History Characters / Transformers2023

* {{Suckcessor}}: It's immediately clear that despite his grandiose showboating, Starscream is in ''no way'' a leader comparable to Megatron in any form, with the overwhelming evidence painting him as an idiot who places far too much importance on ''himself'' over everyone else. Inverted with Soundwave, who has proven to be much more competent.

!!!Major Humans

* HeroicSacrifice: Despite being wounded, he still fights Starscream and Skywarp to allow the Autobots to escape, which gets him fatally injured in the process, and he dies not long after.

A cruel yet insecure Decepticon who seeks to destroy the Autobots and conquer Earth for its resources. But after his many failures to destroy the Autobots, Soundwave had challenge Screamer for the leadership over their faction, Starscream's seeming death places Soundwave in charge

* AxCrazy: He has shades of this in most continuities, but his cowardice ''[[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]'' cancels out the worst of it. This incarnation doesn't have this cowardice to hold him back, he comes across as the Decepticon equivalent of [[Characters/StarWarsKyloRen Kylo Ren]].

* AxCrazy: He has shades of this in most continuities, but his cowardice ''[[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]'' cancels out the worst of it. This incarnatoin doesn't have this cowardice to hold him back, he comes across as the Decepticon equivalent of [[Characters/StarWarsKyloRen Kylo Ren]].

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* CompositeCharacter: Astrotrain's design is based on the G1 cartoon, as usual, but his status as a towering giant who has an ''intense'' dislike for Megatron comes from ''Cyberverse''.

* CollateralDamage: [[spoiler: In issue #3, Spike is accidentally shot by a stray bullet, leaving him on the brink of death. The hospital manages to stabilize him in issue #4 but he remains in a coma until the end of issue #6]].

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Spike sat out issues #4-6, due to being left in a coma after being caught in the crossfire of the humans firing upon Optinus and Skywarp.]]
** And at the end of Issue #6 [[spoiler: he wakes up asking where his dad is.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Gives his life to power the Matrix of Leadership back up to save Optimus from death, understanding and knowing the Autobots and Earth need him]].
* LastRequest: [[spoiler: With his final words he begs Optimus and the Autobots to protect Earth and to tell his son Spike [[SoProudOfYou he's proud of him]]]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: He sacrifices himself to power the Matrix of Leadership, not even leaving a body behind.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to [[spoiler: Spike getting hit by a stray bullet when he orders the militia to fire on Optimus and Skywarp]].
* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler: Views sacrificing himself to save Optimus as this]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: Once he witnesses Starscream's attack on the power plant he rallies a militia made up of fellow veterans and takes steps to keep his family safe, but most human weaponry isn't very effective against Cybertronians and he doesn't realize that the Autobots are friendly [[spoiler: until after a bullet he fires ricochets and hits his son and Optimus rushes them to a hospital.]]

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* LeaveNoSurvivors: [[spoiler: Subjected to this by Soundwave, who kills the entire crew to keep their existence on the down low]].

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: The U.S.S. Henry Harrisson is hijacked and used to power the Nemesis, allowing Soundwave to contact Shockwave]].

* GhostMemory: After [[spoiler: Sparkplug sacrifices himself to heal Optimus by climbing into the Matrix]], Optimus begins to experience warped flashbacks to events he never lived through, such as [[spoiler: a memory of holding an infant Spike, only it's his hands in the memory rather than Sparkplug's.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Cliffjumper is usually one of the most bloodthirsty of the Autobots but in this [[spoiler: he ultimately can't bring himself to kill Starscream when he's helpless]].

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Wheeljack is first brought online, he's only functional as the top half at first. He seems chipper enough about it. [[spoiler: He's finally fully restored in issue #8 by Skywarp-Teletraan.]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After dying in issue #1, Jetfire was eventually revived by the Autobots in #8, though their lack of resources and complications from Jetfire's spark means he's stuck in his jet mode.]]
* DamagedSoul: [[spoiler: After his resurrection, Jetfire is left a depressed shell, unable to see, unable to move, only being able to serve as transportation for the Autobots. Optimus does express regret and stays with him so he won't be alone.]]

** [[spoiler: In Issue #4, he tears apart a wounded Skywarp and recycles his components to repair Teletraan 1.]]

** [[spoiler: After usurping command from Starscream, he promises the other Decepticons that they will not just conquer together, they will ''destroy'' together as well, much to their approval.]]

* KickTheDog: He doesn't have as many as Starscream but he still has his moments. [[spoiler: Notably trying to finish off a gravely wounded Spike who had been shot in the crossfire.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Optimus and Wheeljack manage to get him to cooperate with them by playing footage of Skywarp's dismemberment by his fellow Decepticons, which leads to Skywarp allowing them to use Teletraan-1 to repair and revive their allies.]]

** Eventually subverted, after [[spoiler: Optimus reminds Skywarp his fellow Decepticons are the ones responsible for his current state, which makes Skywarp help them to get even with Starscream.]]

* AssholeVictim: ''ComicBook/CobraCommander'' reveals [[spoiler: he's been found by the citizens of Cobra-La where he's routinely tortured by the future Cobra Commander. Considering what little we've seen of him show that he's nothing but a brutal tyrant that made the situation on Cybertron worse, led the Decepticons on a near successful genocide on the Autobots, and clearly has very sinister plans for Earth, it's hard to feel bad for him.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: While he's [[spoiler: currently held captive by Cobra-La]] he's the founder of the Decepticons and Optimus's ArchEnemy. His threat looming in the background for now.