Terrorcon (Prime)

2012-07-26T14:02:59Z

118.209.31.25: /* Prime */ Labeled as "Terrorcon Cliffjumper" on three sides of the outer box.

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:''The Terrorcons are [[Decepticon]]-created [[zombie]]s from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:DarknessRising4-beholddarkenergon!.jpg|400px|thumb|Night of the Living Generics.]]

Born from dead [[Transformer]]s infused with [[Dark Energon]], the '''Terrorcons''' are [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s greatest asset—an undead army under his thrall. Each is powerful and relentless in its own right; <i>en masse</i>, their persistence and Dark Energon they radiate can sap the strength of their Autobot prey until they can pull it down and tear it apart. Thankfully, they are not invulnerable. Energy blasts of sufficient force can deter them, though the best method is to use bladed weapons to slice them to pieces—the smaller the better—as the Dark Energon charge cannot sustain itself within the smaller, disparate components. Simply slicing them in half doesn't seem to be sufficient, though the method of irradiation may be a factor: The [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|one case]] known to be prodigiously active despite total bisection was the product of a direct implantation of crystallized Dark Energon; all others to date have been created by absorbing energies emitted over a wide area by a shattered crystal.

{{quote|That is no longer an Autobot, just a mindless beast. Its only instinct: to destroy anything in its path.|[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]|"[[Darkness Rising, Part 2]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

[[Image:DarknessRising2-letsgetyouhome.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hater-ade—is it in you?]]
After [[Cliffjumper (Prime)| Cliffjumper]] was killed after a battle against the [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]], his body was saved by [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] for use in experiments. When [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] returned, he wished to test the then-theoretical property of [[Dark Energon]] to revive the dead. It worked, to an extent. Cliffjumper was reborn as a screaming beast, and he promptly destroyed two Vehicons before leaping at Megatron. Megatron commented that the creature before him was no longer an Autobot and sliced the Terrorcon Cliffjumper in half with his claw. The half with the head remained alive, and it attacked [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] when she tried to rescue it. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

Megatron realized the potential for brutal, undead warriors from the encounter with Cliffjumper and decided to use the Dark Energon more extensively. When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] realized that the substance they were dealing with was Dark Energon, he and [[Ratchet (Prime)| Ratchet]] put two and two together and realized Megatron was up to something, that something being raising the dead. Eons ago, there had been a war on Earth after the smuggling of Energon to the planet. Since Cybertronian bodies do not decompose, there were some still buried in the ground. Megatron appeared to Optimus Prime and Ratchet in a large canyon and threw a chunk of Dark Energon into the ground, which promptly began to glow bright purple, as did Megatron himself. The ground opened up, and undead robots crawled out from the cracks, brandishing the same deadly weapons they'd carried in the previous war. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[Image:Shadowzone-alone.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Processorssss. Processorssss!"]]
Despite being outnumbered, Optimus and Ratchet were able to dispose of the Terrorcon horde, only to be informed by Megatron that this was merely the prelude to his main event. That event, they soon discovered, was raising the countless dead on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

Unfortunately for the Autobots, Megatron was already a step ahead of them in implementing his plan, since he already had a working [[space bridge]] and a ship to get to it. The Autobots used their [[GroundBridge]] to reach the space bridge, but failed to stop Megatron from throwing his supply of Dark Energon through, raising the entire deceased population of Cybertron. Before the Terrorcons could pass through the bridge, the Autobots managed to reverse the power flow, causing the bridge to explode, taking the zombies and Megatron with it. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Starscream later used a shard to attempt to revive the slain [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. While he successfully raised the mighty Decepticon, due to a series of unexpected events the revenant Skyquake was left trapped in an [[Shadowzone (dimension)|alternate dimension]]. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}
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==Games==
===Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense===
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===Vector Sigma Bot Builder===
[[Image:VectorSigmaBotBuilderTerrorcon.JPG|left|thumb|250px]]
Under unknown circumstances, the process of creating a bot can be corrupted by [[Dark Energon]] resulting in a Terrorcon that must be destroyed. {{storylink|Vector Sigma Bot Builder}}

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==Toys==
===Prime===
*'''Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2012)
[[Image:Terrorconcliff.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Not sure if he's a zombie or a ghoooooost.]]
: Available (so far) only in the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, "Terrorcon" Cliffjumper is a translucent-purple and opaque-brown redeco and [[retool]]ing of the [[Cliffjumper (Prime)#Prime: First Edition|"First Edition" Cliffjumper mold]], with a new "[[zombie]]-like" head and several added [[Mini-Con]] mounting points on his vehicle-mode trunk and hood. As with the other toys in the Japanese ''Prime'' line, much of the toy is unpainted, and relies on [[Sticker|decal]]s to add color detail, including the windscreens, with a pair of unused Decepticon [[insignia]] stickers also being included. He comes with his [[Arms Micron]] partner [[Jida]].

: Originally, there was a [[:Image:Primetoy-TerrorconCliffjumper.jpg|more screen-accurate version]] intended to come out in wave three of the "First Edition" Deluxe series, in red with purple "dark energon" battle-damage [[paint operation|paint applications]] (and of course without the Arms Micron and associated mounting points), but the wave was canceled and the figure was never released in any market.

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*'''Rust In Peace Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Accessories'': Dark Energon shard, "embedded" Dark Energon shard

: A [[San Diego Comic Con]] 2012 [[exclusive]], "Rust In Peace" Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a much more extensively-decoed and premium-packaged version of the "Terrorcon Cliffjumper" [[retool]] of the "First Edition" Cliffjumper mold, which was originally canceled worldwide, but eventually scheduled for release as a [[Toys"R"Us|ToysЯUs]] exclusive. Whew! His [[paint operation]]s have been expanded from the original retail plans to give him more battle damage deco. He comes with two [[Dark Energon]] accessories; a long shard of the stuff, and a shorter, more rubbery one ending in an "energy splash" that can grasp around the edges of his chest to represent, well, him being stabbed with Dark Energon to bring him back to "life."

: He comes in a special case shaped like Cliffjumper's zombified head, which itself comes inside a box with Cliffjumper's chest printed on the front. Gruesome!

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Terrorcon''' (テラーコン ''Terākon'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu''' (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")

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