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* IKnewIt: There were some guesses that [[spoiler:the Constructicons didn't die, as when "Prowl" triggers their detonation chips, the explosion comes from their necks and consumes their heads in fire (silhouettes still visible), instead of blowing them to bits like Horri-bull.]]
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** Season 1 had it's fans, the continuity was much tighter, the cast had more of the big names in meaty roles, and Post-war Cybertron was ripe with new story ideas. It also had its detractors, some felt the pacing was very slow, the Autobots and NAILS came off as too unlikable, and [[spoiler:Megatron's return]] while a fun arc made him seem too generic.
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** Season 1 had it's fans, the continuity was much tighter, the cast had more of the big names in meaty roles, and Post-war Cybertron was ripe with new story ideas. It also had its detractors, some felt the pacing was very slow, the Autobots and NAILS [=NAILS=] came off as too unlikable, and [[spoiler:Megatron's return]] while a fun arc made him seem too generic.
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* DesignatedHero: Sideswipe is an Autobot, but he acts like a complete lunatic who constantly provokes fights and talks about how much he loves to engage in violence. On multiple occasions he's talked about shooting/beating up Decepticons and NAILs for fun and during the annual. No wonder the Nails hate the Autobots when they've got psychos like Sideswipe around. Likely intentional, though to what extent isn't clear.
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* DesignatedHero: Sideswipe is an Autobot, but he acts like a complete lunatic who constantly provokes fights and talks about how much he loves to engage in violence. On multiple occasions he's talked about shooting/beating up Decepticons and NAILs [=NAILs=] for fun and during the annual. No wonder the Nails hate the Autobots when they've got psychos like Sideswipe around. Likely intentional, though to what extent isn't clear.
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MEH requires the character be incapable of redeeming themselves, but also had a chance at redemption in the first place. Starscream and Blackrock redeemed themselves, and Galvatron, Bludgeon, and Proteus never had the possibility of redeeming themselves.
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* MoralEventHorizon:
** Starscream murdering Metalhawk when no one was looking, then using his death to propel his own popularity and then win the population over to his side.
** Bludgeon crosses it when he kills [[spoiler:Varta.]]
** Senator Proteus definitely crossed it after what he had done to poor Shockwave.
** Galvatron murdering [[spoiler:General Witwicky]], then using his death to manipulate Marissa.
** If Blackrock hadn't crossed it when he [[spoiler:sets the jetbot combiners on Jazz, Kup and Jetfire, then dunking them in acid to melt them for no real reason did the trick.]]
** Starscream murdering Metalhawk when no one was looking, then using his death to propel his own popularity and then win the population over to his side.
** Bludgeon crosses it when he kills [[spoiler:Varta.]]
** Senator Proteus definitely crossed it after what he had done to poor Shockwave.
** Galvatron murdering [[spoiler:General Witwicky]], then using his death to manipulate Marissa.
** If Blackrock hadn't crossed it when he [[spoiler:sets the jetbot combiners on Jazz, Kup and Jetfire, then dunking them in acid to melt them for no real reason did the trick.]]
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Barber has been known to do these with his ArcWelding and cleaning up messy continuity.
** Reflector caused a continuity headache when he appeared alive and well, when in an earlier issue he'd very definitively died. Barber wrote in a Time Travel device that both solved the continuity error, and tied into his overall story of Shockwave's ores.
** He does write in a justification for why the Constructicons became TheDividual, rationalizing it as the after effects of the Combiner process stripping away individuality. This easily sidesteps a franchise wide issue wherein Combiner teams end up with light characterization (with some exceptions), because they're just around to promote their combined mode.
** Even after other colonies showed up and introduced more Female Characters, Arcee's gender reassignment still remained a sore point which several fans felt Scott and Barber should have retconned rather than used as a plot point. In issue 52, Arcee delivers a very definite statement of "I'm what I was always meant to be," showing that she is comfortable with who she is now. Depending on your perspective, this either solves the problem or adds a whole host of new ones (as up until this point, Arcee had very, very definitively been the PTSD stricken victim of a forced sex change.) This was further patched in the ''very last issue of [=IDW1=]'' as it was established that Arcee's trauma was less due to her sex change and more because of Jihaxus deserting her on the table after he had finished the process, leaving her with no-one to help her adjust to her new body.
** The final issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne Till All Are One]]'' ended with Windblade declaring that being constructed cold was unnatural and that Starscream might have been a much better person if he had been born in his "natural" forged body. This became an issue with fans because it had been repeatedly established that there was no inherent difference from being forged or constructed cold and anyone who said otherwise was either a villain or a bigot. Issue 16 of ''Optimus Prime'' reaffirms that the method of a Transformer's creation is unimportant and all of Starscream's poor choices were his own fault, not because he was denied a "god-given form."
** Reflector caused a continuity headache when he appeared alive and well, when in an earlier issue he'd very definitively died. Barber wrote in a Time Travel device that both solved the continuity error, and tied into his overall story of Shockwave's ores.
** He does write in a justification for why the Constructicons became TheDividual, rationalizing it as the after effects of the Combiner process stripping away individuality. This easily sidesteps a franchise wide issue wherein Combiner teams end up with light characterization (with some exceptions), because they're just around to promote their combined mode.
** Even after other colonies showed up and introduced more Female Characters, Arcee's gender reassignment still remained a sore point which several fans felt Scott and Barber should have retconned rather than used as a plot point. In issue 52, Arcee delivers a very definite statement of "I'm what I was always meant to be," showing that she is comfortable with who she is now. Depending on your perspective, this either solves the problem or adds a whole host of new ones (as up until this point, Arcee had very, very definitively been the PTSD stricken victim of a forced sex change.) This was further patched in the ''very last issue of [=IDW1=]'' as it was established that Arcee's trauma was less due to her sex change and more because of Jihaxus deserting her on the table after he had finished the process, leaving her with no-one to help her adjust to her new body.
** The final issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne Till All Are One]]'' ended with Windblade declaring that being constructed cold was unnatural and that Starscream might have been a much better person if he had been born in his "natural" forged body. This became an issue with fans because it had been repeatedly established that there was no inherent difference from being forged or constructed cold and anyone who said otherwise was either a villain or a bigot. Issue 16 of ''Optimus Prime'' reaffirms that the method of a Transformer's creation is unimportant and all of Starscream's poor choices were his own fault, not because he was denied a "god-given form."
