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* CompositeCharacter: Normally, Sentinel is Optimus Prime's immediate predecessor, but Nominus takes that role in this series, having succeeded Sentinel after killing him.


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* KlingonPromotion: He was able to worm his way into the title of Prime by killing his immediate predecessor, Sentinel, thanks to cutting a deal with the Quintessons.
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In as much as a different alt-mode can be consider a different species, but Bumblebee normally transforms into so manner of car for his alt-mode. Here, he turns into a motorcycle, similar to the ''Animated'' version of Prowl and the ''Aligned'' version of Arcee.

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Nominus Prime's predecessor.
* AssholeVictim: Given that he established the caste system in the first place, very few people mourn him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the entire Functionist plotline.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time of the prequel, ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'', via a suspiscious explosion. [[spoiler: Like Judas Thereupon Kissed eventually reveals Nominus Prime was behind it.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only mentioned off hand a couple of times, and dies off-page without any main characters confronting him, but his actions eventually lead to the rise of the Decepticons.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When Zeta Prime died, Sentinel reworked Zeta's emergency rationing system and reconstruction of Cybertron, and create a caste system that would form the backbone of the Functionist's philosophy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His attempts to colonize [[DeathWorld Tsieshi]], ultimately lead to Megatron meeting the Fallen, and the eventual rise of the Decepticons. Not that he lived to see it.
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!!Nominus Prime
Optimus Prime's predecessor as the leader of Cybertron.

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Nominus Prime's predecessor.
* AssholeVictim: Given that he
predecessor, who established the caste system in the first place, very few people mourn him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the entire Functionist plotline.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time of the prequel, ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'', via a suspiscious explosion. [[spoiler: Like Judas Thereupon Kissed eventually reveals Nominus Prime was behind it.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only mentioned off hand a couple of times, and dies off-page without any main characters confronting him, but his actions eventually lead to the rise of the Decepticons.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When Zeta Prime died, Sentinel reworked Zeta's emergency rationing system and reconstruction of Cybertron, and create a
Cybertron's caste system that would form the backbone of the Functionist's philosophy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His attempts
go on to colonize [[DeathWorld Tsieshi]], ultimately lead to Megatron meeting the Fallen, and the eventual rise of the Decepticons. Not that he lived to see it.
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!!Nominus Prime
Optimus Prime's predecessor as the leader of Cybertron.
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* AssholeVictim: Given that he established the caste system that became the source of our heroes' problems in the first place, very few people mourn him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's this to the entire Functionist plotline, given that he created the caste system that would give rise to the Functionist party.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time of the prequel, ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'', via a suspicious explosion. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed Nominus Prime was behind it]].
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only mentioned off hand a couple of times and dies off-page without any main characters confronting him, but his actions eventually lead to the rise of the Decepticons.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When Zeta Prime died, Sentinel reworked Zeta's emergency rationing system and reconstruction of Cybertron, creating a caste system that would form the backbone of the Functionist's philosophy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His attempts to colonize [[DeathWorld Tsieshi]], ultimately lead to Megatron meeting the Fallen, and the eventual rise of the Decepticons. Not that he lived to see it.
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!!Nominus Prime
Optimus Prime's predecessor as the leader of Cybertron.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Tells off Rose and Gil for harassing Yang very early on, [[and is later HORRIFIED when she accidentally impales Yang on her saber]].

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Tells off Rose and Gil for harassing Yang very early on, [[and [[spoiler: and is later HORRIFIED when she accidentally impales Yang on her saber]].


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!!Sentinel Prime
Nominus Prime's predecessor.
* AssholeVictim: Given that he established the caste system in the first place, very few people mourn him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the entire Functionist plotline.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time of the prequel, ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'', via a suspiscious explosion. [[spoiler: Like Judas Thereupon Kissed eventually reveals Nominus Prime was behind it.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only mentioned off hand a couple of times, and dies off-page without any main characters confronting him, but his actions eventually lead to the rise of the Decepticons.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When Zeta Prime died, Sentinel reworked Zeta's emergency rationing system and reconstruction of Cybertron, and create a caste system that would form the backbone of the Functionist's philosophy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His attempts to colonize [[DeathWorld Tsieshi]], ultimately lead to Megatron meeting the Fallen, and the eventual rise of the Decepticons. Not that he lived to see it.
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* TheStarscream: Cut a deal with the Quintessons in order to kill Sentinel Prime and take control of Cybertron.
* UnwittingPawn: To the Quintessons.


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* FantasticRacism: Looks down on Mini-Cons, Beastformers, and non-Cybertronian life as lesser species.

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* AbusiveParents: He's Arcee's creator/father, and he's not only immensely vindictive of her, but he also plans to lobotomize her and even [[spoiler:attempts to have her killed alongside her daughter]]. Suffice to say, the bot is a horrible father.
* AdaptationalUgliness: In most continuities, Jhiaxus looks pretty average by Cybertronian standards. Here, he's based off Starscream's live-action film incarnation, and is much more unpleasant to look at as a result.



* HateSink: Designed to be more despicable than Adam Taurus.
* MadScientist: Deconstructed. While he's noted to have created some weaponry for the Functionists [[spoiler: such as the Plasma Energy Cannon]], his scientist traits are mostly an InformedAttribute at the current point. The Autobots even explicitly refer to him as a pseudoscientist. The closest we currently have to him practicing science is fantasizing about "reprogramming" Gauge, implying his scientific side is more about indulging his own sadism than making any meaningful progress in his field.

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* GruesomeGrandparent: All his hatred and abuse of his daughter just as much applies to his granddaughter, Gauge, whom he also [[spoiler:attempts to have killed]].
* HateSink: Designed He's a creepy, sleazy, sexist, bigoted CorruptPolitician who openly desires to lobotomize Arcee and goes on to [[spoiler:hire Lockdown murder Gauge]] out of pure spite. WordOfGod even states that he's deliberately written to be as unlikable as possible, and later stating that he's more or less the answer to whether it's possible for someone to be more despicable repugnant than Adam Taurus.
''Adam Taurus''.
* MadScientist: Deconstructed. While he's noted to have created some weaponry for the Functionists [[spoiler: such [[spoiler:such as the Plasma Energy Cannon]], his scientist traits are mostly an InformedAttribute at the current point. The Autobots even explicitly refer to him as a pseudoscientist. The closest we currently have to him practicing science is fantasizing about "reprogramming" Gauge, implying his scientific side is more about indulging his own sadism than making any meaningful progress in his field.

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[[folder:Shatter]]
!!Shatter
A Decepticon triple-changer and interrogation officer assigned to locate the Ark on Remnant.

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!!Shatter
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[[folder:Megatron]]
!!Megatron/Megatronous II/D-16
The ruler of the
Decepticon triple-changer Empire and interrogation officer assigned to locate one who started the Ark on Remnant.Great War.



* BrainsAndBrawn: She's the brains to Dropkick's brawn.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She can certainly act civil with others, but as her ordering Dropkick to rip off Yang's arm slowly and painfully shows, she's just as sadistic and cruel as her partner.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Ruby a psychopath for [[spoiler:killing Dropkick]]. She ''really'' isn't one to talk.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does ''Shatter'' even sound like a name that implies friendliness?
* StarterVillain: The BigBad of Volume 1.
* TookALevelInJerkass: We see in ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'' that she wasn't always the vile, sadistic bot she is today, as there was once a time where she was genuinely meek and kind.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: She's ArmCannon: Similar to other incarnations of his character, he has his Fusion Cannon. An extremely devastating weapon made from the brains remains of the Fallen, who was a Prime.
* BrokenPedestal: B-127/Bumblebee used
to Dropkick's brawn.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She can certainly act civil
be Megatron's biggest supporter when he first joined the Ascenticons. However, that pedestal was vaporized with others, but as her ordering Dropkick to rip off Yang's arm slowly and painfully shows, she's just as sadistic and cruel as her partner.
a Fusion Cannon when he killed Orion in cold blood.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls EpicFlail: His main weapon is his Energon Mace, which is actually a flail. Ruby a psychopath derides him for [[spoiler:killing Dropkick]]. She ''really'' isn't one not knowing the difference between a mace and a flail.
* FreudianExcuse: Left
to talk.
die on a DeathWorld with no hope of escape, found by the exiled sociopath of the Primes, and raised to have a MightMakesRight mentality that would drive him off the tipping point.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does ''Shatter'' FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from a nameless soldier abandoned on a DeathWorld to die to a champion gladiator in the Kaon Colosseum and would later go on to become the leader of the Decepticons who devastated his own home planet and conquered many more.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He has no direct involvement in the main plot on Remnant, but he's the leader of the Decepticons and the reason the war happened.
* GreenEyedMonster: One of the big contributing factors leading to Cybertron's devastation was his envy that Orion was chosen to wield the Matrix of Leadership and not him.
* LegacyCharacter: The Fallen/Megatronous passed his name on to him, and his remains were turned into Megatron's Fusion Cannon.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims that he wants to put an end to the Cybertronian caste systems and bring equality, but his envy towards Orion reveals that he's really after the Matrix and his true motive is the acquisition of power. This is
even sound like shown before he went full megalomaniac, as when B-127 explained why he wanted to attend a name charity tailgate for repairing Outer Iacon, Megatron only cared for the tactical value the city could hold if repaired, not the bots that implies friendliness?
* StarterVillain: The BigBad of Volume 1.
* TookALevelInJerkass: We see in ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'' that she wasn't always the vile, sadistic bot she is today, as there was once a time where she was genuinely meek and kind.
lived there.



[[folder:Dropkick]]
!!Dropkick
Shatter's partner, expert torturer, triple-changer, and the muscle of the duo.

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!!Dropkick
Shatter's partner, expert torturer, triple-changer, and the muscle
[[folder:Starscream]]
!!Starscream
The Air Commander
of the duo.Decepticons and Megatron's First Lieutenant, as well as Shatter and Dropkick's superior while on Remnant.



* AxCrazy: The sadistic glee he expresses when slaughtering the White Fang and his ColdBloodedTorture of Yang show what a psychopath this guy is.
* BrainsAndBrawn: He's the brawn to Shatter's brains.
* TheDreaded: He's this towards Yang. His disturbing torture of her has made him a walking, talking TraumaButton for her.
* FallenHero: Well, not exactly 'hero', but before the war, he was a vigilante alongside the first members of the Wreckers. These days, he's a massive psychopath and torturer for the Decepticons.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Was once just a young bot that wanted nothing more than to be a doctor, only to have to turn to crime to try and fund that dream. After he was inevitably caught, he ended up on the path that led him into the Decepticons.
* OffWithHisHead: In Chapter 15 of Volume 1, [[spoiler:Ruby kills him by using Crescent Rose to take his head off]].
* SmarterThanYouLook: He may be the brawn in his dynamic with Shatter, but he actually has a strong grasp on medical knowledge, to the point where he helped ''invent'' the Triple Changer upgrade alongside Blitzwing and Springer. Then again, his job revolves around torturing others, and being medically inclined would allow him to make the pain last longer. Winter's Spotlight chapter reveals that he once had genuine ambitions towards becoming a doctor back on Cybertron, and only failed to do so because he got arrested trying to fund his training rather than due to lack of skill.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: His dismissal of humans as weak [[spoiler:allows Ruby to kill him]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His job. Bumblebee states that his primary job is to execute prisoners when they are no longer of use.
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!!Starscream
The Air Commander of the Decepticons and Megatron's First Lieutenant, as well as Shatter and Dropkick's superior while on Remnant.
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!!Sideways
A Decepticon spy that has managed to infiltrate the Autobots.

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[[folder:Sideways]]
!!Sideways
[[folder:Shatter]]
!!Shatter
A Decepticon spy that has managed triple-changer and interrogation officer assigned to infiltrate locate the Autobots.Ark on Remnant.



* EvilCounterpart: Like Bumblebee, his vehicle form is a motorcycle with black and yellow coloration, even having a female human companion, but he is a willing Decepticon agent.
* TheMole: A Decepticon agent in the Autobot ranks, he's the one who sabotaged Optimus' stasis pod and stole one of the Omega Keys, only to end up crashing in stasis himself due to the God of Darkness blowing up Remnant's moon.

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* EvilCounterpart: Like Bumblebee, his vehicle form is a motorcycle BrainsAndBrawn: She's the brains to Dropkick's brawn.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She can certainly act civil
with black others, but as her ordering Dropkick to rip off Yang's arm slowly and yellow coloration, painfully shows, she's just as sadistic and cruel as her partner.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Ruby a psychopath for [[spoiler:killing Dropkick]]. She ''really'' isn't one to talk.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Does ''Shatter''
even having sound like a female human companion, but he is a willing Decepticon agent.
name that implies friendliness?
* TheMole: A Decepticon agent StarterVillain: The BigBad of Volume 1.
* TookALevelInJerkass: We see
in ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed'' that she wasn't always the Autobot ranks, he's the one who sabotaged Optimus' stasis pod vile, sadistic bot she is today, as there was once a time where she was genuinely meek and stole one of the Omega Keys, only to end up crashing in stasis himself due to the God of Darkness blowing up Remnant's moon.kind.



[[folder:Megatron]]
!!Megatron/Megatronous II/D-16
The ruler of the Decepticon Empire and one who started the Great War.

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[[folder:Megatron]]
!!Megatron/Megatronous II/D-16
The ruler
[[folder:Dropkick]]
!!Dropkick
Shatter's partner, expert torturer, triple-changer, and the muscle
of the Decepticon Empire and one who started the Great War.duo.



* ArmCannon: Similar to other incarnations of his character, he has his Fusion Cannon. An extremely devastating weapon made from the remains of the Fallen, who was a Prime.
* BrokenPedestal: B-127/Bumblebee used to be Megatron's biggest supporter when he first joined the Ascenticons. However, that pedestal was vaporized with a Fusion Cannon when he killed Orion in cold blood.
* EpicFlail: His main weapon is his Energon Mace, which is actually a flail. Ruby derides him for not knowing the difference between a mace and a flail.
* FreudianExcuse: Left to die on a DeathWorld with no hope of escape, found by the exiled sociopath of the Primes, and raised to have a MightMakesRight mentality that would drive him off the tipping point.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from a nameless soldier abandoned on a DeathWorld to die to a champion gladiator in the Kaon Colosseum and would later go on to become the leader of the Decepticons who devastated his own home planet and conquered many more.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He has no direct involvement in the main plot on Remnant, but he's the leader of the Decepticons and the reason the war happened.
* GreenEyedMonster: One of the big contributing factors leading to Cybertron's devastation was his envy that Orion was chosen to wield the Matrix of Leadership and not him.
* LegacyCharacter: The Fallen/Megatronous passed his name on to him, and his remains were turned into Megatron's Fusion Cannon.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims that he wants to put an end to the Cybertronian caste systems and bring equality, but his envy towards Orion reveals that he's really after the Matrix and his true motive is the acquisition of power. This is even shown before he went full megalomaniac, as when B-127 explained why he wanted to attend a charity tailgate for repairing Outer Iacon, Megatron only cared for the tactical value the city could hold if repaired, not the bots that lived there.

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* ArmCannon: Similar to other incarnations of AxCrazy: The sadistic glee he expresses when slaughtering the White Fang and his character, he ColdBloodedTorture of Yang show what a psychopath this guy is.
* BrainsAndBrawn: He's the brawn to Shatter's brains.
* TheDreaded: He's this towards Yang. His disturbing torture of her
has his Fusion Cannon. An extremely devastating weapon made from him a walking, talking TraumaButton for her.
* FallenHero: Well, not exactly 'hero', but before
the remains war, he was a vigilante alongside the first members of the Fallen, who was Wreckers. These days, he's a Prime.
* BrokenPedestal: B-127/Bumblebee used to be Megatron's biggest supporter when he first joined
massive psychopath and torturer for the Ascenticons. However, that pedestal was vaporized with a Fusion Cannon when he killed Orion in cold blood.
* EpicFlail: His main weapon is his Energon Mace, which is actually a flail. Ruby derides him for not knowing the difference between a mace and a flail.
* FreudianExcuse: Left to die on a DeathWorld with no hope of escape, found by the exiled sociopath of the Primes, and raised to have a MightMakesRight mentality that would drive him off the tipping point.
Decepticons.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from Was once just a nameless soldier abandoned on a DeathWorld to die to a champion gladiator in the Kaon Colosseum and would later go on to become the leader of the Decepticons who devastated his own home planet and conquered many more.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He has no direct involvement in the main plot on Remnant, but he's the leader of the Decepticons and the reason the war happened.
* GreenEyedMonster: One of the big contributing factors leading to Cybertron's devastation was his envy
young bot that Orion wanted nothing more than to be a doctor, only to have to turn to crime to try and fund that dream. After he was chosen to wield inevitably caught, he ended up on the Matrix of Leadership and not him.
* LegacyCharacter: The Fallen/Megatronous passed his name on to him, and his remains were turned
path that led him into Megatron's Fusion Cannon.
the Decepticons.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: OffWithHisHead: In Chapter 15 of Volume 1, [[spoiler:Ruby kills him by using Crescent Rose to take his head off]].
* SmarterThanYouLook:
He claims that may be the brawn in his dynamic with Shatter, but he wants to put an end actually has a strong grasp on medical knowledge, to the Cybertronian caste systems point where he helped ''invent'' the Triple Changer upgrade alongside Blitzwing and bring equality, but Springer. Then again, his envy towards Orion job revolves around torturing others, and being medically inclined would allow him to make the pain last longer. Winter's Spotlight chapter reveals that he's really after the Matrix he once had genuine ambitions towards becoming a doctor back on Cybertron, and only failed to do so because he got arrested trying to fund his true motive training rather than due to lack of skill.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: His dismissal of humans as weak [[spoiler:allows Ruby to kill him]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His job. Bumblebee states that his primary job
is the acquisition of power. This is even shown before he went full megalomaniac, as to execute prisoners when B-127 explained why he wanted to attend a charity tailgate for repairing Outer Iacon, Megatron only cared for the tactical value the city could hold if repaired, not the bots that lived there.they are no longer of use.



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[[folder:Winter Schnee]]
!!Specialist Winter Schnee
A specialist in the Atlas military, who was sent to the island of Patch to investigate the resurgence of an object supposedly from the Great War.

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[[folder:Winter Schnee]]
!!Specialist Winter Schnee
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!!Sideways
A specialist in Decepticon spy that has managed to infiltrate the Atlas military, who was sent to the island of Patch to investigate the resurgence of an object supposedly from the Great War.Autobots.


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* EvilCounterpart: Like Bumblebee, his vehicle form is a motorcycle with black and yellow coloration, even having a female human companion, but he is a willing Decepticon agent.
* TheMole: A Decepticon agent in the Autobot ranks, he's the one who sabotaged Optimus' stasis pod and stole one of the Omega Keys, only to end up crashing in stasis himself due to the God of Darkness blowing up Remnant's moon.
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[[folder:Winter Schnee]]
!!Specialist Winter Schnee
A specialist in the Atlas military, who was sent to the island of Patch to investigate the resurgence of an object supposedly from the Great War.
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* TheNaythiest: Does not believe in any gods other than himself, which leads to him butting heads with Heretech.

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* TheNaythiest: NayTheist: Does not believe in any gods other than himself, which leads to him butting heads with Heretech.



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[[folder: The Thing in the Underbase]]
!!The Thing in the Underbase/[[spoiler: Unicron]]
Something that was sealed away inside the Underbase.

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!!The Thing thing in the Underbase/[[spoiler: Unicron]]
Underbase/Unicron
Something that was sealed away inside the Underbase.Underbase, and is later revealed to be '''Unicron''' himself.



* AmbiguouslyRelated: [[spoiler: Can spawn creatures remarkably similar to the creatures of Grimm in Cybertronian Myth. Additionally, Thunderwing's optics turn silver after his deal with Unicron.]]
* AssimilationPlot: Orders Thunderwing to make all become one.
* DealWithTheDevil: The hypothetical Devil, making some kind of unseen deal with Thunderwing.
* TheDreaded: Once G'nur sees what it turned Thunderwing into, she drops her blaise attitude regarding the Underbase and its danger and attempts to escape.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears very briefly during a flashback in Volume 1 of A Girl and Her Bike, [[spoiler: as Cybertron takes on the form of his iconic planet mode after Megatron uses the Matrix of Chaos.]]
* GodOfEvil: [[spoiler: As Unicron.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: As Unicron]] it's on a level above even Nominus Prime and the Quintessons.
* KnightOfCerebus: As soon as this THING appears, all of the comedy from the Underbase portion of Turnabout Uprising vanishes..
* SealedEvilInACan: Starts out as a voice locked away inside a gemstone, until Thunderwing places his hand on it. Now it's loose.
* SuperEmpowering: Gives Thunderwing seemingly supernatural abilities.
* WalkingSpoiler: Very difficult to discuss it without revealing one of the biggest twist in Like Judas Thereupon Kissed.

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* AmbiguouslyRelated: [[spoiler: Can AmbiguouslyRelated: He can spawn creatures remarkably similar to the creatures of Grimm in Cybertronian Myth. Additionally, Thunderwing's optics turn silver after his deal with Unicron.]]
their deal.
* AssimilationPlot: Orders He orders Thunderwing to make all become one.
one. By that, he means for all to become one ''in him''.
* DealWithTheDevil: The He's the hypothetical Devil, making some kind of unseen deal with Thunderwing.
Thunderwing. The fact that he's actually Unicron makes the Devil part all the more overt.
* TheDreaded: Once G'nur sees what it turned he turns Thunderwing into, she drops her blaise blasé attitude regarding the Underbase and its danger and attempts before making a desperate attempt to escape.
''get the hell out of there''.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears He appears very briefly during a flashback in Volume 1 of A ''A Girl and Her Bike, [[spoiler: Bike'', as Cybertron takes on the form of transforms into his iconic planet mode after Megatron uses the Matrix of Chaos.]]
Chaos.
* GodOfEvil: [[spoiler: As Unicron.]]
It's '''Unicron!''' This goes without saying no matter the continuity.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: As Unicron]] Unicron, it's on a level above even Nominus Prime and the Quintessons.
* KnightOfCerebus: As soon as this THING this...'''''THING''''' appears, all of the comedy from the Underbase portion of Turnabout Uprising vanishes..
vanishes. Makes sense, considering he's the Cybertronian equivalent of the Devil.
* SealedEvilInACan: Starts He starts out as a voice locked away inside a gemstone, gemstone until Thunderwing places his hand on it. Now it's loose.
loose and ready to bring chaos to the entire universe.
* SuperEmpowering: Gives He gives Thunderwing seemingly supernatural abilities.
* WalkingSpoiler: Very Due to the fact that he's ''Unicron himself'', he's naturally very difficult to discuss it without revealing one of the biggest twist twists in Like ''Like Judas Thereupon Kissed.Kissed''.
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* BigBadWannabe: In the end, he's ultimately unable to pose as much of a threat as the Decepticons can.


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* TheHeavy: The most recurring antagonist in Volume 1 of A Girl and Her Bike, with his theft of Bumblebee's Homing Becon prolonging and escalating the conflict.


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* KarmicButtMonkey: As monstrous as he is, he regularly suffers humilating defeats. The Decepticons near-instantly knock him out as soon as they get involved, Bumblebee is able to shrug off most of what he hits him with, he gets run over by Bumblebee while trying to chase down Ruby in his own camp, [[spoiler: Several of his own followers, Blake included, turn on him in the middle of an operation, and he ultimtely gets dragged into the woods by a random Grimm after suffering one final defeat at a critically injured Bumblebee's hands. By the time Cinder recruits him, he's so injured he can barely stand.]]


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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Has no real personal ties to Yang in canon, but the two don't really have any particularly negative feelings either. [[spoiler: After Winter scars Ruby, however, Yang very much considers her an enemy.]]


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* TheAtoner: After the events of Volume 1, she tries to make things right with the people she's wronged. [[spoiler: This includes attempting to convince Ironwood to get Yang a prosthetic to replace the limb she lost.]]


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* CondescendingCompassion: Ends up unwittingly grating on Fixit's nerves when she expresses concern over his stutter. To her credit, she immediately apologizes when he points out what she's doing.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Tells off Rose and Gil for harassing Yang very early on, [[and is later HORRIFIED when she accidentally impales Yang on her saber]].
* TheHeavy: While Adam antagonizes the heroes more directly more often, it's Winter's actions that kickstart the conflict of Volume 1, and she ultimately serves as the face of the Atlesian Military as an antagonistic force for the duration of Volume 1.


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* HeroicBSOD: Spends the opening of her Spotlight Oneshot silent and despairing [[spoiler: over her guilt about her role in the disastrous events of Volume 1, and fear of what Ironwood will do to punish her.]]


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* JustFollowingOrders: Averted, she never uses this excuse to shift blame for her actions [[spoiler: out of loyalty towards Ironwood]].


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* NeverMyFault: Downplayed, as it's only relevant to a single event. [[spoiler: After slashing her sword across Ruby's face, she tries to convince herself that Ruby herself is responsible. She immediately drops this after accidentally stabbing Yang.]]
* OddFriendship: Very quickly strikes up a rapport with [[spoiler: Optimus Prime]] in spite of their very differing political views. [[spoiler: In their first meeting, simply hearing his voice is enough to put her at ease, and she is extremely receptive to his words of wisdom when the two work together to rescue the Shield of Solus.]]


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* StarterVillain: The first antagonist Bumblebee has to deal with upon waking up on Remnant.
** StarterVillainStays: Becomes a recurring antagonist throughout Volume 1 [[spoiler: and sticks around as an ally to the Autobots after the Decepticons show their true colors.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no issue unleashing her Grimm Summons on Ruby or Yang during their fight, even referring to it as "disciplinary measures". [[spoiler: she is considerably less comfortable with maiming them, unnerved after slashing her sword across Ruby's face, and deeply HORRIFIED when she accidentally impales Yang on her own sword.]]


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* BadBoss: Attempts to shift blame for all of his actions on Winter. [[spoiler: In Winter's Spotlight Oneshot, he even keeps her locked up in a cramped cell she can't even stand-in and has her paraded through Atlas Academy in handcuffs before he bothers releasing her.]]

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