Primus uses Cybertron's moons to clobber Starscream. (2005)
Megatron removes his hemet to reveal he has "hair" underneath. (2007)
Megatron sees how many deaths he's responsible for as each flower represents a life lost because of him. (2016)
the Cyberverse cartoon throws in a shout-out to many prominent online TF fans by writing their names in Cybertronix. (2021)
a man paranoid about Transformers taking over Earth buys a gun that secretly contains a portion of Megatron's mind, which tells him to assassinate Bumblebee. (2010)
Transformers vs G.I. Joe and Beast Wars Uprising, in the same year, both feature the Earth becoming a Transformer. Atlas in TF vs GIJoe, and Gaea in BWU. (2016)
Michael Bay's official M&M-sona. (2009)
Starscream unleashes his secret weapon, Meowgatron. (2018)
In Beast Wars, Terrorsaur dramatically declares "welcome to the dark side!" when Cheetor enters the Predacon base. (1996) Because TF fans take everything extremely literally, a prequel comic states that the Predacon base is literally named "Darksyde". (2006)
Ultra Magnus is forced to smile, ruining his reputation. (2012)
the Transformers fandom's first look at the then-upcoming Combiner Wars Devastator is obstructed by some random bald guy. (2015)
a prototype for a new toy of Armada Optimus Prime is unveiled by Takara at Wonderfest 2019. As of this writing, the figure has still not been released, for unknown reasons.
prototype of a G1 Unicron toy, that was ultimately cancelled due to cost concerns. (1986)
concept art for the combined form of the "Ani-bots", an Autobot combiner that would have debuted in the 1986 movie. They would have been released from a zoo to fight Devastator. the concept of an animal combiner eventually evolved to become the Predacons. (1985)
a whole bunch of completed Transformers comics go unreleased due to Dreamwave's bankruptcy. (2004)
the Chinese Transformers Online MMORPG creates like a hundred new Transformers characters that have never appeared anywhere else before or since. (2012)
a deluxe class Unicron toy is released in the Cybertron line, that turns into an alien crab tank thing. (2006)
some cloaked mystery villain guy shows up in the Japanese intro for Animated, and nowhere else. (2008)
The Lost Light crew find themselves in Swerve's mind, within a holomatter replica of Earth constructed out of sitcom tropes. (2015)
exposure to Brainstorm's meta-bomb gives Swerve the ability to break the fourth wall. (2013)
artist Don Perlin draws Megatron with a strange grid-like structure in his mouth. He eventually loses them. (1985)
Thunderblast's boobs jiggle when she runs. (2006)
Thundercracker unleashes his Super Electric Lightning Thundercrackin' Punch. (2006)
Optimus justifies why the Transformers say "transform" when they transform. (2006)
concept art for "Car and Cable", an early proposal for an animated series co-produced between Marvel and Hasbro. (1983) It was shockingly discovered in 2020 that this show was actually a precursor of sorts to Transformers (as can be seen by the Prowl-looking robot in the 4th pic