History NightmareFuel / TransformersAnimated

** In general, Animated Megatron is scary. Not in the same way the Movie or Prime Megs is mind you, but in his own cold, calculating way. He has the brains to back up his brawn, an elegant yet brutal fighting style, the charisma to inspire psychopaths like Blitzwing and Lugnut to join him, and probably worst of all, through out the whole series, Megatron thinks he'a the good guy. Let that one sink in...

** In general, Animated Megatron is scary. Not in the same way the Movie or Prime Megs is mind you, but in his own cold, calculating way. He has the brains to back up his brawn, an elegant yet brutal fighting style, the charisma to inspire psychopaths like Blitzwing and Lugnut to join him, and probably worst of all, through out the whole series, Megatron thinks he is the good guy. Let that one sink in...
*** Allow me to reiterate. Megatron, war-crime committing, [[WouldHurtAChild child-murdering]] Megatron, thinks that he is the good guy. Well, given what we've seen from the results of Wasp's time in the Autobot stockades, the Jettwins, and Perceptor effectively doing a Shockwave and removing his own emotions WILLINGLY, along with Sentinel's organophobia, it's easy to see WHY he thinks he's the good guy. The scary part? He's probably right.

* As cool as it was, Soundwave's upgrade into a big, [[ComicBook/IronMan HulkBuster like]] appearance is a little creepy.

'''Ratchet:''' You'll have to pry it from my cold offline servo.\\

** The beginning of the episode gives us a hint to how terrifying the monster is when it attacks an unfortunate construction worker at a mineshaft and absorbs his mining robots. [[NothingIsScarier We don't actually get to see what it does to the worker]], which is probably for the best.

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* The fact they threatened to [[KarmicDeath take Swindle apart and auction the pieces]], all while he was [[AndIMustScream fully aware, conscious, and unable to move or protest]]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, he got better and didn't seem to have any adverse psychological aftereffects.]]

* Wasp's speech pattern and appearance were a shoutout to the lovable but luckless Waspinator from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' -- except that Waspinator wasn't originally a mentally normal if slightly jerkish person. The years that Wasp spent imprisoned for treachery against the Autobots apparently were horrible enough to completely warp his mind, and this is from ''the good guys''. [[spoiler:Then he tries to get his payback by switching places with Bumblebee, Face/Off style. Not only do you get to watch Bumblebee's horror at being trapped in the likeness of the enemy, you get to watch Wasp remove his face. But much worse was Wasp's creepy behavior through the whole scene, with that childlike, playful, way-too-calm voice he uses as he's doing it.]]
** And then in a later episode, Wasp is transformed into the hulking technoorganic Waspinator. It's mercifully offscreen, but you can hear his screams and see his hand pounding at the glass of the chamber door. Later in the episode, we have another ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' ShoutOut turn disturbing. [[spoiler: Yes, he does say ''Waspinator has planzzzz" while trying to pull himself back together, but he's sparking and leaking everywhere as he says in the most menacing of buzzing voices, hilarious dismemberment becomes horrific.]]

* [[spoiler:Blurr]] got one of the most brutal moments in the show when he gets caught between two [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Advancing Walls Of Doom]] and gets ''crushed into a metal cube''.
** Derrick Wyatt stated on his blog that [[spoiler:Blurr]] would have, through a series of distractions, avoided [[spoiler:his fate in the incinerator]]. He would have survived the rest of the series as a cube, unable to move on his own. Also, an animation detail that got left out? ''His still beating spark.''
* Sari, after learning of her [[spoiler:semi-robotic nature]] decides to use the Allspark Key to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass.]] At first it works... but then she completely loses control of herself and comes all too close to graphically killing her best friend Bumblebee when she accidentally impales him.

-->'''Soundwave''': I am Soundwave. I am Decepticon. [[AIIsaCrapshoot The revolution begins now!]]

** Sari RapidAging and [[AdultFear being tossed off of a skyscraper]] by Blackarachnia. Not to mention, [[WouldHurtAChild Sari's an 8 year old girl]]. Thankfully, Bumblebee and Bulkhead were there to save her.

** The beginning of the episode gives us a hint to how terrifying the monster is when it attacks an unfortunate construction worker at a mineshaft and absorbs his mining robots. [[NothingIsScarier We don't actually get to see what it does to the worker,]], which is probably for the best.

** Speaking of ''Black Friday'', Blackarachnia has Meltdown broken out of prison to use his research to purge her of her organic half and make her pure Cybertronian again. Unfortunately for her, Meltdown double-crosses her by instead attempting to rid her of her Cybertronian half and use her organic remains for his genetic experiments. Optimus is able to stop him just in time by seizing his genetic modifier, which leads Meltdown to accidentally touch the machine with his acidic hands, causing him to melt into a puddle of acid. The end of episode however that Meltdown is still alive and starting to reshape his body, but because of ExecutiveMeddling, the human characters are mostly left OutOfFocus and the series ends with the last episode of Season 3, leaving Meltdown's fate unclear...

** Meltdown's second major appearance in ''Survival of the Fittest'' reveals that he's been performing human experimentation to create a transforming human, and while we don't see the transformations happen, we do get to see the results. Meltdown's Bat and Shark mutants, his lawyer and stockbroker, have become a [[MixAndMatchedCritters mismatched of animal parts]]