History YMMV / TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye

** Anode. For a lot of readers Anode is a godsend. A transgender character without the very unfortunate baggage of Arcee possessing a charming, goofy rogue characterization and love that two new characters are being given a lot of developmental time. Another group might appreciate the inclusion of a transgender character but find Anode abrasive and argue she's given far too much focus in the much slower paced first year. And then a third group who just rejects transgender characters that the other two groups wisely ignore.

* TheScrappy:
** [[spoiler:Getaway was this after ''Our Steps Will Always Rhyme'', having gained his fair share of detractors, due to his sudden Yandere vibes over Tailgate, despite otherwise being generally affable with the majority of the crew. The reveal of #47 has moved him from being a scrappy and squarely into HateSink category.]]
** Anode for Lost Light, as many fans feel she serves no purpose to the overall story, and her real purpose as the 'character for new readers to latch onto' could have easily been served by Roller, Terminus, or any of the others who were stored on the Necroworld. Worse yet, she's a big case of SpotlightStealingSquad, as she takes up too much time that could have been better spent focusing on the already established characters and their plot lines (Nautica and Swerve dealing with Skids' death, Cyclonus and Tailgate's struggling relationship, Terminus and Megatron's reunion and why [[spoiler: Terminus tricked Megatron into staying in the functionist universe]], Fangry's hatred for Tailgate, Roller's reaction to everything that's happened in his absence) and sucking them all up for an unusual amount of attention on a new character that many fans feel hasn't earned it. The CharacterShilling she gets in issue 7 of Lost Light doesn't help. Outside of this Anode comes across as an attempt at a LovableRogue that lacks the charisma or the intrigue that the role really needs.

** Anode. For a lot of readers Anode is a godsend. A transgender character without the very unfortunate baggage of Arcee posessing a charming, goofy rogue characterisation and love that two new characters are being given a lot of developmental time. Another group might appreciate the inclusion of a transgender character but find Anode abbrasive and argue she's given far too much focus in the much slower paced first year. And then a third group who just rejects transgender characters that the other two groups wisely ignore.

* {{Squick}}: The DJD making Blip hold his own brain in his mouth in issue 39. Tarn's dialogue doesn't help.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When he lived in Dead End, Drift was so poor he had to quite literally "sell his body" to survive.

*** Events of #38 "Elegant Chaos Part 3" suggest that Brainstormh was actually being sincere, in one of his rare few not-completely-[[BunnyEarsLawyer bunny-eared]] moments.

** Tyrest and Magnus's interactions are far more casual than you would expect [[ByTheBookCop from either]] [[TheJudge of them]].

** The Scavengers' spaceship, the Weak Anthropic Principle, is frequently just called by its initials, the WAP. As of 2020, there's now a popular but EXTREMELY lewd song that shares the acronym, which makes re-reading thir stories even funnier.

** The Scavengers' spaceship, the Weak Anthropic Principle, is frequently just called by its initials, the WAP. AS of 2020, there's now a popular but EXTREMELY lewd song that shares the acronym, which makes re-reading thir stories even funnier.

** The Scavengers' spaceship, the Weak Anthropic Principle, is rrequently just called by its initials, the WAP. AS of 2020, there's now a popular but EXTREMELY lewd song that shares the acronym, which makes re-reading thir stories even funnier.

*** Optimus makes it abundantly clear that he's going along with this because he ''wants'' to, not because he has to. Few would object if he simply ignored such an archaic law (as countless judges clearly must have before him), retried Megatron elsewhere, and got on with it. And he points out that he could still simply lock up Megatron until such time as Rodimus finds the Knights (so never, considering their usual rate of progress). It's the fact that he ''wants to believe'' that Megatron has reformed that convinces him to give him a chance (conditionally; AllLovingHero he maybe, Prime's no dummy).

*** Optimus makes it abundantly clear that he's going along with this because he ''wants'' to, not because he has to. Few would object if he simply ignored such an archaic law (as countless judges clearly must have before him), retried Megatron elsewhere, and got on with it. And he points out that he could still simply lock up Megatron until such time as Rodimus finds the Knights (so never, considering their usual rate of progress). It's the fact that he wants to believe that Megatron has reformed that convinces him to give him a chance (conditionally; Prime's no dummy).

* The fake outs. Starting with issue 6, MTMTE quickly gained a reputation for killing off characters with James' willingness to snipe well developed or well loved individuals undergoing a MemeticMutation. However unlike it's sister book (where it became more common for deaths to stick), MTMTE actually has a relatively low body count among significant characters for a 6 year series, with a very large number of DisneyDeath. Some deaths like Pipes and Trailcutter stuck but many, many times a character was portrayed as dead only to be either severely wounded (Rung, Red Alert, Ultra Magnus) or were perfectly fine the next issue (the most infamous example being Cyclonus seemingly being torn to shreds by laser fire at the end of an issue only to be 100% a okay in the next issue with no explanation). For some fans, the drama of these moments was the important thing (as the fake outs were generally all well executed)and they didn't want those characters to die anyway. They also point to the number of B and C tier characters (as well as occasional A like Skids and the first Rewind) who did pass on to show there were real stakes. For others the constant fake outs meant that would be moving or shocking moments were treated with disbelief, bordering on disdain as the series moved on. These readers also say the deaths that did happen either didn't have enough effect on the main cast (e.g. the deaths in the sadly rushed final arc of Lost Light)too frequently unimportant to the plot. Ironically the handling of one death that was hit both these points was not well loved (Nautica's arc relating to Skids) in many circles and Roberts has said it's one of the stories he wishes he had a chance over with.
* Anode. For a lot of readers Anode is a godsend. A transgender character without the very unfortunate baggage of Arcee posessing a charming, goofy rogue characterisation and love that two new characters are being given a lot of developmental time. Another group might appreciate the inclusion of a transgender character but find Anode abbrasive and argue she's given far too much focus in the much slower paced first year. And then a third group who just rejects transgender characters that the other two groups wisely ignore.

** Fangry crashed headlong into this trope when he [[spoiler: violently murdered Kaput and left Tailgate buried alive for incredibly [[EvilIsPetty overblown and petty reasons]].]] Even the [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Wiki]] highlights how much you likely hate him.

** Fangry violently killing [[spoiler:Kaput]] puts him over the horizon. Even his later action of leaving [[spoiler:Tailgate]] to die a slow irradiated death feels like typical Bond villain-esque Decepticon behavior in comparison.

* CompleteMonster:
** [[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Overlord]] escapes confinement and shreds his way through dozens of Autobots before [[spoiler:Rewind]] [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] to take down Overlord, though not before Overlord [[AnArmAndALeg rips all of his limbs off]] then bites his head in two, all of which he later taunts [[spoiler:Rewind]]'s spouse with. In his final appearance, Overlord once again oversees a horrifying war campaign against the Autobots, culminating in [[BadBoss him ditching his allies to their fates]] when he grows bored of the proceedings. Overlord is an abomination of a Decepticon who horrifies and disgusts everyone he meets, his own teammates included, something he laughs about every chance he gets.
** [[AxCrazy Pharma]] is a former [[MadDoctor Autobot Medic]] who [[FaceHeelTurn went evil]]. After saving one of the main character's lives, he became the head medic at a medical facility on the planet Delphi. There he received death threats from an elite Decepticon unit who threatened to overrun the place, and [[WellIntentionedExtremist began bribing them with organs]], first from dead bots but later he began killing living ones. Eventually [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope it becomes too much]], and he has two other Decepticons unleash a plague on the facility to kill everyone and cover up his crimes. When he's revealed, he shoots a life-support, sending about 20 patients into near death states to distract everyone. He then tries to kill Ratchet twice before [[DisneyVillainDeath being thrown off the facility]]. He survives the fall and is recruited into the group of Chief Justice Tyrest, who drilled a hole in his head and is trying to destroy all Transformers he considers inferior; all the Decepticons admit to being freaked out by him. When he finds Ratchet again, he separates Ratchet's head and spark from his body and starts torturing him. To prove he is a better medic, he has one of his co-workers from Delphi, [[spoiler:Ambulon]], [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half]], vertically from head to crotch, with a {{chainsaw|Good}}, and tells Ratchet to fix him. [[spoiler:Ambulon]] dies in agony before the chainsaw leaves him. Later Pharma shoots Brainstorm.
** [[PsychoPsychologist Froid]], originally a [[FriendlyRivalry friendly rival]] of Rung's, [[WeUsedToBeFriends destroyed their friendship]] when he plagiarized his work and damaged his reputation. Later in his career, he assisted in the capture of a SerialKiller named Sunder, along with his accomplice and brother Spectre. However, while on a prison ship taking the brothers to Garrus 6, the brothers pulled a successful escape, with Froid as their hostage, though Spectre was killed as a result. After the escape, Froid offered Sunder a perverse offer: in return for Sunder serving as a subject for him to study, Froid would help him cope with the death of his brother and supply him with victims. After convincing Sunder he needed to see his victims in order to feed on them, Froid [[EyeScream removed Sunder's eyes]] to inhibit his appetite. Held up on the planet Scarvix, Froid becomes rich and famous due to Sunder's abilities to read memories without a patient knowing, all while handing innocence Cybertonians to the madman. After coming across the ''Lost Light'', Froid boarded the ship, looking for new victims for Sunder. After reuniting with Rung, he attempted to blackmail his one-time friend into giving him Rung's patient files. When Rung refused, he decided to feed him to Sunder, giving the SerialKiller his eyes as Skids to rushed in to warn Rung. In order to escape, Froid opened Sunder's cell, setting him free upon the ''Lost Light'' as he attempted to retreat.

* MagnificentBastard:
** It doesn't become clear until "Remain In Light" just how much [[spoiler:Prowl]] has manipulated the Lost Light crew. For one thing, [[spoiler:he correctly guessed that Chromedome would end up a point where Drift could convince him to join up with the Overlord project]] and played [[spoiler:Rodimus]] like a fiddle to get him to do what he wanted. However, it's also {{deconstructed}} as his manipulations end up having loads of horrible consequences. Not only that, but once the consequences are real, those that were manipulated realize they were and some even call out Prowl on it.
** After completely fooling ''everyone'' for one and a half seasons, [[spoiler:Brainstorm]] rapidly establishes himself as one of the most competent and effective villains the crew has ever had to face; [[spoiler:even if his actual goal is much more noble than what was expected.]]
** In the footsteps of Prowl, [[spoiler:Getaway]] continues the proud Special Ops tradition of being both a brilliant operator and utter scum.

* {{HSQ}}: "Remain In Light" and "Slaughterhouse".Pretty much all of "Crucible", with special mention to [[spoiler: The Guiding Hand's [[TheReveal true story]], Cyberutopia's [[NightmareFuel true nature]] and [[EvilKnockOff FUNCTIONIST ]][[PhysicalGod PRIMUS]]]]

* PanderingToTheBase: [[TropesAreNotBad A well-received example]]. James Roberts admits Nautica was explicitly created with the intent that she would join the Lost Light crew at the end of 'Dark Cybertron'.

* SuperCouple: Chromedome and Rewind.