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1* {{Adorkable}}: Silverbolt, especially around Blackarachnia. [[KnightInShiningArmour He's noble, principled, honorable, and a real gentleman]]—and extremely corny to go with it.
2* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3** Rampage. Is he a twisted, sinister monster, or a tortured, tormented misfit? "Both" is an option, but between the other two options, there was a voice for each... and there still will be if you bring up the topic in the right place.
4*** For that matter, why did he [[spoiler: let Depth Charge kill him in the GrandFinale, and laugh while doing so? Was it because Rampage was a DeathSeeker and his laughter was euphoria over his torturous existence finally ending? Or was it a way of further corrupting Depth Charge and his laughter was him taking solace in that Depth Charge [[HeWhoFightsMonsters had become the exact kind of monster he had wanted to kill?]]]] Note that, like Rampage in general, the two interpretations aren't mutually exclusive.
5** How much of Blackarachnia's personality is really her own and how much of it is the Predacon programming Tarantulas installed in her? [[spoiler:When she "died" and was "reborn" a Transmetal Maximal she cheerfully proclaimed "Even when I'm good I'm still bad" and indeed her personality was really not that different other than just being not evil and siding with the Maximals out of pragmatism, so it's possible that's just who she is... or maybe it was the Predacon personality Tarantulas installed in her, only now with the original Maximal programming restraining her more savage traits.]]
6** Unlike Blackarachnia and Inferno, Quickstrike never had his stasis pod or protoform tampered with, he landed and scanned a life form that he transformed into. However, this means he should have emerged as a Maximal. Is it simply that he happened to come out violent and aggressive and stayed with the Predacons because he fit in better? The scanners for his and Silverbolt's pods had their DNA scanners damaged, so it's possible that Quickstrike's pod suffered additional damage that somehow corrupted his programming, but that's pure speculation. Which side does he really belong on and what should his real personality be like?
7** Does Waspinator survive every time he gets destroyed just because he's TheChewToy, or because he was granted immortality when Starscream's aberrant spark possessed him?
8* AmericansHateTingle: The second and third seasons flopped horribly when they were released in Japan as ''Beast Wars Metals'' due to a combination of the bad taste left by ''Anime/BeastWarsNeo'''s overcomplicated toyline and the GagDub ramping up its changes from the original show. Tellingly, Takara's equivalent of Hasbro's 10th-anniversary line removed references to seasons two and three[[note]]Transmetal Rattrap was left out, Dinobot came with a DVD of "The Probe" instead of "Code of Hero", and the Transmutate build-a-figure was not included[[/note]].
9* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Initial response to ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' was very negative, with many {{fan}}s [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks decrying the shift from robots that turn into vehicles and robotic animals to robots that turn into organic animals]], most infamously [[MemeticMutation Optimus becoming a monkey instead of a truck.]] It didn't help that it was preceded by ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2, which is considered by many to be an AudienceAlienatingEra. In the end, ''Beast Wars'' saved the franchise from dying out and set the standard for all future Western ''Transformers'' shows.
10** Averted in Japan. While the first season had good ratings and toy sales, the two-year gap between Beast Wars (American season one) and Beast Wars Metals (a combination of seasons two and three), the poor reception of the Japanese spin-offs that filled the two-year gap and the Gag Dub going overboard with the changes for the sake of comedy during Beast Wars Metals killed all the momentum the franchise gained with the first season of Beast Wars. While Japanese Transformers shows have been produced along with Japanese dubs of the American shows the franchise has never really recovered from the damage.
11* AssPull:
12** [[spoiler: Megatron having a usable fragment of the Golden Disc he stole from Cybertron in ''The Agenda''. No pieces of that size were seen when Dinobot destroyed it.]]
13** [[spoiler: Dinobot II's redemption in the series finale also constitutes as this as it generally stems from receiving memories that he has no way of even having in the first place.]]
14* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKpU0pnne8 theme song]].
15* BadassDecay:
16** Rampage. In his debut, he's TheJuggernaut who for most of the episode is indestructible, but his later appearances, he often gets easily defeated in seconds and rarely displays the menace he was in his debut. Even though he got to be something of a bigger threat when Depth Charge appeared, he still lost every fight between the two of them.
17** Waspinator is a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools case of this actually working in his favor]]. He started off semi-competent and then by the end of the first season had degraded to being a punching bag for pretty much every other character. But his ButtMonkey status is what made him so popular with the fanbase, and his popularity is what saved him from a fiery death at the beginning of Season 2.
18** Inferno dropped from being one of the most formidable Predacons to a complete joke as the series continued. This is largely a case of CantCatchUp: as most other cast members became Transmetals, Inferno just wasn't as dangerous anymore.
19* BrokenBase: Organic vs Transmetal beast forms. Some fans argue the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Mid-Season Upgrades]] took away from the show's core theme and/or simply [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks weren't as charming]] as the original character designs, in and out of beast mode; others prefer the Transmetals' more classically ''Transformers'' aesthetics and capabilities.
20** There are also a few individual episodes that have divided fans.
21*** "The Low Road". Some found it to be an entertaining comedy episode while others have found its toilet humor to be tasteless. Either way, the reception for this episode was not 100 percent positive.
22*** "Transmutate". This episode has its share of fans who feel the story was dark, mature, and well-crafted while showing a different side of Rampage. Others, on the other hand, have felt that it was [[TooBleakStoppedCaring too anti-climactic, morbid, and depressing]], [[ToughActToFollow especially coming hot of the heels of the universally acclaimed Code of Hero]].
23*** "Optimal Situation". A decent action-packed Season 3 opener or an [[AntiClimax anti-climactic]] finish to "The Agenda" trilogy, and the beginning of the end where the show become more [[ExecutiveMeddling toy-oriented]]?
24*** "Go With the Flow". A comedy episode where the protohuman children play a big role. Some fans found it an enjoyable romp while others felt it was a pointless {{filler}} episode that took the place of "Dark Glass".
25*** The "Nemesis" two-parter. Opinions over the finale have also differed. You have fans who feel that it was a good finale where the stakes were high, the tone was epic, and the war became [[AnyoneCanDie more real than ever]]. On the other hand, there are other fans who felt the series finale went overboard in killing off more than half the cast. And considering a lot of those deceased characters had their fair share of fans, you can bet at least somebody's going to be angry at how their favorite character was brutally killed off.
26* CantUnHearIt: Many characters usually have this honor, such as Creator/ScottMcNeil as Dinobot, Rattrap, and Waspinator, Creator/GarryChalk as Optimus Primal, but perhaps the biggest case will have to be Creator/DavidKaye who is viewed as THE Predacon Megatron.
27* CaptainObviousReveal: The planet the Maximals and Predacons land on [[spoiler:is in fact Earth.]] It was pretty obvious given the wildlife on the planet and the presence of rock formations [[spoiler:much like Stonehenge.]]
28* CargoShip: Megatron and his beloved rubber ducky.
29* CatharsisFactor: After spending the entire series being a downright sadistic SmugSnake, it is immensely satisfying seeing Tarantulas reduced to a cowering mess when his second attempt to [[spoiler:wipe out the Transformers race]] backfire horribly and accidentally causing his own technology slowly electrocute him to death for all the vile crimes he did.
30* CompleteMonster:
31** [[Characters/BeastWarsPredacons Megatron]] is a self-proclaimed tyrant and would-be GalacticConqueror. A [[BadBoss user and abuser of his followers]], Megatron divides the world into enemies and pawns, killing or enslaving the former, and ruthlessly exploiting the latter. His more notable crimes include extracting half of Rampage's spark, placing it in a vise, and using it to torture Rampage into submission; attempting to order Dinobot to kill Quickstrike, one of Megatron's relatively more loyal soldiers, after Quickstrike lost to Dinobot in a sort of re-entrance exam into the Predacons; an aborted genocide of humanity's common ancestor; attempting to rewrite all of his history by killing the original Optimus Prime; and, finally, sacrificing all his remaining troops in order to gain control of the Nemesis and set out to overrun the galaxy. His defeat doesn't stop him either--when he returns in ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' he's gotten worse, picking up a serious [[AGodAmI god complex]] along the way. Seizing control of Cybertron, Megatron [[YourSoulIsMine extracts the sparks]] from everyone on the planet, reducing them to [[SoullessShell mindless drones]]. Acquiring a hatred of all organic life, Megatron tries to [[OmnicidalManiac scrub Cybertron clean of it]], resulting in the near-destruction of all life, robotic and organic, on his home planet when his last mad grasp for power finally fails.
32** [[EvilGenius Tarantulas]] is a schemer and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabber]] second-to-none. Planted as TheMole in Megatron's operation by the Predacon Secret Police, Tarantulas is a cackling MadScientist, who enjoys performing gruesome experiments on his victims, and eating anything or anyone he catches in his giant webs, organic or robotic; he admits to enjoying the act itself more than the meal. He brainwashes several Maximal protoforms into becoming Predacons, most notably Blackarachnia and Inferno, and eventually reveals that he hopes to [[TheStarscream usurp control of the team]] from Megatron. Tarantulas later exploits and {{Mind Rape}}s Blackarachnia, leaving her with a paranoid terror of him, and later swears a vendetta against her, promising to hunt the other spider down and kill her for daring to defy him. He tries to destroy the Ark, which would [[TimeCrash create a time paradox]] and lead to the extinction of the Transformers as a species. Ultimately betraying both sides, Tarantulas is revealed to be descended from neither Autobot nor Decepticon, and he attempts to use Vok technology to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all factions]], swearing that when he's done with his own species, he will return and commit genocide against the Vok themselves. Void of loyalty or conscience, Tarantulas makes even his own nominal allies uneasy, a fact that he is downright proud of.
33* CreepyAwesome:
34** Rampage falls into this when he's not undergoing BadassDecay. He's an [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable titan]] with a sadistic streak a mile wide, but that's ''exactly'' what makes him memorable.
35** Tarantulas might be a cannibalistic psychotic MadScientist, but he is damn entertaining in the process.
36* DracoInLeatherPants: Rampage has quite a few fans that focus on his sparse TragicMonster moments and downplay his vicious sadism and cannibalism. Even his next big "official" appearance in the TF Club fiction plays up his emotional moments and depicts him as a deeply troubled, but still sympathetic person.
37* DryDockedShip: One interpretation towards Megatron and Dinobot's relationship was that they broke up by the start of the series, which could explain some of the former's behavior towards him (such as him repeatedly cloning Dinobot, which could be seen as him being unable to get over his absence).
38* EnsembleDarkHorse: [[EnsembleDarkHorse/{{Transformers}} See here]]
39* EvenBetterSequel: There are quite a few fans who hold the opinion that ''Beast Wars'' is the best Transformers series yet made, as stated above. In fact, ''Beast Wars'' is one of the few ''Transformers'' incarnations not to be heavily criticized by the ''Generation 1'' purists. It's arguably gotten to the point where ''Beast Wars'' has done a sort of stealth AdaptationDisplacement to ''Generation 1''. Many of the traits self-proclaimed Transformers purists proclaim they wanted out of the movies (little-to-no humans, just lots of action of robots beating each other up) were from ''Beast Wars'', whereas the movies were actually much closer to ''Generation 1'' in their level of involving humans and the amount of action.
40* EvilIsCool: The ''Beast Wars'' incarnation of Megatron is held up as not only superior to his G1 namesake, but one of the best incarnations of Megatron in any ''Transformers'' media. Reasons include his charisma and competence that makes him one of the franchise' most iconic [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]], being a morally reprehensible bastard and proud of it, his awesome alt modes, the delicious LargeHam that can be amassed from him, all that wouldn't be as iconic without the silky vocal performance by Creator/DavidKaye who clearly had a ball with the role, ''[[VerbalTic yeees]]''.
41* FanNickname: Dinobot '''is''' [[MemeticMutation Raptor Jesus!]]
42* FanPreferredCutContent: "Dark Glass" was a cut episode with quite the potential for the overall plot, explaining how Dinobot II ended up gaining Dinobot's sense of honor at the end of "Nemesis, Part 2". It was cut for, supposedly, being "too dark", and replaced instead with "Go With The Flow", a filler episode centered around protohumans Chak and Una with few relevance to the overall plot. Needless to say, fans were more intrigued about the cut episode than the final one they got as the Plot Hole "Dark Glass" left after being cut was pretty big.
43* FansPreferTheNewHer: Opinions vary on most of the [[MidSeasonUpgrade switched-up character designs]] across the series, but Cheetor and Megatron's late series Transmetal 2 upgrades are generally praised as excellent.
44* FauxSymbolism: During [[spoiler:the final battle between Megatron and Optimus Primal]], they start quoting passages from the [[HollywoodApocrypha Code of Primus]].
45* FirstInstallmentWins: The show was the first installment of the "Beast Era" of the ''Transformers'' franchise and it's easily the most beloved. Opinions are divided on the follow up cartoons, comics, and anime (both as sequels and as stories in their own rights) and it's quite telling that the designs of the Maximals in ''Wars'' are far more popular than their redesigns in ''Machines''. Moreover, while most G1 revivals will mix-and-match aspects of various continuities (for example, Grimlock and Shockwave tend to be more like the comics), ''Beast Wars'' revivals pretty much exclusively draw from the cartoon. The other bits of Beast Era media still have loyal followings, but the original show is the most iconic and had the biggest effect on the franchise as a whole.
46* GeniusBonus: Loads. The writers and animators at Mainframe were clearly very well-read. Dinobot's many Shakespeare allusions are a good example.
47* GrowingTheBeard: Season 1 gradually grew higher in quality until the season finale where the series really took off. The stories became darker and more arc-driven, the animation quality got better, and the characters became more complex.
48* HarsherInHindsight:
49** In his very last words of the entire series, Rattrap muses with a smirk, "And you know what the best part is? We don't have to see Megatron's ugly butt again 'till we get back to Cybertron!" [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines How right you are, Rattrap]]. [[CrapsackWorld How right you are.]]
50** Rhinox laughing off his brief stint of being reprogrammed into a Predacon, and the other Maximals laughing it off with him (except former Predacon Dinobot) becomes a lot less funny [[spoiler:after ''Beast Machines'', where both he and Silverbolt are reprogrammed as evil Vehicons, which also makes it harder not to wince at Silverbolt's own NiceGuy personality in this series]].
51** In "Possessed", Starscream falsely claims that his original body was destroyed while defending Galvatron from Unicron. [[spoiler:This would be his fate in the later series, ''Anime/TransformersArmada'']].
52* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
53** During [[spoiler:the original Dinobot's death]], Optimus states "May his Spark join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron." In 2010 came the Transformers "Hall of Fame" where, every year, Hasbro began honouring fictional characters (one of which was fan-voted) and real people associated with the franchise. That year, Dinobot was intended as a joke candidate since the idea of him beating out Generation One veterans like Soundwave, Grimlock, Jazz and Shockwave was seen as inconceivable. Guess who the fans voted for that year?
54** Also heartwarming in that Dinobot was a Predacon, a decendant of the Decepticons. If just one of them could learn the value of honor and a simple human life, then maybe there's hope for the rest of them?
55* HilariousInHindsight:
56** Megatron's frequent annoyance with the ever-devoted Inferno arguably becomes even funnier with the knowledge that the former's voice actor Creator/DavidKaye took on the role of [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lugnut]]. If that's not enough, at one point Beast Wars Megatron asks (rhetorically) of his troops, "Eager to begin another [[MemeticMutation glorious]] Predacon day are we?"
57*** It's also pretty hilarious that David Kaye voiced this series' version of Megatron when he would later voice Optimus Prime in ''Animated''. Especially considering that he originally auditioned for Optimus Primal.
58** When the series first premiered, there was the cry of "TRUKK NOT MUNKY!" from detractors. In season 3's premiere episode "Optimal Situation", as Optimus shares the spark of [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]], he turns into a new transformer whose modes include truck ''and'' monkey (gorilla).
59** After the whole "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" meme, Creator/DavidSobolov, who voiced Depth Charge, voices [[spoiler:Gorilla Grodd]] on ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Transformers sites [[http://www.allspark.com/content/2015/05/fish-not-munky-david-sobolov-voices-gorilla-grodd-on-next-weeks-the-flash/ noticed this quite quickly]].
60** "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" becomes this yet again after Hasbro buys ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' from Saban in 2018, since their first series will be ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', which has a truck that ''becomes'' a monkey![[note]]ironically, Optimus and [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters Gorisaki Banana]], the Sentai counterpart of said truck, are both ''apes'', but pedantics[[/note]].
61** Even more hilarious? [[Film/KingKong1976 He was an ape first!]][[note]]Creator/PeterCullen was uncredited as the 'voice' of Kong[[/note]]
62** When [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Botanica]] appeared on ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' as a minor character, there were many joking cries from the fandom of "FLOWUR NOT TRUKK".
63** There's [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion another franchise]] that has biomechanical humanoid mecha with the ability to transform to a ferocious animal form. It's even called Beast Mode.
64** Rhinox is green and gold. His VO artist, Richard Newman, would go on to play a [[Literature/{{Franklin}} father whose colors are green and gold]]...
65** In the episode, "Possession", Starscream would tell a lie to the Predacons of how he fell defending Galvatron against the hands of Unicron. Well, this would end up being the fate of Starscream in the first of the Unicron Trilogy, ''Anime/TransformersArmada''.
66** [[Creator/GaryChalk Garry Chalk]] and Creator/DavidKaye originally auditioned to play Predacon!Megatron and Optimus Primal, respectively. But they instead wound up playing vice-versa. As fate would have it, they would later end up playing the namesakes of their intended first choices, anyway; Garry Chalk wound up voicing [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers G1 Megatron]] in the same show, and David Kaye would voice Optimus Prime in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''.
67** Rattrap's name means, well, a rat trap. In recent years, another pest control device has emerged, known as "Waspinator" (an object looking like a wasp nest that is hooked on the outside of a window to signal wasps from afar that this is occupied territory).
68** Rattrap is virulently hateful of Predacons, and by extension the Decepticons, for the few times they come up. So it can come off as quite funny for those familiar with his hatred to see Rattrap as a key member of Starscream's campaign for leadership of Cybertron in [=IDW's=] ''Till All are One'' series.
69** One of Rattrap's insults for Dinobot is "pre-evolved birdbrain", which becomes funnier when scientists later determined that dinosaurs were more similar to birds than reptiles and dinosaurs like Dinobot's raptor form really ''did'' have feathers.
70* HoYay:
71** Cheetor's fawning over 'Big Bot' (Optimus) is sometimes interpreted as more than admiration and has given way to several slashfic.
72** Rattrap has kissed Rhinox twice, one kiss more than he has with his canon female love interest.
73** The number of times Megatron has cloned Dinobot and/or his beast mode tends to make Megatron come off as a jilted lover who never truly got over the first Dinobot turning on him to join the Maximals.
74** [[ShesAManInJapan Airazor was a man in Japan]], so her/his relationship with Tigatron became somewhat awkward to work around for the censors. Eventually, they couldn't work around it anymore, and they straight up put Japanese!Airazor and Tigatron in a homosexual relationship (for all of 2 minutes of screentime).
75** Rattrap and Dinobot's arguments can't help but make them come across LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.
76* ItWasHisSled:
77** [[spoiler: Dinobot]] dies. Not much of a spoiler these days because the episode where it happens is considered one of the greatest episodes of the series, if not the entire ''Transformers'' franchise.
78** [[spoiler:The planet they're on really is Earth]]. Was a big twist at the start of the second season that really came into play in the second half of the season and stuck through the third season. Not so much anymore.
79* LGBTFanbase: Due to the HoYay entry above, as well as several characters such as Megatron having mannerisms that can be interpreted as AmbiguouslyGay, Beast Wars has a strong LGBTQ+ fanbase.
80* LoveToHate: Tarantulas. He's the only Predacon to be truly reprehensible and irredeemable, but his constant scheming and creepiness make him a joy to watch, even if it's satisfying when he gets his comeuppance.
81* MagnificentBastard: "[[Characters/BeastWarsMegatron Megatron]]", a rogue [[Characters/BeastWarsPredacons Predacon]] general who took the name of the Decepticon leader, is a brilliant, charismatic and ruthless foe who repeatedly comes up with new schemes to defeat the [[Characters/BeastWarsMaximals Maximals]] under Optimus Primal. Faking the Predacons' destruction to gain an advantage as well as using spies and psychological warfare, Megatron even uses cover of a truce to betray Optimus and succeeds in temporarily destroying him. Utilizing his soldiers as expendable resources, Megatron routinely [[NearVillainVictory comes within inches of victory]], even manipulating a former Decepticon into working for him so he can destroy the sleeping Autobots and completely change history. Megatron is also an expert at highjacking the plans of his disloyal minions, instead using them to further his own goals. By the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron turns out to have taken over Cybertron and repeatedly keeps the Maximals on the run, having taken power by manipulating the villainous Tankor/Rhinox's plans to lay a trap for the Maximals and faking his own death to take the form of the innocent Maximal "Noble" to trick them into allowing him ascension to ruler of the planet. Bombastic, hammy and theatrical, Megatron would set a new Machiavellian standard for villains in the franchise.
82* MemeticBadass: Megatron's rubber ducky is the most dangerous of the Predacons, perhaps even more than Megatron himself.
83* MemeticMutation:
84** '''TRUKK NOT MUNKY!'''[[note]]The cry of fans spitting the dummy that the Transformers are recast with animal alt-modes, but particularly that Optimus Prime is an ape. And let's not mention, at all, Film/KingKong1976...[[/note]]
85*** Other variants include: '''[[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise TEE-WRECKS NOT BAKK-HOE]]''', or even '''SHUTTOL NOT JETT'''.
86*** A modern variant emerged with "[[https://twitter.com/TF_Moments/status/1559666121640267776 King Kong Adventure Fuck]]", after a bizarre comment a prominent ''Transformers'' video creator got on a ''Beast Wars'' video.
87** Megatron's drawn-out "yeeeees" and on occasion "no". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8 There's even a compilation]].
88** "Beast Mode" is now a popular phrase amongst many people in times of intensity, which is ironic since in-universe it tended to be something of a downgrade compared to their robot modes.
89** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6z6A5TP7uA Duly noted...and IGNORED!]]"[[note]]Megatron's reply to Dinobot II when the latter says Megatron shouldn’t use the Nemesis to kill off human kind. Used as a forum weapon to show acknowledgement of a reply, but also immediate disregard.[[/note]]
90** Fans have used Blackarachnia's, "What is it with guys and explosives?" to create Creator/MichaelBay jokes about the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''.
91** "Rhinox, MAXIMIZE!" [[note]] Whenever Rhinox transforms from beast mode to robot mode, he lets out a large bellow. There are some edits on [=YouTube=] that have him let out a variety of sounds in place of the bellowing, most of which are blood-curdling screams.[[/note]]
92* MoralEventHorizon:
93** Megatron crosses it when he [[spoiler:begin trying to change history, first by eradicating the ancestors of the human race, and then by killing Optimus Prime. Both acts condemned billions of lives across millions of years to be {{Retgone}} from existence]].
94** [[spoiler: For Dinobot II, who had recently gained access to his namesakes' code of honor, Megatron crossed the line when he decided to use ''capital scale weaponry on a single proto-human''.]]
95** Tarantulas crosses this when [[spoiler: He attempts to blow up the Ark, which would have wiped out all the Autobots, Decepticons and their descendants. In the 3H continuity, it's also implied that he did this so that his master [[GodOfEvil Unicron]] would be able to destroy Cybertron without difficulty]].
96** Rampage crosses this when it's revealed he wiped out and killed the entire population of Depth Charge's home colony with immense sadistic relish, the point of coldly taunting him with this line, especially by this line.
97--->'''Depth Charge:''' I have no time for you X.\
98'''Rampage:''' Like you had no time for Starbase Rugby? You had friends there, as I recall. Tasty ones too.
99* {{Narm}}: An early season 2 episode has the [[MidSeasonUpgrade newly transmetal]] Megatron articulating how the Beast Wars have changed... while skating around the room on his new feet wheels as if his base was an evil roller rink. It's impossible to take seriously. To emphasize, he's a ''purple'' metallic T-Rex on skates, and with a pair of helicopter fans strapped to his back.
100* NarmCharm: "(Transformer name), MAXIMIZE/TERRORIZE!" Shouting it out loud will sound either really ''stupid'' or totally ''awesome!''
101* NeverLiveItDown: Out of all of Rhinox’s stand out moments in the show, he will forever be remembered for his role in the episode "The Low Road", where he defeats the Predacons with a giant fart.
102* NightmareRetardant: Whereas Tarantulas's general characterization is pretty much NightmareFuel, his reactions to when things don't quite go his way are significantly less dark. His OhCrap moments are some of the funniest in the series.
103* OnceOriginalNowCommon:
104** The show's version of Megatron can get some lukewarm responses from people more used to the idea of Megatron being successful, motivated, and charismatic--a revelation in the days when nearly every prior incarnation was an incompetent blowhard, but nowadays it's just expected of him, with later Megatrons surpassing him in threat level or moral complexity.
105** Back when the show first came out, the CGI was absolutely stunning for a television show let alone a show for ''kids''. While the animation ''did'' improve noticeably over the course of the series, the show's animation now looks like something off of a Sega Dreamcast compared to later fully-CGI shows, and even a number of fellow ''Transformers'' shows.
106* OneTruePairing: Dinobot and Rattrap are a very popular pairing, also Dinobot with Primal in that DefrostingTheIceQueen way. Dinobot's small smile at the end of Gorilla Warfare probably started it.
107* QuestionableCasting: Garry Chalk's brief cameo as G1!Megatron. While it's true that Frank Welker wasn't available to reprise his role for the show, Garry's voice still sounds nothing like him. This is particularly jarring when compared to Doug Parker's spot-on impersonation of the late Chris Latta's Starscream.
108* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In quite possibly the quickest instance of this trope, Waspinator. At the very start of the show everyone hated him, including ''the writers'', due to his annoying voice and personality. The writers responded by making him the ButtMonkey which, alongside with his VocalEvolution that made his voice ''endearing'' rather than obnoxious, caused him to explode into the show's [[EnsembleDarkhorse most popular character]].
109* RetroactiveRecognition: The japanese dub features Creator/TakehitoKoyasu as Optimus Primal, long before he became well known as Dio Brando in Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure
110* SavedByTheFans: Waspinator was set to die at the start of the second season [[spoiler:along with Scorponok]], but the creators were aware of how popular he was with the online fanbase, and that [[spoiler:Terrorsaur]] was becoming fairly redundant with the much more successful traitor of Tarantulas on board.
111* SeasonalRot: The third season gets this reaction from a number of fans, owing to several lesser episodes, odd retcons, occasional MoodWhiplash, being even more [[ExecutiveMeddling blatantly toy oriented]] than the past two seasons, and rushed plot points. The animation is seen as the best in the series, though.
112* SignatureScene: [[spoiler: Dinobot's]] funeral.
113* SpecialEffectFailure: The early episodes [[TechnologyMarchesOn (obviously, due to technology limitations)]] look rather primitive, there's also several other moments that combine this with OffModel (such as Rattrap reverting to his old CG model in ''Code of Hero''). Plus there're seams on several of the organic beast modes if you look closely enough, Dinobot's in particular.
114** ''Law Of The Jungle'' opens up with a snake slithering up an incomplete tree after it eats a frog.
115** The explosion in ''Other Voices, Part 2'' consists of real elements poorly composited over the animation. Similar techniques are used in many instances when Inferno uses his flamethrower.
116* {{Squick}}: Tigatron and Cheetor's guns appear to be made from their beast modes' ''intestines''.
117* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
118** Dinobot II. [[spoiler:In the last episode, he undergoes a HeelFaceTurn when Rampage is killed and begins taking on the mannerisms of the original Dinobot. Not only was the purported episode that would have provided an explanation for this never produced, making that event come across as an AssPull, but he dies after fully betraying Megatron. Had Dinobot II survived the events of ''Beast Wars'', he could very well have played a role in ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', giving him a chance to expand on his character after finally gaining an identity of his own independent of Rampage.]]
119** Tigerhawk, due to both being a large victim of SerendipityWritesThePlot and a CreatorsPest. His entire existence stemmed from Hasbro wanting to make a toy for and have the show promote him, causing him to be put in ''right'' at the end of Season 3, made worse since the series was denied a fourth season in favor of ''Beast Machines'', meaning the various subplots like the Vok MythArc had to be condensed. As a result, he's treated ''very much'' like a toy commercial, the writers giving him the bare minimum if only to wrap up Vok subplot. Hasbro however ''changed their minds'' about making a toy for him, so [[spoiler:they ordered he be killed off, something none of the writers had issue with according to Bob Forward.]] His character goes completely untapped and the audience isn't given the chance to see any of Tigerhawk's internal struggles and whether or not we should view him as [[spoiler:a fusion of Tigatron and Airazor, a completely new spark (possible as Tigatron and Airazor's "son"), or something different and alien altogether (considering his powers and new body come from the Vok).]] Making matters worse, Hasbro changed their minds ''again'', meaning he ''could'' have been given more in the show, but by that point the scripts were written and the animation was completed, making his toy only see release [[spoiler:long after he was dead.]] And while later material would see the return of Tigatron and Airazor in different capacities, Tigerhawk was ignored thanks to the writers not caring for him, leading to him being all but been forgotten in media.[[labelnote:*]]In the near ''two decades'' since his death, he's only received a PaletteSwap as the EvilCounterpart "Razorclaw", a single page cameo in ''ComicBook/TransformersLastBotStanding'', and a new toy in the ''Toys/TransformersLegacy United'' line in 2024.[[/labelnote]]
120* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
121** Several of the Maximals and Predacons ended up receiving upgrades during the Season 2 premiere by becoming "Transmetal", basically being infused with Vok energy. While the toyline had Transmetal forms for a ''large'' number of cast members, due to budget issues the only ones who actually got new forms were Optimus, Megatron, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Tarantulas. This meant Rhinox, Airazor, Waspinator, and Terrorsaur ended up stuck in their initial bodies for the duration of the series. Terrorsaur in particular stands out due to it being shown he ''was'' affected by the energy wave, but was anticlimactically killed off along with Scorponak after they crashed into each other and fell into lava.
122** For some fans, the long-running Vok subplot turned into this after the first season. In the first season, there was always a sense of awe and mystery whenever the aliens and their influence over the planet were involved. Not to mention the Vok story gave Beast Wars some of its most epic moments, from the floating island down to their planet-buster in the season finale. Come season two, the aliens make their presence known again by [[spoiler: kidnapping Tigatron and Airazor]] and unleashing their Metalhunter ship, but beyond that, the Vok still don't show their faces and the audience doesn't really learn anything new about the aliens. In the third season, the Vok finally make themselves known and [[spoiler: send their emissary Tigerhawk to Earth to deal with Megatron and defeat all the Predacons]]. But afterwards, they [[spoiler: both kill and get killed by Tarantulas in an accidental MurderSuicide despite allegedly being cosmic beings strong enough to CurbStomp the entire Predacon team but yet can't [[ForgotAboutHisPowers stand up to Tarantulas' cyber-venom]]]]. So even though the Vok were implied to have created much of what the Maximals and Predacons encountered on earth(Stonehenge, the floating island, etc.), in addition to being the recurring villains of the show, some fans, to this day, consider the Vok subplot to be one story in Beast Wars which started out good but fizzled out towards the end and never lived up to its full potential.
123* ToughActToFollow:
124** While ''Transformers'' has continued to roll out new comics and cartoons regularly, they mostly take inspiration from Generation 1 (and later, from [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries the live-action films]]). While characters and ideas introduced in ''Beast Wars'' have been reused in other incarnations, the concept itself has been left alone, and given its popularity among most fans today, any attempt to reboot or remake it would surely come under fierce scrutiny. It took until 2021 for [[ComicBook/TransformersBeastWars2021 a reboot to happen]], and it unfortunately got CutShort.
125** Dinobot character arc itself is seen as one of the greatest in Transformers history, which is why the character has had mostly minor roles or straight up not appealing in almost every continuity since. His only two major roles has been in [[WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy Kingdom]] which was seen as [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks a pale imitation of his original arc]], and [[ComicBook/TransformersBeastWars2021 the reboot]] which his character was received better then the former attempt but was cut short.
126* UnintentionalUncannyValley:
127** A problem for the CGI. The robots tend to look fine, but it's when they turn into animals that they tend to look off, mostly a problem with the non-insect alt-modes, and especially when they talk. Due to the [[TechnologyMarchesOn animation's age]] it's hard not to see them as 3D puppets with their expressions looking lifeless. Hell, even ''[[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong Country]]'' had more expressive faces, and that’s saying something...
128** Transmutate features a face that could be found on an actual human with the only elements indicating that it belongs to a robot being the shiny gold skin and red eyes. Given the nature of the character, the creepy effect this creates was probably intentional.
129** The protohumans features far more realistic faces than anything else on the show, and were hit the hardest by the dated CGI as a result.
130* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In the third season, the writers focused on Blackarachnia's redemption arc and while she was meant to be rooted for, there were several factors that worked against her and she didn't quite come off as a fully sympathetic character. For one, Blackarachnia complained how the Maximals didn't trust her but she had spent two seasons attacking the Maximals and unlike Dinobot, she had much more bad blood with them. Plus, she had been the one who had (unintentionally) led Megatron to the Ark in the first place in a quest to get the power of the Ark for herself, allowing Megatron a chance to try to assassinate Optimus Prime and create a timestorm so when she turned against Megatron out of self-preservation, she didn't build a strong foundation of trust with the Maximals to begin with. There was also the fact that she didn't act any differently under the Maximals than she did Megatron, secretly stealing equipment from the ship and the TMII driver Depth Charge had thrown into the lava to work her own agenda in secrecy. And despite some mistrust between her and the Maximals, they did make some attempts to give her a chance because in "Proving Grounds," Rattrap relented and allowed Silverbolt to go retrieve Blackarachnia without snitching on them, despite his dislike for her. At the end of the episode, Optimus tells Blackarachnia that the choice to be reprogrammed into a Maximal was her choice alone and additionally, said "reprogramming" involves removing a Predacon "shell program" Tarantulas embedded into her when the Predacons first got a hold of her and when she finally gets it removed in "Crossing The Rubicon", she undergoes no personality changes whatsoever. She still has the same sarcastic, abrasive personality she always had. The only difference is she's now on the good guys' side....which she already was.
131** The Maximals in general and Optimus in particular also come off badly in regards to this storyline, partly due to Primal initially claiming "She may be made of Maximal parts, but she's Predacon to the core!" Despite 1. Dinobot and Rhinox having both come back from temporary Heel Turns and 2. After BA becomes a Maximal, Primal and the others never show any initiative in getting back Quickstrike and Inferno, who were also ''their own men'', going so far as to [[spoiler: leave them for dead at the end of the series without so much as a brief mention]]. With Cheetor developing a crush on her as well, it almost seems like it's only worth it to redeem a reprogrammed ally (other than Rhinox) if they're a sexy lady tech expert who's dating one of their own.
132* UnpopularPopularCharacter:
133** No one likes Waspinator, except the vast majority of the fanbase.
134** Despite being a fairly charismatic and silver-tongued character, Megatron himself gets very little love in-canon. While it goes without saying that the Maximals despise him, when it comes to his own Predacon troops, Megatron has almost little to no grassroots support. In the pilot, Dinobot made no secret of the fact that he considered Megatron an incompetent leader as soon as they landed on earth and challenged him for leadership of the Predacons. Terrorsaur always tries to overthrow him whenever the opportunity presents itself. Waspinator is always complaining about the menial labor that Megatron gives him. Both Tarantulas and Blackarachnia constantly work to undermine him through more devious and underhanded schemes. Quickstrike can always be persuaded to turn against Megatron through the persuasions of a more charismatic and intelligent 'bot like Tarantulas. Rampage absolutely hates his guts and would kill him brutally in an instant if not for the fact that Megatron held part of his spark as leverage. [[spoiler: Dinobot II, though loyal initially, turns on Megatron in the finale]]. It can also be argued that Inferno (one of Megatron's loyalest troops) isn't really of sound mind, considering how scrambled his circuits were after scanning an ant beast mode, and Tarantulas tampering with his core programming. Even Predacons in a position of power back on Cybertron such as the Tripredacus Council consider Megatron a rogue and a nuisance who needs to be brought to heel and the agent they sent, Ravage himself, has no respect for Megatron or his pretensions (he ONLY sides with Megatron once Megatron presents him with an offer too good to pass up). Of all the characters on the show, only Scorponok can be considered the only character of (relatively) sound mind who genuinely likes Megatron. Out-of-universe, however, Megatron is beloved by the Transformers fanbase and even after several years of new TF reboots, BW Megatron is still considered THE best incarnation of Megatron by a lot of fans no matter how much he's universally disliked in the show itself.
135* TheUntwist: You probably figured out [[spoiler:the planet is Earth]] one full season before the characters did. The clues were everywhere, [[spoiler:such as that ''all the animals, even the fossils, are Earth animals.'']]
136* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids:
137** Despite the toyline and therefore the show being ostensibly aimed somewhere around the 10-12-year-old boys slot, the show features clever writing, complex characterizations, a surprising number of {{double entendre}}s, and surprisingly mature takes on themes such as warfare and revenge, with a healthy dose of KilledOffForReal to match.
138** And the fun doesn't stop there when you get down to analyzing individual episodes. Bad Spark comes off like a horror movie, between the fetid-swamp setting and the mass-murderous psychotic Predacon lurking for blood (oil) throughout. And, sweet Primus, that ending scene. And then there's the burned-out wastelands that make up the bulk of the second season's scenery, with the clear and present knowledge that most of the natural life on the planet is [[spoiler:dead or crippled after the Eldritch planetbuster]] at the end of the last season. A lot of the fighting is surprisingly brutal in some episodes. And on, and on...
139* WinBackTheCrowd: ''Beast Wars'' only existed because the entire franchise was on death's bed due to being considered stale, and Hasbro had staff from it's then newly-acquired Kenner branch think of new ideas to "refresh" the brand. The end result was a series that-despite initially negative reception-resurrected ''Transformers'' as a multi-media staple... Though a few of the later shows ''almost'' overruled the success.

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