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* HeroicLineage: GB Blackrock claims to have one. [[spoiler: Specifically that he's descended from Gilgamesh and that his surname comes from the walls of "black rock" that Gilgamesh erected around his city of Uruk.]]
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** Spike Witwicky views himself as a super-badass revolutionary who's a major threat to cybertronions and the government. In reality he's a brat who relied on his daddy's connections to get anywhere in life and those who even acknowledge his existence hate him or view him as a slightly annoying punk who needs to slapped around a bit so he shuts up. Prowl wants him dead or captured, but out of a personal grudge rather than any belief that Spike is dangerous.
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** Spike Witwicky views himself as a super-badass revolutionary who's a major threat to cybertronions Cybertronians and the government. In reality he's a brat who relied on his daddy's connections to get anywhere in life and those who even acknowledge his existence hate him or view him as a slightly annoying punk who needs to slapped around a bit so he shuts up. Prowl wants him dead or captured, but out of a personal grudge rather than any belief that Spike is dangerous.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Megatron's revolution started as him standing against the bigotry of the corrupt Senate, who discriminated against cybertronions with certain alt modes and bots who were constructed cold. He apparently didn't see the parallels between this and the extreme bigotry towards organics that he gleefully endorses in the present...
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Megatron's revolution started as him standing against the bigotry of the corrupt Senate, who discriminated against cybertronions Cybertronians with certain alt modes and bots who were constructed cold. He apparently didn't see the parallels between this and the extreme bigotry towards organics that he gleefully endorses in the present...
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* NobleBigot: Nova Prime was an ''extreme'' racist who believed that Cybertronions were superior to all other life. He wasn't completely evil at first, he simply genuinely believed that the galaxy would be a better place under Cybertronion rule. Unfortunately, unlike most examples though he did ''not'' redeem himself. Instead he was taken by the Dead Universe which caused him to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] due to it's influence.
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* NobleBigot: Nova Prime was an ''extreme'' racist who believed that Cybertronions Cybertronians were superior to all other life. He wasn't completely evil at first, he simply genuinely believed that the galaxy would be a better place under Cybertronion Cybertronian rule. Unfortunately, unlike most examples though he did ''not'' redeem himself. Instead he was taken by the Dead Universe which caused him to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] due to it's influence.
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* OffModel: In issue 19, the artist apparently doesn't know what Hardhead looks like. And it continues through into [[ComicBook/TransformersDarkCybertron Dark Cybertron]].
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** The annual, where the flashback pages were deliberately written and drawn to resemble the old Marvel comic. Nova Prime even gives an {{Introdump}} where everyone stands around and says what they do. It actually works very well.
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As-of issue 35, it drops the 'Robots in Disguise' subtitle and becomes just 'The Transformers,' which is likely to make things... confusing.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Ratbat, courtesy of Arcee]]. [[spoiler: Bludgeon does it to Wheelie, but non-fatally]]. [[spoiler: Ironhide gets impaled by Slag's horns through the back and Swoop's sword through the front]].
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Ratbat, courtesy of Arcee]]. [[spoiler: Bludgeon does it to Wheelie, but non-fatally]]. [[spoiler: Ironhide gets impaled by Slag's horns through the back and Swoop's sword through the front]]. [[spoiler: Arcee again pins Sideswipe to a wall during her time aiding the Decepticon takeover... only to reveal it was carefully done to avoid vitals so he could provide surprise fire support for her]].
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* PutOnABus: In issue #35, Optimus departs from Earth to attend to some matters on Cybertron that have cropped up (like the Acrolight bombing from the Windblade mini-series), which was covered in the Transformers Punishment motion comic released previously.
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** Spike Witwicky views himself as a super-badass revolutionary who's a major threat to cybertronions and the government. In reality he's a brat who relied on his daddy's connections to get anywhere in life and those who even acknowledge his existence hate him or view him as a slightly annoying punk who needs to slapped around a bit so he shuts up. Prowl wants him dead or captured, but out of a personal grudge rather than any belief that Spike is dangerous.
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** Nova Prime is a subversion/deconstruction. Alpha Trion [[InvokedTrope intended him to be the chosen one]] who would bring peace to Cybertron but Nova wasn't able to handle the task, devolving into an egomaniac with a god complex.
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* FallenHero: Nova Prime. The earliest points in the timeline show that he used to be a genuine NiceGuy who truly believed in helping others. Over time he devolved into egotism and a belief that he knew better than everyone else. When he arrived at the Benzuli Expanse, the Darkness exploited his egomania to corrupt him completely.
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* VillainDecay: Subverted with Spike Witwicky who, despite his delusions otherwise, was never a genuine threat on his own, simply a spoiled and childish brat who was given too much power. Without Skywatch or his influential father covering his ass or providing resources, he's nothing more than pathetic protestor who thinks he's being a total badass when he kills a robot that couldn't even hurt him if it tried.
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* ArmsDealer: One of the many arms of Garrison Blackrock's business empire, though it seems likely he deals exclusively with the EDC.
* BlatantLies: How Garrison Blackrock explains Spike's interruption of his Onyx platform to tell the world that there are still Cybertronians on Earth, and some of them are allied with the EDC, and that they need to examine what happened in Poverty Flat (scene of an earlier battle between the Autobots and Decepticons). Blackrock's explanation is that it's an early leaking of a video game trailer, but it remains to be seen if the lie is believed.
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* TheChosenOne: In the annual, the crashed Metrotitan reveals that [[spoiler:Starscream]] may become one in the future.
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* TheChosenOne: In the annual, the crashed Metrotitan reveals that [[spoiler:Starscream]] may become one in the future. [[spoiler: Possibly subverted when Galvatron contemptuously says that Alchemist Prime, who apparently first uttered the prophecy of the "Chosen One" was tripping on rancid Engex when he said it, which might mean it's a load of hogwash.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Garrison Blackrock has shades of this. When Marrissa Faireborn and one of her soldiers shows up at his Tokyo offices after the Onyx launch is interrupted by Spike Witwicky, Blackrock isn't angry that Spike has potentially leaked the existence of the EDC/Decepticon alliance to the public, he's mad that only ''two'' EDC agents showed up to investigate since if there'd been more, it would have resulted in an ''even larger'' social media boom regarding the Onyx interface. He then warns Marrissa that the EDC wouldn't exist without his support, expecting them to fall in line to catch Spike.
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* {{Expy}}: Garrison Blackrock has been reimagined as a Steve Jobs pastiche (in keeping with the trend from TransformersAgeOfExtinction).
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:The Thirteen Primes, from what we've seen of them, don't seem like they were the paragons of Cybertronian virtues in other continuities. Alpha Trion is an arrogant manipulator, Nexus Prime seemed openly contemptuous of those he believed were below his station, and Alchemist Prime apparently liked to trip out on rancid Engex. Not to mention all of them save Trion and Nexus (who was killed by Galvatron) up and abandoned Cybertron millions of years ago, as well as all of their followers for reasons that have not yet been made clear.]]
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* BackForTheDead: The last Mini-Constructicon, last seen in Spotlight: Ramjet, shows up again being tracked down and killed by Spike Witwicky and [[spoiler:Jimmy Pink.]]
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* HateSink: [[spoiler:Spike Witwicky]]. In a setting with the deranged murderous Galvatron, the morally questionable humans, the still quite evil Decepticons, and Prowl, [[spoiler:Spike]] is framed as just a loathsome Prick. His attempts at seeming badass and anti-heroic are undercut by his selfish smug "bad boy" nature, and his self-assurance in causing an international incident combined with him [[spoiler:bragging about his work for his country before executing the harmless Mini-Constructicon]]. The Decepticons, Constructicons, the humans and Prowl all despise him, and Blackrock's self-serving dismissal of him as a punk who's functioning as a thorn in everyone's side, is an accurate summation of his worth.
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* HateSink: [[spoiler:Spike Witwicky]]. In a setting with the deranged murderous Galvatron, the morally questionable humans, the still quite evil Decepticons, and Prowl, [[spoiler:Spike]] is framed as just a loathsome Prick. His attempts at seeming badass and anti-heroic are undercut by his selfish smug "bad boy" nature, and his self-assurance in causing an international incident combined with him [[spoiler:bragging about his work for his country before executing the harmless Mini-Constructicon]]. The Decepticons, Constructicons, the humans and Prowl all despise him, and Blackrock's self-serving dismissal of him as a punk who's functioning as a thorn in everyone's side, is an accurate summation of his worth.
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* Flanderization: Galvatron, to a degree. When the original IDW run started, he was a pretty intelligent tactician under Furman, as series progressed (Infestation, Heart of Darkness, et al), he's been losing that characteristic and replaced with bloodthirsty savage barbarian, to the point it got retconned to be that during the Prime Wars.
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* Flanderization: {{Flanderization}}: Galvatron, to a degree. When the original IDW run started, he was a pretty intelligent tactician under Furman, as series progressed (Infestation, Heart of Darkness, et al), he's been losing that characteristic and replaced with bloodthirsty savage barbarian, to the point it got retconned to be that during the Prime Wars.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Will drop the ''Robots in Disguise'' subtitle starting in issue #35 in order not to be mistaken with the show of the same name.
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** Galvatron did this during Nova Prime's reign when he argued against Nova allowing Jhiaxus to try and perfect combining [[spoiler: by attempting to re-create Nexus Prime's Engima of Combining. When Galvatron argues-in front of Alpha Trion, another member of the Thirteen like Nexus-that he searched Nexus' empty fortress and found no sign of the Enigma and that Nexus fled with it, Trion enquires why Galvatron would assume it was an ''object'' and not an ''idea'' as everyone else is. When Galvatron can only sputter that he meant the ''idea'' was lost with Nexus, Trion suddenly realizes that Galvatron has been hiding the Engima all this time, which is in fact an object, because he took it from Nexus after secretly killing him. (Un?)fortunately, Galvatron also realizes he's made Trion suspicious and soon rectifies that by firing the Engima into space, perhaps intentionally at Earth, or perhaps it merely landed there by accident.]]
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* BeyondTheImpossible: It's been stated that [[TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen only a Prime can kill a Prime]], and would be impossible for anyone else. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop Galvatron of the Darklands from killing Nexus Prime in the distant past, because he doesn't ''believe'' in Primes.]]
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** Ancient Cybertronian lore says that only a Prime can kill a Prime, which was first established in TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen [[spoiler: though it appears not to be true here.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: Issue #34 shows us [[spoiler: the end of the era of the Thirteen Original Primes after most of them die or disappear from Cybertron, save one, Alpha Trion, who becomes TheMentor to Nova Major, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter making him the first in a new line of Primes to usher in a "Golden Age" for Cybertron]].]]
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: Alpha Trion]] describes the ancient Cybertronian soldier Eucryphia as one of these, while being important in other tales, not being one in the story he's telling Optimus [[spoiler: because this is the story where Eucryphia dies early on.]]
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* DrivingQuestion: In the season 2 comics, Ironhide's driving question is "how was Shockwave able to change the future during Dark Cybertron", since its events render the subject of Ironhide (and Jhiaxus') vision of Gorlam Prime and the Pax Cybertronia moot. Issue 34# reveals a few more: [[spoiler: Does Galvatron know the Enigma of Combination is on Earth, and if he does, what does he intend to do with it if he finds it? And finally, is it mere coincidence that Cybertronian history appears to be constantly repeating itself, or is there some kind of great pattern to it all?]].
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Scoop]] is Starscream's mole in the Decepticons, though the two still have a rather adversarial relationship.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Scoop]] is Starscream's mole in the Decepticons, though the two still have a rather adversarial relationship.
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* MacGuffin: In season 2, it looks like [[spoiler: the Enigma of Nexus Prime, an ancient Cybertronian artifact that can apparently bestow stabilized combination on Cybertronians that was hidden on Earth at the dawn of man by Galvatron]] will be this for both sides.
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-->'''Alpha Trion''': They call me '''Alpha Trion'''. And I believe I am [[spoiler: the '''last Prime''' on this world]].
-->'''Alpha Trion''': They call me '''Alpha Trion'''. And I believe I am [[spoiler: the '''last Prime''' on this world]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: PlayedWith for the 13. They're present here as in many other continuities, but their status as gods or servants of god have been changed (the creation stories featured in MTMTE being the myths). Now the thirteen are great warlords who united Cybertron and each leads a different faction that has different physiologies (beast modes, combiners, etc). They're closer to normal Transformers than another continuity, but there's a lot of ambiguity as to how they were able to diversify Cybertron and their abilities to do so. Galvatron says it's magic, Jhiaxus believes its science.
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* BiggerStick: Starscream wants Superion to be this for Cybertron, to combat the other combiners that currently exist (Monstructor, Devastator, and Menasor) and asks Wheeljack to repair and rebuild him.
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* KilledOffForReal: Horri-bull, Ratbat, Barrel Roll, Sunstorm, [[spoiler:Bombshell]], and [[spoiler:Turmoil.]] ''DarkCybertron'' adds [[spoiler:Hardhead, Nova Prime, Bumblebee, Jhiaxus, Metalhawk, and Shockwave]] to the list. The second season also reveals that the Slingshot component of Superion was killed when Devastator ripped Superion apart (and so [[MerchandiseDriven new character Alpha Bravo can take Slingshot's place.]])
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-->'''Dreadwing''':"I '''know''' I just wanted to make a '''Cool-Ass Entrance.'''"
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* Anticlimax: [[spoiler: Arcee's reaction after finding out other fembots post ''Dark Cybertron'']].
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-->[[spoiler:'''Arcee''':''I always hoped there'd besomoene someone like me... somewhere. And now that there is... I don't feel anything.'']]
-->[[spoiler:'''Arcee''':''I always hoped there'd be
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Issue 33 takes us back to Cybertron [[spoiler: and Wheeljack waking from his [[YourHeadAsplode traumatic head injury]]]] after several issues of Optimus Prime and his team on Earth.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Most of the normal, frontline Decepticon soldiers aren't evil in any way, their simply fighting for a cause they believe in like the Autobots. Now that the war is over most of them just want to live in peace and stop fighting. The Autobots having trouble understanding this trope after so many years of war is what generates a lot of the conflict in the comic.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Most of the normal, frontline Decepticon soldiers aren't evil in any way, their simply fighting for a cause they believe in like the Autobots. Now that the war is over most of them just want to live in peace and stop fighting. The Autobots having trouble understanding this trope after so many years of war is what generates a lot of the conflict in the comic.
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