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''[['''Challenge of the Go Bots]]GoBots''''' dealt with two opposing forces of [[Transforming Mecha|transforming robots]] from the planet Gobotron: the heroic Guardians and the evil Renegades. The Guardians were led by Leader-1; others included Turbo and Scooter. The Renegades were led by Cy-Kill, with Crasher and Cop-Tur among their ranks.

The GoBots' origin as organic beings accounted for the presence of genders among the robots. Unlike ''[[Transformers]]'', ''[[Challenge of the Go Bots]]GoBots'' had regular female characters (the Transformers eventually ''also'' added female castmembers, but it was never clear what gender could mean for an ''inorganic'' race). However, the females were built like the males. Only Crasher received any distinguishable feminine features.

Despite addressing some valid and interesting science fiction tropes (as listed below), the series's biggest handicap, apart from its obvious similarity to the [[Transformers]], was probably its "toony" character design, as compared to the comic book-realism of the [[Transformers]] art. (This may account for the show's popularity in Europe, where toony character designs in [[Spartakus and Thethe Sun Beneath Thethe Sea|adventure shows]] and [[Tintin (Comic Book)|comics]] are more common.)

* [[As Long Asas It Sounds Foreign]] (Done [[For the Lulz|for fun.]] Anya Turgonova once curses ''"Ish Kabibble!"'' Certainly none of the kids watching would have caught that Ish Kabibble was a famous Vaudeville comedian.)

* [[Brain In Aa Jar]] (the GoBot race)

* [[The Cape (trope)]] (Leader-1)

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]] (Though diffucult to really notice, around the start of the Last Engineer/Master Renegade storyline the series gets a tad more serious and starts delving into the divine origins of the Gobots. This is best shown in that the storyline is kicked off after Turbo is horribly wounded by the Renegades and it is explicitly stated that if he is not healed soon he will '''DIE'''.

* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] - Decades after the show's end, the actual [[Go Bots]] from the show travelled to various [[Transformers]] universe (mainly the [[Transformers Classics]] one, with a quick stop by the [[Transformers: Trans TechTransTech]] universe first).

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Odo]] provided the voice of the mad scientist.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Can never, ever be re-released or re-aired, due to the massive amount of legal tape due to copyright issues. Warner Brothers owns the cartoon but the character trademarks are owned by Hasbro (who acquired the property in the early 1990s when they bought Tonka, and also own the Transformers franchise) and character designs are owned by Bandai. Hasbro has recognized the popularity of the line however; they reused the Leader-One name for a character in Transformers Armada, created a homage to Crasher in the form of "Fracture" for the movie toyline, outright reintroduced Bugbyte as the big bad for a series of convention comics, and greenlighted Takara producing a box set of Gen1 mini-bots redecoed in the color of various Go-Bots characters. The characters and mythology of the original GoBots have been incorporated into Fun Publications' ''[[Transformers Timelines (Franchise)|Transformers Timelines]]'' as the Transformer-equivalents in their part of the Transformers [[Multiverse]].

* [[Robot Girl]] (as [[Brain In Aa Jar|cyborgs,]] the GoBots have gender, at least on a neurological level)

* [[Silicon -Based Life]]: (The Rock Lords)

* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]] (And poor Cy-Kill knows it. No wonder he values Fi-Tor so highly, since Fi-Tor is loyal, intelligent, ''and'' competent, when hardly anyone else in the Renegade army is all three. In fairness, Cy-Kill ''didn't'' hire these shnooks; the Renegades were a pre-existing army, and he seized command of them when he left the Guardians, booting Zero out of the boss position.)

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