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** [[spoiler:Ram Horn shoots Cicadacon after Tripredacus is forcibly separated, not because of any altruistic motive, but because he saw what Cicadacon and the deceased Sea Clamp thought of him. The guy still had it coming.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Ram Horn shoots Cicadacon after Tripredacus is forcibly separated, not because of any altruistic motive, but because he saw what Cicadacon and the deceased Sea Clamp thought of him. The guy still had it coming.]]
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* ContinuitySnarl: The screen capture comic ''A Change to The Agenda'' presents the Uprising universe as the result of the Maximals failing to [[Recap/BeastWarsS2E13TheAgendaPart3 stop Megatron from killing Optimus Prime]], leading Blackarachnia to kill the original G1 Megatron in retaliation. This doesn't fit with previously established facts from the preceding stories. In particular, if Megatron had died millions of years ago, then Galvatron--stated to be prominent figure in the last Great War--shouldn't exist at all. The comic was apparently made without the input of the writers of the series.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The screen capture comic ''A Change to The Agenda'' presents the Uprising universe as the result of the Maximals failing to [[Recap/BeastWarsS2E13TheAgendaPart3 stop Megatron from killing Optimus Prime]], leading Blackarachnia to kill the original G1 Megatron in retaliation. This doesn't fit with previously established facts from the preceding stories. In particular, if Megatron had died millions of years ago, then Galvatron--stated to be prominent figure in the last Great War--shouldn't exist at all. The comic was apparently made without the input of the writers of the series.series as well as the fact that comic was thought up in 2013 but the specifics weren't defined till later and Jim Sorenson didn't learn about it until after he published several stories.
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* TheAllegedCar: The Overcharge drones serve as a military variant of this: big, powerful, and heavily-armed, but also slow, laden with ArtificialStupidity, overpriced, and laughably fuel-inefficient. It's noted that just getting them to ''start'' is difficult, and they practically do more damage to their own side than the enemy. Even the owner's manual is a mess of BlindIdiotTranslation.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: ''Duran Duran'' apparently got some questioning looks when "Union of the Snake" came out, and had to assure people it had nothing to do with Cobra.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: ''Duran Duran'' apparently got some questioning looks when "Union of the Snake" came out, and had to assure people it had nothing to do with Cobra.
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* TheAllegedCar: The Overcharge drones serve as a military variant of this: big, powerful, and heavily-armed, heavily armed, but also slow, laden with ArtificialStupidity, overpriced, and laughably fuel-inefficient.fuel inefficient. It's noted that just getting them to ''start'' is difficult, and they practically do more damage to their own side than the enemy. Even the owner's manual is a mess of BlindIdiotTranslation.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: ''Duran Duran'' apparently got some questioning looks when "Union of the Snake" cameout, out and had to assure people it had nothing to do with Cobra.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: ''Duran Duran'' apparently got some questioning looks when "Union of the Snake" came
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Trans-Mutate is essentially a Cybertronian autistic.
** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weirder, taking a penguin alt-mode.
** Trans-Mutate is essentially a Cybertronian autistic.
** Break apparently is treated like he's got one, what with the speaking in hashtags, and even weirder, taking a penguin alt-mode.
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** [[spoiler:After Humanity expells the Transformers and practically treats them like a lesser species than them and nearly become gods, end up internally destroying themselves and become non-important in the future.]]
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** [[spoiler:After Humanity expells expels the Transformers and practically treats them like a lesser species than them and nearly become gods, end up internally destroying themselves and become non-important in the future.]]
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* TheComplianceGame: Self-inflicted by the freelancer Bisk, who sees the world as a massive video game and allocates "points" for successful completed "quests". His main employer Gnashteeth (who later renames himself [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Megatron]] after the ancient Decepticon) finds this kind of annoying, but [[BunnyEarsLawyer tolerates it because Bisk is just that good]].
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* ExtremeDoormat: Sling would love to stay with Magmatron's crew, but he's too spineless to go against Archadis' orders.
* SanitySlippage: Initially, no clear reason is given as to why Autobots and Decepticons can't just use the Beast Upgrade beyond their own stupid stubbornness. Then in ''Derailment'' Galvatron's inner monologue mentions how he tried it, and his Cyberdroid partners said something about adverse effects on his mind, which he ignored. After all, he'd know if he were crazy! (Never mind that Galvatron wasn't exactly sane to begin with...)
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** Micromaster Run-Over speaks only in quote from The Simpsons. Its quite easy to do so--in this universe, the show ran for several thousand episodes (at the time the story was written, it was a little over 600).
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** Micromaster Run-Over speaks only in quote from The Simpsons. Its ''The Simpsons''. It's quite easy to do so--in this universe, the show ran for several thousand episodes (at the time the story was written, it was a little over 600).
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* SkewedPriorities: Even as the Uprising reaches it's fever pitch and the [[spoiler:Vehicon Apocalypse]] begins, all the Tripredacus Council ''really'' cares about is eliminating Preditron, the first Predacon whose writings they appropriated and twisted to justify their rule, because they see him as a potential rival for leadership of the Predacons.
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* SkewedPriorities: Even as the Uprising reaches it's fever pitch and the [[spoiler:Vehicon Apocalypse]] begins, all the Tripredacus Council ''really'' cares about is eliminating Preditron, the first Predacon whose writings they appropriated and twisted to justify their rule, because they see him as a potential rival for leadership of the Predacons. They're right to be concerned, but they do also have bigger fish to fry.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade / HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Played with in Hatchet's book ''Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny.'' While it decidedly vilifies Convoy as a tyrant whose atrocities forced the Builder's Council to release the Vehicons, it also accurately critiques "simplistic" views of Lio Convoy as a hero and visionary. It implies the legitimately nasty stuff Convoy ''did'' authorize like the G-Virus had gotten downplayed or airbrushed out over the centuries.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade / HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Played with in Hatchet's book ''Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny.'' While it decidedly vilifies Convoy as a tyrant whose atrocities forced the Builder's Council to release the Vehicons, it also accurately critiques "simplistic" views of Lio Convoy as a hero and visionary. It implies the legitimately nasty stuff Convoy ''did'' authorize like the G-Virus had gotten downplayed or airbrushed out over the centuries. [[spoiler:And one of his main sources seems to be Pontiff General Rampage, who, assuming he's the same Rampage, never liked Lio Convoy anyway.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rampage, of all people. Sure, it's partially down to his [[DeathSeeker death wish]], but he sure has no problem getting himself trashed to protect others, and while he makes some pretty bloodcurdling threats and acts like a tool, he rarely carries any of them out, even choosing to give his creator a quick death instead of the slow poison he'd originally planned.
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* UnreliableExpositor: One of Hatchet's main sources for ''Lio Convoy: Unity through Tyranny'' is a noted historian...named Pontiff General ''Rampage''. It's never explicitly ''stated'' that this is the same Rampage, but between the story's aversion to giving multiple characters the same name and ''Unity through Tyranny'' sharing the same hostility to Lio Convoy that Rampage had, it's hard not to connect the dots...which makes his insistence that there was no Protoform X and the Resistance just gave the title to sacrificial dupes look pretty suspicious.
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* AlternateTimeline: The TransTech profiles are this towards the regular stories due to the fact that the bios and other non-prose stories that referenced Beast Wars Uprising did so in ways that didn't align with the prose stories of Uprising.
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* AlternateTimeline: The TransTech [=TransTech=] profiles are this towards the regular stories due to the fact that the bios and other non-prose stories that referenced Beast Wars Uprising did so in ways that didn't align with the prose stories of Uprising.
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* WouldBeRudeToCallItGenocide: The Targetmaster Extirpation. [[spoiler:During Thunderwing's rampage, he demonstrated that the Targetmasters' ability to draw on the power of their partners' sparks for stronger attacks could be modified to allow them to go straight up ''leech the life force from other Transformers''. The Builders decided this made the Targetmasters too dangerous to be in any side's hands, so after the war ended, they exiled the Targetmasters to a distant planet on the pretense of leaving them to live in peace. Instead, once the Targetmasters were all gathered, they were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave by their own former allies, with Autobot and Decepticon alike taking part. Only a few escaped this fate thanks to Blurr and Hyperfire warning as many of their old war buddies as they could, with the survivors going into hiding and pretending to be normal cyberdroids.]]
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* WouldBeRudeToCallItGenocide: WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: The Targetmaster Extirpation. [[spoiler:During Thunderwing's rampage, he demonstrated that the Targetmasters' ability to draw on the power of their partners' sparks for stronger attacks could be modified to allow them to go straight up ''leech the life force from other Transformers''. The Builders decided this made the Targetmasters too dangerous to be in any side's hands, so after the war ended, they exiled the Targetmasters to a distant planet on the pretense of leaving them to live in peace. Instead, once the Targetmasters were all gathered, they were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave by their own former allies, with Autobot and Decepticon alike taking part. Only a few escaped this fate thanks to Blurr and Hyperfire warning as many of their old war buddies as they could, with the survivors going into hiding and pretending to be normal cyberdroids.]]
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Overrun]] got ahold of the Robo-Smasher after the war ended, and in the present day he uses it to mind control Lidar into helping covering up [[spoiler:the locations of the surviving Targetmasters]]. After [[spoiler:Overrun dies]], Tarantulas snags it for his own purposes and proceeds to brainwash Grimlock into becoming his unwilling henchman.
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: In the backstory, Punch/Counterpunch ended his career as an Autobot spy in the Decepticon Justice Division by casually strolling into the Decepticon capital of Helex and murdering the Triumvirate who reported directly to Megatron in broad daylight. The whole incident is looked back on with a mixture of anger and embarrassment by the Decepticons and their Predacon descendants, and the headquarters of the Predacon Secret Police includes a plinth that was once dedicated to "Counterpunch" but now simply says "Helex: Never Forget".
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* DemotedToExtra: Of the Maximals of the original ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', only Cheetor, Tigatron, and Airazor have notable roles. Optimus Primal, Rhinox, and Silverbolt were killed offscreen, while Dinobot and Rattrap make only brief appearances in one story.
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* DemotedToExtra: Of In contrast to the Maximals of Darksyders from the original ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' cartoon, who almost all get pretty significant appearances, the Axalon crew are reduced to mostly minor characters, with only Cheetor, Tigatron, and Airazor have having notable roles. Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Silverbolt, and Silverbolt were killed offscreen, while Dinobot Nightscream are dead before this plot begins, Depth Charge is stranded in the ''Shattered Glass'' universe, and Rattrap Dinobot, Rattrap, and Botanica make only brief appearances in one story.
* FandomNod: The backstory about Punch infiltrating the DJD to assassinate a group of Decepticon leaders is a nod to an old {{Jossed}} fan theory that Agent 113, an Autobot spy in the DJD from ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye MTMTE]]'', would turn out to be a reimagined version of Punch.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Wolfang loses a leg to an explosion in a riot, Stiletto notices that the severed limb inexplicably turns from blue to red, but circumstances prevent her from dwelling on this. [[spoiler:It's your first hint that Wolfang is actually [[TheMole a Predacon pretending to be a Maximal]]; the reason the leg changed colors is because Wolfang is actually naturally red colored, but uses a kind of electronic paint to make himself look Maximal blue, so when a part of his body is separated from his whole, it reverts to standard coloration.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[spoiler:Wolfang demands to know why Tarantulas betrayed the Predacon Secret Police, given it took a great deal of moral development and realizing his place in the world for Wolfang to do the same. He is disturbed and somewhat baffled when Tarantulas bluntly responds that [[TheSociopath he, unlike Wolfang, just plain didn't care about the Predacon cause, or anything really other then his science and personal gain]].]]
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** A double-version at that: the Builders of Cybertron who forced the Maximals and Predacons to fight for their amusement are sent to the Games to entertain the troops. Unfortunately for the Resistance, those Builder [=POWs=] were also infected with the Vehicon virus and quickly overrun the Resistance's capital after succumbing.
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** A double-version at that: the Builders of Cybertron who forced the Maximals and Predacons to fight for their amusement are sent to the Games to entertain the troops. Unfortunately for the Resistance, those [[spoiler:those Builder [=POWs=] were also infected with the Vehicon virus and quickly overrun the Resistance's capital after succumbing. succumbing.]]
** Tarantulas uses the Robo-Smasher to mind control Grimlock and use him as an enforcer. Then the Ex-Bots use a jamming signal to disrupt the Robo-Smasher's effects, and Tarantulas ends up beaten senseless by the pissed off Dinobot he had been enslaving.
** Tarantulas uses the Robo-Smasher to mind control Grimlock and use him as an enforcer. Then the Ex-Bots use a jamming signal to disrupt the Robo-Smasher's effects, and Tarantulas ends up beaten senseless by the pissed off Dinobot he had been enslaving.
* {{Irony}}: Wolfang is [[spoiler:a Predacon Secret Police mole]]… but also the only MCSF officer in his precinct who ''isn't'' crooked. The irony both amuses and depresses him.
* ItsPersonal: Wolfang secretly reads some of the deceased Twirl's memories recorded in her databanks and proceeds to become unprofessionally obsessed with solving her murder, as the experience exposes him to her love of life and happy emotions that the jaded and depressed Wolfang hadn't fully experienced in years.
* ItsPersonal: Wolfang secretly reads some of the deceased Twirl's memories recorded in her databanks and proceeds to become unprofessionally obsessed with solving her murder, as the experience exposes him to her love of life and happy emotions that the jaded and depressed Wolfang hadn't fully experienced in years.
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** The Grendel Gambit, Galvatron's last zany scheme to get at mankind. The exact specifics aren't clear, thanks to ''The Book of Logos'' being written in pseudo-Jacobian speech, but the general indication is he and the Decepticons tried to use Pretender tech to disguise themselves as humans and get past mankind, and it ''really'' didn't work out.
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** The Grendel Gambit, Galvatron's last zany scheme to get at mankind. The exact specifics aren't clear, thanks to ''The Book of Logos'' being written in pseudo-Jacobian speech, but the general indication is that he and the Decepticons tried to use Pretender tech to disguise themselves as humans and get past mankind, and it ''really'' didn't work out.out.
** Relatedly, while we're the fates of Galvatron and Scourge after the aforementioned Gambit (they were tried and executed by the Builders as revenge for bringing the Human Confederacy down on everyone's heads), what happened to Cyclonus goes conspicuously unmentioned, beyond vague references to him performing some kind of HeroicSacrifice.
** Relatedly, while we're the fates of Galvatron and Scourge after the aforementioned Gambit (they were tried and executed by the Builders as revenge for bringing the Human Confederacy down on everyone's heads), what happened to Cyclonus goes conspicuously unmentioned, beyond vague references to him performing some kind of HeroicSacrifice.
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** Towards the end of the series, Eject is disturbed to discover that [[FullCircleRevolution the Resistance have begun putting on Games of their own]], with Builder POWs as the gladiators forced to fight to the death.
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** Towards the end of the series, Eject is disturbed to discover that [[FullCircleRevolution the Resistance have begun putting on Games of their own]], with Builder POWs [=POWs=] as the gladiators forced to fight to the death.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: At the beginning of "Derailment", Tarantulas tries using the Robo-Smasher on Grimlock. It doesn't work.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Cerebros/Fortress Maximus was so traumatized by the double whammy of the Scouring of Nebulos and Master Wars that he willfully goes along with and even helps arrange the Human Confederacy's "quarantine" of the Transformers in the Allowed Zone and the corrupt regime of the Builders, all to prevent his race from ever spreading their war to other planets again.
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* VillainousLegacy: Ser-Ket claims to be descended from a warrior lineage that stretches all the way back to Liege Maximo.
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* VillainousLegacy: VillainousLegacy:
** Ser-Ket claims to be descended from a warrior lineage that stretches all the way back to LiegeMaximo.Maximo, implicitly suggesting she has ancestors from the Cybertronian Empire.
** The original Mayhem Attack Squad died at the end of the Great War when Thunderwing assimilated their souls to power himself up into an unstoppable monster before dying himself. In the present day, a street gang of Predacon supremacists have taken to calling themselves the new Mayhem Attack Squad and aspire to be like them, despite being mostly regarded as a bunch of pathetic losers.
** Ser-Ket claims to be descended from a warrior lineage that stretches all the way back to Liege
** The original Mayhem Attack Squad died at the end of the Great War when Thunderwing assimilated their souls to power himself up into an unstoppable monster before dying himself. In the present day, a street gang of Predacon supremacists have taken to calling themselves the new Mayhem Attack Squad and aspire to be like them, despite being mostly regarded as a bunch of pathetic losers.
* WouldBeRudeToCallItGenocide: The Targetmaster Extirpation. [[spoiler:During Thunderwing's rampage, he demonstrated that the Targetmasters' ability to draw on the power of their partners' sparks for stronger attacks could be modified to allow them to go straight up ''leech the life force from other Transformers''. The Builders decided this made the Targetmasters too dangerous to be in any side's hands, so after the war ended, they exiled the Targetmasters to a distant planet on the pretense of leaving them to live in peace. Instead, once the Targetmasters were all gathered, they were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave by their own former allies, with Autobot and Decepticon alike taking part. Only a few escaped this fate thanks to Blurr and Hyperfire warning as many of their old war buddies as they could, with the survivors going into hiding and pretending to be normal cyberdroids.]]
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* ZergRush: The Pack versus Erector's forces. Steel Jaw and Ramulus acknowledge they could take the Builder forces this way, but they'll loose a ''lot'' of troops in the effort. The desperate situation of the Vehicon Apocalypse forces them to do it anyway.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Vehicon Apocalypse is basically the Cybertronian equivalent.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Vehicon Apocalypse is basically the Cybertronian equivalent.
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* ZergRush: The Pack versus Erector's forces. Steel Jaw and Ramulus acknowledge they could take the Builder forces this way, but they'll loose a ''lot'' of troops in the effort. The desperate situation of the [[spoiler:the Vehicon Apocalypse Apocalypse]] forces them to do it anyway.
* ZombieApocalypse:The [[spoiler:The Vehicon Apocalypse is basically the Cybertronian equivalent.]]
* ZombieApocalypse:
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* AnimalMotifs: When the Beast Upgrade starts hitting Cybertron, several characters take on Dinosaur-based altmodes, like Preditron's T-Rex form.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: When the Beast Upgrade starts hitting Cybertron, several characters take on Dinosaur-based altmodes, like Preditron's T-Rex form.
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* KillEmAll: According to Jim Sorenson, pretty much all the characters from 1984 are dead.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Transformers Cybertron'', Vector Prime was the guardian of space/time being capable of freezing time and accessing a pocket dimension. Here he's just a regular Cybertronian.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Transformers Cybertron'', Vector Prime was the guardian of space/time being capable of freezing time and accessing a pocket dimension. Here he's just a regular Cybertronian. This is due to the final text story being released after the in-universe event The Shrouding wherein Nexus Prime strengthened the barriers between the multiverse and split all multiversal singularities including himself and Vector Prime as members of the Thirteen into infinite versions of themselves and many don't have their powers.
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