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Grimlock is a wild card among the Autobots. Huge and powerful, he is also ego-maniacal, impatient and willful. He views Optimus Prime as a weak leader, too afraid to make the tough calls and act on instinct. As such Grimlock is more than ready to disobey orders if he thinks the ends will justify the means. His one obvious redeeming feature is his attachment to his team. As leader of the Lightning Strike Coalition Force, he has gathered together a group of similar minded individuals he would do anything for. Together they handle the jobs the Autobots don't have the stomach for.

Shockwave's experiments not only granted Grimlock a new alternate form, but increased his power tenfold. Unfortunately this was at the cost of his intelligence. While he is far from stupid, Shockwave's experiments have made it more difficult for the former field commander to think rationally and made his already prominent rage issues all the more severe. Fortunately his team, reborn as the Dinobots, have become more tight-knit than ever. Together they are helping overcome his disgust at what Shockwave has done to him and see the advantages of his new power.

Due to the portal accident that got him and his team separated from the other Autobots and trapped them on an unknown world he is able to transform freely now but also has given him the ability to turn into a "Fireblast" mode when he is enraged enough in his new form he is faster, stronger, durable and also angry and more phrone to hate and hurting the ones he protects.

Like Grimlock, Swoop was a member of the brutal Lightning Strike Coalition—that is, until he was taken captive by Shockwave and forcibly changed into a Dinobot. And, like Grimlock, he is a powerful warrior, and though the other Autobots undoubtedly think of him as dim, he's at least enthusiastic about fighting Decepticons. But unlike Grimlock, Swoop enjoys his new form, revelling in the power and speed of his new pterosaur alternate mode.

While Slug is the most technically minded Dinobot, he has some anger issues. Temper control is not remarkable to anyone familiar with the team, but Slug takes it in a different direction; being extremely passive aggressive rather than suffering from explosive rage. He constantly looks for opportunities to get sarcastic digs in at those around him and he's not particularly bothered who they are. Friends, enemies or just people with tremendously bad timing; all suffer snarky and sometimes cruel jabs in response to anything they say or do. This makes Slug one of the hardest Dinobots for outsiders to relate to.

Built quite a bit better than a tank, there's nothing Snarl enjoys more than taking the nearest solid object and headbutting it. It's not so much the mindless destruction he likes, it's just that Snarl thoroughly enjoys being strong, and smashing things to powder seems like the best way of expressing this.

Snarl is also young and a little impatient. Even when working as part of a group he has the tendency to wander off to pursue their goals in his own fashion. This occasionally annoys his comrades, but usually his impressive results speak for themselves.

Originally a member of Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition, Sludge was left for dead during the experiments that turned the team into the Dinobots. Though he was able to recover and rejoin the team as their logistics expert, he still harbors much rage over the fact that his own friends never came looking for him.

Paddles is a simple, gentle giant. Less hostile than his fellow Dinobots, Paddles is willing to befriend both Autobots and Equines. However, when stirred to action, Paddles will fight valiantly and furiously to defend others. He's awkward on land, but glides through the oceans with ease in his elasmosaur mode.

He and his fellow Autobots Scorn and Slash were captured by Shockwave and brought to a new world where he turned them into Dinobots to rival the other Dinobots but due to his death before he could brainwash them into his servants they were abandoned and with the lack of energon fell into stasis but him and the others were recently found by Grimlock and have been added to the team.

Slash is surprisingly sneaky for a Dinobot. Skilled in the arts of stealth and tracking, he can cut down his target without getting detected or hunt down his next victim with ease. Equipped with cyber scythes in robot mode and claws as a Raptor, Slash can fight his way out of a bad situation if things go south.

Scorn is what happens when you combine a destructive war machine with a predator. Nothing else so much as a destroyer on two legs, he's strong and massive. Not only capable of using his Spinosaurus alternate mode in combat, Scorn is also a demolitions specialist.

The Autobot ambassador to many worlds, Crosscut was supposed to be sent to Equestria on secret orders to work with the worlds governments on establishing Autobot City there. He is fluent in 6300 alien languages. Though he carries a lot of weaponry, it is all defensive in nature, meant to incapacitate rather than kill. In dire emergencies, he can transfer all his data and memories to his scooter-drone Clutch so his knowledge won't be lost even if he falls to the Decepticons.

While not a Wrecker himself he has been taught by them and often accompanies them in missions.

At first glance, Roadbuster seems a lot like his fellow Wrecker Springer. On the battlefield, he is always in the front ranks, leading his comrades into action. No one fights more furiously. Back at base, though, all that aggression goes away. Rather than arguing or roughhousing with the others, Roadbuster retreats into himself, becoming terse and restive. All his energy is redirected into the constant maintenance of his weapons and revision of his combat strategies. War is all Roadbuster knows, and seems to be all he has ever known. It is an open question what would become of him without it.