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2 | [[caption-width-right:345:"Curiouser and Curiouser..."]] |
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4 | ''Small Problems'' is a ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' fanfiction series written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/280809/Ghost_of_the_Dawn Ghost of the Dawn]] taking place in the Transformers G1 continuity, published in 2008 and currently ongoing. There have been five stories in the series so far- [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3836521/1/Small_Problems Small Problems]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4500810/1/Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost in the Machine]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4767477/1/The_Autobot_Files The Autobot Files]],[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5769066/1/The_Secret_Lives_of_Decepticons The Secret Lives of Decepticons]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6075675/1/Rising_Generations Rising Generations]]. |
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6 | The first story in the series, ''Small Problems'' begins with a small group of Autobots being shrunk down to toddler sizes, and forced to depend on Crystal, a human to survive. The entire series serves as a {{Deconstruction}}/{{Reconstruction}} of the "human turned into a Transformer" plot. |
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8 | Notably, the author is an avid artist and her [[http://ty-chou.deviantart.com/gallery/ DeviantArt]] account is filled with Fanart. |
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11 | !!Tropes found in this series: |
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13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
14 | |
15 | [[folder: Entire Series]] |
16 | * {{Action Girl}}: Crystal is one, along with [[spoiler:every Autobot Femme currently online]] |
17 | * {{Alien Arts are Appreciated}}: Most of the Autobots, and even a few of the Decepticons. |
18 | * {{Alliterative Name}}: ''Crystal Carlyle'' |
19 | * {{Alternate Universe}}: Transformers: The Movie hasn't happened, and the version of Earth the characters inhabit is much more similar to our earth than the future envisioned in 1986. |
20 | * {{Darker and Edgier}}: This series is this in relation to the original series. |
21 | * {{Heterosexual Life Partners}}: Prowl and Jazz, ''oh so much''... |
22 | * {{Old Shame}}: The entire series was written in order to fix one of these- Ghost of the Dawn admitted to being one of the first people to write a [[spoiler:'OC} dies and becomes a robot story']] back in 1998, and wanted to take her old idea and make it readable. |
23 | %%* {{Tarot Motifs}}: A reoccurring theme in the series. |
24 | %%* {{The Starscream}}: This being ''Transformers'', the Trope Namer is this. |
25 | * {{Transforming Mecha}}: Naturally- this is Transformers. |
26 | * {{You Cant Fight Fate}}: Another reoccurring theme in the series. |
27 | [[/folder]] |
28 | [[folder: Small Problems]] |
29 | Megatron has a ray gun that shrinks Autobots, leaving them two and a half feet tall and very far from home. |
30 | * {{Brawn Hilda}}: Kat Slacovka, Crystals opponent in her cage match. |
31 | * {{Delayed Oh Crap}}: From Crystal, after realizing her predicament. |
32 | -->'''Crystal''': KILLER ROBOTS?! WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?! |
33 | * {{Gratuitous Spanish}}: Sideswipe enjoys this trope after a trip to Argentina. |
34 | * {{Handbag of Hurt}}: Crystal used her duffel bag to knock down Frenzy-[[{{Justified Trope}} justified]], because she actually filled it full of bricks. |
35 | * {{Lampshade Hanging}}: Jazz, on the Autobots insane luck: |
36 | -->'''Jazz''': Heh, what are the odds that a death ray turns into a shrink ray when it gets blasted? |
37 | * {{Laser Guided Amnesia}}: Blaster removed Sound-waves files on the {{Death Ray}} that he had created. |
38 | * {{Nice Job Fixing it Villain}}: It's implied that Rumble and Frenzy were responsible for the Death Ray being so easily converted into a Shrink Ray by Prowl. |
39 | * {{No One Gets Left Behind}}: Prowl refuses to leave the missing Autobots behind. Optimus, stuck by himself for the majority of the fic, feels the same for his missing troops. |
40 | * {{No Waterproofing in the Future}}: Crystal wonders if this is true of the Autobots- Jazz and Prowl think the question is ridiculous. |
41 | * {{Not a Morning Person}}: Crystal is one of these. |
42 | * {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}: Blaster is stuck in his alt mode after his transformation cog is melted. |
43 | * {{Good Angel Bad Angel}}: {{Discussed}} by Wheeljack and Jazz while Ironhide and Prowl are arguing the merits of Crystal participating in a fight. |
44 | * {{Shout Out}}: Jazz gives one to WesternAnimation/{{Pinky and the Brain}} in chapter 4. |
45 | * {{Shrink Ray}}: How the group of Transformers led by Optimus get shrunk- interestingly, it wasn't originally a Shrink ray- it was a {{Death ray}} until Prowl managed to shoot it. |
46 | * {{Unusually Uninteresting Sight}}: No one seems to think the tiny intelligent robots are anything to worry about... of course, this ''is'' New York. |
47 | [[/folder]] |
48 | [[folder: Ghost in the Machine]] |
49 | Decepticons are mysteriously disappearing. But that's hardly the Autobot's problem, isn't it? |
50 | [[/folder]] |
51 | [[folder: The Autobot Files]] |
52 | A series of short stories about a few Autobots and their different views on life. |
53 | [[/folder]] |
54 | [[folder: The Secret Lives of Decepticons]] |
55 | Being a Decepticon isn't easy, but what do they do with themselves when they aren't fighting Autobots and trying to subjugate the population? |
56 | [[/folder]] |
57 | [[folder: Rising Generations]] |
58 | When Starscream seeks out a strange power source in space, its discovery starts a series of events that will change the future of Cybertron and all who inhabit it. |
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