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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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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?
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51	[[folder: The Autobot Files]]
52	A series of short stories about a few Autobots and their different views on life.
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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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