The Autobots and Decepticons battle on a planet whose civilization revolves around music and whose inhabitants can use sound as a powerful weapon.
Tropes
- Aliens Speaking English: In-Universe, the inhabitants of Eurythma need to be translated by Blaster and Soundwave, as neither Galvatron or Ultra Magnus can understand them. Even though they simply speak in a sing-song voice that is clearly in English.
- Disney Death: Zebop gets crushed by Blaster and Soundwave during their fight and is presumed dead by the Autobots. He is revived only seconds later by Allegra.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Blaster uses the buttons on Soundwave's torso to forcibly erase his recording of the Eurythmian harmony.
- Lazy Artist: Even by the G1 quality standards, let alone in an episode by AKOM, Carnage in C-Minor is possibly the ugliest animated episode of the entire show, and that's saying something given some of the previous contenders for that. It's the ONLY episode with almost a hundred
animation errors in total, with nearly every shot looking incredibly janky and amateurish. To avoid going into a Wall of Text, the episode in general features poor artwork, the incorrect or discarded models being used (and in Broadside's case, traced off his (old and unused) model sheet in one shot), constant miscoloring of characters, poor shot composition, horribly drawn bodies or incorrect size and proportions, along with numerous technical gaffes in both the camera work and the audio. To quote a certain wiki:TFWiki.net: "Carnage in C-Minor" is perhaps the most famously error-laden episode in the series, and a regular contender among fans for "worst G1 episode". Even by the cartoon's own low standards, the art and animation are of poor quality, while the sheer volume of animation errors - many of them glaringly obvious - is almost unmatched.- This was later made fun of by Ask Vector Prime who stated that the Harmony was a particularly potent source of space-time anomalies (the term for animation errors).
- Magic Music: What the Harmony of Eurythma is to its citizens. The only forms of it being shown throughout the episode are of it being a destructive force, and to heal a severely injured person.
- Not Drawn to Scale: So many examples on this episode,note , but the most infamous ones have to be a giant Ultra Magnus grabbing 2 constructicons and bashing them with his hands◊, a human-sized Blaster◊ and Blaster suddenly being smaller than Soundwave's head◊ (with Blaster, meant to be in the background in the shot, mislayered over Soundwave's cel).
- Series Continuity Error: Besides the usual hiccups one might find in any G1 episode, this one has it really, really bad due to the fact bots constantly show up/vanish from both sides's ranks over the course of the episode (the only consistent characters being Blaster, Ultra Magnus, Broadside, Galvatron and Soundwave), making it very unclear just who is supposed to be there and who isn't. The crowning moment of this trope however, as far as this episode goes, is Huffer and Brawn◊, both killed off in the movie, shooting at a rocket made by the Decepticons... and the very Decepticon who crafted said rocket (Bonecrusher) is shooting at his own rocket along them. On top of that Huffer is shaded so dark it looks like he has a completely different color scheme. Arguably just as bad is a shot of Hot Spot fighting alongside Defensor; Defensor is a Combiner, and Hot Spot is his torso.
- Shout-Out: Eurythma is clearly named after 80s band The Eurythmics.
- Watch The Paintjob: Broadside doesn't take well getting his paint job ruined by Galvatron, to say the least.
- Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Harmony of Eurythma is utilized by Galvatron in an attempt to destroy the Autobots after his first plan involving an asteroid fails.
