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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Optimus Prime refuses to believe that Mirage is a spy without undeniable proof.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Optimus Prime refuses to believe that Mirage is a spy without undeniable proof. When Mirage is working against the Autobots for a brief period, Optimus immediately realizes outside forces are at play.



* WhenHeSmiles: Ratchet, one of the most serious Autobots, laughs when Mirage and Cliffjumper make up via playfully wrestling.

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* WhenHeSmiles: Ratchet, one of the most serious Autobots, laughs when Mirage and Cliffjumper make up via playfully wrestling.wrestling.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Bombshell almost terminates Mirage after kicking his unconscious body doesn't wake him up.
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* {{Invisibility}}: One of Mirage's powers, using it to help pull of his BatmanGambit. Unfortunately he gets caught by Starscream as it doesn't hide his footsteps.

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* {{Invisibility}}: One of Mirage's powers, using it to help pull of off his BatmanGambit. Unfortunately he gets caught by Starscream as it doesn't hide his footsteps.
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* {{Invisibility}}: One of Mirage's powers.

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* {{Invisibility}}: One of Mirage's powers.powers, using it to help pull of his BatmanGambit. Unfortunately he gets caught by Starscream as it doesn't hide his footsteps.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: How the Insecticons realize Megatron didn't betray them; he still needs them to destroy the Autobots.

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* MadeofExplodium: The electro cells are highly unstable, and could explode at any time.

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* MadeofExplodium: MadeOfExplodium: The electro cells are highly unstable, and could explode at any time. time.
* MistakenForBetrayal: Mirage's BatmanGambit has Cliffjumper believe the former is a spy.
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* LookBehindYou: Starscream corners Cliffjumper, who shouts that Optimus Prime is behind him. Starscream panics, and gets shot by Cliffjumper, who [[IWillTauntYou takes a minute to snark at him for it]] before going back to the battle.

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* LookBehindYou: Starscream corners Cliffjumper, who shouts that Optimus Prime is behind him. Starscream panics, and gets shot by Cliffjumper, who [[IWillTauntYou [[IShallTauntYou takes a minute to snark at him for it]] before going back to the battle.
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* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: The Decepticons and Insecticons don't trust one another, because both are prone to this trope. Mirage uses this against them when setting up his BatmanGambit, and it would have worked had he not been caught.

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* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Decepticons and Insecticons don't trust one another, because both are prone to this trope. Mirage uses this against them when setting up his BatmanGambit, and it would have worked had he not been caught.

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* EasilyForgiven: The scientists who built the stolen electro cells don't seem too upset that their project was destroyed in the Autobot-Decepticon battle. Also, Mirage doesn't seem too mad at Cliffjumper for calling him a spy.

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* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: The Decepticons and Insecticons don't trust one another, because both are prone to this trope. Mirage uses this against them when setting up his BatmanGambit, and it would have worked had he not been caught.
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Mirage.
* EasilyForgiven: The scientists who built the stolen electro cells don't seem too upset that their project was destroyed in the Autobot-Decepticon battle. Also, Mirage doesn't seem too mad at Cliffjumper for calling him a spy.spy (it helps that Cliffjumper clearly felt guilty for what he'd said).



* LookBehindYou: Starscream corners Cliffjumper, who shouts that Optimus Prime is behind him. Starscream panics, and gets shot by Cliffjumper.

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* LookBehindYou: Starscream corners Cliffjumper, who shouts that Optimus Prime is behind him. Starscream panics, and gets shot by Cliffjumper.Cliffjumper, who [[IWillTauntYou takes a minute to snark at him for it]] before going back to the battle.


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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Only the viewers and Decepticons know the truth about Mirage's BatmanGambit, with the other Autobots not knowing that he came close to ending the Insecticon/Decepticon alliance.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Cliffjumper's reaction to learning that Mirage was being controlled, and that he didn't willingly betray them.
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* CallingInTheCavalry: A villainous version; to keep the Autobots from the electro shells, Soundwave calls in the Insecticons, who quickly turn the tide of the battle.

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* CallingInTheCavalry: TheCavalry: A villainous version; to keep the Autobots from the electro shells, Soundwave calls in the Insecticons, who quickly turn the tide of the battle.
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* CallingInTheCavalry: A villainous version; to keep the Autobots from the electro shells, Soundwave calls in the Insecticons, who quickly turn the tide of the battle.


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* JerkassToOne: Cliffjumper is the one who first accuses Mirage of being a spy, and doesn't ease up on him until the end of the episode.
* LookBehindYou: Starscream corners Cliffjumper, who shouts that Optimus Prime is behind him. Starscream panics, and gets shot by Cliffjumper.


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* RammingAlwaysWorks: Cliffjumper uses this to knock down Starscream.

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The Decepticons have stolen electro cells, and it's up to the Autobots to try and get them back before serious harm is done. To make matters worse, Liftjumper has become convinced that Mirage is a Decepticon spy, and it's getting harder to deny it...

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The Decepticons have stolen electro cells, and it's up to the Autobots to try and get them back before serious harm is done. To make matters worse, Liftjumper Cliffjumper has become convinced that Mirage is a Decepticon spy, and it's getting harder to deny it...



* BatmanGambit: What Mirage attempted on the Decepticons and Insecticons, knowing that none of the Decepticon factions trust each other.

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* BatmanGambit: What Mirage attempted on the Decepticons and Insecticons, knowing that none of the Decepticon factions trust each other. The only reason it failed was because he was seen while trying to leave.



* EasilyForgiven: The scientists who built the stolen electro cells don't seem too upset that their project was destroyed in the Autobot-Decepticon battle. Also, Mirage doesn't seem too mad at Cliffjumper for calling him a spy.
* ICanStillFight: Despite being injured during an earlier fight with the Decepticons, Mirage refuses to rest after Ratchet fixes him, and goes back out into the field.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Starscream tries to speed up the process of getting Energon from the electro cells, saying that his way is faster/better than Megatron's...only for this to backfire and almost kill them all via a massive explosion.



* TheStarscream: Starscream is himself in this episode.

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* TheStarscream: Starscream is himself in this episode.episode.
* WhenHeSmiles: Ratchet, one of the most serious Autobots, laughs when Mirage and Cliffjumper make up via playfully wrestling.
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* BatmanGambit: What Mirage attempted on the Decepticons and Insecticons, knowing that none of the Decepticon factions trust each other.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What happens to Mirage after he's hit with an Insecticon cerebero shell.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the odds that Mirage, right after being accused of being a spy, would be found after a battle with a ripped-off Decepticon emblem in his hand?

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* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the odds that Mirage, right after being accused {{Invisibility}}: One of being a spy, would be found after a battle with a ripped-off Decepticon emblem in his hand?Mirage's powers.
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The Decepticons have stolen electro cells, and it's up to the Autobots to try and get them back before serious harm is done. To make matters worse, Liftjumper has become convinced that Mirage is a Decepticon spy, and it's getting harder to deny it...

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* AccidentalHero: For making a dumb mistake, Megatron was about to shoot Starscream...only for the Autobots to fly in and give them bigger problems to worry about.
* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the odds that Mirage, right after being accused of being a spy, would be found after a battle with a ripped-off Decepticon emblem in his hand?
* MadeofExplodium: The electro cells are highly unstable, and could explode at any time.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Optimus Prime refuses to believe that Mirage is a spy without undeniable proof.
* TheStarscream: Starscream is himself in this episode.

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