Line #269 ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here.]]]]
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4	''The Transformers: Unicron'' is a 2018 six issue CrisisCrossover comic and [[GrandFinale the final storyline]] of the [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]]'s original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' universe, which [[Comicbook/Transformers2019 rebooted]] after the mini-series.
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6	Thanks to the machinations of the evil Shockwave, Unicron, the world eater, approaches with an endless appetite. After feasting on all of Cybertron's colony worlds, it moves in for the main course of Cybertron itself (with a side of Earth). And despite the desperate actions of the heroes it’s starting to look like no force in the galaxy can stop the end from coming.
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8	'''Warning: As the final story of the IDW Transformers comic series, this article contains unmarked spoilers for previous comics.'''
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11	!!''The Transformers: Unicron'' provides examples of:
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13	* EleventhHourRanger: [[ComicBook/RomIDW Rom]] joins the main Autobot crew as a major supporting character.
14	* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: A number of them, but the most notable are Bumblebee and Aileron bonding over their shared feelings of being ignored and Optimus and Arcee’s conversation just before the final battle.
15	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Optimus, of all people, is deeply amused when Arcee cracks a joke about his constant heroic speeches.
16	-->'''Optimus:''' This is the end. One way or the other.
17	-->'''Arcee:''' Thank Primus, I was afraid I'd have to hear one of your inspiring speeches.
18	-->'''Optimus:''' Sorry, Arcee. I can think something up if you give me a minute.
19	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[spoiler:Unicron's creator is a purple-skinned RubberForeheadAlien rather than the exceptionally ugly space monkey thing that was Primacron.]]
20	* AlasPoorVillain: Beneath all the destruction and death he caused, [[spoiler:Unicron’s Creator is just a man who lost everyone he loved in Shockwave’s invasion of Antilla and turned to revenge after crossing the DespairEventHorizon. Even in death he knows no peace, as he is bound to Unicron through Infraspace. Ultimately, Unicron is stopped when Optimus manages to convince the scientist to finally let go of his pain and move on, defeating the monster with compassion instead of bringing more pointless violence into the world.]]
21	* AllThereInTheManual: The final issue contains a bit of back-matter revealing the last remaining Ores left unrevealed, and which colony worlds were for which Prime (and in some cases, the names of the Titans who settled on them).
22	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Skywarp loses one of each limb in the final battle, but thanks to Thundercracker's intervention, he survives the experience.]]
23	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Convinced they’re about to be torn apart by Maximals, Sparkstalker uses what he thinks will be his last words to tell Lightbright he loves her. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Dirge intervenes.]]
24	* AnyoneCanDie: Hoo boy. [[spoiler:By the end, Cliffjumper, Wheeljack, Dirge, the Mistress of Flame, Omega Supreme, Elita One, Obsidian, Scattershot, Blurr, Cosmos, Sky-Byte, Laserbeak, Slip-Stream, Trypticon, Starscream, Ironhide, Monstructor, Bludgeon, most of the Dinobots, Soundwave, Optimus Prime, and almost ''everyone'' on the Cybertronian colonies are dead.]]
25	-->'''Aileron:''' This is for everybody who ever died in this stupid war—and for everybody who's ''about'' to.
26	* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: A major theme of the story. Unicron’s coming brings death and destruction... but it also inspires people to do whatever they can to help their fellow man. Everyone faces their moral crucible and while some fail, like Shockwave, the majority do not.
27	* ApocalypseHow: Unicron inflicts Planetary-level apocalypses whenever he eats a world, [[spoiler:and is threatening to step up his game to Universal by feeding off the energy of stars to power himself up.]]
28	* ArcNumber: As with ''Robots in Disguise'' and ''Optimus Prime'', thirteen. There are thirteen Cybertronian colonies, [[spoiler:and Unicron was one of those thirteen.]]
29	* ArcWelding: One last time, from John Barber.
30	** Elonia, the Space Knight homeworld, is confirmed to be the home of one of Shockwave's Regenesis ores, something that fans had previously speculated.
31	** The events of ''Transformers Vs. Visionaries'' [[spoiler:turn out to be part of Shockwave's plan - specifically, the corruption of Cybertron's energon supply. How exactly that works is as yet unclear, given there's been no prior hint of collusion between old One Eye and Merklyn, but the Visionaries' invasion did come as a result of the Talisman, which Shockwave has a connection to somehow.]]
32	** [[spoiler:The creation of Unicron was connected to the creation of the Dire Wraiths, and may have had something to do with the destruction of Prysmos.]]
33	** [[spoiler:The Talisman is confirmed to be a part of Unicron, neatly explaining a lot of the things it managed to do since its introduction in ''Revolutionaries''.]]
34	** Bludgeon pegs Victorion's gravity powers as being connected to Shockwave's Regenesis Ores, specifically Caminus' Ore-4, rather than just being something Victorion had just had from the minute she was created.
35	* BackForTheDead:
36	** Cliffjumper, last seen in a major role some years before, is already dead by the time of issue 0, having run afoul of the Planet Eater.
37	** [[spoiler:Dirge, who was a main character in the first year of ''Robots in Disguise'', returns to save a few Camiens from the Maximals... and then immediately gets torn to shreds.]]
38	** [[spoiler:Omega Supreme, comatose since the early years of ''Robots in Disguise'', finally succumbs to his injuries and dies shortly after communing with Bumblebee.]]
39	* BackForTheFinale: ''Everybody''. From major characters that had been written out like Bumblebee and Shockwave, to [[MauveShirt Mauve Shirts]] like Sata and the Vis Vitalis crew, just about every notable character in the IDW continuity is making a return for the GrandFinale.
40	** Averted for most of the cast of [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Lost Light]], who's finale happens largely divorced from the events of Unicron.
41	* BackToBackBadasses:
42	** Rom and Soundwave in issue 1.
43	** In the finale, [[spoiler:Superion and Victorion team up to kill Monstructor once and for all.]]
44	* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Soundwave uses the Enigma of Combination to draw together the spirits of all the heroes who have died in Infraspace, where Rung/Primus leads them into aiding Optimus against Unicron’s Creator.]]
45	* BadassNormal: Snake Eyes and Helix prove to be more than capable of keeping up with Transformers in combat during [[spoiler:the assault on Shockwave’s fortress.]]
46	* BadPowersGoodPeople: Stardrive’s nature as a wraith-robot hybrid is a LovecraftianSuperpower at best, but she’s still the same heroic person as before.
47	* BetrayalInsurance: [[spoiler:Rhinox rigged Shockwave's newest arm cannon so it couldn't be used against him, having figured that since Shockwave had lied to and betrayed everyone else, he would eventually do the same to him.]]
48	* BigDamnHeroes: The Junkions and Sharkticons join the final battle just in time to save Flint from being killed by Maximals.
49	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Unicron and Shockwave are both defeated once and for all, and the people of Cybertron and Earth are looking at a bright future, sharing Earth as their home. But it comes at the cost of millions of people killed in the battle against Unicron, including Optimus himself.]]
50	* BodyHorror:
51	** [[spoiler:The fate of those on planets eaten by Unicron - they get mushed together into horrific new forms to serve as his antibodies.]]
52	** People like [[spoiler:Bludgeon]] and the Maximals who [[DealWithTheDevil align with Unicron]] are mutated into monstrous, Dire Wraith-Transformer hybrid forms. The Maximals’s beastial forms are revealed to be Pretender Shells, used to hide their deformities.
53	* BookEnds:
54	** John Barber's storyline began with Optimus metaphorically dying and being reborn as Orion Pax. [[spoiler:It ends with Optimus ''actually'' dying, his last act being to declare himself Pax once more.]]
55	** The mini-series itself begins and ends with a shot of a Elonian girl playing with her pet; the first time on Elonia, moments before Unicron's attack, and [[spoiler:the second time on Earth, with the rest of the Cybertronian refugees.]]
56	* BoomHeadshot: Prowl shoots Rhinox with a Vamparc Ribbon.
57	* BreakTheHaughty: The destruction of Elonia and devastation of their numbers greatly humbles the remaining Space Knights, helping them finally realize that maybe Rom’s [[WideEyedIdealist idealism]] wasn’t as silly as they thought it was.
58	* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Most of the attempts to fight Unicron directly end like this, motivating the characters to look for more esoteric methods. [[spoiler:Even Shockwave’s “best” plan for taking him down involves sacrificing Cybertron to poison him.]]
59	* TheBusCameBack:
60	** Chromia, last seen disappearing with a crew to hunt Liege Maximo at the end of ''Till All Are One'', finally reappears with an explanation for where she's been. She and her crew found Liege alright, and then the Maximals crippled their ship.
61	** Monstructor makes his grand return after having last been seen at the end of ''Dark Cybertron'', [[spoiler:by arriving to utterly curb-stomp Victorion when she tries to attack Bludgeon.]]
62	** Prowl and his team return in issue 3, last seen a while back dealing with some Maximals.
63	* CallBack:
64	** LV-117 is one of the planets eaten by Unicron, via TimeyWimeyBall the characters knew of its destruction years before it happened, thanks to Optimus' visit in ''Robots in Disguise'' issue 10.
65	** Soundwave tries to speechify the Maximals into turning on Unicron, like how he got the Sharkticons to calm down in ''Optimus Prime''. Since the Maximals are significantly more AxCrazy, they just shoot at him.
66	** [[spoiler:The flashback to Unicron's origin ends on a world orbiting a black star, a piece of imagery that's been recurring in Barber's Transformers works for some time.]]
67	** When talking about Omega's part in Cybertron's blood-soaked past, Bumblebee quietly laments that he probably needed to commit genocide to realize it was wrong, adding "sometimes we need to do that", a lesson Megatron and Soundwave have both gone through in IDW's works.
68	** As he dies, [[spoiler:Ironhide]] murmurs "Pax Cybertronia, I understand it now". The character's association with the phrase was a major part of his characterisation in the first year of ''Robots in Disguise''.
69	** Bludgeon's world-sweeper ship ends up crashed into the White House, one of the images Optimus foresaw in ''Robots in Disguise'' issue 50.
70	* TheCameo:
71	** Proxima, Javelin and Roadmaster, from ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', briefly appear in issue 1.
72	** Scorponok from the 2015 version of ''Robots in Disguise'' appears in issue 2.
73	** The crew of [[spoiler:Bludgeon's]] ship are the 2007 ''Classics'' Demolition Mini-Con team (only at full size).
74	* ChekhovsGun: Ore-4, which was introduced in ''Optimus Prime'' just as this story was starting up, and confers the power of gravity. [[spoiler:Unicron's absorption of it is what prevents him, a being the size of a planet, shredding Cybertron apart the minute he gets near it.]]
75	* CombiningMecha: In addition to Victorion, Superion, and Monstructor making appearances, Soundwave proposes using the Enigma of Combination to combine the ''entire population of Cybertron'' into one, but Jetfire shoots this down, saying that the resulting combiner would still be too small to stand a chance against Unicron.
76	* ContinuityNod:
77	** Livia wonders if Unicron's just a souped-up Decepticon Warworld.
78	** The worlds Unicron eats, which contain the Regenesis ores include: Tsieshi (where Kup spend several years alone in ''Spotlight: Kup''), Gorlam Prime (a major part of the Furman run), the dead world of Prion (home of the also very dead Mini-Cons, wiped out by the Black Block Consortia), and Arduria (visited during ''Robots in Disguise''). On the panels showing their destruction, there's even brief glimpses of each planet's defining features (Tsieshi's crystals, Arduria's rocs, Prion's arm, etc.).
79	** During their chat in the prison, Starscream notes the last time he and [[spoiler:Shockwave]] spoke, it was a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and Starscream's looking for an excuse to kill them for that.
80	** While investigating Unicron's innards, Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee find a mural of a Quintesson, a fragment of the planet LV-117, which Unicron ate. LV has some kind of connection with the five-headed aliens which has been unexplored ever since it appeared waaaay back in ''Spotlight: Wheelie''.
81	*** They also find the corpse of a member of the Omega Sentinels, of which Omega Supreme has been repeatedly mentioned throughout the continuity to be the last of. Guess we know how he ended up as a last one now...
82	** Windblade notes this isn't her first "Shockwave-plans-to-destroy-everything" encounter. Her introductory role was in ''Dark Cybertron'', which was one of those plans.
83	* TheChosenOne: According to ancient Cybertronian legend, the Arisen, last of the Thirteen Primes, will return to destroy Unicron. Which might be a problem, what with all those legends about the Thirteen being big stinking lies...
84	** Although, given the series' ending and the identity of the Thirteenth Prime in Transformers Universes where the legends were real, perhaps that prophecy was fulfilled.
85	* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:During his time imitating Onyx Prime, Shockwave figured it was a good idea to turn Cybertron's aggression outward rather than inward. As a result of their colonization efforts, Unicron was created, and is now destroying entire planets. Good going, Shockwave.]]
86	* CrisisCrossover:
87	** [[ComicBook/GIJoe2016 GI Joe]] and [[ComicBook/RomIDW Rom]] are both prominent members of the cast, as Elonia was destroyed in Issue 0 and Unicron is making his way to Earth.
88	** The final issues of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'' directly tie into this storyline.
89	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Monstructor]] versus Victorion. [[spoiler:Monstructor utterly ''demolishes'' Victorion, ripping through her defenses and forcibly decombining the Torchbearers by tearing Stormclash off her.]]
90	* DarkestHour: By the end Issue 1 even begins, Unicron has destroyed every Cybertronian colony with the heroes unable to make any significant resistance.
91	* DeadpanSnarker: Marissa Fairborn, in response to Elita angrily ranting about Starscream being Starscream, just tells her to stop or "we'll be here all day".
92	* DemotedToExtra[=/=]InNameOnly: The Maximals, who are in no related to their ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' incarnations other than their appearance and are nothing more than Unicron's cannon fodder. To exemplify this, we see multiple versions of the ''Beast Wars''' Megatron fighting against the heroes in the first issue.
93	* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: [[spoiler:Shockwave, having known Unicron was coming, made sure Cybertron's energon was contaminated, so that when Unicron eats it, he'll get the worst case of indigestion he's ever had.]]
94	* DirtyCoward: When [[spoiler:Unicron begins tearing Cybertron apart]], Shockwave reveals just what a selfish coward he really is; he casually teleports away, not caring in the slightest that he’s leaving everyone on Cybertron to die in order to save himself.
95	* TheDogBitesBack: Unicron himself is essentially this for Antilla, the very first planet to be destroyed by the endless wars of the Transformers. To really hammer it in, his robot mode is revealed to be, essentially, a gigantic Antillan.
96	* DoingInTheWizard: A common theme for the series all the way to the end.
97	** As explained in ''Optimus Prime'', Shockwave is responsible the Prime mythos and all the Cybertronian legends and prophecies.
98	** [[spoiler:Unicron, who is usually depicted as the Cybertronian equivalent to the Devil, is a doomsday device created by an ancient alien race that was attacked by Cybertronian expansionists. He never fought Primus and he was only lured to Cybertron and the colony worlds by Shockwave's machinations.]]
99	* DoNotGoGentle:
100	** Rom’s attitude after Elonia’s destruction; he knows there’s a good chance the heroes will lose and Unicron will destroy everything... but he’s still going to fight and do everything he can to help, because ''that’s what heroes do''.
101	** The GI Joes likewise come to this conclusion when [[spoiler:Lemuria comes under attack.]]
102	* DramaticIrony: Caminus, the first Cybertronian colony to rejoin Cybertron, is the final colony to be consumed.
103	* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
104	** ''All'' the Cybertronian colonies get eaten, off-screen, by Unicron, before issue 1's even started.
105	** The Dinobots confronting Bludgeon. After a brief cutaway, Sludge and Snarl are dead, with Slug the only one still standing.
106	* DyingAsYourself: In a way; [[spoiler: Optimus casts aside the title of Prime as he dies alongside Unicron’s Creator, referring to himself Orion Pax just before his death.]]
107	-->[[spoiler: I was forged Orion Pax. As war began, I was called Optimus Prime. Now some call me The Arisen, the Thirteenth Prime. But the masks are gone now]].
108	* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Facing imminent death by Maximal horde, Pyra Magna tells Aileron to inform Optimus that she blames him for everything. [[MoodWhiplash Aileron then retorts she'll do precisely none of that.]]
109	* DyingMomentOfAwesome:
110	** [[spoiler:Wheeljack]] sacrifices his life to save millions of people on Elonia, and spends his last moments [[FaceDeathWithDignity cheerfully saying there are worse ways to die]].
111	** Both [[spoiler:Dirge and the Mistress of Flame]] die taking on a huge swarm of Maximals, with the former killing several dozen (and only being stopped when he’s literally torn in half), while the latter saves the population of Caminus by [[HoldTheLine holding the line]] singlehanded.
112	** [[spoiler:Blurr]] runs faster than he ever has before and manages to [[spoiler:ensure everyone on Cybertron gets teleported to safety by the Visionaries, then dies with Cybertron as it explodes around him.]]
113	** [[spoiler:Cosmos, Sky-Byte, and Laserbeak]] sacrifice their lives to save everyone on Sanctuary Station, holding off [[spoiler:Bludgeon’s army]] despite being totally outgunned.
114	** [[spoiler:Starscream and Soundwave]] both give up their lives to salvage the battle against Unicron, [[spoiler:the former activating the Talisman and the latter overloading himself with the Enigma Of Combination to bring the spirits of the dead to Optimus Prime’s aid.]]
115	* EarthShatteringKaboom: Unicron doesn’t just eat [[spoiler:Cybertron]]; he completely ''rips it apart with his bare hands''. We get to see it happen from Blurr’s perspective and it’s utterly terrifying.
116	* EldritchLocation: Turns out Unicron's insides are as weird as the rest of him. Everything he's ever eaten is still in there, mashed together.
117	* EnemyMine:
118	** In the face of Unicron destroying everything, Bludgeon joins up with the good guys and leads the Decepticon armada into battle. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Except not really]]. He’s actually a Unicron worshipper and when the planet eater unleashes his Maximal army, Bludgeon happily lets them storm his ships and slaughter his crews.]]
119	** Played straight with Cobra, the Dire Wraiths, and a bunch of other villains, who all join in on the LastStand.
120	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Side-effects of serving Unicron include warping into a monstrous, spikey dire wraith-Transformer hybrid bodies, like Stardrive.
121	* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Bludgeon]] believes Unicron will bring about the ultimate evolution of the Cybertronion race, and sees the Maximals as “the ultimate Decepticons”. Needless to say, he’s out of his gourd.
122	* EveryoneHasStandards:
123	** Despite pressure to do so even from the President, Marissa Faireborn refuses to have Trypticon, filled with newborn transformers, sent to Cybertron to face Unicron.
124	** Soundwave refuses to let a huge portion of people living on Cybertron be abandoned to die as a lucky few flee.
125	* FaceDeathWithDignity:
126	** [[spoiler:The Mistress of Flame]] never once loses her faith in the Primes and heroically sacrifices herself to save the people of Caminus, using her last words to kindly reassure them that good ''will'' prevail in the end.
127	** Roadblock and Scarlet prepare to do so[[spoiler: when they believe Maximals are about to break through to them. But as it turns out, those coming through were actually Helix, Snake Eyes and Skywarp who were here to help.]]
128	** [[spoiler:Blurr]] gladly faces his end, simply happy that [[spoiler:he managed to save Cybertron’s people]].
129	** Realizing that a sacrifice is needed to activate the Talisman and defeat Unicron, [[spoiler: Starscream]] spends his last moments content, saying he expected that such a sacrifice would be necessary and that it would fall upon himself.
130	* FatalFlaw: Elita One’s {{Pride}} finally proves to be her downfall; [[spoiler:rather then listen to Optimus Prime or any of the other heroes, she arrogantly tries to attack Unicron head-on, promptly getting herself and everyone on Carcer killed when her plan fails.]]
131	* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The miniseries primarily serves to bring a conclusion to the 2005 IDW ''Transformers'' continuity, but also makes the effort to tie the loose ends for ''ComicBook/GIJoe2016'', ''ComicBook/{{MASK}}'', ''ComicBook/RomIDW'', ''ComicBook/ActionMan'' and ''ComicBook/MicronautsIDW'', both by having characters from these respective series participating in the fight against Unicron and by some issues having a back-up story giving at least one of the series a proper send-off.
132	* FromBadToWorse: Unicron would be bad enough as is, but he's absorbing the power of Shockwave's Regenesis ores with each planet he eats, becoming even ''stronger''.
133	* GallowsHumor: Just before the final battle, Optimus confesses his fears to Arcee and notes that everything ends now, no matter who wins. Arcee says that’s good, because she can’t take anymore of Optimus’s [[RousingSpeech Rousing Speeches]]. [[SelfDeprecation Optimus chuckles and says that he’ll probably think a speech up if he’s given a moment]].
134	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Unicron is treated as a force of nature more than a character. While InUniverse people try and ascribe emotions or greater intent to his actions, Unicron is an engine of destruction, designed to lay waste the kingdoms of Cybertron.
135	* GoOutWithASmile:
136	** [[spoiler:Wheeljack]] dies happy, gently smiling as he remarks that there are worse ways to die than saving a world.
137	** As he [[spoiler:activates the Talisman and seals his own fate, Starscream]] just smiles and asks the others to say goodbye to Windblade for him.
138	** [[spoiler:Ironhide]] dies happily surrounded by his friends, having finally lived to see the day when all are one.
139	* GondorCallsForAid: As the final battle draws near, pretty much ''everyone'' from across the Hasbro Universe (minus the ''Lost Light'' cast) shows up to help save the day. [[spoiler:And even they show up in a way - when Soundwave channels the spirits of the dead, Rung and other casualties from MTMTE/LL, such as Pipes, Ravage, and Trailcutter, are visible among them.]]
140	* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Long ago, a desperate scientist attempted to create a weapon that would end all wars by destroying all life. The end result? Unicron.]]
141	* GrandFinale: This miniseries serves as the conclusion to not just the 2005 IDW Publishing ''Transformers'' continuity, but to the ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse as a whole.
142	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How [[spoiler:Dirge]] dies, at the hands of Rampage.
143	* {{Handwave}}: Unicron's the size of a planet, so why isn't his mere presence just tearing planets apart before he eats them? Why, Ore-4, with its power of gravity.
144	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: The mini-series, and the IDW continuity as a whole, ends with Optimus Prime sacrificing himself to destroy Unicron and secure the future of both the Transformers and humanity.]]
145	* HeroicSacrifice:
146	** In Issue 0, [[spoiler:Wheeljack]] stays behind on Elonia as Unicron devours it to ensure the planet's inhabitants could be teleported to the Ark.
147	** In Issue 1, [[spoiler:the Mistress of Flame allows herself to be overrun by the Maximals so that the Camiens can escape to safety.]]
148	** In issue 2, [[spoiler:Omega Supreme]] uses the last of his strength to give Bumblebee [[spoiler:a psychic vision revealing Unicron’s true nature]] so that the heroes will have ''some'' kind of chance against him, dying in the process.
149	** Attempted but tragically failed in 3 when [[spoiler:the crew of Carcer try to ram Unicron, but are blasted out of the sky before they can reach it.]]
150	** In issue 4, [[spoiler:Blurr]] gives his life ensuring that [[spoiler:everybody escapes Cybertron]]. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Cosmos and his team]] die stopping the Maximals from swarming Sanctuary Station.
151	** [[spoiler:Optimus Prime, Starscream, and Soundwave all die ensuring the plan to stop Unicron works. Meanwhile, Slug, Snarl, and Sludge die taking Bludgeon down with them.]]
152	* HopeSpot: In issue 2, the Decepticon armada puts a stasis field around Unicron and for a brief moment, it seems to be working... [[spoiler:then Unicron sends out his whole Maximal army and Bludgeon ''[[TheStarscream lets them take over his ships]]''. He’s a Unicron worshipper and the whole thing was a set-up.]]
153	* HopeSpringsEternal: A major theme; even as Unicron wrecks havoc and the heroes face horror after horror, in the end they’re still going to do everything they can to save the universe because even in the DarkestHour, there’s some hope.
154	* HumongousMecha:
155	** Unicron himself obviously. Soundwave suggests fighting fire with fire by using the Enigma of Combination to turn ''everyone on Cybertron'' into one giant [[CombiningMecha combiner]]. Sadly, by that point Unicron is too big for it to make any meaningful difference, so the plan is abandoned.
156	** In the climax, Garrison Blackrock and Centurion serve as Titan Masters for Metroplex and Trypticon, flying them into battle against the Maximal army.
157	* IChooseToStay: Cosmos, Sky-Byte, Laserbeak, and Buzzsaw choose to stand their ground and defend Sanctuary Station rather than flee, knowing full well they’ll probably die doing so. [[spoiler:They all do, except Buzzsaw.]]
158	* IdiotBall: Starscream decides to trust [[spoiler:Bludgeon]] with a massive fleet. [[spoiler:Y'know, the guy who previously betrayed Starscream when given half a chance. The same Bludgeon who tried to use Thunderwing to burn the galaxy to the ground? Mr. Skull For a Face Bludgeon.]] Screamer figures that the guy who previously turned on Megatron in favour of his own ends and helped Shockwave nearly destroy the universe will now suddenly follow the party line. Surprise, the first chance he gets, [[spoiler:Bludgeon]] reveals he's been working for Unicron and disappears.
159	* ILetYouWin: Shockwave reveals that he’s only a prisoner right now because he let it happen; once he’s ready to leave, he just teleports out with zero fanfare.
160	* IgnoredEpiphany: The Mistress of Flame gives her royal hammer to Pyra Magna [[spoiler:before her HeroicSacrifice]], clearly intending for Pyra to become the new Mistress and regain her faith in others. Pyra, being disillusioned as she is, interprets it as some kind of veiled insult.
161	* InsaneTrollLogic: Shockwave lured Unicron to Cybertron and the colony worlds so that Cybertronian race could start anew, free from its "tainted past." The same past that Shockwave created while he was masquerading as Onyx Prime.
162	* InMediasRes: The story starts after Unicron has already consumed almost all the colony worlds.
163	* IronicDeath: Played in a surprisingly heartwarming way; [[spoiler:Cosmos, who’s spent almost his entire life alone and constantly being forced out of action, dies fighting alongside his friends.]]
164	* KickTheDog: Elita One gladly tries to abandon whole ships to die during the battle to defend Cybertron, using them as nothing more than CannonFodder to clear the path to Unicron. The Torchbearers are so disgusted that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard they abandon Elita herself]] to go save said ships from being overwhelmed by Maximals.
165	* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Slip-Stream]] doesn’t even finish giving an order before his jet gets shot down by a Maximal. Ace has to pick up where he left off.
166	* {{Jerkass}}: Pyra Magna, having become even ''more'' disillusioned with Optimus than she was before, spends all of issue 1 grumbling and complaining about everything.
167	* JerkassHasAPoint: That said, one of her complaints that what's happening is Optimus' fault is... sort of true. Optimus' annexing Earth back in "All Hail Optimus" prompted Joe Colton's attack on Cybertron, which was what woke Unicron in the first place.
168	* LampshadeHanging: In the final issue, it's pointed out that the shadowplay done to Shockwave didn't mean he wasn't a dodgy person even before then, something born out in flashbacks through ''More Than Meets The Eye'' and ''Robots in Disguise''.
169	* LargeHam: Bludgeon, as is kind of typical of him. This time it gets a LampshadeHanging when immediately after he declares the Decepticon Vengeance Division will "kill death", his bridge crew are weirded out by it.
170	* LastOfHisKind: Due to circumstance, a few Cybertronian colonists manage to get away before their planets get nommed... but not much. Fireshot and Vanquish mention that of the Devisuns, which there weren't that many of to begin with, barely more than a hundred are left. Moonracer mentions there's a handful of Velocitronian survivors, and it’s confirmed in a report by Circuit that some ships escaped from all of them, and reached Cybertron the with news. A precious few ships, but at least some.
171	* LastStand: Earth ends up being the staging ground for everyone’s final stand against Unicron.
172	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Due to IDW's severe issues with delays, the preview for Issue 0 gives away one or two spoilers for some of ''Optimus Prime'''s plots, like [[spoiler:Bumblebee returning]], while Issue 1 inadvertently reveals part of the conclusion for that comic's GrandFinale, [[spoiler:like Shockwave living, and the Maximals joining Unicron.]]
173	* LateToTheTragedy: The Space Knights discover the fate of Velocitron when they find Cliffjumper and Override’s corpses laying amongst the ruins of what used to be Tempo. Later, Optimus Prime and his team journey into Unicron and discover remains of all the worlds he’s eaten.
174	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Spike, having been shot down in the dogfight, mutters to himself how he thought he'd always play a [[SmallNameBigEgo bigger part in the final battle]].
175	* LeeroyJenkins: Elita One foolishly has Carcer and the Torchbearers attack Unicron head-on, ignoring Optimus Prime and Chromia’s pleas to fallback and defend Cybertron. [[spoiler:It gets her and everyone else on Carcer killed, while Victorion gets savagely beaten down by Monstructor.]]
176	* LegacyCharacter: Cobra Commander’s status as this is amusingly lampshaded when ''all three'' Commanders arrive to help in the final battle and end up sitting next to each other.
177	* MeaningfulName: The Maximals, so named [[spoiler:because they're the offspring of Liege ''Maximo''.]]
178	* MisplacedRetribution: Unicron was [[spoiler:created to take vengeance on Onyx Prime and his minions for invading and demolishing Antilla. Only it seems Unicron’s creators didn’t know or particularly care that he would attack ''all'' Transformers, as well as any non-Transformers on Cybertronian colonies, almost all of whom weren’t even born when it happened.]]
179	* MoodWhiplash: The Demolition Team keep stepping on Bludgeon's gravitas by having absolutely no idea what the hell's going on, even after they've been mutated by Unicron.
180	* MortonsFork: There are two options when it comes to Unicron.
181	** Either they try face him and either somehow defeat him or they all die.
182	** They evacuate the few they can in the hope of escaping and leave behind billions to die.
183	* MyGreatestFailure:
184	** Implied to be how Omega Supreme feels over [[spoiler:the destruction of Antilla, as he was one of the Omega Sentinels that the Thirteen Primes used in that invasion.]]
185	** Also how Arcee feels about her own role in Cybertron's past invasions of other worlds.
186	* MythologyGag:
187	** Unicron increases in size with each world he eats, a fact established waaaaaay back in his ''Transformers: Universe'' profile and used exactly nowhere else since.
188	** Issue 1's design from Primus is based on the look given to him in ''More Than Meets the Eye'''s annual, but with the red and blue colouration from ''The Transformers: The Ultimate Guide'', and the addition of a glowing chest circle, a takeaway from his ''Cybertron'' incarnation.
189	** The Decepticon armada faces Unicron outside G Nebula 89, an area of some importance to ''Transformers: Masterforce'' and ''Transformers: Victory'' which not incidentally has some association with another EldritchAbomination and planet-destroying weaponry.
190	** [[spoiler:The Maximals being the "spawn" of Liege Maximo is a nod to the Cybertronian Empire of the ''Generation 2'' comics, who were all produced by The Liege Maximo budding endlessly.]]
191	** [[spoiler:This is not the first version of Bludgeon who's chosen to throw his lot in with Unicron. A version of him in Dreamwave's ''Armada'' comic was one of his heralds.]]
192	** [[spoiler:This version of Unicron is the creation of an alien scientist, mimicking [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness his origin]] in the original 1984 cartoon.]]
193	** [[spoiler: Starscream's [[ReducedToDust death]] recalls his iconic demise in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', but it's under [[HeroicSacrifice far different circumstances.]]]]
194	** [[spoiler:Unicron is finally killed when Optimus and his Creator use the Talisman to collapse him into the black hole in his core; a sly nod to Unicron collapsing into a black hole after he dies and threatening to suck up Cybertron in Anime/TheUnicronTrilogy.]]
195	** [[spoiler:At the end, Grimlock and Swoop are the only original Dinobots still alive, just like they were [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars in the original Beast Era]].]]
196	* NeutralNoLonger: [[spoiler:At the end of the first issue, Starscream decides stop watching from the sidelines and insert himself into events once more, attempting to reclaim his status as the chosen leader of Cybertron by telling the surviving colonists that he can stop Unicron. He's also wearing his Decepticon insignias and waving a Decepticon flag, giving up the neutral stance he had been promoting since before ''Dark Cybertron''.]]
197	* NeverMyFault:
198	** [[spoiler:After she gets Carcer shot to hell with her failed plan, Elita One begins cursing the Autobots and Torchbearers, as if it’s ''their'' fault she’s gotten herself and her crew killed.]]
199	** Joe Colton takes the whole situation with Unicron as a vindication of his anti-Transformer crusade... conveniently ignoring that his attack on Cybertron is what directly led to Unicron waking up to eat everything.
200	* NoNameGiven: We never do learn the name of [[spoiler:Unicron’s Creator, as he himself has forgotten it thanks to TheFogOfTheAges, though one may presume he’s meant to be this continuity’s version of Primacron.]]
201	* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler:Slug happily [[TakingYouWithMe dies to take down Bludgeon]], feeling that he had never had a real place in the post-war world anyways.]]
202	* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: [[spoiler:Almost every hero who’s died in the whole IDW series appear in Infraspace to help Optimus take down Unicron for good.]]
203	* PlayAlongPrisoner: Shockwave allows himself to be taken prisoner by the Council of Worlds so that he can explain his motives to Optimus; the moment Unicron arrives and begins chowing down on Cybertron, he simply activates a teleportation device in his body and leaves for Earth.
204	* PetTheDog: When Windblade figures out an alternative to Starscream’s “teleport New Iacon away and leave everyone else to die” plan, Starscream not only doesn’t object, he flat out says that he’s going to put all his trust in her, like she did to him once.
205	* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:Omega Supreme]] briefly forms one with Bumblebee to [[spoiler:help him realize just what Unicron really is]]. The exertion of doing so in his weakened state kills him.
206	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether:
207	** Unicron’s attack leads to the recently broken up MASK reuniting to help as many people as they can.
208	** In the final battle, [[spoiler:Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker reunite to fly together on one last mission; carrying Optimus, Arcee, and the Talisman into Unicron to save the universe.]]
209	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Before the final battle, Thundercracker’s comic relief status drops entirely; he just solemnly leaves his dog, Buster, with Marissa and asks her to take care of Buster if he doesn’t make it back, then says goodbye to them both.
210	* OfficialCouple: The main one here, with both halves being main characters, is Arcee and Aileron.
211	* OldSchoolDogFight: During the climax, G.I. Joe’s flyers have a massive-scale dogfight with the Maximals.
212	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:People that Unicron consumes alongside their worlds are [[BodyHorror horrifically fused together with other victims]] to create revenant zombie-like monsters designed in Unicron’s image. They serve as his “immune system”, and are powerful enough that one badly wounds Optimus.]]
213	* RammingAlwaysWorks: Averted. [[spoiler:The surviving crew of Carcer try to [[TakingYouWithMe take Unicron with them]] by FTL-ramming him, but Unicron simply vaporizes the ship with an eye-beam before they can even fire up their quantum engines.]]
214	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Windblade gives one to Cybertron as a whole after learning that [[spoiler:early Cybertronian expansion and conquest led to the creation of Unicron.]]
215	-->'''Bumblebee''': (To Starscream, who wants to abandon Cybertron): You'd leave billions of people—Cybertronians, colonists, Elonians—to die?!
216	-->'''Windblade''': Of course he would! This is what Cybertron is. This is what it '''does''' to people. Cybertronians caused this! Not me — not Camiens, not Elonians — not any colonists! ''We're'' paying the price for ''your'' sins!
217	** Prowl subjects Shockwave to an absolutely awesome one, [[spoiler:calling out how hollow and useless his [[StrawNihilist nihilism]] and cruelty really is before using the Enigma of Combination, info ripped out of Shockwave’s head, and the faith of everyone else to give Optimus the help he needs.]]
218	--->'''Shockwave:''' Faith is a lie! I invented it! Faith will not stop the uncreator!
219	--->'''Prowl:''' You still don't see. Soundwave believes in a higher power, sure. But guys like you and me—we don't have to. All we need to believe in is the inherent good of doing good... and that someday, ultimately, that will be enough to stop evil.
220	--->'''Shockwave:''' Logic is neither good nor evil. None of us are. We contain the capacity for both.
221	--->'''Prowl:''' Faith is just one path to the ultimate trick: confronting the evil in ourselves... and defeating that.
222	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Starscream finally completes his RedemptionQuest by sacrificing his life to activate the Talisman and defeat Unicron. Down on Earth, Bumblebee smiles and says he always knew Screamer had it in him.]]
223	-->'''[[spoiler:Starscream]]:''' Like I said, I always knew this would come down to me!
224	* RefusalOfTheCall: The Mistress of Flame leaves Pyra Magna her hammer before she dies, seemingly naming her as her successor. However, Pyra, while committed to helping her people, has no intention of continuing what she considers the hypocrisy of the Primes and the Mistress and leaves the hammer in the ground.
225	* TheRemnant: Only Rom, Livia, Sata, and a tiny number of other Space Knights survive Elonia’s destruction. Many of them feel the group is effectively over and done, but Rom convinces them to stick to their oaths.
226	* RightForTheWrongReasons: Shockwave is willing to sacrifice everything to stop Unicron... not because it’s the right thing to do, but because [[EvilVersusOblivion he can’t rule the universe if it’s been devoured]].
227	* RousseauWasRight: Matt Trakker comes to this conclusion after seeing how [[TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople everybody is setting aside their differences to save the world from Unicron]].
228	* SelfServingMemory: Spike recounts his involvement in the events of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron''... or rather, [[BlatantLies goes on about he supposedly took Megatron down singlehanded]], conveniently leaving out the work of the Autobots and military.
229	* ShootTheDog:
230	** Efforts to rescue the Elonians are hampered by Emissary the Titan inadvertently messing things up. So Arcee stabs him in the brain, killing him instantly, but allowing the Cybertronians to save some of the Elonians.
231	** Shockwave’s plan for beating Unicron? [[spoiler:''Poison Cybertron’s ecosystem and core'' in the hope it will poison Unicron as well when he eats it. Yeah Cybertron will die... but at least there will still be a universe left to live in.]]
232	** Starscream proposes using the space bridge network to evacuate the population of New Iacon, even though it mean leaving the 30% of the population that doesn’t live there to die. Starscream knows it’s bad, but it would at least mean that ''some'' of Cybertron’s people avoid getting eaten. Ultimately, it’s decided to only be used as [[GodzillaThreshold an ultimate last resort]].
233	* ShoutOut:
234	** Issue 2 is titled "Stranger Eons", after the couplet from the works of H.P. Lovecraft: "That which is not dead can eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death may die."
235	** [[spoiler:Blurr’s]] death in issue 4 is a homage to [[Franchise/TheFlash The Flash’s]] death in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
236	** Starscream's comment on seeing the Council of Worlds for the first time since his arrest? [[Series/DoctorWho "You've redecorated. I don't like it."]]
237	* ShutUpHannibal: Shockwave attempts to get Starscream to join his cause by promising that after Unicron destoys Cybertron [[WeCanRuleTogether they can work together to take over the rest of the universe.]] Starscream refuses and decides to enact his own plan to save Cybertron.
238	* SinsOfTheFather: Unicron is, essentially, [[spoiler:trying to punish the Transformers and everyone tied to them for the destruction of Antilla, a crime committed by Onyx Prime and his Omega Sentinels millions of years ago. Unicron doesn’t seem to know or care that nearly everybody involved in said crime is long dead.]]
239	* SkewedPriorities: Slide continues bitching about Optimus even as the final battle with Unicron rages on and [[spoiler:Trypticon dies right in front of her]]. Her fellow colonists and the Dinobots both [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech take her to task for it]] and [[spoiler:it ultimately gets through to her; she realizes how mistaken she was about Optimus and joins with the Torchbearers to reform Victorian and take down Monstructor.]]
240	* SoleSurvivor:
241	** [[spoiler:By the end, Grimlock and Swoop are the only original Dinobots left, the former [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye due to being on Mederi at the time]], the latter due to he and Strafe being the only survivors of the world-sweeper crash.]]
242	** [[spoiler:Thundercracker and Skywarp are heavily implied to be the last Seekers alive by the end, as Ramjet and Thrust are long dead, Starscream died sacrificing himself to activate the Talisman, Sunstorm was killed by Arcee, and Dirge died fighting Unicron. While Acid Storm and Redwing aren't ''confirmed'' to have died, they aren't present following the battle, and Skywarp listed them as being involved in fighting Unicron while not following Starscream. They are also now the only surviving members of Starscream's infiltration unit, aka the original 7 Decepticons introduced in the IDW continuity.]]
243	** [[spoiler:Buzzsaw is the only member of the Sanctuary Station team to survive. He is implied to also be the last surviving Mini-Cassette, as Ravage died at the hands of Tarn in MTMTE, Laserbeak was killed in the fight with Unicron, Ratbat was killed by Arcee awhile ago, and the only other possible survivors, Squawkbox, Rumble, and Frenzy, are unaccounted for by the end.]]
244	* SpannerInTheWorks: Shockwave’s EvilPlan has big problem; he couldn't account for people he didn't know about prior to going back in time. [[spoiler:As a result, he’s OutGambitted by Windblade (who convinces the Visionaries to teleport everyone off Cybertron), Snake Eyes and Prowl (who lead a strike team to attack Shockwave’s temporary base in Toronto), and Stardrive (who’s Wraith powers let her easily tear through his henchmen.]]
245	* SpoilerOpening: The series takes place after the final issues of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'', which were being released at the same time as this series.
246	* StableTimeLoop: The fate of [[spoiler:the Visionaries; their final spell has the unexpected effect of flinging them back in time to prehistoric-era Prysmos, and proceed to kickstart their own civilization by deciding to settle down there.]]
247	* TheStarsAreGoingOut: Whenever Unicron eats a planet, a ton of stars go out. [[spoiler:He’s using quantum tunnels to feed on them in order to power himself up even more.]]
248	* TheStarscream: Shockingly, ''[[NotMeThisTime not]]'' the TropeNamer, but rather [[spoiler:Bludgeon]], who turns out to be a Unicron worshipper.
249	* StraightForTheCommander: Rather than fight wave after wave of Maximals, Victorion goes straight for [[spoiler:Bludgeon]], correctly figuring that he’s the one coordinating them. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Bludgeon was anticipating such a move and has a bodyguard; Monstructor.]]
250	* StrawNihilist: [[spoiler: Bludgeon's reason for siding with Unicron.]]
251	* TakingTheBullet: Skywarp leaps in front of a Maximal sword to save Thundercracker. [[spoiler:He lives.]]
252	* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted, and failed, against Unicron by [[spoiler:Carcer’s crew]]. Done more successfully by [[spoiler:Slug, Snarl, and Sludge against Bludgeon and his Maximals.]]
253	-->'''Bludgeon:''' [[spoiler: Your final moments are wasted, killing the already dead. You ensure [[ThePowerOfHate hate wins]]!]]
254	-->'''Slug:''' [[spoiler: [[ShutUpHannibal Nope. Cause this ain't the end]]. An' if we're gonna get past right now, we gotta let go of the hate. An' that means lettin' go of ''both'' of us]].
255	* TalkToTheFist: Eventually, Arcee gets fed up of Starscream's voice, and punches him in the face.
256	* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: The Decepticons gather up all their old military tech, which has been lying around since the end of the war, to fight Unicron. [[spoiler:It does nothing.]]
257	* ThrowAwayCountry: Shockwave begins his final attack on Earth by levelling Toronto.
258	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The solicitations for Issue 4, as well as previews for the last issues of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'', reveal that [[spoiler:Shockwave's scheme to kill Unicron with the poisoned Cybertron will fail and Unicron will continue on to Earth.]]
259	* UnsoundEffect: "SMOOCH", as Arcee plants a kiss on Aileron.
260	* VillainousBreakdown:
261	** [[spoiler:Bludgeon]] starts freaking out when all the heroes unite to launch their final assault on Unicron.
262	** [[spoiler:Shockwave is left a broken husk of his former self after his plan falls apart, his minions abandon him, and the heroes stop Unicron without him, exposing all of his nihilism and ruthlessness as hollow and useless.]]
263	--->'''[[spoiler:Shockwave]]''': I thought... I would make us strong...
264	--->'''Stardrive:''' Take it from me: strong doesn't mean right.
265	* VillainousFriendship: After being informed of his death, Skywarp confesses that he had always liked [[spoiler:Dirge]] as a friend, even if he never showed it.
266	* WalkIntoMordor: Optimus, Arcee, and Bumblebee try to do this by heading inside Unicron in search of answers. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn’t end well]].
267	* WeAreStrugglingTogether:
268	** Pyra Magna and most of the Space Knights except Rom ''still'' can’t resist showing dislike towards the Autobots, even with all of existence on the line.
269	** Slide decides that when Unicron is munching world after world is the ''perfect'' time to try and get rid of Optimus.
270	* WeCanRuleTogether: Shockwave tries to offer this to Starscream. [[ShutUpHannibal It doesn’t work]].
271	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being the GrandFinale to the IDW comics universe, quite a few characters fates go unrevealed, particularly on the Decepticon side, some as a result of not showing up at all, others due to only getting a cameo appearance depicting them fighting the Maximals but not showing the aftermath of said battles.
272	** Two Decepticon Combiner teams, the Stunticons and the Combaticons, were last seen being locked away in prison, the former following the events of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersCombinerWars'' after their rampage on Caminus, the later after Starscream confessed to the crimes he made them commit while brainwashed in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'', the latter likewise applying to Airachnid and Rattrap. It's never shown whether they were evacuated or not with the rest of Cybertron following Unicron's arrival, in turn leaving their fates unclear.
273	** Blitzwing was last seen in the custody of M.A.S.K. in ''ComicBook/Revolution2016'', dismembered but still alive. What became of him following Miles Mayhem's believed death is unknown.
274	** Strongarm, Rumble, and Frenzy were shown to be fighting the various Maximal invaders in São Paulo, but their fates following said battle are unknown.
275	** Numerous G.I. Joe members like Rock N' Roll, Doc, and Roadblock are noticeably absent, despite the [[AllThereInTheManual released outline for]] ''Scarlett's Strike Force'' depicting all of them as still alive.
276	** The Predacons, the Decepticon combiner group not the faction, are shown functioning as Predaking fighting off the Maximals despite Kup having [[UnexplainedRecovery shot Razorclaw in the head]], fighting off the Maximal invasion alongside Sly Rax in Kalistan.
277	** Countdown of the Dire Wraiths is shown leading a group of them in fighting the Maximals in Siberia.
278	** Tempest and the Red Shadows are shown aiding Snake Eyes in fighting the Maximals in Toronto. While Snake Eyes is later shown alongside Stardrive, the others aren't seen.
279	* WhatTheHellHero: Numerous characters get called out with this.
280	** Optimus Prime gets one several times for his role in this.
281	** Stardrive calls out Prowl for the decision to [[spoiler: abandon Divisun to its fate to try set a trap on the next planet Unicron targets instead.]]
282	** Elita is on the receiving end of one from Victorion for KickTheDog actions.
283	* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler: Optimus's final battle takes place within a representation of Antilla, the planet where the terrible legacy of Cybertron first began.]]
284	* YouShallNotPass:
285	** Attempted by the Decepticon Vengeance Division and then the rest of the forces on Cybertron.
286	** Arcee also tries do this to [[spoiler:Windblade, who she wrongly believes to be running away]].

Context ComicBook / TheTransformersUnicron