YMMV / The Transformers: Till All Are One

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • In the final issue, Windblade is horrified to learn of the Cold Construction of sparks, which lent itself to a lot of different interpretations especially since the backstory in MTMTE was that difference between Cold Construction and forging was largely socially created. Windblade opines that the process goes deeper than that as rather than Forging where the robot takes shape with the spark, Cold Constructed bots are forced into roles that the ruling class decreed for them. This can mean a number of different things:
    • Cold Construction really was a bad thing in Cybertronian society. It was indicative of the far too rapid growth and unfair living conditions of the populace. Bots constructed cold were denied identity and had their futures taken away.
    • It's another sign of how decadent the ruling class of Cybertron was as they built an entire class of people to serve them and even with that service still created laws to discriminate against them. I.E. CC was a bad thing only because it was implemented by bad people and regardless the people created from it aren't any different than forged mechs.
    • Windblade's naive cultural background is just making her needlessly judgmental on Cybertronian birth. There's nothing really wrong with Cold Construction save for the way the elites abused it. When asked, Scott stated that the scene was written with Deliberate Values Dissonance in full effect, noting Windblade's viewpoint may just be limited.
• Character Rerailment:
  • Brawl drops his Adaptational Intelligence as a charismatic murderer and returns to the Dumb Muscle he is known to be.
  • Onslaught has spent his entire IDW tenure being overshadowed by the other Combaticons. Swindle's been the main force to be reckoned with in the Decepticon army, Vortex got to be a cool badass back when they were working in North Korea, heck even Brawl stood out during Galvatron's earth offensive. Here however Onslaught's back on top as the strategist he's meant to be.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: TAAO manages to pick up the slack in a lot of areas Windblade had trouble in. The move to the ensemble cast takes the pressure off of Windblade who needed to carry the book by herself and gives Scott more room for her character writing which is one of her self-admitted strengths. The pacing is much better when compared to Volume 2 as this book isn't going to be shuffled off for another. It works quite well with the crossover, Titans Return, especially when the previous Windblade series was dragged down by its crossover with Combiner Wars.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: When Starscream is blackmailing Windblade with Chromia's crime, she gets angry when he twists the facts and says she murdered three people in addition to trying to start a coup against the government, the latter part being false. However that's quite a step down from what she did try to do which was to have Metroplex teleport; an act that could have potentially killed hundreds of other Cybertronians.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The Badgeless's Police Brutality and the subsequent protests are in all likelihood supposed to echo police shootings that have received widespread recognition in the new 10s and movements such as Black Lives Matter. In the comic the shooting that kicks off the whole event is a False Flag Operation by Decepticons shooting their own to cause controversy and the one's being oppressed by the police have spent the last few million years being Space Nazis. The metaphor can get kind of lost in the scuffle and people have drawn their own conclusions.