The Starscream we see in Prime is a clone
The Starscream we see here and the last game seem more competent and physically stronger than the one we seen on Earth, not to mention having a different voice.
- It could explain why Prime Starscream doesn't seem to know much about Dark Energon.
- Alternatively it is Shockwave in disguise explaining the different voice.
- This troper has to argue at what the OP considers "competent". Prime Starscream's plans actually make sense and he knows when to quit while he's ahead, where Cybertron Starscream arrested a fellow Decepticon because he disobeyed him after his screwed up his own plans due to his ego and impatience. Not to mention both are actually capable fighters, depending on the scenario.
- Then explain of he still remains with Megatron despite being smashed into a control panel by Grimlock. Speaking of, why would Megatron keep Starscream around he stole his rank and backstabbed him?
- He was in Shockwave's lab, so perhaps he was made into another "experiment"?
Bumblebee's injuries in Fall of Cybertron is the reason he's mute in Prime
Assuming they're staying true to the original
Word Of God declaration of
Transformers: War for Cybertron and
Transformers Prime being in the same universe, then Bumblebee's not going to die from them. So it could be that Bumblebee's injuries in
FoC might be a means to explain the more movie-esque idea of making Bumblebee mute and using sounds to communicate.
- Though we don't see the act (unless we count the trailer), it's pretty much confirmed, I'd say.
One or more of Soundwave's cassettes will die in this game
He was shown to be quite protective of them in WFC. One of them dying would have to be the reason why he's so stoic in
Transformers Prime.
- Possibly more than one, given his only Deployer in Prime is Laserbeak...
The game will involve finding other Cybertronian artifacts, such as the Key to Vector Sigma
Optimus has the Key to Vector Sigma in
Transformers Prime, and WFC shows him acquiring the Matrix of Leadership. Given they are trying to escape the planet they are probably looking for everything of value they can take with them.
- Jossed: Artifacts aren't the case in Fall of Cybertron, only Energon for the Ark. A different story could be said about the Decepticons, if you consider the Space Bridge an artifact.
Guesses on who might die.
Since the game is obviously going for a
darker and edgier approach, might as well guess who is going to die. Don't like mine, than guess your own.
Autobots:
- Perceptor: Maybe the Decepticons attack a lab he's in and kill him.
- Jossed, he shows up in Transformers: Exiles, a sequel novle. Sort of.
- Jazz: Might end up dying at the hands of Megatron or Shockwave as a Sacrificial Lion.
- Well, it wouldn't be the first time.
- Jossed, he shows up in Transformers: Exiles, a sequel novle. Sort of.
- Warpath: Killed by Brawl in combat.
- Jossed. He survives the mission he is in, but never shows up after.
- Metroplex: Would probably die to save the Autobots. He'll certainly be stuck on Cybertron for some time at least.
Decepticons:
- Shockwave: He's going to create the Dinobots. That probably won't end well.
- He's set to appear in Prime, so I doubt he'll die, but there still is the Broad Strokes issue. That and he might just appear in a flashback, but be dead in the present.
- He may still be alive at the time of the show, as the summary for the Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots tie-in comic mentions Shockwave alongside Grimlock and his crew in the present tense.
- at the moment it looks like he's dead though
- Likely a Disney Death if anything. How many bots have survived being torn to pieces and come back? And he can fly in his alt mode. Besides, an audio tape/holo projector show Shockwave designing his would be trademark blaster, fitted to his left arm. Which limb did Grimlock eat again?
- The left arm. Shouldn't really make any difference, though, since it's established early on that weapons can easily be switched from one arm to the other.
- The solicitation for the comic explicitly says that Grimlock and Shockwave are alive and play a role in the story. I'm pretty sure they're okay.
Combaticons: Will probably die as
Bruticus or individually.
- appears confirmed, is knocked off the Ark while in space, but he might have survived
- Seems that the Combaticons survive in the Dinobot comics.
Onslaught: Probably will end up in battle with Optimus or Ironhide.
Vortex: An attempt to torture an Autobot could go south.
Brawl: Might charge headfirst into the main Autobots.
Swindle: May end up double crossing someone he shouldn't in a deal.
Blast Off: May have a large dogfight with the Arielbots.
- Optimus Prime: Not like it wouldn't be expected. He hasn't had his inevitable death/resurrection in this continuity yet.
- Jetfire: He actually will die in the manner he almost did in WFC (getting gunned down by Trypticon).
- Jossed. Survives the Trypticon/Nemises assault on the Ark.
We will learn why Breakdown looks the way his does in
Prime.
It'd just be interesting to see how he went from a
a coward to
a bruiser.
- Likely involving Shockwave experimenting on him at some point, possibly as a test subject.
We will learn why Soundwave is mute and why his design is different in
Prime.
- Jazz put a cannon to Soundwave's chest and then boom! Little bits of Soundwave went everywhere. He'll probably be rebuilt sans voice/face.
- Partly Jossed. This scene happened in the trailer. In the actual gameplay (specifically in a part that happens after the trailer), Soundwave is alive and well, even speaking and telling Rumble to attack a few Autobots.
- Jossed by Word Of God. By the time of Prime, the notion is that Soundwave can talk, but just chooses not to (which is why certain characters even give him chances to speak up, only for him to remain silent).
- Still, why would he look different?
- This is Transformers. Characters receiving new and sometimes drastically different appearances is nothing unusual. Plus, said changes have been seen to happen in time periods of half a decade or less in-universe and the games do take place millions of years prior to modern day. Plenty of time to pass for Soundwave to take on a new form and take on his new "no talking" lifestyle. Though Broad Strokes most likely comes into place somewhere.
The Insecticons (Kickback, Hardshell, and Sharpshot) will be a
Wolfpack Boss for a level where you play as a Wrecker.
The fight would leave Kickback and Sharpshot dead and Hardshell out for revenge against Wreckers. He then might hunt down and kill one in his own level.
- Jossed. There's no mention of the Wreckers, but Hardshell and Sharpshot are killed by Grimlock.
- Hardshell and Kickback only seemed to be knocked out (and besides, Hardshell appears in Prime, so he had to have lived); Sharpshot, on the other hand, was pretty explicitly killed.
There will be several cases of
The Other Darrin in order to try and align the continuity with
Prime, with other characters showing up from Prime later.
While it's clearly not happening with Ratchet, Jetfire, Warpath, Ironhide, Shockwave, Megatron, or Starscream (who have kept their voice actors from WFC), we could hear Arcee's Prime VA, Sumalee Montano, show up at some stage. Some members of the Wreckers could also show up, such as Bulkhead and Wheeljack. (Optimus doesn't count as
Peter Cullen is in both the game and TFP, and Soundwave has no voice actor in TFP so far, so he doesn't count either). Jetfire, Warpath and Ironhide are also not due to appear in Prime (yet).
- Wheeljack's been confirmed.
Alpha Trion will make some kind of appearance.
When Optimus activates a Teletraan terminal, it erroneously calls him Orion Pax, a sign that the developers are trying to tie the game with
Prime.
And following media trilogy conventions, it'll be the only game without a
Downer Ending.
When Starscream defects,
the Combaticons will follow.
Promotional materials say that
Starscream will attempt a coup Big suprise. Having the Combaticons on his side will mimic the original TV show, which the video games have a fun time referencing. They are also seen working together in several of those promotional materials. Onslaught will probably be
The Dragon.
- Jossed, the Combaticons clearly hate him and are glad to see Megatron throw him out.
The third game in the series will be called "Welcome to Earth"
...and (possibly in flashback) finish the bridging between WFC and Prime.
- Considering the Sequel Hook with the abrupt end of the game, it's no doubt they'll end this series as a trilogy with the final gap filled between Cybertron and Prime.
Grimlock survived the game's events and will return in the sequel.
- Matt Tieger made a personal push to get him in the game, I doubt he'd have him killed off.
The third game will have focus on the lost colonies of Cybertron.
It would have some basis from the novel, Transformers Exiles.
The Autobots and Decepticons will travel to different worlds after surviving the space bridge collapse. This will let us play as new characters and types of Transformers from Velocitron and Junkion.
- It will end, of course, with them going to Earth.
The third game will feature Fortress Maximus.
The first two games already used Omega Supreme and Metroplex (the other two Autobot giants), so...
- In response, the Decepticons will have Scorponok, who will be fought by Grimlock in a boss battle— thus finally following up on Grimlock's Hall of Fame bio, which mentions him having some kind of grudge toward a heretofore unseen Aligned-verse Scorponok.
The third game will introduce the second generation characters.
Referring to
The Movie protagonists: Hot Rod, Ultra Magnus, Kup, Arcee and Blur.
When Soundwave rebuilt Megatron...
It wasn't really Megatron. It was a clone. Why would I say this? Mostly because I find Metroplex
crushing Megs to only a hand and soundwave
being able to rebuild him kinda odd. Plus it's extremely convenient that it happens right when Starscream is about to be made
Decepti King.
