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Code Prime

Considering that the fanfic adapts the majority of both the Code Geass lore and Transformers lore, it's no doubt going to reference most of those ideas. Just by looking at this page alone, one could clearly see that while Code Geass elements do get referenced a lot of times, the longer history of the Transformers franchise leads itself into a slew of references to that part.

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Code Prime - R1: Rebellion

• The Nemesis crashed on the Earth's moon in the first chapter and serves as the Decepticons base, just like the Mini-Con ship served as their base in Transformers: Armada. The Autobot base being predominantly underwater harkens towards Transformers: Animated.
• The entire concept of the Transformers duking out with robots themed after the Arthurian Legend is reminiscent of the G1 episode "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court". Speaking of the Decepticons, the first contact between a human and a Decepticon (not counting Charles' and Megatron's meeting), has Starscream highly involved in the events, both from the G1 episode and the fic. It is also reminiscent of The Last Knight.
• As listed in the Fridge section, the premise of the crossover and where the Autobots and Decepticons' alignments lie is a reverse of those in the various stories where the Transformers cross over with G.I. Joe. There, the Autobots usually team up with the United States as a major superpower, and the Decepticons team up with the terrorists of Cobra. Not to mention the general morality of the sides, as Cobra is normally presented as the evil ones while the Joes are presented as heroes. In this fic? All of that is turned over its head. There's a bit more ambiguity between both sides (the Black Knights and Britannia) at first. As for allegiances, the Autobots team up with the supposed "terrorists" who are little more than people who have lost their homes rather than the oppressive force, while the Decepticons team up at first with what is supposed to be the United States of America before the alterations in the timeline turn it into the Holy Britannian Empire and are at the crux of their mighty power.
• Despite Energon being blue in most of the Aligned continuity and it being the pinkish Sakuradite contradicting established lore, it is accurate to older continuities (notably G1) where Energon has a pink tint or is pink throughout.
• In an odd twist, this isn't the first time Cybertronians (both Autobot and Decepticon) are on the receiving end of racism. In Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, Giga makes a statement that humans bonded with Transformers (the Godmasters) would make far stronger beings compared to pure ones, essentially saying that humans make better Transformers. The Decepticon Godmasters in the season would often look down on the Pretenders and Headmaster Juniors of said faction, the former especially being purely Cybertronian. In Code Prime however, the Britannians look down on the Transformers because they themselves believe to superior to the concept of Transformers themselves, a view that does sour both Autobot and Decepticon (the latter especially when they destroy Britannia completely).
• In addition to the cast from Prime, Ironhide is a member of the crew of the Ark, as was the case in Generation 1. Similarly, Skywarp and Thundercracker are part of the Nemesis Crew.
  • Also, Ironhide was originally intended to be in the Prime cast but ended up getting dropped because of the film Ironhide's death in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
  • Thundercracker and Skywarp were also both planned to appear in Prime, but they were replaced with Dreadwing and Skyquake respectively.
  • Just like with his film counterpart, after being introduced by Optimus, Ironhide startles Lelouch by pointing his Energon cannons at him, quipping, 'You feeling lucky, punk?'
• Cliffjumper calls Clovis as being "cheesier than Starscream" after the latter's speech. Both Clovis and the WFC/FOC iteration of Starscream are voiced by Sam Riegel.
• Optimus explains to Lelouch that the Autobots learned human languages from studying the Internet. This method was also used in Transformers.
• Kallen and Ohgi's first meeting with Zero and the Autobots in an alleyway is reminiscent of Sam and Mikaela's first meeting with Optimus Prime in Transformers.
• The Autobots and the Purebloods' Mexican Standoff is pretty much reminiscent of the confrontation involving Ironhide and Sideswipe vs. Crankcase and Crowbar from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, with Cliffjumper quoting Sideswipe's lines.
• Optimus' Armor-Piercing Question to Suzaku is a deliberate reference to his question to the Secretary of Defense in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
• In Chapter 6, Starscream tries looking up information on the net on Zero and Optimus, decrying it as "A trillion gigabytes of data, none of it useful!". He made the same remark in the Transformers: Prime episode "New Recruit".
• Megatron berating Thundercracker and Skywarp for their failure by stating that they will be made into spare Knightmare components is threatening enough, but that's before you realize that Transformers came from the Diaclone toyline which featured the robots piloted by miniature pilot figurines (hence, the slots on the original Optimus, Ironhide, and Ratchet toys); that both Seekers originated from the toyline's Jet Robo which had said pilot slots; and how the slots are placed in their chest pieces, the same place where Knightmare cockpits are usually found.
• Megatron allying with Cornelia by claiming that Optimus was spreading slander about the Decepticons is clearly a reference to Bumblebee, where Dropkick and Shatter do the same. This isn't the first time a Megatron incarnation did this either (the G1 Episode "Megatron's Master Plan").
• Cornelia hits Optimus at the same section where Megatron wounded him in the 1986 film, only it was on the right instead of the left.
  • Upon losing the duel, Cornelia swears on her life to kill Optimus Prime amidst their deal. She even declares to have his head on her wall; something Lord Chumley wanted in the original series.
• Rai takes a page out Sam Witwicky's book about 'researching the link between being a Britannian and brain damage' whilst defending the Japanese hot dog seller from five Britannian punks.
• Rai knows about Zero's identity, just like what happened in Lost Colors' Black Knights route.
• While C.C and Bumblebee are trying to go get Zero's mask from Arthur, Bumblebee makes a remark of not expecting to kiss someone (due to the Cat Hunt), which references the infamous Kiss Players.
• In the vein of the usage of high-heat sabot rounds in Transformers, the Autobots and Black Knights utilize super-heated magnesium rounds as Knightmare ammunition as a counter to Cybertronian armor. This is also taken from the game adaptation of the said movie, where the military enemies will proclaim that as well.
  "Switch to magnesium rounds and open fire."
• At the end of Chapter 15, Megatron utters "Let the slaughter begin."
• You can't help watching Tohdoh fight Starscream with the former striking the latter down in the middle of talking and unhear "YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!".
• Megatron's assistance of Charles and V.V. mirrors his interactions with Isaac Sumdac in Transformers: Animated, albeit here, he's more honest with his royal ally about who he is.
• Bumblebee shooting at Villetta to save Lelouch and Shirley is very similar to when Optimus saves Cade Yeager from Harold Attinger from Transformers: Age of Extinction.
• Mao briefly considers trying to get Shirley to kill Zero via manipulating her into doing so in revenge for her father, which is exactly what he tried in canon. Here, though, he realizes she loves Lelouch too much to do so and instead just chloroforms her and uses her as bait and leverage against Lelouch.
• Megatron coercing Suzaku to the Decepticons is reminiscent of Galvatron manipulating Lio Junior, though the Decepticon leader is a bit more dishonest about his motives, rather than Galvatron exerting his "peace through tyranny" ideals to the then-naive young Maximal.
• Shirley's introduction to the Black Knights and the Autobots is lifted almost verbatim from Prime where Jack introduces his mom June to Team Prime.
  Rai: "Shirley, meet our science fiction club."
• Lelouch uses his Geass on Cornelia in Chapter 22 to obtain information on all of Britannia's military operations in Japan. In the episode this was based on, Partners, Megatron was worried that the Autobots would acquire all of the Decepticons' knowledge by capturing Starscream since Airachnid left the former behind.
  • While fighting Anya in the Mordred, Bulkhead ponders about how the youngest of the Knights could have made a decent Wrecker. Thing is, Miko Nakadai from Prime, who also wields a tanky "battlesuit" (Apex Armor), would have some sort of tenure in the Wreckers, with both Miko and Anya being 15-year olds.
  • In that same chapter, Thundercracker and Skywarp casually remark to the Knight of the Round how they would casually abandon their own if they are too damaged or can't keep up. It's quite ironic, given that their G1 selves fell prey to this mentality (depending on your interpretation, both reformatted into Cyclonus and Scourge).
• Mao getting carried off by Shockwave for dissection in Nunnally Held Hostage pretty much mirrors Silas/CYLAS's eventual fate in the Transformers: Prime episode, The Human Factor.
• The close-lived, yet significant relationship between Euphemia and Dreadwing brings to mind two big relationships between high-ranking women and blue Decepticon Seekers. Perhaps the most obvious is Armada Starscream and Alexis, with the human bringing out his best qualities. Both Dreadwing and Armada Starscream even have a similar code of honor and commit a Heroic Sacrifice in the end, while the relationship between Alexis and Euphie is the reverse: Alexis desires to achieve a high-ranking role (president) while Euphie resents her current position due to the events surrounding Lelouch and Nunnally. The other is between Thundercracker and Marissa Faireborn's IDW relationship, also being between a blue-colored Seeker with a code of honor (ironic considering Thundercracker is part of the Code Prime cast and takes until R2 for some of those traits to manifest) and a high-ranking female official (though Faireborn exerted more control and influence than Euphie did both in canon and pre-Code Prime R2). On a lesser note, it's also reminiscent of Powerglide's relationship with Astoria in the G1 episode "The Girl who Loved Powerglide".
• Similar to Jet Optimus' line, Kallen inwardly remarks about Starscream's name after Arcee shoots him down screaming.
• Monica's Knightmare is the Florence - her frame from Code Geass: Oz the Reflection.
• Nonette's Knightmare, the Galeschin, was originally the Lancelot Club. This frame first appeared in Code Geass: Lost Colors and was made Nonette's canon frame in Oz The Reflection.
• This isn't the first time a Megatron incarnation consistently "kills" a supposed immortal, let alone a subordinate. Downplayed since it's Shockwave who does it despite it being an order from Megatron, instead of it being personal.
• V.V.'s experimentation brings to mind the time Sam got experimented on by Scalpel/The Doctor.
  • It also brings to mind Windblade getting hooked to the Cortical Psychic Patch by the Seekers in order to retrieve information, with Slipstream allowing them to kill her as long as they get the info, only this time, there's no real resistance and they do get said information.
• This isn't the first particular time the Autobots received help from a techy scientist of Indian origin.
• Thanks to the Autobots, Ashford Academy also commemorates their deeds with costumes and memorabilia, to the point that the School Festival becomes an In-Universe BotCon.
  • Among the items being sold in the festival are "blurry photographs with a mystery element to it", slightly referencing the iconic rubsigns scattered across various Transformers toys.
• During the time Ohgi introduces Chigusa to Ironhide, the couple slowly inches towards a more romantic conversation before the Autobot interrupts them, warning them not to make a human baby inside him. Adding to the fact that since Ironhide is partially based on his live-action appearance, it's a slight nod to the Michael Bay film series' penchant for crude and sexual humor (Revenge of the Fallen in particular).
• Megatron controlling the Decepticon Pretender drone disguised as Euphemia in Chapter 32 to carry out the SAZ Massacre is reminiscent of the Generation One episode A Prime Problem, where Megatron created a clone of Optimus Prime to lure the Autobots to their doom. It also calls to mind Alice, the human-sized Pretender drone used in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
  • The concept of human skin tearing apart has also been applied in the Transformers canon as well, notably Sari's reveal as a being of Cybertronian origin.
• During the SAZ Massacre, Optimus's takedown of seven Sutherlands with one circular move is reminiscent of his sweeping takedown of the Infernocons in Transformers: The Last Knight.
• Megatron has Hardshell kidnap Milly, Rivalz, and Nina, with the implication he intends to use them as bargaining chips, just like the Decepticons did with Miko, Raf, and Jack in the Season 2 episode of Prime, Regeneration.
• Just like in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Chapter 33 has Megatron declaring his intent on a full-scale assault onto a capital, along with wiping out its corrupt leader and his empire. In this case, Pendragon, Charles Zi Britannia, and the Britannian Empire itself! All complete with the crushing of the displayed hologram!
• Suzaku's character arc in the fic is slightly reminiscent to that of Skyfire's, lulled into the Decepticons by Megatron's convincing.
• When Dreadwing joins the Autobots, he has Ratchet place a bomb in his head that the Autobots can detonate if he betrays them. This was the same method Jetfire had used on him when he joined the Autobots in War for Cybertron: Siege.
• The sacking of Britannia mishmashes parts of the attack on Jasper, the Chicago invasion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the All Hail Megatron comic story and the Autobot City battle in The Transformers: The Movie, with the Decepticons launching a full scale attack on a major city or city-like structure and the Autobots are unable to arrive to battle or at a serious disadvantage, except here, the Autobots are simply dealing with another battle (the Black Rebellion) rather than being completely incapacitated.
  • Much like he did in the 1986 film, Soundwave is ordered to jam transmissions with the aid of his Mini-Cons to stop an enemy from asking for reinforcements. He is successful this time though, as no Britannian force comes to their aid in time and only knew of it once the deed is done.
  • Also just like the movie, the Insecticons play a part in dismantling defenses, though this is a bit downplayed in that the Seekers simply blast their way in, although they do take part in encountering the panicking royals.
  • Even the plot beat of the honorable Decepticon jet fighter who shows disdain for their actions somehow repeats; it's Thundercracker for the comic and Dreadwing for the fanfic (even though, oddly, Thundercracker himself appears).
  • Oddly enough, this isn't the first time Megatron brags along the lines of "Is there no one who could challenge me?" In fact, he did so in the episode Divide and Conquer, and is responded to by Optimus Prime.
  • In the 1986 film, Starscream, after successfully killing some Autobots on the shuttle, fails to land a kill on anyone during the ensuing Autobot City brawl. Here, he has the honor of the first kill of a named character during the entire fight.
  • The scene calls to mind both the Decepticon assault on Chicago (with the Decepticons assaulting a major human city) and the Transformers: Prime Season 2 finale, Darkest Hour, where he launches an assault on Jasper using the Nemesis.
  • Prior to the invasion, a majority of the Decepticon's forces were established on the moon, much like in the 2011 film.
  • When leading the attack, Megatron borrows a line from his Transformers: Animated counterpart as he commands the Decepticons to "Transform and Rise Up". The content of the speech, meanwhile, is clearly based on the one he gave in Darkest Hour from Transformers: Prime.
• Dreadwing's final words to Suzaku, Euphemia, and Cornelia before his death mirror Impactor's dying words to Ratchet.
  Dreadwing: Thank you... for showing me... light.
  • This also brings to mind Armada Starscream, being the blue-colored jet Decepticon who sacrifices himself against an evil force and evokes a mournful reaction from a prominent female human character they grew a strong bond with (Alexis and Euphemia).
  • If you want to take it even further, do note that Dreadwing fights a horde of insect-based Decepticons during this battle. Should you consider Airachnid, then it's no doubt a homage to the original character who codified such an archetype, Dinobot, who fought the Predacons that had insect-based characters Waspinator, Tarantulas, Inferno, Quickstrike, and pre-Heel–Face Turn Blackarachnia.
• Megatron saying, "Come, face the dragon at your door" is a subtle nod to previous incarnations of him having a dragon-based alt-mode.
• Lelouch's situation in the final chapter, which is slowly dying from being exposed to Megatron's Dark Geass, is similar to One Shall Fall when Megatron poisons Raf with a Dark Energon shot from his cannon.
• Nonette, much like Miko in Transformers: Prime, initially mistakes calling "Unicron" as "Unicorn", the same mistake of the Malaysian dub of Transformers: The★Headmasters with Galvatron's Grand Galvatron plan.
  • Also a carryover from Prime, but just like in that show, Unicron is the Earth. Not to mention it becoming a full reference to Transformers: The Last Knight, which was released six years after Prime. However, as it would be seen later, much of the mythos of Code Geass is itself grounded within Unicron as a whole.
• Megatron gaining the Dark Geass is a nod towards other official Transformers crossovers (case in point, G.I. Joe) wherein he upgrades himself by taking in power from the other world being crossed over, except here, it's specific (Megatron gains his tank mode in Generation 2 from the GI Joe crossover).
• Megatron's message to the cosmos towards other Decepticons takes passages from his speech in Transformers: Animated.

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Code Prime - R2: Revolution

• The overall situation on Earth, with the Decepticons effectively ruling the world and the Autobots and Black Knights relegated to lower resistance, echoes Generation One and Beast Machines wherein the Autobots (or Maximals in the latter) are on the losing side of the war, as well as an inverse of Cybertron's situation in Animated, where the Autobots have long won the war and rule over the planet while the Decepticons are relegated to lower patches of the cosmos.
• Even though Zero Requiem will never happen in its normal form in this new canon, something similar did happen in the Transformers universe. In a Collectors Club story featuring Jhiaxus, said character launched an attack against Cybertron that forced both Autobot and Decepticon to unite. Even if it was an indirect result, one can clearly see some parallels between both.
• Decepticons enslaving humans? At least it wasn't somehow under mind control, like what happened with the G1 episode, "The Ultimate Doom". Though this isn't the only crossover where this happened either (this example being far more prevalent).
• The Knights of the Round’s attempt to retake Britannia is lifted directly from the attempt against Emperor Lelouch, albeit with Megatron and Schneizel being their opponents here, and Anya/Marianne taking Monica’s place as the fourth Knight of the Round in the assault (though she survives unlike Monica). Dorothea and Bismarck even have the same last words when Devastator kills them.
• In quite a Take That! to the infamous scene in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen where the Navy destroys Devastator with a railgun attached to a ship that is never somehow explained (well, in the film, the novel explained that the railgun is an advanced anti-N.B.E. weapon which fires a steel projectile at Mach Seven), Bruticus emerges to destroy the Navy before it can lay any dent on Devastator himself, leading to a very swift victory.
• Just like when Transmetal Optimus Primal was fending off Megatron and the Predacons with a shield and returning fire in the Season 2 Episode Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2), it's Bruticus' turn to take that honor, with Alicia Lohmeyer and the Pacific Fleet on the receiving end of the counterattack.
  Bruticus: My turn. (unleashes his flamethrower)
• Devastator and Bruticus being the prominent Combiners here evokes Transformers: Energon's Constructicon Maximus and Bruticus Maximus.
  • Devastator normally uses drills, but his debut appearance has him use his right arm as the drill, bringing to mind his Transformers Zone iteration.
  • Mixmaster is the leader of the Constructions like in Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 where he gave orders to the Constructions and Space Pirates! where he represented the Constructions as part of Soundwave's generals. Scavenger, meanwhile, is the largest of the Constructicons just like in Transformers: Classics, though he forms Devastator's chest piece rather than Devastator's head and chest.
• T-AI has been created and appears in the first chapter.
• Euphemia's Black Knight uniform is the same as C.C.'s from the canonical R2.
• The Autobots and Black Knights having converted the Ark into an underwater city brings to mind the oceanic Cybertron City from Transformers: Energon.
• Lelouch's new Zero outfit, which is armored, is based on his Zero Armor from Nightmare of Nunnally. It also brings to mind Kicker's battlesuit as Chapter 7 shows that it allows Lelouch to combat Knightmares on foot.
• The primary Knightmare pilot characters for this series sans Lelouch: Rai, Kallen, and Suzaku, are colored blue, red, and white respectively. These was the same color configuration for Transformers: Super-God Masterforce's Headmaster Juniors (Shuta, Minerva, and Cab respectively)
• Lugnut, who debuts in the first chapter, was originally planned for Prime as a loyal Decepticon bruiser, but the show creators used Breakdown instead as they wanted another land-based Decepticon besides Knock Out.
  • His first fight scene between him and another Autobot has him fight Bulkhead, his "rival" from Transformers: Animated. The scene draws heavily from the episode "Megatron Rising - Part 2".
• While Suzaku doesn't become the Knight of Seven, his Black Knight uniform does resemble the uniform of a Knight of the Round.
• Knock Out name drops Fortress Maximus at the end of Chapter 2. His phrasing implies that this story's version is a structure like in Animated instead of a living Cybertronian like other continuities. He also mentions Nucleon, the fuel primarily associated with the Action Masters concept.
• Interestingly, Nunnally and Kaguya give Miss X the name Misty Ix which was a name she used when she was undercover as a student.
• When talking about Combiners, Lelouch suggests a hypothetical Combiner made of Bumblebee, Grindcore, Strongarm, and Sideswipe. Said Combiner, Ultra-Bee, is from Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015).
• The experiment involving the infusion of a Burai with Dark Energon is pretty much the equivalent of Agent Simmons infusing Glen's Nokia with Allspark energy from Transformers.
• The Dark Pawns include DNA from Victoria of the Void and Christoph Chamberlain.
• The Headmaster units are piloted by characters from Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally, with the Autobots capturing/rescuing Speed/Alice.
  • Oddly enough, while they are called Headmasters, their overall concept leans more towards Transformers: Super-God Masterforce. In particular, they seem to be a Corrupted Character Copy of the Headmaster Juniors.
  • Additionally, even though all of them have Knightmares resembling those in Gundam Wing, they do a bit of homage to the original Headmasters themselves.
    • Land/Lucretia wields a pair of gatling guns. There isn't exactly a clear cut reference to any Headmaster, although majority of their toys do come with two guns.
    • Power/Dalque utilizes a pair of gauntlets shaped like the head of a dragon. Their length brings to mind Skullcruncher while the more draconic design and the suit's Chinese inspiration ^note The Gundam that serves as the inspiration of the Knightmare has a Chinese motif and a pilot of the same origin evokes the character of Cancer.
    • Refrain/Mao has a Knightmare with batlike wings and psychic abilities; essentially making him Mindwipe with a touch of Fangry(or Wilder depending on preference).
• The hybridization of humans and Cybertronians is reminiscent of MECH's experiment that revived their leader Silas into CyLAS (Cybernetic Lifeform Augmented by Symbiosis) using the deceased remains of Breakdown from Transformers: Prime. It also brings to mind Devil Z's master plan of creating the ultimate life form by merging humans and Transformers.
• Lelouch uses an Omniglobe from the 2005 IDW comics to coordinate the Autobots and Black Knights in Battle for the Ark.
• The first battle between Optimus and Megatron is a sweet homage to the classic Sherman Dam fight in the first episode of the original Generation One cartoon, and it even has the benefit of being an area filled with water.
• Just like with his movie self, Frenzy get decapitated in a fight with humans, only having time to say a swear starting in "oh s-".
• The ending of Chapter 5 sees the Nemesis sink to the bottom of the ocean, much like it did in Generation One.
• Optimus quotes to Arcee in Chapter 6 that with the alliance of Autobots and Black Knights as a united fighting force, they became something greater than an army; a human concept called family. This was mentioned to Ultra Magnus in the Prime episode, Evolution.
• In Chapter 7, Lelouch's upgraded Zero armor includes foot-mounted hover-skates along with arm-mounted Energon blades, much like Sari Sumdac's upgraded self.
• Similar to William Lennox helping to destroy Blackout, Akito disables Ryo's Sutherland by sliding under the mecha's legs and firing his grenade launcher just below the cockpit. Although this is what happens in the canon OVA as well.
• Just like Drift upon witnessing Grimlock transform into his famous Tyrannosaurus Rex mode, Ohgi was expecting a giant car.
• Megatron and Shockwave's Neo Ragnarok plan is almost similar to their plan in Siege, eliminating the free will of all sentient beings as a whole.
• Leila/Lelouch's words to Smilas about his dreams of obtaining power can remind one of Galvatron's final words to Thrust before the latter's demise.
  Galvatron: Thrust, if you dare to have dreams of power... you will be consumed by them.
  Leila/Lelouch: Your dreams of power are only going to consume you, General.
• Shirley talking down Jean over Shin's true motives and desires is somehow done before...a prominent female lead talking things out with the villain's "second-in-command" and said second-in-command would later turn on the main villain. Yep, just replace Shirley, Jean, and Shin with Carly, Megatron, and Sentinel Prime and one might raise an eyebrow at that.
• Just like Knock Out, Swindle finds the way humans... interface to be repulsive, especially with making videos of it for other people to watch.
• Grindcore mentions how he almost called himself Grimlock, because he was such a fan of the Dinobots. In canon, the character's name actually was Grimlock; it was changed to Grindcore for this story to separate the two.
• Some of the locations of the Iacon relics are unchanged from their Prime iterations, although some are. There are some locations that have some form of significance in the Transformers universe.
  • Due to New York not existing in the Code Geass continuity, the location of the Phase Shifter is now Paris. Said city is a prominent setting in some continuities, though it was most featured in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce as the location of the start of Operation M1, where Overlord first attacked to commence the plan.
  • Egypt is the setting of the climax of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, where The Fallen attempts to steal the Matrix of Leadership to power the Harvester and absorb Earth's Sun.
  • Australia is another prominent setting. There was a "Death Tower" and an underwater base, both built by the Decepticons in the original Generation 1 continuity. In the IDW universe, it's where Arcee and Galvatron faced off. And it is also the place whose government collaborated with the USA government to rid the planet of the Autobots.
  • The Great Wall of China was also where Overlord stood and warned the world to surrender in three hours or they will destroy Tokyo. It was also a place where Trypticon attacked in search of Zodiac energy. In a more comedic take, Side Burn crossed the entire wall just to pursue a red car driven by Kelly.
  • The Alps served as a temporary Autobot base to try and contact Grand Maximus. It also served as a hideout for the Junkions and where Optimus relocated Metrotitan in order to observe Junkion negotiations.
  • Chernobyl was the site where Soviet scientists attempted to harness the energy of a fuel cell from the Ark, ending in a failure that resulted in the nuclear meltdown the site was famous for. Decades later, a NEST team along with Optimus Prime entered the area to retrieve it, and were successful amidst an attack from Driller and Shockwave.
    • In fact, the chapter focusing on Chernobyl is a direct homage to this scene. Shockwave plays a major part in it, searching the relic and managing to find it. Not only that, but the Driller is the Cybertronian Relic itself.
• Starscream being indirectly controlled by someone, in this case Geassed, is identical to the time when the Headmaster unit controlled his body for a limited amount of time.
• The Enigma of Combination (from the IDW comics and the Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy) makes its appearance in Valley of Kings and Titans.
• Like in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, Valley of Kings and Titans also has the Autobots and their human compatriots finding a missing super-weapon in Egypt.
  • The Enigma of Combination being in Egypt also ties with the above film, as Egypt was the place the Bayformers continuity debuted its iteration of the Combiner concept (Devastator).
• C.C. kills Refrain/Mao the same way Optimus Prime kills Lockdown, wherein she stabs the Knightmare around the central chest area and slicing upwards, bisecting the head-unit.
• When the Crimson Knights face off against Devastator, Ashley suggests attacking the combiner in the scrotum.
• This isn't the first time someone attempted to brainwash Devastator, as it happened in the Generation One episode The Core. The trouble was, Marrybell wasn't as successful as the dominator disks due to this fanfic's Devastator's Geass Canceler.
• The introduction of Nemesis Prime carries a lot of episodes around it.
  • His activation calls to mind the beginning of The Human Factor.
  • Megatron also using pain to keep an immortal in line harkens to how Beast Wars Megatron kept Rampage in line as a member.
  • Wheeljack on seeing Nemesis Prime asks if his intention was to screw with them and try to frame Optimus like in its Transformers: Prime episode.
  • Nemesis tearing off Warpath's main cannon has vibes of his feral self doing the same thing to Megatron in Transformers: Armada.
  • Bulkhead pounds Nemesis Prime's face while giving an And This Is for... with each strike, like he did to one of Starscream's clones in Armada.
• Ironhide finishes off Blackout in the same manner as Optimus killed Grindor (a Suspiciously Similar Substitute of Blackout) during Revenge of the Fallen, by basically ripping his head off. He even says "Piece of tin" once the deed is done.
• Like his Animated counterpart, Random!Blitzwing says this after he gets his aft kicked in Toxic Nemesis (he gets sent falling down the side of a volcano by Nonette's point-blank shot from the Galeschin's VARIS cannons, while his original self gets sent flying by Omega Supreme's headbutt).
  Random!Blitzwing: Mayday! Mayday! Let's all dance around the maypole!
• The moment Bumblebee attacks Nemesis Prime is taken from Transformers: The Last Knight — with the only difference is that this Nemesis is a separate character instead of a corrupted Optimus.
• The United Federation Of Nations
  • Like with Jazz tuning out half of what Sentinel Prime says, Jean explains to Marika that she does the same thing to Ashley.
  • Optimus says this familiar phrase from Transformers: Dark of the Moon during the UFN charter ratification ceremony.
    Optimus: For today in the name of freedom... we take the battle to them!
  • Like with BW Megatron confronting Terrorsaur, Knock Out has this line upon his leader's unexpected return.
    Knock Out: Well, well, look who's back.
• Damocles Rises:
  • The core Knightmare pilots of the Autobots recently got the ability to combine their Knightmares, particularly with pairs. It's a small reference to Jetfire and Jetstorm... and a bigger one to Transformers: Energon's Powerlinx mechanic. Said reference to the anime is no exaggeration when, as of the chapter, only the Autobots and Black Knights have access to it.
  • Bumblebee calls out Megatron for taking his voice, and Suzaku follows up with him telling the Decepticon leader that he will never take anything from anyone ever again. These were the lines Bumblebee uttered during the finale of Transformers: Prime as he stabbed Megatron... in a similar way Suzaku stabbed Lelouch during the finale of Code Geass.
• The Demon and Dragon Cometh
  • Sky-Byte didn't like it when Starscream slowly usurps the position of his master Megatron. In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, he too didn't like it when his position got usurped by Scourge.
  • The entire Damocles segment just screams the midpoint of Transformers: The Movie (pun intended), with completely identical dialogue
    • The introduction dialogue is almost verbatim, complete with the Constructicons sounding trumpets. One can just put the coronation theme from the movie on play and it would be completely identical.
    • Megatron comes to crash the party as usual, but Anticlea gives the "Who dares disrupt my coronation" speech. This is then followed by the standard "Bad Comedy" line, but remarks that it's no longer humorous at all. It's more or less becoming a tendency for modern Transformers stories to try and not reference the movie at any tendency, though it sometimes cannot be helped at times. It also doubles as a Continuity Nod, as Starscream had attempted to crown himself leader after Megatron went offline in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
    • Starscream disintegrates after being severely discolored, only it's the color of Cosmic Rust rather than the white ashes he became in the movie.
  • Megatron taunts Lelouch, telling him to surrender and live, or fight and die.
  • Thundercracker is the last of the male Seekers to survive at this point, referencing his status in the 2005 IDW continuity; still alive and having outlived his fellow Seekers to the point of even getting a screenwriting award.
  • The Vehicon that defected over the Autobots and Black Knights is dubbed "ST-3V3", later referred to by Kallen as "Steve". This was the Fan Nickname given to a Vehicon who was executed when he gave an offer Starscream refused (and in some form of spite, this is revealed the same chapter Starscream is killed.
• The New Prime
  • Omega's alt-form being depicted as a larger ship is akin to his Animated incarnation.
• The Calm Before the Storm
  • Megatron's ultimate goal with Neo Ragnarök is to outright turn all life, organic and Cybertronian alike, across the universe into extensions of himself, is similar to Beast Machines Megatron's plan to do something similar with just Cybertron.
• Forward, The Light Brigade
  • Megatron's defensive plan is to raise a large legion of terrorcons using the fallen of Cybertron. Which actually was his original grand plan in the Five-Episode Pilot of Transformers Prime.
• One Shall Fall
  • Grimlock drops the same line that Optimus did in Transformers: Dark of the Moon when killing Shockwave.
    Grimlock: YOU DIE!
  • Jeremiah's confrontation with Shockwave is practically identical to his battle against Anya in R2, right down to the dialogue.
  • Soundwave dies similarly to how his Dark of the Moon incarnation does; shot in the chest.
  • Megatron killing Lelouch, and Lelouch being brought back by the Primes, is similar to what happened to Sam Witwicky in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
    • Being killed by Megatron and then revived soon after is what also happened to Bumblebee in Deadlock. And like Bumblebee, Lelouch ultimately kills Megatron by stabbing him with the Star Saber.
    • Megatron slowly being erased from existence after the finishing blow is struck mirrors the fate Charles' suffered in canon after Lelouch Geassed the Collective Unconsciousness to stop his and Marianne's plans.
• One Shall Rise
  • Optimus's closing transmitted speech to all Cybertronians is similar to the one given at the end of Transformers with some elements from the closing speech from the "Darkness Rising" five-parter from Transformers: Prime.
  • Beleth's rant opens with dialogue mirrored from BW Megatron's Villainous Breakdown from Code of Hero, though he wasn't as loud as the latter.
    Beleth: So close...! I was so close!
  • Unicron absorbing Victor, Megatron, and Beleth while dissolving them into grid-like structures takes many cues from the final scene of Kingdom where he does likewise to Nemesis Prime and Galvatron. The Chaos Bringer's last words are also similar to that show's counterpart.

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