Insignia

One of the universals across pretty much all Transformers continuities has been the use of Faction Symbols to differentiate members of respective factions, and sometimes even sub-factions within armies.

Known Faction Symbols

Generation 1

Ancient Autobot

Autobot

Decepticon

Optimus

Malignus

Generation 2

Seibertron Federation

Autobot (G2)

Decepticon (G2)

Cybertronian (G2)

Beast Era

Maximal

Predacon

Blendtron

Destronger

Maximal (BM)

Vehicon

Dinobot

Mutant

Unicron Trilogy

Mini-Con

Others

1st Transformer

Go-Bots

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