I know it is a bit early to be asking this. The MTMTE comic series has seemingly introduced or reintroduced elements into the transformers lore, and part of those came into subsequent media. For example: Overlord being in Combiner Wars, Whirl appearing in RBA, Whirl, Perceptor's eyepice and "Tarn" appearing in Cyberverse, and Rung possibly being in the Netflix series. But my question is, did the Dreamwave comics manage to put that sort of influence out as well?
Oh, yes. Dreamwave’s biggest contribution to TF lore is probably The Fallen, who first appeared in their comics, and was the starting point for the entire concept of the Thirteen Primes and everything that story has evolved into and inspired. (Though the idea seems to have been developed for DW by Simon Furman in conjunction with his writing of Dorling Kindersley’s “Ultimate Guide” book - and I’ve begun to question recently if Hasbro didn’t provide some direction there, since it was 2005, and they’d already have been planning for 2005′s “Cybertron” and it’s use of another of the 13, Vector Prime, by that point. But I digress.)
Another big DW innovation is the idea of Shockwave as the Decepticon’s “mad scientist” who experiments on Transformers’ bodies and genetics, which has carried forward into basically everything.
Dreamwave also re-introduced the idea of Ultra Magnus as “white Optimus Prime in armour,” which was part of his original toy, but had never been reflected in media, and that ushered in a slew of “white Optimus Prime” toys.
They were also responsible for re-interpreting Vector Sigma a bit, introducing the idea that it contained a huge database of Cybertronian history - an attribute derived from being connected to the AllSpark, and hence, the “wisdom of the ages” typically shown to be contained within the Matrix - which has become the computer’s default role in an era where the AllSpark has replaced it as the source of life.
