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Brawn (G1)

2008-03-03T22:14:42Z

131.151.185.124: /* Dreamwave Comics */

{{picsneeded}}{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Autobot Brawn|the Robots in Disguise Autobot|X-Brawn}}

:''Brawn is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Brawng1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!]]

'''Brawn''', the Autobots' demolitions expert, is amazingly strong for his size. Due to his small stature, he often attempts to overcompensate by playing up his macho personality. He can be somewhat of a bully, and looks down on noncombatant Autobots. He has a ready, though slightly sarcastic, sense of humor, and a lot of ''chutzpah''. In addition to his great strength, Brawn is also so tough as to be almost indestructible... [[personal canon|''almost'']].

:''Nickname'': '''Muscles'''
:''French-Canadian name'': '''Bruto'''
:''Italian name'': '''Cammello'''
:''Japanese name'': '''Gong''' (go-n-gu, ゴング)
:''Hungarian name'': '''Izmos''' ("Hefty")
:''South American name'': '''Jipe''' (pronounced "''hee-pay''")

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
{{note|UK-only stories are in italics.}}

[[Image:Brawnmarvel1.jpg|150px|left|thumb|Gee, ya think? You think that maybe I should use these clamps, that I use every day, at every opportunity? You're a freakin' genius, ya idiot!]]

After the Autobots re-awoke on modern-day Earth, Brawn was one of five Autobots sent out to reconnoiter their new world. When their patrol came under attack from a squadron of Decepticons, Brawn advised the others to stay behind him, as he could absorb the incoming jets' firepower. Later, he clocked Laserbeak. {{storylink|The Transformers (comic issue)|The Transformers}}

''A malfunction caused Brawn to go mad, rampaging in a small town because he thought the cars were being enslaved by humans (and then "killed" the cars when they showed no gratitude). After a destructive chase, the Autobots finally managed to recapture and repair him. To regain his honour, he agreed to be Starscream's opponent in a trial by combat; Optimus Prime had [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] fake Brawn's death to end the battle.''{{storylink|The Enemy Within!}}

When the Autobots staged a diversionary attack on the Decepticons' [[Fortress Sinister]], Brawn's strength enabled him to storm through Rumble's localized earthquake, and punch out the little punk. Unfortunately, the little punk had a brother. Frenzy's high-frequency sonic attack knocked Brawn out. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}

Brawn was among the Autobots who donated fuel to re-energize five Autobot warriors, in preparation for their last stand against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} When that gambit failed, he was among the Autobots strung up for spare parts by Shockwave. {{storylink|The New Order}} He was later reactivated by Ratchet along with the others. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

In the rush that followed to catch up with the Decepticons' gains, Brawn and [[Bluestreak]] were charged with the repair of the Ark's [[ionic fusion drive]]. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}} When the Autobots overheard Shockwave's plans to drop the captured head of their leader, Optimus Prime, in a nearby swamp, Brawn was among the Autobots who traveled to the swamp with Prime's body. However, the head was actually a decoy head, which, when attached to the body, caused it to go on a murderous rampage. Brawn was one of those wounded before Prime's proper head was returned. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''Brawn was part of a team sent to bring in a demented Snarl.''{{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Zapped in the shoulder, no doubt.]]Brawn was witness to a battle between [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Blaster]] for Autobot leadership on [[Earth]]'s [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. After the scene was attacked by [[Ratbat]]'s Decepticons, Brawn soon lost a fight with [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], who dismissed the Autobot as having a "bright future as ''spare parts!''" {{storylink|Totaled!}}

When an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream announced that he would "destroy the cities of [[New York]], [[Tokyo]], and [[Buenos Aires]]," Brawn was among the allied Autobot/Decepticon teams sent ahead to New York City. As Starscream approached, [[Goldbug]] led a team of Autobots which included Brawn, and the entire team was destroyed with a "single wave of Starscream's hand"! Oops. {{storylink|Dark Star!}}

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====Generation 2====
Brawn was part of a team sent to answer the distress call sent out by their [[human]] allies [[G.I. Joe]]. Landing in [[Milleville]], they ran up against a revived and [[Cobra]]-upgraded [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Assigned by [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] to guard the Autobots' ship, Brawn got himself vaporized when Megatron revealed that he could implode neutrons. {{storylink|Final Transformations}}

Ratchet must wonder why he even bothers.

====3H ''Universe'' comics====
Brawn was [[retcon|abducted]] by [[Unicron]] just before he was atomized by by the Cobra-tanked Megatron, and sent to the [[Cauldron]]. When [[Trailbreaker]] and [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] engineered a mass escape, Brawn, [[Wheelie]] and [[Tap-Out]] subdued the rage-afflicted [[Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] to keep them from killing each other.

Brawn then escaped Unicron thanks to a portal created by [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Snarl (BM)|Snarl]]. Where he went from there is unknown... hopefully not right back to the neutron implosion.

===Generation 1 Cartoon===
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (US), [[Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japan)

Brawn was one of the Autobots on board the ''[[Ark]]'' who awoke in 1984, reformatted by [[Teletraan I]] to have an Earth-based alt-mode of a Land Rover Defender. He was frequently involved in combat engagements against the Decepticons in the early years of the Earth-based war, including the battle that saw the Decepticons destroy an offshore oil rig. In the flaming chaos that followed, Brawn helped save his fellow Autobot [[Huffer]] who was trapped in the wreckage by cutting him loose with a blowtorch contained in his right arm. In other instances, Brawn also showed himself capable of wielding a large drill for tunneling, and a number of smaller grappling claws from his vehicle mode. The only thing he really lacked was a gun, but, being Brawn, he didn't seem to mind borrowing [[Megatron (G1)|someone else's]] [[fusion cannon|gun]].

Brawn performed admirably in several of the Autobots' missions, most notably during the events which brought [[Cybertron]] into Earth's orbit. During those chaotic times, it was Brawn who repeatedly spearheaded the various attempts to rescue their ally [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] from the clutches of the Decepticons, even traveling to Cybertron itself along with a special rescue team. It was this team that learned of the means which [[Dr. Arkeville]] was using to control his human slaves, and then discovered a way to free them from his clutches.

Another important mission for Brawn involved a super-weapon being built in Peru, where it was he (and his ally [[Trailbreaker]]) who first discovered the Decepticons' plot and informed the other Autobots. In the end, it was Brawn himself who raced to the top of the ancient pyramid the Decepticons were using as a firing platform, tackled Megatron and helped bring about the weapon's destruction. {{Storylink|Fire on the Mountain}}

When the ''[[Nemesis]]'' was uncovered in an archaeological dig (and Megatron subsequently retrieved the awesome power of the [[Heart of Cybertron]]), Brawn was angered that fellow Autobot [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] did not participate in battles, not understanding that Perceptor's scientific and technical skills necessitated his exclusion from combat missions. To the irritation of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Brawn decided it was his job to bully the Autobot scientist, insinuating that Perceptor was a coward not prepared to do his duty alongside the other Autobots. Brawn later changed his tune and was a big enough 'bot to appreciate Perceptor's skills when the latter hyper-accurately shot the Heart of Cybertron out of the sky. However, it is unclear whether Brawn was big enough to apologize to Perceptor for his earlier boorish behavior. {{Storylink|Microbots}}

Brawn was shot down by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in 2005, during the hijacking of a shuttle bound for [[Autobot City]], making him one of the first serious fatalities of that famous assault. {{Storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

====Brawn lives?====
[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|thumb|right|210px|"Hey guys, I'm back! And I found [[Load Hauler]]!"]]

While nowhere near as prevalent as discussion of "[[Who is Cyclonus?]]", there is recurring debate among [[fandom|Transformers fans]] regarding Brawn's death in the [[shuttle attack]] mentioned above. Generally taken up in partial jest, proponents of Brawn's survival focus on Brawn's well-established toughness and the fact that he had repeatedly survived more serious shots from Megatron than the shoulder wound he received on the shuttle. For example, being shot in the ''head'', '''''twice''''', in "[[Fire on the Mountain]]" and being perfectly okay.

Additionally, Brawn appears in "[[Carnage in C-Minor]]" (an episode which takes place well after the time of his supposed death). However, due to the generally low quality of the animation in that episode, Brawn's appearance is usually dismissed as an [[animation error]]. Brawn was ''not'' mentioned as one of the interred Autobots in "[[Dark Awakening]]"... but [[Huffer]], who appeared alongside Brawn in "Carnage" ''was'' (even though Huffer's death was not portrayed in the film... in fact, he was barely in the movie at all, only being seen for about a second when [[Hot Rod]] crashes though the barrier [[Kup]] was setting up.)

It is sometimes joked that after the Decepticons abandoned the shuttle on approach to Autobot City, Brawn got up and piloted the shuttle to a safe landing somewhere off-camera. Of course, to hypothesize that, you have to ignore the fact that the shuttle went up in flames after getting shot a few times.

===Dreamwave Comics===
In Dreamwave's version of events, the Autobots allied with humankind and were eventually able to defeat the Decepticons at the turn of the century. Following the [[Ark II]] tragedy, Brawn became one of the many transformers recovered and reprogrammed by [[Lazarus]]. He was later rescued by Optimus Prime and rebuilt by Jazz’s unit. He was part of a small task force lead by Jazz assigned to stop the spread of Megatron’s deadly metal virus in the Canadian Northwest Territories and would later remain behind on Earth when [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] demanded the Autobots return to Cybertron as war criminals.

After the end of [[Shockwave (G1)| Shockwave's]] despotic rule over Cybertron, Brawn was reassigned as reinforcements to Jazz’s team on Earth. After Jazz went missing in the Decepticon assault on the Ark, however, he became a subordinate to the much-less-impressive Bumblebee. {{storylink| Night of the Combaticons}} The chance to pound the everloving scrap out of [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]' ruined form probably made up for this, even if the Combiner was later revived as part of Starscream's deal in response to [[Sunstorm]]. {{storylink|Skyfire (comic issue)}} He and the other minibots were part of an attempt to stop Sunstorm by attaching Ratchet's energy siphon. Brawn was last seen among Bumblebee's unit when they returned from the assault to the [[Orion]] and discovered that they had been (wait for it...) betrayed by Starscream.

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Brawn''' (Mini-Vehicle, 1984/1985/1986)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''15'''

: Brawn was part of the original assortment of Autobot [[Mini Vehicle]]s released in 1984. He transforms into a Land Rover Defender with a non-removable spare tire on the roof.

: There are a couple different variations of the toy. Like all of the 1984 releases, some versions have a [[rubsign]] applied to it, where the original runs do not. However, there is also a mold variation: some versions have the [[faceplate]] as part of the front body mold, while others have the faceplate as a part of the back, poking through a hole in the front body like the visor does.

: There are a fair few [[redeco]]s of Brawn from south of the border. In Brazil, a version in gold with sand-colored robot parts was released. Peru got a light tan Jeep with dark turquoise robot parts, a light-blue painted helmet and no chrome. Mexico got another sand-colored Jeep in 1986, but with maroon robot parts.

: The Brawn mold was later used to create the [[Malignus]] [[Jipe (Malignus)|Jipe]] and [[Outback]].

*'''Brawn''' (Keychain, 2003)

: The Brawn mold was [[retool]]ed by [[Hasbro]] licensee [[Fun4All]] and made as part of the second wave of ''Transformers'' keychains alongside [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]. A small plastic ring was added to the front bumper, which the metal key chain attaches to. The keychains came on pretty close reproductions of their original cardbacks from 1984. These were originally sold in chains like Hot Topic and video game stores, but over the course of several years, found their way even to the racks of Wal-Mart.

: In Japan, the four Mini Vehicles were sold in small boxes. Each one was also available in a solid-black variation.

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==Trivia==
* The mold for Brawn's figure was originally developed for the ''[[Microman]] Microchange'' toyline as a "Jeep". That toyline was meant to depict robots who transformed into toy cars, which is why Brawn's car proportions are a bit exaggerated.

* Brawn was the first figure identified in the ''Transformers'' pack-in toy catalog included in the larger boxed toys.

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==External Links==
* [http://www.toybin.org/search.php?q=1984+Autobot+Brawn ToyBin Brawn Toy Gallery]

* [http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Brawn/brawn.htm Brawn at TFU.info]

[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Children of Primus]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
[[Category: Mini Vehicles]]
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Swindle (Movie)

2008-03-03T18:14:46Z

131.151.185.124: /* IDW Prequel Comic */

{{Template:Disambig3|Swindle}}
:''Swindle is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Movie (franchise)|live action Transformers film]] [[continuity family]] and ALSO a bunch of mass-produced drones on both sides.''

[[Image:Swindle-gamedrone.jpg|thumb|250px|right|KABOOOM! Heh heh heh heh heh.]]

'''Swindle''' is one of many Decepticons ordered to [[Earth]] by [[Megatron (Movie)| Megatron]] to cause havoc for the Autobot forces there. He's well suited to the task. Swindle is not a great fighter and, more, he's dumb as a post, but he takes great glee in blowing things (any "things") to pieces and that's worth something right? Generally he leaps and hops around the battlefield like a madman, blasting explosives out of his chest cannon and laughing uncontrollably. Havoc is a given when he's around. He's also an enthusiastic but unfortunately ineffectual interrogator.

Sometimes there are lots of him.

On both sides.

== Fiction ==
[[Image: SwindleMovie.gif|thumb|left|150px|Given his intelligence stat I'm impressed he managed that coherent a sentence.]]
=== IDW Prequel Comic ===

Swindle (or ''a'' Swindle, one could argue the apparent intelligence displayed as evidence for either, really) was in charge of torturing the location of the [[All Spark]] out of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s team after their capture at [[Tyger Pax]]. Even though he killed one of the team, he failed to extract any information from them, but succeeded at pissing off [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], who dismissed all of his underlings...then promised the relieved Swindle a slow and torturous death.

Luckily for Swindle, Megatron took off into space and was lost before he was able to follow through on his threats.

{{note|Swindle inexplicably has modern-[[Earth]] car [[kibble]] on him when he is seen on pre-Earth-contact [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] centuries before the automobile was invented... while Bumblebee and the other Autobots do not. Hm.}}

===Titan Magazines===

A lone Swindle manned a Decepticon outpost that [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and his cadets stormed. Faced with Ironhide's bigger-than-Texas cannon, the lone Swindle silently surrendered. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5}}
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In a world where the Decepticons captured the [[All Spark]], Swindles are part of the occupation force on Earth. One guarded the Denver tunnel entrance to a facility where [[Optimus Prime]]'s body was being held (until Bumblebee beat him up). {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9}}

==Drones==
===''Battle For the Allspark'' online game===
[[Image:Swindle head.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Swindle units can be either Autobot (top) or Decepticon (bottom)]]

Swindle units have excellent speed, fair attack power, but very weak defense. They are differentiated primarily by their heads; Autobot versions have a faceplate with separate eyes, while the Decepticon versions have a lens-head.

===Transformers The Game (console)===
Swindles are very common foes sent against both sides, though the largest concentration of them is in [[Tranquility]]. The Decepticon ones are particularly fond of lying in wait in their car modes and springing sneak attacks on any passerby Autobot. They are stronger than the [[Scrapper (Movie)|Scrapper]] units, but not by a lot, and are generally easily disposed of.

Aside from the head model differences, Decepticon Swindles are a deep wine color, while Autobots are green.

===''Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons''===
Swindles appear as common enemies throughout the game, mainly in Tranquility and Hoover Dam, and are in both versions of the game. The Swindle body type appears as several automobile forms, including the Beater, Sportster, Notchback, Import, Longhorn (Autobot Exclusive), Gunner (Autobots Exclusive), Stunt Car (Decepticons Exclusive), Lightning Rider, Tricked Out Car, Racer, Hot Rodder, Speedster, & Scout (Decepticons Exclusive). All forms use the Autobot visor version of the head.

===Transformers Mix & Match book===
[[Image:Autobotdrone mixnmatch.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Acting like a body builder isn't going to impress chicks.]]
Swindle appeared as an Autobot drone that had been captured by [[Sector Seven]]. It defended [[Maggie Madsen]] and [[Glen Whitmann]] from [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] as they signaled for reinforcements.

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==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
*'''Swindle''' (Deluxe, 2007)

[[Image:Movie_Deluxe_Swindle_toy1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Full court shot from Thorias, really showing what a man with a cannon in his chest can do.]]

: Swindle transforms into a Chevrolet Cobalt. He's the Decepticon version, with the lens-head, and is remarkably accurate to his video game design. As with most of the Movie road vehicle toys, he replicates the car on which he's based realistically, even if the sculpt design is slightly genericized and has no official licensing.

:During transformation, his [[Automorph]]ing gimmick flips out his head/chest section on its own from his upper torso. His torso also features a spring-loaded cannon that extends when a button on his back is pressed, and the cannon structure itself can be extended from the torso to give a more impressive appearance. This cannon gimmick can also be used in car mode, where it looks like a super-turbo-nitro exhaust pipe.

:As is the standard in the Movie toyline, Swindle features reasonable articulation in robot mode, with ball-jointed shoulders, hips and wrists, and swivels at the elbows and knees. His head can barely move, but a modification may be done by the owner to increase its range of motion.

:This mold was later redecoed into [[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]].

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==Trivia==
* A squad of toy-like bright red Swindles appear in a cutscene of the console game... but as Autobots. Hm.

* Promotional renders for the console game also reveal a blue Swindle, though they never appear in this color in the game proper.

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[[Category: Decepticons]]
[[Category: Mass-produced Transformers]]
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