Transformers: War for Cybertron: Difference between revisions

* [[Critical Encumbrance Failure]]: Removing an [[BFG|Ion Displacer]] from its mount allows you to carry it around... at the expense of your double-jump and about half your movement speed.

* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: So. Very. Much. ''Every'' named Transformer becomes exponentially more powerful whenever you're not controlling him.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This is a far more intense Transformers adaptation than is the usual fare, [[Beyond the Impossible|even more than]] [[Transformers (film)|Bayformers]]. For one thing, it's not just the Decepticons that have nameless legions of cannon fodder.

* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: In the ''Exodus'' [[All There in the Manual|tie-in novel]], Megatron's goal for doing what he does is to free Cybertron from an oppressive caste system that stifles personal ambition and cultural development. By the time of ''War for Cybertron'', however, he's devolved into the megalomaniacal tyrant we all know and love, promising to relieve the population of Cybertron of "the burdens of freedom and choice."

'''Megatron''': Yes, Breakdown. Your ''constant whining'' saw us through. }}

* [[The Determinator]]: This is Megatron's defining characteristic. The entire Decepticon campaign has various characters telling Megatron that he cannot do what he's trying to do (control Dark Energon, storm the gates of the Autobot capital, defeat Omega Supreme). Megatron's response is to give them all the finger and do it anyway.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Both subverted and played straight with {{spoiler|Trypticon. Subverted in that he survives a fall from ''orbit''; played straight in that Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ironhide manage to defeat him by blowing out his power cores and causing him to fall down a chasm. And even then, we [[Never Found the Body|can't be certain that actually killed him]]...}}

** {{spoiler|They didn't. He becomes the Nemesis according to Exodus. But his mind is out and out ''gone'', so he's running on a mixture of autonomous systems and the Decepticons working various stations and posts inside his body.}}

** [[Canon Discontinuity]] here, because a promo image for [[Fall of Cybertron]] shows {{spoiler|Trypticon's corpse(?) being retrieved by a giant Autobot tank. And by that I mean [[Furry Confusion|an actual one]].}}

* [[Elite Mooks]]: [[Drop the Hammer|Brutes]], [[BFG|Titans]], and the aforementioned [[Heavily Armored Mook|overshield-equipped]] grenadiers.

* [[Escort Mission]]: Delightfully averted for the most part. Though you always travel in a squad of three, your squadmates are invincible. Even if they're auto-killed by an environmental effect (such as falling into a bottomless pit or {{spoiler|standing in front of Trypticon's laser breath}}), they respawn a moment later. In short, you are never punished for any [[Artificial Stupidity]].

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: It's never explained where the hell Trypticon came from. There was no indication in the Decepticon campaign, for example, that {{spoiler|the transfer station was alive}}. (It should be noted that while Megatron is never put off by the sheer size and power of Omega Supreme, that might just be Megatron being Megatron...or it might hint of things to come...) It probably has something to do with how new Cybertronians are made, but since we don't know how that is it comes off as a bit odd.

** It's hinted at in the first Decepticon chapter when Megatron states {{spoiler|he has plans to upgrade the station after Barricade's observation about how old everything is}}.

* [[Gladiator Games]]: Megatron got his start (and name) in the equivalent of Cybertronian Fight Club. His desire to see a free Cybertron without a caste system where everyone is free to determine their own path sparks his rise to power as more and more Cybertronians (including the future Optimus Prime) come to his cause, leading eventually to a...

** [[Gladiator Revolt]]: Unfortunately, as Megatron's organization grows in power, some start to do less than moral things such as bombing an amusement park.

** He's hanging around with [[Bad Boss|Meg]][[Blood Knight|at]][[Leeroy Jenkins|ron]]. Of ''course'' he's nervous.

* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: Aside from the Transformers themselves, the depths of Cybertron have weird floating robot squids and other such things.

* [[The Men First]]: Optimus and Ratchet will constantly try to avoid any casualties on their side.

* [[Mini Boss]]: Destroyers. Also the Decepticon War Machines in the first mission of the Autobot campaign.