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* [[Camera Fiend]]: Rewind has a camera mounted to the side of his head, and is nearly always recording. One of his videos serves as the framing device for issue 22.
* [[Comically Serious]]: Ultra Magnus is played as this to the hilt for comedic purposes, serving as the [[Straight Man]] even to other serious characters. He can't even bring himself to say the word "fun", at one point, having to prompt someone else to say it for him.
* [[Complete Monster]]: The Decepticon Justice Division are terrifying examples, to the point that injured Decepticons beg Autobot medics to kill them, rather then repair them and thus be added to the DJDs List for treason.
* [[Dark and troubled Past]]: Quite a few of the crew suffer from this, and it has a habit of returning to make trouble for them.
** Drift and {{spoiler|Megatron}} are former Decepticons trying to atone for their mistakes.
** Cyclonus served under Nova Prime and Galvatron, and took part in an attack on an Autobot space station just prior to the beginning of the comic. Many of the crew consider him a Decepticon in all but badge.
** Although he has no memory of it, Skids {{spoiler|served in Prowl's Diplomatic Corps, a covert Black Ops organisation.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Everyone, to a certain degree, but Ratchet, Drift, and Cyclonus especially.
* [[Deconstruction]]: See [[Meaningful Name]] below, but also transforming itself. The series shows how it integrates into culture, how some bots die in their preferred forms, how it can be addicting, how some altmodes can considered embarrassing or to say negative things about a person's history or personality, and how it's vital to how the Transformers live, instead of being just a gimmick to sell toys or used only for disguise. The biggest example was {{spoiler|the crisis on Delphi, where bots' organ's liquefy and come out their optics, thus crying themselves to death, via a sonic-based disease that activates only when they transform.}}
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: The diminutive data archivist memory-stick-former Rewind and normal-sized jetformer mnemosurgeon Chromedome.
* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: Averted in the case of Chromedome and Rewind, who are openly married (Although it's referred to by the Cybertronian term 'Conjunx Endura). James Roberts has admitted that despite his initial worries, Hasbro was very supportive of the idea.
* [[Instant Marksman, Just Squeeze Trigger]]: Averted painfully with Swerve, who admits he's not a good shot. When ordered to fire on Fortress Maximus, who has had a breakdown and taken Whirl and Rung hostage, he misses the larger 'bot completely and instead blows Rungs head apart, very nearly killing him.
* [[Interrogating the Dead]]: Chromedome's ability to read the thoughts and memories of other Transformers via surgical means is used to do this in one issue.▼
** Misfire's name is very well earned.
{{quote| "They call me Misfire. Long story. Actually, you know what? It isn't. It's a very short story involving a machine gun, a misunderstanding, and a dozen dead Decepticons."}}
▲* [[Interrogating the Dead]]: Chromedome's ability to read the thoughts and memories of other Transformers via surgical means is used to do this in
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "It's not a good name, but all the best were taken" was funny when said about Dent, but takes on a darker meaning when said about Ambulon's name.
* [[Jerkass]]: Whirl, voted "Autobot most likely to defect". Twice. He is disliked by many; even the normally bleeding-heart Ratchet hesitates to repair him. He mutilates corpses in his spare time, and is probably unhinged. After the war he and Sideswipe liked to beat on Neutrals. Before the war, he exercised his authority as an officer to beat a defenseless and innocent prisoner while the prisoner was restrained. {{spoiler|That prisoner grew up to be Megatron!}}
* [[Legacy Character]]: {{spoiler|Ultra Magnus is revealed as one during the 'Remain in Light' story arc.}}
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: As an adventurous romp full of snarky humor and witty dialogue compared to its sister series ''Robots In Disguise'' being a more serious and political storyline. (Though that doesn't mean this series is "light and soft" full stop, as there's still plenty of creepy horror and intrigue going on.)
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
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