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* GenreBlindness: Ironically, for someone who covets an all-knowing artifact that answers every question posed by its holder, he makes the classic mistake of assuming that everyone else is too stupid to use the very same device. Hot Rod doesn't hesitate to learn what ''really'' happened on Ki-Aleta...
-->'''Hot Rod:''' ...''Did Dealer betray us.''\\
'''Magnificence: [[BluntYes YES]].'''\\
''*Hot Rod promptly shoots Doubledealer in the face.*''
-->'''Hot Rod:''' ...''Did Dealer betray us.''\\
'''Magnificence: [[BluntYes YES]].'''\\
''*Hot Rod promptly shoots Doubledealer in the face.*''
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* PlayingBothSides: In his only Marvel UK appearance, he uses his dual identities to manipulate Optimus and Scorponok.
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* PlayingBothSides: In his only Marvel UK appearance, he uses his dual identities to manipulate Optimus and Scorponok. In the IDW run, he's scamming both the Autobots ''and'' Decepticons to steal an omniscient MacGuffin called The Magnificience.
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* SmugSnake: This guy could give Starscream a run for his money at how smug he is about his scheming. Too bad for him that Hot Rod is much more impulsive than he's prepared for.
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* TheRival: The Marvel comics version of Hi-Test was the former assistant of [=HiQ=], Optimus Prime's future Powermaster partner. Intent on proving himself superior, Hi-Test hired Throttle to steal [=HiQ=]'s notes, using them to become Powermasters.
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* TheRival: The Marvel comics version of Hi-Test was the former assistant lab partner of [=HiQ=], Optimus Prime's future Powermaster partner. Intent on proving himself superior, Hi-Test hired Throttle to steal [=HiQ=]'s notes, using them to become make the pair Powermasters.
* ShockJock: Kreb was once a radio personality, who delighted in being as verbally repulsive as Horri-Bull is physically.
* ButtMonkey: Zigzag was once an incompetent mechanic who faced regular mockery over his "repairs" usually making things worse. His lot in life hasn't really improved since then, as Needlenose and Sunbeam often pick on him.
* PowerOfTheSun: Sunbeam turns into a solar-powered rifle.
* ShockAndAwe: Zigzag becomes an electrostatic disruptor.
* SurferDude: Sunbeam is a former surfer who conquered the most dangerous waves on Nebulos. He joined up with the Decepticons so he could [[ChallengeSeeker face new challenges]] on other worlds.
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** 2005 IDW comics: Died due to a cerebro-shell planted by Bombshell after Starscrem told him to die.
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** 2005 IDW comics: Died due to a cerebro-shell planted by Bombshell after Starscrem Starscream told him to die.
* AdaptationNameChange: The Marvel UK comics called him "Jawbreaker".
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A Double Targetmaster who has few friends in the Decepticon ranks, but is highly respected for his combat prowess and uncanny ability to turn the tide of battle whenever he enters the fray.
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A Double Targetmaster who has few friends in the Decepticon ranks, but is highly respected for his combat prowess and uncanny ability to turn the tide of battle whenever he enters the fray. He is partnered with Hairsplitter and Singe.
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* FireBreathingWeapon: Singe transforms into a nuclear-powered, twin-barreled flamethrower.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Singe joined the Decepticons solely so he could kill Fortress Maximus' partner Galen, whom Lord Zarak's daughter, Llyra chose over him.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hairsplitter was once an efficiency expert, and took great pleasure in writing up his co-workers over the tiniest mistakes.
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* SuddenNameChange: Due to problems copyrighting his name, later versions of Hairsplitter were given the moniker [[Series/TheOfficeUS "Shrute"]].
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* OpportunisticBastard: Nightflight again. He's the sort of person who would prefer to steal pocket change rather than put in the effort to rob a bank because the change was easier to take.
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* OpportunisticBastard: Nightflight again. He's the sort of person who would prefer to steal pocket change rather than put in the effort to rob a bank because the change was easier to take. This is also his only real plan for usurping power from Whisper: kiss every available ass at every available opportunity until someone with authority promotes him to command of the Air Strike Patrol.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The only way this bunch of backstabbing, squabbling rowdies get anything done.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The only way this bunch of backstabbing, squabbling rowdies get anything done. Tailwind, Nightflight, and Storm Cloud ''all'' want to overthrow Whisper ''and'' ensure their rivals do not succeed in taking over. Meanwhile, Whisper would rather save himself the headaches and simply shoot his disloyal subordinates. Decepticon High Command has not granted ''any'' of their requests, so the four of them are stuck with each other and forced to work as a team despite the fact they really don't like each other.
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* DinosaursAreDragons: Though whatever Cindersaur transforms into doesn't look like any real species of dinosaur, the fact that it's reptilian, breathes fire, and his name is Cinder''saur'' alludes to this trope. Newer Cindersaur toys straight up redeco/retool him from characters who transform into actual dinosaurs, changing his alt-mode to a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' (''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Megatron) or a ''Velociraptor'' (Dinobot Slash).
* HourOfPower: Forcibly separates himself eventually thanks to an automatic timer.
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* KilledOffForReal: While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky.
** He also doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''.
** He also doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''.
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* KilledOffForReal: KilledOffForReal:
** While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky.
** Healso doesn't survive being possessed by Exarchon during ''ComicBook/Transformers2019''.
** While Crankcase is shown to have survived Thunderwing's assault in ''Stormbringer'', Ruckus wasn't so lucky.
** He
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* CoolTank: Outside of his pretender shell, Bludgeon turns into a simple tank.
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-->'''Bludgeon:''' Kill me. Finish what you started.
-->'''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]
-->'''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]
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-->'''Bludgeon:''' Kill me. Finish what you started.
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'''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]
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'''Rodimus Prime:''' No. [[CruelMercy I can think of no more fitting punishment than to deny you whatever "glorious" death you coveted.]]
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-->'''Thundercracker:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards You're going to kill civilians with this stunt, Bludgeon. I thought we were supposed to be fighting on their behalf.]]
-->'''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].
-->'''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].
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-->'''Thundercracker:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards You're going to kill civilians with this stunt, Bludgeon. I thought we were supposed to be fighting on their behalf.]]
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'''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].
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'''Bludgeon:''' Every civilian is a Decepticon at heart. Those that die today are martyrs. [[DeathSeeker I envy them]].
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* TankGoodness: His alternate mode.
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* TankGoodness: His alternate mode.Outside of his pretender shell, Bludgeon turns into a simple tank.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: See ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice above
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: See ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice aboveabove.
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* YellowPurpleContrast: He's easily identified by his bright purple and yellow color scheme.
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* {{Gashadokuro}}: His Pretender shell is based on a Gashadokuro, and he's a huge robot with a skull face in a samurai armor.
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* DyingToBeReplaced: Gets killed off in ''Classics'' and is replaced by Scylla.
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* PsychoPink: He has more pink than the other Seacons and he's the cruelest of them.
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* TheDividual: Like other combiner teams, the Pretender Monsters rarely receive characterization beyond serving as extensions of Monstructor.
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* CompositeCharacter: With the ''Beast Wars II'' Seacons in the Classics continuity.
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* TheDividual: As is usual with Combiner teams, but also given their lack of appearances, the team has never managed to stand out much from one another. Taken to its logical extreme in the ''[[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Super-God Masterforce]]'' anime, where they're an army of mass produced drones except for Snaptrap (or [[DubNameChange Turtler]]), who even then is mostly just a grunting brute.
