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The characters rarely had guns, instead shooting energy blasts out of their fists. Although [[Rule of Cool]] may state otherwise, ''built-in'' weaponry does make a lot more sense for a robot, when you think about it (and if you observed closely, the Transformers in the 2007 live-action movie seem to follow this rule, with all their weapons being "onboard").
The GoBots' origin as organic beings accounted for the presence of genders among the robots. Unlike ''[[Transformers]]'', ''
Also, since they did have ''young'' GoBots who needed to be educated, and the characters did not make claims to [[Time Abyss|vast age]] like the [[Transformers]] did, it appears that GoBots do age, reproduce, and experience generational turnover like any other biological race (although exactly ''how'' their two genders reproduce would be [[Squick|anybody's guess]]).
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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 the Sun Beneath the Sea|adventure shows]] and [[Tintin|comics]] are more common.)
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* [[After the End]] (the planet Gobotron, whose biosphere was destroyed in a war)
* [[Ancient Astronauts]] (the Evil One)
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* [[Brain In a Jar]] (the GoBot race)
* [[The Brigadier]] (General Newcastle)
* [[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'''.
* [[Cold War]]/[[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: Yes, the Cold War is still going on in this near future. Nobody in the '80s expected it to end as it did, so this is totally forgivable.
* [[Co-Dragons]] (Coptur and Crasher)
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* [[Flying Saucer]] (Pathfinder's alt mode)
* [[Follow the Leader]] - To the Transformers cartoon, although [[Go Bots]] merchandise is actually older.
* [[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:
* [[Fuuma Shuriken]] (Cop-Tur's rotor blades, used as a weapon in robot mode)
* [[Galactic Conqueror]] (Cy-Kill. Although he views Gobotron itself as his necessary first step.)
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