Optimus Prime, Optimus, thinking he'll be out for revenge. It was Flamefeather who shot at Prime.
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* ShellShockedVeteran:Sandstorm. Arguably, Sandstorm and arguably, the Dinobots.Dinobots, have clearly suffered and then some as a result of the war, to the point that the former [[spoiler:snaps and becomes a brutal vigilante.]]
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** Windblade gives one to everyone about how they all suck for the [[ForeverWar 4-million year War]].
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* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: In issue #4 "The Killing Jar", Optimus Prime is investigating the deaths of several former Autobots and Decepticons. They've been killed by being roasted from the inside out, with the murder weapon being identified as Infernus Bullets (a type of ammo that enters the victim before igniting). The prime suspects are the Firecons, but Optimus clears them by pointing out that the Firecons '''don't need''' Infernus Bullets to inflict the kind of damage done to the murder victims: their natural abilities allow them to do that, and the Infernus Bullets were actually an attempt to duplicate those powers.
* VigilanteInjustice: The killer pursued by Optimus Prime and Barricade turns out to have been targeting Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, who carried out war crimes during the just concluded ForeverWar. However, his actions risked inflaming tensions between the Autobots, Decepticons and Neutrals, to the point that Starscream (in his position of elected leader) gave orders to raze the Decepticon ghettos in an attempt to flush out information, though [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Barricade]] refuses to follow said orders and continues the investigation. Optimus Prime himself points out during the final confrontation that due to how terrible the war was, just about '''everyone''' was involved with some sort of war crime, and the killer's "justice" was more about how he couldn't come to terms with the idea of [[RetiredMonster such monsters just... settling down peacefully]].
* VigilanteInjustice: The killer pursued by Optimus Prime and Barricade turns out to have been targeting Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, who carried out war crimes during the just concluded ForeverWar. However, his actions risked inflaming tensions between the Autobots, Decepticons and Neutrals, to the point that Starscream (in his position of elected leader) gave orders to raze the Decepticon ghettos in an attempt to flush out information, though [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Barricade]] refuses to follow said orders and continues the investigation. Optimus Prime himself points out during the final confrontation that due to how terrible the war was, just about '''everyone''' was involved with some sort of war crime, and the killer's "justice" was more about how he couldn't come to terms with the idea of [[RetiredMonster such monsters just... settling down peacefully]].
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* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: In issue #4 "The Killing Jar", Optimus Prime is investigating the deaths of several former Autobots and Decepticons. They've been killed by being roasted from the inside out, with the murder weapon being identified as Infernus Bullets (a type of ammo that enters the victim before igniting). The prime suspects are the Firecons, but Optimus clears them by pointing out that the Firecons '''don't need''' Infernus Bullets to inflict the kind of damage done to the murder victims: their natural abilities allow them to do that, and the Infernus Bullets were actually an attempt to duplicate those powers.
* VigilanteInjustice: The killer pursued by OptimusPrime and Barricade turns out to have been targeting Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, who carried out war crimes during the just concluded ForeverWar. However, his actions risked inflaming tensions between the Autobots, Decepticons and Neutrals, to the point that Starscream (in his position of elected leader) gave orders to raze the Decepticon ghettos in an attempt to flush out information, though [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Barricade]] refuses to follow said orders and continues the investigation. Optimus Prime himself points out during the final confrontation that due to how terrible the war was, just about '''everyone''' was involved with some sort of war crime, and the killer's "justice" was more about how he couldn't come to terms with the idea of [[RetiredMonster such monsters just... settling down peacefully]].
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A one-shot comic leading towards the events of Combiner Wars, taking place after the events of Issue 35 of ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise, ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', written by John Barber and with Livio Ramondelli on art duties.
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->''"You and the Dinobots are everything wrong with Cybertronians. All you ever were was a gun... and you have no ambition to be more. Even if you didn't pull the trigger yourself, it's creatures like you that create an environment where this happens."''
-->-- '''Optimus Prime'''
A one-shot comic leading towards the events of Combiner Wars, taking place after the events of Issue 35 of ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise, written by John Barber and with Livio Ramondelli on art duties.
Optimus Prime travels to Cybertron for an unfinished business and lands in the middle of a triple-murder mystery.
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!!Tropes:
* AnArmAndALeg: When confronting the Firecons, Sandstorm blows off Sparkstalker's legs.
* BrokenPedestal: It's kind of mutual between Optimus Prime and the Dinobots. Optimus Prime can't believe they can't let go of the war, and the Dinobots resent being called out on it. It's never really touched upon if they're able to patch things up towards the end.
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Sandstorm asking Prime if he or High Autobot Command knew about all the atrocities committed by the Autobots]] is a callback to every dirty thing Prowl has been involved with since ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' (and likely way before that). He also mentions a specific event of [=LSOTW=] where the Wreckers executed unarmed Decepticon prisoners.
* CityNoir: The Decepticon ghetto.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Quite possibly ''the'' Darkest and Edgiest of the IDW comics.
* DiedStandingUp, Disturbingly, Treadshot's corpse stays upright as half his head is blown away and the rest smolders down to an endoskeleton.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Acid Storm tells Sparkstalker that no, intimidating and taunting Optimus Prime is a stupid idea even if he is outnumbered.
* FantasticGhetto: The 'cons live outside Metroplex, and it's explicitly called ghettos.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just about everyone but Prime, Windblade and surprisingly, Barricade.
* InformedAbility: The Firecons are noted to be immensely powerful soldiers, burning a planets atmosphere so severely, thousands of Autobots died. While it's likely the atmosphere was flammable, it's hard to swallow the Firecons as such a huge threat, partly because such an atrocity is just brought up here, partly because the Firecons themselves are fairly standard Decepticon troops, just with a fire-gimmick.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sandstorm is horrified when he realizes that he almost executed a defenseless Flamefeather in cold blood. [[spoiler:That one's faked, but his reaction to shooting Prime with an Infernus bullet certainly isn't.]]
* NoRespectGuy: Barely anyone gives a fuck about who Prime is these days.
** To a lesser degree, Swoop within the Dinobots.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Barricade, although he's mid-level management and dealing with 'bots and 'cons in the upper echelon.
* RedHerring: The Firecons, the Dinobots, and even Barricade. [[spoiler:It's really Sandstorm.]]
* [[ManOnFire Robots on Fire]]: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: It's politically motivated, to be sure, but Starscream participates in the investigation nevertheless.
* SeriesContinuityError: Sparkstalker freaks out over attacking Optimus Prime, thinking he'll be out for revenge. It was Flamefeather who shot at Prime.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Sandstorm. Arguably, the Dinobots.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Optimus Prime gives two to Slug. [[spoiler:The second was a feint in order to draw out the actual culprit.]]
** Windblade gives one to everyone about how they all suck for the [[ForeverWar 4-million year War]].
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Barricade defies Starscream's order to lay waste to the Decepticon ghetto.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Barricade is easily one of the most heroic characters, but he's also a faithful Decepticon. In addition, Swoop takes on his traditional role as the Dinobots' mediator.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Sandstorm]] suffers a rather tragic one at the end.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Spoken word for word by Treadshot in the opening. Brisko and Wilder, being far more intelligent, immediately call him out on this. Not that it helps them.
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->''"You and the Dinobots are everything wrong with Cybertronians. All you ever were was a gun... and you have no ambition to be more. Even if you didn't pull the trigger yourself, it's creatures like you that create an environment where this happens."''
-->-- '''Optimus Prime'''
A one-shot comic leading towards the events of Combiner Wars, taking place after the events of Issue 35 of ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise, written by John Barber and with Livio Ramondelli on art duties.
Optimus Prime travels to Cybertron for an unfinished business and lands in the middle of a triple-murder mystery.
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!!Tropes:
* AnArmAndALeg: When confronting the Firecons, Sandstorm blows off Sparkstalker's legs.
* BrokenPedestal: It's kind of mutual between Optimus Prime and the Dinobots. Optimus Prime can't believe they can't let go of the war, and the Dinobots resent being called out on it. It's never really touched upon if they're able to patch things up towards the end.
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Sandstorm asking Prime if he or High Autobot Command knew about all the atrocities committed by the Autobots]] is a callback to every dirty thing Prowl has been involved with since ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' (and likely way before that). He also mentions a specific event of [=LSOTW=] where the Wreckers executed unarmed Decepticon prisoners.
* CityNoir: The Decepticon ghetto.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Quite possibly ''the'' Darkest and Edgiest of the IDW comics.
* DiedStandingUp, Disturbingly, Treadshot's corpse stays upright as half his head is blown away and the rest smolders down to an endoskeleton.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Acid Storm tells Sparkstalker that no, intimidating and taunting Optimus Prime is a stupid idea even if he is outnumbered.
* FantasticGhetto: The 'cons live outside Metroplex, and it's explicitly called ghettos.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Just about everyone but Prime, Windblade and surprisingly, Barricade.
* InformedAbility: The Firecons are noted to be immensely powerful soldiers, burning a planets atmosphere so severely, thousands of Autobots died. While it's likely the atmosphere was flammable, it's hard to swallow the Firecons as such a huge threat, partly because such an atrocity is just brought up here, partly because the Firecons themselves are fairly standard Decepticon troops, just with a fire-gimmick.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sandstorm is horrified when he realizes that he almost executed a defenseless Flamefeather in cold blood. [[spoiler:That one's faked, but his reaction to shooting Prime with an Infernus bullet certainly isn't.]]
* NoRespectGuy: Barely anyone gives a fuck about who Prime is these days.
** To a lesser degree, Swoop within the Dinobots.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Barricade, although he's mid-level management and dealing with 'bots and 'cons in the upper echelon.
* RedHerring: The Firecons, the Dinobots, and even Barricade. [[spoiler:It's really Sandstorm.]]
* [[ManOnFire Robots on Fire]]: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: It's politically motivated, to be sure, but Starscream participates in the investigation nevertheless.
* SeriesContinuityError: Sparkstalker freaks out over attacking Optimus Prime, thinking he'll be out for revenge. It was Flamefeather who shot at Prime.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Sandstorm. Arguably, the Dinobots.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Optimus Prime gives two to Slug. [[spoiler:The second was a feint in order to draw out the actual culprit.]]
** Windblade gives one to everyone about how they all suck for the [[ForeverWar 4-million year War]].
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Barricade defies Starscream's order to lay waste to the Decepticon ghetto.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Barricade is easily one of the most heroic characters, but he's also a faithful Decepticon. In addition, Swoop takes on his traditional role as the Dinobots' mediator.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Sandstorm]] suffers a rather tragic one at the end.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Spoken word for word by Treadshot in the opening. Brisko and Wilder, being far more intelligent, immediately call him out on this. Not that it helps them.
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