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== Main Autobots ==

 

 

{{quote|''My name...is Optimus Prime, and I'm prepared to sacrifice my life to defend the Allspark.''|Optimus, after Starscream calls him "Autobot scum" in the pilot. He's gonna get this a lot...}}

 

 

* [[Almighty Janitor]]

** {{spoiler|[[Blow You Away]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[Shock and Awe]]}}

* [[The Hero]]

** [[Broken Hero]]

** [[Shoulder Cannon|Shoulder Cannons]]: They fire ''foam'', but it still counts.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] - He was on the fast track to the Elite Guard as a cadet, maybe even future Magnus. That was derailed after Sentinel talked him into visiting a planet with a crashed Decepticon warship, resulting in the loss of Elita-1. The reassignment actually could have been worse, though; he got his rank and position on the charity of Ultra Magnus.

* [[Reassignment Backfire]] - One [[MacGuffin]] later he and his little group become the single most important Autobots to Cybertron.

* [[Team Dad]] - Previous Optimuses (Optimi?) have been like this, but he may be the most Dad-like one yet.

* [[Heroic Build]]

* [[Unknown Rival]] - Megatron knows he exists, but spends almost the entire series calling him "Autobot".

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[An Axe to Grind]]

** {{spoiler|[[Drop the Hammer]]}}

 

 

 

Bumblebee is a speedy, impatient, and impulsive young Cybertronian. He thinks on his wheels and less on his head and tends to goof-up and have fun with his human friend, Sari. Despite it, he's ready for battle when the situation calls, even if he tends to rush in without thinking first.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]

* [[Catgirl|Cat Robot Boy]]: His face, mask, and striped patterns evoke a cat-like image moreso than a real bumblebee motif.

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] - Or the closest robot equivalent.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Keet]] - About as much as a robot can be.

* [[Kid Appeal Character]]: The former [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]

* [[Rollerblade Good]]

* [[Shock and Awe]] - His stingers, which usually result in a case of...

* [[Shooting Superman]] - He might as well be firing paintballs at Decepticons, for now.

* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Whack a Mole]]}}

 

 

 

Bulkhead may be big and strong and he may enjoy smashing things around here and there, but he wants you to know he has a sensitive side, too. Ever the [[Gentle Giant]], he is often taken for granted, thinking because of his brawny nature, he isn't all that smart. Though unsubtle, Bulkhead is an insightful 'bot with a natural gift for art.

 

* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]] - Bulkhead doesn't know what art is, but when Sari introduces him to the concept, he takes to it immediately, and has a gallery show at the end of the episode. He's painting again in the season 2 finale.

* [[Big Fun]] - As close as a [[Humongous Mecha]] can get, at least.

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]

* [[Dub Name Change]] - In Japan, he's called "Ironhide" despite the fact there's ''already'' another character called Ironhide<ref>As an aside, ''that'' Ironhide gets renamed "Armorhide".</ref>.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Genius Ditz]]

* [[Mundane Utility]] - Can use his [[Kibbles and Bits|Kibble]] as a chair.

* [[Stout Strength]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Epic Flail]]

** [[Rocket Punch]] - He has a fist that turns into a wrecking ball attached to a cord. Close enough.

 

 

 

Ratchet suffered through the Great War millions of years back, experiences which have caused him to be grumpy 24/7. He refuses to talk about his time there (especially with an eager Optimus Prime) and suffers Vietnam-style flashbacks {{spoiler|due primarily to two traumatic incidents of failing in his profession: accidentally wiping Arcee's memory core and having to participate in the near-death of Omega Supreme that reduced the giant to a mere spaceship}}. Despite his constant angry outbursts, however, Ratchet possesses a sweet side deep down.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Defusing the Tykebomb]] - To Omega, from the moment the big guy was 'born'.

"I am Ratchet. I am...your friend." }}

* [[Dr. Jerk]]

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: It's never directly implied, but Ratchet cares an awful lot about Arcee for a ''long'' time, and we can safely guess that it's not just out of guilt.

* [[EMP]]

* [[Grumpy Bear]]

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]

* [[The Medic]]

* [[Papa Wolf]] - To someone several times his size. "Omega Supreme is one of us. An Autobot. A friend. Harm one circuit on him, and you'll answer to me!"

* [[Scars Are Forever]] - because he wants them to be.

* [[Selective Magnetism]]: Uses two magnets as his weapons.

* [[The Smart Guy]] - "Typical Academy bot. Rather hit a problem than fix it."

 

 

 

 

* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Acts as such for Bulkhead and Bumblebee on occasion.

* [[Cool Helmet]]: Part of his samurai armor. Doubles as a [[Memento MacGuffin]] from his old master Yoketron.

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Draft Dodging]]: Tried to avoid being drafted into the war, but ended up being apprehended by Warpath and taken to Yoketron's Dojo.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}

* [[Improbable Weapon User]] - His hubcaps turns into shuriken.

* [[Improvised Weapon]] - He's used a metal pole as a staff a time or two. As well as his toy having a traffic light flail.

* [[Incompletely Trained]]

* [[Jet Pack]] - His jump jets, although he can't truly ''fly'' until he gets the samurai armour.

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[Ninja]]

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - He starts as a ninja robot and goes from there. He was actually zombified in one episode, and dons samurai armor once in season 2 and permanently in season 3.

* [[Older Than He Looks]]: Was around during the Great War (though unlike Ratchet, didn't fight in it). This makes him older than Optimus, Bumblebee and Bulkhead.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Laser Blade|Laser Scalpel]]

** [[Simple Staff]]

* [[Your Size May Vary]] - The only way he can be taller than Bumblebee.

== Other Autobots ==

 

 

 

Formerly a schoolteacher to young Autobots, Arcee became an intel courier during the Great War, tasked with carrying the important codes for Project: Omega, a valuable resource that the Decepticons wanted. This job came to an abrupt end {{spoiler|when Ratchet accidentally wiped her memory during the Great War, causing her to suffer amnesia}}. She isn't seen until later on {{spoiler|when Megatron and crew manage to get their hands on her and the code. Fortunately, Sari and Ratchet restore her memory afterwards}}.

 

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]] - thanks to some [[Arc Welding]]

* {{spoiler|[[Easy Amnesia]]}}

* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]] - Before she was a spy in the Great War, she taught the Cybertronian equivalent of kindergarten.

 

 

 

Grimlock is the leader of the Dinobots. He and the other Dinobots are simpleminded and aggressive creatures who started out as animatronic dinosaurs for a theme park, which Megatron upgraded with weapons in the hopes of using one of them as a new body. This plan went off the rails when they were brought to life in an accident involving the Key. They tend to get violent very fast the moment they sense hostility, and Prowl is the only one who can calm them down...usually.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Flaming Sword]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] - His mannerisms are supposed to be based on Frankenstein's monster from the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketches.

* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]

 

* [[All Animals Are Dogs]] - Snarl in ''Human Error Part 2'', {{spoiler|when he becomes the pet of a castaway Scrapper}}

* [[Breath Weapon]]

* [[Silent Partner|Silent Partners]]

* [[The Speechless]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]

** [[Carry a Big Stick]] - Snarl

** [[Epic Flail]] - Swoop

 

 

 

 

** Do NOT mention his chin! It ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Tick]]''s him off!

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]

* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: In ''Five Servos Of Doom'', Prowl takes the fact that the primary mods of his prisoners are not on the prisoners as evidence that Sentinel had help from Lockdown. Sentinel shows him the mods then points out that he'd have to be pretty stupid to let his prisoners keep explosives on them (if only because he's already let it happen).

* [[Entitled Bastard]]

* [[Glory Hound]]

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Jerkass]] - By no stretch of the imagination is Sentinel an okay guy, although at least some of this can be traced to what happened with Elita-1 and the spiders.

** Sentinel Prime is what one would get if [[Futurama|Zapp Branigan]] turned into a robot and then became a [[The Bible|New Testament Pharisee]].

* [[Karma Houdini]] - Although he does end up losing the hero worship he craves {{spoiler|when Optimus Prime defeats Megatron and Sentinel is left in a crowd that's cheering for Optimus, looking rather sour}}.

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]] - Moreso than any other, and it's his [[Berserk Button]].

* [[The Neidermeyer]]

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]

 

 

 

 

* [[Beatnik]]

* [[Ninja]]

* [[Older Than He Looks]]: Had the same trainer as Prowl did, making him older than Sentinel (among others).

* [[Soul Brotha]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Can turn his tailpipes into nunchucks.

 

 

 

Current leader of the Autobots, Ultra Magnus is a straightforward leader. He usually makes decisions that would benefit the Autobots no matter how unethical they may seem, though he has his soft spots, mainly concerning Optimus Prime, in whom he sees potential. {{spoiler|He is tragically damaged by traitor Longarm Prime aka Shockwave, and according to the [[Word of God|Allspark Almanac]], <s> dies</s> would have died in season four, making his current position nebulous.}}

* [[Supporting Leader]]

 

 

 

Wreck-Gar means well, he really does. When he first arrives, he has no idea who he is and what his purpose in life is. He spends the entire episode switching between hero and villain in an effort to find what his life goal is, though in a somewhat unintentional manner. Wreck-Gar literally does whatever he hears—good or evil—with hilarious results. He later becomes an Autobot and tries his darnedest to be the hero he thinks he is. His head is not in the right place, but his spark is.

 

* [[Chaotic Stupid]] - His insanity manifests as doing whatever someone says, regardless of how inconsistent it is from his previous actions.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Hammerspace]] - His trash bucket.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] - Because he does whatever someone tells him to.

* [[Verbal Tic]] - "I am Wreck-Gar!"

 

 

 

{{spoiler|The current ship of Optimus Prime's crew, Omega Supreme was part of a huge project against the Decepticons during the Great War. He nearly lost his spark during the [[Final Battle]] and ended up comatose in ship form. Ratchet is his linked partner and constantly keeps him well maintained.}}

 

* [[Giant Robot]]

* [[I Am Not a Gun]]

* [[Last of His Kind]] - Omega is the last surviving and active Omega Sentinel, with Steelhaven/Sigma Supreme being used as a regular spaceship.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "We do what we must, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense."

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[More Dakka]]

 

 

 

A former Autobot who worked alongside Bumblebee and Bulkhead in Autoboot Camp, Wasp is a cocky little guy who often got on the latters' nerves. {{spoiler|After overhearing a Decepticon spy communicating with Megatron, Bumblebee accused Wasp of being said spy, leading to his imprisonment—thanks to some evidence planted by the real deal. Wasp eventually escapes (again with the help of the real spy) but he's not the bot he used to be. One thing is clear: He will get his revenge on Bumblebee!}}

 

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]

* [[Driven to Villainy]]

* [[Homage]] - Does [[The Fly|combining with an insect through the use of teleportation technology]] sound familiar to you?

* [[Jerk Jock]]: As Wasp.

* [[Painful Transformation]]: With [[Nightmare Fuel]] resulting

* [[Purple Eyes]] - gained them at some point during his incarceration.

* [[Red Herring Mole]]

* [[Shock and Awe]] - Stingers, same as Bumblebee. He retains them after becoming techno-organic, too.

** [[Psycho Electro]]

* [[That Man Is Dead]] - "Wasp forgive Bumblebot...but Waspinator NEVER forgive!"

* [[We Will Meet Again]] - Though his plotline was cut short, it's obvious that he intends to go after the Autobots again, as "Waspinator has plans."

 

 

 

 

* [[Chainsaw Good]] - His toy-only weapon

* [[Determinator]]: If he has a message important enough, he will traverse ''the galaxy on wheels'' to get it to Cybertron.

** {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]] - A fan theory is that he is still alive like that. Or was until he hit the incinerator.}}

*** The comics show {{spoiler|he escaped the incinerator. But his spark is still trapped in the cube.}}

* {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]}}

 

 

 

 

* [[Combining Mecha]] - Into Safeguard.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: One for each of them.

** [[Blow You Away]] - Jetstorm

* [[Fake Russian|Fake Russians]]

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]] - Jetfire (like Blitzwing, they're ''part of his forehead'')

* [[Sibling Team]]

* [[Sky Surfing]]: [[Power Rangers in Space|Galaxy Glider-style]]

* [[Wonder Twin Powers]]

 

 

 

Prowl's former master, Master Yoketron was the head of the Cyber-Ninja Corps. He trained a then-punkish Prowl in the ways of the ninja, humbling him in the process. He planned to make Prowl his successor after his pupil mastered the Processer-over-Matter technique{{spoiler|, but he was brutally murdered by Lockdown while Prowl was on an optics quest}}. Oh, and he's Robot Ninja Sulu. 'Nuff said.

 

* [[Cool Helmet]]: {{spoiler|Lockdown certainly thought so.}}

* [[Ninja]]

* [[Mind Over Matter]] - Or rather, "processor over matter". It took Prowl a few thousand years to get the hang of this without him.

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

* [[Tuckerization]] - He's named after Hideaki Yoke, Takara's lead designer.

 

 

 

 

* [[Chest Blaster]]: A radar modified into a sonic cannon

* [[Verbal Tic]] - Bam, Pow!

 

 

 

* [[The Ace]]

* [[Canon Foreigner]] - Only appears in the short-lived Titan Comics adaptation.

* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]}}

 

 

==== Team Athenia ====

 

 

 

* [[The Chosen One]] - [[All There in the Manual|Additional material]] indicates that Rodimus is most likely to become the next Magnus.

* [[Determinator]]: His entire team is defeated while defending a space bridge, and he winds up surrounded by much larger Decepticons. His response?

 

 

 

Team Athenia's own [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]], Hot Shot's speed and recklessness lead to him spending more time in the medbay than any other member, much to Red Alert's exasperation. Why Rodimus thinks he has command potential, she can't imagine.

 

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Street Urchin]] - Though it's only vaguely implied at best.

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]] - He was going to have a toy, but it only got as far as the prototype before the show was cancelled. Tough luck, [[Walkyverse|Willis]]!

 

 

Smaller than Bumblebee, stronger than Bulkhead. Do not cross.

 

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

* [[The Voiceless]]

 

 

 

 

* [[Caped Mecha]] - Her labcoat, although it's actually part of her vehicle-mode.

* [[Kuudere]]

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

 

 

 

 

* [[Dub Name Change]] - In Japan, Bulkhead is now called "Ironhide", so this Ironhide is now "Armorhide".

* [[Meaningful Name]]

* [[Palette Swap]] - The same body-type as Ratchet.

 

== Main Decepticons ==

 

 

 

Megatron likes to think of himself as a freedom fighter, leading his troops to reclaim their home from the Autobots who exiled them after the Great War. This claim is somewhat undermined by his complete lack of concern for anyone not useful to him and his willingness to manhandle his own soldiers to remind them who's in charge... {{spoiler|or to field-test weapons of mass destruction on defenceless human cities.}}

* [[Badass]]

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: While he's usually a lot more sedate than other incarnations of the character, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOU2oAiHadQ he has his moments]. ''[[Say My Name|STARSCREEEAAAM!!]]''.

** Bonus points for being voiced by none other than [[Norio Wakamoto|NORRRIO WAKAMOTO]] in the Japanese version.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: It's an incredibly ''bad'' sign if he ''isn't'' talking with this.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[The Dreaded]]

** [[BFG]]

** [[Cool Sword|Cool Swords]]

 

 

 

 

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]

* [[Butt Monkey]] - From season 2 onwards.

** [[Iron Butt Monkey]]

** [[The Chew Toy]]

* [[Evilly Affable]]

* [[Evil Gloating]] - to the point where he was ''[[Berserk Button|furious]]'' when he was once interrupted.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: As a heavy contrast to [[The Stoic|Megatron]], he does this ''alot''.

* [[Immortality Inducer]] - His Allspark fragment.

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Lean and Mean]]

* [[Losing Your Head]]: The end of Season 2. Lasts until the [[Grand Finale]].

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]

* [[The Sadistic Choice]]: "You have one mega-cycle to bring me the AllSpark. If not, this vessel and all its contents - human ''and'' Autobot - will perish! Then I will tear this planet apart until I find the AllSpark myself!"

* [[They Killed Kenny|They Killed Starscream]]

 

 

''[[Twitchy Eye|Just...go]].'' }}

 

* [[Implacable Man]]

* [[Large Ham]]: Especially when he starts praising "The great and GLORIOUS Megatron!".

* [[The Renfield]]: An effective version this time.

* [[Undying Loyalty]] - Taken to the extreme. He can practically make religious sermons about his great and [[Memetic Mutation|GLORIOUS]] leader.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]/[[Anatomy Arsenal]]

** [[Rocket Punch]] - Or rather turns his hand into a bomb and uses a jet engine on his arm to punch things really hard.

*** Played straight against Omega Supreme in the second season finale, with his hands [[Fridge Logic|magically reappearing in the next shot]].

* [[The Worf Barrage]] - The Punch; it's not ineffective, but he is always interrupted before he can it. Once, when he actually uses it, it levels the entire Autobot team and creates a huge crater.

 

 

(Random): ''Oooh, but I like iron filings! Especially sprinkled on top of servo salad!'' }}

 

 

* [[The Ahnold]] - Hothead, to a degree.

* [[Elemental Powers]] - Two out of three of his personalites have one.

** [[An Ice Person]]: Icy.

* [[Evilly Affable]]

* [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] - His faces get a lot, although the [[Word of God]] titles them "Icy", "Hothead" and "Random".

** [[The Spock]]: Icy.

* [[Giggling Villain]] - Random.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Icy and Hothead.

* [[Personality Powers]] - Icy and Hothead are ice/jet and fire/tank respectively, while his Random persona can use both. His big weakness is that it's involuntary - if you can get him to, say, switch from Icy to Hothead when he's in jet mode, he'll have no choice but to turn into a tank while in midair.

* [[Shoulder Cannon]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Random.

** ''The AllSpark Almanac'' elaborated further: {{spoiler|Blackarachnia experimented on him and made him a triple-changer}}. He may've been different before, but that had to have pushed him over the edge.

 

 

 

 

* [[Arachnid Appearance and Attire]]

* [[Building Swing]]

* [[Corrupt the Cutie]] - Her transformation from Elita-1 after being mistakenly [[Left for Dead]] with the giant spiders. Also doubling as her [[Start of Darkness]].

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[Dark Chick]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]

* [[Fantastic Racism]] - Or a victim of such. She left the Autobots rather than risk being strapped to a lab table.

** Also a self-inflicted example: she can't stand being part-organic.

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[I Am a Monster]]

* [[Mad Scientist]] - Not only regarding techno-organics; [[All There in the Manual|The AllSpark Almanac]] states that she rebuilt Blitzwing into a triple-changer sometime after the Great War.

== Other Decepticons ==

 

 

 

 

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: Much more emotional than the original, though.

* [[Technopath]]

 

 

 

Shockwave is a {{spoiler|Decepticon spy taking on the form of Autobot Longarm Prime. When rumors of a spy were floating around Autoboot camp, Longarm secretly plotted for Wasp to take the fall, succeeding admirably. He later becomes leader of Cybertronian Intelligence and uses his position to spy for the Decepticons. He gloatingly reveals himself to Bumblebee in the season two finale, only for Megatron's space-bridge plan to fail, leaving him terrified of discovery. Shockwave eventually attacks and severely damages Ultra Magnus, stealing his hammer in the process}}.

 

* [[Captain Ersatz]] - With his grey and purple coloring, antler-like comm antennae, extensible arms & sinister mono-eye, he's a dead ringer for [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Perfect Zeong]].

* [[Cyber Cyclops]] - He even quotes HAL in season 3.

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]

* [[Eva Fins]]

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Unlike many, ''many'' other Decepticons in the show, up to and including Megatron himself, he has ''no humorous quirks'' to balance out how frightening and serious he is.

* [[The Mole]]

* [[Rubber Man]] - His shapeshifting ability allows him to extend his limbs.

* [[Secret Identity]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] - Moreso than the other Transformers.

 

 

Scrap: ''Mixmaster and Scrapper, that's who!'' }}

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Even after their [[Face Heel Turn]], they get along surprisingly well with Bulkhead (when they remember him, that is).

* [[Fat and Skinny]] - Mixmaster and Scrapper, respectively.

* [[Neutral No Longer]]

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: They'd probably work for Optimus instead if he offered them oil.

* [[Sibling Team]] - So says Wyatt.

* [[Toyless Toyline Character|Toyless Toyline Characters]]

 

{{quote|''What're you cogs lookin' at? You wanna piece 'a me? Try it and you'll be goin' to the scrapyard in a crankin' box!''|Dirt Boss's ''first words''}}

 

 

* [[Captain Ersatz]] - He looks like a [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Gunmen]].

* [[The Napoleon]] - He was plotting to take over Detroit minutes after being created, and doesn't take kindly to anyone contradicting him.

* [[Never Found the Body]] - Scrapper survived the oil rig's explosion, but Dirt Boss and Mixmaster never showed up again. According to Wyatt, they 'exploded away'. The AAII says they're alive, and working on [[Combining Mecha|something called 'Devastator']]...

* [[People Puppets]] - Capable of taking over other robots' bodies.

* [[This Is a Drill]] - He fires a drill prong out of his forehead [[People Puppets|to take control of other robots]].

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

 

=== Lockdown (technically unaffiliated) ===

''I know you...EMP generator, right? I'm not good with names and faces, but I never forget a trophy.'' }}

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: "Nothing personal, kid."

** He's also quite sincere when he offers Prowl a partnership.

* [[The Assimilator]] - He takes trophies from his victims and incorporates whatever bits he likes or needs into himself. The rest go on the wall.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

* [[Canon Immigrant|Canon Emigrant]]: Has shown up in the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline and in IDW's G1 comic continuity.

* [[Caped Mecha]] - It's a poncho, but close enough.

* [[Collector of the Strange]] / [[Creepy Souvenir]]

* {{spoiler|[[Deceptive Disciple]] - He used to be an Autobot in the Cyber-Ninja Corps, but was expelled after 'bringing shame to it' somehow. He later murdered Yoketron and stole the Corps' cache of protoforms to sell to the 'Cons.}}

* [[Hook Hand]]

* [[Karma Houdini]] - Unless we get some new fiction.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]

* [[Rocket Punch]] - He used one in his first appearance: when Ratchet destroyed it, he replaced it with the [[Hook Hand]].

 

=== Swindle (technically a Decepticon) ===

 

The Decepticon equivalent of a used car salesman. Swindle is a charming individual who sells weaponry and whatever business he can get his hands on - as long as he can make a profit, it doesn't matter! Voiced, fittingly enough, by the CEO of Buy & Large.

* {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]]}} ({{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead|Though he got better]]}}.

* [[Arms Dealer]]

* [[The Barnum]]

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Very impressively armed, yet the only Decepticon Bumblebee's stingers ever proved effective against.

* [[Hellish Pupils]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] - His voice and mannerisms are based on Ron Popeil.

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Anatomy Arsenal]]

*** [[Arm Cannon]]

** [[BFG]]

** [[More Dakka]] - [http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/2/2c/TFASwindlefullyarmed.jpg And how!]

 

 

 

The second Almanac adds another two - Dirge (toy-only) and Thrust (who never showed up at all), created by Swindle to act as bodyguards. All in all, not one of his best ideas. You want them? He can let them go cheap!

 

* [[All There in the Manual]]/[[Mythology Gag]] - None of them are ever named in the cartoon, although if you're a fan of the original series, you can guess all but one or two based on color scheme.

* [[Can Not Tell a Lie]] - Inverted by Ramjet.

* [[Dark Action Girl]] - Slipstream.

* [[Dirty Coward]] - Skywarp.

** [[Tom Kenny]] - [[Talking to Himself|All the male Starscream clones]].

** [[Tara Strong]] - Slipstream

* [[Informed Ability]] - Their bios claim they have various unique abilities based on their G1 counterparts (teleportation for Skywarp, energy absorption for Sunstorm, etc). None of these ever had a chance to appear in the cartoon.

* [[Literal Split Personality]]

* [[Nice Hat]] - Swindle gives Sunstorm and Ramjet helmets to help him differentiate them. Doubles as a [[Mythology Gag]].

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Most have comedic points, but they can be quite dangerous. Sunstorm especially was effective in the 2nd Season Finale.

* [[Palette Swap]]

** [[In the Blood]]: They were cloned from ''Starscream''. Thundercracker is the most notable, but how could this trope not apply to each clone in some respect?

* [[The Smurfette Principle]] - Slipstream.

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]] - Slipstream. Inverted by Dirge, who ''does'' have a toy but never appeared on the show. Thrust didn't get ''either'' and is only known to exist through supplementary material. No wonder he's envious.

 

==== Team Chaar ====

 

A big, hulking fembot who is just as loyal to Megatron as Lugnut is. Makes sense, too - {{spoiler|they're married}}.

* [[Fake Russian]] - At least we think so. She's only got three or four lines.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Red Baron]] - Holds title of Megatron's "General of Destruction". It's an [[Informed Ability]], though, as we don't see her long enough for her to do much commanding.

* [[Tank Goodness]]

* [[Tara Strong]]

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

 

 

A Decepticon who can suck in Autobots with his tentacles and either "eat them" or chew them out, covered in burning acid. He's kind of horrible.

 

* [[The Pig Pen]]

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]]

* [[Villainous Glutton]]

 

 

An extremely large Decepticon - in fact, until the advent of Project: Omega, he was the single largest Cybertronian ever protoformed. He fought during the Great War and was essentially a one-man army.

* [[Dumb Muscle]] - He's the biggest, most heavily-armed Decepticon alive, but isn't much help without supervision.

* [[EMP]]

* [[Percussive Maintenance]] - He can use his stomp to knock out electronics, and then reactivate them by doing it again.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Rings of Death]] - His Earth form has an arm-mounted disc launcher.

 

Oil Slick: ''You say that like it's a difficult thing, Autobot.'' }}

 

 

* [[Canon Immigrant]] - He started as an unrelated sketch, got produced as a toy, made an appearance in a side-comic, and was introduced in the third season.

* [[Epic Flail]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]] - Was intended to be this for Prowl, having been specifically designed to be the "evil motorcycle." He lost out on the position to Lockdown, though.

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie]] - A ninja robot ''chemist'', though the 'ninja' part is only mentioned in secondary material: he apparently studied Circuit-Su with Prowl. How that could happen is unclear, but there is a big gap in Prowl's past...

* [[Spikes of Villainy]] - More notably in his Cybertronian mode, where he's practically covered in them.

* [[We Have Reserves]] - In the comic he was introduced in, he tested his "Cosmic Rust" chemical in the middle of a battle, taking out soldiers from both sides.

 

 

The stoic Cyclonus appeared in the skies of New Kaon in a storm of light and tachyons some time after the Great War ended, and has remained a complete mystery ever since. He has sworn loyalty to Megatron, but even that seems somehow abstract - and just who is this "Galvatron" he keeps talking about?

 

* [[The Dragon]] - To Strika.

** Huh, then going with his G1 counterpart, he could [[Wild Mass Guessing|easily be one of Starscream's clones reformatted...]]

** His bio ''does'' mention sharing some of Starscream's code, with the [[Dirty Coward|self-preservation]] commented out.

* [[Mysterious Past]]

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] - According to his magazine bio, he believes that nothing truly matters because "the end is near". It makes you wonder if he [[Medium Awareness|knew the show was going to end]]...

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]] - Hasbro clarified that ''Animated'' Cyclonus doesn't get a toy...because the 2008 ''Universe'' toyline model is close enough. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:UniverseCyclonusCorrected.JPG They were right.]

* [[The Voiceless]]

 

=== Sari Sumdac ===

 

 

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]}}

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: {{spoiler|Until her upgrade, when she gets Autobot-style eyes.}}

* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]

* [[Expressive Hair]]

* [[Friendless Background]]

* [[Girlish Pigtails]] - {{spoiler|Even in her robot mode!}}

* [[Has Two Mommies]] - Or rather she eventually has ''five'' robot daddies, adopted. {{spoiler|[[Unusual Euphemism|Primus]] only knows how many actual daddies she has. Isaac Sumdac plus however many it takes to make a protoform.}}

* [[Jet Pack]]: That forms out of a scooter.

* [[Kid Appeal Character]]

* [[Magic Skirt]] - Did Isaac install decency-preserving nanomachines in it or something?

* [[Missing Mom]] - {{spoiler|Averted - she never had one due to her 'birth'.}}

* [[Mundane Utility]] - There is virtually no situation in which she wouldn't use the Allspark key to make things easier.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Team Pet]] - {{spoiler|Until her upgrade, anyway.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Technopath]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Uncanny Valley]]: Wealthy, relatively good looking, no major mental defects, heiress of a company that makes robots and yet other children are inexplicably hateful towards her. Somehow, they instinctively know there's something a little ''off'' about her.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Undead Tax Exemption]]: Averted. When she takes over her father's company in season 2, she's quickly ousted because there are no documents proving she legally exists. This also serves to explain why she was so sheltered. It's not that he didn't want to send her to regular schools, he simply couldn't.}}

 

=== Professor Isaac Sumdac ===

 

 

Isaac Sumdac is the head of Sumdac Systems, the business at the heart of 22nd century Detroit, which relies heavily on his "tireless mechanical helpers". He managed to create these elusive robots by reverse-engineering technology from Megatron, whose head he discovered as a teenager. When Megatron reactivated, he convinced Isaac, who had no idea he was talking to a Decepticon, to keep him a secret from the Autobots. {{spoiler|When they found out, they weren't pleased. Megatron later kidnapped Isaac to work on his space bridge, leaving Sari to take over Sumdac Systems briefly before Porter C. Powell kicked her out. He is eventually freed - just in time for Sari to learn the truth about herself.}}

 

 

* [[Bollywood Nerd]]

* [[Forgets to Eat]] - "When was the last time you ate?" "What is today?"

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]

* [[Never Live It Down]] - In-Universe. Working for Megatron, as Bulkhead often brings this up.

* [[Skunk Stripe]]

* [[Robot Master]]

* [[Technological Pacifist]]

 

=== Captain Carmine Fanzone ===

 

 

The loud captain of the Detroit Police (and master of yelling into megaphones), Fanzone dislike one thing and one thing only: machines. This hits him over the head when Detroit's heroes turns out to be giant robots. Still, for the sake of peace, he tries and learns to live with it, relying on them when he has to. {{spoiler|Irony of irony, Fanzone is also the first person to visit Cybertron and most of the residences there fear him because of his Organic stature}}.

* [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]

* [[Da Chief]]

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: For most of Season 3, though he gets a buddy-cop episode with Ratchet near the end.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]] - Though it appears to vary by episode (and animation studio)

** He also recognizes the good bots from the bad ones.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: All things considered, yeah.

* [[Tuckerization]] - According to Marty Isenberg, he's named after Detroit native Car''men'' Fanzone, a former neighbour of his who used to play for the Chicago Cubs.

* [[Walking Techbane]]: This is ''why'' he hates machines.

 

=== Prometheus Black/Meltdown ===

 

 

An expert biologist, Prometheus Black used his talents to manufacture "[[Bio Augmentation|biochemical makeovers]]", but lost his funding when a PR stunt involving Bumblebee and [[The Dragon|Colossus Rhodes]] went badly wrong. Angry that he has to compete with the likes of Sumdac and his machinery (which he hates), Prometheus vows vengeance. He gets it when he's accidentally turned into essentially walking acid. He's one of the few who can melt Cybertronians without even trying, making him a deadly foe.

 

* [[Becoming the Mask]]:

'''Meltdown:''' The name is Meltdown! }}

* [[Beware the Silly Ones]] - His outfits and [[Disco Dan]]-nature aside, Meltdown is the only human villain who poses a real threat to the Autobots one-on-one, and his experiments are about as depraved as anything the Decepticons do.

* [[I'm Melting]] - His own genetic modifier liquefies him in ''Black Friday''. The end of the episode reveals he's still alive, but he never shows up again.

* [[Fantastic Racism]] - Against machines, to a ''far'' more vicious extent than Captain Fanzone.

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]

 

=== Porter C. Powell ===

 

A shrewd business man who uses every dirty trick in the book to gain power and money. He works in Sumdac Systems, but {{spoiler|briefly takes over it when Isaac "mysteriously disappears".}}

* [[Jerkass]] - Bordering on [[Too Dumb to Live]]. He was screwing over Cybertronian representatives and claimed they couldn't touch him because "[[Inhumanable Alien Rights|Alien Robots Don't Have Rights]]". Never mind that he was picking a fight with interstellar powers who could very well level the planet from orbit were they so inclined.

** Don't forget kicking a little girl out of her home and mocking her for not legally existing.

* [[Making a Spectacle of Yourself]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

=== Henry Masterson/Headmaster ===

 

 

* [[Catch Phrase]] - "Total ownage, noobs!"

 

=== A. A. Archer/Angry Archer ===

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Artificial Limbs]] - A robotic hand.

* [[Just Like Robin Hood]] - Parodied.

* [[Tuckerization]] - After [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aaron_Archer character designer Aaron Archer] (he was even originally supposed to be named "Aaron the Angry Archer").

* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]

 

=== Mayor Edsel ===

 

A silent mayor who lets his secretary do all the talking.

 

=== Penny Princess, Ph.D./Professor Princess ===

 

A bratty "princess" whose goal in life is to destroy anything "boyish" so the world can be a happier, pinker place.

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Giggling Villain]]

* [[Kath Soucie]]

 

=== The Witwicky Family ===

 

 

* [[Continuity Cameo]]

 

=== Nino Sexton/Nanosec ===

 

Nino was once a common thief until he was given a speed suit secretly by Megatron, causing him to create wanton havoc until the suit aged him up. {{spoiler|He is eventually restored to his youth by Slo-Mo, whom he falls for}}.

* [[Brian Posehn]]

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* [[Super Speed]]

 

=== Slo-Mo ===

 

Speaking in 1930s moxie speak, Slo-Mo is a woman with the ability to slow down time, thanks to a watch embedded with an Allspark fragment. She rounds up all the other human villains and forms the S.U.V (Society of Ultimate Villainy). She also has a thing for Nanosec.

* [[Motor Mouth]] - In stark contrast to her power.

* [[Tara Strong]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

 

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