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** Nearly any. Many Cybertronians share a mold with either Bumblebee or Ratchet, the former moreso.

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]] - Blackarachnia pulls this on Bulkhead and Bumblebee during her first appearance on Earth (They'd never seen a female Transformer before) and does it quite often to Optimus Prime {{spoiler|(who kinda used to be her ex)}} afterwards.

* [[~~Distressed~~ Damsel]] - Arcee is metaphorically [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] multiple times.

* [[Damsel in Distress]] - Arcee is metaphorically [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] multiple times.

** Also, Elita-1.

** Also, as Blackarachnia she ''keeps'' having to be saved from her own attempts at evil schemes. Even the one exception to this rule was retroactively made one (after Megatron Rising, it was the Dinobots who pulled her to the island.) That's ''three'' female 'bots ([[Composite Character|for the price of two]]) who were quite [[Badass]] in previous incarnations whose roles have been reduced to "helpless victim who is either saved, or not saved as part of a male 'bot's backstory." You ''really'' expect the 2008 series to be ''more'' progressive than the 80s/90s ones... but in the writers' favor, there ''is'' Sari.

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* [[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).

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] - Resident [[Jerkass]] Sentinel Prime actually used to be somewhat of a nicer guy. Of course that was before {{spoiler|Elita-1 was thought to have been killed when Optimus failed to save her.}} But then just as we can sympathize with his attitude (almost), he takes an even bigger one by {{spoiler|telling Blackarachnia/Elita-1 that it would have been [[Fantastic Racism|better if she had died, rather than turn into a techno-organic]].}}

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] - Resident [[Jerkass]] Sentinel Prime actually used to be somewhat of a nicer guy. Of course that was before {{spoiler|Elita-1 was thought to have been killed when Optimus failed to save her.}} But then just as we can sympathize with his attitude (almost), he takes an even bigger one by {{spoiler|telling Blackarachnia/Elita-1 that it would have been [[Fantastic Racism|better if she had died, rather than turn into a techno-organic]].}}

* [[Toyless Toyline Character]] - Quite a few, both human and robot.

* [[Trainstopping]] - 'Mission Accomplished'. On top of it being out of control, Starscream had planted an unstable Allspark fragment on it.