- Accidental Innuendo: In the episode "Titans", Primus uses Cybertron's moons as makeshift weapons, prompting Coby, in the English dub, to have Starscream "mooned". Mooning someone has an entirely different meaning in real life.
- Arc Fatigue: Most people will acknowledge that the Velocitron/Speedia arc went on way longer than it needed to, which unfortunately left some later arcs feeling a bit squished.
- Awesome Music: Take note on the Japanese opening and closing songs, if you intend on watching the original dub. Though the dub opening is certainly no slouch itself.
- Broken Base: The dub. While most fans agreed that the Cybertron dub was of significantly better quality than Energon or Armada, others were not very fond of it adjusting with the original script of Galaxy Force, to the point of reworking entire scenes at points, adding swathes of new dialogue during every Transformation Sequence, and so on. This naturally creates controversy, especially when Galaxy Force had enough of a lead that fansubbers could get to watch it first. For instance, the show's general use of Super Robot tropes (particularly Japanese Spirit and just about everyone being able to use Battle Aura) was rewritten into more sci-fi elements, which pleased the people who found those tropes stupid and baffling, but irritated the people who liked those tropes and found the rewrites more mocking than necessary. There was also the many cases of Accent Adaptation (some of which weren't present in earlier Unicron Trilogy shows) and some characters getting their personalities retooled, which either fleshed out the cast or made the series even more silly than Galaxy Force ever was. Ultimately the series reputation is between dub watchers who like the extensive use of Woolseyism tricks to add flavor to transformation sequences and explaining odd phenomenons better, and sub fans who prefer the original version without the influx of self-aware humor and explaining Super Robot tropes.
- Complete Monster: See here.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: See here.
- Growing the Beard: After Energon, this was viewed as not just a step in the right direction, but a sprint.
- Memetic Badass: Signal Lancer whose alternate mode is just a set of traffic lights is often regarded as some legendary hero thanks to his memorable speech and transformation sequence
. - Memetic Mutation: OUR WORLDS ARE IN DANGER!note
- One-Scene Wonder: While he technically had a few scenes, Signal Lancer made the most of his final appearance, getting his own transformation sequence."For too long, I've let life pass me by! Now I wanna take part in the grand drama! My legacy will be written large among the stars.
- Second Verse Curse: Cybertron Broke The Curse. To elaborate: After Generation 1, most iterations of the Theme Song left out the "Autobots wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons" bit. Cybertron's version brought it back. Note however, it still only uses the first verse's melody.
- Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Some fans considered it an improvement over Armada and Energon. Nearly all fans would agree that the dub is the most coherent and the series lacking the most egregious of art problems of the the trilogy.
- Suspiciously Similar Song: "Jet Black Land", the theme used for the various lost colony ships and other ancient Cybertronian mysteries is essentially the beginning of The X-Files theme repeated over and over on a higher note.
- Toy Ship: Coby and Lori. Subverted, in that they are Happily Married in the epilogue.
- Woolseyism: The dreaded "uh" and "gimme a break!" of Energon is gone, replaced with what constitutes playful romantic banter when both speakers are in their early teens. Homages and an all-new cast turned into known characters a la Transformers: Robots in Disguise, as well.
- But mainly, there's the phenomenon that the Transformers Wiki calls "Burning Spirit". Galaxy Force was the most "Anime" of the Japan-original Transformers series by far, and the reality-bending powers of wanting something really really hard could make virtually anything happen, with no one treating it as unusual. For Cybertron, this is excised by tying the effects to artifacts that could actually do the things that happened for no reason at all when someone yelled or grunted in the original. It was done so perfectly seamlessly you'd be shocked if you knew the full extent. The same applies to the concept of the 'Omega Frequency', which is also dub original but you would not know it just by watching.
- In Galaxy Force, Menasor was simply there to be a Gigantion Decepticon before making a Heel–Face Turn. Cybertron uses Filling the Silence to expand him into a Well-Intentioned Extremist who thinks the world’s way of working needs overhauling.
- But mainly, there's the phenomenon that the Transformers Wiki calls "Burning Spirit
