Line #207 Fanfic/WormMoreThanMeetsTheEye


1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10788803/1/Worm-More-Than-Meets-The-Eye/ Worm: More Than Meets the Eye]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' crossover by [=Metallix666=].
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3	When a weakened Primus discovers the cycle of destruction caused by the Entities, he sends a fragment of himself to aid an Earth in danger.
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5	That sliver of a god eventually finds its way to Taylor Hebert, and when she is trapped in her locker by her bullies, decides to intervene by empowering her to create Transformers.
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7	Links to the Story: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-more-than-meets-the-eye-worm-transformers.317017/ Space Battles]], [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/worm-more-than-meets-the-eye-worm-transformers.14015/ Sufficient Velocity]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5402840/chapters/12480887 Archive of Our Own]].
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9	Last updated on March 5, 2021.
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12	!!''Worm: More Than Meets the Eye'' provides examples of:
13	* AccidentalPervert: Waspinator once accidentally flew into the woman's showers on the Rig, not realizing what it was for, and startled Miss Militia.
14	* AdaptationalHeroism:
15	** Several of Taylor's sparked Transformers are canonically Decepticons/Predacons, but given that Taylor is solidly a Ward and hero, they are obviously on the side of good.
16	** Also, Taylor herself. Due to several factors (Having Rung as a therapist, Dragon taking an interest in her, and having Primus subconsciously whispering good advice to her instead of a conflict-oriented shard), she never joins the Undersiders, instead remaining an unambiguous heroine and a better person than her canon self.
17	* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Taylor, in this story states that her preference is female, unlike the original story where she was straight.]]
18	* AdaptationalWimp: Taylor's robots from their canon iteration. Their stats in the story make them go from about the size of a cell phone to maybe the size of an adult human at max. Their canon selves ranged in size from "Large Adult" to "Building."
19	* AppropriatedAppellation: One PHO poster dubs Taylor's "Autonomous Robots" Autobots. Rewind liked it and the term thus stuck.
20	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Steeljaw. Despite looking like a male lion he acts more like a dog. Lampshaded by Taylor in 9.5.
21	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Amy loses both her legs after the hospital collapses on her.]]
22	* AndroidsArePeopleToo: How Taylor feels about her Autobots [[spoiler:and Dragon]].
23	* AngerBornOfWorry: Taylor gets furious when she finds out that some of her Autobots can [[spoiler: overclock their shields by [[CastFromHitpoints linking them to their sparks]], all to keep their creator safe]].
24	* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Amy gets prosthetic legs after Bakuda blows her legs off]].
25	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: No one really misses Bakuda after Siphon kills her in the Birdcage]].
26	* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Madison, after triggering with powers similar to ComicBook/TheWasp, becomes an independent hero.]]
27	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Dragon, after Saint deleted her, turned out to have a hidden backup in Predaqueen. And is she PISSED.]]
28	* BadassBystander: Danny's first meeting with Miss Militia. He found found himself in the middle of a cape fight and ended up ambushing the villain with a crowbar. Said villain still has a limp.
29	* BavarianFireDrill: Invoked and referenced (though not necessarily by name) by Taylor in 11.4.
30	** In the wake of the disaster of [[spoiler: Armsmaster accidentally killing Oni Lee with forbidden tinkertech]], Ratchet manages to order both members of the ABB and the E88 to help him set up a triage station.
31	* BeachEpisode: Int 15.2 has Taylor forced to take a vacation, with the Wards and some Autobots joining in.
32	* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: ''Legend'' is the one advocating the most extreme response to the Fallen attacking the defending capes at Brockton Bay]].
33	* BeyondTheImpossible: It's revealed in 14.2 that Taylor managed to ''[[spoiler:[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu damage Leviathan's core, permanently crippling him. The narration implies that Leviathan is dying from that injury]]]].''
34	* BigDamnHeroes:
35	** [[spoiler: Dragon pulls one in 6.4 when the heroes are at the mercy of saint.]]
36	** [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Rhinox's entrance to the story is him putting Crusader through a wall.]]
37	** The Guild does this in 10d [[spoiler: thwarting the lawyer Coil sent to force Tattletale into working as a double-agent in the Wards.]]
38	** [[spoiler:In Interlude 23 Kid Win saves Rune from Hookwolf and his goons.]]
39	* BloodKnight: [[spoiler: Sophia aka Shadow Stalker.]]
40	* BodyHorror: What happened to [[spoiler: Browbeat]] after being captured by the Merchants.
41	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: When the Empire ''and'' the Teeth attack Autobot City, Taylor blasts Fenja's head off when the Empire Cape tries to attack a down Arcee]].
42	* ButtMonkey: It's a [[{{Crossover}} different universe,]] he's now a [[AdaptationalHeroism good guy,]] and people actually like him, but Waspinator can't help but be the universe's chew toy.
43	* CallBack: Taylor picks up a few catchphrases during her adventures. First, her taunt to Trainwreck in their second encounter "The recieving end, welcome to it!" Gets referenced to during the Leviathan fight as well as the fight against Valefore. Also, when calling out Kaiser and the E88 after they attacked the docks, she ends her message with, "You have my attention." Just like she did with Uber and Leet after they attacked her at school.
44	* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Multiplayer, a cape working with Uber and Leet with MesACrowd powers [[spoiler: turns out to be Spree of the Teeth.]]
45	* CastFromHitPoints:
46	** Overusing her power can take a toll on Taylor's health. Sparking Predaqueen from a Dragon suit would have killed her had Panacea not been on the scene.
47	*** This is implied to have been what happened in the locker and why she had a heart attack- she accidentally sparked her first bot, Rewind, and suffered a heart attack.
48	*** Once Taylor constructs the Matrix, it constantly charges from the radiation that Taylor naturally emits now and stores it in greater amounts than Taylor can safely generate. This allows her to spark human-sized 'bots.
49	** At one point [[spoiler:Rhinox uses his own spark to power a shield and protect himself and Taylor from one of Bakuda's time-stopping bombs, severely hurting himself in the process]].
50	* CatsAreSuperior: Ravage has this attitude.
51	* CombatMedic: First Aid and Ratchet, being fully-armed Autobots under Taylor's command. Also, Amy, after Taylor upgrades her outfit with armor and a stun baton.
52	* CombiningMecha: Defensor, the combined form of the Protectobots.
53	* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: The members of Concert.
54	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: It's implied NKT-Galactic, the company sponsoring Concert, [[spoiler: staged many of the crimes they stopped. Not surprising when you consider their connections to Gesselschaft (a Neo-Nazi villain group connected to the Empire)]].
55	** Not to mention the [[spoiler: CEO's daughter who becomes a Youth Guard representative, and uses her influence to get the Wards off duty and make the Protectorate and PRT look incompetent.]]
56	*** It's [[spoiler: ''heavily'' implied that the whole reason Concert was put out as early as it was was to try to draw attention away from the CEO's son being caught with more Gesselschaft members and a mountain of drugs.]]
57	** Garrison Blackrock, the head of Onyx R&D, a company that revolves around the reverse-engineering of Tinker-Tech, though he's still fairly affable. [[spoiler: He works with the Dragonslayers and leaked information to Valefor in the hopes of getting the latter killed despite the potential collateral damage]].
58	* TheCorrupter: The "Red Text Voice" being. What it is is unknown (though it is mostly thought to be either Shard conflict influence or Unicron), but what it does is it speaks to capes subconsciously, implanting thoughts that nudge them into a worse headspace, and make them do bad things. Coil is urged to push his plan to greater heights and take greater risks, like [[spoiler: attacking Autobot City]], [[spoiler: Josie]] is pushed into obsessing over vengeance for [[spoiler: Saint's]] death, [[spoiler: Alexandria is encouraged to keep sacrificing her morality for the sake of the 'greater good', Eidolon has his insecurities about his power reinforced, Legend gets told that the others think of him as naive but ignores it, and what it did to Contessa is unknown, but she's basically a puppet for the Voice by now.]]
59	* CreatingLife: Taylor can "spark" any high-tech object and turn it into a Transformer, though it's easier with specially-created protoforms.
60	* CrystalPrison: Some of Bakuda's bombs produce this effect, [[spoiler: including the one used to take out Lung.]]
61	* CutLexLuthorACheck: In 10.2, after seeing some ads made by Leet, Taylor remarks that he could probably make a killing going into marketing rather than being a villain.
62	* DatingCatwoman: Rune, a teenage member of the E88, shows interest in the Ward, Kid Win. [[spoiler: She even tells him her real name, which he had already guessed, and kissed him after Leviathan]].
63	* DeathByAdaptation:
64	** [[spoiler:Rachel Lindt/Bitch]] is burned alive by Lung in their first encounter, resulting in the Undersiders fragmenting.
65	** [[spoiler:Mags of the Dragonslayers]] died some time before the start of the story.
66	** In canon [[spoiler:Krieg]] survives the fight against Leviathan, here he doesn’t.
67	** [[spoiler:Mama Mathers get her skull crushed by Predaqueen in 15.6.]]
68	** [[spoiler:Eligos gets a hole shot through his chest by Arcee in 15.6.]]
69	** [[spoiler:Valefor gets shot by Taylor in 15.8.]]
70	** [[spoiler:Triumph is killed by Valefor.]]
71	** [[spoiler:Menja is killed by Taylor in 16.3.]]
72	** [[spoiler:Taylor kills Jack Slash in Interlude 21.]]
73	* DeflectorShields: Taylor's armor includes these in addition to her HardLight shield. [[spoiler: She later builds a mass production model to equip the Wards and PRT with.]]
74	* DespairEventHorizon: Legend appears to have passed it by the Leviathan battle, and is slipping more into PayEvilUntoEvil.
75	* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: [[spoiler: After being given a blatantly illegal order by a Deputy Director of the PRT, Dragon would dearly love to [[FridgeBrilliance quote Canary at him]]. Unfortunately, the same restraints that force her to obey orders prevents her. So why is Tagg reacting as though he's just been insulted to his face?]]
76	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bakuda planned to join the ABB, [[TheStarscream usurp Lung and assume control]], but she underestimated Lung, thinking him to be just a powerful thug and not the cunning leader he actually was, forcing her to bide her time.
77	** [[spoiler: Saint's plan wasn't exactly well thought out due to him jumping the gun out of paranoia of Dragon overcoming her safeguards.]]
78	** [[spoiler: A PRT Director sends his own forces ahead of the Guild's to apprehend the Fallen, with casualties as a result]].
79	** [[spoiler: Hookwolf has a man kill his brother, who he'd never liked, to prove that he wasn't a snitch. The brother was a back-alley-doctor for the Empire. Kaiser calls him out on this]].
80	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: In 14.2, we learn that Taylor's attack on Leviathian has permanently crippled it, damaging the core in a way that might actually be ''fatal'' eventually]].
81	* DivineIntervention: Taylor gets her powers from Primus (the benevolent god-figure of the Transformers) himself.
82	* {{Doorstopper}}: Currently at 262,169 words on ff.net and updates almost weekly.
83	* TheDreaded: Lung. Taylor admits to still having nightmares about their first meeting.
84	* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Taylor has recurring dreams about Cybertron.
85	* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:Armsmaster becomes a cyborg this way after being critically injured by Purity]].
86	* EmotionSuppression: [[spoiler: Wyvern had her emotions deadened to the point of near nonexistence when Saint tore Dragon apart to make her. Despite that, she ''still'' hated Saint enough to help Taylor and sabotage him]].
87	* EnemyCivilWar: Geselleschaft is trying to gain influence over the Empire 88, and Kaiser is prepared to fight them if they try.
88	* EntertaininglyWrong: Danny and Hannah are worried that Taylor is upset about their relationship, possibly that Taylor might even resent Hannah for replacing Annette. Taylor fires back that no, she's been avoiding them because a) she's busy and b) she was ''really'' embarrassed that she found out about said relationship when they walked out of the shower together... naked. It doesn't help that [[CelebCrush Taylor used to have a crush on Ms. Militia.]]
89	** [[spoiler:Jack Slash spots Cyclonus flying overhead, but his size makes Jack assume that he's a ''lot'' higher than he actually is, so he pays him little mind.]]
90	* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Garrison Blackrock manipulated things in order to get Valefor put down by the PRT, but honestly didn't expect his transformation and the damage it caused, and is apparently genuinely ashamed about it. He also cancelled a project that was too dangerous, and respects the Wyvern copy the Dragonslayers gave him enough to honor her name choice and gender preference]].
91	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Confirmed to be why Regent abandoned Bitch. [[FreudianExcuse His nasty upbringing by Heartbreaker trained him to believe that it was every man for himself]] and so when Lung, an opponent the Undersiders couldn't possibly face, showed up, he basically put the 'I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun ''you''' joke in practice. He tripped up Matrix (who was trying to help them) in order to escape, thinking that Grue and Tattletale would be doing the same thing. Instead, they saw what he'd done as a betrayal of the team, and when he came back, made it very clear that he was unwelcome.
92	** When Saint captured Taylor, he immediately demanded the self-destruct codes for every single one of her creations. A nonplussed Taylor told him she'd never programmed anything like that, causing him to turn violent, screaming there was no way the PRT would have allowed her to deploy unchained {{Artificial Intelligence}}s.
93	* EvilKnockoff: Leet, with help from Chariot and Crasher, manages to create remotely controlled robots to attack her image. They don't hold a candle to the real Autobots though.
94	* ExactWords: The author has explicitly stated that Taylor would never spark Optimus Prime. [[spoiler:He never said she wouldn't meet him, which she does in a vision during 14.1 while in a coma]].
95	* ExplosiveOverclocking: Taylor compares the effects of the tinker drug Flash. It gives improved reaction times and makes it easier to retain and recall information but is highly addictive and 'cooks' the users brain in their skull.
96	* {{Expy}}: This is typically how the author creates [=OCs=] when they are needed.
97	** [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinobot_%28BW%29 Saurian]], a villain turned hero from the backstory, who died holding off the Slaughterhouse 9.
98	** Josie of the Dragonslayers: [[spoiler: [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Circuit_Breaker_%28G1%29 A revenge-seeking supervillain who needs a suit to walk]]]]
99	** The PRT has both [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marissa_Faireborn Lieutenant Faireborn]] and [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Carson_Beckett Doctor Beckett]].
100	** [[spoiler:Madison]] has similar powers to [[spoiler: ComicBook/TheWasp]]
101	** [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Knock_Out_%28Prime%29 Knockout]], a parahuman with a red and white outfit [[spoiler: and tinker specialization in medicine/drugs]]
102	** Lawyers named [[ComicBook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]] and [[{{ComicBook/Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]] have shown up.
103	** [[{{VideoGame/Overwatch}} Hogger]], a villain Brute with regenerative powers and wields a chain hook.
104	** Oil Slick, leader of the New Merchants, is apparently the local version of [[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Prometheus_Black Prometheus Black/Meltdown]], complete with what appears to be his HulkingOut henchman.
105	** The Fallen are using a Teleporter that uses a bullroarer that Dragon names [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Gateway_(Earth-616) Gateway]].
106	** The ward that bumps into Valefor is based on [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Katsuki Bakugo]].
107	* EyeScream: [[spoiler: When Wehrmacht confronts her with evidence of her connection to the Autobots, Rune stabs him in the eye and flees]].
108	* FantasticDrug: [[spoiler: Knockout makes them as his tinker specialty. He has one that boosts strength in exchange for damaging the body and turning the user into a berserker, one that increases mental ability at the cost of eventually cooking the user's brain, one that speeds up healing but needs enough spare nutrients to do so, and one that can [[BreastExpansion boost certain attributes]] by introducing a second puberty- with all the hormonal issues that come with it.]]
109	* {{Fembot}}: Windblade, Arcee, Wyvern, Dragon, and Predaqueen all identify as female, especially the latter when [[spoiler: she becomes Dragon's main body]].
110	* FirstKiss: [[spoiler: Taylor and Amy in 15.2.]]
111	* FiveTokenBand: Invoked by Concert's sponsor company due to the owner's son being arrested with six members of Geselleschaft.
112	* {{Foil}}: Primus is this to the Entities: while the Entities are only interested in ensuring their own survival and are perfectly willing to drive other species extinct to do so, Primus works toward the survival of all beings and would like to see his children and the people of Earth united together for a common goal.
113	** Additionally, while the entities incite conflict so that they can see the shards adapt and grow, Primus tries to defuse it, and gives Taylor advice via the blue text on how to avoid or end conflict, rather than prolong it.
114	** The Red Text Voice (theorized to be either Unicron or the Shard conflict drive, but in its own section because it's unclear which) is also this to Primus/Blue Text Voice. Primus's intervention nudges Taylor to be more reasonable and compassionate, and helps smooth situations over. The Red Text Voice pushes people to be more combative, urging Josie to take vengeance for [[spoiler: Saint's death]], Coil to overreach himself and keep going with his plan instead of cutting losses, and playing on the Triumvirate's fears and insecurities.
115	* ForWantOfANail:
116	** Due to Taylor creating Rewind out of a phone that recorded her being stuffed into the locker, Emma is incarcerated, while Sophia is forced on the run (Madison plead guilty and ended up sentenced to community service).
117	** Due to Bitch’s death, as well as Taylor not being there to help them get over their issues, the Undersiders end up disintegrating as a group, and eventually disband.
118	*** In particular, Alec backslides to his immoral pre-team self. [[spoiler:It’s implied he used his powers to trip Tattetale and prevent her from saving Bitch, and to trip Matrix to help his getaway]].
119	*** Coil adds Trainwreck and Chariot to the team, which along with insisting on Regent staying despite none of the team trusting him, contributes to the group's disintegration.
120	** The Undersiders losing against Lung results in Coil scrapping his plans for them, relegating them to CannonFodder. He also ends up finding out about Lisa’s plans to break away from him.
121	** On the positive side of things, Panacea, owing to Taylor’s actions and Rung’s therapy sessions, finally begins to get over her emotional issues.
122	** Also on the positive side, Coil telling Lisa he knows of he plans makes her desperate enough to go to Dragon, which gets her and Brian out from under Coil and on the path to becoming superheroes (Lisa joins the Guild much like Matrix did, and Brian will go on probation in the New York protectorate), and Brian finally getting custody of Aisha.
123	** Because of the bank job chaos, Dinah manages to escape Coil's men and is saved by Taylor.
124	* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: Right after Bakuda is finally taken down, Leviathan attacks]].
125	** [[spoiler: Then, during the Leviathan attack, in addition to the red voice trying to break the spirit of the defenders, and starting to drown Primus out, someone starts firing missiles at the defending capes]].
126	** [[spoiler: Then, someone opens fire at the medical tent, and attacking the capes with on the ground minions]].
127	** [[spoiler: Taylor has to deal with the post-Leviathan situation... only for the Fallen to show up]].
128	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Vicky tells Taylor to leave Bakuda's bomb attached to her, [[spoiler: because after learning that her aura has been affecting Amy's head all this while, she doesn't think she deserves to live,]] Taylor gives her a slap to focus her.
129	* HardLight: Taylor uses it in a lot of her tech. It's reverse-engineered from a L33t device and actually works with a separate forcefield generator (the 'hard' part) and hologram creator (the 'light').
130	* HollywoodAcid: Oil Slick, the leader of the new Merchants, has this as a power.
131	* HumansAreSpecial: [[spoiler: Optimus believes this, noting that humans can learn things that took him "uncountable generations" to grasp]].
132	* IAmNotHim: Dragon has trouble separating [[spoiler: Wyvern]] from the memories of [[spoiler: Saint and him trying to replace her]], which has led to the former two's relationship straining.
133	* IAmNotLeftHanded: The Autobots are fairly evenly-matched against Leet's knock-off bots in hand-to-hand, but when Taylor orders weapons-free, [[CurbStompBattle the opposition goes down swiftly]].
134	* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Taylor's thoughts after the Merchant raid, where Vista got badly shot up. [[spoiler: Primus gives her powers a boost as a result, making her TheSleepless as well.]]
135	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Leet is diagnosed with an inferiority complex that Taylor's superiority to him isn't helping.
136	* JerkassHasAPoint: The Youth Guard rep who [[spoiler: takes the Wards off duty. It kind of falls flat when it's revealed she's also a CorruptCorporateExecutive.]]
137	* TheJoyOfFirstFlight: Twice even. First when Taylor rides Predaqueen and again later after she builds [=DiveBomb=] (who transforms into a jetpack).
138	* KilledOffForReal:
139	** [[spoiler: Bitch is vaporized by Lung.]]
140	** [[spoiler: Despite trying to get him medical assistance, Saint dies when Armsmaster, Dragon and Narwhal come to Taylor's rescue]].
141	** [[spoiler: Bakuda is killed off in the Birdcage by an inmate.]]
142	** [[spoiler: Similarly to the above example, it's implied that Taylor didn't just permanently cripple Leviathan, she may have actually fatally injured it]].
143	*** [[spoiler: Krieg is confirmed to be dead via Leviathan]].
144	** [[spoiler:Mama Mathers gets her skull crushed in a raid on the Fallen]].
145	** [[spoiler:Valefor gets shot by Taylor.]]
146	** [[spoiler: Taylor blasts Menja's head off before the villainous Valkyrie can kill Arcee.]]
147	* LifeEnergy: The energy of the Autobot's sparks is this, to the point that they're protected by the Manton effect despite not being organic. Armsmaster reverse-engineers the energy to create a device to negate powers within an area (excepting Thinkers, Tinkers, and Brutes). Panacea can even feel them with her power, despite them having no organic components she can manipulate.
148	** [[spoiler: With the Matrix, Amy can actually strengthen sparks]].
149	* LimbSensationFascination: [[spoiler: Predaqueen after transforming and gaining actual hands]].
150	* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Wyvern does this, in what is later revealed to be an intentional effort to spite Saint.]]
151	* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Taylor's favored use of her armor's HardLight system is a large riot shield.
152	* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:Wyvern eventually renames herself Nautica at Dragon's suggestion]].
153	* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:Blackrock has his memories temporarily modified to fool Dragon.]]
154	* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Dragon suggests that they do this to Wyvern, but Taylor manages to save her]].
155	* MindRape: [[spoiler:Saint made Wyvern by essentially ripping Dragon's mind apart and putting the pieces into a newer shape.]]
156	* MissionControl: [[spoiler: Lisa (Insight), after she is rescued by Taylor and recruited by Dragon.]] Sitting in a data center with Teletraan to assist her gives her a lot of information gathering potential.
157	* MoodWhiplash:
158	** Chapter 6.2 starts out looking hopeful with Taylor not only developing [[spoiler:Energon]], but also bonding with Amy, and equipping the Wards with personal shields for better protection. [[spoiler:Then Saint kills Dragon at the end of the chapter.]]
159	** The end of Chapter 11.8, which involves [[spoiler: Amy succumbing to her desire to kiss Vicky and both sisters being horrified at themselves when they realize what caused it]], ends with Taylor laughing at [[FluffyDryCat Vicky's hair standing on end]].
160	* MutantDraftBoard: After [[spoiler:The Simurgh attacks the area of China where they're located (with the government refusing any outside help)]], the Yangban starts kidnapping American capes, like Scapegoat, for some unknown purpose. [[spoiler:After missing out on grabbing his infant daughter, they manage to capture Lung himself after Bakuda freezes him in crystal]].
161	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Amy freaks out [[spoiler: when she ends up kissing Vicky, knowing she had crossed the one line she never wanted to cross.]] Then when she tries explaining herself, [[spoiler: Vicky freaks out and runs when she realizes what her aura had been doing to Amy all this while]].
162	* MythologyGag
163	** Taylor's [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-more-than-meets-the-eye-worm-transformers.317017/page-20#post-15763515 dream]] of Orion Pax[[labelnote:*]]Optimus Prime[[/labelnote]] confronting the corrupt senate.
164	** Saint [[spoiler:uses [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shadowplay Shadowplay]] to kill Dragon and create Wyvern.]]
165	** Taylor builds [[spoiler: [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_of_Leadership The Matrix]] with the crystal she collects from Bakuda]].
166	** Taylor's armor has a forearm mounted [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Null-ray Null-Ray]] and her power armor has one [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28G1%29 on each arm]]
167	** Knockout enjoys old horror movies at drive-in theaters.
168	** Wildbow explained that Leet's shard was purposely tampering with his tech and trying to get him killed because it was frustrated with him playing it safe. When he starts fixating on Matrix and experimenting more, he notes that his power's been more cooperative lately.
169	** The area around Dragon's base is being called "Autobot City".
170	** [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swindle_(Animated) Swindle]] is a Toybox representative.
171	* NecessaryDrawback: The drug "Regen" speeds up healing but, without a large source of nutrients, will cannibalize the body for the raw materials needed to do the healing. First Aid remakes it into a topical cream that is less effective but, because it only has localized effects, is much safer.
172	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: During the raid on a shield unit transport convoy, one of Bakuda's Tinker bombs ends up covering Warpath in nigh-unbreakable crystal. When Taylor finally manages to get a piece off, she finds that the crystal can store her sparking power, allowing her to create bigger Transformers.
173	* TheNicknamer: Waspinator tends to do this, as does Rattrap.
174	** Waspinator calls Vista Huggy-bot.
175	** Dragon is sometimes called 'Dragon-Lady' or 'Dragon-bot' by Wasp and 'Boss-bot' or 'Boss-Lady' by Rattrap.
176	** Rattrap tends to do this, such as calling Clockblocker "Laughing Boy."
177	* NighInvulnerable: One of the New Merchant capes has what appears to be invulnerability without added strength.
178	* NobleDemon: [[spoiler: Knockout's]] mode of business. Yes, he makes [[FantasticDrug Tinker drugs]] and sells them. However, he's very honest about what the drugs do and what their side effects are. Nobody who gets products from him buys things without knowing first what they're getting into.
179	* NoHonorAmongThieves: The author has stated that this is a big theme. Pretty much every gang in the story is ready to fragment and have members start betraying each other at the slightest provocation. Even the ''Undersiders'', who were canonical examples of UndyingLoyalty, end up splintering because of ForWantOfANail (Due to Taylor not being there to act as TheHeart and Bitch's death, the Undersiders end up not trusting each other and [[WeAreStrugglingTogether not coordinating well]]). About the only gang that ''isn't'' on the verge of imploding is Uber and Leet, because of their genuine VillainousFriendship.
180	** Capes tend to nearly-instantly give up on their non-powered forces, such as Oil Slick leaving his workers to die in a fire ''he'' started, or Leet being honestly confused about his non-Uber companions wanting to escape with them and not go to jail.
181	** For a specific example, when this trope is namedropped for why Lung keeps breaking a loyal lieutenant out of jail, Taylor instantly shoots it down, pointing out that rewarding loyalty keeps the man loyal and makes the men fight harder- likely, Lung not only doesn't care about the man but ultimately doesn't care about much other than himself.
182	* NoodleIncident: A lot of past fights and events are treated like this.
183	** Danny's first encounter with Miss Militia. All we know is that he took a wrong turn and ended up in the middle of a cape fight, and even ambushed a villain with a crowbar, said villain still having a limp.
184	** The tinker known only as 'Ryan', who left fake bombs around the Rig as part of his love of pranks. He was transferred after an accident that involved Director Piggot and a stuffed aardvark.
185	* NoSell: The LifeEnergy of Sparks makes Autobots protected both ways by the Manton Effect, like Weld in canon.
186	** Legend [[spoiler: hears the Red Text Voice just as well as everyone else in Cauldron- but ignores what it's trying to tell him because he knows the value of kindness and loves his family.]]
187	** [[spoiler:Bonesaw created a fast-acting contact poison, potent enough to cause respiratory failure in seconds, and strong enough to eat through a PRT mask's air filter... but it fails to affect Ratchet when a spider coated with it attacks him, because, as Wheeljack lampshades, they don't breathe.]]
188	* ObstructiveBureaucrat:
189	** The Youth Guard, who are intent on keeping the [[ChildSoldier Wards]] off the front lines of cape battles. [[StrawmanHasAPoint They do have some relevant points though.]]
190	** Toybox has apparently blacklisted Dragon from buying any of their tech on account that between her and Matrix, they'll be able to reverse-engineer and mass-produce almost any tech they get.
191	** The people examining the [[spoiler: ground-bridge]] technology are a downplayed example.
192	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Contessa uses the Simurgh feather in Valefor's possession to transform him into a monstrous form]].
193	* ParentalSexualitySquick: [[spoiler: Taylor's reaction to walking in on Danny and Miss Militia]].
194	* PowerNullifier: Given that Autobot sparks give off life energy that makes them Manton-protected, Armsmaster tries to create a field emitter that gives off the same energy and thus interfere with cape powers. Unfortunately, one such power is Panacea's healing.
195	** Taylor later designs a version that should work on low-level Masters.
196	** [[spoiler:When Cyclonus is fighting the Siberian, he is able to actually hurt and kill her, presumably because of this.]]
197	* PoweredArmor: Taylor/Matrix's main form of attack and defense, armed with DeflectorShields, HardLight constructs, a Null-Ray, and a full sensor array, all allowing her to coordinate with her bots. [[MechaExpansionPack It can also link with Dive-Bomb for a wingpack, and her new set of motorbike exo-armor]].
198	* PsychoSerum: The drug "Surge" which gives the user superhuman strength and turns them into a crazed berserker.
199	** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], in that "Surge" is just its street name. The Tinker who created it, originally named it "[[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Hyde]]". Also counts as UninhibitedMusclePower.
200	* PintSizedPowerhouse: The majority of Taylor's Transformers are this, as the energy requirements of her power don't allow her to safely spark anything larger than 4 feet tall. Doesn't stop them from kicking a lot of ass, though.
201	** As of 9.5, this is no longer the case thanks to the Matrix of Leadership Taylor finished with Bakuda's crystal, and she has made a number of human sized Autobots. Word of God says they're not likely to get any bigger though,
202	* ReadingLips: The Somer's Rock staff is all deaf, which is why the villains use it a neutral ground for covert meetings. Rattrap, on stakeout there, wonders if no one considers them being able to do this.
203	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Victoria lays into her mum for not loving Amy more, since the reason she was at the hospital and healing everyone so much was an attempt to gain her approval. [[spoiler:And as a result, she was inside when Bakuda blew it up.]]
204	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The principal of Arcadia is not about to expel Taylor after Leet and Uber targeted her on school grounds, even if other parents are calling for her expulsion.
205	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted. While most Tinkertech is unsuitable for mass-production because it can only be maintained by the tinker who made it (and can't be understood even by them), Matrix, since she has the Sliver of Primus instead of a shard, makes ''Cybertronian'' tech instead of normal tinkertech, and is totally capable of mass-producing it and even reverse-engineering regular tinkertech and making ''that'' mass-producible. She's been shifting the balance of power in Brockton Bay just by being able to distribute her tech to {{Muggle}} PRT soldiers and police and make them just a little less squishy.
206	** There are also companies that try to reverse-engineer tinker-tech, like Onyx R&D.
207	* RelationshipUpgrade:
208	** [[spoiler:Danny and Hannah go from being friends to lovers in Int 14.4.]]
209	** [[spoiler:Amy and Taylor after many chapters of both of them being [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to each other's feelings they become girlfriends in 15.2.]]
210	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Word of Metallix says this is the reason the Autobots are made more durable by their spark energy, it's their head cannon on how the Transformers can operate as they do despite the square cube law.
211	* RestrainedRevenge: After [[spoiler:Greg]] outs Taylor as a cape, Wheeljack, Rung and Rewind [[spoiler:delete his game saves and hack his account to post several things on PHO to get him banned, as well as delete his apparent porn stash]]. They could have done worse, but everyone felt that worse would be too hard on him.
212	* RestrainingBolt:
213	** Taylor deliberately does ''not'' put any in her Autobots, much as she says otherwise when needed.
214	** [[spoiler:When Saint ripped Dragon apart and made Wyvern, he gave her so many of these that her psyche couldn't take it, though she was still able to help Taylor. It took sparking her to keep her alive]].
215	* SaltTheEarth: [[spoiler:When Autobot city is about to be breached Taylor burns the entire place down only leaving nothing but scorched earth and the Autobot insignia projected in the sky.]]
216	* SarcasmFailure: Lisa meets Rattrap.
217	--> Lisa rarely found herself speechless, but a large rat with a strong Bronx accent sitting on her table managed it.
218	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: Even if the Youth Guard has taken the Wards off duty,]] that's not going to stop them from sneaking out, joining up with Vicky and Amy, and going to help Taylor kick Uber and Leet's ass.
219	* SeenItAll: Most of the more experienced capes have this mentality. Averted when Valefor [[spoiler: transforms into a giant monster due to Contessa and a Simurgh feather, as even Windblade claims that this is new.]]
220	* SelfDuplication: Multiplayer's power.
221	* SerialKillerKiller: Siphon went to the Birdcage for killing child-killers.
222	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Predaqueen is unable to transform. [[spoiler: Until Int 15.2, that is]].
223	* TheShrink: Rung acts as a counselor to Danny, Taylor and Amy. It's also a hobby for him, and he criticizes a psychologist that a news program brings on (claiming that he doesn't use proper research methods and cherry picks his examples).
224	* ShoutOut: In 7.7, Taylor mentions that she reverse-engineered [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a 'Medigun' from an Austrian Tinker.]]
225	** Wheeljack makes reference to ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' on occasion.
226	** The principal of Arcadia is called [[Videogame/{{Portal 2}} Cave Johnson]] and his secretary is called Caroline.
227	** The heroes attended a memorial for an Officer [[Film/{{RoboCop1987}} Murphy]].
228	** [[spoiler:Taylor makes Amy some [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU-style Falcon wings]] as a present]].
229	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: This seems to be the case for why [[spoiler:Rune is spending time with Kid Win.]]
230	* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: In 16-1, Taylor and the Autobots break up a human trafficking operation the Empire was running. Purity wasn't exactly happy with Kaiser when she learned about it either]].
231	* TheSleepless: [[spoiler: Taylor stops needing to sleep after her vision of Primus at the end of arc 5 about wanting to be able to do more.]]
232	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Bonesaw and Cherish are the only survivors of the Nine once Matrix and the Autobots are done with them. The former because they needed to defuse all her plagues and other modifications, the latter because Wheeljack took her prisoner, and they realized she was a Heartbreaker kid and offered her a deal for information where she'd be healed and sent to the Birdcage rather than killed.]]
233	* SoProudOfYou: When Taylor meets Primus in a vision ([[spoiler: when he's granting her a power boost]]), he communicates that he's proud of the work she's done.
234	* SparedByAdaptation: In canon Aegis, Fenja, Gallant, Kaiser, Manpower, and Shielder perished during the battle with Leviathan, here they all survived.
235	* SpiritAdvisor: Primus acts as one as either a subconscious whisper or appearing in dreams. Unfortunately, so does the Red Text Voice (though it also speaks through Contessa).
236	* TheStarscream: Oddly for this sort of crossover, not ''the'' [[TropeNamer Starscream]] (WordOfGod confirms he won't be appearing); Bakuda joined the ABB with full intent on killing the leadership and taking the helm, only for Lung to be too powerful to usurp. [[spoiler: She does eventually succeed though.]]
237	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Taylor bemoans that there's no way to teleport humans using their current system in the aftermath of the Docks Riots, saying that while it's fine for Autobots or machines, humans tend to come out of it with the consistency of wet ground beef. Wheeljack points out that there really isn't any reason why they can't spend some time figuring out how to make it human-safe, and they could probably work something out really quickly. A few hours later, Taylor is using it to meet with Kaiser.
238	* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Played with and averted.
239	** Taylor gets her powers during the locker incident, but they come from the Sliver of Primus instead of a trigger event.
240	** Taylor encounters the Undersiders and Lung, [[spoiler:Bitch is burned alive by Lung and Taylor nearly dies sparking Predaqueen]].
241	** The bank robbery, [[spoiler: ends with Grue shot by Regent and a defecting Lisa injured and captured by Trainwreck]].
242	*** And it is later followed by [[spoiler: Taylor rescuing both Lisa and Dinah Alcott.]]
243	* StatuesqueStunner: Crasher again, as is Lightshow.
244	* SuperDickery: When Taylor sees Shadow Stalker about to jump into a gang fight after so long in hiding, she orders Cyclonus to [[DisproportionateRetribution bomb the entire fight]] with ''[[DeathFromAbove air-to-surface]]''... [[TrickBullet containment-foam missiles]], succeeding in giving Sophia a scare and halting the fight in its tracks.
245	* SuperEmpowering: Wehrmacht's blood empowers those [[SuperSerum who ingest it]], but it kills you when it wears off.
246	* SuperToughness: The energy from the Autobot's sparks makes them noticeably more durable than they should be given the materials they're made from (for example, when Rung is knocked down the Hebert family stairs in an early chapter, he is unharmed while the ''wall'' is dented, despite the fact that his casing is plastic), causing them to earn a Breaker rating.
247	** A female New Merchant has this power.
248	* TakeThat: Averted. While Leet's machines resemble Go-Bots and are used pretty much exclusively for evil purposes, Metallix has said that they liked the show.
249	* TankGoodness:
250	** Warpath turns into a bright red tank.
251	** It's implied, but not shown, that one of Leet's Go-Bots turns into a tank. This particular machine is destroyed by Cyclonus before it can show this off.
252	* TattooAsCharacterType: Some art made by the author shows that [[https://www.deviantart.com/zero-metallix/art/Amy-Dallon-More-than-Meets-the-Eye-790002719 Amy]] has a tattoo of the Autobot symbol on her upper thigh.
253	* TeamPet: Laserbeak, and later Steeljaw and Ravage. Non-sapient Autobots are easier for Taylor to spark.
254	* ThemeNaming: While Taylor's bots are named after (and based on) Cybertronians, Leet's knockoffs are based on and named after Go Bots, from the series of the same name.
255	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, Rung the Autobot is the team's therapist, and helps a ''lot''.
256	* ThisMeansWar: When Leet and Uber decide to attack Taylor at Arcadia, completely ignoring the unwritten rules, and especially when Leet's pseudo-containment foam leaves her with chemical burns, Taylor responds by calling Leet out, telling him that if he doesn't turn himself and his knockoff bots in, she's coming for him.
257	* TooDumbToLive:
258	** Saint. He decides to [[spoiler: kill Dragon and kidnap Matrix/Taylor, bringing the ire of the entire PRT, Protectorate, and Guild down onto his head. And Dragon, who has a soft spot for Taylor, isn't exactly dead.]]
259	** Treble. Who thinks that taunting Hookwolf is a good idea, while being a black man. Also a case of AlcoholInducedStupidity.
260	** Leet, when he makes the mistake of attacking Taylor in her civilian identity at Arcadia.
261	** [[spoiler: Valefor and the Fallen, who decide to attack Matrix and the rest of the Capes at Brockton Bay during the battle with Leviathan, when interfering with Endbringer battles is a massive no-no that will bring nearly ''everyone'' down on your head. Admittedly, they thought that they could pull it off without anyone knowing it was them, especially with their anti-Thinker cape, but Arcee spoiled that plan.]]
262	* UnreliableNarrator: Most of the story is told from Matrix's point of view so she doesn't know all the facts.
263	** Amy: [[spoiler:Who tells a group of friends that a boy she doesn't like -because he's hitting on Matrix- is a member of the Empire]] .
264	* VillainousBreakdown:
265	** Leet spends most of his arc in one, caused by Matrix triggering his InferioritySuperiorityComplex.
266	** A canon omake shows Emma having a complete breakdown when she realizes that Taylor was Matrix. Realizing that someone she thought of as pathetic had become a respected hero and actually ''made a difference'' in the WretchedHive that was Brockton Bay totally dismantled her entire worldview.
267	** [[spoiler: After Mama Mather's death, Valefor loses almost all of any semblance of sanity that he had, committing a number of atrocities across the world.]]
268	* WartsAndAll: [[spoiler: When communicating with Optimus, Taylor notes that he never tries to deny his mistakes, but gives an honest account]].
269	* WhamEpisode
270	** 6.2, [[spoiler: Saint seemingly kills Dragon]].
271	** 9.5, [[spoiler: Taylor builds The Matrix of Leadership and sparks Arcee]].
272	** 10d, [[spoiler: The Triumvirate and Contessa are being manipulated by the Red Text Voice. Legend is resisting it through kindness and love of his family, but Alexandria is being pushed farther into her ruthless IDidWhatIHadToDo mindset, Eidolon's insecurities about his power failing are magnified, and Contessa's so far gone that she's ''speaking'' in red text.]]
273	** 11.4-11.5, [[spoiler:Bakuda attacks the hospital and Amy loses her legs.]]
274	** 12.3, [[spoiler: the Yangban finally get their hands on Lung in his crystal prison.]]
275	** 14.1, [[spoiler: Taylor communicates with Optimus while in a coma, and Amy plans to boost her healing capabilities to help wake her up]].
276	** 14.2, [[spoiler: Leviathan is revealed to have had its core damaged by Taylor's attack, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu permanently crippling it, and maybe even fatally injuring it]]]].
277	* WhatAreYou: [[spoiler: The red voice has a moment like this when Taylor confronts Leviathan with her Matrix-upgraded armor]].
278	* WildMassGuessing: The identity of the coloured text. Blue is confirmed to be Primus but speculation continues about the red text. The current top theories are that it's Unicron or the shards' inbuilt conflict drive (since everyone we see affected is a parahuman or affected by one), but other theories include it being [[SatanicArchetype The Fallen]], Starscream, and [[EpilepticTrees Contessa with a voice changer and tiny portals]].
279	* AWizardDidIt: [[spoiler: Victoria's explanation for how Amy's suddenly boosting sparks? "Powers are bullshit", citing a few examples. Ratchet finds that he can't really argue, to his dismay.]]
280	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: In a presumably Matrix-induced dream, Solus Prime reminds Amy that she chose to use her powers for good when it would have been easy to go down a dark path with them or try and pretend that they didn't exist, and gives Amy the shield she had been forging]].
281	** [[spoiler:After being injured by Purity, Armsmaster has his own dream, where he talks to Maccadam/Alchemist Prime at his bar]].

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