The 10 Most Unnerving Transformer Deaths

As characters in a vast and calculated 1980s toy line, the Transformers lived by simple rules and died by an even simpler one: when an Autobot or Decepticon’s toy was cycled out of production and off shelves, he wouldn’t be around much longer. The Transformers cartoons and comics always had plenty of new action figures to promote, and they couldn’t let a bunch of toyless characters distract children.

Many kids first learned this lesson with the Transformers movie, which murdered a bunch of old favorites to make way for new characters/products. Yet the Transformers comic series was no slouch when it came to killing off the cast, particularly when writer Simon Furman took over the book. More obscure Transformers might simply disappear, but dozens of recognizable and once-important characters met grisly and sudden demises. And so the Transformers franchise taught children valuable lessons about sacrifice, mortality, and how you shouldn’t get all that attached to characters whose fate depends on what’s on the shelves at Toys “R” Us.

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