Canonizing

Canonizing is the act of inserting a previously apocryphal or pseudocanonical bit of fancruft or omitted authorial intent into canon. It's kind of like fanservice for continuity freaks.

Continuity concepts

• Cybertronians keeping their paraphernalia out of sight in subspace storage pockets.
• The Powerdashers having the names "Cromar", "Zetar", and "Aragon".
• Nightbird being a full-fledged Decepticon.
• The origins and mechanics of the Brainmasters.
• Scorpia being a female Transformer.
• The Liege Maximo being one of the Thirteen.
• Star Saber being a knight templar.
• Tarantulas being literally affiliated with Unicron.
• Pretender technology being involved in the development of beast modes.
• The Magnaboss trio being government officials to mirror the Tripredacus trio.
• Cheetor, Airazor, Rhinox, and Terrorsaur being an evil team patterned on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• Three unused toy concepts: a jellyfish, a manticore, and a triffid from the Beast Wars Telemocha Series.
• The deleted scene from "Nemesis Part 2" of Generation 1 Megatron's spark being placed back into his body.
• The Starscream in this Machine Wars art possessing the deceased body of Skyquake.
• Universe Ratchet originating from a 2001 Robots in Disguise universe.
• Universe Longhorn being a new form of Ramulus.
• Universe Repugnus being a new form of Generation 1 Repugnus.
• Bio information for Universe Stockade and Magna Stampede.
• Bio information for Universe Inferno and BotCon 2006 Inferno.
• Ultra Trion being a form of Ultra Magnus and successor to Alpha Trion.
• Universe Defensor being an upgraded Hot Spot and being equipped with the Chaos Armor.
• Energon Omega Sentinel sometimes being a group's body-type instead of an individual.
• Bio information for Binaltech Blackarachnia and Decepticharge.
• Gaiacross being a new form of Landcross.
• Optimus Primal the Protector hailing from the universe of the English version of the Beast Wars cartoon as opposed to the Japanese version.
• United EX Straxus being a dimension-hopper from the Marvel Comics continuity.
• Howlback being transgender.
• Greatshot being a new form of Sixshot.
• Majin Zarak being a form of Scorponok/MegaZarak.

Fan-coined names

• Artillery Drone
• Beast Era
• Bumper
• Cityformer
• Darksyde
• Discmaster
• Generation 1
• Gestalt
• Gold Plastic Syndrome
• Herald of Unicron
• Kibble
• Moon Beta
• Rainmaker
• Morphcore
• Punch of Kill Everything
• Seeker (sort of)
• Sparkling
• Steve
• Universe War

Names originating in pseudocanonical sources

• Dark science
• Direwolf
• Ebon Knights
• Killzone
• Kolkular
• Galvatron II
• Hadean System
• Hulla Filament
• Magno-clamps
• Maxa Q
• Mindgame
• Mogahn the Mass
• Pinea Omicron
• Praetorian
• Pyrovar
• Stellar Galleries