History Characters / TransformersAnimatedDecepticons

* KnightOfCerebus: Megatron may be a pretty charming villain, but he is still, along with Lockdown, the most depraved Decepticon in the series with barely anything comedic about him. Just feared, willing to sacrifice billions of lives, even his own men, for his mad ambitions. His very rebirth and rise back into power itself permanently darkened the tone of the show.

* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a very deep voice.

* PragmaticVillainy: Unlike Lugnut he has no issues working with Lockdown, knowing the hunting skills of the bounty hunter, prefers to avoid confrontations with human policemen as he wanted to know their numbers and strength before a fight and quickly recognizes the usefulness of the Constructicons just after meeting them.

* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a deep and sinister voice.

* LeanAndMean: He's very skinny and also a treacherous jerk.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the [[TheStarscream very one]] he inspired. Unlike his other iterations, this Starscream is so blatant in his scheming that he's never once able to re-intergrate with the Decepticons after proving his disloyalty to Megatron with his every plot meeting with failure after failure from then on, remaining an outcast throughout the series, and only continues to function due to having a piece of the allspark lodged in his head.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Starscream have worked together for years, but the two utterly loath each other and bicker constantly. When the two are stranded in deep space at the end of Season 2, Megatron regards having to stare at Starscream's face for eternity as a FateWorseThanDeath.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: As per usual, he and Megatron hate each other despite having worked together for years. Even putting aside Starscream's constant betrayals and Megatron’s attempts to kill him for his treachery, the two snipe at each other constantly.

-->'''Blitzwing''': I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: ''GIVE ME SOME WARNING BEFORE YOU USE ZE PUNCH!''

* DrivenToMadness: According to AllThereInTheManual plans for Season 4, it would've been explained that Blitzwing is a MoodSwinger due to the experimentation that turned him into a Triple-Changer by Blackarachnia.

** In ''The Arrival'' she defeats ''Lockdown''... by playing possum then stinging him with her cyber-venom once he's distracted.

* DropTheHammer: He doesn't use it often.

* DropTheHammer: He steals the Magnus Hammer after almost killing its owner. Ratchet retrieves it in "This Is Why I Hate Machines".

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: According to Lugnut, she's not fond of [[ItsPersonal Blackarachnia]] and [[OpportunisticBastard Swindle]] because neither of them are truly dedicated to the Decepticon cause.

* PaletteSwap: His body is Optimus Prime's, except it's purple and black.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Scrapper served as this whole he was a member of the Substitute Autobots, as he was still a Decepticon, although he acted affable and didn’t betray his team.

'''Blackout:''' Ooh. Sorry.

* HulkSpeak: Being a Bizarro expy, he talks like this.

* ButtMonkey: From season 2 onward, he becomes a Butt Monkey in this series. It starts with the infamous [[Funny/TransformersAnimated "Starscream Death Montage"]] with Megatron killing him over and over again (with the [=Allspark=] fragment on his head being the only thing keeping him alive). All of his plans always fail and in the finale in which may be his Crowning Moment of Butt Monkery, his clones (with one heavily implied to represent his self-loathing) betray him for Megatron. He spends the majority of season three as a disembodied head trapped with Megatron aboard Omega Supreme, and just when he finally gets a new body, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Megatron blasts him (He recovers).]] And in the finale, The [=AllSpark=] fragment that was keeping him alive is pulled out, thus killing him. And if you count the comic adaptation as canon, he gets humiliated and blackmailed by Professor Princess. One can't help but feel a bit sorry for him.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: As per usual, he and Megatron hate each other despite having worked together for years. Even aside from Starscream's constant betrayals, the two snipe at each other constantly.

* UndyingLoyalty: Taken to the extreme. He can practically make religious sermons about his great and [[MemeticMutation GLORIOUS]] leader. To the point that in the "The Trial of Megatron" reading, [[spoiler:when [[BadBoss Megatron]] is throwing a bunch of 'Cons into the Trypticon core to keep it powered, Lugnut willingly throws himself in, (possibly) killing himself]].

* BullyingADragon / TooDumbToLive: Hothead thought it'd be a good idea to get up in [[HumongousMecha Omega Supreme]]'s face with threats he could ''not'' back up.

* FantasticRacism: Against organic creatures, and techno-organic creatures due to being part organic. In the pilot episode, he claims that Blackarachnia’s organic side is very unpleasant.

* PowerCopying: Her original special power was the ability to download and temporarily replicate the powers of other transformers. Trying to use this on Energon-infused alien spiders turned her into what she is now. She still has the power, though she doesn't use it very often.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She definitely deserves sympathy because of the trauma she's been through that made her techno-organic.
* WouldHurtAChild: Doesn't care that using the Key on herself is harming every organic nearby, including Sari, and then proceeds to throw Sari off of a building in an attempt to distract Optimus. She later tries to hurt Sari in the Season 1 finale.

* OnlySaneMan: He's this out of all the members of Megatron's inner circle. He isn't a treacherous bootlicker like Starscream, an unstable MoodSwinger like Blitzwing, or a thick-headed dedicant like Lugnut.

* GadgeteerGenius: He shows great technological expertise in "Human Error", modifying the Soundwave toys so he can control them and use them to brainwash humans and building a virtual reality machine to distract the Autobots, and the Allspark Almanac claims he built Ratbat and Laserbeak himself.

* ManipulativeBastard: He took advantage of Powell selling toy versions of him to make a plan that put the city of Detroit annd the Autobots under mind control.

* ThePowerOfRock: He uses rock music as a weapon.
* RobotWar: Tries to start one, but it only works when he makes them rise up.

* TookALevelInBadass: He was a serious menace in his first appearance, but in Season 3, he builds his instrument minions, Ratbat and Laserbeak, and extends the reach of his hypnosis to Cybertronians and humans, instead of just human-made machines and robots.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even his larger, more powerful subjects bow down to him with little hesitation.

* HonestJohnsDealership: Doesn't care at all about the quality of his services. That being said...
* IntrepidMerchant: ...Swindle does go to some of the most out-of-way locations with the goal of making a profit.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: Megatron intended for him to break him free from Sumdac labs. Soundwave instead chose to go with his own ambition of overthrowing the human race.

* AffablyEvil: Even after their FaceHeelTurn, they get along surprisingly well with Bulkhead (when they remember him, that is).

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: They don't even know what Cybertron is. They just joined the Decepticons for the oil.

Mixmaster and Scrapper's self-appointed boss, also a product of an [=AllSpark=] fragment (combined with a damaged Headmaster unit and a forklift). He is a no-nonsense, strict and nasty piece of work who keeps the Constructicons busy.

* AdaptedOut: Ravage, Rumble, Buzzsaw, and Frenzy aren't part of his lineup, and it's unclear if he ever would have gotten them.

* TheAssimilator: After Soundwave was upgraded to the point he became self-aware, he quickly brainwashed dozens of smaller robots and merged with them into his current form.

* CreepyMonotone: He speaks in a sinister and robotic voice that's devoid of emotion.

* FantasticRacism: He is very contemptuous of human beings.

* ManipulativeBastard: You know someone is cunning when they manage to play ''Megatron'' for a chump.

* {{Technopath}}: He can control other robots.
* TookALevelInBadass: He was a serious menace in his first appearance, but in Season 3 he acquires his instrument minions, Ratbat and Laserbeak, and extends the reach of his hypnosis to Cybertronians and humans.

* PaletteSwap: With the exception of Slipstream, all of them are basically Starscream given a different color scheme.

* CreepyMonotone: He doesn't have much inflection when he speaks, making him sound sinister and emotionless.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Blitzwing, the two often bicker and sometimes even fight with Lugnut sometimes hitting Blitzwing when he's annoyed by Random's antics or him disrespecting Megatron, but until Blitzwing's capture at the end of "Air Decepticon" the two almost always seen together and Lugnut shows apologetic signs after he punched Blitzwing by mistake in "Lost and Found".

* BullyingADragon: Hothead thought it'd be a good idea to get up in [[HumongousMecha Omega Supreme]]'s face with threats he could ''not'' back up.

* {{Jerkass}}: "Hothead" is a lot more confrontational than Blitzwing's other two faces.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lugnut, the two often bicker and fight and Blitzwing is generally annoyed by Lugnut's obsessive loyalty to Megatron and only follow him reluctantly, but the two are rarely seen without each other and Blitzwing still follows Lugnut's lead no matter how much it annoys him.

* ButtMonkey: From season 2 onward, he becomes a Butt Monkey in this series. It starts with the infamous [[Funny/TransformersAnimated "Starscream Death Montage"]] with Megatron killing him over and over again (with the [=Allspark=] fragment on his head being the only thing keeping him alive). All of his plans always fail and in the finale in which may be his Crowning Moment of Butt Monkery, his clones (with one heavily implied to represent his self-loathing) betray him for Megatron. He spends the majority of season three as a disembodied head trapped with Megatron aboard Omega Supreme, and just when he finally gets a new body, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Megatron blasts him (He recovers).]] And in the finale, The [=AllSpark=] fragment that was keeping him alive is pulled out, thus killing him. And if you count the comic adaptation, he gets humiliated and blackmailed by Professor Princess. One can't help but feel a bit sorry for him.