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Debuting in December 2007 with a three-episode-long "pilot movie", ''Animated'', despite being an [[Alternate Continuity]], was created to ride the popularity of the 2007 ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' film and, as a result, borrows several aspects of the film. Despite severe fan reactions to the character designs and animation style, the show's story and scripting (and a healthy respect to the saga as a whole) have won over many converts in short order.
A group of maintenance Autobots ([[The Hero|Optimus Prime]], [[The Medic|Ratchet]], [[Gentle Giant|Bulkhead]], [[Ineffectual Loner|Prowl]] and [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]]) discover the coveted Transformer artifact called "The [[We Will Use Wiki Words in
One of the things that separate this show from its predecessors is the animation style, which is fluid, simplistic and very organic-looking. While some are still unhappy with the look, the simple style makes animation easier and gave some really stylistic action scenes; you can become accustomed to it surprisingly quickly.
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The show lasted three seasons and although somewhat cut short on production plans (they were hoping for a fourth season) the last episode was written to serve as a respectable [[Grand Finale]], concluding the overall [[Myth Arc]]. ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' was announced almost immediately following this show, which has unfortunately lead to an [[Internet Backdraft]] rumor that "[[Dueling Shows|Prime killed Animated]]." In some sense, this is backed up by Hasbro's decision to compete with [[Cartoon Network]], ''Animated'''s broadcaster, by partnering with Discovery Communications to launch [[The Hub]], the home of ''Prime''.
However, the series recently got a brief revival/continuation via the Official Fanclub and its ''[[Transformers Timelines
See also [[Transformers Animated
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'''This Show Provides Examples of:'''
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* [[The Ace]] - Afterburn, in the ''[[Titan Magazine]]'' adaptation. Borders on [[Canon Sue]] who, in two consecutive issues, leaves Optimus and Bumblebee holding the [[Idiot Ball]], respectively. {{spoiler|Turns out he is a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|sparkless drone]] [[The Mole|Decepticon spy]], whom Megatron [[You Have Failed Me|quickly]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|disposes of.]]}}
* [[Actor Allusion]] - Sentinel Prime is a walking [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Tick]], including his blue coloration, giant chin, and occasional lines like "Energon-y goodness". His character was actually designed after actor [[Townsend Coleman]] was cast.
** Wreck-Gar (voiced by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]) declares "I '''dare''' to be stupid!" in one episode, and pulls out an accordion in another.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Waspinator. Good lord, Waspinator. In ''[[
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: ''Animated'' Waspinator is much scarier and more villainous than the [[Chew Toy]] Waspinator in ''Beast Wars'', who spent a lot of his time being blasted to bits by other robots.
* [[Adorably Precocious Child]] - Cosmos is one of the smartest characters spoken about in the [[All There in the Manual|Almanac]], and yet he is one of the most adorable characters in the entire roster.
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** One must wonder how Sumdac stays in business if 3/4 of his machines go haywire. On the other hand, owning the patents on the fundamental building blocks of the robot technology that forms the backbone of modern society probably helps.
** Subverted somewhat with Wreck-Gar, who is pretty much a very impressionable child with ADD.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]] - Used by Optimus, complete with [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[
* [[Airplane Arms]] - Briefly by Optimus in "Where Is Thy Sting."
* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]] - Bulkhead winds up with a museum show in one episode, although his "masterpiece" was an accident.
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* [[Aliens Steal Cable]] - Quite literally: Sari {{spoiler|(half-alien herself)}} and Bumblebee use the Key to pirate Master Disaster's illegal street races.
* [[Almighty Janitor]] - Eventually taken to near absurd lengths with the main crew. Despite being a lowly maintenance crew, they have {{spoiler|A cadet who was on track for the Elite Guard, a vet from the Great War who is bonded to the Autobot's greatest weapon (which happens to be their ship), the most skilled spacebridge engineer in the Autobot ranks, and one of the most skilled Cyberninjas around). Really, everyone but Bumblebee is considered near top of their field, and this is before they [[Took a Level In Badass]]}}
* [[Almost Kiss]] - Blackarachnia and Optimus Prime. However, most of the time she does it, she's trying to [[Distracted
* [[All There in the Manual]] - The Starscream clones are only ever referred to by their personalities (or gender), but their toys are named after the ''[[Transformers Generation
** In an almost literal example, toyless Female Starscream's official name "Slipstream" was [[Sure Why Not|created just for]] ''The AllSpark Almanac''.
** Actually ''The Allspark Almanac'' probably counts a lot for this trope, revealing intense amounts of detail (and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] about the show, the setting and the characters).
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* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version used a different [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8uldvja-MY opening]/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHTWO0BnwU&feature=related ending] theme than the American version.
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Implied by Meltdown, whose mutant shark monster used to be his lawyer. The ''bat'' monster was his accountant, somewhat relatedly.
** Both are [[Mythology Gag]]'s to the original series: Being sentenced to death-by-Sharkticon was the only outcome of a Quintesson trial in ''[[Transformers:
*** Their designs are throwbacks, too, this time to the G1 Pretender Monsters, originally robots that could don [[Your Size May Vary|mass-shifting]] organic shells to pass as (or, in the Monsters' case, terrorize) ordinary people.
* [[An Aesop]] - Most episodes.
* [[An Asskicking Christmas|An Aft Kicking Christmas]] - 'Human Error'
* [[And I Must Scream]] - Swindle's fate at the end of S.U.V.{{spoiler|—[[Hoist
** Blurr on the other hand...
* [[And This Is For]] - In "Survival of the Fittest", Prowl and Captain Fanzone fight Meltdown's mutated minions while trying to save Sari from his experiments. Fanzone throws one particularly impressive punch with a yell of "And ''that's'' for Sari!"
* [[Androcles' Lion]] - Grimlock, complete with thorn in his foot for those who might miss the connection.
* [[Animal Mecha]] - The Dinobots, as usual. Soundwave's pets combine this with [[Instrument of Murder]], and then there's Steeljaw and Zaur on Cybertron. Blackarachnia and Waspinator fall into the "actually-part-organic" category.
* [[Animesque]] - From the same folk who worked on ''[[Teen Titans (
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - Starts in the beginning of the third season with {{spoiler|Blurr, [[Not Quite Dead|sort of]]}} and never looks back.
* [[The Archer]] - Rodimus, [[Marvel Comics|no relation to Hawkeye]].
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* [[Ascended Meme]] - The portrayal of the Autobot Elite Guard as arrogant and corrupt, and the Decepticons as fighting for their freedom.
** That would make sense....if [[Complete Monster|Megatron]] was clearly only fighting for power and to sate his own eog, every single Decepticon shown is a psychotic, sadistic killing machine, and even with all the morally ambiguous things Ultra Magnus did, he's still LEAGUES above Megatron.
** The [[Fan Nickname]] 'Punch of Kill Everything' made it into the canon comics (though sadly not the show itself), and shows up in [[Transformers: War for Cybertron]] to boot (as both a Leader-class killstreak reward and a Soldier-class melee upgrade).
* [[Asteroids Monster]] - Rock Lords (or at least the animalistic space-born ones) can form smaller versions of themselves if shattered.
* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]] - 'Omega Formation' is used against Blitzwing in 'Sari, No-One's Home'. It doesn't end well.
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* [[Blow You Away]] - Jetstorm and vehicle-mode Safeguard. Optimus whips up a tornado with the Magnus Hammer.
* [[Boot Camp Episode]] - In a [[Whole-Episode Flashback|Flashback Episode]], Bumblebee and Bulkhead go through basic training.
* [[Born in
** Fanzone's [[Catch Phrase]] when getting befuddled by anything more complex than that? "This is why I ''hate'' machines.''
* [[Bounty Hunter]] - Lockdown.
* [[Brain Bleach]] - Optimus looks to be in dire need of some after Sari explains where little organics come from.
* [[Break the Cutie]] - {{spoiler|Sari in Season 2. First her dad goes missing, then her dad's company gets taken out of her control by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Porter C.]] [[Jerkass|Powell]] who reveals with the subtlety of a brick that she doesn't exist in any form of legal documentation. If it weren't for the Autobots helping her cope over all of this, Sari could very easily have [[Beware the Nice Ones|snapped]] upon the [[Tomato in
* [[Break the Haughty]] - Sentinel's ordeal in ''Return of the Headmaster''. It doesn't stick.
* [[Bring It]]
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* [[Canon Immigrant]] - Oil Slick was never intended to be in the show (in fact, he was originally just a sketch someone made in their free time), and was kept to the toyline and the comics. He's since been introduced in the cartoon in a brief but memorable scene. Roughly the same deal with Soundwave's guitar creatures.
** Inverted with Prowl's samurai armor sidecar; it was created for the show but Hasbro liked the design so much they made a toy version, and Prowl eventually got the armor permanently.
** Played more straight with Lugnut, Lockdown, and Slipstream. Slipstream's a character in ''[[
* [[Caped Mecha]] - Lockdown's space poncho and Alpha Trion's traditional cape. Red Alert's design makes her look like she's wearing a labcoat, but at least that's clearly a part of her altmode.
* [[Cardboard Prison]] - Played straight and averted. The first time Meltdown escapes, he apparently does so without the Detroit Police [[Fridge Logic|even hearing about it]]. The second time, however, he's stuck in a specially-designed cell not even he can melt through and it takes the Dinobots (following Blackarachnia's orders) to get him out. The lower-grade supervillains like the Angry Archer seem to have an easier time of it: Fanzone even [[Lampshade Hanging|points this out]] in the Almanac.
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* [[Comic Book Adaptation]] - Three: One is simply a somewhat-fail-y [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Animated_Volume_1 retelling of episodes through screen captures,] one is an original series of stories published by Titan Magazines and only available in the U.K. (There's also one ''Animated'' story in the main ''Transformers Comic'' written by Simon Furman), and one is a (most definitely [[Canon]]) series called ''[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Arrival The Arrival]'', written by the show's head writer, Marty Isenberg, which both tells new stories and [[All There in the Manual|what various characters were doing between appearances on the show]].
* [[Combining Mecha]] - Any Transformer becomes this ''against their will'' when the Headmaster gets his hands on them.
** Also, in the comics and Season 3, Jetfire and Jetstorm, who merge [[
* [[Composite Character]] - The show's version of Blackarachnia is a composite of Blackarachnia from ''[[
** Megatron is a combination of [[
** Red Alert is basically a [[Distaff Counterpart]] to Armada's Red Alert.
* [[Concept Art Gallery]] - Both ''Almanacs''
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* [[Cool Chair]] - Professor Sumdac used Megatron's hand as a chair in his lab. Its owner was less than happy.
* [[Cool Shades]] - or rather, optic sensors: Prowl, Soundwave, Jazz, and Grimlock (the first two's even look a bit like [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina's]]). Meltdown's shades, however, are actual sunglasses, and are pretty funky.
** Don't be fooled; Prowl might have Kamina's shades, but he's really [[
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] - Porter C. Powell, and to a lesser extent, Prometheus Black/Meltdown.
* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]: These Transformers' mind seems entirely located in their heads. As seen with the headmaster episodes.
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* [[Death Montage]] - {{spoiler|a now immortal Starscream gets one showing him attempting, and failing, to overthrow Megatron.}}
* [[Decontamination Chamber]] - Sentinel uses one to pick on the team in 'The Elite Guard'.
* [[Deflector Shields]] - Sumdac Tower has an emergency force-field that can cover the entire building - pretty impressive, considering it's one of the few inventions that probably didn't have its roots in Megatron. The Elite Guard ship also has one, and Swindle has a personal version that he purchased from the [[Beast Wars
* [[Deserted Island]] - North Sister Island, a volcanic island that somehow exists in the middle of Lake Erie. Then it becomes "Dinobot Island" and gets more and more crowded.
* [[Destructive Saviour]] - Bulkhead. So very, very much.
* [[Development Gag]] - Team Rodimus is three-fifths scrapped ideas (see [[What Could Have Been]]). Sari's scooter / jetpack is based on a transforming trike she had in a dropped version of the opening sequence.
* [[Die Hard
* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]] - The Dinobots, as ever, although Professor Sumdac didn't actually have this in mind while designing them. Megatron added the flame breath because he planned on using one of them as a new body and the others as attack drones.
* [[Dirty Coward]] - Coward Starscream, even more so than Starscream himself, though the clone lacks even the courage to betray people to ensure his own safety.
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* [[Distinctive Appearances]] - Nearly every robot in the series can be identified by their shadow. Especially Blackarachnia.
** Nearly any. Many Cybertronians share a mold with either Bumblebee or Ratchet, the former moreso.
* [[Distracted
* [[Distressed Damsel]] - Arcee is metaphorically [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] multiple times.
** Also, Elita-1.
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* [[Evil Costume Switch]] - Shockwave changing his color scheme to his "true" Decepticon colors can be treated as such.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Oil Slick and Lockdown for Prowl.
* [[Evil Gloating]] - Starscream ''loves'' this. Interrupt him at your peril. Naturally, his [[Send in
** '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAjddZzNqI YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEEEEEEECH!]'''
* [[Executive Meddling]]/[[Network to
* [[Expy]] - Very common, this being ''[[Transformers]]''. Most recently, ''[[
** Lockdown has been compared to [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Death's Head from the comics.
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]] - The mutant space barnacles make eyes appear all over their victims.
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** In a [[Transformers Timelines]] comic published after the series, {{spoiler|Blurr attends an event, still smushed up}}.
* [[Fan Nickname]]:
** "''[[Teen Titans (
** Since, in this continuity, Autobots are largely incapable of flying, the Animated version of [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powerglide_%28Animated%29 Powerglide] actually seems to transform into a ground-based alternate mode, prompting some to name him as "Powerdrive" instead.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Aplenty.
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** Sentinel Prime ''really'' doesn't like organics. This is actually endemic to the entire Cybertronian population (Optimus' crew, for whatever reason, are far more tolerant even at the start), but Sentinel goes above and beyond. He actually tells Blackarachnia, his old friend Elita-1 turned techno-organic, that she was [[Fate Worse Than Death|better off dead]] {{spoiler|before trying to ''[[Mercy Kill|kill her]]''}}. How bad is this? Even Blackarachnia herself has less hatred for her organic half than Sentinel does, and she spends the entire series trying to purge it. Second-in-command of the Autobot Elite Guard, everybody!
*** Fanzone actually uses this against the Cybertronians when he ends up on Cyberton in one episode. Being a human and all, he's basically a walking bioterrorism weapon.
* [[Fascists' Bed Time]] - One of Sentinel's first acts as Magnus is to institute a curfew. What this means for robots who don't exactly 'sleep' is unclear, although they do take 'stasis naps'.
* [[Fastball Special]] - Optimus does this with Sentinel Prime to get the latter into melee range of Lugnut. They were in space at the time.
** Bulkhead tosses Prowl and Bumblebee on more than one occasion. See also the [[Not Quite Flight]] example below.
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** Ironic considering {{spoiler|he's the only Autobot who successfully kills another character on screen (Starscream in "Endgame Part 2"), although Jazz helped.}}
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] - Wasp(inator)
* [[Fun
{{quote| '''Sari''': "The B-U...Dad, you really need to work on your acronyms."}}
* [[Funny Schizophrenia]]: Blitzwing. Icy, Hothead, and Random.
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* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Well, let's see; we've got Wasp being thrown in the Stockades with one piece of questionable evidence, Swindle left paralyzed and our heroes do nothing about it, Sentinel wanting to kill Blackarachnia once he discovers who she really is, and then there's Omega Supreme's entire backstory... The Autobots can almost be as ruthless as the 'Cons at times.
** Though others might argue that Autobots in this series are more grey than their usual white.
** Most of the Autobots (excluding those who live on Earth) have an irrational fear of organics. [[Can't Argue
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: {{spoiler|Prowl, [[The Stoic|ironically.]]}}
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]] - In the beginning of the second season, after the All-Spark shattered, the Transformers start gathering the pieces; each one having strange powers over machinery. Shades of ''[[Inuyasha]]''!
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* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Thrust, the only Starscream clone to neither appear in the show ''nor'' have a toy, embodies Starscream's jealousy.
* [[Grenade Hot Potato]] - Megatron does this to Starscream during the Death Montage.
* [[Grievous Harm
** Optimus beats up Headmaster-Sentinel with his own arm, a year before the movie! Optimus did the same thing to Starscream. He later forces Laserbeak into his altmode and clobbers Soundwave with him in ''Human Error part 2''.
* [[Grudging Thank You]] - Sentinel to Optimus after their run-in with the Headmaster.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Optimus Prime died in the third episode - less than sixty minutes into the series. He was brought back from the dead less than two minutes later - a new personal record. Then Omega Supreme died in the second season finale... but he's [[Not Quite Dead]].
** {{spoiler|Prowl as well, in the third (and most likely final) finale}}.
* [[Hero
* [[Homage]] - several designs are nods to other [[Humongous Mecha]] and even other Transformers series:
** Starscream's vehicle mode is similar to the [http://www.new-un-spacy.com/macrossplus/yf-19.htm YF-19 Alpha One] from [[Macross Plus]] and [[Macross 7]] (he even looks like the GERWALK mode for a second during his [[Transformation Sequence]]).
** Soundwave and Prowl's [[Cool Shades]] are a nod to the ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' of ''2000 AD Comics''. Bulkhead's overall design, particularly his head, recalls Mongrol from the came comic.
** Tutor Bot looks quite a bit like Lord Canti of ''[[FLCL]]''.
** The police drones used by the city look like the ED-209 from ''[[
** Blurr's vehicle mode looks like the [[Speed Racer|Mach 5]]. The toy version even has a hidden sawblade that springs out front. On a different note, he also has wheels inspired by Cheetor from the canceled ''[[Transformers Trans Tech|Transtech]]'' line. Appropriately, his toy will soon be retooled ''into'' an actual [[Trans Tech]] Cheetor toy.
** Jetfire and Jetstorm, who combine to form Safeguard, bear a marked resemblance in [[Blue Oni Red Oni|design]] and [[Combining Mecha|combination-style]] to Hyoryu and Enryu/Choryujin from ''[[
** Mainframe is ''such'' an homage to the original G1 character that, like the original (an altmodeless Action Master), he never transforms. [[Word of God]] is that he ''does'' have an altmode, but it's an immobile supercomputer.
** Spittor's vehicle mode was designed as an homage to Don Figueroa's version of the original Spittor's altmode before the Beast Wars.
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** Headmaster is ''not'' a Gurren Lagann reference, no matter what some people tell you. Dirt Boss, however...
*** Dirt Boss also has mind-controlling devices he fires into other Transformers' heads, just like the G1 Insecticon Bombshell.
** During "Decepticon Air", Sari's hands splits apart into many smaller robotic fingers to operate a keyboard quickly, very much like is done by various computer operating cyborgs in ''[[Ghost in
*** In the same episode, Sunstorm and Ramjet get headpieces that cause them to resemble their G1 counterparts much more closely. According to the Allspark Almanac 2, Dirge and Thrust get coneheads of their own to complete the homage. Of course, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Starscream don't get boxheads, but whatever.
** Sari's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3qEBrKojg first upgrade] in ''TransWarped'' is another homage to Gurren Lagann, namely the way her arms and legs suddenly expand is almost identical to the way the Gurren's do when it [[Combining Mecha|combines]] with Lagann.
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* [[I Have a Family]] - The Professor in "Three's a Crowd", when he thinks Bulkhead has turned into a [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] (Bulky was just pretending so Dirt Boss wouldn't ''really'' go after him).
* [[I Lied]] - Megatron to Professor Sumdac when the latter finally learns the truth.
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not
* [[Incoming]]
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bomb]] - How Starscream nearly kills Megatron in the premiere. He tries to do this again during the famous Death Montage, but Megatron catches it and throws it back at him.
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* [[Island Base]] - There's one hidden on Dinobot Island: Meltdown moves into it after his first jailbreak, and Blackarachnia finds it during season 2. According to the [[All There in the Manual|Almanac]], it's an abandoned government facility.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: When [[Bad Liar|Ramjet]] tells you he's completely disarmed and helpless, he isn't. Sentinel, who'd never met him, didn't pick up on it, but Prowl did.
* [[Is That a Threat?]]
* [[It Has Been an Honour]] - In the first season finale, Optimus tells the team he can't think of anyone he'd rather have by his side as they're about to go into battle. Bumblebee, however, notes he wouldn't mind having the Elite Guard there too.
* [[Jaw Drop]] - Bulkhead does this twice, and it literally ''falls off'' the second time.
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* [[Jive Turkey]] - Jazz. "Traffic lights. Solid."
** [[Word of God|Marty Isenberg]] stated in an interview that he was suppose to sound like a [[Beatnik]].
* [[Journey to
* [[Keep-Away]] - Five Autobots trying to keep an angry Starscream from the Allspark. Lampshaded by Sari.
* [[Kid Appeal Character]]- Bumblebee (duh) and Sari.
** In "Bee in the City", Bumblebee is mistaken for several other "kid appeal" types across various other ''Transformers'' canons; [[Transformers Generation
* [[Killed Off for Real]] {{spoiler|Yoketron, Starscream, Prowl}}
** {{spoiler|Most likely Blurr as well. And before anyone brings up the idea that they were gonna have his spark still beating inside the cube, that was from a piece of UNUSED concept art. And even if he was still alive then, chances are Cliffjumper unknowingly throwing his cubed form in the incinerator finished the job. Plus, the show is over, so he ain't coming back in this series anyway.}}
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{{quote| '''Headmaster:''' I am so leet!<br />
'''Optimus Prime:''' Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means! }}
* [[Left Hanging]] - Sari's backstory is easily the biggest unresolved issue, although there are a few others (see [[What Happened to
* [[Legion of Doom]] - The Society of Ultimate Villainy, which is comprised of the most fail-tastic human adversaries plus Swindle, who lives up to his name rather well.
* [[The Lifestream]] - The Well of All Sparks.
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* [[The Medic]] - Ratchet and Red Alert. The instant healing properties of Sari's key often displaced Ratchet's skills and put her in this role.
* [[Medium Awareness]] - Slightly played with in the Japanese dub. For a crossover version, Bumblebee jokingly thinks about calling for [[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire|Rescue Fire]] when the Autobots are responding to a building fire, and Bulkhead responds that that's a different show in part 3 of "Transform and Roll Out" (considering that ''Rescue Fire'' aired in the same timeslot before Animated's debut). Later in that same part, when Optimus was contemplating on getting the AllSpark to safety, Starscream attacks the Bots while yelling that the show's not over yet (truthfully, he could be referring that they weren't victorious yet).
* [[Merchandise-Driven]] - Eventually; somewhat averted when the series first debuted, as the toyline was actually delayed several months due to Hasbro wanting to continue pushing merch from the [[Transformers (
* [[Mega Manning]] - Blackarachnia and her previous form, Elita-1.
* [[Minion Shipping]] - [[The Renfield|Lugnut]] and [[Husky Russkie|Strika]] are married.
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* [[Never My Fault]] - Sentinel blaming Optimus for Elita-1's "[[Left for Dead|death]]".
* [[Never Trust a Trailer|Never Trust An Opening]] - The opening to the Japanese dub of Animated suggests that {{spoiler|<s>Iron</s>Armorhide and Arcee}} have bigger roles than they actually do in the series. And the humans seen throughout the series? Nowhere in the Opening... not even the Sumdacs.
** It also has the Autobots and Decepticons battling each other in various locations across the world, which they did do in [[
** Not to mention that Lockdown is featured as part of the main group of Decepticons (Even in the ending) despite being technically unaffiliated while [[The Brute|Lugnut]], on the other hand, only appears briefly.
*** Yeah, but it was an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]], [[More Dakka|laser firing]] briefly.
* [[Never Say "Die"]] - 'Slag' or 'take offline' are generally used instead, with the occasional exception - Bumblebee quotes Rattrap in the premiere ("We're all gonna die, aren't we?") and when Optimus tells Ratchet he has to use his EMP on an overloading Sari, he flat-out says "It could kill her!" Sari herself later mentions that Soundwave "tried to kill me".
* [[New Powers
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] - Bumblebee really screws up in "Autoboot Camp".
** A similar instance would be Sari reactivating Megatron
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] - Megatron probably would have beaten the Autobots and gotten the Allspark... had [[The Starscream|Starscream]] not placed an explosive on his back
* [[Ninja]] - Prowl, Jazz, Master Yoketron, supposedly Oil Slick and (formerly) {{spoiler|Lockdown}}.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - Besides being robot ninjas, Jazz is also a [[Soul Brotha]], and Prowl and Bumblebee were once turned into zombies. Lockdown has a huge claw for a right hand, making him the "pirate" to Prowl's "ninja", as well as a [[Bounty Hunter]] with a skull for a head and an undertaker's tux. To say nothing of the Dinobots, who are [[Exactly What It Says
** Let's not forget that Prowl decided to become the ''complete opposite of a ninja'' by getting a Samurai-armor upgrade in "A Fistful of Energon"...which later returns in "Five Servos of Doom" and seems to be a permanent upgrade.
** It's later revealed that {{spoiler|Lockdown}} was once a ninja pupil himself {{spoiler|and an Autobot; [[Word of God]] is that no Decepticon ever trained under Yoketron}}. And Oil Slick is a ninja chemist.
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* [[The Noseless]]: Technically speaking, it seems like none of the robots have actual noses, but rather have a nose-like structure that is formed by their helmets. When Bumblebee's is taken by Wasp, at the end of ''Where Is Thy Sting?'', his full face is shown, with no other facial features outside of his mouth and optics.
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: Season 3.
* [[Not Good
* [[Not Important to This Episode Camp]] - For the Prowl/Lockdown episode "A Fistful of Energon," Bumblebee and Sari apparently jaunted off to "[[Brand X|Five Banners Roller Coaster Kingdom]]."
** I thought that was just [[Lazy Artist|so they didn't have to draw Sari without pigtails]] since they got cut off last episode.
* [[Not Quite Flight]] - The Autobots are mostly confined to the ground, but Prowl has his [[Jet Pack]] and Optimus is surprisingly effective with his grappling hooks when fighting airborne opponents. The most creative example, though, is the multi-stage rocket in "Nanosec" where Bulkhead fires his wrecking ball to launch the duo of Prowl and Bumblebee, Prowl giving Bumblebee a boost with his jump-jets, and Bumblebee using his turbo boosters to get even higher than that, into the ''upper atmosphere''. Who needs jet engines anyway?
* [[Not So Different]] - Speaking of Lockdown and Prowl...
* [[Not So Harmless]]: When most people heard that Waspinator was going to be in season 3 most fans though he was going to be comic-relief like his [[
* [[Odd Couple]] - Optimus and Grimlock. Prowl and Bumblebee/Bulkhead. Ratchet and Captain Fanzone.
* [[Officer O'Hara]] - Wreck-Gar meets one of these while trying to work out who he is.
* [[Official Couple]] - Lugnut and Strika. Yeah.
** The ''Almanac II' also gives us [[Beast Machines
* [[Oh Crap]]: The look of ''pure abject horror'' on Optimus Prime's face when the restored Megatron (whom he'd thought dead since the first episode) bursts out of Sumdac Tower is priceless. This is a 'bot who understands ''exactly'' how completely and utterly screwed he is.
** The Elite Guard get big one when, after insisting for the entire episode that there are no Decepticons on Earth, they face off with Starscream, who is more than willing to show the lot of them a taste of what Optimus has been up against.
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* [[The Other Darrin]] - In season three, Omega Supreme is voiced by Phil LaMarr instead of Kevin Michael Richardson.
* [[Out of Focus]] - Captain Fanzone went from a major character in Season 1 to a rarely appearing recurring character by Season 3. Humans in general were pretty much written out of season 3, in an attempt to make the show less about them and more about the titular giant robots.
* [[Parental Bonus]] - [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''[[Airplane!]]!'', ''[[
* [[Percussive Maintenance]] - Blackout repairs the space bridge he broke after stomping on the ground near it by... stomping on the ground near it ''again'', implied to be an ability of his (that is, causing electronics to fail and being able to reactivate them, hence the name).
* [[People Puppets]] - Anyone controlled by a Headmaster unit or Dirt Boss's Headmaster-derived drill bit.
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* [[Pet the Dog]] - Sentinel offering Optimus a spot in the Elite Guard in "Decepticon Air". Although it doesn't last long before he's kicking again.
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] - Both Brawn and Dirt Boss.
* [[Playing Against Type]] - David Kaye as [[The Hero|Optimus Prime]], as he has played both [[Beast Wars
* [[Playing
* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] - TransWarped: {{spoiler|1=Sari in Season 3, courtesy of the AllSpark Key. Before she was about 8, now she looks about 16.}}
* [[Portal Network]] - The space bridges
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* [[Promise Me You Won't X]] - When Sentinel calls Optimus after his run-in with the Headmaster, he makes him promise not to laugh. Of course, when Optimus sees what's happened...
* [[Psycho for Hire]] - Lockdown.
* [[Put
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] - [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Team_Chaar Team Chaar,] appearing in one scene set on the other side of the galaxy which wasn't even very plot-relevant.
** Also the SUV, although they were only a group for one episode.
* [[Raised
* [[Random Teleportation]]: Going through a space-bridge with no target co-ordinates can send you just about anywhere, and holding onto a plasmadynamic thruster while someone else is transwarping can send you hurtling around space like a pinball. The Autobots exploit this by attaching one to Omega while he's under Megatron's control, sending him transwarping randomly through space for most of the season.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] - Bulkhead delivers one to Wasp in "Where Is Thy Sting".
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** SENTINEL PRIME. Supposedly, they even got a woman to voice the scream.
** Grandus, one of the biggest transformers in the entire series. Although admittedly he appears to be in full on wimp mode all the time.
* [[Screwed
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] - {{spoiler|Jazz,}} having enough of {{spoiler|Sentinel's attitude, follows Ratchet to Earth to join Optimus' crew}} in "This Is Why I Hate Machines."
* [[Screw Yourself]] - Okay, he never gets ''that'' far, this being a kid's show, but there was definitely something suggestive about the way Starscream asked Slipstream what part of him she represented. She wasn't interested.
* [[Send in
{{quote| '''Starscream:''' So, which part of me do ''you'' come from?<br />
'''Slipstream:''' [[You Do NOT Want to Know|Don't ask!]] }}
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* [[Shockwave Clap]] - Bulkhead can cause this just by clapping, as seen in the "Mime Time" short.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]] - Masterson is the only human supervillain to appear in season 3. Not even Meltdown, who was still alive and actually a threat, is heard from again.
* [[Short Run in Peru]] - Somewhat annoyingly to American viewers, Canada's YTV aired this show a week ahead of Cartoon Network after it was dropped for one week in favor of the ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* [[Show Accuracy Toy Accuracy]]: For all its worth, Animated has some of the most accuracy between the show and the toys of any continuity, in that the toys are highly accurate in Alt Mode, Robot Mode, and have extremely accurate transformations, all while maintaining the series' unique art style.
* [[Shrug of God]] - Derrick Wyatt himself prefers not think about what Slipstream represents. He's also keeping mum about how {{spoiler|Sari's protoform}} ended up in Isaac's lab - he feels that something like that should only be told in future TFA fiction. Fingers crossed...
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** Pushed to its logical end with the Starscream clones. Despite having color schemes clearly inspired by older characters that had their own names, they'll probably never be referred to as anything but Starscream clones on the show. That's because if they're all Starscream clones, then they all count as the same character; if they were different characters, they'd have to pay [[Tom Kenny]] extra to voice them all and they're only allowed to have one VA voice so many characters in a single episode.
** They've done several episodes where two characters go out on their own and argue the entire way, and often even had the same voice actor, with both Prime/Grimlock and Prowl/Fanzone.
** This was lampshaded during the Botcon 2008 script reading, where Bumblebee suggests to a thinly disguised Beast Wars Megatron (as voiced by David Kaye) that they call Grimlock or Lugnut (both voiced by David Kaye) for help. Megatron responds "Oh, please. What do I look like, [[Beast Wars
** There's even one where Animated!Optimus is talking about golf with BW!Megatron, the latter declaring with a chuckle that Autobots suck at golf.
* [[Tearful Smile]] - Sari after Optimus's [[First-Episode Resurrection|revival]].
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* [[They Would Cut You Up]] - Blackarachnia joined the Decepticons for fear of ending up on a lab table on Cybertron if she returned to the Autobots.
* [[That Liar Lies]] - Endgame, part 1: While Megatron facepalms at Lugnut and Shockwave's squabbling, you can just hear Shockwave yelling 'Liar, lying liar!' Seriously.
* [[The Easy Way or
* [[Theme Twin Naming]] - Jetfire and Jetstorm. Also, while they're not technically twins, Wasp and Bumblebee share a chassis model.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]] - Bumblebee's horn plays it in 'The Thrill of the Hunt', Ratchet whistles it in one of the DVD shorts, and Sari hums it in 'Sari, No-One's Home'.
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* [[Token Mini-Moe]] - Sari. Somewhat less in season 3.
** Does Professor Princess count?
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tonight Someone Dies]] - Sort of. The [[DVD Commentary]] for a second season episode has one person asking if anyone really dies, and another one responds that no one does until season three... {{spoiler|And in the last episode of the series, Starscream and Prowl are both killed off.}} Can't say they aren't honest.
** [[Send in
* [[Too Fast to Stop]] - Bumblebee's first go with the turbo-boosters results in this.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]] - Prowl has gone through a specific character arc for him to complete his "cyber-ninja" training. Optimus Prime has had to dig in his heels in order to properly face off against Megatron. Bumblebee received a literal upgrade to his previously worthless stingers (which nicely explained how they were so powerful in flashback).
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]] - Megatron starts to lose it just a ''little'' bit in the season 3 finale. "Then destroy the Autobots. Destroy the city. DESTROY ANYTHING THAT'S '''NOT ME'''!"
* [[Villainous Glutton]] - Though not fat, Starscream's toy-only clone Dirge is the living representation of the former's greed, and as such is an accomplished glutton who always wants more of everything, energon goodies included. Spittor can also digest his victims if he chooses - and Oil Slick claims that once you get past the slobbering freak and his weird tentacles, you discover a much more disgusting creature on the inside.
* [[Villain
* [[The Virus]] - Space barnacles, once they've been...altered(either by Megatron's body or Allspark energy).
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] - Aside from the eponymous [[Transforming Mecha]], Decepticon spy Shockwave (not to be confused with Soundwave) has Autobot ''and'' Decepticon variations of his robot and vehicle forms.
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* [[Wham! Episode]] - ''A Bridge Too Close'' and ''Transwarped''.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]? - At the end of "Human Error," {{spoiler|Optimus and Soundwave have a guitar duel, done completely serious.}}
* [[What Happened to
** Although to their credit, the writers are using the Allspark Almanacs to explain what happened to characters after their last appearance or in between appearances.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Several times, but the most surprising example is ''Sentinel'' calling Optimus out for not telling him about Blackarachnia. "[[Sarcasm Mode|'Cause I wouldn't wanna be, I don't know, PREPARED FOR THIS OR ANYTHING!]]"
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{{quote| Ratchet: "Why didn't you just use the EMP?"<br />
Prowl: "Where's the fun in that?" }}
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]] - Season 2 finale "A Bridge Too Close", very nearly at least, to ''[[The Bridge
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?]] - This happens to Bumblebee at least twice in season one, and again in season three - not to mention Sentinel in 'This is Why I Hate Machines'.
* [[Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] - Elita-1's "death" left Optimus with a phobia of spiders and Seintel of anything organic. Cybertronians in general are wary of organics in this continuity (due to a bad past experience, according to [[Word of God]]), but Sentinel is that much worse about it.
** Whilst he isn't exactly afraid of them (he just doesn't like them), Fanzone makes a pretty direct homage to the [[Trope Namer]] when the Elite Guard arrive on Earth:
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* [[Yes-Man]] - Sunstorm and his predecessor #2716057; It's unclear whether they're at all sincere in their constant praise, or if they're just working an angle and trying to butter everyone up.
** This is a [[The Starscream|Starscream]] clone we're talking about. Of ''course'' he's working an angle and trying to butter everyone up.
** Lugnut, however, plays it straight in the mold of [[Beast Wars
* [[Your Approval Fills Me
* [[You Can Run but You Can't Hide]] - Bumblebee went for the flipped-around version against Lockdown. Of course, he was biting off a lot more than he could chew.
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: Slipstream's (i.e. the female Starscream clone) response to Starscream about which part of his personality she represents is "Don't ask".
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