It reframed the Decepticons as the deceived rather than the deceivers, which made the name far less villainous. Again, Transformers One used an explanation similar to the IDW comics.

Sideways Sideways' name is rather appropriate. He's a robot that tends to play both sides. In the original cartoon, he worked for both the Autobots and Decepticons at various points.

However, in the new prequel film Transformers One, it turns out that those names have more than meets the eye.Written by Eric Pearson, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari, and directed by Josh ...

6) The Jack Boys. The Japan-only Transformers cartoons are a treasure trove of hilarious names, none more so than the “Breast Force” — the evil, elite soldiers of Deathsaurus (don’t ask).

Transformers: Autobots and Transformers: Decepticons are two sides of the same coin. Both games tell the same general story, they both share the same environments, and they both let you run amok ...

A Decepticon flying wing that's seen as a gruff security 'bot in the first trailer and whose name was later changed to Darkwind.

The story of Transformers, since its origins in the 80s, has told the conflict between two sides of the planet Cybertron, the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron.