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** Theophany (the planet where Crystal City is) is a Greek word meaning [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic "the appearance of God witnessed by a person"]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** In a flashback collage panel, you see Starscream executing Senator Proteus.
** In issue 56, Fort Max literally kicks Prowl in the undercarriage on-sight.
** Demus' death was rather pitiable, sent fleeing from his life in terror before being mercilessly shot in the back by Fortress Maximus, until Maximus tells us that [[spoiler: Demus was mutilating live Cybertronians [[HumanResources to construct his merchandise.]]]]

* OffModel: Chromedome's excursions into [[spoiler: Overlord's]] memories show an InUniverse example. Chromedome notes that he does have a very good memory, and it hasn't faded with age, looking at a gladiator match, though, he notices that the crowd are mostly the same color and the faces are missing from every third bot.
** One panel in issue 19 has [[spoiler:,as per the dialogue, have Ambus point at a Legislator while Tyrest' replies offscreen. However, Alex Milne drew Tyrest' arm, making the dialogue appear quite jarring]].

* OriginsEpisode: The Shadowplay story arc, which goes back to Pre-war Cybertron and shows the origins of some of the Lost Light's crewmembers as well as how their linked to eachother.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Cyclonus. [[spoiler: More poignant when it is shown he doesn't know how to handle the news about Tailgate's imminent death]].

* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[Used by by Getaway in their final fight, who rips into Rodimus about how similar the two of them are, to the point where Rodimus has been using his own team merely as an excuse to get one final shot at Getaway. Fortunately, Rodimus realizes Getaway's ''right'' and decides not to become anymore like Getaway, discarding the vendetta, and rescuing Getaway from being burned to death in the ship's furnace, with his darker paintjob being burned off in the flames, [[RuleOfSymbolism showing Rodimus' true colours.]].]]

* PoisonousFriend:
** [[spoiler:Atomizer to Rodimus.]]
** Getaway for Tailgate. He appears to be trying to drive a wedge between Tailgate and Cyclonus. [[spoiler:It turns out it's much worse. He's grooming Tailgate so the little guy will be willing to go along with a plan to frame Megatron, which would result in Tailgate's demise, just to get Megs either killed or imprisoned.]] In fact, just Getaway in general. [[spoiler:Since he'd been planning to get rid of Rodimus from day one, slowly going through the crew and marking those who wouldn't mutiny out, then shooting them with the Nudge Gun so they wouldn't remember.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: In issue 32, the crew discovers an alternate version of the Lost Light where the DJD tracked the ship down thanks to Brainstorm. The result is the Lost Light blown in half with all of the crew except Rewind murdered in unspeakably horrible ways before the DJD finally went into the slow cell and mutilated Overlord with a chainsaw.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just take a look at the still growing character page. Moreover, they're also a CastOfSnowflakes.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Whirl finds a way to make it funny, distressing, and a MythologyGag to the G1 Movie.

** In the first issue, Rewind buys some [[Series/BeastWars golden disks]] from Swindle. A few pages later, Tailgate swears by the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Underbase]].
** [[spoiler:While trawling through Overlord's memories, Chromedome notes the memory decay, which comes in the form of the crowd watching Overlord and Megatron fight being in block colours, in imitation of the colouring styles of [[ComicBook/TheTransformers the original comics]].]]

** Chromedome to Cyclonus. This is due to Chromedome being stationed at Kimia when Cyclonus led an attack on that base and killed several autobots, during the events of ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW. He gets over it around the end of season 1.

* MoralDilemma:
** Issue 34 deals with one; Bluestreak, Mainframe, First Aid, and Trailcutter have to decide whether to kill or medically treat a wounded cybertronion who may be a murderer. Surprisingly [[spoiler: Trailcutter is the only one willing to save the cybertronion after his identity is discovered]].
** Issue 51: The stranded Team Rodimus have a choice between running, and apparently leaving dozens of organics at the non-existent mercy of the DJD, or staying and almost assuredly dying horrible deaths. [[spoiler:They choose to stay.]]

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Somewhere in the middle, though it leans a bit closer to the soft side.

* MacGuffin: The Matrix Map, which the crew is following to find the Knights Of Cybertron. It's role as this becomes a problem when the crew is forced to destroy it to stop Tyrest's Universal Killswitch, robbing them of their only lead to the Knights Of Cybertron.

** The crew has another one when [[spoiler:they make contact with Cybertron only to discover that Starscream has taken charge.]]

* MeatMoss: The [[EldritchLocation strange ship]] the Scavengers find in issue 7 has a hallway covered in bleeding skin. It's noted that the ship probably crashed because [[RealityEnsues the biomass leaked blood everywhere tainting the fuel or frying something important]]. In other words, [[ARareSentence the spaceship bled to death]].

* RealityEnsues:
** The Scavenger arc features the scrappy underdogs vs the professional killers. It ends very badly. ChekhovsSkill, BigDamnHeroes, and HeroicSacrifice are all subverted, and the underdogs get their skidplates handed to them. Flywheels gets killed, Misfire gets mauled, Krok gets maimed, Crankcase gets electrocuted, and Fulcrum injures himself after his failed HeroicSacrifice.
** Issue 28 features two really dark examples:
*** Even though he's done a HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler:Megatron]] still goes on trial for his actions and nobody hides the fact that they want him dead. As it turns out amongst the general public, [[TookALevelInKindness taking a level in kindness]] doesn't make everyone not want to see you lynched.
*** [[spoiler: Chromedome slips back into his depression and starts to spend all day sitting in his room listening to Rewind's farewell message, refusing to talk to his friends. Rewind's message, while important, wasn't able to cure his emotional problems as initially thought]]. This sort of thing is sadly common amongst sufferers of depression who don't receive genuine treatment or aid.
** Issue 50 has Rodimus's childish behaviour come back to bite him in the ass, and hard, when everyone except the main cast has finally had it with his crap, and mutiny.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Starscream's testimony during Megatron's trial. The former seeker harshly denounces Megatron and his tenure as leader of the Decepticons arguing that Megatron's crimes were driven not by malice or cunning, but sheer incomptence. Megatron ultimately decides to nullify his trial because he refuses to let Starscream write his legacy]].

* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** [[Used by by Getaway in their final fight, who rips into Rodimus about how similar the two of them are, to the point where Rodimus has been using his own team merely as an excuse to get one final shot at Getaway. Fortunately, Rodimus realizes Getaway's ''right'' and decides not to become anymore like Getaway, discarding the vendetta, and rescuing Getaway from being burned to death in the ship's furnace, with his darker paintjob being burned off in the flames, [[RuleOfSymbolism showing Rodimus' true colours.]].]]
** As Zeta unleashes the Omega Destructors on Nyon, Starscream wonders out loud if he and Megatron aren't more similar than the Decepticon leader had realised.

* {{Reconstruction}}: A lot of things that were deconstructed in ''Last Stand Of The Wreckers'' are either put back together here or reworked into new but recognizable forms. For example; where LSTOW raised the question of whether [[NotSoDifferent the Autobots were any better than the Decepticons]], MTMTE has the Lost Light crew heroically and selflessly jumping down to Temptoria to save the innocent citizens of that world from a group of line-crossing Decepticons.

* LostInTransmission: The ominous message in issue 1, seemingly from the future, before its full warning can be given. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turns out the message was from the past (time-travel was involved) and the full warning was "don't let Megatron on board".]]

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse, no one will let Cyclonus live down the time he was working for Galvatron, despite the fact that, as Cyclonus himself notes, he was basically brainwashed into doing it against his will (and immediately turned on Galvatron once he snapped himself out of said brainwashing).