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* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Snarl's altmode.
* [[Broken Faceplate]]: Optimus Prime's mouthplate is shattered during the final battle, although he is the victor.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Thundercracker. So many times.
** Ransack and Crumplezone later join him.
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: "<insert name here>, Transform!", "Cyber Key Power!", "[[Harbinger of Asskicking|Optimus Prime, Super Mode!]]"
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: More [[Egregious]] in ''Galaxy Force'' than Cybertron.
** Thundercracker comes up with bigger and more grandiose names for simple attacks as the series goes on. However, ''they actually work as advertised.''
* [[The Cameo]]: G1 Soundwave in tape-player form. First being used by Sideways in one episode, then in the epilogue being carried by ''this'' series' Soundwave. G1 Soundwave's cameo model is detailed to the point of having G1 Laserbeak in tape mode visible within him.
* [[Combining Mecha]]: In Super Mode, Optimus Prime can combine with Leobreaker to form Savage Claw Mode, or with Wing Saber to form Sonic Wing Mode. Megatron can combine in a similar fashion with Leobreaker's Evil Knockoff Nemesis Breaker to form Dark Claw Mode.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: ''Very'' conspicuous. The Transformers are in (Non Cel-Shaded) CG and the human characters are traditionally animated.
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** Megatron then returns the gesture the very episode after after he evolves into Galvatron, he not only blocks the axe with one hand, he snatches it and defeats Metroplex with his own weapon to add insult to injury.
* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Vector Prime's Time Reverse power. Using it shortens the users life. One or two minutes are okay, but three days to a week? Too dangerous.
* [[Defeat Means Explosion]]: When Optimus and Leobreaker stab Megsy, an inexplicable explosion follows, and sends him flying! Or when Metroplex powers up his axe and brings it down and somehow causes a battle-ending explosion.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Override to Hot Shot, though this is helped by him aiding her a few times and genuinely impressing her with his drive to win.
* [[Determinator]]: A few examples. Overhaul against Scourge, Hot Shot in the last race against Override, and then Starscream on his Foe Tossing Charge. Hot Shot, Red Alert, and Scattorshot refusing to give up after their Near Death Experience is one of the triggers for their Mid-Season Upgrade. Galvatron gets a second wind in [[Transformers/Awesome|his last clash with Starscream]]. Optimus Prime manages to do it numerous times, especially in his last battle with Galvatron. It is finally [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] with Galvatron in the final battle.
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: [[Evil Counterpart|Darkly]] [[Inverted Trope|inverted]]. In episode 49, Galvatron (while hopped up on power from the Omega Lock and the Cyber Planet Keys]] stuns a weakened Primus with a blast of dark energy. Played somewhat straight with Primus' second beatdown of Starscream.
* [[Distant Finale]]: The last episode's end credits show {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Lori and Coby getting married and Dr. Suzuki holding what is presumably her and Colonel Franklin's baby.]]}}.
* [[Dub
** But if you ''do'' take it on its own, though, as the dub team evidently felt was the choice, it's not so bad. The [[All There in the Manual]] retcons are pretty weak, and exist mainly to please Aaron Archer, who insisted on it.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Naturally. In some cases, these are better. It's a bit of a list but:
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** Force Chips became Cyber Keys
** Planet Force became Cyber Planet Keys
** The Chip Square became the Omega Lock.
** The starship ''Mu'' became the ''Ogygia''
** The starship ''Pangaea'' became the ''Lemuria''
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* [[Large Ham]]: Megatron/Galvatron. But with [[David Kaye]] voicing, what did you expect? Also, Starscream, Thundercracker, Scourge...
* [[Last Villain Stand]]: Megatron. After he loses the cyber key, his minions have deserted him, and his plan to reshape the universe to his own desire is foiled, he decides to go all out and destroy Jungle World and Earth while at the same time challenging Optimus Prime to a final battle.
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Hot Shot. Overhaul also has traces of this, as does Wing Saber.
* [[Lip Lock]]: Averted for the most part.
* [[Lull Destruction]]: The dub does this to compensate for the heavy use of [[Stock Footage]].
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* [[Not So Harmless]]: Thundercracker, in episode 7 when he successfully springs a trap and in episode 41 when he unveils his [[Rocket Punch|supercharged punch.]]
* [[Off-Model]]: Sometimes the kids' faces.
** of course, seeing as Gonzo and Sunwoo are involved, this isn't a surprise.
** Some shots in the pilot have the Autobots (chiefly Optimus) using a slightly different color scheme.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Plenty of it, and with the moderately improved facial animation, you can tell. However, the best instance is in episode 49, when Galvatron has 5 supercharged attacks headed his way:
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* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: The female Override is the male Nitro Convoy in ''Galaxy Force''. This was done before with ''[[Beast Wars]]'', however.
** Hasbro paid homage to this by claiming Override posed as a male early in her racing career.
** It worked very well, too. It makes more sense ([[Dude Looks Like a Lady|She looks like she has high heels]], and chest armor is similar to the armor uniboob many female 'bots sport.)
* [[Shout-Out]]: Optimus and Galvatron's final battle ends with visual similarity to a showdown in ''[[Brave Exkaiser]]''. Other shout-outs include:
{{quote|'''Bud:''' (Upon waking up aboard the ''Atlantis'' and seeing the Ogygia out the window) [[Do Androids Dream?|Do Mini-Cons dream of electric ships?]]
'''Coby:''' (in a later episode) [[How Stella Got Her Groove Back|And that's how Optimus Prime got his groove back!]] }}
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The retcon that the energon sun collapsed to make the black hole turns the entire ''Energon'' series into one of these, annihilating the planets they fought for the whole series offscreen. Again, however, the actual show largely ignores such things (mainly, Cybertron and Jungle Planet still exist.) The screen-given (and therefore [[Canon|more official]]) explanation is that the destruction of Unicron upset the balance between good and evil, and the black hole is the result. Its first victim is an uninhabited world, [[Woolseyism|aptly named Moriturus]] - "I am about to die" in Latin.
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Optimus using Metroplex's axe on Ransack and Crumplezone (To be fair, they had held Jolt and Bud captive briefly, and even tried the "save the hostage or catch us" routine. Prime managed ''both,'' and repaid the baddies' [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]] in full.) He [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it hilariously.
{{quote|'''Optimus:''' I hope you don't think this is a ''tad'' excessive.
'''Ransack and Crumplezone''': [[Oh Crap|N-n-no!]]
'''Optimus:''' That's good. [[Sarcasm Mode|After all, I'm just trying to be fair!]] *WHAM!* }}
* [[The Starscream]]: Starscream. That would seem obvious, but in the rest of the Unicron Trilogy he was more of a [[Noble Demon]].
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* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Optimus Prime vs Galvatron.
* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: The English dub often has the character transforming talking about something as they go through a step by step sequence that takes about a minute at worst to complete. Gets particularly silly in the case of Metroplex, who transforms to save the comparatively small heroes from a falling object. Especially considering his transformation sequence is literally comparable to ''standing up''.
*** Not really [[Transformation Is a Free Action]], though. The talking seems to be more of an internal monologue used to fill the stock footage. The stock footage that's used like packing peanuts. Heck, sometimes the talking is used to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] the stock footage. And seen from the outside the transformations are instantaneous.
**** Prime does explain his plan while transforming once, though.
***** During the longest chunk of uninterrupted stock footage in the show.
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* [[Wild Hair]]: Overhaul gets this, or the Transformer equivalent, after being reformatted into Leobreaker.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Lori.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]:
{{quote|'''Vector Prime:''' Optimus Prime.
'''Optimus Prime:''' Vector Prime?!
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