Hosehead (G1)

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:''Hosehead is an [[Autobot|Autobot]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Hosehead boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"No, you take off!"]]
'''Hosehead'''... well, he's got a nice personality. He's a fine guy, kind and well-meaning, courageous and willing to carry out his dangerous search and rescue function. Sometimes he even does it quite well. But he gets ''very'' flustered under pressure, to the point that he can do as much damage as good. His [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] with the Nebulan star athlete [[Lug]] seems to be improving this problem.

:''French-Canadian name'': '''Boyau'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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[[Image:Lugbigshutdown.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"You killed him! He's dead! I'm a witness! Police! Police! My brother's a murderer!"<br>"I didn't do nothin'- take off!"]]
Before the war, Hosehead was a low-level microchip counter in a transistor factory. He left to join the Autobots to prove to himself that he could do something more worthwhile. {{storylink|Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Hosehead's ''Transformers Universe'' profile}}

''Under unrevealed circumstances, Hosehead was binary-bonded to the Nebulan named Lug, and then taken prisoner by the Decepticons on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. As a field test for the new Decepticon lord [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], Hosehead was released free on [[Earth]] alongside his fellow prisoners [[Playback]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]]. Thunderwing was to hunt down and execute them in an uncontrolled environment. The Decepticon made the mistake of toying with his prey, however, killing Playback and then leisurely pursuing the others. Playback's death caught the attention of two Autobots from the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren]]. Horsepower was killed in the following combat, but the remaining trio of Autobots survived, besting Thunderwing with their wits, and became inseparable from then on as Hosehead joined the Ark's crew.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}''

[[Image:Hosehead2.jpg|right|180px|thumb|We found this mouse in a bottle of YOUR BEER, eh. Like, we was at a party and a friend of ours - a COP - had some, and HE PUKED. And he said, come here and get free beer, or he'll press charges.]]

''When the Autobots received a distress call from Earth's surface, Nightbeat assembled a combat team that included Hosehead, Siren, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]], [[Getaway]], and himself. Under Optimus Prime's command, they rushed to Earth to help their fallen comrades, but there they found the [[Deathbringer (species)|Deathbringer]], who had come to cleanse the planet of life. Ironically, Deathbringer was powered by the energies of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], the very thing Prime had desired earlier to restore his fallen warriors, and it must be destroyed to save Earth! Hosehead and the others fought valiantly, but were getting slaughtered. Nightbeat used its own programming against it, and the Deathbringer destroyed itself, removing Hosehead and the others from further danger. {{storylink|Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer}}''

The Chaos-Bringer, [[Unicron]] was awakened and was headed towards Cybertron, but only the [[Creation Matrix]] could stop him! Even worse, the Matrix was fired into space inside the body of Optimus Prime and was presumed lost. To this end, Hosehead joined Siren and Nightbeat on a mission to [[Pz-Zazz]], a planet in a star system where the Matrix might have landed. After getting caught in the middle of a gang war between [[Gutt]] and [[B'ghdad]], he and Siren helped Nightbeat unravel the mystery of the planet's missing life-force, but were subsequently captured by Thunderwing. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} Hosehead proved able to resist Thunderwing's [[Mind Leech]] device, revealing nothing about the Matrix Quest, but his two comrades weren't as stalwart. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}} Hosehead and the others were subsequently freed when the device's equipment was damaged. They then worked together to stop Thunderwing's Matrix-powered rampage aboard the Ark. Hosehead deactivated the Ark's artificial gravity per Nightbeat's order, allowing suction to drag Thunderwing out of the ship. {{storylink|All Fall Down (issue)|All Fall Down}}

[[Image:Hosehead3.jpg|left|150px|thumb|There wasn't much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So's I spent most of my time looking for beer.]]

In the aftermath of this showdown, Siren and Hosehead relaxed by watching televised murder mysteries. Later, Siren told Hosehead a joke he'd already heard. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}}

Hosehead and the rest of the Earthbound Transformers were warped to Cybertron by [[Primus]] to do battle with Unicron, where their creator explained to them the history of their race. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} At [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s orders, he manned a building-sized cannon, which he fired at the Chaos Bringer. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} However, Hosehead was ultimately among the casualties of the battle; his wrecked vehicle form was shown among the dead. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

====Marvel UK future timelines====
''In an alternate 2009, Hosehead was one of the Autobots who had to abandon Cybertron to [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons after the [[Time Wars (issue)|Time Wars]] rebooted history. To make matters worse, their ship crashed on Earth after their leader, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], was possessed by Unicron's corrupting influence. Hosehead and [[Doubleheader|Doubleheader]] were seen taking a shot at the insane Rodimus, but their fire bounced off his "aura of evil" and he blasted right back at them. {{storylink|Shadow of Evil}}''

====Condor-Verlag Transformers Comic-Magazin====
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Hosehead (known as Horsehead for this continuity) was present when Powermaster Optimus Prime led the Autobots againt the joint Decepticon leaders Shockwave and Megatron, who had tried to hijack the oil reserves of [[Alaska]]. He complained that there were too many Decepticons to fight, and that they needed to be picked off one-by-one. The Autobots drove off the Decepticons, but not before [[Quickmix]] shot a minibot because he turned off his targetting computer. Optimus then sat his troops down and explained to them the differences between Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Attack at Dawn}}

Hosehead was among the Autobots monitoring the Decepticons from a distance when Megatron made peaceful gestures to Humanity in New York City, and had to tell [[Slapdash]] to stop shouting at the Decepticons.. The Autobots returned to the Ark and discovered that a statue of Snaptrap that the Decepticons had gifted to New York was actually Snaptrap in disguise. Snaptrap went on a rampage and the Decepticons used this distraction to attack various other targets. Optimus Prime led the Autobots to narrowly defeat this menace. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 4#Transformers in Action: The Troy Principle|The Troy Principle}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:TWW AgeofWrath3 Hosehead.jpg|right|350px|thumb|"Fleshy headed mutant! Are you friendly?"<br>"No way, eh. Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!"]]
During the [[Age of Internment|Age of Internment]], Hosehead remained free from Decepticon rule under [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s resistance cell. He was working with Nightbeat on a strike team to capture and study a member of the [[Aerospace Extermination Squadron|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath issue 2}} After two drones were destroyed, the final one suddenly reactivated and attacked them. Hosehead prevented the drone from executing Nightbeat, but it retaliated with a pulse that scrambled his circuits. Fortunately, Getaway attached the [[Inhibitor claw|inhibitor claw]] onto the Aerospace drone, shutting it down. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath issue 3}}

{{note|[[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] declared bankruptcy before the final result of their mission could be told.}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Hosehead toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I was like a one-man army, like Charlton Heston in Omega Man. You ever see it? Beauty.]]
*'''Hosehead w/ Lug''' (Headmaster, 1988)
:*''Accessories'': "Lug" Headmaster driver, seat/helmet, "Accelerator Rifle", left and right "Laser Pistols"

: Hosehead transforms into a sweet fire truck of undetermined model. The area between the cabin and the rear of the truck has a seat that Headmaster unit, Lug, can sit on, but he can also be stowed inside the cabin itself. (This method isn't as secure, however.) The ladder base has a ratcheted joint, allowing it to rotate, while the ladder itself can extend out to 22cm in length and also has a movable compound nozzle. His head guns can be stored on the sides of the vehicle while his rifle can be plugged onto the ladder.

: In robot mode, like all Headmaster toys, Hosehead has a flip-down panel on his chest which covers a spring-loaded mini-[[Tech Spec|Tech-Spec]]-meter which gives readouts for Speed, Strength and Intelligence. The tumblers are activated when Lug (or any other Headmaster unit) is plugged into his neck socket. Lug has Hosehead's face plainly visible on his back because, as a smaller Headmaster toy, he lacks the flip-down panel featured on larger Headmasters. As another consequence of being a smaller Headmaster, Hosehead's chest cavity was apparently too small for 3 individual tumblers. As a result, all Headmaster heads inserted will display Hosehead's pre-molded (and painted) Speed, Strength, and Intelligence readings (5, 8, 6) on one large sliding plate.

: This toy was released in Japan as the [[Headmaster Junior|Headmaster Junior]] [[Cab|Cab]], with little or no changes.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Hosehead/hosehead.htm More information on Hosehead at TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
* For whatever reason, Hosehead's [[Character model|character model]] treats his "goggles" as a colorless transparent visor covering a pair of standard optic sensors, despite his toy having the same kind of outwardly-opaque visor as numerous other Transformers. Just more small Headmaster Autobot [[Nightbeat (G1)|weirdness...]]
* In the American G1 comics, Hosehead is not depicted as a Headmaster, although he is in the UK comics.
* In "[[The Big Shutdown!]]," the [[Marvel UK]] story which introduced Hosehead, neither Nightbeat nor Siren recognized him, and Hosehead even assumed Siren and Nightbeat were Decepticons until the truth was revealed. Apparently Hosehead never bumped into the other two when they were all on [[Nebulos]] getting Headmaster partners together.
* Text stories found in the German [[Transformers Comic-Magazin]] regularly refer to Hosehead as "Horsehead."

==External links==
* [http://ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Hosehead Hosehead's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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