History TearJerker / TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye

** [[spoiler:Grimlock and the Scavengers make peace with Fortress Maximus before settling down on Troja Major to raise the Firstborn... except Crankcase, who leaves on a possibly fruitless quest to reunite with CONS4EVA. We never learn if he found them or not.]]

* How ''everything'' goes wrong at the very end as all the mounting tension and boredom onboard the tiny ship the cast is traveling on breaks, starting with when Rodimus gets a call from Fort Max on Necroworld and is told that [[spoiler: Tailgate apparently [[KilledOffScreen died in his underground capsule]] due to spontaneous spark combustion]], and has to break that news to [[spoiler: Cyclonus. Rodimus does his best, showing genuine empathy for Cyclonus (his own sorrow is palpable), saying that Tailgate would have died instantly and felt no pain as it happened, but Cyclonus...well, he reacts about as well as you might expect someone as emotionally stuned as him to. He doubles over and screams in agony before stalking out of the meeting with Rodimus...just in time to have Anode ripped off of Ultra Magnus (due to her escalating prank war with Swerve) and hitting Cyclonus square in the back, which causes him to snap, unsheathe his Great Sword, and attempt to bring it down on Anode...who is warned just in time by Swerve, and rolls out of the way...but this means the sword slashes ''Rewind'' instead, across the chest, severing his primary fuel lines. As Velocity attends to Rewind's wound, Chromedome angrily rebuffs Cyclonus when he tries to apologize. Velocity then reports that Rewind ''will'' live, which causes Cyclonus to snidely remark that "he always does", which serves to only further enrage Chromedome, accusing Cyclonus of being jealous of his relationship with Rewind, because it's something he's never had, which causes Cyclonus to respond that what Chromedome thinks he and Rewind have is only an illusion, because it turns out Cyclonus does have some messed up ideas about love, saying it's only real when it ''hurts''. Chromedome then takes a swing at him through an intangible, possibly-dead Ratchet (long story) when he tries to intervene, only for Whirl to interpose himself between the two, tell Chromedome to back off because this isn't about him, and then just asks Cyclonus if it's about Tailgate. Cyclonus ''collapses sobbing into Whirl's arms''. Looks like they're finally more than just BashBrothers.]]

* No tricks, no illusions, no falsehoods [[spoiler: The crew of the Lost Light are ''all dead.'' Sure they're all together in the Afterspark, as confirmed by the presence of Trailcutter and Pipes, but they're ''all dead.'']]

* How ''everything'' goes wrong at the very end as all the mounting tension and boredom onboard the tiny ship the cast is traveling on breaks, starting with when Rodimus gets a call from Fort Max on Necroworld and is told that [[spoiler: Tailgate apparently [[KilledOffScreen died in his underground capsule]] due to spontaneous spark combustion]], and has to break that news to [[spoiler: Cyclonus. Rodimus does his best, showing genuine empathy for Cyclonus (his own sorrow is palpable), saying that Tailgate would have died instantly and felt no pain as it happened, but Cyclonus...well, he reacts about as well as you might expect someone as emotionally stuned as him to. He doubles over and screams in agony before stalking out of the meeting with Rodimus...just in time to have Anode ripped off of Ultra Magnus (due to her escalating prank war with Swerve) and hitting Cyclonus square in the back, which causes him to snap, unsheathe his Great Sword, and attempt to bring it down on Anode...who is warned just in time by Swerve, and rolls out of the way...but this means the sword slashes ''Rewind'' instead, across the chest, severing his primary fuel lines. As Velocity attends to Rewind's wound, Chromedome angrily rebuffs Cyclonus when he tries to apologize. Velocity then reports that Rewind ''will'' live, which causes Cyclonus to snidely remark that "he always does", which serves to only further enrage Chromedome, accusing Cyclonus of being jealous of his relationship with Rewind, because it's something he's never had, which causes Cyclonus to respond that what Chromedome thinks he and Rewind have is only an illusion, because it turns out Cyclonus does have some messed up ideas about love, saying it's only real when it ''hurts''. Chromedome then takes a swing at him through an intangible, possibly-dead Ratchet (long story) when he tries to intervene, only for Whirl to interpose himself between the two, tell Chromedome to back off because this isn't about him, and then just asks Cyclonus if it's about Tailgate. Cyclonus ''collapses sobbing into Whirl's arms''.]]

* The final panel is pure NightmareFuel, but also horrifically tragic. Skids thought he was fixing Grindcore's teleporter, in return for Tarn freeing fifty prisoners. He knew Tarn probably wouldn't live up to his end of the bargain, but reasoned that the worst case scenario was still am improvement, as the prisoners would be transported off-world and used as slave labor; dozens of them were dying a week from the sadistic "mouth flowers" installed in them, and at least slaves need to be kept alive. Tarn actually seems to keep his word at first too, putting fifty prisoners in the "teleporter" and sending them away. And he has an apparent PetTheDog moment when he offers Skids a place on the next shipment out, then allows him AND Quark to go. The truth is that the teleporter is an incinerator; Tarn is melting down Autobots for raw materials. He teleports Skids out just as he realizes this, so he can make him watch [[http://36.media.tumblr.com/fce4974fda54e2d95068ed8c03516611/tumblr_o2glozYNU51trm5gzo1_1280.jpg as his fellow prisoners are gruesomely killed]]. Skid's faith in Primus dies along with them.

-->[[spoiler: '''Nickel''': It was gift from a friend. He’s dead now. They’re all dead...]]

** Also some Brilliance - the gravestones on the special cover have some resemblance to the hundreds of un-named WW2 gravestones in war cemeteries in Europe, and the endless blue flowers echo the poppy fields of Flanders. The comic was published in September in the USA, but came out in October in the UK. October and November are the months where Remembrance Day is held very prominently in people's minds in Europe...

** If that wasn't bad enough, Tailgate is actually so desperate to be with Cyclonus again that he lets Kaput try and ''extremely'' dangerous method of depowering him, one which would kill any lesser bot (and may very well kill him). He must spend six months buried in a chamber flooded with radiation, but readily accepts the risk for a chance to be with Cyclonus. But as soon as he's down there, Fangry takes his revenge for the beatdown Tailgate gave him, killing Kaput and resetting the timer so Tailgate will be down there for six million years. The issue ends with Tailgate in the same place we met him way back in MTMTE #1: ''buried alive''.

-->'''Roller''': They've given you a second chance.

* Megatron's FreakOut after [[spoiler: Ravage's death. He refuses to let Ratchet remove his new Fusion Cannon and turns it on the Lost Light's crew with every intent to leave. Thank Primus that Terminus chose that moment to enter the scene.]]
* [[spoiler:Megatron and Terminus' reunion.]]

!''Lost LIght'' Issue 4

* We finally learn the fate of Agent 113. [[spoiler: After being discovered by the DJD, he was subjected to the same "domestication" process Demus put his Roboids through and was turned into ''the Pet''. Oh, and he's also ''Dominus Ambus'', who's disappearance was actually him going undercover to infiltrate the DJD, and who's true beast form was hidden from even Rewind because he's a Loadbearer like his brother Minimus and hid it under a suit of outer armor. Chromedome and Rewind learn this at the exact same time-Chromedome from injecting the Pet to try and get the location of the DJD's ship and Rewind from examining the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy after learning the truth from Minimus-and Chromedome [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy resolves to restore Dominus' mind so he and Rewind can be together, even though the strain will kill him]]. But [[SadisticChoice if the procedure isn't completed, Dominus will die instead due to his mind collapsing]]. Rewind begs him not to, but Chromedome is resolute, and so Rewind [[CallBack grabs one of Drift's shortswords and severs Chromedome's arms]], saving him, but killing Dominus, telling Chromedome it wasn't his choice to make. The feels ensue.]]

* The death of [[spoiler:Skids, who has his traumatic memories of Grindcore restored, so that the resulting breakdown will temporarily give Outlier abilities to his crewmates. Despite this HeroicSacrifice, he dies hating himself for what he did (even though he was tricked into it by Tarn), and trying to crawl to Brainstorm so he can apologize for Quark's death. And, in a tragic CallBack to his first appearance, he calls himself "Scum".]]

** Issue three reveal that most of those on necroworld are using a "mood suppressant" with some of the bots are using to block out their grief over Skids's death. With only Nautica being the only one worried about these things.