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** Speaking of casualties, though Shockwave's implied death scene wasn't animated, the fact that he doesn't appear after the movie --as evidenced by Kup being in what was Shockwave's watchtower in ''Call of the Primitives''-- (though Shockers was supposed to appear in the Five Faces of Darkness five parter) indicates that ol' One-Eye indeed bit the dust when Unicron attacked.
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* Wreck-Gar got transmissions of Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, so he must have learned to imitate Eric Idle's voice.
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* Wreck-Gar got transmissions of Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', so he must have learned to imitate Eric Idle's voice.
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* Why does Megatron specifically say "such heroic nonsense!" with an almost pitying tone when Ironhide tries to grab at his foot? Because it is literally heroic, and literally nonsensical, for Ironhide to try and fight him at that point. Ironhide is alone, severely damaged, and surrounded by a dozen heavily armed Decepticons who don't realise he's functional and [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud have just told him their battle plan.]] His best rational course of action would be to play possum until he has a chance to relay his information to Autobot City... or at least wait until no one's looking to engage the self-destruct or something similar. Megatron realises this immediately and makes that offhand comment, almost to himself, as he puts Ironhide out of his misery. Galvatron or any other version of Megatron would likely have said something like "you fool" or "you still want to fight?" or something similar. This is because G1's Megatron ''does'' appreciate acts of heroism, and would consider it worthy to continue to fight against doomed odds; but because he's also more than a tactical and strategic match for Prime, he realises Ironhide's just being an idiot at that point. It's actually a very subtle piece of characterisation which no one but a big fan of the series would have appreciated.
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* Why does Megatron specifically say "such heroic nonsense!" with an almost pitying tone when Ironhide tries to grab at his foot? Because it is literally heroic, and literally nonsensical, for Ironhide to try and fight him at that point. Ironhide is alone, severely damaged, and surrounded by a dozen heavily armed Decepticons who don't realise realize he's functional and [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud have just told him their battle plan.]] His best rational course of action would be to play possum until he has a chance to relay his information to Autobot City... or at least wait until no one's looking to engage the self-destruct or something similar. Megatron realises realizes this immediately and makes that offhand comment, almost to himself, as he puts Ironhide out of his misery. Galvatron or any other version of Megatron would likely have said something like "you fool" or "you still want to fight?" or something similar. This is because G1's Megatron ''does'' appreciate acts of heroism, and would consider it worthy to continue to fight against doomed odds; but because he's also more than a tactical and strategic match for Prime, he realises realizes Ironhide's just being an idiot at that point. It's actually a very subtle piece of characterisation which no one but a big fan of the series would have appreciated.
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* By the end of the movie, the main colors of the Autobot and Decepticon leaders match the colors of their faction logos.
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** Also, the "iron birds of fortune" line is very fitting considering that many notable Decepticons (not that the Autobots don't have them too) have aerospace-based alt-modes (the Seekers ([=F-15=]s), Cyclonus (Cybertronian jet), Astrotrain, Blast Off (both space shuttles), Vortex (helicopter), Blitzwing ([=MiG-25=]), Octane (Boeing 767), etc.)
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* Inside Unicron, we see a long line of bodies being carried to be dropped in, and they were falling pretty frequently. Firstly there's the shear horror of the fact that every second Daniel took to blast that cover another fell to their agonizing death, and then there's the question of where all the ones after the Autobots in the line went.
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* Inside Unicron, we see a long line of bodies being carried to be dropped in, and they were falling pretty frequently. Firstly there's the shear sheer horror of the fact that every second Daniel took to blast that cover another fell to their agonizing death, and then there's the question of where all the ones after the Autobots in the line went.
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Jazz appeared in the Galactic Olympics and a few other small scenes. He did appear.
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** There is at least one exception to that viewpoint: Jazz. He's explicitly seen surviving the movie, yet he doesn't appear again in the series. The reason is a case of Actor Existence Failure, as his actor, Scatman Crothers, passed away between recording for the movie and the third season.
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Actors do not count as an example of Author Existence Failure (now renamed to Died During Production).
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** There is at least one exception to that viewpoint: Jazz. He's explicitly seen surviving the movie, yet he doesn't appear again in the series. The reason is a case of [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actor Existence Failure]], as his actor, Scatman Crothers, passed away between recording for the movie and the third season.
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** There is at least one exception to that viewpoint: Jazz. He's explicitly seen surviving the movie, yet he doesn't appear again in the series. The reason is a case of [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actor Existence Failure]], Failure, as his actor, Scatman Crothers, passed away between recording for the movie and the third season.
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** There is at least one exception to that viewpoint: Jazz. He's explicitly seen surviving the movie, yet he doesn't appear again in the series. The reason is a case of [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actor Existence Failure]], as his actor, Scatman Crothers, passed away between recording for the movie and the third season.
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** I believe the implication is the Planet of Junk is made from various non-sentient machines (like broken-down spaceships), not pieces of dead Transformers/sentient robots.
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* Why did Galvatron finally do what he flat out refused to do as Megatron and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim kill Starscream]]? Two possible reasons: (1) Unicron's reformatting of him may have had a subtle influence on his thought patterns. He was rebuilt to find the Matrix, and this was likely prioritized in his mind, with the additional thought pattern of destroying any that obstructs this goal, and what was [[TheStarscream Starscream]] if not obstructive? (2) Along with his own reformatting, he also got new minions. Among them, Cyclonus. Who was all the things Starscream wasn't: Loyal, competent, and powerful. Megatron is implied to have kept Screamer around due to not having better options. That changed when Cyclonus, who is all the things Starscream is, only better, came along. No wonder Galvatron vaporized him. Starscream had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness finally outlived his usefulness.]]
** Or, more simply, that Megs had been willing to put up with Screamer as long as Starscream kept failing. By this point, Starscream had ''won.'' Megatron was only still alive by pure dumb luck, and was arguably stuck in a FateWorseThanDeath, getting his whole identity warped and enslaved by Unicron. This was ''beyond'' the last straw. No wonder he finally let Starscream have it.
* After their first fight, the Junkions become instant friends of the Autobots. Why? Because the Junkions [[AliensStealCable love Earth TV]] and the Autobots help protect the Earth. So by helping the Autobots, the Junkions insure that Earth will survive to produce more TV shows.
** Or, more simply, that Megs had been willing to put up with Screamer as long as Starscream kept failing. By this point, Starscream had ''won.'' Megatron was only still alive by pure dumb luck, and was arguably stuck in a FateWorseThanDeath, getting his whole identity warped and enslaved by Unicron. This was ''beyond'' the last straw. No wonder he finally let Starscream have it.
* After their first fight, the Junkions become instant friends of the Autobots. Why? Because the Junkions [[AliensStealCable love Earth TV]] and the Autobots help protect the Earth. So by helping the Autobots, the Junkions insure that Earth will survive to produce more TV shows.
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** In addition despite the Decepticons taking over Cybertron, the Autobots were likely in a better overall position with Autobot City as a energy generating facility and the moon bases as beachheads. The Decepticons had Cybertron sure, but did they restock the energy of the planet? They'd have won a propaganda coup by taking the planet, but how valuable was it for them?
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** In addition despite the Decepticons taking over Cybertron, the Autobots were likely in a better overall position with Autobot City as a energy generating facility and the moon bases as beachheads. The Decepticons had Cybertron sure, but did they restock the energy of the planet? They'd have won a propaganda coup by taking the planet, but how valuable was it for them?
them? This also serves to show, again, why Megatron is the leader and not Starscream: Megatron sees the energy production at Autobot City as the real threat, as without it the moons are untenable. Starscream just wants to get rid of the moon bases for being closer and near their controlled Cybertron.
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** In addition despite the Decepticons taking over Cybertron, the Autobots were likely in a better overall position with Autobot City as a energy generating facility and the moon bases as beachheads. The Decepticons had Cybertron sure, but did they restock the energy of the planet? They'd have won a propaganda coup by taking the planet, but how valuable was it for them?
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* Any Autobot that doesn't show up in later seasons can, very arguably, be put on a casualty list. Not just the ones we see die or know were intended to die, but if you add the Autobots who only appeared in the first two seasons who never appeared after it...
