History Characters / TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEyeTeamRodimus

* PragmaticHero: Even as a good guy, he thinks mainly of the quickest, most practical way to get things done. His advice to Getaway is to always get to the back of the line when people are making sacrifices.

* {{Troll}}: [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Back on Kimia]], he was fond of building horrendously over-the-top weapons solely to piss off the Ethics Committee.
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: [[spoiler:Quark may not have have even realized his affections, but Brainstorm was willing to create GrandfatherParadox-exempt- TimeTravel to save him. ''Our Worlds Will Always Rhyme'' reveals that he was constructed cold during the war, so he intended to ''sacrifice himself'' along with the timeline to save Quark.]]

* {{Bookworm}}: She read 4.3 million years worth of history in three weeks.

* CharacterDevelopment: Since joining the ''Lost Light'' crew, he seems to have become more empathetic towards others. [[spoiler: Best summarized in ''Lost Light'' #6. His wartime motto was [[LawfulEvil "Peace Through Tyranny"]]. At the end of that issue, he states the revolution in the Functionist Universe will be [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified "Peace Through Empathy"]].]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Most people forget that he was a researcher in Kimia. [[spoiler:In fact, he's the one that actually unravels Pharma's notes on how to treat Cybercrosis, Ratchet then makes the cure based on Swerve's theory.]] Lampshaded by Swerve himself.
-->'''Swerve''':''Who says you can't be a metallurgist '''and''' a bartender?''

* StepfordSmiler

* ComedicSociopathy: His stock and trade. Whirl is positively delighted to learn that Cybertronians are the only race to be ''blacklisted'' from the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Galactic Council.]]

* EpicFail: Almost everybody on the ''Lost Light'' is some kind of failure. Whirl's schtick is that he is ''so'' crazy and impulsive that he managed to get himself kicked out of the Wreckers. An Ex-Wrecker is usually a corpse.

* HiddenDepths: Who knew a guy like Whirl would become a fan of Creator/JeanLucGodard?

* InsaneTrollLogic: A big fan of this kind of logic, as seen under the FearlessFool entry above.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: ZigZaggingTrope. It is true that Whirl would like his hands back, but at the same time, he uses the PowerOfHate to cushion himself from having to act normally or feel bad about the bad things he's done.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He's presented with a choice. Let Megatron never exist so the War doesn't happen with trillions of innocent organics living but the Functionists still being in power or let the Great War happen killing trillions and twelve people who wronged Whirl. He hates Megatron, but not as much as he hates the Functionists and he ensures Megatron's existence so they'll burn. Turns out it was the right thing. And he makes the decision so nobody else has to.

* IconicSequelCharacter: Megatron's HeelFaceTurn is by now one of ''MTMTE'''s most [[LateArrivalSpoiler well-known twists]], but he doesn't join the ''Lost Light'' until after the events of ''[[ComicBook/TransformersDarkCybertron Dark Cybertron]]''.

* BadassBookworm: While seemingly nothing but a lowly psychiatrist, he swims out of the ''Lost Light'' and takes on the Ammonites with nothing but a staff during the ''[[ComicBook/TransformersDarkCybertron Dark Cybertron]]'' crossover. As it turns out, the key word is [[spoiler:"[[PhysicalGod seemingly]]".]]

* IconicSequelCharacter: Joins the crew after the events of ''ComicBook/TransformersDarkCybertron''.

* IconicSequelCharacter: Meets the crew in ''[[ComicBook/TransformersDarkCybertron Dark Cybertron]]'' and joins them for real in Season 2.

* TheDarkChick: Of Tyrest's group, as Minimus Ambus. Even after losing the Magnus Armour, he still considers himself a subordinate of Tyrest's, and works to clear Rodimus and his shipmates of the crimes Tyrest has imprisoned them for. He's also at odds personality-wise with pretty much every other member of Tyrest's FiveBadBand, and also not much to look at physically when compared to Star Saber and Lockdown, the two heavy-hitters. His position doesn't stop Tyrest from having a Legislator crush his head when Ambus protests his plan to use the Universal Killswitch.

** He's positively ancient, being a contemporary of [[BadassGrandpa Kup]].

* BadassGrandpa: Ratchet has very much an old man POV on life and is so worndown that his hands are seizing up. He also kicked the crap out of Pharma and his immediate reaction to Overlord popping up behind him was to turn on a dime and shoot him in the face.

* BadassGrandpa: One of the oldest Cybertronians still alive.
** Just how badass is he? [[spoiler: Cyclonus managed to piece together at least the gist of Getaway's plan when Whirl tried to warn him, runs straight towards Megatron's quarters, kicks the door open, and fucking throws his sword into Megatron's chest. He then beats Ravage unconscious, tears off a chunk of Megatron's recharge slab, and bashes his fucking head in with it before grabbing Tailgate and making a run for it. Then the security team shoots him in the back about 50 times, and despite looking like Swiss cheese from behind, he's basically ''fine''.]]

* NotGoodWithPeople: Best demonstrated by his reaction to [[spoiler:Tailgate's illness.]]

* BerserkButton: Any harm coming to Rewind. Prowl's emotional abuse and manipulation gets him fired up almost as much.

** Pretty much subverted as the series progresses, as nothing further comes to light (no pun intended) to suggest that Tailgate identifies as anything other than male.

* YourHeadASplode: Barely survives having his head blown off by Swerve.

* AmbiguouslyGay: As WordOfGod has confirmed her relationship with Skids to be platonic, Nautica's relationship with Velocity comes under this. When becoming amica with several bots, Nautica questions Rewind about whether being on a Cybertronian ship might mean she couldn't later become a conjunx with one of them, confirming romantic feelings for one of them. It's strongly implied that this is in regards to Lotty, called out by nickname in the ceremony, with the shiptease between the two and an entire issue focusing on their relationship.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His offhanded confimation to Overlord Megatron was still alive led directly to the Phase-Sixer finding value in life once more, breaking loose and going on to kill Pipes and Rewind. Overlord even lampshades that without Chromedome's indirect instigation, he'd never have had the will to break free. And that's not even getting into his botched mnemnosurgery on Prowl leading to Megatron and Bombshell taking over Prowl's mind and kickstarting a Decepticon uprising on Cybertron over in [=RiD=].

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:How Megatron ended up being left in the Functionist Universe; the original teleporter Team Rodimus planned to use to get back to Necroworld and out of the Functionist Universe was broken, so Nine-of-Twelve led them to a second teleporter nearby. Megatron had separated from the group earlier to say goodbye to Terminus, who had decided to stay and help the Anti-Vocationists fight (which Rodimus was immediately suspicious of, since he suspected Megatron of trying to get out of his trial) so Roller was told to radio Terminus and let Megatron know about the change of destination. We only hear Terminus' side of the discussion before he tells Megatron to follow him to the new teleporter...which is a different one from the one Team Rodimus is using. This leads Rodimus to believe that Megatron has played them to stay and avoid his fate (since they have a rapidly-closing window of opportunity to leave) and have to go without him, taking Luna-2 with them. Did Roller give Terminus the wrong coordinates on purpose, or did Terminus, who had already expressed his desire to see Megatron stay and help the AVL, take Megatron to the wrong teleporter on purpose so he could lie and say the others had left without him to "give him a second chance"? Roberts eventually confirmed on twitter that Terminus lied to him.]]