Transformers Animated: Difference between revisions

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* [[Abandoned Warehouse]] - Detroit has quite a few of these due to robots replacing human workers.

** And being, well, Detroit. They reference the auto industry, with some easy extrapolations to the demise thereof, in the first episode.

* [[The Ace]] - Afterburn, in the ''[[Titan Magazine]]'' adaptation. Borders on [[Canon Sue]] who, in two consecutive issues, leaves Optimus and Bumblebee holding the [[Idiot Ball]], respectively. {{spoiler|Turns out he is a [[What Measure Is a Non Human|sparkless drone]] [[The Mole|Decepticon spy]], whom Megatron [[You Have Failed Me|quickly]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|disposes of.]]}}

* [[The Ace]] - Afterburn, in the ''[[Titan Magazine]]'' adaptation. Borders on [[Canon Sue]] who, in two consecutive issues, leaves Optimus and Bumblebee holding the [[Idiot Ball]], respectively. {{spoiler|Turns out he is a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|sparkless drone]] [[The Mole|Decepticon spy]], whom Megatron [[You Have Failed Me|quickly]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|disposes of.]]}}

* [[Actor Allusion]] - Sentinel Prime is a walking [[Shout Out]] to [[The Tick]], including his blue coloration, giant chin, and occasional lines like "Energon-y goodness". His character was actually designed after actor [[Townsend Coleman]] was cast.

** Wreck-Gar (voiced by [[Weird Al Yankovic]]) declares "I '''dare''' to be stupid!" in one episode, and pulls out an accordion in another.

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** Blurr on the other hand...

* [[And This Is For]] - In "Survival of the Fittest", Prowl and Captain Fanzone fight Meltdown's mutated minions while trying to save Sari from his experiments. Fanzone throws one particularly impressive punch with a yell of "And ''that's'' for Sari!"

* [[Androcles Lion]] - Grimlock, complete with thorn in his foot for those who might miss the connection.

* [[Androcles' Lion]] - Grimlock, complete with thorn in his foot for those who might miss the connection.

* [[Animal Mecha]] - The Dinobots, as usual. Soundwave's pets combine this with [[Instrument of Murder]], and then there's Steeljaw and Zaur on Cybertron. Blackarachnia and Waspinator fall into the "actually-part-organic" category.

* [[Animesque]] - From the same folk who worked on ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go]]''. And of course, the overseas [[Mook DLE|Mook]], [[Studio 4 C|Studio 4°C]] and The Answer Studio ''are'' Japanese-based animation houses...

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* [[The Archer]] - Rodimus, [[Marvel Comics|no relation to Hawkeye]].

* [[Arc Welding]] - Ratchet's two old friends from the Great War — Arcee and Omega Supreme — are revealed to be closely connected, plotwise, in the third season.

* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]] - Mixmaster cannot defeat [[Ted Baxter|Thundercracker!]] He is not worthy! He is inferior! And his [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner|joke]] stinks!

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Mixmaster cannot defeat [[Ted Baxter|Thundercracker!]] He is not worthy! He is inferior! And his [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|joke]] stinks!

* [[Ascended Extra]] - While he's got less appearances than in the original series, Shockwave manages to do much more notable things in this series.

* [[Ascended Meme]] - The portrayal of the Autobot Elite Guard as arrogant and corrupt, and the Decepticons as fighting for their freedom.

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* [[Autobots Rock Out]] - Done absolutely literally in "Human Error". And it was [[Rule of Cool|AWESOME!!!]]

* [[Awesome Backpack]]: Wreck-Gar's, which was inspired by [[The Marx Brothers|Harpo Marx]].

* [[Back to Back Badasses]] - With bonus [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Megatron and Optimus Prime. ''"Well, you're the last bot I'd expect to come to my rescue."'' When Optimus says he isn't, Megatron then grabs Optimus and ''uses him as a shield''.

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]] - With bonus [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Megatron and Optimus Prime. ''"Well, you're the last bot I'd expect to come to my rescue."'' When Optimus says he isn't, Megatron then grabs Optimus and ''uses him as a shield''.

* [[Badass Grandpa]] - Ratchet.

* [[Badass Normal]] - Captain Fanzone

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* [[Bring It]]

* [[Broken Hero]] - Optimus Prime, of all people.

* [[Buffy Speak]] - Oddly, two of the smartest (in terms of technology) cast members: see [[Shaped Like Itself]].

* [[Buffy-Speak]] - Oddly, two of the smartest (in terms of technology) cast members: see [[Shaped Like Itself]].

* [[Butt Monkey]] - According to [[Word of Dante|supplementary]] [[Sure Why Not|material]], Beachcomber.

** Tutor Bot, as well.

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Wreck-Gar and Random Blitzwing. To quote the latter after being sent flying:

* [[Co Dragons]] - Lugnut and Shockwave. When they finally meet, it takes them about ten minutes to start fighting over which of them is the most loyal to Megatron.

* [[Co-Dragons]] - Lugnut and Shockwave. When they finally meet, it takes them about ten minutes to start fighting over which of them is the most loyal to Megatron.

** Thanks partly to Starscream manipulating the (rather dense) Lugnut...and because Megatron ''wanted'' Lugnut to be at his most loyal.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - The Autobots are bright, primary colors (sans Bulkhead and Prowl) while the Decepticons are muted or secondary colors like gray, purple and green. Dead Cybertronians become a distinct darkish grey, in homage to G1 Optimus Prime's death in [[The Movie]].

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* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] - Perceptor may already be a robot, but according to [[Word of God]], he deleted his own personality and capacity for emotion in order to store more information in his processor.

* [[Dark Action Girl]] - Slipstream, the Female Starscream, as treacherous as her progenitor ''and'' her fellow trope examples. Blackarachnia sometimes fills this role as well, though she's more often a [[Femme Fatale]].

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Third season. [[Family Unfriendly Violence]], [[Family Unfriendly Death]], and [[Child Soldiers]], oh my!

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Third season. [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]], [[Family-Unfriendly Death]], and [[Child Soldiers]], oh my!

* [[Dark Skinned Redhead]] - Sari

* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]] - Sari

* [[Dating Catwoman]] - Optimus and Blackarachnia{{spoiler|/Elita-1}}

* [[Dead Line News]] - A reporter is covering the [[Robot War]] that Soundwave started when his camera starts attacking him. Then we see a News-Bot covering the news a few days later...

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** 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.

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]] - Bulkhead

* [[Do I Really Sound Like That]]? - Sari's impression of Optimus Prime is spot-on.

* [[Do I Really Sound Like That?]]? - Sari's impression of Optimus Prime is spot-on.

* [[Don't Call Me Sir]] - Ratchet works for a living.

* [[Double Aesop]] - 'Velocity'.

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{{quote| '''Ratchet''': [[Continuity Nod|Personally, I've always found Bumblebee's fake static to be a lot more convincing.]]}}

* [[Fallen Hero]] - Blackarachnia

* [[Family Unfriendly Death]] - In the season three premiere, {{spoiler|Blurr is ''crushed into a cube''}}. One hopes for a [[Disney Death]], somehow.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]] - In the season three premiere, {{spoiler|Blurr is ''crushed into a cube''}}. One hopes for a [[Disney Death]], somehow.

** Considering his spark was still glowing {{spoiler|in the close-up models of the cube}}...

** In a [[Transformers Timelines]] comic published after the series, {{spoiler|Blurr attends an event, still smushed up}}.

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* [[Fauxtivational Poster]] - Prowl has one in his room.

* [[Femme Fatale]] - Blackarachnia

* [[Five Bad Band]] - The main Decepticons, although there is significant shifting of positions because of plot, betrayal or otherwise being separated.

* [[Five-Bad Band]] - The main Decepticons, although there is significant shifting of positions because of plot, betrayal or otherwise being separated.

** [[Big Bad]] - Megatron

** [[The Dragon]] - Starscream, then Lugnut, then Shockwave

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** [[Dark Chick]] - Blackarachnia, the true [[Mad Scientist]] of the group, but besides the first episode she doesn't have much to do with the others.

** Team Chaar also fits, with Strika being the [[Big Bad]] (though Megatron still outranks her), Cyclonus [[The Dragon]], Blackout [[The Brute]], Oil Slick [[The Evil Genius]] and...Spittor [[The Dark Chick]] by default.

* [[Five Man Band]] - Somewhat iffy:

* [[Five-Man Band]] - Somewhat iffy:

** Prime - [[The Hero]]

** Bulkhead - [[The Big Guy]]

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** [[Sixth Ranger]] - {{spoiler|Jazz (for the finale, anyway), but he was always on friendly terms with the team.}}

** [[Team Pet]]/ {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger]]}} - Sari {{spoiler|Team Pet as the mostly-human little girl, Sixth Ranger after her upgrade to mostly-bot teen technorganic.}}

** Rodimus's team of Autobots have shown up in the third season premiere and appear to form a [[Five Man Band]] of their own.

** Rodimus's team of Autobots have shown up in the third season premiere and appear to form a [[Five-Man Band]] of their own.

* [[Foe Yay]] - the ending of "A Fistful of Energon"

* [[Foreshadowing]] - At the end of the first season, Sari tries interacting with the Allspark and all it shows is a holographic DNA helix surrounding a spark. No explanation is given until the end of the second season but the fans quickly latched onto that as confirmation of some [[Wild Mass Guessing]].

* [[Forgotten Superweapon]] - Omega Supreme

* [[Four Fingered Hands]] - Strika, Scrapper, Grimlock, Oil Slick and Waspinator - although the last one isn't meant to be anything close to human.

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]] - Strika, Scrapper, Grimlock, Oil Slick and Waspinator - although the last one isn't meant to be anything close to human.

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Bulkhead and the Constructicons (other than Dirt Boss) get along famously, and Bulkhead knows that Mixmaster and Scrapper are simply misguided, not evil.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] - Prowl.

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** Made all the more funny by the fact that [[Actor Allusion|Optimus is voiced by Sesshomaru.]]

* [[Grand Theft Me]] - Headmaster.

* [[Green Eyed Monster]]: Thrust, the only Starscream clone to neither appear in the show ''nor'' have a toy, embodies Starscream's jealousy.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Thrust, the only Starscream clone to neither appear in the show ''nor'' have a toy, embodies Starscream's jealousy.

* [[Grenade Hot Potato]] - Megatron does this to Starscream during the Death Montage.

* [[Grievous Harm With a Body]] - Spittor (the Decepticon frog-bot) in "TransWarped" grabs Red Alert with his tongue-tentacle things and spits her at the other Autobots.

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* [[Grumpy Bear]] - Ratchet

* [[Grumpy Old Man]] - Ratchet and Captain Fanzone. Naturally, they are forced to team up in "This Is Why I Hate Machines".

* [[Hair Trigger Temper]] - The third Constructicon, Dirt Boss. To the point of also being [[The Napoleon]].

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] - The third Constructicon, Dirt Boss. To the point of also being [[The Napoleon]].

* [[Half Arc Season]]

* [[Half Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|Sari.}}

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|Sari.}}

* [[Hammerspace]] - Wreck-Gar's trash bin can both produce random objects and make things put in it seemingly disappear. Similarly, Swindle has an in-universe justification: a private transwarp frequency to his personal storage dimension...located in his torso.

** {{spoiler|Post-upgrade Sari uses this for an actual hammer}}

* [[Has Two Mommies]] - In season two Sari effectively gains 5 robot daddies. Well, 3 daddies and 2 older brothers... Well, Bumblebee comes to think of himself and Bulkhead as the cool parent, while the others are collectively the strict one. Except for Ratchet, who's more the Cranky Robot Grandpa.

* [[Have You Told Anyone Else]]: Blurr hadn't, and shortly thereafter he was compacted into a cube.

* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: Blurr hadn't, and shortly thereafter he was compacted into a cube.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] - Wreck-Gar, if [[Funny Schizophrenia]] counts.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: Blurr was able to piece together that Wasp could not have been the traitor in the Autobot camp, as his voice did not match that of Shockwave, who was hiding under an Autobot alias. He reported this to his boss, Longarm (head of Autobot Intelligence) and told him that a simple voice scan through the data archives could determine the identity of the traitor. Unfortunately for him, he also knew too little, as Longarm was the only 'Bot he had spoken to about this... and Longarm was Shockwave's alias. Shockwave then killed him to silence him.

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** Ultra Magnus' toy received a redeco to become Roadbuster Ultra Magnus, an homage to G1's Roadbuster, who had a nearly identical vehicle mode to Animated Magnus.

* [[Honest John]] - Swindle doesn't even bother with a fake name, he's just that honest.

* [[Hollywood Law]] - Powell uses his [[Screw the Rules I Have Money|connections and resources]] to get Masterson free so he could hire him, despite Masterson threatening to blow up an entire state on live television.

* [[Hollywood Law]] - Powell uses his [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|connections and resources]] to get Masterson free so he could hire him, despite Masterson threatening to blow up an entire state on live television.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Issac Sumdac thought that Megatron was an Autobot. To be fair, that part wasn't entirely unreasonable since he had no real knowledge of the Decepticons beyond witnessing Starscream battle the Autobots. However, when Megatron starts putting flamethrowers into the Dinobots (who are running amok when this info is made aware) and begs Sumdac not to tell his "Autobot friends", it's baffling that he wouldn't find that even a little suspicious.

* [[Hostage for Macguffin]]

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* [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight]] - in "Transwarped, Part III," Ratchet to Omega {{spoiler|when Starscream's controlling him}}.

** Also twice in "Human Error". Done by Sari first to her father and later to the Autobots.

* [[I Have a Family]] - The Professor in "Three's a Crowd", when he thinks Bulkhead has turned into a [[Pointy Haired Boss]] (Bulky was just pretending so Dirt Boss wouldn't ''really'' go after him).

* [[I Have a Family]] - The Professor in "Three's a Crowd", when he thinks Bulkhead has turned into a [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] (Bulky was just pretending so Dirt Boss wouldn't ''really'' go after him).

* [[I Lied]] - Megatron to Professor Sumdac when the latter finally learns the truth.

* [[I'm a Doctor Not A Placeholder]] - Ratchet is a medi-bot, not a field commander.

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* [[Is It Always Like This]] - Newcomer Jazz, on being attacked by a mass-produced robot army.

* [[Island Base]] - There's one hidden on Dinobot Island: Meltdown moves into it after his first jailbreak, and Blackarachnia finds it during season 2. According to the [[All There in the Manual|Almanac]], it's an abandoned government facility.

* [[I Surrender Suckers]]: When [[Bad Liar|Ramjet]] tells you he's completely disarmed and helpless, he isn't. Sentinel, who'd never met him, didn't pick up on it, but Prowl did.

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: When [[Bad Liar|Ramjet]] tells you he's completely disarmed and helpless, he isn't. Sentinel, who'd never met him, didn't pick up on it, but Prowl did.

* [[Is That a Threat]]

* [[It Has Been an Honour]] - In the first season finale, Optimus tells the team he can't think of anyone he'd rather have by his side as they're about to go into battle. Bumblebee, however, notes he wouldn't mind having the Elite Guard there too.

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{{quote| '''Headmaster:''' I am so leet!<br />

'''Optimus Prime:''' Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means! }}

* [[Left Hanging]] - Sari's backstory is easily the biggest unresolved issue, although there are a few others (see [[What Happened to The Mouse]]).

* [[Left Hanging]] - Sari's backstory is easily the biggest unresolved issue, although there are a few others (see [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]).

* [[Legion of Doom]] - The Society of Ultimate Villainy, which is comprised of the most fail-tastic human adversaries plus Swindle, who lives up to his name rather well.

* [[The Lifestream]] - The Well of All Sparks.

* [[Line of Sight Name]] - Scrapper, and attempted several times by Wreck-Gar.

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]] - Scrapper, and attempted several times by Wreck-Gar.

* [[Little No]] - Optimus utters one in "Endgame" when he discovers {{spoiler|Prowl is dead}}.

* [[Long Runners]] - In-universe, the Ninja Gladiator series of video games is over 100 years old. The first game apparently came out in the NES era and evidently its popularity has been extremely long-lived.

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* [[The Medic]] - Ratchet and Red Alert. The instant healing properties of Sari's key often displaced Ratchet's skills and put her in this role.

* [[Medium Awareness]] - Slightly played with in the Japanese dub. For a crossover version, Bumblebee jokingly thinks about calling for [[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire|Rescue Fire]] when the Autobots are responding to a building fire, and Bulkhead responds that that's a different show in part 3 of "Transform and Roll Out" (considering that ''Rescue Fire'' aired in the same timeslot before Animated's debut). Later in that same part, when Optimus was contemplating on getting the AllSpark to safety, Starscream attacks the Bots while yelling that the show's not over yet (truthfully, he could be referring that they weren't victorious yet).

* [[Merchandise Driven]] - Eventually; somewhat averted when the series first debuted, as the toyline was actually delayed several months due to Hasbro wanting to continue pushing merch from the [[Transformers (Film)|live-action movie]]. The toy line would catch up, though, and one store-exclusive redeco even got featured late in the third season.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]] - Eventually; somewhat averted when the series first debuted, as the toyline was actually delayed several months due to Hasbro wanting to continue pushing merch from the [[Transformers (Film)|live-action movie]]. The toy line would catch up, though, and one store-exclusive redeco even got featured late in the third season.

* [[Mega Manning]] - Blackarachnia and her previous form, Elita-1.

* [[Minion Shipping]] - [[The Renfield|Lugnut]] and [[Husky Russkie|Strika]] are married.

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* [[Never Say Die]] - 'Slag' or 'take offline' are generally used instead, with the occasional exception - Bumblebee quotes Rattrap in the premiere ("We're all gonna die, aren't we?") and when Optimus tells Ratchet he has to use his EMP on an overloading Sari, he flat-out says "It could kill her!" Sari herself later mentions that Soundwave "tried to kill me".

* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: Sari's key does exactly... whatever is needed this episode. From repairing offline bots, to unspecified upgrades, to controlling any machine, to tracing pay-per-view signals, to {{spoiler|removing All Spark fragments from speeding trains}}.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]] - Bumblebee really screws up in "Autoboot Camp".

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] - Bumblebee really screws up in "Autoboot Camp".

** A similar instance would be Sari reactivating Megatron

* [[Nice Job Fixing It Villain]] - Megatron probably would have beaten the Autobots and gotten the Allspark... had [[The Starscream|Starscream]] not placed an explosive on his back

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] - Megatron probably would have beaten the Autobots and gotten the Allspark... had [[The Starscream|Starscream]] not placed an explosive on his back

* [[Ninja]] - Prowl, Jazz, Master Yoketron, supposedly Oil Slick and (formerly) {{spoiler|Lockdown}}.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - Besides being robot ninjas, Jazz is also a [[Soul Brotha]], and Prowl and Bumblebee were once turned into zombies. Lockdown has a huge claw for a right hand, making him the "pirate" to Prowl's "ninja", as well as a [[Bounty Hunter]] with a skull for a head and an undertaker's tux. To say nothing of the Dinobots, who are [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].

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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Optimus and Bumblebee would've made it to the Elite Guard if they didn't bother to help their fellow Autobots (Bumblebee for accepting the blame on Bulkhead's behalf for knocking a tower onto Sentinel, and Optimus for taking the heat for Sentinel's idea to go to the restricted planet). Isaac Sumdac spends season two as a prisoner due to helping that poor disembodied robot head in his lab.

* [[No Gravity for You]]: In the pilot, Optimus temporarily disables the ship's artificial gravity while fighting Megatron, giving him and the team slightly better odds.

* [[Non Indicative Name]]: Due to the "no Autobots fly but Jetfire and Jetstorm" rule, several background Autobots like Sky Garry and Powerglide, both of which get [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]; Sky Garry directs air traffic and Powerglide flew spaceships in the Great War.

* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Due to the "no Autobots fly but Jetfire and Jetstorm" rule, several background Autobots like Sky Garry and Powerglide, both of which get [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]; Sky Garry directs air traffic and Powerglide flew spaceships in the Great War.

* [[Noodle Incident]] - The 'unfortunate incident' involving a police drone and Captain Fanzone's wife (given the way it's mentioned, it probably wasn't anything too awful).

* [[The Noseless]]: Technically speaking, it seems like none of the robots have actual noses, but rather have a nose-like structure that is formed by their helmets. When Bumblebee's is taken by Wasp, at the end of ''Where Is Thy Sting?'', his full face is shown, with no other facial features outside of his mouth and optics.

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* [[Personal Gain Hurts]]

* [[Pet the Dog]] - Sentinel offering Optimus a spot in the Elite Guard in "Decepticon Air". Although it doesn't last long before he's kicking again.

* [[Pint Sized Powerhouse]] - Both Brawn and Dirt Boss.

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] - Both Brawn and Dirt Boss.

* [[Playing Against Type]] - David Kaye as [[The Hero|Optimus Prime]], as he has played both [[Beast Wars (Animation)|evil warriors]] and [[Inuyasha|lancer]]/[[Mega Man NT Warrior|rival]] duos.

* [[Playing With Fire]] - One-third of Blitzwing (and occasionally another third), and as of the third season, Hot Shot and Jetfire ([[Meaningful Name|duh]]).

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* [[Raised By Robots]]: Sari spends most of the second season living and being brought up by the Autobots in their warehouse.

* [[Random Teleportation]]: Going through a space-bridge with no target co-ordinates can send you just about anywhere, and holding onto a plasmadynamic thruster while someone else is transwarping can send you hurtling around space like a pinball. The Autobots exploit this by attaching one to Omega while he's under Megatron's control, sending him transwarping randomly through space for most of the season.

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] - Bulkhead delivers one to Wasp in "Where Is Thy Sting".

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] - Bulkhead delivers one to Wasp in "Where Is Thy Sting".

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - Fanzone and Ultra Magnus

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]] - All the Decepticons. In fact, when the Constructicons ''became'' Decepticons, their eyes turned red. Blackarachnia's, too.

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* [[Resistance Is Futile]] - Delivered by Soundwave in 'Human Error'

* [[The Reveal]] - {{spoiler|Sari is a robot.}}

* [[Robo Family]] - Jetfire and Jetstorm refer to each other as brothers due to being 'born' from a mitotic spark.

* [[Robo-Family]] - Jetfire and Jetstorm refer to each other as brothers due to being 'born' from a mitotic spark.

* [[Robot Dog]] - Sparkplug

* [[Robot War]] - Soundwave keeps trying to start one, and it's just not happening.

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** Grandus, one of the biggest transformers in the entire series. Although admittedly he appears to be in full on wimp mode all the time.

* [[Screwed By the Network]]

* [[Screw This I'm Outta Here]] - {{spoiler|Jazz,}} having enough of {{spoiler|Sentinel's attitude, follows Ratchet to Earth to join Optimus' crew}} in "This Is Why I Hate Machines."

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] - {{spoiler|Jazz,}} having enough of {{spoiler|Sentinel's attitude, follows Ratchet to Earth to join Optimus' crew}} in "This Is Why I Hate Machines."

* [[Screw Yourself]] - Okay, he never gets ''that'' far, this being a kid's show, but there was definitely something suggestive about the way Starscream asked Slipstream what part of him she represented. She wasn't interested.

* [[Send in The Clones]] - Starscream is able to create clones of himself, each of which embodies part of his personality. One is a coward, one is an egomaniac, one is a pathological liar, one's a suck-up...[[Opposite Sex Clone|and one is a girl.]]

{{quote| '''Starscream:''' So, which part of me do ''you'' come from?<br />

'''Slipstream:''' [[You Do NOT Want to Know|Don't ask!]] }}

* [[Self Destruct Mechanism]] - Starscream uses clones as a form of Trojan horse...twice.

* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] - Starscream uses clones as a form of Trojan horse...twice.

* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]] - Prometheus Black

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]] - "Decepticon Air."

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* [[Show Accuracy Toy Accuracy]]: For all its worth, Animated has some of the most accuracy between the show and the toys of any continuity, in that the toys are highly accurate in Alt Mode, Robot Mode, and have extremely accurate transformations, all while maintaining the series' unique art style.

* [[Shrug of God]] - Derrick Wyatt himself prefers not think about what Slipstream represents. He's also keeping mum about how {{spoiler|Sari's protoform}} ended up in Isaac's lab - he feels that something like that should only be told in future TFA fiction. Fingers crossed...

* [[Shy Finger Twiddling]] - By [[The Big Guy|Bulkhead]], of all bots.

* [[Shy Finger-Twiddling]] - By [[The Big Guy|Bulkhead]], of all bots.

** Bumblebee in "Nature Calls", after Prowl asks him where he found room for so much stuff in his car mode.

* [[Silent Bob]] - Mayor Edsel. His eyebrow is apparently expressive.

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** Doing the same to Grimlock causes flames to erupt from his neck/collar.

* [[Soul Brotha]]: Jazz.

* [[Southern Fried Private]]: Bulkhead went to boot camp straight from the energon farm, and Hot Shot and Ironhide both have distinct Southern accents.

* [[Southern-Fried Private]]: Bulkhead went to boot camp straight from the energon farm, and Hot Shot and Ironhide both have distinct Southern accents.

* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]] - Jetstorm can still create windstorms... in space. Solar wind, perhaps?

* [[Space Is Noisy]]: A stasis-cuffed Starscream actually calls attention to this in "A Fistful of Energon": "You call this a fight? I'll rust before someone wins, and I'm in a vacuum!"

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* [[Throw It In]] - Blitzwing's German accent was a last-minute improvisation by Bumper Robinson while auditioning for the role, no doubt based on the character's name. When he got the part, Blitzwing was hastily redesigned to compliment the accent.

* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]] - How Optimus survives his first fight with Megatron.

* [[Token Mini Moe]] - Sari. Somewhat less in season 3.

* [[Token Mini-Moe]] - Sari. Somewhat less in season 3.

** Does Professor Princess count?

* [[Tomato in The Mirror]] - Sari.

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* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]-Blurr. Poor Blurr. He cameoed in "Velocity", was formally introduced in the Season 2 finale "A Bridge Too Close" and was {{spoiler|compacted into a cube}} in the Season 3 opener "Transwarped".

* [[Wham Episode]] - ''A Bridge Too Close'' and ''Transwarped''.

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]]? - At the end of "Human Error," {{spoiler|Optimus and Soundwave have a guitar duel, done completely serious.}}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]? - At the end of "Human Error," {{spoiler|Optimus and Soundwave have a guitar duel, done completely serious.}}

* [[What Happened to The Mouse]] - The fate of quite a few secondary characters, most of them villains. Slipstream, for instance, isn't seen or mentioned for most of season three, then appears briefly in the penultimate episode when Optimus tests out his jetpack...and then flies off again.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]] - The fate of quite a few secondary characters, most of them villains. Slipstream, for instance, isn't seen or mentioned for most of season three, then appears briefly in the penultimate episode when Optimus tests out his jetpack...and then flies off again.

** Although to their credit, the writers are using the Allspark Almanacs to explain what happened to characters after their last appearance or in between appearances.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: Several times, but the most surprising example is ''Sentinel'' calling Optimus out for not telling him about Blackarachnia. "[[Sarcasm Mode|'Cause I wouldn't wanna be, I don't know, PREPARED FOR THIS OR ANYTHING!]]"

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Several times, but the most surprising example is ''Sentinel'' calling Optimus out for not telling him about Blackarachnia. "[[Sarcasm Mode|'Cause I wouldn't wanna be, I don't know, PREPARED FOR THIS OR ANYTHING!]]"

** Well, Optimus tried several times to tell him, but [[Jerkass|Sentinel being Sentinel...]]

* [[What Were You Thinking]]: Professor Sumdac when Bulkhead actually makes Megatron's space bridge work. "This coming from the guy who rebuilt Megatron."

* [[What Were You Thinking?]]: Professor Sumdac when Bulkhead actually makes Megatron's space bridge work. "This coming from the guy who rebuilt Megatron."

* [[Where It All Began]] - Season 1 finale. Also happens in the Season 3 premire (in the exact same place, no less) and provides the page quote.

* [[Where's the Fun In That]]:

* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]:

{{quote| Ratchet: "Why didn't you just use the EMP?"<br />

Prowl: "Where's the fun in that?" }}

* [[Whole Plot Reference]] - Season 2 finale "A Bridge Too Close", very nearly at least, to ''[[The Bridge On the River Kwai]]'' (!). The Decepticons capture Bulkhead, when they discover that despite appearances, he's {{spoiler|[[Hidden Depths|the preeminent space bridge expert in the galaxy]]}}, and press-gang him into building them a space bridge back to Cybertron. He does so out of spite for those who doubted {{spoiler|his expertise on the subject}}, many of whom were his own allies. The ending differs in that {{spoiler|nobody dies, permanently at least; the Decepticons are prevented from using the space bridge to take Cybertron}}.

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]] - Season 2 finale "A Bridge Too Close", very nearly at least, to ''[[The Bridge On the River Kwai]]'' (!). The Decepticons capture Bulkhead, when they discover that despite appearances, he's {{spoiler|[[Hidden Depths|the preeminent space bridge expert in the galaxy]]}}, and press-gang him into building them a space bridge back to Cybertron. He does so out of spite for those who doubted {{spoiler|his expertise on the subject}}, many of whom were his own allies. The ending differs in that {{spoiler|nobody dies, permanently at least; the Decepticons are prevented from using the space bridge to take Cybertron}}.

* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]] - This happens to Bumblebee at least twice in season one, and again in season three - not to mention Sentinel in 'This is Why I Hate Machines'.

* [[Why Are You Looking At Me Like That]]

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes]] - Elita-1's "death" left Optimus with a phobia of spiders and Seintel of anything organic. Cybertronians in general are wary of organics in this continuity (due to a bad past experience, according to [[Word of God]]), but Sentinel is that much worse about it.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] - Elita-1's "death" left Optimus with a phobia of spiders and Seintel of anything organic. Cybertronians in general are wary of organics in this continuity (due to a bad past experience, according to [[Word of God]]), but Sentinel is that much worse about it.

** Whilst he isn't exactly afraid of them (he just doesn't like them), Fanzone makes a pretty direct homage to the [[Trope Namer]] when the Elite Guard arrive on Earth:

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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] - In "Endgame, Part 1," Megatron says this to {{spoiler|Starscream}} before blasting him to smithereens.

* [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]] - {{spoiler|Starscream}} to Megatron in season 2, after his resurrection but before he figured out {{spoiler|it was an Allspark chunk keeping him online.}} "Well maybe you HAVE!"

* [[You Monster]] - Scrapper to ''Sari'' after she uses the factory equipment to pummel him and Mixmaster.

* [[You Monster!]] - Scrapper to ''Sari'' after she uses the factory equipment to pummel him and Mixmaster.

* [[You're Not My Father]] - Sari to Isaac after her [[Robotic Reveal]]. He actually ''is'' her biological father (sort of), but by the time she learns this she's already accepted him again.

* [[You Shall Not Pass]] - In the first season finale, with Megatron rising with a new body and the Decepticons closing in on the Allspark, Optimus tells his crew that this is where they stand and fight. This results in Bulkhead [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|tackling]] the bruiser [[The Brute|Lugnut]] in the air.