History Anime / TransformersEnergon

* DiedInIgnorance: Sixshot vows revenge on the murderer of his brother, Shockblast. Snowcat unwittingly claims the culprit was Optimus Prime (because [[NotMeThisTime "Who else?"]]) when in reality it was Megatron via Unicron's power after Shockblast [[TheStarscream pulled a failed coup]]. Sixshot allies with the Decepticons to get back at Optimus, though his fanatical zeal and the usual BadBoss tendencies of Megatron (now Galvatron) lead to the two clashing repeatedly anyway. Sixshot ultimately wounds and almost kills Galvatron to claim Optimus for himself, though Galvatron recovers superpowered, and kills Sixshot, who never figures out the truth.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The robots are for the most part rendered in CGI, which is one of the series' common complaints due to how overly stiff and robotic they are compared to the 2D animation.

* DolledUpInstallment: A bizarrely small-scale example: certain characters in the series were originally designed to be separate entities, but then got repurposed into upgraded versions of old characters, despite often looking nothing like the originals. Demolishor has been confirmed as one; he was originally supposed to be Long Haul. Snow Cat, Mirage, and Roadblock are also often speculated to be in this category, and Roadblock's toy bio even [[ObviousBeta describes him as a separate character.]]

* DubInducedPlotHole: While also present in ''Armada'', ''Energon'' took it to an absurd degree. Literally 99% of the episodes are filled to the brim with plot holes because the translation omits important plot-details in the dialogue more often than not due to its incomplete nature. For example: in an early episode, Megatron complains about the fact several walls and parts of Unicron vanished because Alpha Quintesson is draining the energon and Scorponok is covering him by claiming Unicron needs to be fed energon on a regular basis, with the english version failling to explain why Unicron is regressing. Another one is that, because of the omission of the Scorponok-focused episode in the dub, Megatron suddenly knows the artificial Energon Sun in Alpha Q's universe has Unicron's head inside, with absolutely no explanation whatsoever (because he discovered the fact in the original episode). In fact, it would be ''easier'' to list episodes that don't suffer from this trope.

* OffModel: The 2D animation for the humans was not much better than the CGI it often accompanied. With characters either developing strange proportions, or just looking incredibly sloppy due to sub-standard outsourcing.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Shockblast attempts to overthrow Megatron, who is quite amused when he later needs to be rescued from the Autobots. Sixshot also attempts to assassinate him later in the series, complete with a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. It ends as expected for him.

* TheDogBitesBack: Sixshot. Granted he wasn't exactly loyal to begin with, but a good few beatings ensured he wanted Galvatron dead as much as he did Optimus.

* EvilGloating: Megatron does this a lot. Granted he is also saved by it when [[spoiler: Sixshot attacks him in a coup, only to stall the final blow to mock him long enough for Scorponok to intervene]].

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[TheStarscream SixShot]] spends the majority of his appearance getting smashed against his own control panel by [[BadBoss Galvatron]]. When he finally plots a coup, he nearly dissassembles his master with his laser blast (keeping in mind the legendary Decepticons could not even dent his armor at full power). Of course, then [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Galvatron upgrades a second time...]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim SixShot]] gets the boot. A big, BIG boot.

* OverzealousUnderling: Sixshot is portrayed as such: due to his own vendetta against Optimus Prime, he frequently goes against Galvatron's orders to target the Autobots. Repeated disobeying of orders, almost killing his own side in the process or just butting into Galvatron's [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou own obsessive rivalry with Prime]] made him the constant target of violent lambastings and tantrums from his ControlFreak BadBoss. Sure enough, this pattern slowly embittered Sixshot into TheStarscream, sabotaging and blackmailing Galvatron with Cybertron's artillery to ''force'' him to deal with things his way, and eventually attacking and almost killing him, deeming the commander an interference to his own troops. Galvatron escaped and underwent an EmergencyTransformation, making sure to crush Sixshot first thing before dealing with the Autobots.
* PaletteSwap: Sixshot, of his older brother Shockblast. Also, the trio of Ironhide fanboys, of each other. Also, Cyclonus is sporting a new black color scheme, while Demolishor has borrowed [[Anime/TransformersArmada Scavenger's]], apparently, becoming green and purple. Tidal Wave gets a new paintjob when he's ''fried by touching raw energon.'' Ow. Obviously, this is [[MerchandiseDriven to sell toys]].

* YouKilledMyFather: Sixshot allies with Megatron to get revenge on Optimus Prime for killing [[spoiler: his brother Shockblast]]. In reality, [[spoiler: he was killed by Megatron himself]]. Poetically, [[spoiler: so is he]].

Dreamwave Comics began publishing an adaptation as a direct sequel to their Armada comic, which like the Energon comic, was more or less a re-imagining of the series rather than a strict adaptation (for one thing's Unicron's ranks include four Transformers from ''Beast Wars'', which were never in the animated series). Unfortunately, Dreamwave's numerous legal issues, which eventually led to the company's own dissolution, stopped the comic from ever being completed.

Followed by ''Anime/TransformersCybertron''.

** A non-2D example is the episode "Farewell Inferno", which features several battles with a lot of better render then the usual for this series' CGI, with battles that look surprisingly good in CGI. In fact, for once, they managed at one point to give someone a cock-eyed look without needing to switch to traditional animation. [[note]]Unfortunately, one of the shots that follows up a bit later(Inferno's agony scream after receiving a energon star), ''is'' in 2D.[[/note]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the 10 [[InconsistentDub or 20]] years since Armada, several characters don't seem to be around anymore, and will not return or be mentioned- Fred and Billy (traveling the world), Blurr, Sideswipe, Scavenger, Wheeljack, and the large force of Mini-Cons, the partner Mini-Cons, and the ones who form the 3 legendary weapons, the Star Saber (the Energon look-alikes forming the weaker Energon Saber are unrelated), Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster) prominent in the series are gone. Red Alert, however, will turn up again in Cybertron. Also notable: Crumplezone and Blackout, Cylconus and Demolishor's Mini-Con partners show up for a ''very'' brief moment in episode 4, then are never seen again. Later, the Street Team Mini-Cons, High Wire, Sureshock and Grindor, all but vanish from the story- they don't even have speaking roles or plot relevance!

* DubInducedPlotHole: While also present in [[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]], Energon took it to an absurd degree. Literally 99% of the episodes are filled to the brim with plot holes because the translation omits important plot-details in the dialogue more often than not due to its incomplete nature. For example: in an early episode, Megatron complains about the fact several walls and parts of Unicron vanished because Alpha Quintesson is draining the energon and Scorponok is covering him by claiming Unicron needs to be fed energon on a regular basis, with the english version failling to explain why is Unicron regressing. Another one is that, because of the omission of the Scorponok-focused episode in the english dub, Megatron suddenly knows the artificial energon sun in Alpha Q's universe has Unicron's head inside, with absolutely no explanation whatsoever(because he discovered the fact in the above undubbed episode). In fact, it would be ''easier'' to list episodes that don't suffer from this trope.

* HurlItIntoTheSun: Inferno does this to himself to end his Decepticon impulses. His Spark remained intact, so he got better. [[[spoiler:THe story ends with Galvatron also doing it to himself to put Unicron inside him to rest for good, with Starscream and Mirage following him out of loyalty.]]
* InconsistentDub: Is it Shockwave or Tidal Wave? Mika or Misha? And just who is Cliffjumper? Also, Armada's habit of occasionally referring to people or things by their Japanese names (which have not been used in the show previously) continues. Basically, the dub is so bad, hardcore Transformers fans will cry afoul and inevitably bellow "Ruined Forever."

** Megatron discovers the [[spoiler: Super Energon]] and uses it to first become Galvatron, then [[spoiler: an ever-growing giant, then planetary size, eventually on par with Unicron's might.]] Starscream also gets an upgrade- though Galvatron forces him to enter the Super Energon as a test of loyalty.