While working on his Transhuman subjects, Side Burn cautioned them that they didn't want Ratchet working on their upgrades. The Autobot medic had a habit of getting...experimental with his patients. Coalescence The Echoer: The only way Soundwave can "talk", due to Optimus tearing out his voice box to keep him from telling anybody what really happened to Sentinel Prime. Noodle Incident: Breakdown tells Raf that he would’ve spent time in a Decepticon brig if he didn’t join them. Great Offscreen War: The Great War in this continuity is over by the time of the start of the series with the Decepticons having lost and Cybertron being divided between Optimus Prime, Goldbug, and Prowl. Voice of the Resistance: Starscream is stated as such by Ratchet. Megatron even mentions he apparently writes a lot of his speeches.

Fantastic Caste System: Before the war, Cybertron had a strict caste system, featuring manuals like the future Megatron, archivists such as Orion Pax, and "disposables" that included Soundwave and his Minicons. The Autobots continue to uphold it under Optimus Prime's regime, while the Decepticons have opposed it ever since their formation as a movement. MDLX Shattered Glass Optimus Prime has been redesigned by threezero, taking inspiration from the original G1 Transformers animated series. It boasts stunning detail, with threezero’s renowned weathered paint technique. The upper body is coated in metallic purple and silver, while the lower body features a dominant metallic blue tone, and his head features sinister dark red optics. The mechanical patterns on each joint are sharply defined with expert sculpt work. The detail on his transparent chest window includes the signature shattered glass, portraying the fierce and menacing nature of MDLX Shattered Glass Optimus Prime. Insistent Terminology: To Megatron, Optimus Prime remains "Orion Pax" just as many Autobots view "low caste Cybetronians" like Megatron himself as "D-16". A " virtual toyline" consisting of a combination of officially-released toys made especially for the line, repurposed toys, and potential redecos of other toys.

Secret Police: Optimus (then just Orion) ran one on Cybertron during the pre-war era, Prowl was one of his enforcers.

As he later received repairs from Mixmaster and Scavenger, Galvatron told Nexus Prime he respected the gestalt's choice to leave, and gave him use of the stellar spanner they had retrieved from Alpha Trion's laboratory. Reunification: Part 6 The Coming Storm: Part 1The cover of issue #4 is a homage to issue #67 of The Transformers (Marvel), with Goldbug instead of Galvatron. Airachnid has issues with organic lifeforms just as Arcee and Cliffjumper see her as a "bug". The former gets better, the latter two don't.