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    The Sparkeater 
A monstrous, supposedly mythological creature that devours Cybertronian sparks. The previous owners of the Lost Light trapped the creature in the ship's engine rooms, where it promptly escaped after the Lost Light's first quantum jump.

  • Body Horror: Looks like a walking corpse. Or going the other way, a half-formed Cybertronian.
  • Combat Tentacles: Several, claw ended ones jut out from it's back.
  • The Dreaded: Sparkeaters are the stuff of Cybertronian legend.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: The Sparkeater found on the Lost Light was originally a security guard (and handler of Turbofoxes) who was shot by Cyclonus with Brainstorm's experimental weapon.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Well, Cybertronian Abomination technically. In that it has a head, two arms and two legs. That's where the resemblance to anything Transformer ends.
  • Made of Explodium: It eats Sparks. Shooting it with a missile would produce an explosion several miles wide, forcing the crew to find other means of killing it.
  • Powers Do the Killing: It doesn't even need to touch you to kill you, just make you vomit up your brain with telekinesis.
  • Power Floats: One of it's abilities.
  • Shrouded in Myth: No-one is exactly sure how this thing came to be. Drift mentions they're drawn to places of emotional trauma, in which case the Lost Light is an all-you-can-eat buffet...
  • Tele-Frag: A cleaner variant, but being shoved into the quantum generator was enough to kill it.
  • Tragic Monster: It used to be a normal guard, but after Cyclonus was forced to shoot the guard with Brainstorm's sparkeater gun, it was horribly mutated into it's current state.
  • Your Soul Is Mine!: It eats sparks.

    Pharma 
That was a nasty fall. Need a hand?
A mad doctor and former head of staff on Delphi. Once a friend/protégé of Ratchet's, he was driven insane by the DJD and is now a murderer who's obsessed with proving his superiority to Ratchet.
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  • Ax-Crazy: Chainsaw, actually, but has the attitude down to a T.
  • Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Strongly implied in a flashback that he might have done this, or, given his later actions, been on the receiving end.
  • Boom, Headshot!: How First Aid apparently kills him.
  • Broken Ace: He was a magnificent doctor among the Autobots, known for performing almost miraculous surgeries, until he snapped.
  • Chainsaw Good: After he came back.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: In "The Divided Self" Pharma tortures Ratchet by scraping his scalpel against the latter's spark.
  • Control Freak: Back when he was in charge of Delphi.
  • Death by Irony: Pharma represents Medicine gone bad; ultimately, he's killed by the medic First Aid.
  • Dirty Coward: Slices Ambulon in half and then runs off, keeping Ratchet distracted and unable to pursue him.
  • Disney Villain Death: At the end of issue five. Then it turns out he's actually alive.
  • Driven to Madness: Much like Wasp he already wasn't the most pleasant guy to start with, but at least he had all his marbles. Then Tarn came along...
  • Dr. Jerk: Even before he became a bad guy he was kind of a prick.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: In the The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers prose story "Bullets".
  • Evil Former Friend: Ratchet's.
  • Evil Genius: Of Tyrest's group.
  • Exact Words: All Pharma said was he'd cut Ambulon and First Aid in half, Ratchet. He never said anything about cutting them in half at the waist.
  • Expy: Of the Joker. Word of God confirms Pharma even sounds like Mark Hamill's rendition of the character.
  • Face–Heel Turn: A very disturbing example of this.
  • Fallen Hero: He was once a truly brilliant surgeon. The pressure of what the D.J.D. forced him to do has destroyed his mind.
  • Faux Affably Evil: A very jokey guy with a proclivity for trying to butcher people with his retractable chainsaw.
  • Foil: To Ratchet.
  • Foreshadowing: After First Aid blows his head off, and the Legislators attack, Pharma's body is pulled through Tyrest's space bridge by a series of tentacles while everyone is distracted.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: He's incredibly jealous of Ratchet.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Towards Ratchet.
  • Jerkass: Given his haughty/control freak nature, he wasn't exactly pleasant, even before he went mad.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Used to simply be a Jerkass physician with bedside manner even worse than Ratchet's. Until Tarn came along and pressured Pharma into taking the plunge...
  • Killed Mid-Sentence
    Pharma:"Lengthways." Your face! It was an absolute pic-
  • Lack of Empathy: When escaping from captivity in Remains In Light: Part 5, Pharma is unable to pass through Tyrest's guilt detecting forcefield. Is it because he feels some remorse and guilt for his actions? Evidently not, as he's ultimately unfazed by not being able to pass through, and even jokes about the murders of his patients and Ambulon towards First Aid. This earns him a Boom, Headshot!.
    First Aid: "You're smiling. Everything you did at Delphi—all those patients you killed—and you're smiling?"
    Pharma: "I know, I know—I'm incorrigible."
  • Meaningful Name: Threefold. Most obviously, the prefix "pharma-" refers to medicine, but it's also phonetically similar to "farmer," which makes a twisted amount of sense given that he's harvesting organs. Most tellingly, leaving of the first and last letter of his name gives you "harm," which should give you an idea...
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
  • Morph Weapon: Apparently his new hands can turn into anything.
  • The Medic: Evil example.
  • Never Found the Body: Unusually, they did know where Pharma's body was after First Aid shoots his head off, but during the ensuing fight with the Legislators, his body gets dragged through the Space Bridge by tentacles without anyone noticing. In the prose story "Sound of Shattered Glass" Ratchet notices Pharma's corpse has mysteriously vanished and really wants it found.
  • Plague Master: Designed a special rust virus to kill everyone at Delphi, just so he could get away from the DJD.
  • Red Baron: After his Face–Heel Turn, he's known among Tyrest's group as Mad Doctor Pharma.
  • Slasher Smile: Post-Delphi.
  • Swiss-Army Appendage: His new hands can turn into anything, or so he claims, though he favors chainsaws.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: None of Tyrest's other mooks like him.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: In "How Ratchet Got His Hands Back", it is revealed Pharma made a deal with the D.J.D. to ensure Delphi's safety, by providing their transformation-obsessed leader, Tarn, with transformation cogs. When the demand increased, however...
  • Yandere: Towards Ratchet. With healthy doses of Foe Romance Subtext.

    Sonic and Boom 
A pair of Jerkass mercs the crew encounters on Delphi. They're kind of stupid.

  • Born Lucky: These two survived the war.
  • Bullying the Dragon: Despite knowing full-well what a badass Orion Pax is, they picked a fight with him anyways.
  • Combining Mecha: They share an alt-mode.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Their sound bomb is the cause of the Rust Plague affecting the Delphi facility.
    • They're also at the other end of it, at the hands of Fort Max.
  • Jerkass: They're already dragging Drift off to the Institute for money, but they decide to beat the crap out of him anyway for giggles.
    • They're also perfectly willing to shoot up a medical ward, for no real reason.
  • Mook Horror Show: Let's just say, their deaths aren't pretty...
  • Shooting Superman: They try fighting Orion Pax. He hands them their asses.
  • Trojan Horse: Served as this for Pharma.
  • Typhoid Mary: Unknowingly acted as this.

    The Galactic Council 
The central, overarching government of the known galaxy. Nearly every major spacefaring race is a governed by the Council and they wield a mighty peacekeeping force. They have a noted dislike of Cybertronians due to the massive amounts of damage the Great War caused. Currently they seem to be on the verge of war with the Black Block Consortia.

  • Anti-Villain: They just want to keep the peace.
  • Enemy Mine: They're perfectly happy teaming up with the Black Block Consortia when the DJD show up even though they were just fighting over which one got to salvage the alternate Lost Light.
  • Fantastic Racism: Downplayed. They don't really trust Cybertronians and have barred them from having a representative on the council, but only because of the huge amounts of collateral damage the war caused. They do admire the odd exceptions like Ultra Magnus and Tyrest.
  • The Federation
  • The Ghost: The Council themselves have yet to be seen. However their presence is felt in many places and both the Lost Light crew and the Scavengers have had nasty run-ins with their agents.
  • Like a God to Me: According to K'gard Ultra Magnus is revered amongst them for being a person who puts both duty and the law above all else. K'gard even offered Magnus a position in their ranks, which he was disappointed that Magnus declined. They may have also seen Tyrest as this, fully accepting of his galactic laws, and believing in his fairness. Though behind the scenes they were assisting the Diplomatic Corps. in their investigation of him.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: They're actually surprisingly reasonable at times and have apparently worked closely with the Diplomatic Corps. When Drift goes solo, he seems to defer to them as peace keepers, delivering renegade Cons to their stations, which both he and Ratchet seem free to walk about in.

    Seacons & Terrorcons 
Two squads of Decepticons who met up on Temptoria and proceeded to set up a pink alchemy facility. The crew encounters them on Temptoria, shuts down their base, and arrests them. They than spend most of Season 1 in the Lost Light's brig. At the start of season 2 Ravage breaks them out to try and help Megatron escape Cybertron. This attempt fails and they are left in the custody of Autobot Command on Cybertron.

  • Affably Evil: Nautilator and Blip.
  • Butt-Monkey: Collectively. Whenever they show up here, nothing good happens... to them. The Terrorcons, however, become a substantially larger threat with Starscream's backing in The Transformers: Windblade.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The crew took them down pretty easily. Justified by the fact that they were low on resources.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: They resorted to pink alchemy, a process where organic beings are gradually dissolved/processed into energon. Sinnertwin would later express an interest in eating Circuit.
  • Killed Off for Real: Nautilator, possibly Seawing. Despite looking incredibly different Roberts confirmed that the DJD's victim in issue 39 was Blip.
  • The Pig-Pen: Blip shares a body-type, and general hygiene standards, with Blot. He leaks and drools energon everywhere.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Blip likes to call himself a Sparkeater, and the Devourer of Souls.
  • Too Dumb to Live: They try to mount a frontal assault on Megatron's trial, which is presided over by most of Autobot High Command and several former Wreckers. Very, very one-sided asskickery ensues.
  • Undying Loyalty: Even after Megatron switches sides, they're still completely dedicated to his cause and try to bust him out of his trial.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: It's implied that Snap Trap set up the pink alchemy lab out of desperation to survive rather than any malice towards the natives.
    Snap Trap:' Every species has a right to support itself.

    Overlord 
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Run as fast as you can, you're already too late.
A psychopathic Decepticon super soldier who went rogue years ago and was recently captured. Sadistic and manipulative, Overlord is obsessed with getting the final battle with Megatron that he feels entitled to. He thus became a depressed Death Seeker after being fooled into believing Megatron was dead. He's responsible for Fort Max's broken mental state.

Visit the character sheet for The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers for Overlord's tropes.

    The Ammonites 
A faction of the Stentarian race who are embroiled in their own war with the Terradores. The crew encounters a small group of them on Hedonia and later battles their army in Dark Cybertron

  • Affably Evil: The squad Whirl and Skids met on Hedonia were so friendly that the two thought the Ammonites were good guys.
  • Combining Mecha: Their species is omnicombinational; each one is capable of merging with all the others.
  • Fantastic Racism: They look down on Cybertronians, though an encounter with Whirl and Skids changes that.
  • Meaningful Name: As it turns out some of them do transform into literal ammonites.
  • Outside-Context Problem: They have their own history, culture and war entirely separate from the Cybertronian race and it's affairs.
  • Punch-Clock Villains: Off duty they're pretty friendly, casual guys you can chitchat and have a drink with.
  • Zerg Rush: Shockave employs 70 billion of them and has them attack Cybertron.

    Deathsaurus 
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A rogue Decepticon warlord who abandoned the Decepticon army alongside his soldiers after becoming disillusioned with Megatron's methods. He agrees to join forces with Tarn after some... expected maneuvering.

  • Affably Evil: He's a very cordial host, and pleasant talker.
  • A Father to His Men: He's devoted to any who follow him, and when Tarn offers to take him off the list, he demands that he nix all of his followers from the list as well.
  • Anti-Villain: He's a bad guy, but he's motivated largely out of desire to provide for his crew.
  • Benevolent Boss: He split from the Decepticons because he detested the We Have Reserves mindset of Decepticon High Command.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He's more than happy to soften Tarn up with a little menial lifting beforehand... of high explosives. Ouch.
  • Extra Eyes: Two on his forehead.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His crew, who Deathsaurus will never abandon.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Was so thoroughly disgusted by Decepticon High Command's callous disregard for their own soldiers that he just up and left.
  • Giant Flyer: He's a biggie in his space chicken dragon mode.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction to watching Megatron effortlessly mow down his troops, even dropping to his knees in anguish, after Swerve and Rewind hit him with a blast from the special guilt inducing machine they managed to fix. Though, Deathsaurus was already on the verge of this anyway, the machine simply fast tracking it along.
  • Noble Demon: Works for the Decepticons, but is unwilling to throw away the lives of his men and is very polite towards others.
  • Noble Fugitive: Make no mistake, Deathsaurus is still a ruthless warlord steamrolling over organic planets even post-desertion. Yet, said desertion happened because he cared about his troops lives.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Two sets of them even!
  • Secret Test of Character: Gives one to Tarn when he asks the DJD leader to kill his subordinates as a show of good faith for his own crew. Tarn refusing to do so is what seals the alliance, as Deathsaurus would never back someone who would so ruthlessly kill his own underlings.
  • Slasher Smile: Like many of his incarnations before, he can pull of a threatening smile when he needs to.

    Sunder 
An infamous serial killer known as the "Tetraxian Ripper" who Rung and Froid investigated during their time as colleges. Believed dead after a ship crash, he makes an unexpected return many years later.

  • Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Per Word of God he sounds like John Hurt.
  • Emotion Eater: He "feeds"/gets off on using his mnemosurgury to read repressed memories. He has Froid seek out people like Skids who suffer from Suppressed Memory Syndrome, than uses his remote eyes to feed on them.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He and his brother were a double act, killing people together. Froid has since filled that role after Sunder's brother died.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Chromedome. He suffers from a similar "addiction" to mnemosurgury, only he's no longer satisfied with simply performing it.
  • Eye Scream: His eyes are removable computers that he uses to perform remote-mnemosurgury. Froid carries them around on his necklace until it comes time for Sunder to kill a victim.
  • Faux Affably Evil: That smile isn't at all reassuring.
  • The Quiet One: Doesn't speak much, which makes it all the more striking when he does.
  • Serial Killer: A very nightmarish one who loves to torture his prey emotionally and psychologically before killing them.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: When he speaks, it's in a very calm and measured fashion.

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