Trigger Warnings

	"Trigger Warnings"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	September 2, 2016
By	David Bishop & Jim Sorenson
Art	Dan Perico
Cover	Christopher "IKY" Colgin
Continuity	Beast Wars: Uprising
Chronology	late 24th century

MaxCop Wolfang investigates a murder which takes him across Iacon.

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals	Predacons	Builders
Lidar (3) Sitrep (4) Blackarachnia ("Venus / Elita") (9) Aura (10) Stopgap (14)	Wolfang (1) Fennec (8) Onyx Primal (11) Tarantulas (12)	Twirl (2) Hotwire (5) Lube (6) Monxo (7) Overrun (Surge) (13)

A trigger warning is a warning that a work contains content which could act as a trauma trigger.
The Autobot leader that Overrun was bonded to goes conspicuously unnamed, but the fact that he refers to Hi-Q and Apex – coupled with the fact that his basis was the partner of an Optimus Prime – would seem to strongly indicate that said leader was Optimus Prime; his name was presumably written out to account for the fact that A Change to the Agenda established that the Beast Wars: Uprising universe's version of Optimus Prime died on the Ark.

The Targetmaster Extirpation was mentioned in passing back in Burning Bridges, with no elaboration beyond what it meant.
Similarly, during that story, Wolfang made an appearance where his leg change from the original toy's colour-scheme to that of the other Wolfang, which at the time just looked like a harmless reference.

Tarantulas working with the Mayhem Attack Squad, but not being a member? We've seen that before.
Blackarachnia's first alias, "Venus", references her Beast Wars voice actress Venus Terzo, while her second, "Elita", references the previous identity of her Transformers Animated incarnation.
The Predacon Secret Police headquarters have statues dedicated to the Decepticon Justice Division.

Wolfang wasn't initially intended to be a reference to Bigby Wolf of Fables, but once author David Bishop realised the similarity, he "steered into it".^[1]
Large parts of the first half of the story are a reference to every hardboiled cop story ever (Wolfang as the bitter detective, Aura the weary superior, Monxo running a dive-bar where the cop picks up clues, Blackarachnia the dangerous femme fatale, etc, etc...).