* Okay, the Dinobots. I get it, [[spoiler:Shockwave]] got their design from our planet, he studied the earth, it's all explained. No problem's here. However... Why does he CALL them "'''Dino'''bots"? Where did he get that name? I mean, he doesn't know we humans will call these animals "dinosaurs", now does he?
** I'd chalk it up to translating from Cybertronian to English. Also, in some comics, the team is known as the Dynabots, as in dynamite or dynamic, which sounds similar.
*** But the Transformers landed on Earth 4 million years ago. The human race, let alone the English language, didn't exist back then.
*** And the Dinobots didn't exist yet when it crashed. They were either built in 1984 by the Autobots after learning "Hey, dinosaurs are cool!" or sent by the Ark to fight Shockwave in the Savage Land, where dinosaurs had been chilling for the last 65 million years.
* Why does Starscream outrank Onslaught and Shockwave? I know Megatron isn't the most rational thinker, but why make the worst possible choice to rank above the more practical ones?
** Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
*** Megatron has stated that he keeps Starscream around to prevent himself from becoming complacent. Essentially, Starscream's constant attempts at betrayal keep Megatron sharp.
* Why is [[spoiler: Megatron so mad seeing Starscream as leader when he's BackFromTheDead?]] We already saw that he knew he wanted to overthrow him, so why is when he sees him acting exactly the way he knew he would act?
** It probably had something to do with Starscream talking about "Gone are the failures of Megatron!" and trying to turn the Decepticons against Megatron.
*** If I told you I was going to stab you, and then stabbed you, would the fact that you knew it was coming make it any more pleasant?
*** Megatron's anger is not because Starscream is leader. That would obviously be expected since he was second-in-command before Megatron was taken out of commission. It's because of how Starscream is blatantly squandering the Decepticons' resources to build giant statues of himself and being such a hilariously incompetent leader that the Autobots now have a fighting chance in a war that the Decepticons were winning easily under Megatron's leadership.
* Why was Metroplex made? Trypticon was made out of a KillSat the decepticons came up with. Omega Supreme already had a good reason (Being the gatekeeper and whatnot). What's the point of Metroplex?
** He responds to the will of the Primes. Perhaps he was originally a weapon, built during the early days of Cybertron then forgotten.
* On Bumblebee's mission, a tentacle from the Nemesis shatters a window on the Ark and all the Autobot [[RedShirt redshirts]] get sucked out (indicating that the Ark is pressurized), leaving only Bumblebee. Ratchet immediately swears that they will be avenged. This brings up two questions since it is firmly established that Cybertronians can survive in the vacuum of space (as demonstrated by Bumblebee himself later in the very same mission). First, why would the Ark need to be pressurized when Cybertronians don't breathe? Second, why does Ratchet react as if the redshirts were killed by being sucked out when they can survive in the vacuum of space?
** Atmosphere might have alternate functions, like insulation, and not having to breathe might make their fate all the worse, because without some means of getting back, they're kind of stuck in the void of space.
* Why didn't Optimus just have Metroplex crush Starscream and Soundwave for a fuller decapitation strike?
** Because it's ''[[BigGood Optimus Prime]]''. He can't ''not'' give the Decepticons a chance to leave peacefully. Megatron's death was the only option, as far as he saw.
** That, and the fact that if he killed off Starscream, Onslaught, and Soundwave, Shockwave or someone else less predictable would take over. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. One of the Decepticon mooks later in Cliffjumper's level remarks that he's more comfortable with Starscream rather than Shockwave as leader, since Shockwave is considered a nutjob by many 'Cons who don't understand him.
*** Also Metroplex is far from a precision tool and if he had Metroplex kill the decepticons, he'd likely risk being squashed himself, leaving the Autobots without hope.