History ComicBook / Transformers2019

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Bumblebee [[spoiler:semi-accidentally murdering Quake]]. The right thing to do? Probably not. Is anybody sad to see [[spoiler:Quake]] go? ''Definitely'' not.
** As the Winged Moon is threatening to [[spoiler:fall into Cybertron’s sun]], Huffer [[BrutalHonesty frankly]] tells Enemy that if the Autobots have to evacuate the moon, Huffer is just gonna leave Enemy there to die while he gets to the shuttle. Harsh, but given that Enemy is a Rise spy partly responsible for the situation they’re in, it’s kind of hard to not cheer Huffer on.

* IntrafamilialClassConflict: It's eventually shown that the [[spoiler:Autobot Tracks]] and [[spoiler:Decepticon Needlenose]] are brothers and had previously been in business together, becoming reasonably wealthy and successful. However, [[spoiler:Needlenose sympathized with the Decepticon goal of equality (the original Decepticon goal was to do away with the FantasticCasteSystem where a Cybertronian's alt-mode affected their social status) and gave up his own wealth and status in the process. Post-war, Tracks still looks down his nose at Needlenose and especially despises his lover Horri-bull, feeling that Horri-bull led Needlenose into a dead-end future.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Participants of [[GreatOffscreenWar the War of the Threefold Spark]] are still suffering from their experiences long after. Some, like Dai Atlas and Pyra Magna, carry feelings of guilt over their actions during the war. Others, like Quake, were unable to readjust to peacetime (which also made them susceptible to the Rise's message of violent action). Worse, Megatron's encounter with Exarchon helps shape his view of how to change the world...
** Road Rage tackles a Thraal terrorist who’s trying to blow up Sentinel Prime’s ship... and fatally crushes him by accident, leaving the Autobots unable to interrogate him. What do you expect to happen when a giant robot falls on a flesh and blood alien?
** The DavidVsGoliath battle in issue 17 ends ''very'' badly for the David; Lodestar puts up an amazing fight against [[spoiler:Vigilem]], but in the end he’s still a hulking warship and she’s still a lightly-armed exploratory cruiser. All she accomplishes is slowing him down a little.
** Even after Megatron overthrows the Senate, Ratbat points out that, although they might have toppled the government, they have no zero control over the city's actual infrastructure and most of the civilians have no intention of cooperating with the new regime. A later montage in issue #28 shows the Decepticons forcibly taking control of vital facilities by replacing supervisors and high-ranking technicians with Decepticon loyalists.
** Related to the above, the death of Sentinel Prime (the First Senator and legally elected head of government) at the hands of the Rainmakers is what costs the Decepticons the goodwill of [[TrueNeutral the civilians who were neither particularly loyal to the Autobot-dominated government nor necessarily supporters of the Ascenticon movement]]. Megatron himself lampshades the fact that killing Sentinel ''did not'' help his cause at all.
** A montage reveals that since the Decepticons are mostly made up of the violent, the vicious, and more than a few veteran soldiers, any attempt by the Autobots or civilians to stand up against them gets swept aside.
** Megatron's propaganda campaign to convince the undecided Cybertronians that he's the new legitimate head of state is undercut by the fact that many of his Decepticons are poorly-trained, violent bullies who spend quite a bit of their time throwing their weight around and lashing out at non-Decepticons. This results in many intellectuals and professionals who would've otherwise simply kept their heads down and kept doing their jobs to leave and throw their support behind Optimus Prime instead.
** In issue 40, it's shown that Strika is leading a Decepticon army on the Autobot stronghold of Crystal City, and throughout the issue Optimus Prime is on the point of despair because the Autobots are losing badly. This is unsurprising: Megatron had been planning his coup for a good long time and recruited many former soldiers to his cause. In comparison, Optimus has been on the backfoot from the very start of the conflict, with many of his "soldiers" at best having been involved in mere police actions as opposed to actual war like many of the Decepticons. While the Autobots do have powerful veterans like Ultra Magnus, Pyra Magna, her Companions and Ironhide among their ranks, they're outnumbered by Autobots who not so long ago were police cadets or office workers.
** Issue 40 also has Bumblebee point out that while many neutral Cybertronians who didn't outright side with the Decepticons may not ''like'' the Decepticons, they aren't willing to risk their lives to oppose them the way the Autobots are.

* CloningBlues:

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A pre-Combaticon [[ConMan Swindle]] is introduced running one of these. It handles a lot of shady businesses, but the one that gets attention from the Autobots is an Energon fencing operation that the Rise are using to supply themselves.

* FailOSuckyname: Wheeljack and his team are not impressed to learn that Enemy is named, well, ''that''. Initially they wonder [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude what kind of weirdo would name a kid “Enemy”]], then wonder what kind of issues Enemy has after he admits that he actually picked the name himself.

** Leviathan is a massive Transformer who turned into an equally gigantic metal-harvesting machine, until she eventually transformed and ''stayed'' transformed, spending all of her time in vehicle mode to maximize her efficiency.

* PoliceAreUseless: The Velocitron police force ends up a hindrance more than a help in the comic. They arrive when most of Mayhem has been subdued and their interference allows Submarauderer to get away. In the end they completely miss [[spoiler:Knock Out's assassin and arrest Minerva]]. The comic ends with [[spoiler:this being largely intentional as the head of the Velocitron security force, Breakdown, and an unknown number of the cops are all either AScenticons or Ascenticon sympathizers who've been in league with Mayhem]].

* HasTwoMommies: Bumblebee remarks that since Arcee and Greenlight are nigh-inseparable, Arcee’s mentee will effectively have two mentors, something Greenlight doesn’t deny.