History WesternAnimation / ChallengeoftheGobots

* AfterTheEnd: The planet Gobotron, whose biosphere was destroyed in a war.

Despite the legal issues the [=GoBots=] did a receive recognition on the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page in the form of the prose crossover story [[WebOriginal/EchoesAndFragments Echoes and Fragments]].

* VagueAge: How old are the [=GoBots=]? There are ''young'' [=GoBots=] who need to be educated, and the characters don't make claims to [[TimeAbyss vast age]] like the {{Transformers}} do (in particular, "Search For the Ancient Gobonauts" makes it clear that they consider the early days of Egypt to be ancient history even by their standards), so it appears that [=GoBots=] do age, reproduce, and experience generational turnover like any other biological race (although exactly ''how'' [=GoBots=] propagate their species is anyone's guess).

* OffModel: In a case of literaly using the wrong character model, the [[PaletteSwap similar-looking]] Guardian Baron Von Joy and the Renegade Dr. Go were often drawn as each-other.

* HotScientist: Anya Turgonova is a scientist and is very attractive.

There are a few {{Alternate Continuit|y}}ies for the franchise. A British [[NewspaperComics comic strip]] called ''Robo Machines'' appeared in the periodical ''Eagle'' from November of '84 to July of '85, featuring a radically different storyline ([[{{Wiki/Wikipedia}} the other wiki]] has information [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robo_Machines_(comic) here.)]] In France, where the American show had been quite popular, the Japanese ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series was used as a second season, despite the drastic ArtShift between the series.

* AbsenteeActor:
** Aside from Cy-Kill being mentioned by Turbo, none of the Renegades appear in "The [=GoBots=] that Time Forgot".
** The Guardians' human allies Matt Hunter, Nick, and AJ are sometimes absent, one notable instance being the show's final episode "Quest for New Earth".
* AdaptationNameChange: Some of the [=GoBots=] characters had different names from their toys.
** Baron Von Joy is renamed Professor Von Joy.
** Herr Fiend is called Dr. Go in the cartoon.
** Tux is referred to as Stretch.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With most being little more then background characters; often the same character would be seen as both good guy and bad guy -- even in the same episode.

** Decades after the show's end, Fun Publications used their Transformers Timelines prose stories that were posted on the Transformers Club website to provide a spiritual finale for ''[=GoBots=]'' where some of them traveled through the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' multiverse (mainly the ''Franchise/TransformersClassics'' one, with a quick stop by the ''ComicBook/TransformersTransTech'' universe first) to try and save Gobotron from a Cataclysm that threatened their world. The arc was ultimately wrapped up in the story "Spatiotemporal Challengers Part 4: Last Sunset", where Small Foot and Solarbot sacrificed themselves to end the Cataclysm and the Guardians celebrated this new age of peace while also preparing for the Renegades' inevitable resuming of attacks.

* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy: Averted. Gobotron is a democracy. Properly speaking, "Guardians" are the legitimate government's military, rather than the name of the whole society. That said, since the show revolves almost entirely ''around'' the military, we don't really get to see the rest of their society (not unlike Franchise/StarTrek's treatment of Starfleet, really).