Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers/YMMV

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  • Complete Monster: Overlord, again.
    • Prowl is creeping closer and closer to this with each fresh appearance. Here he's happy to send Autobots to die horribly just so he can suppress information that he doesn't want to get out about the atrocities the Autobot army has committed. Chances are, he probably even calculated the odds of Springer surviving -- since he's one of the Autobots that has openly challenge him at times.
    • Macabre, leader of Squadron X, appears to be this - having as he does a necklace of Autobot insignias around his neck, evidently intended to parallel the real-life practice of lunatic soldiers collecting the ears of downed enemies. Wait, sorry, that's a noose, possibly a souvenir from a failed lynching attempt.
    • Skyfall.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Kick-Off, whose toy was a non-transforming Action Master, is forced to fight a Decepticon gladiator. When delivering the killing blow on his mid-transformation opponent, he announces that "alt modes are for wimps!" It's a simultaneous bad-ass moment and a great Shout-Out to the toyline.
    • Ironfist and Verity each get a CMOA against Overlord in #5. Ironfist detonates thousands of deterrence chips inside Overlord's body, delivered via a chain gun wielded by Springer. Verity's backtalk to Overlord turns into a Hannibal Lecture that completely demoralizes the powerful villain.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: "Wreckers, combine!" Followed immediately by Rotorstorm getting his head blown off in one of the series' most incredible Mood Whiplash moments.
  • Evil Is Sexy: Overlord is just about this personified, with his handsome (for a giant robot) looks and campy, charismatic, and theatrical mannerisms. (Doesn't make him any less scary or creepy, however.)
  • Fashion Victim Villain: Subverted, characters up to and including the infamous Skyquake have sane colours. That said, the Predators are still a little garish - Snare's bio notes that this is for camouflage on the strange worlds they've been stationed on in the past.
  • Memetic Mutation: "Wreckers, combine!"
  • Moral Event Horizon: Impactor's deeds at Pova, given Ironfist's reaction. These included executing Squadron X, while they were chained and on their knees.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Plenty of stuff, like the endoscopic claw, the results of Stalker's earlier torture of Twin Twist, and Overlord's burning endoskeleton.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
    • Verity Carlo, the most annoying human from Furman's IDW Transformers comics, is actually a pretty likable and funny character.
    • To many fans, Perceptor. All Hail Megatron changed him from a nifty science guy to a stoic, boring sniper. LSOTW consolidates this by bringing back his intellect, and keeping the badass, resulting in a true Badass Bookworm.
  • Running the Asylum: A well-received example. The authors are both Promoted Fanboys, and the series follows a Transformers-exclusive iteration of a rule detailed on the Running the Asylum trope pages: the characters used as OC Stand Ins were available in the UK as toys around the time that the authors were younger, which explains their motivation for rescuing them from eternal obscurity.
  • Selfish Good: Pyro. Originally, revealed Glory Hound in Issue #4, he makes up for it in the following issue.

Ironfist: All that stuff about 15-kiloton explosions?
Pyro: I figure that dying to save people you care about is the most anyone can do.

  • Too Cool to Live: Rotorstorm
  • Unfortunate Implications: All the wreckers reservist except Guzzle had traits that made them candidates for Aequitas: A broken ace, a gloryhound and a woobie. It is even referenced in Rung's psycho profiles of the recruits.

Ironfist:"It was always going to be one of us - the second stringers"

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