| 1 | [[Characters/TransformersAnimated Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/TransformersAnimatedMainAutobots Main Autobots]] | [[Characters/TransformersAnimatedOtherAutobots Other Autobots]] | [[Characters/TransformersAnimatedDecepticons Decepticons]] | '''Humans''' | [[Characters/TransformersAnimatedShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]] |
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| 6 | !Allies and Others |
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| 8 | [[folder:Sari Sumdac '''(UNMARKED SEASON 3 SPOILERS!)''']] |
| 9 | !!Sari Sumdac |
| 10 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/150px-sari_animated_491.jpg]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:150:[[labelnote:Click]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sari_upgrade.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see her after her upgrade.]] |
| 12 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong / Creator/SatomiAkesaka |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -->''"Listen up, oil brain! My family needs your help, and you ''are'' going to help, get me?"'' |
| 15 | |
| 16 | The young daughter of Issac Sumdac, Sari is what anyone her age is; precocious and spunky. She is immediately drawn to the Autobots (especially Bumblebee) and serves as their representative and educator of Planet Earth. When she comes in contact with the [=AllSpark=], Sari's access key turns into a literal key that can fix damaged Autobots and allow her to manipulate nearly any type of machinery. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | We later find out why the [=AllSpark=] chose her: Sari is really a Cybertronian protoform turned half-human, half-robot after Issac accidentally input his DNA into said protoform. Naturally, she doesn't take this well at first. Sari then gets a system upgrade that [[PlotRelevantAgeUp ages her up to a sixteen-year-old to make her more powerful]]. She continuously uses her skills in battle and later helps out during the final battle. |
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| 20 | * ActionGirl: She's as useful in combat as the Autobots. |
| 21 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: It’s revealed in "Sound and Fury" that other children shun her due to her quirky personality. They only came to her birthday party because their parents work for her dad, and even then, they would’ve left immediately if the Autobots hadn’t been at her party. |
| 22 | * AlliterativeName: Her first and last names both begin with S. |
| 23 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 24 | ** It is unknown how her protoform got into Sumdac Towers. The "The Trial of Megatron" reading reveals that [[spoiler:she isn't a protoform and no one is sure of what she is. ''Not even WordOfGod came up with an explanation on what she was'', although they also state that this would have been answered by the Season 5 finale]]. |
| 25 | ** According to Vector Prime in AllThereInTheManual, he says that something feels familiar about her. |
| 26 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: She initially refuses to believe her dad's story about her being created from a liquid metal sphere he found in his lab. She voices this while riding inside and talking with a transforming, 20-foot tall, immortal alien robot from another planet whose heart is a magical crystal shard. |
| 27 | * BadassAdorable: She's a very cute child and is also a useful ally to the Autobots. |
| 28 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Post-upgrade, switching to her robot alt-mode is sufficient to protect her from the vacuum of space. Notable because Blackarachina, also a techno-organic, threw a fit about her own organic parts not being able to survive underwater long enough to reach the Autobots' sunken spaceship. Then again, maybe Sari's version is just better given its source. |
| 29 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: Her upgrade activated a pair of pop-out arm tonfa that can do some serious damage, as poor Bumblebee found out the hard way. Ratchet apparently had to shut most of her weapons down after she nearly overloaded. |
| 30 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Until her upgrade, when she gets Autobot-style eyes. |
| 31 | * DamselInDistress: Before her upgrade, Sari tends to be targeted by enemies and has to be rescued by the Autobots. It's even how she first met Bumblebee. The beginning of "Survival of the Fittest" even has Prowl try to teach her self-defense in case they're not around to protect her. |
| 32 | * DeadpanSnarker: Oftentimes is one, especially whenever Bumblebee (or any of the other Autobots, really) regards humans as weird. Significantly more so in Season 3 due to her adopting a LetsGetDangerous attitude. |
| 33 | * ExpressiveHair: Her pigtails sometimes droop down or stand on end to reflect her emotions. |
| 34 | * FieryRedhead: She's a pretty passionate young girl. |
| 35 | * FriendlessBackground: Because she's been homeschooled her whole life (and the other kids think she’s a weirdo), she didn’t have any friends before meeting the Autobots. |
| 36 | * GenkiGirl: She's very chipper and energetic. |
| 37 | * GirlishPigtails: She has pigtails. Even in her robot mode. |
| 38 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She is eventually revealed to be half-Cybertronian and born from a protoform copying her father's DNA. |
| 39 | * HandBlast: After discovering that she’s a cyborg, she discovers she has the power to fire blue energy balls from her hands. |
| 40 | * IGotBigger: Sari's first transformation into her robot mode significantly increased her height and made her curvier. Compared to the kid she was before, Sari is actually pretty lanky in Season 3, outgrowing her father. It's possible that her new height reaches StatuesqueStunner levels, but the artstyle of the show doesn't really allow an ideal comparison and there haven't been any official height measurements either, so that makes that rather difficult to pin down. |
| 41 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Sari's light blue eye color matches that of the other Autobots and she's a very kind and caring teenage girl. For the Decepticons, however, Sari's eyes become IcyBlueEyes, when she actually ''gets serious'' the few times she comes into contact with them in Season 3. |
| 42 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: With the Autobots. |
| 43 | * JetPack: In season 3, her dad gives her one that turns into a scooter. |
| 44 | * JumpedAtTheCall: She eagerly wanted to help the Autobots in their adventures from day one. |
| 45 | * KidAppealCharacter: She's the only kid in the main cast and provides some comic relief. |
| 46 | * KillerRabbit: Just ask Mixmaster and Scrapper. |
| 47 | * TheLoad: Averted, as she is somewhat of a liaison between humans and the Autobots, as well as having a key empowered by the [=AllSpark=]. |
| 48 | * LonelyRichKid: Her father is very rich, and she had no friends before meeting the Autobots. |
| 49 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: A weapon that never made it to air. |
| 50 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted and otherwise played with with Isaac Sumdac. |
| 51 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Isaac Sumdac is a chubby, old roboticist while Sari is an adorable little kid, who later becomes a cute teenage girl. One could justify this by saying she's not human, but they share the same DNA. |
| 52 | * MagicSkirt: |
| 53 | ** Her skirt usually keeps covering her pelvic area in spite of how short it is. At one point, her leg goes right through it. |
| 54 | ** Subverted in "[=TransWarped=]" when she is upgraded. While we see up her skirt in some scenes, it's the standard Cybertronian armor there, so it's okay. |
| 55 | * MagicalGirlWarrior: Her transformation into robot mode is an homage to these, and she boasts a plethora of weapons inside her. You could argue Sari is a borderline example of this as her powers are purely technological in nature. |
| 56 | * MacGuffin: Sari's [=AllSpark=]-infused key is literally the key to everything. It can fix (or break) anything, is highly sought after for its technological properties, can detect other macguffins regardless of their nature and serves as her reason for accompanying the Autobots into dangerous situations. It loses its status after Sari uses it to physically upgrade herself in Season 3, effectively turning ''herself'' into the macguffin. |
| 57 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: In the most literal sense. Being a RobotGirl, the Key allows her to give herself a PlotRelevantAgeUp. |
| 58 | * MissingMom: Averted - she never had one due to her 'birth'. |
| 59 | ** Although, since the [=AllSpark=] is the source of life for all Cybertronians that would technically make the [=AllSpark=] Sari's "mother". |
| 60 | * MundaneUtility: There is virtually no situation in which she wouldn't use the [=AllSpark=] key to make things easier. |
| 61 | * NiceGirl: She’s a sweet, friendly kid. |
| 62 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sari starts the overall story of the series by accidentally reactivating [[BigBad Megatron]]. |
| 63 | * PlayfulHacker: While not to the levels of her father, Sari is intelligent enough to be able to operate and hack computer systems for her own benefit, both with and without her key. Though she's able to utilize this skill to help the Autobots when necessary, it's mostly used for her own amusement. |
| 64 | * PubertySuperpower: Inverted in that making herself stronger has accelerated her growth. |
| 65 | * RaisedByRobots: She has a robotic tutor educate her, and the Autobots pretty much serve as guardians whenever her father is missing or busy. |
| 66 | * RobotGirl: Before the upgrade, she could eat, sleep, cry, and catch colds, but just happened to have metal under her skin and hidden palm blasters. Post-upgrade, she's still at least partly human, but has a lot more tricks up her Cybertronian sleeves. |
| 67 | * RoboticReveal: It is eventually revealed that she's a techno-organic Cybertronian. |
| 68 | * SixthRanger: At least, she was by the time of the finale. She grew into the role over the course of Season 3. |
| 69 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Has a much better time getting along with giant robots than kids her age. Justified, as she was home-educated, and spent most of her time around robots, anyway. |
| 70 | * SpoiledSweet: Having a rich scientist dad who can buy her expensive things and build her robots as birthday presents and a jetpack as a Christmas present hasn’t done anything to corrupt her sweet attitude. |
| 71 | * SuperScream: As Bumblebee quickly learned, the sound of her shrieking is very, ''very'' painful to Cybertronians. She's weaponized it against the Decepticons on a few occasions. |
| 72 | * SuperStrength: After her [=AllSpark=] upgrade, she can effortlessly lift a full oil drum with each hand, even in her human form. |
| 73 | * TagalongKid: She used to be this to the Autobots before she TookALevelInBadass. |
| 74 | * {{Technopath}}: She gains control over machines after her upgrade. |
| 75 | * TinmanTypist: After her upgrade, her fingers interface with whatever computer system she hacks into. |
| 76 | * TookALevelInBadass: She becomes a more capable ally to the Autobots than ever after her upgrade, thanks to gaining some new abilities. Subverted, however, as Sari's first official fight actually has her overload due to the [=AllSpark=] energy flowing within her, and later episodes show that, while still far more badass than before, Sari still doesn't reach quite the same level of badass and has far less weapons at her disposal. WordOfGod explained that Sari's weapons have been mostly disabled by Ratchet and that she needs to be able to control energy consumption first in order to truly master them, something that would have likely happened in Season 4 had it not been cancelled. |
| 77 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Female, Indian, cyborg. |
| 78 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: Out of the Autobots, she tends to hang out with Bumblebee and Bulkhead the most. |
| 79 | * TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: In her teenage form. Sari did not get her looks from Issac. |
| 80 | * UndeadTaxExemption: Averted. When she takes over her father's company in season 2, she's quickly ousted because there are no documents proving she legally exists. This also serves to explain why she was so sheltered. It's not that he didn't want to send her to regular schools, he simply '''couldn't'''. |
| 81 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It was Sari using her key to enter her dad's lab that caused Megatron to reawaken. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Isaac Sumdac]] |
| 85 | !!Professor Isaac Sumdac |
| 86 | [[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isaac_sumdac.jpg]] |
| 87 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomKenny / Creator/TakashiNagasako |
| 88 | |
| 89 | -->''[[CaptainObvious "I should be more careful when reverse-engineering alien technology."]]'' |
| 90 | |
| 91 | Isaac Sumdac is the head of Sumdac Systems, the business at the heart of 22nd-century Detroit, which relies heavily on his "tireless mechanical helpers". He managed to create these elusive robots by reverse-engineering technology from Megatron, whose head he discovered as a teenager. When Megatron reactivated, he convinced Isaac, who had no idea he was talking to a Decepticon, to keep him a secret from the Autobots. When they found out, they weren't pleased. Megatron later kidnapped Isaac to work on his space bridge, leaving Sari to take over Sumdac Systems briefly before Porter C. Powell kicked her out. He is eventually freed - just in time for Sari to learn the truth about herself. |
| 92 | |
| 93 | He is the classic absent-minded professor, forgetting to ''eat'' in order to get his robotics in tune. He is well-meaning despite it and remains a loving father to Sari. |
| 94 | ---- |
| 95 | * AccentAdaptation: In the German dub, he is given a Chinese accent. |
| 96 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: He runs his own company, but sometimes forgets to feed himself and... isn't that great at judging how trustworthy someone is. |
| 97 | * AnimeHair: His hair naturally grows into tall, curvy spikes. |
| 98 | * AntiEducationMama: A variant; Professor Sumdac is a genius in numerous fields and understands the importance of his daughter having a full education. But instead of sending her to a traditional school he built her a tutor-bot programmed with a full K-12 learning plan. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that this was done because Sari wasn't fully human, but a Cybertronian with a human form who'd come to Earth. He wanted to keep her origin a secret from everyone (including her), hence his isolating her.]] |
| 99 | * BollywoodNerd: He's a genius inventor and Indian. |
| 100 | * BrokenPedestal: He becomes one to the Headmaster, who used to idolize him, after he fires him. He also becomes a broken pedestal to Sari, after she realizes he never told her she’s a cyborg, though she soon forgives him. |
| 101 | * DitzyGenius: He's a brilliant inventor, but unfortunately he's also forgetful and has poor judgment of the people who try to deceive him. |
| 102 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He's insistent that Sumdac Systems employees do not under any circumstances design or build robots with a military purpose. It's grounds for immediate termination of your employment for him. |
| 103 | * FamedInStory: He’s famous for revolutionizing human civilization with his robots. |
| 104 | * Fiction500: His inventions have made him very rich. |
| 105 | * ForgetsToEat: "When was the last time you ate?" "What is today?" |
| 106 | * GadgeteerGenius: He gained great mechanical expertise by studying Megatron’s body parts. He can build all kinds of robots, a suit that gives a person SuperSpeed, a scooter that turns into a jetpack, etc. |
| 107 | * GeekPhysiques: He’s a short, chubby scientist. |
| 108 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: His only real "crime" is withholding his knowledge of Megatron and designing his tech around him. Even then, he had no knowledge of what Megs was upon finding him, the legality of salvaging alien robots is probably not well established, and the only reason he didn't tell Prime decades later is out of shame. |
| 109 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Despite Megatron's menacing nature, aggressive tone, [[ManipulativeBastard and fairly obvious choice of words]], Isaac trusts him entirely and believes every word he says right up until it's too late. |
| 110 | * ManlyTears: He cries at the end of the Season 1 finale when Megatron takes him captive, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone especially given what]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he had learned earlier that day]]. |
| 111 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of "Megatron Rising", having realized that the robot he was helping this whole time was actually the BigBad. |
| 112 | * NiceGuy: He’s a loving father to Sari, he gives the Autobots a place to stay while they’re living on Earth, and he’s an HonestCorporateExecutive. |
| 113 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Helping [[BigBad Megatron]] rebuild himself and not telling the Autobots he had his head in his lab was a huge mistake. |
| 114 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Since he saw Megatron fall to Earth 50 years ago, he's at least 60 years old. He looks 20 years younger than that. |
| 115 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Helping Megatron rebuild himself, which Bulkhead often brings up. |
| 116 | * OpenMindedParent: He loves his daughter just the same after unlocking her Cybertronian powers and aging her up into adolescence. |
| 117 | * RobotMaster: He creates and controls a lot of robots. |
| 118 | * RebuiltPedestal: Although Sari disowns Professor Sumdac as her father after realizing that she’s a cyborg and he never told her, she forgives him when he stands up to the Headmaster to protect her. |
| 119 | * {{Retcon}}: He has a white, S-shaped stripe on his hair. We see him with it during flashbacks in Season 1, but in Season 3 it's revealed he got it when he touched the protoform that became Sari. |
| 120 | * SdrawkcabName: His last name is "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus Cadmus]]" backwards. |
| 121 | * SpikyHair: His hair grows into a bunch of spikes. |
| 122 | * TechnologicalPacifist: He refuses to sell weapons and forbids his employees from building any military-related projects. |
| 123 | * TrulySingleParent: Professor Sumdac was never married and after TheReveal that Sari is a cyborg shows that he did not create her with a woman. |
| 124 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Twice over, in that he was not only helping Megatron due to his HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, but never got around to making any sort of legal citizenship for Sari. The net result was the former coming back to terrorize the world and the latter being kicked out of her own home and life by Powell because she didn't legally exist in any capacity. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Captain Fanzone]] |
| 128 | !!Captain Carmine Fanzone |
| 129 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captainfanzone1.jpg]] |
| 130 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeffBennett / Creator/NobuoTobita |
| 131 | |
| 132 | --> ''"A technophobe is someone who '''fears''' technology. [[SuddenlyShouting Does]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis this!]]''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Look! Like!]] '''[[PercussiveMaintenance FEAR TO YOU?! *smashes a phone*]]'''"'' |
| 133 | |
| 134 | The loud-mouthed captain of the Detroit Police Department (and master of yelling into megaphones), Fanzone dislikes one thing and one thing only: machines. This hits him over the head when Detroit's heroes turn out to be giant robots. Still, for the sake of peace, he tries and learns to live with it, relying on them when he has to. Ironically, Fanzone is also the first human to visit Cybertron and most of the residents fear him because of his organic nature. |
| 135 | ---- |
| 136 | * {{Acrofatic}}: He's a {{Big Eater}}, but he can kick some serious ass. Technically subverted too as he's more of a StoutStrength build. |
| 137 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The episode featuring him and Ratchet (hilariously, named after his {{Catchphrase}}) being sent to Cybertron. He is not a fan of the locals, nor are the resident Autobots happy about him being there. |
| 138 | * BadassNormal: He's a useful ally to the Autobots even though he's just a normal man. He even managed to adapt to being suddenly transported to an alien planet, using his police training to aid in an investigation with Ratchet. |
| 139 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: He doesn't really approve of the inconveniences of modern tech. It's not exactly unjustified as it always tends to malfunction around him. |
| 140 | * ButtMonkey: He has a lot of bad luck. Namely, he suffers from a RunningGag of constantly getting annoyed, and sometimes endangered, by malfunctioning machines, and another running gag of his car getting destroyed over and over. |
| 141 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "This is why I '''hate''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6jqUqI5T7Q machines!]]" [[MadLibsCatchPhrase He also hates kids and lawyers]], but above all else, he hates [[ForInconveniencePressOne tech support]]. |
| 142 | * ChildHater: Admits to being one in "Mission Accomplished", though in his defense, he said so after Sari was making a list of extensive demands while the Autobots suggested that he be Sari's legal guardian. |
| 143 | * ChronicallyCrashedCar: His car gets wrecked three times throughout the show. As it was the same vehicle Bumblebee scanned for his vehicle mode, it is often because it was mistaken for the yellow bot himself. |
| 144 | * TheCommissionerGordon: He's the main authority figure the Autobots work with. While he is willing to work with them, he'll be grumbling and complaining the whole way. |
| 145 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being a bit bumbling, he actually fights competently alongside the Autobots on several occasions. |
| 146 | * DaChief: He often gets angry at the Autobots whenever they mess up or inadvertently inconvenience him. |
| 147 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Episodes animated by Creator/TheAnswerStudio portray him with his EyesAlwaysShut, but episodes animated by Creator/MookDLE give him squinting, narrow eyes. |
| 148 | * EveryoneHasStandards: For as much as he hates machines, he'd much rather take Sumdac's police robots over Prometheus Black's dangerous experiments, immediately terminating the latter's contract upon seeing the destruction caused. |
| 149 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Though it appears to vary by episode (and animation studio) |
| 150 | * FailedASpotCheck: By the time he arrives at a military base to investigate the ruckus caused by Blitzwing and Lugnut, the two Decepticons have scanned plane modes for themselves and hid among the jets present. Captain Fanzone angrily asks how the Decepticons could simply disappear into thin air, seemingly forgetting that Transformers can disguise themselves as vehicles and not noticing that the Decepticons' plane modes sport bizarre purple paint jobs that are hugely out of place among the normal military vehicles. Even more incongruously, due to his status as a Triple-Changer, Blitzwing's plane mode has ''tank treads'' under its wings ''in place of landing gear''. |
| 151 | * FantasticRacism: He has plenty of disdain for machines. Especially since a lot of times he's at the expense of gags involving them. However, he's always willing to help the Autobots in times of need and his disdain never veers into outright hatred like it does with [[EvilutionaryBiologist Meltdown]]. |
| 152 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's often very grumpy, but he's an honest police officer, helps the Autobots whenever they need it and offers the same level of aid if he can. |
| 153 | * NobleBigotWithABadge: He repeatedly states ''[[FantasticRacism "This is why I hate machines."]]'' That doesn't stop him from working with the Autobots, helping them, or saving them. |
| 154 | ** He also recognizes the good bots from the bad ones. |
| 155 | --->"This is why I hate machines." ''(looks at [[{{Jerkass}} Sentinel]])'' "Certain machines more than others." |
| 156 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He accepts that the Autobots have noble intentions. |
| 157 | ** In ''Black Friday'' he dismisses Powell's claim that Bumblebee and Sari sprung Prometheus Black out of prison (since they were seen visiting his cell minutes before the Dinobots broke him out), calling it circumstantial evidence at best as it was the Autobots who helped apprehend Black to begin with. He then turns it around on Powell and makes him back down by asking how was he able to obtain a prison's security camera footage without proper authorization. |
| 158 | * RunningGag: |
| 159 | ** Every time he tries to use a machine, it malfunctions. |
| 160 | ** His car is regularly crushed and was once ''blown up'' by Blitzwing, but it keeps coming back, complete with its characteristic rust. Is it possible for a non-sentient object to be TheChewToy? |
| 161 | * {{Technophobia}}: Defied. He's accused of being this by Prowl, but in his own words- |
| 162 | --->"A technophobe is someone who fears technology. Does this look like fear to you?!"(Smashes Cellphone) |
| 163 | * {{Tuckerization}}: According to Marty Isenberg, he's named after Detroit native Car''men'' Fanzone, a former neighbour of his who used to play for the Chicago Cubs. |
| 164 | * WalkingTechbane: This is ''why'' he hates machines. They seldom work for him the way they’re supposed to. |
| 165 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Parodied when the Elite Guard make a public arrival in Detroit. |
| 166 | -->"Robots. Why did it have to be robots?" |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Porter C. Powell]] |
| 170 | !!Porter C. Powell |
| 171 | [[quoteright:258:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/portercpowellmodel.jpg]] |
| 172 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BumperRobinson / Creator/ToruOkawa |
| 173 | |
| 174 | --> ''"Oh, I don't ''think'' I'm in charge, young lady: I ''know'' it."'' |
| 175 | |
| 176 | A shrewd businessman who uses every dirty trick in the book to gain power and money. He works in Sumdac Systems, but briefly takes over it when Isaac "mysteriously disappears". |
| 177 | ---- |
| 178 | * AscendedExtra: He originally appeared as one of Prometheus Black's investors in "Total Meltdown." He wasn't going to appear afterwards, but the crew were taken by his design and wanted to see more of him. |
| 179 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's very sleazy and often does immoral things with his businesses. One of his most heinous violations, however, would be in the tie-in comic story "The Insincerest Form of Flattery", where he tried to sell a bunch of SWAT Vehicles named after Bulkhead without the Autobot's permission, used ManipulativeEditing to make it look like the vehicles' namesake approved of them, and was later made to confess that he sold the vehicles even though he was completely aware that they were very dangerous. |
| 180 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has these as a sign that he’s a creep. |
| 181 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn’t understand why Sumdac would choose not to make money by selling weapons, and calls him “shortsighted” for it. |
| 182 | * {{Greed}}: His top priority is to make as much money as possible. |
| 183 | * HateSink: Aside from [[PayEvilUntoEvil cutting funding to Promethus Black]] in "Total Meltdown", everything Powell does just makes him more and more of a hateable {{Jerkass}}, the biggest offense being when he kicked Sari Sumdac out of her home and usurped ownership of Sumdac Systems all the while smugly reminding her that she can't prove she’s Professor Sumdac’s daughter. |
| 184 | * {{Jerkass}}: Big time, especially when he took sadistic glee in kicking Sari out of her home after exposing there was no legal proof she exists. |
| 185 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 186 | ** Downplayed. His defunding of Prometheus Black was a sound business decision as Black had not only failed to deliver a product but had also brought legal action down on himself. Since this was before Powell's characterization as a money-grubbing asshole the scene frames his actions as sympathetic and logical. With Powell's later characterization as a CorruptCorporateExecutive this action stands out as one of the more sensible and less assholish things he'd done. Even if he helped kickstart Black's StartOfDarkness, Black wasn't the most sympathetic of characters. |
| 187 | ** For all his scummy actions in "The Insincerest Form of Flattery", he's correct in his point that Bulkhead's altmode was taken from a vehicle Powell Motorworks made and he has every legal right to use his patent on it. |
| 188 | ** Similarly, while he was being an absolute jerk about it, he is right that a child shouldn't be running a massive, multi-billion dollar robotics company. |
| 189 | * KarmaHoudini: He gets away with all the shit he pulls... [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty well]], until things start going pear-shaped for him starting with "Black Friday". |
| 190 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: His luck starts slowly running out as the season progresses. First, Ratchet threatens to throw him and the mayor into the river if they don't settle a contract dispute over malfunctioning garbage bots. Then, when Prometheus Black is busted out of jail, not only do his attempts to make it seem that Sari did it fail miserably, but his lab is broken into, he's tossed around and frightened by Grimlock (who also gets oil all over him and his suit), and Fanzone threatens to arrest ''him'' for causing a public disturbance leaves him completely stunned. Then, when Professor Sumdac comes back, he's not only fired, but Sari angrily blasts him with her newly discovered Cybertronian abilities. And to put the cherry on top, he tries selling his own brand of Soundwave toys, but when said toys end up nearly enslaving all of Detroit under the ''real'' Soundwave's thrall, he's left in ruin by the mass demand of refunds. |
| 191 | * KickTheDog: He throws Sari out of Sumdac Tower and continuously gloats to her about how she can't prove that she’s Sumdac’s daughter. |
| 192 | * LaserGuidedKarma[=/=]BreakTheHaughty: After being a KarmaHoudini throughout Season 2, in "Black Friday", he gets tormented by Grimlock, loses a valuable piece of equipment, and Fanzone threatens to arrest him for being a "public nuisance". The third season begins with him being fired by Professor Sumdac and blasted out of Sumdac Tower by Sari when Professor Sumdac regains control of his company. Much later in "Human Error," he sells Soundwave toys based on Sumdac's original design. After the real Soundwave's villainous actions, however, Powell is financially ruined by the refunds. |
| 193 | * MakingASpectacleOfYourself: He wears big pink-lensed glasses. |
| 194 | * MysteriousMiddleInitial: It's never been revealed what the initial "C" stands for. |
| 195 | * NoSympathy: He throws a little girl, whose only parent had been kidnapped, out on the streets and never shows any remorse for doing so. |
| 196 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: In his first scene, he cuts off his funding to Prometheus Black. Given what an asshole Black already was, it's not hard to see what Powell did as karmic. |
| 197 | * {{Slimeball}}: He’s a smug, greedy, heartless crook of a businessman who does a lot of sleazy things to make himself richer. Meltdown outright calls him a double-dealing slimeball. |
| 198 | * SmugSnake: He's not very respectful or humble towards anyone. |
| 199 | * WhatExactlyIsHisJob: He's... he's definitely a businessman. Yeah. But he's been seen as the CEO of a car company, breaking deals with gene-splicers, usurping a robotics company from an 8-year-old girl, and selling knockoffs of the original Soundwave toy. His main area of expertise remains a mystery. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Mayor Edsel]] |
| 204 | !!Mayor Edsel |
| 205 | ->..... |
| 206 | |
| 207 | A silent mayor who lets his secretary do all the talking. |
| 208 | ---- |
| 209 | * SilentBob: Even though he never speaks, no one has trouble understanding him. |
| 210 | * SilentPartner: Flipped around from what you'd expect. |
| 211 | * TheVoiceless: He needs his assistant to interpret him. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:The Witwicky Family]] |
| 216 | !!The Witwicky Family |
| 217 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton (Spike), Creator/TaraStrong (Carly and Daniel) / Katsuyuki Konishi (Spike) |
| 218 | |
| 219 | A family of in-jokes, the Witwickys are generally somewhere in the background, although they briefly join the main plot in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", during which Carly is giving birth and is unlucky enough to be picked up by Ratchet in ambulance mode. Spike and/or Carly work for Isaac, since Daniel is one of the few kids at Sari's birthday party. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * AllThereInTheManual: The ''[=AllSpark=] Almanac'' books reveal that the family's infant daughter is named Nancy. |
| 222 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: Spike Witwicky's father Sparkplug Witwicky is also present in this continuity, but he is never seen with the rest of the Witwicky family and is never confirmed to be a Witwicky, which makes it unclear whether he is still Spike's father. |
| 223 | * CanonForeigner: Baby Nancy originates in this continuity, as Daniel was an only child in the Sunbow cartoon. |
| 224 | * ConstantlyCurious: Daniel Witwicky in the short "Career Day". Optimus Prime introduces himself to Daniel's school, but Daniel won't stop asking Optimus questions about how he transforms. |
| 225 | * ContinuityCameo: They are based on the characters of the same names from [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the Generation 1 cartoon]]. |
| 226 | * PanickyExpectantFather: Spike Witwicky is visibly nervous when he is seen with a pregnant Carly in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", and he doesn't get any calmer when Ratchet's attempt to drive them to the hospital goes awry. |
| 227 | * {{Recurring Extra}}s: Their appearances are generally limited to background cameos. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | !Supervillains |
| 231 | [[folder:Prometheus Black/Meltdown]] |
| 232 | !!Prometheus Black/Meltdown |
| 233 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meltdown.jpg]] |
| 234 | [[caption-width-right:210:[[labelnote:Click here to see Prometheus Black]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prometheus_black.PNG[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 235 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/PeterStormare / Creator/FumihikoTachiki |
| 236 | |
| 237 | --> ''"Are you ready to feel the burn?"'' |
| 238 | |
| 239 | An expert biologist, Prometheus Black used his talents to manufacture "[[BioAugmentation biochemical makeovers]]", but lost his funding when a PR stunt involving Bumblebee and [[TheBrute Colossus Rhodes]] went badly wrong. Angry that he has to compete with the likes of Sumdac and his machinery (which he hates), Prometheus vows vengeance. He gets it when he's accidentally turned into essentially walking acid. He's one of the few who can melt Cybertronians without even trying, making him a deadly foe. |
| 240 | ---- |
| 241 | * AintTooProudToBeg: When Fanzone ties him up with one of his own acid-proof suits and Prowl threatens to let the Dinobots attack him, he begs Prowl to keep them away from him. |
| 242 | * BadPowersBadPeople: His body is made of acid corrosive enough to melt through Autobots, and he's also a depraved MadScientist willing to perform experiments on people against their will, even children. |
| 243 | * BaldOfEvil: The bald part is subverted in his human form, which had a full head of hair, but after he gets mutated, he’s completely bald. |
| 244 | * TheBeastmaster: His two mutant monsters obey him and serve as his henchmen. |
| 245 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: His outfits and DiscoDan-nature aside, Meltdown is the only human villain who poses a real threat to the Autobots one-on-one and his experiments are about as depraved as anything the Decepticons do. |
| 246 | * BigNo: In "Black Friday", he lets out one of these when he starts melting into a puddle. |
| 247 | * BodyHorror: Himself obviously. But those two monsters working for him in two episodes? The bat one used to be [[EvilLawyerJoke his lawyer.]] |
| 248 | * CardCarryingVillain: When Captain Fanzone calls him a seriously twisted fruitcake, Meltdown takes it as a compliment. |
| 249 | * CoatCape: He wore a coat like this at the wrestling match between Bumblebee and Colossus Rhodes. |
| 250 | * CoolShades: He wears sunglasses as a human, and switches to a different pair after his mutation. |
| 251 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has these in both his human form and his mutant form. |
| 252 | * DiscoDan: Dresses like he should be at a 70's disco club. |
| 253 | * DoNotCallMePaul: In "Survival of the Fittest", when Captain Fanzone calls him by his real name, he gets mad and says that his name is Meltdown. |
| 254 | * DrivenByEnvy: He’s extremely jealous of Sumdac’s fame and success, and determined to outshine him. |
| 255 | * DubNameChange: He's called Dr. Fusion in the French dub. |
| 256 | * EvilCounterpart: To Isaac Sumdac. Both are scientific geniuses. But whereas Sumdac's specialty is robotics, Black's is bio-technology. While Sumdac uses his robots to benefit mankind, Black uses his biotech for his agenda about organic material being better than machines. |
| 257 | ** Come Season 3, he also counts as one to Sari herself. Both are humans affiliated with a revolutionary tech company who are granted inhuman powers by their encounters with the Transformers, and while Sari fights alongside the Autobots and embraces who she is, Prometheus resents his transformation and seeks to exploit them for his twisted experiments. |
| 258 | * EvilIsPetty: He tries to murder Sumdac just because he's jealous of him. He also chooses to kidnap his daughter, Sari, and use her as a test subject for his genetic experiments just to spite her father. He also thinks one of the reasons why he’s more deserving of success than Sumdac is because he is (or used to be) better-looking. |
| 259 | * EvilerThanThou: He proves to be more evil and cunning than Blackarachnia. |
| 260 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: He's a biochemist who creates [[BioAugmentation bio-augmentations]] for humans, and for his own nefarious schemes. |
| 261 | * {{Expy}}: As [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel Circuit-Breaker]] shows, this isn't the first time a human scientist has been mangled in a Transformer-related accident that gave them a touch lethal to Cybertronians, a ravenous hatred of robots, and gaudy fashion sense out of the '70s. His status as a depraved, [[PoisonousPerson poisonous]] MadScientist with a creepy fixation on Blackarachnia who [[spoiler: isn't really a Cybertronian]] also brings to mind [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Tarantulas]]. |
| 262 | * FantasticRacism: Against machines, to a FAR more vicious extent than Captain Fanzone. |
| 263 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He will sometimes put up a polite facade, such as complimenting Prowl on figuring out he was behind Sari’s kidnapping, or addressing Optimus and Grimlock as “Gentlemen”, but he’s a heartless, depraved psychopath. |
| 264 | * FreakLabAccident: Autobot fluid + his special steroids = ouch. |
| 265 | * GreenEyedMonster: He tries to kill Sumdac and use his daughter as a guinea pig for his genetic experiments because he’s jealous of Sumdac for being rich and famous. |
| 266 | * HateSink: He’s a petty, spiteful, egotistical creep who tries to murder Sumdac for no other reason than jealousy, and is perfectly willing to kidnap people and perform genetic experiments on them against their will, [[WouldHurtAChild even planning on doing it to a little girl]]. He is also [[FantasticRacism racist against robots]]. |
| 267 | * HighCollarOfDoom: His acid-proof suit has one. |
| 268 | * HollywoodAcid: Outside of some specific things that can apparently resist acid, he can melt through anything he touches, including the Autobots. |
| 269 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 270 | ** He constantly states that humans are superior to machines, and uses science to try and better humanity to outclass robots. However, he uses cybernetic implants on Colossus Rhodes, and uses a sample of Bumblebee's fluid to create his acid. |
| 271 | ** He claims that one of the reasons why he’s better than Sumdac is because he’s better-looking than him. He says this ''after'' he gets mutated into a freakish monster made of acid. |
| 272 | * IAmAMonster: After getting mutated, he laments that he’s become a freak. |
| 273 | * ImMelting: His own genetic modifier liquefies him in ''Black Friday''. The end of the episode reveals he's still alive, but he never shows up again. |
| 274 | * InsultBackfire: When Fanzone calls him a seriously twisted fruitcake, Meltdown replies “Flattery will get you nowhere, Captain.” |
| 275 | * KickTheDog: Having Sari kidnapped and [[WouldHurtAChild planning to mutate her]], [[EvilIsPetty just to spite her dad]]. |
| 276 | * KnightOfCerebus: Of the show's human villains: he's the only one who isn't played for laughs and poses a genuine threat to the Autobots. |
| 277 | * MadScientist: He performs genetic experiments that turn people into deformed monsters and superpowered beings, and he’s perfectly willing to kidnap people and experiment on them against their will. |
| 278 | * MakerOfMonsters: By his second appearance, he’s used his lawyer and stockbroker as test subjects for his genetic experiments and turned them both into hideous monsters who are fusions of different animals. |
| 279 | * NeverMyFault: Prometheus blames Issac Sumdac for his fall from grace and mutation, but completely ignores the fact that he brought legal action on himself when Colossus Rhodes goes on a rampage as a result of the energized super steroids making him extremely aggressive, and he also ignores the fact that ''he'' chose to experiment on Bumblebee's internal fluid and it was ''his'' chemicals in ''his'' lab that ''he'' carelessly mishandled that caused his mutation. |
| 280 | * PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: He blames the Sumdacs for his company's failure and kidnaps Sari when he decides he needs a child for an experiment. |
| 281 | * PlayingWithSyringes: He'll perform experiments on people regardless of how they are affected. |
| 282 | * PoisonousPerson: Meltdown is a walking acid creature that can melt Transformers with a touch. |
| 283 | * RevengeByProxy: When he gets the idea to use a child for his mutation experiments, he decides to kidnap Sari and use her as a guinea pig just to spite her father, who he hates. |
| 284 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: He once said Isaac Sumdac merely got lucky with his success in robotics; if only Prometheus knew the half of it... |
| 285 | * SesquipedalianSmith: His first name Prometheus is rather sophisticated when compared to his mundane surname of Black. |
| 286 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Black never appears again after his supposed "death", but Blackarachnia is still using his lab and resources in "Predacons Rising." And as it turns out, creating a "Transforming organic" isn't entirely impossible... |
| 287 | * SquishyWizard: His acid, which he can also fire from his hands, will burn through anything, but he's helpless if faced by something that's resistant to it, notably shown when Fanzone grabbed one of his protective suits and overpowered him. |
| 288 | * TheResenter: He absolutely loathes Isaac Sumdac, viewing him as being inferior to him in every way, and a fraud who’s completely undeserving of his fame and riches. |
| 289 | * TokenSuper: He's the only human villain with superpowers. |
| 290 | * UnknownRival: Sumdac knew about him and his company, but he had no idea how much Prometheus outright hated him. |
| 291 | * UnskilledButStrong: His acidic powers make him a huge threat, but beyond that, he's not very combat-capable. When Fanzone neutralizes his powers using a backup acid-proof suit, he takes Black down easily. |
| 292 | * VillainRespect: In "Survival of the Fittest", he congratulates Prowl for figuring out the whole situation after spotting the acid burns on Swoop's leg. |
| 293 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After he's melted into a puddle in Season 2, he never appeared in the show again. |
| 294 | * WouldHitAGirl: He tries to use Sari and Blackarachnia as guinea pigs against their will. |
| 295 | * WouldHurtAChild: When his experiments don't get the results he wants, he decides to try the procedures out on child test subjects. And then he decides to get even with Sumdac at the same time by abducting Sari and using her as a test subject. As Fanzone put it, he's a seriously twisted fruitcake. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes]] |
| 299 | !!Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes |
| 300 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cyrus_rhodes.PNG]] |
| 301 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colossus_rhodes_1_removebg_preview.png]] |
| 302 | [[caption-width-right:350:His bulked-up form]] |
| 303 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/CoreyBurton / Nobuo Tobita |
| 304 | |
| 305 | -> ''"Who's the little guy now?"'' |
| 306 | |
| 307 | Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes is a biotech-enhanced human who works for Prometheus Black. His enhancements allow him to energize super steroids from the pistons and turn him from a frail old man into a muscular brute. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: For some reason, he has light green skin. In his muscular form, his skin also has some dark green patches. |
| 310 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Colossus Rhodes' biotech-enhancements allow him to grow muscular and powerful enough to fight the Autobots. While it seems impressive, there are several drawbacks that far outweigh the benefits. |
| 311 | ** The more he uses his super steroids, the more aggressive he becomes, which leads him to go on a destructive rampage after throwing Bumblebee out of the wrestling ring and the building itself. It's because of this that Captain Fanzone refuses to buy the product and denies Prometheus Black the police contract. |
| 312 | ** The pistons that energize the steroids serve as an [[AttackItsWeakPoint obvious weak spot that Prowl managed to hit and end the fight with Colossus Rhodes instantly]]. Meltdown fixes this issue by reinforcing the pistons, thus ensuring the Autobots can't exploit this again. |
| 313 | ** The enhancements can be disrupted by high-frequency sounds, as shown when Colossus Rhodes gets disoriented by the loud noise of a car horn or a church bell and the enhancements start to malfunction. Whether or not Meltdown managed to fix that problem is never shown or elaborated on. |
| 314 | ** And finally, the pistons can be temporarily shorted out when exposed to water. |
| 315 | * BaldOfEvil: He has no hair on his head and he’s a ruthless henchman of Prometheus Black. |
| 316 | * TheBerserker: His steroids give him super-strength, but have the side-effect of making him extremely aggressive. |
| 317 | * DepravedDwarf: He’s a supervillain, and in his weak form, he’s the size of a little kid. |
| 318 | * TheDragon: He primarily serves as Meltdown's right-hand man. |
| 319 | * DumbMuscle: He serves as this to Meltdown. He’s pretty tough, but in his second appearance, he’s outwitted by Sari, who was eight years old. |
| 320 | * EvilOldFolks: He’s an elderly supervillain. |
| 321 | * {{Expy}}: His ability to grow muscular through steroids makes him quite similar to [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bane]]. |
| 322 | * GrowingMusclesSequence: The pistons on his back allow him to charge up super steroids to turn him from a frail old man to a muscular brute. |
| 323 | * SuperStrength: His steroids make him as strong as an Autobot. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Nanosec]] |
| 327 | !!Nino Sexton/Nanosec |
| 328 | [[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanosecmodel.jpg]] |
| 329 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianPosehn / Takehito Koyasu |
| 330 | |
| 331 | --> ''"[[{{Troll}} Good heavens, the police! However will I elude them?]]"'' |
| 332 | |
| 333 | Nino was once a common thief until he was given a speed suit secretly by Megatron, causing him to create wanton havoc until the suit aged him up. He is eventually restored to his youth by Slo-Mo, whom he falls for. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: “I ain’t nobody’s errand boy!…Unless the price is right.” |
| 336 | * ChestInsignia: His suit has one with an N in it. |
| 337 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He’s got these. |
| 338 | * DubNameChange: In the Japanese dub, he goes by "Speed King". |
| 339 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares about his girlfriend, Slo-Mo. |
| 340 | * EvilRedhead: He has red hair. |
| 341 | * {{Expy}}: The Japanese dub turns him into one of Franchise/LupinIII. |
| 342 | * {{Gonk}}: He has a goblin-like face. |
| 343 | * {{Greed}}: He uses his SuperSpeed to rob people, and when Megatron requests his services, Nanosec tells him he’s nobody’s errand boy…unless the price is right. |
| 344 | * LineOfSightName: Despite his name, he didn't get the idea for his supervillain moniker until one of his victims claimed his money "disappeared in a nanosec!" |
| 345 | * OppositesAttract: The man with SuperSpeed gets interested in a woman who can slow down time. |
| 346 | * OutlawCouple: With Slo-Mo. |
| 347 | * RapidAging: A side-effect of the suit was that he'd grow older the more he used it. Slo-Mo fixed him up in Season 2. |
| 348 | * SmugSuper: He’s very cocky once he gets SuperSpeed. |
| 349 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Nino Sexton, Nanosec. Oddly enough, he didn't come up with it himself. |
| 350 | * SuperSpeed: His suit lets him move superhumanly fast. |
| 351 | * ThinChinOfSin: Look how long and pointy it is! |
| 352 | * {{Troll}}: He’s very smug and constantly mocks people. |
| 353 | * UngratefulBastard: Subverted. He’s grateful to Slo-Mo for making him young again and he serves her loyally. |
| 354 | * VillainTeamUp: He teams up with Slo-Mo, Angry Archer, and Professor Princess to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Angry Archer]] |
| 358 | !!A. A. Archer/Angry Archer |
| 359 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/094_9.png]] |
| 360 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeffBennett / Katsuyuki Konishi |
| 361 | |
| 362 | --> ''"An Autobot! Verily the arrows of outrageous misfortune seek to pierce me to the quick - exeunt!"'' |
| 363 | |
| 364 | A Robin Hood-ish figure who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, namely himself. The Angry Archer also has a habit of speaking in quasi-Shakespearean diction. |
| 365 | ---- |
| 366 | * AlliterativeName: His first, middle, and last name all begin with the letter A. |
| 367 | * ArtificialLimbs: He has a robotic three-armed gauntlet on his left hand which presumably helps with his archery. |
| 368 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: To Green Arrow, they're both modeled after Robin Hood and posses an arsenal of Trick Arrows, but green arrow is a superhero while Angry Archer is a (wannabe) supervillain. |
| 369 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has these. |
| 370 | * DominoMask: wears a green domino-style mask. |
| 371 | * GagNose: He has a huge, pointy nose. |
| 372 | * {{Gonk}}: He’s got tiny eyes, buckteeth, and a giant, pointy nose. |
| 373 | * {{Greed}}: As he tells Wreck-Gar, he steals from the rich and gives to the needy, namely himself. |
| 374 | * JustLikeRobinHood: Parodied. In his case, when he claims to give the spoils he stole from the rich to the poor, by "the poor" he really means himself or his cohorts. Basically just being a villainous parody of Robin Hood and his ideals. |
| 375 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jeff Bennett uses his John Cleese impression. |
| 376 | * NoNeckChump: He oddly doesn’t seem to have a neck. |
| 377 | * NonIndicativeName: For someone called the Angry Archer, he's actually not that angry. |
| 378 | * RobinHoodlum: Just highlighting the obvious: he's a criminal who modeled himself after Robin Hood. |
| 379 | * ASinisterClue: After learning about the character, the real Aaron Archer requested that the cartoon Archer be left-handed like him, although the Angry Archer at times appears to be ambidextrous. |
| 380 | * TrickArrow: Magnets, armoured fists, grenades, lasers, and grappling lines among others. |
| 381 | * {{Tuckerization}}: After [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aaron_Archer character designer Aaron Archer]] (he was even originally supposed to be named "Aaron the Angry Archer"). |
| 382 | * VillainTeamUp: He teams up with Slo-Mo, Nanosec, and Professor Princess to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy. |
| 383 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: He talks as if he's from one of Shakespeare's plays. |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Professor Princess]] |
| 387 | !!Penny Princess, Ph.D./Professor Princess |
| 388 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/095.png]] |
| 389 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathSoucie / Megumi Toyoguchi |
| 390 | |
| 391 | --> ''"Explosions aren't nice... EXCEPT WHEN THEY LOOK LIKE BEAUTIFUL RAINBOWS!!"'' |
| 392 | |
| 393 | A bratty "princess" whose goal in life is to destroy anything "boyish" so the world can be a happier, pinker place. |
| 394 | ---- |
| 395 | * AlliterativeName: Her surname, her given name, and her title all begin with P. |
| 396 | * BrattyHalfPint: She's a bratty little girl who’s also a supervillain. |
| 397 | * ChestInsignia: Her costume has one that looks like a broken heart. |
| 398 | * ChildProdigy: She's a real professor and presumably built her own weapons, including the flying plush unicorn she rides. Too bad she doesn't have the maturity to go with it. |
| 399 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Despite being a certified genius and able to construct fantastical devices, she's still just a child who doesn't grasp the consequences of her actions and frequently turns every subject back to childish things such as toys and unicorns. |
| 400 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Per the comics: despite being a joke villain, she manages to humble Starscream. Granted, this was mostly thanks to Starscream being paralyzed when she found him. |
| 401 | * EnfantTerrible: Fans weren't certain, but WordOfGod says she's really a kid. |
| 402 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In her debut episode, she bursts into tears when her robot unicorn, Powdered Sugar, gets blown up. |
| 403 | * GadgeteerGenius: She made a flying robot unicorn that can fire energy bolts from its horn, and all sorts of girly, high-tech weapons. |
| 404 | * GigglingVillain: She constantly laughs. |
| 405 | * {{Hypocrite}}: A big one. She hates “violent” toys and games, yet her preferred method of getting rid of them is to blow them up. She also says explosions aren’t nice, unless they’re rainbow-colored. And she protests that she isn’t a criminal, but still joins three other supervillains in going on a crime spree, stealing a large sack of dolls for herself. |
| 406 | * MyLittlePhony: Her robot unicorn companion bears a strong resemblance to Hasbro's other famous property. |
| 407 | * PinkIsFeminine: She has pink hair, a mostly pink outfit, and a mostly pink, wand-shaped weapon, and she likes things that little girls typically like, such as unicorns and dolls. |
| 408 | * ShoutOut: She rides around on [[Franchise/MyLittlePony a flying unicorn plush toy]]. |
| 409 | * Technobabble: Subverted, despite being a genius inventor she still talks and acts like a typical girl her age. |
| 410 | * VillainTeamUp: She teams up with Slo-Mo, Nanosec, and Angry Archer to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy, despite her belief she herself is not a villain. |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Henry Masterson/Headmaster]] |
| 414 | !!Henry Masterson/Headmaster |
| 415 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/headmastertotalownage.png]] |
| 416 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlexanderPolinsky / Kōsuke Okano |
| 417 | |
| 418 | --> ''"Get ready for T.O.T.: Total Ownage Time!"'' |
| 419 | |
| 420 | A young scientist who has created a robotic head that can take over any other living robot's body (he's kind of a [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 control freak]] that way), controlling them under his will. Headmaster speaks in computer leet speak (''retro'' leet speak, considering this is the 22nd century). |
| 421 | ---- |
| 422 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Headmasters are normally supposed to enable a cybernetic partnership, with the bot gaining an extra perspective from his new partner. Here they're the creation of an unstable, angry manchild with emphasis on forceful control, and no consent from the disembodied bot. |
| 423 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 424 | ** The Headmaster Units are very powerful and very dangerous machines, especially to Transformers, granting the pilot control of a powerful alien war machine. If the Transformers weren't there, however, their flaws would outweigh their benefits. The Headmaster Units are far too heavy for conventional Earth robots, and even when he takes over Transformer bodies, the size of the Headmaster Unit prevents actual transformation (due to being a few times bigger than an average Transformer’s head). What the units boil down to are very expensive upgrades to already functional robots that are more likely to compromise the robot's infrastructure than provide any major benefits. |
| 425 | ** The Headmaster Units' MiniMecha mode is similarly redundant. While the humanoid form does allow the ability to operate other devices from within the Unit, Masterson has been shown doing so in head mode. On top of that, Optimus at one point thwarts Masterson's getaway by [[FlippingHelpless knocking the tiny robot on its back, whereupon it immediately got stuck.]] |
| 426 | * AxCrazy: He just loves to destroy things. |
| 427 | * BerserkButton: He’s got a few of them. |
| 428 | ** Getting fired sends him into a vengeful rage. |
| 429 | ** He says nobody insults his Headmaster unit. |
| 430 | ** ''Nobody'' calls him a noob. |
| 431 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: This guy might be an immature geek, but aside from Meltdown, he's the only human who manages to actually pose a danger to the Autobots without any help from the Decepticons. |
| 432 | * BrokenPedestal: When he first meets Professor Sumdac, he gushes on how he's always admired his work and how he grew up tinkering with his robots. He loses his respect for Sumdac when he gets fired because of his dangerous Headmaster unit demonstration and is chewed out for attempting to make weapons for the company. |
| 433 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: His ludicrous tendency to speak in outdated Internet slang aside, he's still very dangerous to the Autobots and he made the Headmaster unit himself. |
| 434 | * CatchphraseInsult: He constantly calls people noobs. His second most-used insult is lame-o/lamer. |
| 435 | * CharacterCatchphrase: As a part of his LeetLingo vocabulary a common phrase he drops is "Total ownage, noob/noobs!", he says it so much that [[BorrowedCatchPhrase other characters have used it against him]]. |
| 436 | * ChestInsignia: His suit has one with an H in it. |
| 437 | * ColorMotif: Magenta. His suit, his helmet, the Headmaster Unit, and the helmets he made for Sparkplug and Tutor-Bot are all mostly magenta. |
| 438 | * CombiningMecha: The Headmaster unit will make any other robot one ''against their will''. |
| 439 | * DiscoDan: He talks like an early 2000s online game nerd in the 22nd century when "l33tsp33k" was ''already'' on its way out when the show premiered. |
| 440 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn’t understand why Professor Sumdac refuses to build weapons, and calls Sumdac a wuss for it. |
| 441 | * EvilIsHammy: He yells a lot of his lines and has a loud EvilLaugh. |
| 442 | * EvilLaugh: He often lets out an evil laugh, usually a loud, hammy one. |
| 443 | * ExpressiveMask: It's [[FreezeFrameBonus subtle]], but despite being a piece of technology with no mind of its own, the Headmaster Unit’s face sometimes changes to match the presumed expressions of its owner. |
| 444 | * {{Expy}}: He's essentially the same guy as [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Control Freak]], since he's a hammy geek armed with highly dangerous technology who has an ego the size of a planet. Hell, he even has the same voice actor. |
| 445 | * {{Fanboy}}: He was one for Sumdac, until Sumdac fired him. |
| 446 | * GadgeteerGenius: He invents his own equipment. |
| 447 | * GrandTheftMe: His modus operandi is using his tech to steal Cybertronians' bodies. |
| 448 | * HateSink: It's blatantly obvious Masterson isn't meant to be likable or "cool". He's an obnoxious tool who hijacks Cybertronians' bodies to wreak petty havoc, behaves like the most insufferable internet trolls, and is supremely incompetent despite his threat level. On top of that, he was a KarmaHoudini until Season 3, which no doubt came as a relief. |
| 449 | * LaughablyEvil: He’s a geeky, immature supervillain who uses outdated internet slang and pilots a robot that looks like a giant head. |
| 450 | * ILied: Masterson holds the city of Detroit hostage by threatening to overload the solar fusion reactor unless he is given $700,000,000,000 by Professor Sumdac within one hour. When Professor Sumdac seemingly comes with the money, he decides to overload the reactor anyway so he can use the ensuing destruction to convince the military to buy his Headmaster Units. |
| 451 | * KarmaHoudini: Twice he's able to scoot out of legal punishment. First, Porter C. Powell is able to keep him from being charged with ''nearly destroying all of Detroit''. Then, in the same episode, Powell gets him off charges of destruction of property and assault through legal loopholes. Fortunately, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty karma catches up with him]]. |
| 452 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: His third attack on Sumdac in the third season's "[=TransWarped=]" three-part premiere ends with his arrest. |
| 453 | * LeetLingo: He speaks in outdated Internet slang. |
| 454 | * MadScientist: He uses technology of his own creation in his crimes and is not exactly mentally stable. |
| 455 | * MythologyGag: His Headmaster suit is one for the entire "Headmasters" concept in the Generation 1 comics, albeit as a weapon that takes control of an unwilling bot, rather than a symbiotic partnership. Later iterations of the unit even go as far as to give it a MiniMecha form. |
| 456 | * NeverMyFault: Masterson resents Professor Sumdac for rejecting his Headmaster Unit and firing him but pays no mind to the fact that he should have thought twice before trying to introduce weapons of war to a TechnologicalPacifist and completely ignores the fact that he carelessly launched a rocket at the city and endangered lives. |
| 457 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He tries attacking Sumdac just around the same time Sari had angrily disowned him for refusing to tell her about her robotic origins. Doing so leads Sumdac to throw his life on the line for his daughter, causing Sari to forgive him for the whole thing in the end. |
| 458 | * PsychopathicManchild: Masterson acts more like an immature teenager than a grown man, considering his [[TotallyRadical speech patterns]], his demonstration of the Headmaster Unit to [[TechnologicalPacifist Professor Sumdac]], and also carelessly endangering lives while acting like his technology is the coolest thing ever. He gets angry when Professor Sumdac rejects his ideas and fires him, leading him to hold the city of Detroit hostage to get the money needed to make his own company, only to decide to blow up the city anyway. Getting fired again leads him to try and kill Sumdac and his daughter personally. It's no wonder Professor Sumdac doesn't want him working for his company. |
| 459 | --> '''Henry Masterson''': The only thing better than ''getting'' toys is ''breaking'' toys! |
| 460 | * RealMenWearPink: When he moves into Sari's room in "The Return of the Headmaster", he is quite ecstatic about it and doesn't appear to mind that everything in it is pink and frilly. |
| 461 | * {{Revenge}}: He wants to destroy Professor Sumdac, as well as his daughter and his company, as revenge for firing him. |
| 462 | * RevengeByProxy: In his final appearance, he tries to get revenge on Sumdac by destroying him ''and'' his daughter, Sari. |
| 463 | * RightBehindMe: In the first part of the third season's three-part premiere episode "[=TransWarped=]", he insults and threatens the Autobots while talking to Sari, only to be startled when Optimus Prime, who was standing behind him the whole time, grabs him and picks him up. |
| 464 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: His first name begins with H, his surname contains "master", and he calls himself Headmaster. |
| 465 | * TooDumbToLive: Yes, overload the solar fusion reactor after you've requested $7 billion, and think the government will want your war bots. [[SarcasmMode That will look good on your resume.]] It really begs the question as to how Powell managed to get him off the hook the first time and convince the public his act of terrorism was a "misunderstanding". |
| 466 | * TotallyRadical: A ''somewhat'' updated example in that his slang is based on Internet lingo. |
| 467 | * VillainExitStageLeft: His debut episode ends with him getting away. |
| 468 | * WouldHitAGirl / WouldHurtAChild: In his last appearance, he tries to destroy Sari. |
| 469 | [[/folder]] |
| 470 | |
| 471 | [[folder:Master Disaster]] |
| 472 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BillFagerbakke / Creator/JurotaKosugi |
| 473 | [[quoteright:291:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/291px_master_disaster_model.jpg]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | An evil Australian-accented man who also is the host of an illegal street-racing broadcast. |
| 476 | ---- |
| 477 | * AwesomeAussie: Averted with the awesome part, he's an antagonist. |
| 478 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has these. |
| 479 | * DubNameChange: He's called Captain Chaos in the Finnish dub. |
| 480 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: His only significant role in the show is as an antagonist in "Velocity". He is arrested by Fanzone in his debut episode. |
| 481 | * PeoplePuppets: His [=AllSpark=]-amplified remote allows one to control vehicles, which presumably allows him to rig the races. He also used it to control Blurr. |
| 482 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He’s a villain who wears an entirely red-and-black outfit. |
| 483 | [[/folder]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[folder:Slo-Mo]] |
| 486 | !!Samantha Lomow/Slo-Mo |
| 487 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/097.png]] |
| 488 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong / Takako Honda |
| 489 | |
| 490 | --> ''"I'm the leader of this syndicate. The head honcho, the big cheese, see?"'' |
| 491 | |
| 492 | Speaking in 1930s moxie speak, Slo-Mo is a woman with the ability to slow down time, thanks to a watch embedded with an [=AllSpark=] fragment. She rounds up all the other human villains and forms the S.U.V (Society of Ultimate Villainy). She also has a thing for Nanosec. |
| 493 | ---- |
| 494 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: She has these. |
| 495 | * DiscoDan: Like a lot of the other human villains; in this case, she's a fast-talking 1930s ScrewballComedy protagonist, albeit an evil one. |
| 496 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about her boyfriend, Nanosec. |
| 497 | * {{Greed}}: Her goal is to become rich. |
| 498 | * TheLeader: She’s the leader of the Society of Ultimate Villainy. |
| 499 | * MistakenForBadass: Slo Mo seriously overestimates her comrades, as she claims they're the best criminals in Detroit when they're all at best a nuisance to the Autobots. In fact, the only human villains shown powerful enough to compete with Cybertronians are Meltdown, Cyrus Rhodes, and Headmaster, yet Slo Mo calls her teammates "the best of the best". Then again, they are far less evil than the former three and probably easier to work with. |
| 500 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: Her first and only appearance is in "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy". |
| 501 | * MotorMouth: In stark contrast to her power, she speaks very rapidly. |
| 502 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy", and then never again. |
| 503 | * OppositesAttract: The woman with the power to slow down time gets interested in the man with SuperSpeed. |
| 504 | * OutlawCouple: With Nanosec. |
| 505 | * TimeStandsStill: Thanks to her [=AllSpark=] amplified timepiece. |
| 506 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Named and designed after [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Samantha_Lomow Hasbro exec Samantha Lomow.]] S. Lomow, [[{{Pun}} get it?]] |
| 507 | * UnwittingPawn: To Swindle. True to the Decepticons' name, he turns out to be playing her and the other human villains for chumps and was only interested in obtaining her [=AllSpark=]-empowered watch. |
| 508 | * VillainTeamUp: She forms the Society of Ultimate Villainy, which consist of her, Nanosec, Angry Archer, and Professor Princess. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 |
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