History YMMV / TransformersSuperGodMasterforce

* FairForItsDay: When Shuta and Cab are caught spying on the female swimming competition, they are clearly portrayed in the wrong (mainly Cab, since Shuta [[ChivalrousPervert actually wanted nothing to do with it]], and Cab merely dragged him along). While the fact the whole scene is played for comedy and it merely takes them saying sorry for Minerva to forgive them would likely make Western audiences cringe, in Japanese anime, sexual harassment is either downplayed or the women don't protest because in Japan, it is seen as impure, so the fact that the whole incident is painted by the writers as bad, and Minerva's disgust being portrayed as sympathetic, is an enormous leap forward.
* {{Fanon}}: Overlord being a Duocon is something that never came up in the series but many fans jumped on the idea. Overlord had two different alt modes that combined together for a vehicle mode (A jet and tank just like Flywheels) even though his gimmick was a being Godmaster and Duocons had their own instant transforming gimmick. Decades later this would become AscendedFanon and Overlord was retroactively called a Duocon.

** Shuta playing soccer with an armadillo.

** The emotional scene of Shuta putting the baby ahead of fighting the Decepticons. Given he had just lost his father, this is very powerful.

*** Similarly, Professor Go's death. Blood takes advantage of the unmanned laboratory and launches an attack. Lander tries to get Professor Go out safely, but Blood knocks a pillar on top of the professor before proceeding to knock Lander unconscious. Shuta can return only just as his father dies.

** Shuta losing his father.

* ToyShip: Shuta and Minerva got a few moments. As did Minerva and Cancer. Though there's more fans who ship Shuta and Minerva than Cancer and Minerva (and Cab and Minerva, for that matter).

** The natives of Karin Island are portrayed as completely ordinary people, their culture and religion is not depicted as inferior, and Cab, while disliking travelling overseas to study, agrees, but it has more to do with childhood arrogance and the fact that as the heir to the kingdom, he will need the skills, and he ultimately goes of his own choice. Similarly, when Shuta says in one episode that the island will become a civilized nation, Cab's seething DeathGlare has the show portray the comment as a deeply offensive comment, that Shuta wisely backs down on, which very few shows set in the time period would portray it as. This is a show in the 80's, when such stereotypes about Indigenous peoples around the world were held up as true, and where the harsh stereotypes still very much haunt Indigenous peoples in the contemporary era, and it is very rare for such an ordinary or sympathetic depiction to be seen even in modern times.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* FairForItsDay: When Shuta and Cab are caught spying on the female swimming competition, they are clearly portrayed in the wrong (mainly Cab, since Shuta [[Main/ChivalrousPervert actually wanted nothing to do with it]], and Cab merely dragged him along). While the fact the whole scene is played for comedy and it merely takes them saying sorry for Minerva to forgive them would likely make Western audiences cringe, in Japanese anime, sexual harassment is either downplayed or the women don't protest because in Japan, it is seen as impure, so the fact that the whole incident is painted by the writers as bad, and Minerva's disgust being portrayed as sympathetic, is an enormous leap forward.

** During the battle in outer space, Wilder tells the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors to provide backup, and decides to move forward. Unfortunately for him, he promptly floats off and has to grab Black Zarak's leg. Cancer and Bullhorn promptly tell him he needed a rocket booster, and Wilder proceeds to berate them for not telling him beforehand, despite the fact that when they cleared the atmosphere, he was the first to state so.

* HilariousinHindsight:

** The Deceptiocons try to incite animals into violence against humans, and the Autobots can only try to restrain them or redirect them.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Compared to Transformers: The Headmasters, the cast for Masterforce is smaller and hence there is more time to focus on the individual characters, making them more engaging/interesting (heroes in the first half, villains in the second half). In particular, for many Transformers series, fans are often annoyed by human kids being shoehorned into the episodes, but Masterforce for the most part avoided the shoehorn feel by its own premise of humans becoming Transformers. The individual episodes and especially the series' various overarching plots are better written too, with surprisingly more mature themes alluded to (For a kids series). Across the western fandom, it is generally regarded as the best Transformers anime that Japan has offered to date, despite the atypical premise for a Transformers series.

** Ginrai's speech before attacking Black Zarak on the moon.

** Transformers fans seem to have the liking of the Godmasters God Ginrai and Overlord. The former because his transector looks like Optimus Prime, and his toy is often imported, not to mention having an American reissue (although as Optimus Prime). Overlord is also one of the popular villains, with his toy also imported by fans since his appearance in the anime, primarily due to his honorable nature and genuinely caring for his subordinates.
** [=BlackZarak=] is also a fan-favorite among the fans of the series. His toy, not so much, since he is a victim of GPS, or "Gold Plastic Syndrome".
** Cancer is well liked among the fans similarly because of his strong struggle with who he is, having a deeply sympathetic backstory and being one of the few Decepticons aside from Overlord and Devil Z to get a considerable side plot. The fact he is one of the few Chinese characters in Japanese media to avert the EthnicScrappy trope similarly contributes to his popularity.

* EvilIsSexy: Mega, who wears a deeply revealing dress, and is plenty evil.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to blaming his minions when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions. After his defeat, Devil Z returns in ''[[Webcomic/TransformersLegends Legends]]'', where he would try to kill every living thing in the Legends World so he can use all of their Shinchōkon energy to become powerful enough to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other universes]].

** In one episode, Gilmer calls Minverva a cute madonna. In its Italian origin, it refers to a woman who is important, so that doesn't sound so bad, but the problem is Japan adapted the word to refer to cute girls, and Minerva is 15. That type of comment would not be getting on a kid's show in the contemporary era.

* IAmNotShazam: Toy reviewers will, more often than not, call Ginrai Optimus Prime. This doesn't help that his Commemorative Series figure doesn't even attempt to distinguish who Ginrai is, other than being another name for Hi-Q, Prime's Powermaster partner. The only attempt to distinguish both Ginrai and Optimus is the idiotically paranoid IDW comics version of the character in his "Fire Guts" colors.

* NightmareFuel: Given that this is the most darkest of the three Japanese G1 shows, there is a lot of moments that will terrify you.

* MoralEventHorizon: Devil Z crossed the line when he ordered the Death Para Machine to destroy the Earth's stratosphere and thus destroy humanity.
** If he didn't cross it then, he most certainly did it when he started killing his own soldiers when they said he was going crazy.
** Hydra and Buster have a number of points where they crossed the line.
** The first one, and arguably the most debatable one is when they attack Ginrai's friends. Granted, they did not target them intentionally, and they were killed in a case of mistaken identity, but the fact they didn't bat an eye over that is really cold.
** The second one is where they kidnap Lightfoot's father and use him as a hostage, giving Lightfoot the choice of either joining the Decepticons, getting his arms cut off, or having his father murdered.
** The third one, and the one that is almost certainly a no brainer is when they personally ask Devil Z to remove them from their humanity, seeing it as a weakness.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A ClipShow was made after the show concluded that explained pretty much most of plot holes, like explaining where Devil Z got the Godmasters or why Ginrai looks exactly like Optimus.

** When Ginrai compares the moon to the Earth, he declares that the Earth must be protected and must not become a dead and lifeless world like the moon. ''Anime/BeastWarsII'', which is part of the Japanese G1 timeline, reveals that humans were responsible by drawing out the Angolmois Energy, the lifeforce of ''Unicron'', and Earth was renamed to Gaia. In other words, the humans were responsible for Earth's destruction, not Decepticon leaders no matter how hard they tried.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to blaming his minions when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions. After his defeat, Devil Z returns in ''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'', where he would try to kill every living thing in the Legends World so he can use all of their Shinchōkon energy to become powerful enough to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other universes]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to blaming his minions when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions. After his defeat, Devil Z returns in ''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'', where he would try to kill every living thing in the Legends World so he can use all of their Chichokon energy to become powerful enough to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other universes]].

* CompleteMonster: [[GodEmperor Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to blaming his minions when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions. After his defeat, Devil Z returns in ''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'', where he would try to kill every living thing in the Legends World so he can use all of their Chichokon energy to become powerful enough to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other universes]].

* CompleteMonster: [[GodEmperor Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to blaming his minions when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions. After his defeat, Devil Z returns in ''''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'''', where he would try to kill every living thing in the Legends World so he can use all of their Chichokon energy to become powerful enough to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer other universes]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Devil Z]] is the Decepticon Emperor. Stealing 8 Transtectors to create an army of humans merged with the power of Transformers, Devil Z later intended to cast aside the Godmasters as tools. Straight up DesecratingTheDead and later torturing his minions, Devil Z happily resorts to [[NeverMyFault blaming his minions]] when he makes an error or miscalculation. Later when humanity proves themselves to be unpredictable, Devil Z decides that humanity is an existential threat and that he must KillAllHumans. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards his own subordinates think he is going too far]], he kills them without hardly a second thought, and displays absolutely no remorse for his actions.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Cab refusing to go to a boarding school in Japan, especially given that he sees it as a foreign school, is played completely for comedy. While Cab is a small child, and it was likely written that way, Canadian viewers can find the scene a lot less funny after the revelations about the abuse First Nations children, which Cab is by definition, suffered in residential schools.

* HarsherInHindsight: When Ginrai compares the moon to the Earth, he declares that the Earth must be protected and must not become a dead and lifeless world like the moon. ''Anime/BeastWarsII'', which is part of the Japanese G1 timeline, reveals that humans were responsible by drawing out the Angolmois Energy, the lifeforce of ''Unicron'', and Earth was renamed to Gaia. In other words, the humans were responsible for Earth's destruction, not Decepticon leaders no matter how hard they tried.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Compared to Transformers: The Headmasters, the cast for Masterforce is smaller and hence there is more time to focus on the individual characters, making them more engaging/interesting (heroes in the first half, villains in the second half). The individual episodes and especially the series' various overarching plots are better written too, with surprisingly more mature themes alluded to (For a kids series). Across the western fandom, it is generally regarded as the best Transformers anime that Japan has offered to date, despite the atypical premise for a Transformers series.

** The characterization of Minerva and Mega is very progressive by Japanese standards. Minerva, while disliking a fight, is shown to be an incredibly capable combatant and has been able to take down and hold her own against much stronger adversaries. Similarly, she can easily out argue an older male character quite skillfully. Mega is shown as a very competent leader and a very skillful leader whose orders are obeyed without question. Given that Japanese anime traditionally portray women as StayInTheKitche, their depictions are very much ahead of the time.

* BrokenBase: This is ''Transformers'' and all.

* EarWorm: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBaHXNmaX24 The ending theme]]