History ComicBook / TransformersGenerationOne

* ADayInTheLimelight: The War Within: The Age of Wrath gives focus to the Turbomasters, who came from the tail-end of the original toyline, and Flash in particular.
** The Dark Ages gives Bugly focus as part of The Fallen's QuirkyMinibossSquad.

* BadassCrew: The Wreckers turn up in the War Within, and the second mini-series.

* FaceHeelTurn: Grimlock pulls one in the first miniseries and joins up with the Decepticons. But then [[spoiler: the second miniseries reveals that Megatron forced him into it by kidnapping the other Dinobots.]]
** In issue 8 of the ongoing it's ''strongly'' implied that Bumper has pulled one and is now an agent for the Decepticons, but due to being CutShort we'll never find out if this was true.

* HumongousMecha: We get a brief glimpse of Fortress Maximus in the War Within, and he's the largest 'bot we see in the setting, towering over all his troops and the landscape around them.

* TheJuggernaut: The Fallen isn't stopped by anything thrown at him. It takes a very literal DeusExMachina to stop him. Justified since he's one of the Thirteen, created to fight Unicron. Regular weaponry isn't going to do ''squat'' to him.

* {{Macguffin}}: The Golden Disk. All the Golden Disks.

* MythologyGag: Several dozen references to ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' abound.
** In the first War Within series, Megatron and Optimus get a brief glimpse of their future selves [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers fighting on Sherman Dam]].

* ReachingTowardsTheAudience: Art created in the Dreamwave house style was typically in a squatting pose with one arm outstretched toward the reader - a pose known in the fandom as "_____ is about to snatch your purse"

** And Starscream forms a version of the Predacons.
* TakeThat: The comics feature a lot of jabs against the mostly-forgotten competitor to the original, ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'', mostly in the form of background characters resembling the Go Bots being killed in various ways.
* TheFundamentalist: Sunstorm. The guy is both ultra-religious and ''totally batshit insane''.
* TheStarscream: The trope namer is a main character so what do you expect?

* CutShort: Perhaps one of the worst examples. The series was halted before it could continue its ongoing narrative because publisher Dreamwave had to file for bankruptcy. Even back when former ''Transformers'' comics license holder Creator/IDWPublishing had the license, while they had the rights to reprint the Dreamwave comics, they couldn't legally complete the unfinished issues because the writers and artists involved were never paid for their work. The same will likely be true of whoever takes over the license. Of course, said payment issues meant the creators weren't enthusiastic about continuing anyway.

* OffModel: All over the place. Pat Lee's art is almost nothing but this.

* CutShort: Perhaps one of the worst examples. The series was halted before it could continue its ongoing narrative because publisher Dreamwave had to file for bankruptcy. While current ''Transformers'' comics license holder Creator/IDWPublishing have the rights to reprint the Dreamwave comics, they cannot legally complete the unfinished issues because the writers and artists involved were never paid for their work.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersTheWarWithin'' (October, 2002-March, 2003). 6 issues.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersTheWarWithin'' (October, 2002-March, 2003). 6 issues.
* ''War and Peace'' (April-October, 2003). 6 issues.
* ''The War Within: The Dark Ages'' (October, 2003-April, 2004).
* ''Generation One: Volume 3'' (December, 2003-December, 2004). 11 issues.

* ''The War Within: The Age of Wrath'' (September-December, 2004). 3 issues.

* ''Generation One: Volume 3'' (December, 2003-December, 2004). 11 issues, though numbering started with issue #0.

* ''Generation One'' (December, 2003-December, 2004). 11 issues, though numbering started with issue #0.

* DownerEnding: The ending of "Prime Directive" is ''really'' depressing. The Autobots drive off the Decepticons but San Francisco is in ruins, hundreds are dead including the Aerielbots and Constructicons, Wheeljack is practically in a coma, most of humanity hates or distrusts the Autobots now, Grimlock refuses an offer from Optimus Prime to become good again, and Prime's idealism is near it's breaking point. It ends with Prime noting that ''[[UpToEleven chances are, it's still gonna get worse from here.]]''

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the Anime/UnicronTrilogy (''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]], [[Anime/TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[Anime/TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Creator/SimonFurman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

* ''The War Within'' (October, 2002-March, 2003). 6 issues.

The main draw of the Dreamwave comic was the highly detailed, {{manga}}-influenced artwork of Pat Lee - which, as it turned out, included a lot of DullSurprise and vaguely sexual poses. However, most of the actual drawing, colouring, and inking was done by uncredited and frequently unpaid guest artists while Lee was buying fast cars and sponsoring his girlfriend's Miss World campaign. Following a series of unethical business practises, scandals, and outright crime, Dreamwave declared bankruptcy, leaving both the ''G1'' and ''Unicron Trilogy'' stories unfinished.

* CutShort: Perhaps one of the worst examples.

* PatchworkFic: Though not a fanfic, it does take elements of the 80s cartoon, G1 Marvel Comics, and ''Beast Wars''.

* CanonWelding: The profile books published by Dreamwave laid the groundwork for integrating a fair bit of Japanese TV show continuity into the main plot. In particular, the Headmaster process is described as working both how it was described in "The Rebirth" and ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', and Hi-Q, Optimus Prime's Powermaster Partner, is renamed Ginrai, the protagonist of ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce''. The actual ongoing never got to formally introduce these characters however.

** Jetfire wears armor when battling Sunstorm that makes him look as close to [[Anime/SuperdimensionalFortressMacross a Valkyrie as possible]] without alerting the lawyers, a reference to his original toy being a licensed ''Macross'' mold.

* DullSurprise

* ABoyAndHisX: Wheelie and his pet Sharkticon, Gnaw.

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the Anime/UnicronTrilogy (''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]], [[Anime/TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[Anime/TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Simon Furman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

* BiggerBad: Unicron.

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the Anime/UnicronTrilogy (''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]], [[Anime/TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Simon Furman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the Anime/UnicronTrilogy (''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]], [[TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Simon Furman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the Anime/UnicronTrilogy (''[[TransformersArmada Armada]], [[TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Simon Furman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

* WordOfGay - Sunstreaker was outed by Matt Moylan, no matter how illogical this may have been for a genderless robot. The comics ''were'' getting ready to explain how the whole gender and reproduction thing worked for Transformers but due to being cut short the plotline went unresolved.

In 2002, a new ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' comic was published by Dreamwave Productions, alongside an adaptation of the UnicronTrilogy (''[[TransformersArmada Armada]], [[TransformersEnergon Energon]]'', and ''[[TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''); this was the first to officially use the title ''Generation One''. Simon Furman was brought back to write parts of it, as well as several lesser-known writers. It began as a set of mini-series which gave rise to a short-lived ongoing title. Ideas were taken from both [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the G1 cartoon]] and the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Marvel comic]], and even ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.

* EvilPlan: Shockwave starts doing some serious ones and as the series goes on it turns out that Shockwave was responsible for pretty much everything that's happening. It takes Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Starscream, and all of the Autobots to finally derail it.