Transformers Cybertron/YMMV

Breakout Character: Vector Prime. Besides being an awesome as all hell clockwork-inspired Transformer with one of the greatest sacrifices in the franchise period, Vector Prime is now an integral part of the franchise mythos.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Played with at times, Played Straight at others. Quite a few good guys tend to have red auras, while bad guys often have purple. Autobots' weapon fire is always red with red-and-white explosions, while Decepticons' blasters always have blue beams with purple-and-yellow explosions. A Justified Inversion is when villain Starscream has a holy golden aura because he's stolen power from Primus, the good Physical God. However, some good guys also have the same aura, notably Jolt when he briefly serves as the avatar for Primus, and Optimus Prime during the final battle with Galvatron. Galvatron's color scheme is white-and-grey, but nobody can say he doesn't look sinister.
Complete Monster: Galvatron becomes one by the end.
Crowning Moment of Awesome: Just see the page...
Crowning Music of Awesome: Crowning Soundtrack Of Awesome (although some would say more so of Galaxy Force than the US remixes/editing)
- Most of it was unchanged, the US Version just didn't use the Japanese vocal songs. It also inserted Our Ally into a few places where it worked better than the original track. Such as Optimus Prime's last clash with Galvatron.
  - Some fans would say it changed the mood.
    - It did, at that. To some of us the change is welcome. For instance, the use of Our Ally in that last battle made the mood more heroic than somber. Likewise the use of Fierce Battle! Super Mode for the final leg of Galvatron vs. Starscream made it feel more dramatic. But both can easily be viewed on YouTube, so take your pick.
- The English theme song qualifies, especially due to Optimus Prime's epic Opening Narration and Intro Dump, as well as that random dramatic announcer heard in the middle of it.
Growing the Beard
HSQ: Especially for those following Transformers since G1. And it would largely be of the And the Fandom Rejoiced variety.
Magnificent Bastard: Megatron/Galvatron. AND Starscream.
- Sideways tries.
The Scrappy: The human children that inevitably follow the Cybertronians around are usually the scrappy in their series. This was averted for this show, partly because the kids actually had more interesting personalities, but mostly because they weren't Kicker.
Tear Jerker: Farewell, Vector Prime.
Toy Ship: Coby and Lori.
Vindicated by History: As of the late 2010s, massively so. The show went from oh, this is better than Energon at least to being a frequent contender for the best, at least when it comes to television. This is due to the Transformers fanbase undergoing a pretty big rapprochment with mecha anime fans which also brought in a lot more understanding for the pure Hot-Blooded energy the show runs with; alongside this, the Geewunner nostalgia wave ran it's course as G1's fanbase mostly entered the late 40s and 50s while the kids who grew up on the Unicron Trilogy are now adults in their mid-to-late 20s and early 30s, smack dab in the middle of an age where childhood nostalgia is at it's strongest.
Woolseyism: The dreaded "uh" and "gimme a break!" of Energon is gone, replaced with what constitutes playful romantic banter when both speakers are in their early teens. Homages and an all-new cast turned into known characters a la Transformers: Robots in Disguise, as well.
- But mainly, there's the phenomenon that the Transformers Wiki calls "Burning Justice". Galaxy Force was the most "Anime" of the Japan-original Transformers series by far, and the reality-bending powers of wanting something really really hard could make virtually anything happen, with no one treating it as unusual. For Cybertron, this is excised by tying the effects to artifacts that could actually do the things that happened for no reason at all when someone yelled or grunted in the original. It was done so perfectly seamlessly you'd be shocked if you knew the full extent.