Movie Bonecrusher owes his entire existence to this picture of the Buffalo minesweeper that drastically exaggerates the size of its fork. (2007)
Cy-Kill gets killed by Megatron in the gladiatorial arena. (2007)
Whirl discusses the graffiti he left inside Ultra Magnus. (2012)
The Autobots give Skyfire a touching burial after he sacrifices himself. They then went ahead and dug him out two episodes later. (1984)
Devil Gigatron (RID Galvatron) and God Fire Convoy (Omega Prime), now allies, combine into Devil God Fire Convoy. (2019)
Studio OX illustration of the Decepticon combiners. (2001)
unused design for Rodimus Prime that would have transformed into a firetruck. (199?)
Designer Hironori Kobayashi got a job at Takara after he impressed lead designer Hideaki Yoke with a scratch-built G1 Arcee toy he made. (1998) Many years later, he designed the Thrilling 30 Arcee toy, with its transformation being based directly on his old model. (2014)
the 2019 IDW TF comic ends with the Autobots all leaving Cybertron to fight another day, which leaves Megatron in control (albeit it being a pyrrhic victory for him). This effectively makes this one of the few TF continuities that ends with the Decepticons winning. (2022)
Blurr's death in the IDW Unicron comic pays homage to the Flash's death in Crisis On Infinite Earths. (2018)
Charlie Adler reprised his role as Movie Starscream in the tie-in games for ROTF, but did so with a much deeper voice than the one used in the movie. Contrasted against Frank Welker's Megatron, this results in a Starscream who has a much deeper voice than Megatron. (2009)
promotional renders for the 2007 movie; featuring the bots in all sorts of strange poses. (2007)
Ratchet's original profile described him as a party animal, but this characterization has almost never been seen in media. Bob Budiansky explains why:
Arcee transforms. (2010)
some cloaked mystery villain guy shows up in the Japanese intro for Animated, and nowhere else. (2008)
a promotional video announcing the Michael Bay movie before there was any footage of it filmed. It has some very early 3d models and some street interviews with fans of the franchise. (2005?)
the Eggspark lands on Piggy Island and turns the Flock and the Bad Piggies into the Autobirds and Deceptihogs. (2014)
the pilot episodes of the G1 cartoon have all the Autobots be able to fly, which was subsequently dropped in the series proper. (1984)
the Marvel UK Annual text story 'State Games' depicted Megatron's past as a gladiator, and his eventual rise to power. (1986) Despite the relative obscurity of this story, it has since become THE definitive modern backstory for Megatron that almost all new media has used.
Studio Series Bonecrusher is released in the Buzzworthy line in an Autobot N.E.S.T disguise. the numbers inscribed on his vehicle mode read "All Hail Megatron". (2022)
Tailgate saves the universe with a semicolon. (2014)
almost all G1 media ignores Ultra Magnus' "white Optimus" inner robot form, instead presenting his full combined robot form as his only robot form. Dreamwave's comics broke the trend, showing Magnus' inner robot form for the first time. (2004)
Splatoon hosts a RID 2015-themed event.
Ratchet socks the shit out of Starscream. (1990)