History Characters / TransformersGeneration1Decepticons1986To1987

-->'''Megatron:''' Because Misfire so rarely hits who he aims for, it is all those whom he ''doesn't'' aim for who must worry.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In toy form, he is one of the very few Decepticons with blue eyes, which while somewhat rare in general for the toyline, is still more associated with the Autobots.

* SecondaryColorNemesis: Besides being colored mostly black, Trypticon also has purple, teal and orange accents, serving as contrast for Metroplex's silver, red and white color scheme.

* ObviouslyEvil: Aside from the normal Decepticon physical traits, Scourge (and thus also the Sweeps) takes the cake by having a BeardOfEvil, demonic-looking wings and clawed fingers with red-painted fingernails.
* OutOfFocus: While he's nominally part of a trio with Galvatron and Cyclonus, ol' Scourge tends to get the short end of the stick, almost never getting the same amount of face time as them.

* PaletteSwap: The Sweeps are occasionally subtle palette swaps of Scourge. The ''Wings of Honor'' continuity made them all paler blue than Scourge and certain toys of them are released with slight differences to Scourge's figure. Though of the time they look exactly like him and Scourge is distinguished only by appearing more.

* WalkingArmory: Predaking is a top contender for the most visibly well-armed combiner, boasting an ArmCannon, two {{Shoulder Cannon}}s, [[ArmedLegs a twin mortar launcher in each foot]], and a {{BFS}}.

* InformedAbility: He is supposedly a nigh-unbeatable [[GeniusBruiser Genius]] LightningBruiser. In all the myriad continuities in which Predaking has appeared (excluding the toy commercials), however, the big guy acts like a dumb brute and has had perhaps ''one'' victory against anyone, [[EnemyCivilWar and that was against the Combaticons]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: After Devastator, Predaking is only the second gestalt in the franchise to not be a Scramble City combiner (a combiner wherein the robots that form its limbs can swap places with each other or other limb robots from other such combiners). The arms and legs of his ''G1'' and ''Power of the Primes'' figures can swap sides, but are not interchangeable.

* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye IDW comics]] he's at his most heroic, pulling a HeelFaceTurn and becoming a brooding AntiHero, who nevertheless allies with and assists the Autobots.
** The 2019 continuity goes one better, with Cyclonus being a reclusive AntiHero who, while not an Autobot, sides with them against the Decepticons.

* WeaksauceWeakness: His ''Headmasters'' incarnation has a pretty big one - his chest window. One hit to it, and Scorponok would run away immediately.

** In the Marvel comics, he was a Decepticon called Life-Spark.

* DumbMuscle: He's a model military grunt. This is good in that he'll faithfully execute any commands his commanders give him...but it's bad in that he won't think for himself and won't even do ''anything'' if there's no one to tell him what to do.

* DumbMuscle: Abominus is so destructively dumb that a timer needs to be set before the Terrorcons merge. However, there was this one time during the "Hate Plague" episode where he manages to beat Computron (because the latter "thinks too much).

* DumbMuscle: He's an idiot like nearly every other combiner, but he is made worse by the fact that since '''all''' five components absolutely ''hate'' each other, he is a ''self-loathing and criminally insane'' idiot.

-->'''Vorath:''' If I only had some energy-sensing equipment, we could easily find which one of them has the key!
-->'''Mindwipe:''' Bah, what need have I of your scientific toys when I have my extrasensory powers!

* DependingOnTheWriter: Mindwipe's relationship with Vorath. In the cartoon they were critical of each other's fields and constantly argued. In the Marvel comic they worked together very well and combined their knowledge of science and mysticism to become Scorponox's most effective warriors.