History FanFic / BeastWarsFanSeries

%% * BandOfBrothers: The Maximals

--> Victoria: Papa, we fight the Predacons on an almost daily basis. I've been shot at, cut, burned, almost crushed, and almost eaten several times. All to protect you and everyone else back home, because if the Predacons win in this world, then history as we know it will change forever -- one of the consequences of time travel.

Beast Wars Fan Series[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8456265/1/Beast-Wars-Fan-Series] is a Beast Wars fanfic -- written in script form -- written by Kenny Rutter[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4211167/] and meant as a sequel/remake of the original series. It's been the author's labor of love for nearly ten years. Picking up 80,000 years after the Maximals and Predacons arrive on Earth and set during the American Civil War, the story follows the adventures of a teenager named Victoria Taylor who, after being trapped in the past thanks to a temporal anomaly, joins the fight to keep reality safe from the Predacons.

* BandOfBrothers: The Maximals, natch.

** ''FinalFantasy'' (the conflict between Cheetor and Spittor is akin to the conflict between Cloud and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7)

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: We shall direct you to ''CruelandUnusualDeath'' above.

** Imagine Antonia Banderas as Spittor.

* NiceJobBreakingIt,Hero: Sure, Victoria, try to upload Dinobot's datatrax to Dinobot and have him come back to the Maximals, it's not like it will almost get Rattrap killed or anything.[''SarcasmMode'']

* PanteraAwesome: A cheetah, a tiger, a cross between a tiger and a hawk....

* ShutUpHannibal!: Mostly directed towards Megatron/Galvatron.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: What ever happened to Devon? He was only in the first movie, after which he sort of dropped off the face of the earth. At least people like Levi had an excuse, such as being in the Union or Confederate Army or, in the case of Shauna and her mother Julia, trying to rebuild their town and reputation after a Predacon attack. But Devon? He's gone.

* AGodAmI: Once he gets the Time Stones, Galvatron actually believes himself to be the most powerful being in the universe.

** Tarantulas is torched by Magmatron. So is Optimus (he gets better). Blackarachnia suffers this fate at the end of the second season.

** '24' (Victoria asks why she never dreams of Jack Bauer in the first episode)
** 'Doctor Who' (actually referenced by name during Victoria's dream in the third movie)
** 'Transformers Prime' (Dark Energon is referenced, as is its power to bring back the dead)
** 'Resident Evil' (the monsters in the Labyrinth are basically Lickers, but with skin)
** 'Gargoyles' (David Xanatos is mentioned)
** 'Final Fantasy' (the conflict between Cheetor and Spittor is akin to the conflict between Cloud and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7)
** 'Inuyasha' (Victoria is a clear expy of Kagome, and she even tells Levi's dog at one point to "Sit", just like Kagome does with Inuyasha; Depth Charge also has hints of Sesshomaru's attituce, Nani is basically Rin, and Cybershark is a more courageous version of Jaken)

(https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8456265/1/Beast-Wars-Fan-Series) is a Beast Wars fanfic -- written in script form -- written by(https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4211167/Kenny-Rutter) and meant as a sequel/remake of the original series. It's been the author's labor of love for nearly ten years. Picking up 80,000 years after the Maximals and Predacons arrive on Earth and set during the American Civil War, the story follows the adventures of a teenager named Victoria Taylor who, after being trapped in the past thanks to a temporal anomaly, joins the fight to keep reality safe from the Predacons.

* BigBadCreepyCrawlies: As before, most of the Predacons are giant bugs. Victoria doesn't say much when it comes to Quickstrike, Scorponock, Inferno, or Waspinator, but THEN she sees the spiders.

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: Besides all the robot-slang swearing such as "slag" and "scrap", there's also some very subtle euphemisms strewn about. Have fun looking for them.

* Mix-And-MatchCritters:

** ''24'' (Victoria asks why she never dreams of Jack Bauer in the first episode)
** ''Doctor Who'' (actually referenced by name during Victoria's dream in the third movie)
** ''Transformers Prime'' (Dark Energon is referenced, as is its power to bring back the dead)
** ''Resident Evil'' (the monsters in the Labyrinth are basically Lickers, but with skin)
** ''Gargoyles'' (David Xanatos is mentioned)
** ''Final Fantasy'' (the conflict between Cheetor and Spittor is akin to the conflict between Cloud and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7)
** ''Inuyasha'' (Victoria is a clear expy of Kagome, and she even tells Levi's dog at one point to "Sit", just like Kagome does with Inuyasha; Depth Charge also has hints of Sesshomaru's attituce, Nani is basically Rin, and Cybershark is a more courageous version of Jaken)

* Timey-WimeyBall: While the events in the Beast Wars World (the Civil War) end up shaping the events in Victoria's world (the present), it's not always addressed. About the only thing that comes out of it is a potential explanation of how the Trans-Warp Gate ended up in Victoria's world.

Beast Wars Fan Series(https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8456265/1/Beast-Wars-Fan-Series) is a Beast Wars fanfic -- written in script form -- written by Kenny Rutter(https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4211167/) and meant as a sequel/remake of the original series. It's been the author's labor of love for nearly ten years. Picking up 80,000 years after the Maximals and Predacons arrive on Earth and set during the American Civil War, the story follows the adventures of a teenager named Victoria Taylor who, after being trapped in the past thanks to a temporal anomaly, joins the fight to keep reality safe from the Predacons.

Fanfic: Beast Wars Fan Series

* 0%ApprovalRating: While the Predacons follow Megatron's orders, some of them do it very reluctantly and some of them -- mainly Tarantulas and Blackarachnia -- turn their backs on him for one reason or another.

* ActionMovie,QuietDramaScene: This trope is prevalent throughout the series, usually filling up entire episodes or filling entire arcs.
* AllThereintheManual: Some characters, mostly one-off characters, are only named in the script and their names are not actually said during dialogue.
* AnArmandaLeg: It's not unusual for the robots to get torn apart in some fashion, though they can always be put back together. Especially if your name's Waspinator.

* Autocannibalism: Not only is there the Dinobot clone that Dinobot eats -- grossing Victoria out -- but just how many characters has GRIMLOCK eaten?
* BackfortheDead: As this is a pseudo-remake of the original series, Tigerhawk ends up dying at then end.
* BackfromtheDead: Tigerhawk, Dinobot, Natalie (though she's a ghost), Bantor, Air Hammer (they, too, are ghosts)....

* Back-to-BackBadasses: Cheetor and Tigatron end up like this near the end of Season One while fighting a horde of zombies.
* BandofBrothers: The Maximals, natch.

* BewaretheNiceOnes: Victoria, by her nature, is actually a very sweet girl, but whatever you do, do NOT piss her off. She may be the weakest character physically, but when she gets into a fight -- as Blackarachnia and the Panther Clan found out -- she doesn't pull her punches.
** All that training the Maximals gave her seems to be paying off.

* BigCreepy-Crawlies: As before, most of the Predacons are giant bugs. Victoria doesn't say much when it comes to Quickstrike, Scorponock, Inferno, or Waspinator, but THEN she sees the spiders.

** ''WordofGod'' says that there were going to be more, but decided against. See ''WhatCouldHaveBeen'' for more details.
* CruelandUnusualDeath: Let's see here....

* DarkerandEdgier: As if the number of character deaths isn't enough, the tone of the story goes from "relatively dark" to "holy crap this is way too dark for young kids", despite the rating of K+.

** ''WordofGod'' says that the creatures Victoria fights in the labyrinth were once humans who had gotten trapped in the caverns and mutated into what they are now.

* Mix-and-MatchCritters:

* Shout-Out:
** 24 (Victoria asks why she never dreams of Jack Bauer in the first episode)
** Doctor Who (actually referenced by name during Victoria's dream in the third movie)
** Transformers Prime (Dark Energon is referenced, as is its power to bring back the dead)
** Resident Evil (the monsters in the Labyrinth are basically Lickers, but with skin)
** Gargoyles (David Xanatos is mentioned)
** Final Fantasy (the conflict between Cheetor and Spittor is akin to the conflict between Cloud and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7)
** Inuyasha (Victoria is a clear expy of Kagome, and she even tells Levi's dog at one point to "Sit", just like Kagome does with Inuyasha; Depth Charge also has hints of Sesshomaru's attituce, Nani is basically Rin, and Cybershark is a more courageous version of Jaken)
* ShutUp,Hannibal!: Mostly directed towards Megatron/Galvatron.

* TooCooltoLive: Depth Charge and Tigerhawk, primarily. At least Tigerhawk got to hang around a bit longer than before, half a season as opposed to two episodes.

* VillainSong: Galvatron, of all characters, gets one, though it's said to be more of a villainous monologue.

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse?: What ever happened to Devon? He was only in the first movie, after which he sort of dropped off the face of the earth. At least people like Levi had an excuse, such as being in the Union or Confederate Army or, in the case of Shauna and her mother Julia, trying to rebuild their town and reputation after a Predacon attack. But Devon? He's gone.

* WhyDon'tYouJustShootHim?: Optimus is trying not to resort to that, even if they DO have 120 years to scrape Megatron off the walls of The Ark.
* YouCan'tFightFate: Natalie tells Victoria during a dream that Victoria was always meant to bring balance back to reality, and that she may have to give her life in the final battle after dealing the killing blow to Galvatron. While she DOES finish off Galvatron and restore reality, she manages to do so without dying, thankfully.

* 0% Approval Rating: While the Predacons follow Megatron's orders, some of them do it very reluctantly and some of them -- mainly Tarantulas and Blackarachnia -- turn their backs on him for one reason or another.
* A God Am I: Once he gets the Time Stones, Galvatron actually believes himself to be the most powerful being in the universe.
* Action Movie, Quiet Drama Scene: This trope is prevalent throughout the series, usually filling up entire episodes or filling entire arcs.
* All There in the Manual: Some characters, mostly one-off characters, are only named in the script and their names are not actually said during dialogue.
* An Arm and a Leg: It's not unusual for the robots to get torn apart in some fashion, though they can always be put back together. Especially if your name's Waspinator.
* Artificial Beast: Per the norm when it comes to Beast Wars. Victoria and Natalie both freak out when they realize this.
* Audience Surrogate: This story is Victoria's story, and she is meant to act as the eyes and ears of the audience.

* Back for the Dead: As this is a pseudo-remake of the original series, Tigerhawk ends up dying at then end.
* Back from the Dead: Tigerhawk, Dinobot, Natalie (though she's a ghost), Bantor, Air Hammer (they, too, are ghosts)....

* Badass Normal: Victoria develops into this starting pretty early. Sure, she isn't perfect (she was never intended to be Sue-ish), but she's got more guts than most people. See the scenes where she takes on Galvatron with just a bow and arrow for an example.
* Back-to-Back Badasses: Cheetor and Tigatron end up like this near the end of Season One while fighting a horde of zombies.
* Band of Brothers: The Maximals, natch.
* Bash Brothers: Cheetor and Bonecrusher were implied to be this before the betrayal, then there's Cheetor and Tigatron, Cheetor and Dinobot....Basically, all the Maximals qualify, and even some of the Predacons, most notably Quickstrike and Bonecrusher.
* Battle Cry: Mostly from the Predacons.

* Beware the Nice Ones: Victoria, by her nature, is actually a very sweet girl, but whatever you do, do NOT piss her off. She may be the weakest character physically, but when she gets into a fight -- as Blackarachnia and the Panther Clan found out -- she doesn't pull her punches.

* Big Bad: Megatron, and later on, his upgraded version, Galvatron. ESPECIALLY as Galvatron.
* Big Creepy-Crawlies: As before, most of the Predacons are giant bugs. Victoria doesn't say much when it comes to Quickstrike, Scorponock, Inferno, or Waspinator, but THEN she sees the spiders.

* Big Damn Heroes: What's that, Maximals? You're getting your asses kicked? What's that, Predacons? The ground's starting to shake? Here comes Grimlock to save the day.
* Big Damn Movie: Three of them, one per season.
* Bittersweet Ending: The Predacons are dead, reality has been restored, and the Maximals have gone back to Cybertron, but that means that Victoria will never see her friends again.
* Body Horror: There's Silver Fox's transformation into the Wendigo, Cheetor's rather painful upgrade into his TransMetal 2 body, and the monsters in the Labyrinth.
* Broad Strokes: Set after the events of the first season of the original series, but is more of a remake than anything, so it sort of gets a pass.
* Butt Monkey: Once again, Waspinator fills this role, though Quickstrike, Bonecrusher, and occasionally Rattrap aren't out of the crosshairs.

* Catch Phrase: Let's see here:

* Characterization Marches On: Victoria started off scared of everything she was seeing, though we did get a chance to see how resourceful she can be when the situation called for it; by the end of the series, she had developed into one of the most badass characters and was the one who delivered the killing blow on Galvatron.

* Christmas Episode: The only thing that makes one episode a Christmas episode is the fact that it's set at Christmas time. Other than that, it's just another addition to the ''Action Movie, Quiet Drama Scene'' trope.

* Cruel and Unusual Death: Let's see here....

* Darker and Edgier: As if the number of character deaths isn't enough, the tone of the story goes from "relatively dark" to "holy crap this is way too dark for young kids", despite the rating of K+.
* Dinosaurs Are Dragons: You really can't blame the people in the Civil War times in calling Grimlock a "dragon", as very few people back then knew what a dinosaur was, and the T-Rex wouldn't be classified for at least another forty years. And it makes sense for Sir William to think Grimlock and Dinobot are dragons because he's from the Middle Ages and dragons were all over the place back then.
* Early Installment Weirdness: It takes about half a season, if that, for the characters to get their personalities down.

* Everybody Laughs Ending: There are only a couple of these, and they're all in the first season.
* Eye Scream: Victoria has a habit of shooting Galvatron in the eye with an arrow. Galvatron lampshades this when Optimus jabs him in the eye with a light pole.

* Family Unfriendly Death: We shall direct you to ''CruelandUnusualDeath'' above.
* Fate Worse Than Death: Until they merge into Tigerhawk, Tigatron and Airrazor are trapped in the Spirit World, leaving their friends to wonder if they're even dead or alive.

* Gambit Pileup: Megatron never gave up looking for the Golden Disk, he was just making it look like he had swapped priorities to gathering Energon. Once Dinobot destroys the Golden Disk, he has to change his plans.
* Genre Savvy: Megatron's original plan is pretty much what he wanted to do in the original series; knowing full well that if the Autobots ceased to exist before the Great War, then the Decepticons would win by default. Victoria's arrival in this world, however, throws a huge monkey wrench into his plans, and once he finds the Time Stones, he attacks Victoria's world first.
* Gentle Giant: Grimlock. Victoria repeatedly calls him "the biggest sweetheart" she'd ever met, and describes him to her friends back home as a big guy with the biggest golden heart.

* Getting Crap Past the Radar: Besides all the robot-slang swearing such as "slag" and "scrap", there's also some very subtle euphemisms strewn about. Have fun looking for them.
* Grand Theft Me: Starscream's Spark takes over Waspinator's body at one point in the first season.
* Heroic Sacrifice: Scorponock performs the villainous version when he takes the brunt of Megatron's attack to save Victoria.

* I Let Gwen Stacy Die!: Cheetor feels this way when it comes to Natalie, so much so that this is his main motivation for wanting to keep Victoria safe.
* Interspecies Romance: Natalie to Cheetor; Victoria to Cheetor; Great Bear to Airrazor....How would a romance between a human and a robot work?
* Killed Off For Real: Terrorsaur, Scorponock, Spittor (though he continues to haunt Cheetor), Tigatron, Airrazor, Bantor, Air Hammer (though Bantor and Air Hammer show up as ghosts from time to time), Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, Jason, most of the Panther Clan, and all the Predacons.
* Lampshade Hanging: You'd think all this time travel would have adverse effects on the time stream. This is brought up more than once.
* Look What I Can Do Now: Whenever a character goes through some sort of upgrade.

* Meaningful Echo: Whether intentional on Blackarachnia's part or not, she paraphrases Dinobot at one point:

* Mind Control Eyes: Victoria displays these when under Magmatron's influence thanks to him controlling the Energon he made her absorb.
* Mind Rape: Chaos does this to most of the Maximals, turning them against each other. Then there's the way the Labyrinth beats down the wills of the Maximals (except for Victoria, who powers through it). It's also shown that while humans are immune to the adverse effects of Energon and can in fact absorb it, too much will drive them insane or put them under the control of someone who knows how to manipulate it, as what happens to Victoria during the first movie.
* Mix-and-Match Critters:

* Musical Episode: The episode "The Show Must Go On" involves Victoria as the female lead in the school play, which is actually an opera of sorts.
* Mythology Gag: Most are references to events from the original series, but there's also hints that this series may take place during the same time as Transformers Prime, or at least the live-action Transformers movies.
* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sure, Victoria, try to upload Dinobot's datatrax to Dinobot and have him come back to the Maximals, it's not like it will almost get Rattrap killed or anything.[''SarcasmMode'']
* The Nicknamer: Rattrap never calls Victoria by name until the end of the series. Until then, he always refers to her as "kid" or "kiddo". The same thing goes for Megatron/Galvatron, who always calls her "that bothersome human" or "my little one".
* Precision F Strike: The most blatant example is Blackarachnia at the end of Season Two while arguing with Silverbolt.

* The Reveal: Megatron had never stopped looking for the Golden Disk. Until Dinobot destroys it.

* Running Gag: This:

* Shut Up, Hannibal!: Mostly directed towards Megatron/Galvatron.

* The Smurfette Principle: After Airrazor and Blackarachnia are killed off, Victoria becomes the primary female character.
* Stuff Blowing Up: Especially during the big action scenes in towns and cities.
* Time Travel: This is a big part of the series, and though we don't SEE the consequences of it too much, it's constantly brought up.
* Timey-Wimey Ball: While the events in the Beast Wars World (the Civil War) end up shaping the events in Victoria's world (the present), it's not always addressed. About the only thing that comes out of it is a potential explanation of how the Trans-Warp Gate ended up in Victoria's world.
* Too Cool to Live: Depth Charge and Tigerhawk, primarily. At least Tigerhawk got to hang around a bit longer than before, half a season as opposed to two episodes.
* Unusual Euphemism: "Slag" and "scrap" are the most obvious ones, but this series likes to throw in another word from time to time: "Frak".
* Villain Song: Galvatron, of all characters, gets one, though it's said to be more of a villainous monologue.
* What Could Have Been: There was going to be an explanation about that key chain that Victoria found in the first episode, but nothing came of it.

* What Happened to the Mouse?: What ever happened to Devon? He was only in the first movie, after which he sort of dropped off the face of the earth. At least people like Levi had an excuse, such as being in the Union or Confederate Army or, in the case of Shauna and her mother Julia, trying to rebuild their town and reputation after a Predacon attack. But Devon? He's gone.

* Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Optimus is trying not to resort to that, even if they DO have 120 years to scrape Megatron off the walls of The Ark.
* You Can't Fight Fate: Natalie tells Victoria during a dream that Victoria was always meant to bring balance back to reality, and that she may have to give her life in the final battle after dealing the killing blow to Galvatron. While she DOES finish off Galvatron and restore reality, she manages to do so without dying, thankfully.

* 0%ApprovalRating: While the Predacons follow Megatron's orders, some of them do it very reluctantly and some of them -- mainly Tarantulas and Blackarachnia -- turn their backs on him for one reason or another.
* AGodAmI: Once he gets the Time Stones, Galvatron actually believes himself to be the most powerful being in the universe.
* ActionMovie,QuietDramaScene: This trope is prevalent throughout the series, usually filling up entire episodes or filling entire arcs.
* AllThereintheManual: Some characters, mostly one-off characters, are only named in the script and their names are not actually said during dialogue.
* AnArmandaLeg: It's not unusual for the robots to get torn apart in some fashion, though they can always be put back together. Especially if your name's Waspinator.
* ArtificialBeast: Per the norm when it comes to Beast Wars. Victoria and Natalie both freak out when they realize this.
* AudienceSurrogate: This story is Victoria's story, and she is meant to act as the eyes and ears of the audience.

* BackfortheDead: As this is a pseudo-remake of the original series, Tigerhawk ends up dying at then end.
* BackfromtheDead: Tigerhawk, Dinobot, Natalie (though she's a ghost), Bantor, Air Hammer (they, too, are ghosts)....

* BadassNormal: Victoria develops into this starting pretty early. Sure, she isn't perfect (she was never intended to be Sue-ish), but she's got more guts than most people. See the scenes where she takes on Galvatron with just a bow and arrow for an example.
* Back-toBackBadasses: Cheetor and Tigatron end up like this near the end of Season One while fighting a horde of zombies.
* BandofBrothers: The Maximals, natch.
* BashBrothers: Cheetor and Bonecrusher were implied to be this before the betrayal, then there's Cheetor and Tigatron, Cheetor and Dinobot....Basically, all the Maximals qualify, and even some of the Predacons, most notably Quickstrike and Bonecrusher.
* BattleCry: Mostly from the Predacons.

* BewaretheNiceOnes: Victoria, by her nature, is actually a very sweet girl, but whatever you do, do NOT piss her off. She may be the weakest character physically, but when she gets into a fight -- as Blackarachnia and the Panther Clan found out -- she doesn't pull her punches.

* BigBad: Megatron, and later on, his upgraded version, Galvatron. ESPECIALLY as Galvatron.
* BigCreepy-Crawlies: As before, most of the Predacons are giant bugs. Victoria doesn't say much when it comes to Quickstrike, Scorponock, Inferno, or Waspinator, but THEN she sees the spiders.

* BigDamnHeroes: What's that, Maximals? You're getting your asses kicked? What's that, Predacons? The ground's starting to shake? Here comes Grimlock to save the day.
* BigDamnMovie: Three of them, one per season.
* BittersweetEnding: The Predacons are dead, reality has been restored, and the Maximals have gone back to Cybertron, but that means that Victoria will never see her friends again.
* ButtMonkey: Once again, Waspinator fills this role, though Quickstrike, Bonecrusher, and occasionally Rattrap aren't out of the crosshairs.
* BroadStrokes: Set after the events of the first season of the original series, but is more of a remake than anything, so it sort of gets a pass.
* CatchPhrase: Let's see here:

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Victoria started off scared of everything she was seeing, though we did get a chance to see how resourceful she can be when the situation called for it; by the end of the series, she had developed into one of the most badass characters and was the one who delivered the killing blow on Galvatron.

* ChristmasEpisode: The only thing that makes one episode a Christmas episode is the fact that it's set at Christmas time. Other than that, it's just another addition to the ''Action Movie, Quiet Drama Scene'' trope.

* CruelandUnusualDeath: Let's see here....

* DarkerandEdgier: As if the number of character deaths isn't enough, the tone of the story goes from "relatively dark" to "holy crap this is way too dark for young kids", despite the rating of K+.
* DinosaursAreDragons: You really can't blame the people in the Civil War times in calling Grimlock a "dragon", as very few people back then knew what a dinosaur was, and the T-Rex wouldn't be classified for at least another forty years. And it makes sense for Sir William to think Grimlock and Dinobot are dragons because he's from the Middle Ages and dragons were all over the place back then.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It takes about half a season, if that, for the characters to get their personalities down.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: There are only a couple of these, and they're all in the first season.
* EyeScream: Victoria has a habit of shooting Galvatron in the eye with an arrow. Galvatron lampshades this when Optimus jabs him in the eye with a light pole.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: We shall direct you to ''CruelandUnusualDeath'' above.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Until they merge into Tigerhawk, Tigatron and Airrazor are trapped in the Spirit World, leaving their friends to wonder if they're even dead or alive.

* GambitPileup: Megatron never gave up looking for the Golden Disk, he was just making it look like he had swapped priorities to gathering Energon. Once Dinobot destroys the Golden Disk, he has to change his plans.
* GenreSavvy: Megatron's original plan is pretty much what he wanted to do in the original series; knowing full well that if the Autobots ceased to exist before the Great War, then the Decepticons would win by default. Victoria's arrival in this world, however, throws a huge monkey wrench into his plans, and once he finds the Time Stones, he attacks Victoria's world first.
* GentleGiant: Grimlock. Victoria repeatedly calls him "the biggest sweetheart" she'd ever met, and describes him to her friends back home as a big guy with the biggest golden heart.

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: Besides all the robot-slang swearing such as "slag" and "scrap", there's also some very subtle euphemisms strewn about. Have fun looking for them.
* GrandTheftMe: Starscream's Spark takes over Waspinator's body at one point in the first season.
* HeroicSacrifice: Scorponock performs the villainous version when he takes the brunt of Megatron's attack to save Victoria.

* ILetGwenStacyDie!: Cheetor feels this way when it comes to Natalie, so much so that this is his main motivation for wanting to keep Victoria safe.
* InterspeciesRomance: Natalie to Cheetor; Victoria to Cheetor; Great Bear to Airrazor....How would a romance between a human and a robot work?
* KilledOffForReal: Terrorsaur, Scorponock, Spittor (though he continues to haunt Cheetor), Tigatron, Airrazor, Bantor, Air Hammer (though Bantor and Air Hammer show up as ghosts from time to time), Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, Jason, most of the Panther Clan, and all the Predacons.
* LampshadeHanging: You'd think all this time travel would have adverse effects on the time stream. This is brought up more than once.
* LookWhatICanDoNow: Whenever a character goes through some sort of upgrade.

* MeaningfulEcho: Whether intentional on Blackarachnia's part or not, she paraphrases Dinobot at one point:

* MindControlEyes: Victoria displays these when under Magmatron's influence thanks to him controlling the Energon he made her absorb.
* MindRape: Chaos does this to most of the Maximals, turning them against each other. Then there's the way the Labyrinth beats down the wills of the Maximals (except for Victoria, who powers through it). It's also shown that while humans are immune to the adverse effects of Energon and can in fact absorb it, too much will drive them insane or put them under the control of someone who knows how to manipulate it, as what happens to Victoria during the first movie.
* Mix-and-MatchCritters:

* MusicalEpisode: The episode "The Show Must Go On" involves Victoria as the female lead in the school play, which is actually an opera of sorts.
* MythologyGag: Most are references to events from the original series, but there's also hints that this series may take place during the same time as Transformers Prime, or at least the live-action Transformers movies.
* NiceJobBreakingIt,Hero: Sure, Victoria, try to upload Dinobot's datatrax to Dinobot and have him come back to the Maximals, it's not like it will almost get Rattrap killed or anything.[''SarcasmMode'']
* TheNicknamer: Rattrap never calls Victoria by name until the end of the series. Until then, he always refers to her as "kid" or "kiddo". The same thing goes for Megatron/Galvatron, who always calls her "that bothersome human" or "my little one".
* PrecisionFStrike: The most blatant example is Blackarachnia at the end of Season Two while arguing with Silverbolt.

* TheReveal: Megatron had never stopped looking for the Golden Disk. Until Dinobot destroys it.

* RunningGag: This:

** 24
** Doctor Who
** Transformers Prime
** Resident Evil
** Spider-Man
** Gargoyles
** Final Fantasy
** Inuyasha
** Sonic the Hedgehog
* ShutUp,Hannibal!: Mostly directed towards Megatron/Galvatron.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: After Airrazor and Blackarachnia are killed off, Victoria becomes the primary female character.
* StuffBlowingUp: Especially during the big action scenes in towns and cities.
* TimeTravel: This is a big part of the series, and though we don't SEE the consequences of it too much, it's constantly brought up.
* Timey-WimeyBall: While the events in the Beast Wars World (the Civil War) end up shaping the events in Victoria's world (the present), it's not always addressed. About the only thing that comes out of it is a potential explanation of how the Trans-Warp Gate ended up in Victoria's world.
* TooCooltoLive: Depth Charge and Tigerhawk, primarily. At least Tigerhawk got to hang around a bit longer than before, half a season as opposed to two episodes.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Slag" and "scrap" are the most obvious ones, but this series likes to throw in another word from time to time: "Frak".
* YouCan'tFightFate: Natalie tells Victoria during a dream that Victoria was always meant to bring balance back to reality, and that she may have to give her life in the final battle after dealing the killing blow to Galvatron. While she DOES finish off Galvatron and restore reality, she manages to do so without dying, thankfully.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There was going to be an explanation about that key chain that Victoria found in the first episode, but nothing came of it.

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse?: What ever happened to Devon? He was only in the first movie, after which he sort of dropped off the face of the earth. At least people like Levi had an excuse, such as being in the Union or Confederate Army or, in the case of Shauna and her mother Julia, trying to rebuild their town and reputation after a Predacon attack. But Devon? He's gone.

* WhyDon'tYouJustShootHim?: Optimus is trying not to resort to that, even if they DO have 120 years to scrape Megatron off the walls of The Ark.

** Victoria: Galvatron, you are so dispicable. Now, DIE!

* KilledOffForReal: Terrorsaur, Scorponock, Spittor (though he continues to haunt Cheetor), Tigatron, Airrazor, Bantor, Air Hammer (though Bantor and Air Hammer show up as ghosts from time to time), Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, and all the Predacons.

** CharacterizationMarchesOn: Victoria started off scared of everything she was seeing, though we did get a chance to see how resourceful she can be when the situation called for it; by the end of the series, she had developed into one of the most badass characters and was the one who delivered the killing blow on Galvatron.

* ChristmasEpisode: The only thing that makes one episode a Christmas episode is the fact that it's set at Christmas time. Other than that, it's just another addition to the ''Action Movie, Quiet Drama Scene'' trope.

** Grimlock: "Me Grimlock kick butt!"

Beast Wars Fan Series(https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8456265/1/Beast-Wars-Fan-Series) is a Beast Wars fanfic written by Kenny Rutter(https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4211167/) and meant as a sequel/remake of the original series. It's been the author's labor of love for nearly ten years. Picking up 80,000 years after the Maximals and Predacons arrive on Earth and set during the American Civil War, the story follows the adventures of a teenager named Victoria Taylor who, after being trapped in the past thanks to a temporal anomaly, joins the fight to keep reality safe from the Predacons.