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-->[[spoiler:'''Grimlock:''']][[spoiler:[[SuddenlyVoiced Thanks, I appreciate that.]]]]

** Issue 18, Chromedome's vehicle form is very similar to [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Batman's Tumbler]]. What's Chromedome's real name? Tumbler.

* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Often used for dramatic purpose. [[spoiler: special mention to Rewind's message to Chromedome, that also mirrors the scene between Ratchet and Drift. Also, a dialogue between First Aid to Ratchet, asking Ratchet whether Ambulon can be saved, but showing us the headless body of Minimus, and a slowly dying Tailgate.]]
* UnexplainedAccent: From time to time the bots use notably British English speech ("I've not", "You've been ages") instead of the standard American English which they normally use. This comes from the fact that the writer, James Roberts, is British. [[note]]though the second example comes from Brainstorm, who in-universe seems to actually have a British accent.[[/note]]

* SlaveRace: "The Disposable Classes", Cybertronians with alt-modes so common that the Functionist Council deemed them lesser lifeforms, and therefore [[CaptainObvious disposable]]. They were given lower-quality energon and have barely any rights whatsoever. By the modern day, there's barely any of them left, meaning someone like Rewind is considered too valuable to risk in combat.

-->'''Skids''': (''tapping Megatron's new autobot badge'') Right. There. What does that badge even mean to you? How has wearing it forced you to modify your behaviour? I'm serious! How has being an Autobot in any way prevented you from doing exactly what you want? Because if the answer is "it hasn't"—then nothing you've said or done in the last six months counts for anything.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Ratchet and Drift. Even if Drift's beliefs and attitude constantly gets under Ratchet's nerves, he still considers Drift a friend when it counts [[spoiler:like when Overlord attacks them, or Drift is exiled from the ship.]]

** The ''Lost Light'' relaunch features wannabe IntrepidExplorer Anode and her assistant/backpack Lug, who seem to have this relationship, since Anode [[spoiler: almost gets both of them killed trying to recover an artifact from Luna-2 and is saved only by the intervention of the Necrobot.]] Though it's somewhat debatable if they actually ''are'' friends.

* SilenceIsGolden: There's no dialogue for two pages of Issue 33, when [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Chromedome and Rewind are reunited.]]]]

* [[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."

* SelfishGood: Rodimus and to a lesser degree Brainstorm.

--> [[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.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: Fortress Maximus. Also according to Swerve, Cyclonus still has nightmares and flashbacks from back when [[OurZombiesAreDifferent he was part of the Dead Universe]].
* SherlockScan:
** Ratchet does it several times in issues 4-5.
** Rung uses this in issue #18 to determine that [[spoiler: Minimus Ambus is somehow actually Ultra Magnus.]]
** Prowl in issue 10 gets to use his barely-ever utilised ability to scan fifty-thousand moving objects.

** Issue 43 has Skids switch out his holomatter avatar of Matt Smith's Doctor for one of Christopher Eccleston's Ninth. Rodimus' avatar looks like a cross between Judd Nelson's (his voice-actor in [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie the movie]] and in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'') character John Bender from TheBreakfastClub and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]]. Nightbeat's avatar, meanwhile, looks suspiciously like Idris Elba on {{Series/Luther}}.

* XMeetsY: This comic could best be described as ''Transformers'' meets [[Series/RedDwarf Red Dwarf]] and [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek]], specially [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]], with a dash of [[Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys 20th Century Boys]] mixed in.

* TheUnreveal: Issue #3 of ''Lost Light'' ends with Whirl sitting Tailgate down to tell him a "love story", and warns him that love stories "never have" happy endings when Tailgate asks. The next issue has Tailgate walk up to Cyclonus [[spoiler: who Tailgate has unknowingly been mauling during his recharge cycles since Cyclonus has to restrain Tailgate from trying to tear his own Spark out when he recharges, which Whirl knew about but had been forbidden by Cyclonus to tell Tailgate about]], taking his arm and just saying "Hey." to him. We do not, as of yet, know what the "love story" Whirl told him was, but it appeared to have an effect on the little guy.

-->'''Megatron''': "You've forgotten something else: I am your prisoner. I've been granted conditional bail while we look for the Knights of Cybertron. Where in my bail terms does it say—where precisely does it say—that I have to risk my life to save a handful of strangers? Where does it say that?"
-->'''Skids''': (''tapping Megatron's new autobot badge'') "Right. There. What does that badge even mean to you? How has wearing it forced you to modify your behaviour? I'm serious! How has being an Autobot in any way prevented you from doing exactly what you want? Because if the answer is "it hasn't"—then nothing you've said or done in the last six months counts for anything."

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Not only is a therapist a main character, but it's explicitly said that he's not the only therapist around.

-->'''Serve''': [[spoiler:They found Rewind! And he was alive! (beat) Again with the shrug. I'm sorry, you what? You never believed he was dead in the first place? Ok then, know-it-all...]]

** [[spoiler: Tarn, who is secretly filled with remorse, self-loathing, and disgust, only doing his job because he thinks it's absolutely necessary. ... except that's just his justification for hurting and killing people in incredibly violent ways.]]

** ''Lost Light'' issue 5 finally reveals what Rung's purpose ''actually is''. [[spoiler:He generates phonotic crystals, the same crystals used to store Sparks.]]

** [[spoiler:Overlord]] while fighting Ultra Magnus.
-->[[spoiler: '''Overlord''']]: I'm '''laughing''', Magnus, because you've not been '''holding back'''... and '''I have'''.
** [[spoiler:Cue Overlord mortally wounding Magnus by punching through his chest.]]

-->'''Minimus Ambus''': I was born Minimus Ambus. I '''am''' Minimus Ambus. But you all know me-you've '''always''' known me-as [[spoiler:'''ULTRA MAGNUS'''.]]

** Prowl in issue 10

-->'''Serve''':[[spoiler:They found Rewind! And he was alive! (beat) Again with the shrug. I'm sorry, you what? You never believed he was dead in the first place? Ok then, know-it-all...]]

-->'''Chromedome:''' "Ratchet, could you put his brain back in his head? With corpses, I prefer to go through the eye sockets."\\
'''Drift:''' "I cannot ''begin'' to tell you what's wrong with that sentence."

** [[spoiler: Tarn, who is secretly filled with remorse, self-loathing, and disgust, only doing his job because he thinks it's absolutely necessary.]]

** Also there's the value of Organic life. Fulcrum is easily one of the least evil of the Scavengers and pretty grounded, but even in his speech before jumping, he casually mentions that he approves of clearing out "backwater organics." Tailgate also mentions that the Primal Vanguard would kill organics [[spoiler: even though he wasn't on it, Tailgate, and others of his time period headed by Nova Prime, thought very little of them.]] This is contrasted with the modern Autobots who think of organic life as just as precious as mechanical life and constantly fight to protect it (well, most of them. Whirl displays some reluctance to save organics in issue 51).

-->[[spoiler: '''Overlord''']]:''I'm '''laughing''', Magnus, because you've not been '''holding back'''... and '''I have'''''.

** Rewind is this for Chromedome. [[spoiler:He needs a little reminder at the end of issue 16.]]

-->'''Overlord''': ''Breaking free of these paper chains was never the problem -- I just lacked the '''motivation'''. [[spoiler:But if Megatron's alive, then there's everything to play for.'']]