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 [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|{{#if:||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.
- The red Diaclone predecessor of Sunstreaker as a Cybertronian with Sunstreaker's unused preliminary name "Spin-Out".
- 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