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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: The crew inadvertently creates these when they travel back in time during ''Elegant Chaos'']]:

** [[spoiler:Rodimus and co. are at the bar waiting for the time when past!Megatron and past!Impactor get involved in a bar brawl. While this is going on, Brainstorm knocks the past!Rung unconscious to ensure that he won't be there to accidentally initiate the bar fight. Meanwhile, present!Rung, trying to get Tailgate a bendy straw for his drink, accidentally knocks over one of the patron's drinks, initiating the bar fight.]]

** The title of the three first issues pays homage to the Dexys Midnight Runners song, "Liars, A to E" (with A and D standing for "Autobot" and "Decepticon")

* TheStoic: Cyclonus usually doesn't talk to anyone, is fairly standoffish, and dislikes talking in general. We later learn that this is in part due to just [[NotGoodWithPeople not being good socializing in the first place]].

* WrongSideOfTheTracks: the Dead End on antebellum Cybertron.

-->'''Hound''': One, two, three, four, five... ten, '''eleven'''. You realize that gives him the longest job title '''ever'''.

* TookALevelInJerkass: As with ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'', Sentinel Prime. Initially portrayed as a HeroAntagonist whose brutal tactics were justified by Megatron's far greater ferocity, in ''Megatron: Origin'', he thought of the senate as a bunch of whining idiots unfit to lead. Now he's a "seemingly" loyal tool of the Senate who embraces their dark practices, including Empurata and Shadowplay, having both done to [[spoiler:Shockwave]] out of spite. He never appears in the Shadowplay arc, but his actions are communicated through the other characters. Interestingly enough, ''Megatron: Origin'' chronologically took place after this series and The Transformers (IDW), but came out before it.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Despite his position as Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, Ultra Magnus opposes Tyrest the second he learns of the Chief Justice's plan [[spoiler:to exterminate everyone Constructed Cold.]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Ravage. [[spoiler:Megatron's oldest remaining friend, and an unreconstructed Decepticon to the end, Ravage stays by Megatron's side and lives in his quarters, even though he strongly disagrees with Megatron's decisions, especially his vow of pacifism. And when the DJD brutally murder him, and he dies in Megatron's arms, Megatron's vow never again to harm a living being dies with him.]]

* SurroundedByIdiots: Cyclonus [[spoiler:pretty much goes like this when the others try to send a message from the past to the near present (Issue 1) as he points out that if the Lost Light were to follow their warnings, half of the remaining cybertronians would be dead, at the very least.]]

* [[ToServeMan To Serve Organics]]: In issue 12 the crew discovers that Snap Trap and his troops on Temptoria have been doing this with the native Temptorians. Unlike most examples, this involves Snap Trap using a process called Pink Alchemy [[RealityEnsues because they have to process the Temptorians into a form that's edible for themselves]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}: To the extent Cybertronians even have gender, ''all'' female Transformers are transfeminine. Cybertronians are [[OneGenderRace all masculine on creation]], but [[NonhumanNonbinary don't have an understanding of gender as the biological races see it]]. Exposure to the rest of the galaxy leads many of them to change their minds about how to they wish to be seen and present themselves. Anode confirms during a conversation with Wipe-Out that she originally used male pronouns, as did Lug, but they both changed because "it just felt made more sense."

* UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}: All of the female Transformers, kind of. Since the Cybertronians are technically a OneGenderRace, most of them don't have an understanding of gender as the biological races see it, and exposure to the rest of the galaxy leads many of them to change their minds. Anode confirms during a conversation with Wipe-Out that she originally used male pronouns, as did Lug, but they both changed because "it just felt made more sense."

* StraightGay: Neither Chromedome or Rewind show any gay stereotypes. Of course since Transformers are ''technically'' a OneGenderRace homosexuality is the norm.

** Issue 40 features a double-page spread of First Aid carrying on one conversation while speaking individually with Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Rung, Swerve, Hoist and Nautica during their own private inspections.

-->"Mederi isn't a hospice...it's a '''euthanasia clinic'''."

** Lost Light Issue 18: After discovering they're actually on a planet called Mederi, Rodimus, on a whim, asks Drift to plot a course from Cybertron to Mederi. The result? A perfect match for the map to ''Cyberutopia''.

** Lost Light Issue 22 After [[spoiler: the Crew learns of which bots were the reincarnations of the Guiding Hand, Whirl assumes the Robot Mode bearing Functionalist Cybertron to be Primus before Adaptus corrects him.]]

** Lost Light issue 15's last issue:

*** And Later...

** ''Lost Light'' issue 8: "People assume that when the Knights left Cybertron to civilise the universe, they travelled as one: A single crusading force. [[spoiler:I believe the Knights organised themselves into clans and split up to better spread their influence. They may have reunited to create Cyberutopia, but in the interim...]]" [[spoiler:"Five symbols. Five clans."]]

--> [[spoiler: Adaptus]]: "Ha! No, no, no. That's not [[spoiler: Primus...(Next Page reveals none other then ''Rung'', busy examine his glasses more with Primus' symbol next to him) ''that's'' Primus."]]