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* {{Irony}}: Starscream, of all bots, actually manages to end up in a better position at the end of the first arc of the trilogy without having to resort to backstabbing -- [[spoiler:due to Jetfire mortally wounding Skywarp when the latter attempts to report the location of the Autobots to Megatron, he's able to use this information to replace Jetfire as leader of the Seekers ''with Megatron's approval'', no less.]]
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** Starscream, of all bots, actually manages to end up in a better position at the end of the first arc of the trilogy without having to resort to backstabbing -- [[spoiler:due to Jetfire mortally wounding Skywarp when the latter attempts to report the location of the Autobots to Megatron, he's able to use this information to replace Jetfire as leader of the Seekers ''with Megatron's approval'', no less.]]]]
** Dinobot [[spoiler:refers to Starcream and the Decepticons as "Ghosts". Then when he dies he becomes one literally]].
** Starscream, of all bots, actually manages to end up in a better position at the end of the first arc of the trilogy without having to resort to backstabbing -- [[spoiler:due to Jetfire mortally wounding Skywarp when the latter attempts to report the location of the Autobots to Megatron, he's able to use this information to replace Jetfire as leader of the Seekers ''with Megatron's approval'', no less.
** Dinobot [[spoiler:refers to Starcream and the Decepticons as "Ghosts". Then when he dies he becomes one literally]].
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Elita-1, Chromia, Jetfire, Red Alert, and Scrapface. As well as everyone else caught in the explosion in the last episode of Earthrise. Optimus Prime finds Elita-1's corpse in the midst of the rubble upon returning to Cybertron in the Kingdom finale.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Scorponok is this. Rather than being a Decepticon of extreme size, he's instead "the last Scorponok," which were another race of robots that were enslaved by the Quintessons. Unlike the Autobots and Decepticons, the Scorponoks were apparently never freed and used as slave labor and gladiotorial entertainment until he was the only one left.
* LastOfHisKind: Scorponok is this. Rather than being a Decepticon of extreme size, he's instead "the last Scorponok," which were another race of robots that were enslaved by the Quintessons. Unlike the Autobots and Decepticons, the Scorponoks were apparently never freed and used as slave labor and gladiotorial entertainment until he was the only one left.
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** [[spoiler: Elita-1, Chromia, Jetfire, Red Alert, and Scrapface. As well as everyone else caught in the explosion in the last episode of Earthrise. Optimus Prime finds Elita-1's corpse in the midst of the rubble upon returning to Cybertron in the Kingdom finale.]]
** [[spoiler: Dinobot dies fighting the Megatrons to get the Matrix to Optimus.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Scorponok is this. Rather than being a Decepticon of extreme size, he's instead "the last Scorponok," which were another race of robots that were enslaved by the Quintessons. Unlike the Autobots and Decepticons, the Scorponoks were apparently never freed and used as slave labor andgladiotorial gladiatorial entertainment until he was the only one left.
** [[spoiler: Elita-1, Chromia, Jetfire, Red Alert, and Scrapface. As well as everyone else caught in the explosion in the last episode of Earthrise. Optimus Prime finds Elita-1's corpse in the midst of the rubble upon returning to Cybertron in the Kingdom finale.]]
** [[spoiler: Dinobot dies fighting the Megatrons to get the Matrix to Optimus.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Scorponok is this. Rather than being a Decepticon of extreme size, he's instead "the last Scorponok," which were another race of robots that were enslaved by the Quintessons. Unlike the Autobots and Decepticons, the Scorponoks were apparently never freed and used as slave labor and
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** Optimus Primal strikes Prime in the same place Megatron mortally wounds Prime in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie''.
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''Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} CGI-animated series showrun by F.J. Santo (''[[WebAnimation/TheTransformersTitansReturn Titans Return]]'', ''[[WebAnimation/TheTransformersPowerOfThePrimes Power of the Primes]]''), produced by Creator/RoosterTeeth, and animated by Creator/PolygonPictures, loosely based on the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' toyline subseries of the same name (as opposed to the [[VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron Video Game]]). Two seasons, ''Siege'' and ''Earthrise'', are now available on Netflix with a third season ''Kingdom'' on the way.
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''Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} CGI-animated series showrun by F.J. Santo (''[[WebAnimation/TheTransformersTitansReturn Titans Return]]'', ''[[WebAnimation/TheTransformersPowerOfThePrimes Power of the Primes]]''), produced by Creator/RoosterTeeth, and animated by Creator/PolygonPictures, loosely based on the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' toyline subseries of the same name (as opposed to the [[VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron Video Game]]). Two Three seasons, ''Siege'' and ''Siege'', ''Earthrise'', and ''Kingdom'', are now available on Netflix with a third season ''Kingdom'' on the way.Netflix.
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* GrandFinale: [[spoiler:The sixth and final episode of ''Kingdom'' brings the series to an end, with the Autobots and Decepticons forming a truce after restoring the [=AllSpark=] to Cybertron and preventing Galvatron and Nemesis Prime's efforts in stopping them.]]
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** Wether intentional or not, Soundwave's heavy reliance on using Ravage against the Maximals over his other cassettes may be a reference to Ravage's major role in the Beast Wars cartoon's second season.
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** When questioning wether or not they could trust the Maximals, Arcee comments that after everything they've been through, Primal could claim he was a Sharkticon and she'd believe him.
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** In Kingdom [[spoiler:Dinobot first goes along with Starscream's plan to oppose the Megatrons, believing both of them to have devolved into desperate madmen unnfit to lead their respective factions. He later fully defects from the Predacons in episode 3, stealing the Matrix of Leadership back from the Decepticon leader.]]
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** In Kingdom [[spoiler:Dinobot first constantly questions both is own leader's plans and motives and later those of the Decepticon Megatron. At first, he goes along with Starscream's plan to oppose the Megatrons, mutiny, believing both of them the Megatrons to have devolved into desperate madmen unnfit to lead their respective factions.factions and needing saving from themselves. He later fully defects from the Predacons in episode 3, stealing the Matrix of Leadership back from the Decepticon leader.]]
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** In Kingdom [[spoiler:Dinobot first goes along with Starscream's plan to oppose the Megatrons, believing both of them to have devolved into desperate madmen unnfit to lead their respective factions. He later fully defects from the Predacons in episode 3, stealing the Matrix of Leadership back from the Decepticon leader.]]
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** Predacon Megatron taunts Primal at one point for thinking he could stand up to the wrath of both Megatrons, mirroring the taunt the original Predacon commander gave when merging his spark with G1 Megatron's to achieve his Transmetal II form.
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** Predacon Megatron taunts Primal at one point for thinking he asking "Did you think you could stand up to against the wrath fury of both Megatrons, mirroring Megatrons?", the exact same taunt the original Predacon commander gave Primal when merging his spark with G1 Megatron's to achieve his Transmetal II form.
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** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as the Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.
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** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as the Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.possibly [[HandWave handwaving]] away why some characters aren't present for Kingdom
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** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.
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** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as the Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.
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** The Vok don't appear or get so much as a mention in Kingdom.
** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.
** In addition, the only Beast Wars characters to appear are the full Season One Maximal cast, Megatron, Dinobot, Blackarachnia and Scorponok. Several mentions have been made to massive casualties for both Maximals and Predacons, so perhaps its explained as Kingdom bots being the only survivors left on Earth when the Autobot and Decepticon ships arrived.
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** Predacon Megatron taunts Primal at one point for thinking he could stand up to the wrath of both Megatrons, mirroring the taunt the original Predacon commander gave when merging his spark with G1 Megatron's to achieve his Transmetal II form.
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** As Dinobot slowly dies, he tells Optimus Primal how he has considered defecting to the Maximals thousands of times. In the original Beast Wars, he left the Predacons at the start of the series to join the Maximals.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: When Starscream and Dinobot are arguing, Starscream says how he has suffered for millions of years and thus deserves power and leadership. Dinobot just says that Starscream is using his own suffering as an excuse to justify his selfishness and cowardness and inflict suffering onto others.
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** Blackarachnia once again plays this role to the Predacons (mostly since the many MANY other examples of this trope from her team aren't present in this series). She even teams up with the TropeNamer much like she did in the original Beast Wars show and prooves to be a much more cunning and manipulative example of this compared to Starscream himself.
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** Blackarachnia secretly teaming up with Starscream to overthrow her Megatron, mirrors not just her own status as one of her team's many Starscreams, but also the team-up the two had in the original Beast Wars series when Starscream's spark possessed her teammate Waspinator.
** Blackarachnia's reaction to Airrazor saving her (giving a snarky "My hero" and kissing her on the cheek) references Rattrap doing the same to Rhinox in second season finale of Beast Wars when the later saves him.
** Blackarachnia's reaction to Airrazor saving her (giving a snarky "My hero" and kissing her on the cheek) references Rattrap doing the same to Rhinox in second season finale of Beast Wars when the later saves him.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:After Starscream steals the Golden Disk and listens to its entries himself, he learns about Unicron and what he will do in the future, including turning Megatron into Galvatron. After this, he becomes much more unhinged, contently attempting to warn everyone about Unicron and how they all need to work together against him.]]
** The Predacons refer to Starscream as a ghost. This references how after his death in the G1 continuity he became a ghost and a recurring antagonist.
** Dinobot dies similar to how he did in Beast Wars, making a LastStand against the Predacons, as well as the Decepticons.
** Dinobot dies similar to how he did in Beast Wars, making a LastStand against the Predacons, as well as the Decepticons.
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* SequelHook: Kingdom ends with[[spoiler:Starscream warning Blackarachnia that he can still hear Unicron’s voice and that his attack will be inevitable. Unicorn is then shown reformatting Galvatron and Nemesis Prime commenting that their attempted mutiny has given him an idea.]]
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* SequelHook: Kingdom ends with[[spoiler:Starscream with [[spoiler:Starscream warning Blackarachnia that he can still hear Unicron’s voice and that his attack will be inevitable. Unicorn is then shown reformatting Galvatron and Nemesis Prime commenting that their attempted mutiny has given him an idea.]]
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: When Predacon Megatron orders several Decepticon grunts to attack, none of them listen and one comments that they don’t take orders from Predacons. Megatron immediately transforms to his beast mode and rips the soldier apart in seconds convincing the rest of the troop to start listening to his orders.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, the Maximals and Predacons needed to adopt beast forms in order to survive the energon rich atmosphere. The atmosphere is not a problem in this show so it's unclear why they have beast transformations instead of vehicle modes.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, the Maximals and Predacons needed to adopt beast forms in order to survive the energon rich atmosphere. The atmosphere is not a problem in this show so it's unclear why they have beast transformations instead of vehicle modes. Though several scenes suggest the beast modes are much better suited for traversing the prehistoric planet’s geography than standard vehicle or robot modes.
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* SequelHook: Kingdom ends with[[spoiler:Starscream warning Blackarachnia that he can still hear Unicron’s voice and that his attack will be inevitable. Unicorn is then shown reformatting Galvatron and Nemesis Prime commenting that their attempted mutiny has given him an idea.]]
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* BadFuture: [[spoiler:''Kingdom'' establishes that the Maximals and Predacons come from one where Optimus never retrieved the Allspark, he and Megatron were enslaved by Unicron and turned into Nemesis Prime and Galvatron, and the Maximals and Predacons are the last survivors of the Cybertronian race.]]
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** Interestingly [[spoiler: the Beast Era Scorpinok is also a species, serving as the foot soldiers for the Predacon army.]]
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: [[spoiler:''Kingdom'' eventually shows that the end of ''Earthrise'' was a big RFED for the Cybertron cast, who turn out to have all died in the blast when Elita bombed Shockwave's base.]]
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** Interestingly [[spoiler: the Beast Era Scorpinok is also a species, serving as the foot soldiers for the Predacon army.]]
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* Killed off for real: [[spoiler: Elita-1, Chromia, Jetfire, Red Alert, and Scrapface. As well as everyone else caught in the explosion in the last episode of Earthrise. Optimus Prime finds Elita-1's corpse in the midst of the rubble upon returning to Cybertron in the Kingdom finale.]]
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* Killed off for real: KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Elita-1, Chromia, Jetfire, Red Alert, and Scrapface. As well as everyone else caught in the explosion in the last episode of Earthrise. Optimus Prime finds Elita-1's corpse in the midst of the rubble upon returning to Cybertron in the Kingdom finale.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted in Kingdom [[spoiler: with the Beast Wars incarnations of Optimus, Megatron, and Scorponok appearing in the same series as their original counterparts, though G1 Scorponok was dead by the time they appeared. G1 Megatron is less then pleased with his decendant's name and tries to force him to change his name and angerly refering to him as "the Predacon commander"]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted in Kingdom [[spoiler: with the Beast Wars incarnations of Optimus, Megatron, and Scorponok appearing in the same series as their original counterparts, though G1 Scorponok was dead by the time they appeared. G1 Decepticon Megatron is less then pleased with his decendant's descendant's name and tries to force him to change it. He does his name best not to actually call him by his name, stopping himself and angerly refering referring to him as just "the Predacon commander"]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted in Kingdom [[spoiler: with the Beast Wars incarnations of Optimus, Megatron, and Scorponok appearing in the same series as their original counterparts, though G1 Scorponok was dead by the time they appeared]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted in Kingdom [[spoiler: with the Beast Wars incarnations of Optimus, Megatron, and Scorponok appearing in the same series as their original counterparts, though G1 Scorponok was dead by the time they appeared]]appeared. G1 Megatron is less then pleased with his decendant's name and tries to force him to change his name and angerly refering to him as "the Predacon commander"]]
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* AdaptionalPersonalityChange: Predacon Megatron is usually portrayed as an megalomaniacal schemer who cares about nothing but gaining power for himself but here he is seemingly content to submit to the original Megatron out of a belief that his namesake will change his future for the better.
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* AdaptionalPersonalityChange: AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Predacon Megatron is usually portrayed as an megalomaniacal schemer who cares about nothing but gaining power for himself but here he is seemingly content to submit to the original Megatron out of a belief that his namesake will change his future for the better.
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Three arcs to this trilogy are planned: ''Siege'', ''Earthrise'', and ''Kingdom''.
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* AdaptionalPersonalityChange: Predacon Megatron is usually portrayed as an megalomaniacal schemer who cares about nothing but gaining power for himself but here he is seemingly content to submit to the original Megatron out of a belief that his namesake will change his future for the better.
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* AdaptedOut: Impactor's usual role as leader of the Wreckers is dropped, and [[spoiler: given he dies, he doesn't have anything to do with the team.]]
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** Impactor's usual role as leader of the Wreckers is dropped, and [[spoiler: given he dies, he doesn't have anything to do with the team.]]]]
** Instead of having smaller, more energy efficient bodies, the Maximals and Predacons are the same size as the Autobots and Decepticons.
** Impactor's usual role as leader of the Wreckers is dropped, and [[spoiler: given he dies, he doesn't have anything to do with the team.
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* BittersweetEnding: At the end of ''Siege'', the Autobots [[spoiler: do escape the planet Cybertron but have suffered heavy casualties and they had to abandon their dream of retaking it and returning to the Golden Age of peace and artistic creativity]].
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* BittersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding:
** At the end of ''Siege'', the Autobots[[spoiler: do escape the planet Cybertron but have suffered heavy casualties and they had to abandon their dream of retaking it and returning to the Golden Age of peace and artistic creativity]].creativity.
** At the end of ''Kingdom'', [[spoiler:the Allspark is returned to Cybertron and the war between the factions has ended. However, most of Cybertron's population is dead, Megatron hints that he has yet to completely give up his dreams of conquest and Unicron has seemingly decided start his plans anew in the show's universe.]]
** At the end of ''Siege'', the Autobots
** At the end of ''Kingdom'', [[spoiler:the Allspark is returned to Cybertron and the war between the factions has ended. However, most of Cybertron's population is dead, Megatron hints that he has yet to completely give up his dreams of conquest and Unicron has seemingly decided start his plans anew in the show's universe.]]
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** In Kingdom, [[spoiler: Dinobot is killed after defecting from the Predacons, not even getting the chance to officially join the Maximals before succumbing to his injuries]].
