YMMV / Transformers Animated Season 4

• Broken Base: Some fans do enjoy "The Sound of Music", but many others dislike it. Others though, find it to be Narm Charm.
• Catharsis Factor: After wiping out most of the Elite Guard, Megatron thoroughly kicks Sentinel's aft and chews him out on his selfishness and incompetence, which is something fans have been waiting to happen for a long time. The best part? He's right that Sentinel is an arrogant idiot and the only reason he was able to succeed in his job and survive all attempts on his life was mostly due to Optimus Prime saving and helping him through those situations, and even better, Sentinel himself admits that Megatron was right.
• Creator Backlash: Even the creator didn't like "The Sound of Music". Hence why the episode is replaced with a new, better version.
  • He also didn't like the original storyboards for Part 1 of "Resurgence" and replaced them with a better version while making a video making fun of those storyboards.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Alpha Trion in the Colored Version has garnered his share of fans for giving Sentinel a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Ratchet and Fanzone's friendship remains despite the ten years of separation. After informing him about losing his job in the police force and divorced with his wife, Ratchet decides to let Fanzone stay at their place.
  • Waspinator is finally restored to his Cybertronian form and thanks Bumblebee for saving him.
• Jerkass Woobie: After listening to their backstories, you can't help but feel sorry for SUV.
  • Nanosec lamented that he could have gotten a well paid job, but instead his laziness caused him to wind up in prison.
  • Archer only wanted to act smart, hence why he talked in Shakespearian English. This resulted in his wife leaving him because she was too embarrassed to be with him.
  • Slo-Mo had no purpose in life and being a super-villain was the only thing she had.
  • Professor Princess reveals she isn't even a child anymore, which is sad in itself.
• Moment of Awesome: Meta. The Creator of the series took the cancelled plans to Season 4, mix with his own ideas and made a satisfying conclusion to the series.
  • In-universe, Cliffjumper being promoted to the rank of Prime, albeit offscreen.
  • Megatron is taken offline once and for all by Isaac Sumdac, the man who first discovered Megatron's head sixty years ago. The fact that Sumdac had spent Season 2 as a prisoner of the Decepticons makes this even more satisfying.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Megatron intentionally caused the Triple Changer incident that resulted in Blitzwing to become the insane bot we knew today.
  • Upon hearing that Earth will be cyberformed, Sentinel orders his men to pull back and abandons Optimus, his team, and the populace to be killed so that he could get an easy victory over the Decepticons.
• The Scrappy: To say Cade might be more hated than Sentinel Prime would be an understatement. Hence, fans are overjoyed Sari broke up with him.

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