* AccidentalInnuendo: The name "Breastforce" is meant to refer to them having breastplates that turn into animal partners and weapons, but to most English-speaking viewers... yeah. References to the team in English have tended to [[DubNameChange skirt around the name]]: one toy release referred to them as the "Destrons", and the Haslab Deathsaurus referred to his partners as "Eaglechest and Tigerchest."
* AssPull: The ''Victory'' manga ends with the Autobots winning the war and the Decepticons begging them not to destroy their base, which turns out to be full of Decepticon civilians, including [[{{Moe}} Leozack's sister and Deathsaurus's wife]]. See? Everyone is good! [[BrokenAesop Even if you're a raging asshole who oppresses others and has no problem committing crimes and kill others...]] Nevermind the fact that it's usually established that the Decepticons are a rogue faction of criminals who ''want'' to do bad things and a number are incredibly apathetic to their own members.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Aside from Star Saber, Kakuryu and Hellbat seem to be the most popular characters. The former even received a toy in the United EX line, twenty years later!
** Greatshot was quite well liked by the fandom, due to his resemblance to Sixshot, being one of the few characters not named Star Saber who can go toe to toe against all of the Breastforce singlehanded, and his voice. The fact he was revealed to be Sixshot certainly contributes to it.
* {{Fanon}}:
** For many years, fans believed that Greatshot is meant to be an upgraded Sixshot due to them sharing the same voice actor and having similar abilities. Years later, the ''Transformers Legends'' manga [[AscendedFanon made this canon]].
** Fans assume Deathcobra can replace Hellbat as Liokaiser's left arm, something that has never been shown in canon.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** One episode has the Decepticons melting ice caps in the Arctic to create energy and the ensuing water level rising is merely treated as a thruway consequence, not really dwelled upon. With the threat of GlobalWarming, this situation being treated as a simple consequence that will fade simply being played for comedy becomes incredibly hard to look at.
** When God Ginrai dies, Perceptor is among the doctors who are trying to save him, but soon make it clear the wounds is fatal. In Japan, The Transformers: The Movie hadn't aired yet, (which is why Wheeljack is alive here), but for viewers who had seen the movie, it makes the scene where Perceptor tells the Autobots Optimus is doomed much harder, and the real kicker is that God Ginrai's body was originally designed to resurrect Optimus.
** Several of the episodes involving Greatshot can become a bit more harder to watch after learning he is a reformatted Sixshot. His familiarity with Guyhawk and the prison are due to the fact he is a former Decepticon and that he broke Star Saber out of that prison. Similarly, his hesitation to accept the role of commander of God Ginrai's army is due to the fact the Six Clan went after him because he got involved in the war in the first place.
* HilariousInHindsight: The Dinoforce's name in the Japanese script is literally just "Dinosaur Squadron", or rather, "Kyouryuu Sentai" (恐竜戦隊). Fast forward three years later, [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger that term becomes more well-known]], and especially to the rest of the world after [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the following year]].
* HypeBacklash: Went through this to a degree. In the early days of the online fandom, when the series wasn't widely available, ''Victory'' was widely claimed or assumed (mostly by people who had never properly seen it) to be the darkest and most mature ''Transformers'' story, and something of a holy grail that was too good for Western shores. When the series became more widely available, it was found that ''Victory'' was just as kiddie as any ''Transformers'' cartoon, and in some ways it was one of the ''more'' childish ones (the ending theme is about whether Star Saber wet the bed when he was a kid). It still has a strong fanbase, though, which appreciates what it actually was rather than what people assumed it was.
* {{Narm}}: Deathsaurus' death in the dub is all sorts of hilarious. What was an explanation of Star Saber's [[CombatPragmatist tactics]] followed by an expression of defiance in the original is turned by the line delivery and tame dialogue into Deathsaurus [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction expressing mild annoyance at being fatally stabbed through the chest]], letting out what sound like yawns as he removes the blade, and then collapsing moments after declaring he will never be defeated with as little conviction as possible.
* RonTheDeathEater: The Transmasters UK fanfic group portrayed the squeaky-clean IdealHero Star Saber as a brutal villain, which was incorporated into his IDW personality because [[RunningTheAsylum the writer was a part of that group]]. There was enough of a backlash against this portrayal that when Hasbro announced a voting contest to choose the next Prime (who would then get a brand new toy as part of the 2018 Power of the Primes toyline), a big chunk of people who would've otherwise voted for Star Saber (who hadn't had an actual toy since 1989), changed their minds when the bio hinted he'd be based on the IDW version (specifically the quote that "Freedom is the right of all '''civilized''' beings").
* SpiritualSuccessor: The Anime/BraveSeries takes a lot of cues (and even some mecha designs!) from ''Transformers Victory''. During the buildup to the Haslab Star Saber reveal, one of the Brave mecha designers specifically referred to Star Saber as being one of the key references they used in developing the mecha from that series.
* TheScrappy: Several fans dislike Jan as a very annoying kid, in contrast to the previous series' Shuta. While Shuta does contribute by being a Headmaster Jr., Jan is often seen as TheLoad by others.
* SoBadItsGood: Omni Productions made an English dub with the same hilariously-bad voice acting and dialogue as their ''Headmasters'' and ''Masterforce'' dubs.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The fact that the Brainmasters have smaller bodies like the Headmasters and Godmasters of the previous two series is never used in the story, only being featured in StockFootage sequences. Having the characters fight in their smaller forms or simply having Star Saber spend time with Jan in his Brain of Courage form to make himself more relatable to his surrogate son are intriguing possibilities, but they never happened.
* ValuesDissonance:
** Killbison and a human farmer each give the finger a few times. In Japan, at least at the time, the gesture wasn't considered offensive, but it would be completely inappropriate in a kids' show in America and several other countries.
** Jan's public school is run by the Catholic Church, a religious organization in the middle of Europe. This would not be much of a deal in Japan, but in Europe and especially in America, organized religion is not allowed to educate children in a public school. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when one learn that there are several christian schools in Sweden and Schwimmbad School (the school that Jan goes to) is set in the alps.
*** The children mention being forced to clean the school. In Japan, this is a part of life, but in other nations, unless it was a mess that happened by accident, students cannot be forced to aid in school maintenance.
** When Holi is revealed to have a girlfriend, the Micromasters make comments declaring that she is cute and has a great body. While the scene is light hearted and clearly played for comedy, such comments about women would not make it into a kid's show in Japan nowadays, and it wouldn't have gotten into a television show in America in the 80's, let alone today.
** Jan using the computer to complete his homework is depicted in the show as a form of cheating. In todays world, this type of attitude would be seen as incredibly outdated, as most work in school is done on the computer.
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