History Fanfic / Eugenesis

* ClandestineCover: Hard copies tend to obfuscate their connection to Franchise/{{Transformers}} with abstract, indirect cover art.

* CloneAngst: [[spoiler: In the postscript, the revived Nightbeat reflects upon the fact that he's just a clone of himself, perfectly identical in almost every detail to his previous self, except he's a clone.]]

->'''Eugenesis''' (''n''.) The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full reproductive fertility between different species or races, specifically between hybrids of the first generation.

!!''Eugenesis'' provides examples of:

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: in the postscript, the revived Nightbeat reflects upon the fact that he's just a clone of himself, perfectly identical in almost every detail to his previous self, except he's a clone.]]

%%* NotGoodWithPeople: Prowl, in spades.

* AnyoneCanDie

* PastLifeMemories: Galvatron remembers everything about his lives, both as Galvatron and Megatron. He even [[UpToEleven remembers things he]] [[KilledOffForReal logically shouldn't]] [[TimeyWimeyBall be able to]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Doubleheader.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: The Quintessons manage to shoot off one of Metroplex's arms with one shot.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Optimus manages to bring Rodimus back from the utter brink of death with the Matrix.]]

* BadFuture: [[spoiler:From Optimus's point of view, the year 2012 is this. He has a point.]]

* BigGood: [[spoiler:Optimus Prime, duh]].

* BlackComedy: As Soundwave examines the statues of former Decepticon leaders, he takes a moment to note [[OffWithHisHead Straxus' has his head and his body]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Just a cut above DownerEnding. The Autobots take back Cybertron and the Great War ends for good, but a lot of people are dead, and the incredibly fascistic Star Saber gets his hooks into the Autobots and will proceed to pervert everything they ever worked for. And Unicron's still in the Matrix.]]

* BrainInAJar: All that's left of the Quintessons Sevax, Jolup and Ryknia at the start of the novel.

* CallForward: There is the occasional mention of Shokaract, and Point Omega, which were the subject of the early Botcon stories.

* CanonForeigner: Many.

* ChekhovsGun: The amplifying effect of the Sonic Canyons.

* CrazyPrepared: Evidently Unicron felt a pressing need to give Galvatron fantastic anti-viral systems.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Frequently. [[spoiler: First Aid is one of the worst.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: Several.

* DarkFic

* DeskJockey: Prowl. And it's all he wants out of life.

** DawnOfAnEra: What the epilogue deals with.

* TheFatalist: Dreadwind, as always.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The last chapter opens with a report dated three hundred years ahead from [[TheDragon Greatshot]] to [[KnightTemplar Star Saber]], which foreshadows what happens at the end of the story, but also mentions downscaled bots who seem to have [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars animal-based bodies]].

* FunctionalAddict: Springer is taking steroids.
** He stops being a functional addict at the worst possible time, managing to overdose in the middle of a siege.
* GhostCity: Lonium has nothing. And it wasn't exactly much to write home about before it got nuked into the ground. Even the motorways went around it. The only things left are massive amounts of craters and anti-Autobot graffiti. Oh, and [[spoiler:a tear in the fabric of space and time.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Wheelie's unique speech-pattern is speculated to be the result of reading Quintessonian religious texts. Ratchet apparently dismissed this as total coincidence. Given what happens later on in the story, though...

* {{Gorn}}: ''And lots of it.''

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Bumblebee, Treadshot.]]

* KilledOffForReal: Several big name characters on both sides perish during this story, including [[spoiler: Bumblebee, Trypticon, Powerglide, Treadshot, Thunderclash, Warpath, First Aid, Pipes, Motormaster, Wideload, Grand Slam, Rad, Rapido, Beastbox, Squawktalk, Sixshot, Kup, Tracks, Omega Supreme, Prowl, Grimlock, Doubleheader, and Rewind.]]

* LastStand: Kup, against an army of Sharkticons. [[spoiler:He doesn't make it.]]

* LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler:Part of the Quintesson's plan for crushing Cybertronian rebellion.]]

* MadeASlave: [[spoiler:What the Quintessons plan to do to the entire Cybertronian race.]]
** [[spoiler:What Unicron did to the Quintessons, along with making them unable to reproduce.]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: God. As in the Quintesson super-computer [[FunWithAcronyms Genetics and Ontological Deconstruction]], design to decode every last aspect of the Matrix, and figure out how to create life.]]

* NewEraSpeech: [[spoiler:Quantax's speech to what's left of the Autobots and Decepticons.]]

* NothingIsScarier: The old Decepticon fort on Earth is completely abandoned and stripped clean, with no-one having set foot there in well over a decade. The Autobots still don't want to linger.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Prowl, in spades.

* NotQuiteDead: ComicBook/DeathsHead repeatedly survives injuries that should kill him.

* NotSoStoic: Prowl actually yells at Rodimus and Thunderclash at one point.
** [[spoiler: He later snaps at Kup as well.]]

* OhCrap: Chromedome, and then Prowl's reaction when they find two thousand Quintesson ships heading their way.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Nightbeat, of all people.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Optimus manages to mix one with a rousing speech. The fact that the crowd of Autobots and Decepticons cheer anyway hurts him badly.]]
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Nightbeat's opinion of his reassignment.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Quintessons were enslaved by Unicron and turned into warriors. They can't help being violent sadists, their very essence was warped by It.]]

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The origin of the three 'Decepticons' the Quintessons find.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Quark and Rev-Tone. [[spoiler:They don't make it.]]

* TranquilFury: Kup, when he hears a particularly dry report from Prowl, quickly and calmly shoots the nearby speakers.
** [[spoiler:Sounwave's reaction to birthing a Quintesson: "Get me a gun."]]

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Prowl hates the idea of Grimlock and his supporters being in charge again.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Wheeljack and Sygnet.

* FakeMemories: The Neogens were given these as a survival mechanism. Apparently one of them was given every fake memory possible. The Unnamed Autobot can't remember what it was. [[WhamLine Kip, or Kap]], he thinks.

* StartOfDarkness: For [[spoiler:Tarantulas.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of backstory doesn't just come from ComicBook/TheTransformers, but from other stories produced by the group TMUK.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:The Quintessons take Autobot City: Earth quickly.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Oh Gods, yes. Far darker than any official Transformers media, and much darker than [[ComicBook/TheTransformers the stories it's a continuation of]].

* KillerRobot: A Guardian robot, [[ComicBook/TheTransformers again]]. Apparently they're [[MadScientist Wheeljack's]] fault. Nightbeat encounters one that's gotten religious.

* MythologyGag: The First Church of Primus's prediction is that Unicron would either return in 2005 (as he did in [[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie the movie]]) or 2006 (as he did in [[ComicBook/TheTransformers the comics]].)

* SealedEvilInACan: Unicron is [[ComicBook/TheTransformers still sealed inside the Matrix]], and he can't be removed.

* ShoutOut: The name of Megatron's pre-war journals? ''[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler My Struggle]]''.
** The epitaph for the epilogue has a quote from [[Music/{{Morrissey}} Morrissey's "Girlfriend in a Coma"]].

* SnapBack: That massive restoration of Cybertron at the end of ComicBook/TheTransformers didn't last very long. In twenty years, Cybertron's managed to get ''worse''.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: [[ComicBook/TheTransformers The Straxian Holocaust]], where [[AxCrazy Straxus]] killed a large swath of Cybertron's already depleted population for whatever reason he could find.

* TheBusCameBack: The Unnamed Autobot is from Aspects of Evil, a short storyline from the tail-end of ComicBook/TheTransformers. This story is the framing device for that story.

* WhamLine: "What's his name again?" [[spoiler:"Tarantulas."]]

''Eugenesis'' is a Franchise/{{Transformers}} fanfic written by James Roberts. Yes, [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye that James Roberts]].

Set in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel UK continuity]], the story takes place in the year 2012, when the war between the Autobots and Decepticons is at a standstill, both sides poised for a big push. But outside the plotting and schemes of the Cybertronian forces, there are others with their own dark designs for the children of Primus, as elements of the Transformers' past long since forgotten return for their revenge.

One of the most well-known Transformers fan-fics out there, Eugenesis is a much darker and more cerebral view of everyone's favourite robots in disguise, and also [[{{Doorstopper}} very, very long]]. It's also not for the feint of heart, with some very grim and graphic sequences, but it isn't a mindless gore-fest. It... well, it might just be best to read the thing itself.

** [[spoiler:Just before they leave Aquaria, Death's Head rips off one of Galvatron's arms, repayment for their [[ComicBook/TheTransformers first encounter]].]]

* FantasticRacism: Some Cybertronians don't those Constructed Cold, like [[spoiler:Nightbeat]].

* WindowsOfTheSoul: [[spoiler:Ultra Magnus spots the difference between the Optimus Prime he knew and the one he's looking at by the eyes.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Doubleheader.]]

It is the year 2012, and the war between the Autobots and Decepticons is at a standstill, both sides poised for a big push. But outside the plotting and schemes of the Cybertronian forces, there are others with their own dark designs for the children of Primus, as elements of the Transformers' past long since forgotten return for their revenge.

* BigGood: [[spoiler:Optimus Prime. [[CaptainObvious duh]].]]

* ShoutOut: The name of Megatron's pre-war journals? [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler My Struggle]].

''Eugenesis'' is a Franchise/{{Transformers}} fanfic written by James Roberts. Yes, [[ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye that James Roberts]].

!!This Franchise/{{Transformers}} fanfic contains examples of:

* CanonImmigrant: Rung, who will go on to show up in ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye, is mentioned here.

* SoaplandChristmas: The bulk of the story takes place around Christmas 2012. [[spoiler:The Quintessons invade Cybertron, beat the Autobots and Decepticons and start up their concentration camp on Christmas Day.]]

* {{Badass}}: Under Soundwave's leadership, the Decepticons had actually managed to take almost all of Cybertron. Then Galvatron came back and took over.

** At one point, Galavtron muses on a brightly lid torture chamber, just for the sheer hell of it.

** Scourge and Galvatron (and by implication, Cyclonus) are much more advanced than any other Cybertronian, which makes repairing them very difficult, and techniques designed to disable don't effect them as much.

* {{Badass}}: Under Soundwave's leadership, the Deceticons had actually managed to take almost all of Cybertron. Then Galvatron came back and took over.

* BasedOnADream: How Megatron got the idea of the Morphcore, and transformation in general. The Liege Maximo himself appeared to him in a vision and showed him the designs.

* ChekovsGun: The amplifying effect of the Sonic Canyons.