Deceptions:
Megatron (One/Animated)
Starscream (One/Prime)
Lugnut (Animated)
Blitzwing (Animated)
Soundwave (Prime)
Knockout (Prime)
Airachnid (One/Prime) (joins halfway in S1)
Shockwave (Animated/Prime) (joins in S2)
Strika (Joins in S3)
Starscream Clones (Join near the end of S2)

Animated/Prime: (3 Seasons)

Autobots:
Optimus Prime (Animated)
Ratchet (Prime)
Elita-1 (Prime/Animated)
Bumblebee (Prime)
Bulkhead (Animated)
Arcee (Prime)
Prowl (Animated) (joins near the end of S1)
Wheeljack (Prime) (joins halfway into S2)
Smokescreen (Prime) (joins near the end of S2)

Predacons:
Megatron (different name)
Scorponok
Tarantulas
Terrorsaur
Inferno (joins halfway)
Waspinator (joins near the end)

Finally, here’s the Autobots & Deceptions for the each timeline era:

(Beast Wars) (1 Season) (spinoff to the main timeline)

Maximals:
Optimus Primal
Cheetor
Rhinox
Rattrap
Dinobot (sacrifices himself near the end)
Silverbolt (joins halfway)
Blackarachnia (joins near the end)

I won’t spoil too much now but here’s a time i created:

1). Beast Wars (millions of years ago)

2). Transformers One (thousands of years ago)

3). Transformers Animated/Prime (Present)

4). Beast Machines (thousands of years in the future)

. Elita-1 in a desperate attempt to save Optimus uses her borrow power on the spiders but doing this causes her to mutate into a techo-organic being. The venom causing specific memories to be destroyed or damaged. Causing her to despise Autobots & Deceptions, especially Optimus. Becoming a rogue bot

. While trying to find a way off earth Megatrons receives a transmission by a undercover spy who is at the Autobots headquarters in space.

. The Autobots are ambushed by a group of Deceptions who are accompanied by a mad doctor who created mutant spiders to attack both the Autobots & Decepticons

. The Autobots are discovered by 3 teenagers: Jack, Rafael & Sari

. Saris father works for the government & it’s revealed he has bern experimenting unknowingly on Megatrons head for 30 years

. Megatrons most loyal servants are trying to track him down & his other body parts & eventually find him

. After being in cyper sleep for 50 years the autos have awoken all repaired

. The Deceptions have returned & with Starscream leading them they are on the look for Megatrons body parts

. Autobots adopt new forms to blend in with the new world they inhabit & search for the missing all spark

Next:

Transformers Animated/Prime (2007)/(2010)

. Years after the conclusion of the war Optimus crew finds a the all spark which could help revive cybertron but are discovered by Megatrons ship.

. After being destroyed Megatron is scattered across the globe whike Optimus tries to land them safely

As a child & even now as an adult i still love the deceptions & hope someday i could get to work for the transformers franchise is some way shape or form. My dream would honestly be to make my own tv series of the transformers but make a timeline that fits & borrows from previous series/eras

These are majority of the Deceptions from the TFA series

that Derrick J. Wyatt was the lead character designer aswell as the art director of the series. You might recognise his work from Teen Titans, Ben 10: Omniverse & Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. All of which i also enjoyed. Specifically i was always interested in the Deceptions designs & alt modes

of the new era of childrens tv shows. MAnyways back to the topic at hand, The Deceptions: whether you love them or hate them, you have to admit they are probably some of the most best written & looking bots of the entire franchise. Circling back to TFA i loved the artstyle which i recently learned

Since then i have a new found love for the storytelling of the Prime era but after that i thats when my love for transformers halted in 2015 when they released Robots in Disguise. I have yet to watch the franchise beyond their since the target audience definitely changed imo & it was the beginning

Then when TF Prime came round i was starting to really get into Pokemon but i still had the first 15 episodes on dvd but never really engaged with transformers after that until maybe 2 years later when the third & final season was airing on tv which they started to re-release the episodes.

I only was anle to watch S1 & 2 of animated bc this was back in the day were you could only watch the show on live tv (for me) or had the dvds. We never got S3 where i live so for years i went not knowing what happened after S2. Until this year when i found them all on youtube.

& among other different media of the transformers shows from the early 2000s. I never really got into the live action movies so I don’t really have an opinion on those. I was a huge fan of Animated, having all the big size action figures (multiples at times) & was unbroken when the series got canned