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Transformers (Franchise)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })If you're looking for the live-action movie series, see Transformers Film Series. For the original Generation One animated film, see The Transformers: The Movie. For more information, you might want to consult the Transformers wiki, TFWiki.net. Its informality is similar to that of TV Tropes. | |
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G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers (Comic Book) | |
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My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise! (Comic Book) | |
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Transformers Deviations (Comic Book) | |
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Bell-Bottom-Limbed Bots | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Among the Canon Foreigner's, Lockdown became a major supporting character in IDW and even the Big Bad of the fourth Michael Bay movie; Knock Out was basically copy-pasted to IDW, etc. | |
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Super Reflexes | |
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Super Reflexes: Some characters have this power on their own, while others can acquire it through bonding with a partner (Headmasters, Powerlinx, etc.). | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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About 90% of all names are meaningful. The few that aren't are still usually indicative of their faction, or are a bit more subtle. (Such as "Megatron" bringing to mind "megaton," a unit bombs can be measured in.) | |
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Dummied Out | |
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Dummied Out: Some of the Transformers's toys have the clear/translucent plastic for lightpiping in their heads painted over, disabling that feature. Others may have the vestiges for integrated weaponry, like missile launchers, but lack the springs or mechanisms for actually loading or firing them. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Many characters have all or most of their characterization provided in toy bios or profiles. | |
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Ancient Keeper | |
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Ancient Keeper | |
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World of Badass | |
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World of Badass: Cybertron. Literally, as it is the god Primus in disguise. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Twice, 1986 and 2007. | |
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Everything's Better with Dinosaurs | |
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Everything's Better With Dinobots: Later continuities have issue working the Dinosaur alt-modes into the story, but they're incredibly popular characters. | |
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Klingon Scientists Get No Respect | |
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Decepticon Scientists Get No Respect: You don't see many Decepticon scientists, outside of Shockwave. The number of named medics we've seen can be counted on one hand. That is, until we find out in Generation 1 and the Aligned continuities that Starscream of all bots is a scientist note "Fire on the Mountain" and War for Cybertron respectively. The comics then start introducing a number of medics, no actually get no respect because they "waste their time" patching up "weaklings" who had the audacity to get hit in a firefight. Then there are the Mad Scientists like Rossum, Vertibreak, and Vivisector. | |
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The Stoic | |
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In the Aligned continuity (outside of the High Moon games), Optimus Prime has been criticized for not being a unique take on the character, usually just being The Stoic and there not being much to him besides being the Big Good who makes G1 quotes all the time. Peter Cullen is also being directed to use his "movie trailer narrator" voice all the time, denying the actor a chance to truly portray a full-rounded character. note Compare his performance in Prime and Rescue Bots to the live action films or the High Moon games. Peter is clearly being directed to deliver a much more powerful performance in those movies and games than he was for the Aligned cartoons. Prime even went so far as to treat him as the Comically Serious. | |
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Sequel Series | |
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A Sequel Series, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, premiered in 2019, featuring five recruits: Hot Shot, Whirl, Hoist, Medix and Wedge, who are trained by the original Rescue Bots to become heroes like them. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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and he's not the only one... | |
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Phlebotinum Muncher | |
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Phlebotinum Muncher: Energon. | |
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Praetorian Guard | |
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Praetorian Guard: The Wreckers, for Emirate Xaaron. | |
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Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness | |
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Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: Varies from continuity but generally further on the soft side of the scale. | |
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Palette Swap | |
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Palette Swap: Redecoes are very common. The most well-known examples are Frenzy/Rumble, the Seekers, Bumblebee/Cliffjumper, and Prowl/Bluestreak/Smokescreen. In Beast Wars, there's also Cheetor/Tigatron, and Tarantulus/Blackarachnia (notable for being the only one of these with one character of each gender), plus a few others exclusively in the toys. | |
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Anime Theme Song | |
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Anime Theme Song: Several in the cartoon series, whether Japan releases it first or dubs it after the US releases. More notable with Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: PLENTY in the later series. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Beast Wars Megatron, "yeeeessss". And BAM! KAZOWIE! for Warpath. I am Wreck-Gar! | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: The Alternators line was an attempt at appealing to adult collectors by featuring licensed vehicles to scale with each other and with complex transformations that allotted actual interior space such as the seats, steering wheel and even an engine block. Characters were re-imagined in new vehicle forms; some of the characters known for a car-based mode received a different model, spiritual successor, rather than the modern version of their original model (e.g.: Sideswipe was reinterpreted as a Dodge Viper, rather than being a modern Lamborghini), while some characters known for non-vehicle alternate modes, such as Grimlock and Shockwave, were reinterpreted as vehicles. The Human Alliance line is angled towards the same principles, with the movies backing up the toys and adding to the interactivity with human figures. The Masterpiece line is a more literal update of the original toys, featuring complex transformations to convert a more detailed version of their original alt mode into a more detailed and more cartoon-accurate version of their on-screen robot appearance. The line received a "soft" reboot by revisiting the Optimus Prime/Convoy and Starscream figures, and ramping up the frequency of character releases, with the increased activity also including the introduction of several figures based on licensed versions of their original car modes. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshaded by Megatron in the season 1 finale of Beast Wars. "Oh, you Optimuses do love sacrificing yourselves, don't you?" | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Dinobots. Even bigger robots that can turn into robo-dinosaurs? Awesome! Only problem is Transformers are Transformers (mostly) because they blend into Earth machines and since humans don't drive around in giant robot t-rexs this makes it a bit trickier to work in the Dino-bots. It is most likely why The Wreckers were made to be alternate heavy hitters. | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2bdae2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2bdae2ae | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2c7dc9c6 | type |
No One Should Survive That | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2c7dc9c6 | comment |
No One Should Survive That: Multiple times, characters will be torn to pieces, blown up, or simply be at ground zero of a massive blast only to either be rebuilt or come out unscathed. Sometimes, instead of getting destroyed, they get a new body with new powers. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2c7dc9c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2c7dc9c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2c7dc9c6 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2d395ee9 | type |
Autobots, Rock Out! | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2d395ee9 | comment |
Autobots, Rock Out! | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2d395ee9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2d395ee9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2d395ee9 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f304958 | type |
Welcome Titles | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f304958 | comment |
Welcome Titles: The openings tend to use this, except in the series that animate the Transformers in CGI. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f304958 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f304958 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f304958 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f4d2172 | type |
C-List Fodder | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f4d2172 | comment |
C-List Fodder: Issue #50 of the original Transformers comic featured Starscream on a killing rampage that culled older characters by the dozens. Victims included C-list characters like Gears and Buzzsaw, as well as popular ones such as Omega Supreme and the Predacons. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f4d2172 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f4d2172 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2f4d2172 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2fc2d6e1 | type |
Shapeshifter Mode Lock | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2fc2d6e1 | comment |
Mode Lock, since renamed Shapeshifter Mode Lock. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2fc2d6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2fc2d6e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_2fc2d6e1 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3079b64 | type |
Author Catchphrase | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3079b64 | comment |
Author Catchphrase: Furmanisms | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3079b64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3079b64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3079b64 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_31a2a33c | type |
Stuff Blowing Up | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_31a2a33c | comment |
Stuff Blowing Up: Beast Wars, along with most of the Transformers cartoons, has a lot of explosions. At least one of the Transformers will be blown up in every episode. Not counting Waspinator, who gets blown to bits in nearly every episode regardless. Rather hilariously, there is actually a Transformer called Landmine. That's right. An alien robot with the name of an explosive. Lugnut has perfected the art of making things explode. Behold! The P.O.K.E! | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_31a2a33c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_31a2a33c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_31a2a33c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_34258d8a | type |
Good-Guy Bar | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_34258d8a | comment |
Good-Guy Bar: Maccadam's Old Oil House. Also the Bad-Guy Bar - Autobots and Decepticons alike are allowed in as long as they don't cause trouble (which happens anyway, if an Autobot approaches the Decepticon side uninvited). | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_34258d8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_34258d8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_34258d8a | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_356b1efb | type |
Hammerspace | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace: It's been an accepted Hand Wave that Transformers have this to explain Robots changing size from what would logically fit into their alternate form, most famously Megatron and Soundwave from G1. Also, exactly how big individual Transformers are varies radically based on the needs of the plot. Scale in Transformers is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed. Animated Swindle literally has his own transwarp dimension that he can store things in, inside his torso... which Optimus Prime uses to become Swindle's first-born. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_356b1efb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_356b1efb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_356b1efb | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_36e63b81 | comment |
Rule of Cool: The entire franchise is all about this. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_36e63b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_36e63b81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_36e63b81 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3722d66c | type |
Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3722d66c | comment |
Hold Your Hippogriffs: Plenty of human proverbs Recycled In Space: "You can stuff it up your ass exhaust pipe." "Do you ever think you could be destined programmed for something bigger?" "Mind Processor over matter." "He eats babies protoforms for breakfast!" "Don't just stand there with your pistons in your servos! "I've got one foot servo in the grave scrap heap." "Aw, hexagonal nuts!" "My olfactory sensors detect a rat named Megatron!" | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3722d66c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3722d66c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3722d66c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_372bc105 | type |
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_372bc105 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Mostly on the idealistic side, though the writers have clearly been making an effort to be realistic about it in recent years. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_372bc105 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_372bc105 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_372bc105 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_37fcf16 | type |
Death Is Cheap | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_37fcf16 | comment |
Death Is Cheap: Let's just say "destroyed" doesn't necessarily mean "dead" and leave it at that. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_37fcf16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_37fcf16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_37fcf16 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_398692d6 | type |
Kill 'Em All | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_398692d6 | comment |
Kill 'Em All: The [[Franchise/ransformersGeneration1 Original Movie]] was deliberately plotted to kill off as many characters/toys as possible, traumatizing kids who expected a continuation of the TV show. Age of Extinction reveals that all of the characters who were in the previous trilogy that didn't return for this one were hunted down by Cemetary Wind. Including the Autobots. Ratchet, the Wreckers, Arcee, Sideswipe... | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_398692d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_398692d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_398692d6 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d4f0586 | type |
Units Not to Scale | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d4f0586 | comment |
Units Not to Scale: There's a TFwiki page about it. In short, there are many size-scale inconsistencies with the various Transformers, both in the toyline and in the cartoons and comics. Due to some effort by the production team, the Live-Action Film series has fewer scale issues. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d4f0586 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d4f0586 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d4f0586 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d699462 | comment |
In the G1 cartoon, the Dinobots were nigh-unstoppable powerhouses, tearing through even Megatron with little effort, with the only foe that actually gave them trouble being Devastator. In the original comics, the five of them were curbstomped by Megatron early on. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d699462 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d699462 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_3d699462 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_40cbee83 | type |
Wretched Hive | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_40cbee83 | comment |
Wretched Hive: In several continuities like the Dreamwave and IDW comics, the named city Kaon on Cybertron is often referred to as a miserable place, where the local law enforcers are hopelessly corrupt and/or helpless - in several backstories Kaon is also the place where the underground gladiator rings are located, and thus forms the birthplace of the rebellious movement that would become the Decepticons. Megatron in particular typically makes his name here as a champion in the arena before he becomes the Decepticon commander. Amusingly, on Primus's body as per his Transformers Cybertron incarnation, Kaon is located under his heel when he transforms to robot mode. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_40cbee83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_40cbee83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_40cbee83 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_42785dc6 | type |
Kibbles and Bits | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_42785dc6 | comment |
Kibbles and Bits: Off the fandom term for irrelevant alternate mode parts stuck on the robot form. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_42785dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_42785dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_42785dc6 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43273c71 | type |
LongRunner | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43273c71 | comment |
Long Runner: There have been Transformers toys in production somewhere in the world since 1984. Even when the line was cancelled in America in 1990, European and Japanese exclusives were continually made. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43273c71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43273c71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43273c71 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43a045de | type |
Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43a045de | comment |
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Nearly all of the cast from the first two seasons is killed off during the movie, as well as Optimus and Starscream albeit temporarily. Beast Wars was sometimes almost careless with how they killed certain characters; a few times they were intended to be dead but Hasbro insisted they bring them back. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43a045de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43a045de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_43a045de | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | type |
Alternate Continuity | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | comment |
Alternate Continuity: Currently, 5 different "main" continuity lines. When you go into the comics, on the other hand,◊ talk about Continuity Snarl. This chart is also several years out of date. Here◊ is Japan's take with their continuities (yes, some shows are in different continuities in different countries). It's not any better. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_47fec0dd | type |
Faceless Masses | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_47fec0dd | comment |
Faceless Masses: Many nameless background Transformer (or robots in general) characters have various designs (some resemble Soundwave or Prowl). Fans coined the term "generics". | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_47fec0dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_47fec0dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_47fec0dd | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_495342ed | type |
NameTron | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_495342ed | comment |
NameTron: Megatron, Cybertron, Galvatron, etc. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_495342ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_495342ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_495342ed | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a01ccd0 | type |
I Know Kung-Faux | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a01ccd0 | comment |
I Know Kung-Faux: Occurs fairly often throughout the various Transformers lines, most notably with Metallikato, Crystalocution, and Circuit-su. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a01ccd0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a01ccd0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a01ccd0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a852458 | type |
Big Good | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: Optimus Prime in any adaptation. Prime is ever so slightly outranked by Primus. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a852458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a852458 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4a852458 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4f4bbeff | type |
Interspecies Friendship | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4f4bbeff | comment |
Interspecies Friendship: Any time human characters get involved. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4f4bbeff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4f4bbeff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_4f4bbeff | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504a5ec7 | type |
Greater-Scope Paragon | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504a5ec7 | comment |
Greater-Scope Paragon: Primus is the embodiment of all good in the Transformers multiverse as the Lord of Light and Order, and the creator of the Transformer homeworld Cybertron, opposite his brother Unicron, the embodiment of darkness. He rarely gets involved in the story at large because he was forced into an eon-long sleep after managing to defeat Unicron for the first time. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504a5ec7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504a5ec7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504a5ec7 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504ca25a | type |
Live-Action Adaptation | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504ca25a | comment |
Live-Action Adaptation: The 2007 movie. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504ca25a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504ca25a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_504ca25a | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5057d559 | type |
Kid-Appeal Character | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5057d559 | comment |
Kid-Appeal Character: Bumblebee is the former trope namer. Usually one or two per series. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5057d559 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5057d559 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5057d559 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_519be2fc | type |
Sacred Scripture | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_519be2fc | comment |
Sacred Scripture: The Covenant of Primus, a combination of historical records and list of prophecies. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_519be2fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_519be2fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_519be2fc | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_548bd053 | type |
Guns Akimbo | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_548bd053 | comment |
Averted in one of the G1 animated episodes. The Decepticons have captured the Autobots with the exception of Wheeljack. Wheeljack manages to infiltrate their holding cell, discovers his buddies are tied up, depowered, soaking wet (bad thing for robots), and with their carbine-shaped weapons piled sloppily in the corner. He then proceeds to go Guns Akimbo—pointing AT THE AUTOBOTS. "My friend's weapons! Hmm. Okay, Sideswipe's flare gun should dry off your circuits, and Bluestreak's bolts should give you all an instant recharge!" It's amazing the first thing Optimus didn't do was Face Palm: "It's a wonder the Decepticons didn't just kill us outright, but vector sigma, am I the only one that knows that guns are supposed to be for killing?" | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_548bd053 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_548bd053 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_548bd053 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
This form of Fantastic Racism is given focus in Age of Extinction. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57b80b45 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57cf76a1 | type |
Hate Plague | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57cf76a1 | comment |
Hate Plague: It first appeared in the Generation 1 cartoon, and reappeared in a more virulent form in Beast Machines. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57cf76a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57cf76a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_57cf76a1 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | comment |
The original Fortress Maximus figure had a jail cell concealed in its left leg. Given Fortress Maximus was a Cityformer, that makes sense. This likely inspired his characterization in the IDW comics as warden of a prison. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5b47f992 | type |
Monochromatic Eyes | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5b47f992 | comment |
Monochromatic Eyes: Considering they're robots, it was the default look for them. Later incarnations would avert this in some instances though. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5b47f992 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5b47f992 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5b47f992 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5be7bcfa | type |
Older Than They Think | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5be7bcfa | comment |
Older Than They Think: The old comics used to do this a lot, only without the Puny Humans. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5be7bcfa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5be7bcfa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5be7bcfa | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5c2a6db1 | type |
More Than Meets the Eye | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5c2a6db1 | comment |
More Than Meets the Eye | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5c2a6db1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5c2a6db1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5c2a6db1 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: How constructive and deconstructive it is to live by your principles. Every Autobot and Decepticon have personal mottos that they define themselves by, as well as the principles of the two factions - the Autobots stand for freedom and autonomy, while the Decepticons promote tyranny and deception - and both must live with the consequences of their ideologies, whether glorious or tragic. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d103ea8 | type |
AwesomeMcCoolName | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d103ea8 | comment |
Awesome McCoolname: Take a minute to look at some of the names that aren't nouns, verbs or proper names. Optimus Prime. Megatron. Starscream. Thundercracker. Skywarp. Grimlock. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d103ea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d103ea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d103ea8 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d753b19 | type |
The Smurfette Principle | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d753b19 | comment |
The Smurfette Principle: You can count the female Transformers who appeared more than once in a series on both hands. A list of all female Transformers can be found here. This isn't helped by long-time Transformers comic writer Simon Furman, who writes Transformers as having no gender and has publically stated that he hates the idea of female Transformers. This, combined with the fact that Jhiaxus' experiments in giving Transformers gender made Arcee both a female and Ax-Crazy brings up some Unfortunate Implications. In more recent years, the idea that Cybertronians shouldn't have gender because they are robots has been more or less ignored, with a slew of new characters being introduced. That Transformers don't have gender has been swept under the rug as the females of Cybertron being wiped out by a "perfectionist" visionary Galvatron from another universe, and that the links to the Allspark on other planets still regularly produce female sparks. Windblade, who was more or less designed by fan vote, was chosen as female by an overwhelming majority. The club subscription bonus excusive Pyra Magna similarly was voted to by female, as were all six of her components. After that, new female characters, some with toys, have been made to help diversify the cast. They still make up a minority, but not by such a wide margin. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d753b19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d753b19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_5d753b19 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_612ec723 | type |
TheCollectorOfTheStrange | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_612ec723 | comment |
The Collector of the Strange: Autobot Pipes collects interesting human knick-knacks. Also, in Cybertron, Shortround collects...Transformers toys. The "grails" of his collection? Generation 2 Defensor and Menasor. Two toys whose real-world counterparts were never produced (or at least never mass-produced) in full. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_612ec723 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: A literal example in the Unicron Singularity, a massive Black Hole that canonically damaged the continuity of the Unicron Trilogy animes and was used as a Sure Why Not by Hasbro to explain away any continuity errors due to Unicron formerly existing as a single being within every continuity, rather than separate but derivative characters like the various Optimus Primes and Megatrons. And since it explains the damage done to any Transformers continuity, that means it can be used to explain any plot hole ever due to crossovers, at least according to a common joke among fans. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_65b00368 | type |
Telescoping Robot | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_65b00368 | comment |
Telescoping Robot: Highly prevalent in G1, where the 30-foot tall Soundwave became a microcassette player, amongst plenty of other examples. Later installments avoid this for the most part, simply consenting to change size off camera. Not to be confused with the Cybertronians that turn into telescopes.) | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_663f35c0 | type |
Only One Name | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_663f35c0 | comment |
Only One Name | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_663f35c0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_67f26dcc | type |
Planet of Hats | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: Cybertron revolves around five planets. Cybertron and Earth are both hatless, but on the Speed Planet, all anyone cares about is racing, on the Jungle Planet, everyone is obsessed with strength, and on the Giant Planet, the only thing anyone does is build stuff. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_67f26dcc | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6846c493 | type |
Sacrificial Planet | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6846c493 | comment |
Sacrificial Planet: One ad for a Unicron model goes, "He devours entire worlds. His name is Unicron. And he's heading ... for Earth." | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_6846c493 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Beloved childhood toys, TV, and comics/manga ARE Serious Business. Even the newer materials. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b35bdff | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b960f3b | type |
Advertising-Only Continuity | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b960f3b | comment |
Advertising-Only Continuity: Sometimes it's relatively minor, like a movie Jazz figure recolored as an homage to G1 Jazz being explained in his bio as having been revived by Ratchet, or Beast Machines quietly expanding the small band of surviving Maximals. Other times it's more complex, like how the early Beast Wars toys' bios set up the series as a direct continuation of G1 on modern-day Earth, with Optimus Primal and Megatron being the same characters as G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron (which would later be contradicted by the TV series). In extreme cases, such as the current Kre-O sub-line, on-package bios and commericals may be the only fiction available. TFWiki.net likes to invoke this when Hasbro applies the Transformers brand name to transforming toys made for a different franchise, such as Star Wars, which makes for amusing pages where the writer pretends to genuinely have no idea Darth Vader has been in anything else. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_6b960f3b | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: About 90% of all names are meaningful. The few that aren't are still usually indicative of their faction, or are a bit more subtle. (Such as "Megatron" bringing to mind "megaton," a unit bombs can be measured in.) Transformers Animated provides a clear justification for this process with most Cybertronians. In addition to self-assigned names (like Blackarachnia or Dirt Boss) several characters received their current names from drill sergeants in boot camp (Ironhide for his ability to harden his skin, Bulkhead was named as such for being "all bulk and no brains," Optimus was an optimistic idealist before being broken) or others (like the Constructicons or Wreck-Gar). | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6ef09297 | type |
Masquerade | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_6ef09297 | comment |
Masquerade: I some continuities, the presence of giant robots on Earth is not public knowledge. The government keeps it under wraps while the Autobots agree to stay in their disguised modes around civilians with a small number of exceptions. However, this is not consistently present and the original series didn't even bother with it - by the end of the first season, mechanical alien shape-shifters were just a fact of life. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_6ef09297 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_703b2f20 | type |
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_703b2f20 | comment |
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Not surprising, since they can choose their alternate forms, but each invariably picks a vehicle that suits them very well. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_703b2f20 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_705d9b89 | type |
Toyless Toyline Character | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_705d9b89 | comment |
Toyless Toyline Character: Most of the humans, and some of the early female transformers. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_705d9b89 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_796fa10c | type |
The Ageless | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_796fa10c | comment |
The Ageless: Almost always applies to the Transformers. Though occasionally averted by characters whose schtick is that they're old fogies. Not only do they have the personality to match, but for some reason they're the only Transformers to physically age. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_796fa10c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7a87fa80 | type |
Animal-Themed Superbeing | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7a87fa80 | comment |
Animal-Themed Superbeing: The Dinobots, Insecticons, and everyone on Beast Wars are robot-alien variations of this trope. Later combining Decepticons (Predacons, Terrorcons and Seacons) also qualify. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_7a87fa80 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7abd339f | type |
Black and White Morality | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7abd339f | comment |
Black-and-White Morality: Autobots are good, Decepticons are evil (except in Shattered Glass, where it's the other way round). Though in Transformers Animated some of the Autobots are selfish, corrupt, or incompetent, though not in the main cast. Sentinel Prime,we are looking at you. Likewise, while "sympathetic" might be stretching the portrayal of the Decepticons as a whole, they are at least clearly motivated (most of them want to reconquer Cybertron, but some have other motivations). Many Transformers continuities play with and partially subvert the idea, going right back to the Marvel comic series in the 1980s. It is always with individual characters though so the trope is played straight for the overall factions even if the individuals within the groups don't necessarily all adhere. Also, the trope is played painfully straight whenever Unicron is involved, usually with "Unicron = BAD Those who fight him = good" Well Unicron is basically the cybertronion equivalent of Satan so it's not entirely unreasonable. The new book Exodus also establishes a whole lot of gray in the origins of the war and looks like a subversion, but later on plays this trope straight. Sort of. In the IDW comics Continuity, it is suggested that the conflict became this way over time. The Decepticons were once a rebel force rising up against the corrupt Senate, while the Autobots, who also believed in change, believed the change was moving too quickly and in the wrong direction. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_7cdfe326 | type |
Cosmic Retcon | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7cdfe326 | comment |
To make things really nuts, at one point there were also characters known as multiversal singularities, of which only one existed in all reality. Some of these, such as Alpha Trion, existed in every universe simultaneously, while others, like Vector Prime and The Fallen, traveled between universes. This got less and less plausible as time went on and various universes wrote those characters differently, and eventually in the 2015 Club story most of them got together to de-singularitize themselves, so now there's a TransTech Vector Prime and a Shattered Glass Unicron and so on. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7cdfe326 | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_7cdfe326 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7dafc482 | type |
ChewToy | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7dafc482 | comment |
Not counting Waspinator, who gets blown to bits in nearly every episode regardless. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_7dafc482 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc | type |
Developing Doomed Characters | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc | comment |
Developing Doomed Characters: An endemic problem with the franchise is that the first installment - the 2007 film, Armada, Infiltration - will sometimes focus excessively on the less-than-likable Puny Humans and ease into the robots. Infiltration is a case of this backfiring spectacularly, with the humans' development inspiring enough annoyance and boredom that the next arc, Stormbringer, was advertised as "Nothing but ROBOTS on CYBERTRON!" Older Than They Think: The old comics used to do this a lot, only without the Puny Humans. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_820ac3c5 | type |
Dysfunction Junction | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: Many of the Transformers, Autobot and Decepticon alike, are barely-functional piles of neuroses. The Stunticons (G1) in particular take the cake, as not only do most of them have severe mental issues, but they dislike each other so much (their commanding officer in particular) that their combined form of Menasor is often totally uncontrollable due to the mental schism. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_820ac3c5 | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_820ac3c5 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_831164fe | type |
Signature Style | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_831164fe | comment |
Signature Style: Simon Furman has a series of phrases that make their way into virtually every comic he writes, referred to as Furmanisms. The most famous is either "like some vast, predatory bird" or "It never ends!" | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_831164fe | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8313a744 | type |
Dark Lord on Life Support | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8313a744 | comment |
Dark Lord on Life Support: After being heavily damaged in the pilot movie of Transformers: Prime, Megatron has to be attached to extremely large power cables just to remain in a catatonic state, leaving him very vulnerable especially with his subordinates threatening to unplug him. He eventually recovers. This is a common way for saving the big battle with Megs for a big moment. The movie keeps him frozen until the climax, and Animated keeps him a disembodied head until the first season finale. Another example came from Transformers Cybertron, where Megatron ends up in a life support bubble of some kind after having Atlantis, an ancient Cybertronian starship, explode with him aboard. He fully recovers several episodes later. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8313a744 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8361df5 | type |
Fauxrrari | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8361df5 | comment |
Fauxrrari: In the Generation 1 days, a great many Transformers had alt-modes that were recognizable but slightly modified real-world vehicles, such as Optimus Prime (a Freightliner WFT-8664T with a different grill) and Jazz (a Martini Racing Porsche 935/76 whose decals read "Martinii"). This practice became less common as the franchise moved towards more fantastical vehicle designs, and by the time realistic vehicles were brought back Hasbro had started actually licensing them from manufacturers like General Motors. However, the occasional lookalike still pops up when such a license can't be obtained, as was the case with the toy of Optimus Prime's look in Bumblebee, which isn't a perfect match for the Freightliner seen in the film. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8361df5 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Humans have been romantic interests for Transformers characters at least since the G1 episode "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide". But besides that, various humanoid aliens and even a few non-humanoid ones have been shown to be in relationships with Transformers. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8485d41a | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_86331fae | type |
The Anti-God | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_86331fae | comment |
Unicron: A planet-eating giant transformer, sort of a Eldritch Abomination/Satan-esque counterpart to Primus. In The Transformers: The Movie, he is destroyed by Rodimus Prime using the Matrix, though his disembodied head continues to work its evil machinations throughout the third season of Generation 1. Unicron appears at the end of Armada, and is destroyed again, but is resurrected in Energon by Alpha Q, in an attempt to recreate its home planet (in this incarnation, Unicron is able to recreate anything it has consumed). Supplementary materials to the Transformers multiverse suggest that Primus and Unicron are incarnations of rival gods, born from the same The One. Though other characters may change between series, Unicron and directly related characters are generally multiversal constants. Incidentally, he has never been seen in the same room as Galactus. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_86331fae | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_86be2f48 | type |
Tiered by Name | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_86be2f48 | comment |
Tiered by Name: Megatron and Galvatron are usually the same being from two different time periods, although in some continuities, such as the IDW G1 continuity, they're two different people. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_86be2f48 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Unicron and he's not the only one... | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8774fb47 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_889cff96 | type |
Quirky Miniboss Squad | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_889cff96 | comment |
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Before making an appearance in The Movie, The Fallen created one of these in the War Within comic series. Decepticon mystics Bludgeon, Bugly, and Mindwipe made a very effective one, too. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_889cff96 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: Kind of a given, but the live action movie had to use real cars. Barricade in the 2007 movie is a Ford Mustang, Jazz is a Pontiac Solstice, Bumblebee is a 1976 Chevy Camaro who later becomes a 2008 Camaro, Revenge of the Fallen is showcasing a one-of-a-kind Concept Corvette that will not actually reach consumers. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8d25533e | type |
Your Size May Vary | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8d25533e | comment |
Your Size May Vary: Alien robots that can transform into every conceivable mechanical/electrical item results in this, and happens often in comics and TV series (the live-action films at least tried to avert this with some limited success). Moreso if a Transformer has more than one alternate mode. There is an entire page on the Transformers Wiki about this. This is mostly explained by having the Transformers having some sort of mass displacement technology. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8d25533e | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8ffcdaf6 | type |
Sealed Cast in a Multipack | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_8ffcdaf6 | comment |
Sealed Cast in a Multipack: The show has this in spades. Since G1, 'bots have been sealed and unsealed time and time again. And the introduction of stasis pods in Beast Wars only served to make this even easier. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_8ffcdaf6 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_904bf4e | type |
Wasn't That Fun? | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_904bf4e | comment |
Wasn't That Fun?: Lampshaded in the original G1 cartoon episode "Fire on the Mountain", after Brawn and Windcharger are under attack by the Decepticons. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_904bf4e | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9075ac17 | type |
Just a Machine | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9075ac17 | comment |
Just a Machine: The Cybertronians themselves avert this by being a) the main characters and b) able to point out their immortal soul on a blueprint. Any human who invokes this is going to be unsympathetic. Whenever the villain has plenty of (seemingly) unintelligent drones at their disposal, however, the good guys will spend a lot of time blowing them up en masse. This form of Fantastic Racism is given focus in Age of Extinction. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | type |
Justified Trope | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | comment |
This is mostly explained by having the Transformers having some sort of mass displacement technology. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_90c75498 | type |
Cut-and-Paste Translation | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_90c75498 | comment |
Cut-and-Paste Translation: As noted above, the original toys were from two different Takara toylines that Hasbro had planned on importing into the US and selling. They created a whole new backstory to go with it. However, Takara loved the changes so much that they eventually dropped both original lines and imported the Transformers lore back into Japan. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_90c75498 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_92587498 | type |
Five-Man Band | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_92587498 | comment |
Five-Man Band: Combiner teams generally make up these, barring the occasional six member teams like the Constructicons and Trainbots. | |
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All Deaths Final | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_944eb8fb | comment |
All Deaths Final: While it varies how much the franchise adheres to this trope, Transformers is notable for being one of the few children's series to often have characters be Killed Off for Real. As long as you're not a huge name person like Optimus Prime, than chances are if you die you stay dead. The comics are able to go even further with this since they're meant for adult fans. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_944eb8fb | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_96c60225 | type |
Growing with the Audience | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_96c60225 | comment |
Growing with the Audience: The franchise started as a daily syndicated cartoon based on a line of toys, The '90s brought the Darker and Edgier Beast Wars, and the 2000s-2010s saw the Michael Bay live-action movies, Transformers Animated (a mix of goofy, mature and Continuity Porn), and the mature TV cartoon Transformers: Prime. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_970c790a | comment |
As far as characters go, Animated's Lockdown, Lugnut, and Bulkhead have crossed over into the IDW, Aligned, and Movie continuities - in particular, Lockdown serves as the Big Bad of the fourth film. IDW has recently began featuring a large number of Ensemble Dark Horse Canon Immigrants from Beast Wars, Robots in Disguise, Prime, and Animated. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_98138110 | type |
Leader Forms the Head | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_98138110 | comment |
Leader Forms the Head: Often the way combiners are formed, as the team leader (usually bigger than his or her subordinates) forms the main body while the rest of the team form the limbs. One notable exceptions is Devastator (the Constructicon team leader Scrapper forms his right leg). | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_98138110 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_98138110 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a2d764d | type |
Arms and Armor Theme Naming | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a2d764d | comment |
Arms and Armor Theme Naming: The Insecticons have bomb-related names: Bombshell, Shrapnel, and Kickback. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a2d764d | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a564e98 | type |
Caged Inside a Monster | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a564e98 | comment |
Caged Inside a Monster: Many larger figures had storage for smaller figures, some of which were identified as jail cells or prisons due to Rule of Cool: The original Fortress Maximus figure had a jail cell concealed in its left leg. Given Fortress Maximus was a Cityformer, that makes sense. This likely inspired his characterization in the IDW comics as warden of a prison. Transformers Armada Megatron has storage for Mini-Cons. What makes it likely to be a prison is the fact that Megatron also has a capture claw for Minicons. From the same line, Unicron is filled with Minicon storage gimmicks. The animation makes it clear that the Minicons are not in there by choice. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a564e98 | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9a564e98 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: In many continuities, Unicron. He's the one controlling Galvatron in the original series and Sideways, Thrust, and (unwittingly) Alpha Q in the Unicron Trilogy. He also manipulates a different Galvatron in Beast Wars II. Prime reveals that Dark Energon is his lifeblood, explaining its corrupting influence. Megatron had infused himself with so much of the stuff that when Bumblebee kills him during the series finale, Unicron is able to simply take over his body and use him as a herald. Megatronus Prime, AKA The Fallen, in the first two movies and 2015's "Robots in Disguise". | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b06e314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b06e314 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b66f7f5 | type |
Suspiciously Small Army | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b66f7f5 | comment |
Suspiciously Small Army: Does this in a big way. Even when fighting for the fate of the universe, or the very fabric of space and time, it's rare to see more than a few dozen fighters involved in any battle. Sometimes this is due to the limitations of the budget (such as the expense of animating CGI models in Beast Wars, Beast Machines, and Prime), or to have a more intimate feel for the battle (The final battle in Animated features only the main cast fighting each other, the majority of whom are having their character arcs wrapped up). The movies tend to have much larger-scaled battles thanks to a larger production budget: the second movie featured a large amount of NEST troops aided by US and Jordanian military fighting at least twenty elite Decepticons alongside the Autobots; the third film features twelve Autobots and a small contingent of humans fighting around two hundred Decepticons; and the fourth film features just two Autobots fighting a fifty-strong horde of Decepticons before Optimus arrives with the Dinobots. Dark Cybertron features another aversion in what is perhaps the most massive battle to be featured in Transformers fiction since the original movie: the surviving Autobots, Decepticons, and NAIL's facing off with an army of Ammonites (a hostile race of transforming robots). Seventy. BILLION. Of them. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b66f7f5 | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9b66f7f5 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9de7a5d0 | type |
Fix Fic | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9de7a5d0 | comment |
Fix Fic: There's rewriting The Transformers: The Movie and leaving out the Dinobots. How does that even work? There's also ignoring the movie (and Seasons 3 and 4) completely. Many fans are discontent with the Unicron Trilogy, and try to rewrite the entire series (yes, 52 episodes for each) to make it better fit with their sensibilities. This usually results in a fanverse that, but for the names of the characters, is absolutely nothing like the original shows. Keep an eye out for Darker and Edgier, elimination of perceived Scrappies, and the Decepticons as Always Chaotic Evil. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9de7a5d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_9de7a5d0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9e1beee3 | type |
90% of Your Brain | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9e1beee3 | comment |
90% of Your Brain: The book Project Brain Drain. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9e1beee3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_9e1beee3 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9fb11776 | type |
Non-Lethal Warfare | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9fb11776 | comment |
Non-Lethal Warfare: Mostly. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_9fb11776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_9fb11776 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a1154544 | comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Ironhide, Kup, Jetfire and Ratchet usually qualify. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a1154544 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_a1154544 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a18fda9c | type |
Dumb Muscle | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a18fda9c | comment |
Dumb Muscle: The Dinobots, especially Sludge. Though that was because in the G1 cartoons, they were built on Earth, without Cybertron-built brains. The "GI Joe Vs. the Transformers" Dinobots were originally five totally Cybertronian Autobots who were time-warped to Earth's prehistoric age by Teletran 3, and given dinosaur bodies (with which they tore through Shockwave's Decepticons) as alternative forms. The following volume, had Grimlock talk in the familiar third-person speech we know him for, but he does learn to appreciate the Joes as valiant warriors... and "Good friends." Devastator in the original, Tidal Wave in Armada | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a18fda9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a18fda9c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82 | type |
Merchandise-Driven | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82 | comment |
Taken to an extreme in most series, where everybody's weapons are theirs and theirs alone. This is a combination of the Merchandise-Driven idea of making sure everyone uses the weapon they come with and launches the appropriate missiles, and the fact that, as Transforming Mecha, their weapons are more or less part of them. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a2ffc7ac | type |
Interpretative Character | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a2ffc7ac | comment |
Interpretative Character: Several names have been used throughout all the various continuities. While there are often consistencies between these incarnations of these names, there is usually enough leeway to take them in all sorts of directions. TFWiki.net's article on the term "character" is a good analysis on this phenomenon, and the Interpretative Character page here has more specific examples. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a2ffc7ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a2ffc7ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a2ffc7ac | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a32334b4 | type |
Canon Discontinuity | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a32334b4 | comment |
Canon Discontinuity: Every series has a few insane ideas that got ignored, like Unicron being the discarded science project of an alien monkey... | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a32334b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a32334b4 | featureConfidence |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a32334b4 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a737a69d | type |
BrotherChuck | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a737a69d | comment |
Brother Chuck: Happens to many characters who aren't killed off when their toy is discontinued. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a737a69d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a737a69d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a737a69d | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a789adca | type |
Emergency Services | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a789adca | comment |
Emergency Services: Many autobots, and even decepticons, use emergency service vehicles as their alt modes. The Protectobots in particular are an entire subgroup made of them. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a789adca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a789adca | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a7aef9ff | type |
Obfuscating Stupidity | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: In most of the comics, Grimlock acts like this. He still talks in the caveman dialect of his animated counterpart, but is one of the Autobots' most brilliant leaders, often coming off as a sort of brutally cunning Josef Stalin to Prime's FDR (or Prime's Churchill, if you're reading Marvel UK). | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a7aef9ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a7aef9ff | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a80ad52c | type |
Hanging Judge | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a80ad52c | comment |
Hanging Judge: The Quintesson judge would actually often find the defendant innocent. Too bad that the Quintessons throw you to the Sharkticons either way. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a80ad52c | featureApplicability |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a80ad52c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a950584d | type |
Combining Mecha | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a950584d | comment |
Optimus Prime will usually be called "Something Convoy" in Japan (Optimus Primal is "Beast Convoy", for instance); Jet Optimus's first appearance in the English dub of Armada infamously referred to him as "Jet Convoy". Averted in the Japanese dub of Animated in order to fit the live-action movie... but it also changed Bulkhead's name to Ironhide for the same reason. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a950584d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_a950584d | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a9f392fd | type |
Pilot Movie | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a9f392fd | comment |
Animated started with a 170 minute movie that got broken into three parts for re-runs. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a9f392fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a9f392fd | featureConfidence |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_a9f392fd | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_abdf1659 | type |
Bodyguarding a Badass | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_abdf1659 | comment |
Bodyguarding a Badass: Optimus Prime (i.e. one of the most powerful of a race of giant, sapient Humongous Mecha) sometimes has a human military escort. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_abdf1659 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_abdf1659 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ac7b87df | type |
Off-Model | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ac7b87df | comment |
Off-Model: Sometimes it gets to the point where it's not even funny. None of the shows, movies, comics, games or toys are safe. Special mentions go to the Generation One cartoon, the Armada Anime, the Generation Two comic, the Beast Machines toyline and most of the Dreamwave comic run. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ac7b87df | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_ac7b87df | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ad52d927 | type |
Robot Hair | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ad52d927 | comment |
Robot Hair: Arcee, the goto Fembot (and her expies) generally has a helmet-like structure on her head which resembles a haircut. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ad52d927 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_ad52d927 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Just being a Transformer makes you a giant, alien, transforming, robot. Then there's the ones that are also things like ninja, dinosaurs, bounty hunters, and wolves. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_afc52a86 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: "Autobots! Transform and roll out!", among others. "Decepticons, transform and RISE UP!" | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b13bb418 | type |
Alien Among Us | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b13bb418 | comment |
Alien Among Us: Alien robots, but aliens nonetheless, the series has many elements of this plot. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b13bb418 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b13bb418 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_b13bb418 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1619b3c | type |
Omnicidal Maniac | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1619b3c | comment |
Omnicidal Maniac: Unicron Galvatron too. Megatron wanted power, Galvatron just wants to kill everything | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1619b3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1619b3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1619b3c | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1b562c9 | type |
Sapient Tank | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1b562c9 | comment |
Sapient Tank: Any transformer with a tank based alt-mode. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1b562c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1b562c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b1b562c9 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | type |
Retcon | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: G1 presented the Transformer origin as being created by a squid-robotic race called the Quintessons as slave labor. Most later incarnations, including G1 versions, have ignored that origin story in favor of the Primus-God version. Although it could be argued one does not preclude the other... Hasbro had earlier stated that the Aligned universe isn't part of the larger Transformers multiverse. Between Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (which involves the titular artifact going from the Aligned universe to the universe of the movies and Generation One universe), the Ask Vector Prime column (which confirmed the events of Dark Spark revealed the existence of the Aligned universe to the larger Multiverse), The Complete AllSpark Almanac (which also mentioned the Aligned universe), Regeneration One (which has a subplot of Hot Rod seeing all his counterparts, including his Algined incarnation from the DS version of War for Cybertron), and Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter (which officially confirmed the Aligned universe being part of the larger multiverse) this has since been changed. This also put an end to the idea of the original Thirteen being "multiversal singularities" as the Aligned!Thirteen includes very different members including Alpha Trion and Optimus Prime, and Vector Prime outright stating that his Aligned counterpart is a distinctly separate entity. Later, in 2015, the entire concept of multiversal singularities was nullified by a Cosmic Recton in the Transformers: Timelines storyline, "Another Light", where Nexus Prime solidify the walls of reality to such a degree that not only were the original 13 across the multiverse splintered, but even Primus and Unicron were separated into separate entities across the Multiverse. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b401ff67 | type |
Multiversal Conqueror | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b401ff67 | comment |
Multiversal Conqueror: Unicron is a Planet Eater who wants to eat everything. One planet at a time, one timeline at a time, one universal stream of branching timelines at a time, in sequence. When he says he wants to be completely alone, he damn well isn't beating around the bush. Even if he's destroyed in any one universe, he just gets shunted to another to start over again thanks to mucking about with different flows of time across the multiverse. Oh, sure, there are a few permanent methods of dealing with him, like trapping him in a physical form to slow him down, but if they go horribly wrong, well... One Comic has another Multiversal constant state that he has so far consumed some 47% of the known Multiverse. Yeah. Not mucking about. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b401ff67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b401ff67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b401ff67 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b479b090 | type |
Spy Bot | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b479b090 | comment |
Spy Bot: Many Transformers serve this function in various ways. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b479b090 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b479b090 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b479b090 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: The comics feature a lot of jabs against the mostly-forgotten competitor to the original Challenge Of The Go Bots, mostly involving Cy-Kill getting killed. Self-Deprecation: Of course, these days Go-Bots are themselves part of the Transformers franchise. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b53077b3 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b6ae5569 | type |
Transforming Mecha | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b6ae5569 | comment |
Transforming Mecha: The entire concept. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b6ae5569 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b6ae5569 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b6ae5569 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8437741 | type |
Multiverse | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8437741 | comment |
Hasbro had earlier stated that the Aligned universe isn't part of the larger Transformers multiverse. Between Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (which involves the titular artifact going from the Aligned universe to the universe of the movies and Generation One universe), the Ask Vector Prime column (which confirmed the events of Dark Spark revealed the existence of the Aligned universe to the larger Multiverse), The Complete AllSpark Almanac (which also mentioned the Aligned universe), Regeneration One (which has a subplot of Hot Rod seeing all his counterparts, including his Algined incarnation from the DS version of War for Cybertron), and Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter (which officially confirmed the Aligned universe being part of the larger multiverse) this has since been changed. This also put an end to the idea of the original Thirteen being "multiversal singularities" as the Aligned!Thirteen includes very different members including Alpha Trion and Optimus Prime, and Vector Prime outright stating that his Aligned counterpart is a distinctly separate entity. Later, in 2015, the entire concept of multiversal singularities was nullified by a Cosmic Recton in the Transformers: Timelines storyline, "Another Light", where Nexus Prime solidify the walls of reality to such a degree that not only were the original 13 across the multiverse splintered, but even Primus and Unicron were separated into separate entities across the Multiverse. | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8437741 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8437741 | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: The franchise is somewhat the reverse of many other examples on this page, in that a number of characters appear only in the toyline. That said, there's plenty of straight examples... | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8e3f20a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b8e3f20a | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b9e8ad28 | type |
The Multiverse | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_b9e8ad28 | comment |
The Multiverse: The franchise has a whole pile of alternate universes which sometimes cross over, and which Hasbro and Takara disagree over which are actually separate and which simply occur to the side of other stories. The Transformers of the Axiom Nexus have grouped all continuities into a number of universal streams, with each stream corresponding to a continuity group. Thus, for example, Primax is the G1/Beast Era family, Tyran is the live-action movies, Gargent is the GoBots, Quadwal is the real world, etc. Some of these are negative-polarity universes in which Decepticons are good and Autobots are evil; these are assigned negative numbers. There are also sparks that resonate across the universe, giving rise to multiple similar but separate versions of Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, and various others. The Transformers Aligned Universe, which includes Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Rescue Bots, the War for Cybertron video game series and the novels retelling the narrative of the games, were originally considered to be outside this multiverse, but were eventually retconned in, allowing the "Alligned" version of Slipstream to turn up in Axiom Nexus. To make things really nuts, at one point there were also characters known as multiversal singularities, of which only one existed in all reality. Some of these, such as Alpha Trion, existed in every universe simultaneously, while others, like Vector Prime and The Fallen, traveled between universes. This got less and less plausible as time went on and various universes wrote those characters differently, and eventually in the 2015 Club story most of them got together to de-singularitize themselves, so now there's a TransTech Vector Prime and a Shattered Glass Unicron and so on. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ba236071 | comment |
Animated Swindle literally has his own transwarp dimension that he can store things in, inside his torso... which Optimus Prime uses to become Swindle's first-born. | |
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Cool Guns | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_bb040b01 | comment |
Cool Guns: Megatron's original altmode was a The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Walther P38 with stock, barrel extension and scope; the latter became his Fusion Cannon. | |
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Robot War | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_bb44f503 | comment |
Robot War | |
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All Gravity Is the Same | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_bb96aefb | comment |
All Gravity Is the Same: The planet Cybertron, Depending on the Writer, is either bigger or smaller than Earth. Yet the Autobots' human (and even alien) allies have no trouble with the gravity there. | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_bdc0a18e | comment |
Idiosyncratic Wipes: Similar to Batman - a logo flies at the screen, then away from it. If changing from one faction's viewpoint to the others, it will spin and change sides. | |
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Cyber Cyclops | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_bf5b6abf | comment |
Cyber Cyclops: Shockwave's defining feature across continuities. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_c0d6d1a | type |
Loud of War | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c0d6d1a | comment |
Loud of War: Soundwave (in numerous incarnations) uses this as a weapon, while Frenzy and Rumble (his cassette minions) used ultra- and infra-sound respectively (although the cartoon opted for earthquake-inducing earthpounders instead). Thundercracker's sonic boom could collapse structures and blow up enemy jets, and Dirge's engine vibrations were supposed to induce panic in his victims. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c1b2c63f | comment |
Dull Surprise: Pat Lee currently holds the dubious honor of providing its page image; his art is full of it. Energon is notorious for the extremely rigid facial models on its Cybertronian characters, leaving them with almost zero emotive capabilities. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_c2fc5c00 | type |
Special Effect Branding | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c2fc5c00 | comment |
Special Effect Branding: Taken to an extreme in most series, where everybody's weapons are theirs and theirs alone. This is a combination of the Merchandise-Driven idea of making sure everyone uses the weapon they come with and launches the appropriate missiles, and the fact that, as Transforming Mecha, their weapons are more or less part of them. Averted in one of the G1 animated episodes. The Decepticons have captured the Autobots with the exception of Wheeljack. Wheeljack manages to infiltrate their holding cell, discovers his buddies are tied up, depowered, soaking wet (bad thing for robots), and with their carbine-shaped weapons piled sloppily in the corner. He then proceeds to go Guns Akimbo—pointing AT THE AUTOBOTS. "My friend's weapons! Hmm. Okay, Sideswipe's flare gun should dry off your circuits, and Bluestreak's bolts should give you all an instant recharge!" It's amazing the first thing Optimus didn't do was Face Palm: "It's a wonder the Decepticons didn't just kill us outright, but vector sigma, am I the only one that knows that guns are supposed to be for killing?" In some continuities, each faction has different colored beams from their energy weapons. The different factions also generally have different coloured eyes (blue for Autobots, red for Decepticons) although their optical sensors presumably all function the same way. Beast Wars averts this. While all the characters do have their own signature weapons, the Maximals have a separate armory, supposedly for gunless characters like Dinobot. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_c32201f6 | type |
Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c32201f6 | comment |
Good Colors, Evil Colors: Decepticons tend to have red optics, Autobots have blue. Exceptions exist, especially since the toys were not designed with this in mind. It was largely an invention of the original cartoon that later carried into other media. The symbols themselves also qualify, seeming to indicate good/evil alignment; the Autobots' insignia is traditionally red and the Decepticons' traditionally purple; in the mirror universe called "Shattered Glass", populated by evil Autobots and heroic Decepticons, the Autobot insignia is purple and the Decepticon insignia is red. | |
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I Control My Minions Through... | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c35cddcd | comment |
I Control My Minions Through...: Despite his usual standby of Authority Equals Asskicking, Megatron is not always or even usually the most powerful Decepticon in any given continuity. What makes him the leader is his ability to hit nearly every item on the Controlling Minions list for his various mooks. Some fear him, some respect him, some just follow him out of habit, some because they know he knows where the good killing's at, and a few are in it for the cash, gear, or upgrades he offers in return. Only Starscream ever consistently seems unsatisfied with this status quo. | |
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Time Dissonance | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c3743565 | comment |
Time Dissonance: Transformers are immortal unless killed, and see time differently. This becomes jarring when a character like Prime Smokescreen has been around for millions of years like the others but only matures in the time span of a few months covered by his tenure on the show. | |
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Action Figure File Card | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c91db2eb | comment |
Action Figure File Card: Many of the toys have had them. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Of course, these days Go-Bots are themselves part of the Transformers franchise. | |
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Armies Are Evil | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_c9aea8c8 | comment |
Armies Are Evil: If a character turns into a military vehicle, like a tank or a jet fighter, they're probably a Decepticon. Autobot's with military vehicle modes exist, but they're nowhere near as common. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Cybertron is sometimes a tiny planet with buildings jutting out into space in G1 to resembling Coruscant in the Beast Era and everything in between.) | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_cc1f0a1b | type |
Introdump | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cc1f0a1b | comment |
Introdump: Possibly the trope namer: the fan wiki has a whole page devoted to the concept. Most continuities have at least one near the beginning, with some being more graceful than others. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: When Unicron is a robot Eldritch Abomination, they come across this trope in order to win. In the Infestation 2 arc, a meta-series where Lovecraftian creatures invade IDW comics properties, Optimus Prime (As a 19th-Century Steam Locomotive) actually punches out the Cthulhu. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_cd809603 | type |
Tank Goodness | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cd809603 | comment |
Tank Goodness: A bunch of Decepticons, Warpath (who's an Autobot), including some versions of Megatron. | |
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Steampunk | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
In the Infestation 2 arc, a meta-series where Lovecraftian creatures invade IDW comics properties, Optimus Prime (As a 19th-Century Steam Locomotive) actually punches out the Cthulhu. | |
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Steampunk | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cf7bd78d | comment |
Steampunk: The Hearts of Steel miniseries. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_cffd29fb | type |
VideoGameAdaptation | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_cffd29fb | comment |
Video Game Adaptation: Several games have been made for the series from the Famicom Convoy game of Nintendo Hard instant death to the latest PC and Xbox 360 game. | |
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Sigil Spam | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d026cad8 | comment |
Sigil Spam: Nearly every incarnation of Transformers abuses the faction symbols to some degree. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_d13f7848 | type |
Planet Eater | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d13f7848 | comment |
Planet Eater: Yet again, Unicron. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_d4c98786 | type |
Writing Around Trademarks | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d4c98786 | comment |
Writing Around Trademarks: Explained in further detail on the page, but to summarize, the need to avoid infringing on trademarks—and preserve Hasbro's own trademarks—has led to no end of trouble. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_d500b978 | type |
Adaptational Wimp | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: Certain characters get hit with this through the many different iterations: In the G1 cartoon, the Dinobots were nigh-unstoppable powerhouses, tearing through even Megatron with little effort, with the only foe that actually gave them trouble being Devastator. In the original comics, the five of them were curbstomped by Megatron early on. The strength of the Combiner gestalts tends to fluctuate throughout the franchise. In the G1 cartoon, they were powerful enough that entire squadrons of normal-sized Transformers couldn't even scratch them. In the original comics, they were still quite strong, but some of the more powerful singulars, such as Megatron or Galvatron, could take them down. In Robots in Disguise, they were treated much the same way as in the comics; Ruination in particular could be blown apart by the attacks of a single (albeit powerful) foe. In both the original cartoon and official tech specs, Trypticon was depicted as a city-sized Transformer with immense strength. His first appearance in the Marvel comics showed him as being barely twice the size of a regular Transformer, and he was almost overwhelmed by the Dinobots. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Space travel varies depending on needs of the plot. Cybertron appears to sometimes be in the same solar system as Earth. Since getting teleported here in "The Ultimate Doom," it probably is. Also, partly due to the Time Dissonance described below, the Transformers backstory typically has Optimus and Megatron chasing each other around the galaxy for literally millions of years before crash-landing on Earth. They have also had issues in consistently getting the scale of characters and even planets right. A character that starts off as a car that people can comfortably sit in suddenly becoming a robot that a human is only at ankle-height to is commonplace, as is it suddenly losing twenty feet of height a scene/figure or two later. There's a reason why the TF Wiki Dot Net's summation of scale in the Transformers series is this trope's page quote. Unicron turns from a planet the size of Cybertron to a robot barely the size of Rhode Island during the original movie. He is able to pinch Galvatron between his fingers and swallow him, even though Galvatron should even then be so small as to be a speck on him. The Dinobots then are each roughly the size of one of his glutes while they literally kick his butt, even though Galvatron and Grimlock are of similar height. | |
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Five-Episode Pilot | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d553b534 | comment |
Five-Episode Pilot: The original series was a three-parter called "More Than Meets The Eye". Animated started with a 170 minute movie that got broken into three parts for re-runs. Prime got an actual 5 part miniseries call "Darkness Rising". | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: The word 'slag' seems to be a Transformer equivalent to the human word 'shit/crap'. Transformers Animated has fun with this, featuring such gems as "You'll have to pry it from my cold, offline servo!" | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Several characters went on to become highly popular characters with larger roles. Swindle is one of the early examples, rising above his origins as a member of the Combaticons and into a prominent character in his own right, especially in Transformers Animated and IDW. Bumblebee went from being a B level (but still fairly prominent) character to being one of the faces of the franchise thanks to the popularity of the 2007 movie, and he even gets to headline a series with RID 2015. Several names became highly popular thanks to an original take on the character; among these are Slipstream, Bulkhead, Knock Out, Dreadwing, and Barricade. Among the Canon Foreigner's, Lockdown became a major supporting character in IDW and even the Big Bad of the fourth Michael Bay movie; Knock Out was basically copy-pasted to IDW, etc. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_da3043c5 | type |
Fake Ultimate Hero | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_da3043c5 | comment |
Fake Ultimate Hero: Sort of. Many of the Autobots' victories are because of their human allies. This was lampshaded by Beast Wars Megatron, who plots to exterminate the proto-human race and ensure the Decepticons will triumph over the Autobots. He would've succeeded if it weren't for his former right-hand man, Dinobot. That's right folks, a Predacon (therefore a descendent of the Decepticons) enabled the Autobots to win all those battles. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_db6230b7 | type |
Lightning Bruiser | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_db6230b7 | comment |
Lightning Bruiser: Despite being heavily armed giants composed of huge durable metal, Transformers are all very swift and agile. Even planet sized bots are capable of moving in amazing speed. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_dbb414ed | type |
Hand Wave | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_dbb414ed | comment |
It's been an accepted Hand Wave that Transformers have this to explain Robots changing size from what would logically fit into their alternate form, most famously Megatron and Soundwave from G1. Also, exactly how big individual Transformers are varies radically based on the needs of the plot. Scale in Transformers is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_de1e6c89 | type |
Heart Drive | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_de1e6c89 | comment |
The Cybertronians themselves avert this by being a) the main characters and b) able to point out their immortal soul on a blueprint. Any human who invokes this is going to be unsympathetic. | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_de51d725 | type |
Eye Lights Out | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_de51d725 | comment |
Eye Lights Out: Whenever a Transformer dies "goes off-line". | |
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Transformers (Franchise) / int_df582b0b | type |
Continuity Snarl | |
Transformers (Franchise) / int_df582b0b | comment |
Continuity Snarl: Non-fans or casual fans have NO idea how crazy it's gotten for the Aligned universe since the release of Transformers: War for Cybertron, its accompanying prequel novel "Transformers: Exodus", and Transformers: Prime. For the record, all three of those media allegedly take place within the same continuity. It was later resolved that they are a closely related continuity family, meaning they each share a large number of events but are irreconcilable as a single timeline. Basically, it did not become the simple, universal subfranchise it was meant to, but came closer than anything before it. Rescue Bots and Robots in Disguise (the new one, not the old one) also introduce a few issues. Transformers Armada, Transformers Energon, and Transformers Cybertron are part of a larger metaseries called the Unicron Trilogy. However, Studio GONZO decided they didn't like the idea of making a sequel to another studio's cartoon, so they used the most basic points of the outline they were given to make a show that was largely written in-house. This meant that characters who knew each other were suddenly strangers and established concepts like combining (central to Energon) were suddenly foreign ideas in Cybertron. It was finally explained due to one very important plot point that was kept in - Alpha Quintesson's Energon sun collapsing into a black hole. Since that sun was made from Unicron's body, all the negative energy produced by the so-called Unicron Singularity was screwing up time and space due to his ability to jump from one universe to another. They went so far as to use it to write off any Plot Hole in any continuity of the franchise or any media that ever crossed over with it. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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Humans Are Special: Played with. Humans are often instrumental in defeating the Decepticons, but they are rarely shown as being somehow "better" than any other species or important to the universe. The Transformers tend to be the special ones since they are the only ones who were directly created by the only known god in the Transformers franchise and typically have lifespans, technology, and powers beyond that of most other species. Humans are also often shown to have some sort of inextricable link with Cybertronians. In particular, there's an oft made comparison that still hasn't been fully explained about why Transformers, for the most part, look like giant armored human beings. There's also the fact that only humans and Nebulans (who are explicitly decended from humans who colonized Nebulos) can form a link with a Transformer to become a Head-, Power-, or Targetmaster. Doing so with other Cybertronians is possible, but seemingly not any other humanoid alien species. According to the movies, Optimus thinks humans are special because our civilization's history very closely mirrors Cybertron's, but without the world-encompassing, generations-spanning war of attrition that has depleted Cybertron of its resources. Basically, we're special because we're like them but never had a Megatron to lead to societal collapse. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: Many examples, but some of the more notable ones here: Optimus Prime will usually be called "Something Convoy" in Japan (Optimus Primal is "Beast Convoy", for instance); Jet Optimus's first appearance in the English dub of Armada infamously referred to him as "Jet Convoy". Averted in the Japanese dub of Animated in order to fit the live-action movie... but it also changed Bulkhead's name to Ironhide for the same reason. Megatron/Galvatron's name is usually the same, but Beast Wars II reused the name "Galvatron" for an unrelated character, Car Robots (Robots in Disguise) originally called him Gigatron/Devil Gigatron, and Galaxy Force (Cybertron) called him Master Megatron/Master Galvatron. In US media, the Autobots from planet Cybertron fight the Decepticons. In Japanese media (except the Animated dub) the Cybertrons from planet Cybertron (pronounced differently) fight the Destrons. | |
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Ass-Kicking Pose | |
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Ass Kicking Pose | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Four words: "Why universe hate Waspinator?!?" | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The franchise is constantly rebooted, technically making Optimus, Megatron, Starscream, etc. expies of about eight or so identically-named characters. And then, there are other examples: Hooligan from the G2 series is Skywarp in all but name and color. A dumb jetformer who is fairly powerful but only focused on pranks. One notable Expy is Breacher from the "Hunt for the Decepticons" toyline. He's an Expy for Roller, the drone in Optimus Prime's trailer. They're both six-wheeled blue (well... usually, when it comes to the toys) all-terrain vehicles with a black gun on top, and they're both designed to fit in the back of a larger figure. Then, a reversal for the Thrilling 30 subline of Generations: Optimus came with a new Roller whose vehicle mode was basically a blue six-wheeled APC, with a robot mode based directly on Breacher's. | |
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Truce Zone | |
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Truce Zone: Maccadam's Old Oil House in some stories. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Despite being Transformers, the instructions never tell you how to "transform" them; instead they tell you how to "convert" them to robots, vehicles, beasts, etc. This is because if they used the term "transform" so informally, the franchise name would be considered descriptive and would be impossible to defend legally as a trademark. This has not, however, stopped them from making Optimus's Catchphrase, "Transform, and roll out!" | |
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Homeworld Evacuation | |
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Homeworld Evacuation: A staple of the series. In Generation 1, the Autobot evacuate Cybertron as it has run out of Energon to support life. In Transformers: Prime, the Autobots and Decepticons fled Cybertron when it became unsuitable to support them. Transformers: War for Cybertron shows how it happened, and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron centers on said exodus. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Grimlock, who, in the original cartoon, goes from a "Brawn over Brains" thug to a mentally-challenged child between season 2 and The Movie. Starscream's cowardice and underhandedness often eclipse any kind of military or leadership skills he has, to the point where some incarnations of the character is so weak or incompetent that it's unbelievable that Megatron would keep him as his second in command. In the Aligned continuity (outside of the High Moon games), Optimus Prime has been criticized for not being a unique take on the character, usually just being The Stoic and there not being much to him besides being the Big Good who makes G1 quotes all the time. Peter Cullen is also being directed to use his "movie trailer narrator" voice all the time, denying the actor a chance to truly portray a full-rounded character. note Compare his performance in Prime and Rescue Bots to the live action films or the High Moon games. Peter is clearly being directed to deliver a much more powerful performance in those movies and games than he was for the Aligned cartoons. Prime even went so far as to treat him as the Comically Serious. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
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Humongous Mecha: Besides the Transformers themselves, there are Transtectors that more closely follow the formula; they're giant robots piloted by humans (or human-sized robots in some continuities) who can turn into the head or engine of the robot. The Apex Armor is this even to a Transformer. In Prime, it's a little taller than Optimus Prime or Megatron but worn/piloted by much smaller characters like Starscream or Arcee. Or Miko. Some characters, like Powermaster Optimus Prime had a trailer or mobile battle station that could turn into a large suit of armor that the main robot could then combine with. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Take your pick of series or characters. Inverted in the 2007 movie when Starscream shows up and beats up Ratchet and Ironhide, stopping their protection of Sam in what could be called a "Big Damn Villains" moment. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: The franchise has Planet-sized, Transforming Mecha (that turn into planets) Physical Gods Primus and Unicron. Unicron is the Big Bad God of Evil Omnicidal Maniac seeking to destroy everything that isn't him. Primus is the Big Good who is completely loaded with BFGs and Wave Motion Guns seeking to thwart his brother. However, his trump card isn't any of that weaponry - it's the Transformers themselves. Unfortunately, they'd rather spend their time fighting each other. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream | |
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Copycat Cover | |
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Copycat Cover: Transmorphers, whose title also copied the classic font and was released just after the 2007 movie. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The later seasons of Generation 1 and Energon are both obviously set in the near-future (G1 after The Movie is explicitly set in 2006). Cybertron, despite being explicitly set in the same continuity ten years after Energon, appears to be contemporary. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: A non-musical, cross-continuity version during Animated!Waspinator's last appearance. He speaks a line originally said by Beast Wars!Waspinator, but in a much less humorous, darker intonation. | |
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Never Say | |
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Never Say "Die": Depending on franchise. The characters in Generation 1, for instance, freely used the words 'die', 'dead', and 'kill', but other series have used 'destroyed', 'sent to oblivion', 'offline', and so on. Can't forget "We're all gonna die..." | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: Technically, almost every series, but the 2007 movie and the IDW comics focus most on this trope. | |
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Character Outlives Actor | |
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Character Outlives Actor: After Scatman Crothers fell ill shortly after the Movie, Jazz stopped speaking and eventually left the show completely. It wasn't too noticeable at the time, as the third season concentrated on the new characters, but it did stand out a little, considering that the movie had made a point of the fact that he was one of the few originals who had unquestionably survived. Roger C. Carmel's characters were simply recast. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Optimus Prime has a terrible habit of dying and coming back to the point where it's not even considered a spoiler to say he does and nobody ever expects it to stick. Dirge and a few of the Seekers overall seem to share this trait. Lampshaded by Megatron in the season 1 finale of Beast Wars. "Oh, you Optimuses do love sacrificing yourselves, don't you?" | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: Wheelie and Blaster (though not as often as Wheelie). | |
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Forever War | |
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Forever War: Any continuity focusing on Autobots vs Decepticons. The precise details differ, but expect it to have lasted a few million years - and for a good chunk of the cast to have personally lived through most of that. In some continuities, the Great War is closer to a billion years old, having lasted since near the creation of the species with only a short-lived armistace before leading back into the familiar conflict. | |
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Martyr Without a Cause | |
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Martyr Without a Cause: Optimus Prime | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: The Transformer "Spark" concept introduced in Beast Wars has continued and become a vital part of Transformers mythology. As far as characters go, Animated's Lockdown, Lugnut, and Bulkhead have crossed over into the IDW, Aligned, and Movie continuities - in particular, Lockdown serves as the Big Bad of the fourth film. IDW has recently began featuring a large number of Ensemble Dark Horse Canon Immigrants from Beast Wars, Robots in Disguise, Prime, and Animated. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
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Robot Buddy: Reversal: the Transformers have human buddies. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Rhinox in Beast Wars and Bulkhead of Animated are both fairly gentle, if large transformers, but are also the ones to avoid getting angry. | |
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Toyline-Exclusive Character | |
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Toyline-Exclusive Character: Incredibly common for every incarnation of the franchise. Every single toyline ever has characters whose only appearance in fiction is the little bio on the back of their packaging, and even some don't have those. This is often eventually subverted, as later writers love using obscure toyline-exclusive Transformers in media or by retconning them to be existing characters. Of course, the toys are rarely still on shelves meaning these subversions make the original toys much more expensive on the secondary market. | |
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