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Crankcase (G1)

2010-06-21T18:50:36Z

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{{disambig3|Crankcase}}
:''Crankcase is a whiny [[Decepticon]] [[Triggercon]] skidplate from the dumb [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:Crankcase slamevil.jpg|right|250px|thumb|SLAM EVIL PUPPIES!]]'''
Nobody likes '''Crankcase''', and he hates everybody and everything. Once a geeky collection of circuits and servos, Crankcase began life as a menial janitor in the Fuel-Spill Section of the [[Ministry of Energy and Nutrition]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The bullies of his youth put a huge chip on his shoulder, where he now carries a set of heavy guns. He'd rather use them on those too weak to retaliate, and then laugh in their faces while their [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] runs out. This makes him momentarily happy; then he goes back to an endless series of griping complaints about every facet of his miserable existence. A complete jerk and slag-piece, he fits fairly well into the [[Decepticon]] military, but adds very little to it. The [[Autobot]]s certainly wouldn't want him. They already have [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]].

:''French name:'' '''4x4'''
:''French-Canadian name:'' '''Grincheux''' ("Grinch")

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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Crankcase was under the command of that vapor-brained [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] millions of years ago on Cybertron, but they couldn't even beat up a bunch of pipecleaner pacifists right, and completely lost the source of all knowledge and information, the [[Underbase]]. {{storylink|The Flames of Boltax!}} ''Things only got worse after that. Oh sure, we don't know anything that actually happened to Crankcase for over four million years, but they definitely must've gotten worse. In the present day, he had a useless job serving the equally useless Decepticon [[Triumverate]]. What a bunch of bloated losers. Not that [[Straxus (G1)|Megatron II]] coming along and blowing them away made things any better... none of the Decepticon leaders could ever accomplish anything lasting, so who Crankcase was serving didn't matter. {{storylink|The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire}}'' Then his [[Triggercon]] "friends" abandoned him to go running off with some [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]. Slag-suckers—like joining a group with an even stupider name than the [[Wrecker]]s is going to be some sort of edge in combat. Odds were their commander would end up going mad with power and beat the circuits out of them, anyway. {{storylink|Matrix Quest}}

Later, some pathetic [[Primus|"God"]] possessed an even more pathetic [[Emirate Xaaron|Autobot]] and gathered Crankcase with a bunch of other Transformers to battle [[Unicron]]. Right—a swarm of mecha-ants attacking a guy the size of a planet. That was really going to work. Anyway, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|some Autobot]] made a really long and self-important speech, picked up [[Creation Matrix|some knick-knack]] he found lying around and yada yada yada, someone was probably expecting Crankcase to clean up the mess. Not a chance. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

Some new guy named [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] took over the Decepticons after that and used [[Metallikato|the scientific method]] to pick a new world to plunder. The weak little inhabitants of [[Klo]] put up no fight whatsoever, which was really pathetic. Then the Autobots showed up and got massacred, which was even more pathetic. THEN the Autobots all started coming back to life and doing annoying things like caving in Crankcase's entire skull. He knew it would come to this, he just knew it. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
''In 2009, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] brought Crankcase and the Triggercons along with him to destroy an Autobot resistance movement, but he did all the work himself and then told them to stay out of his fight with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. What was the point of bringing Crankcase along anyway, then? {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}}''

=====Another Time and Place=====
So once Bludgeon realized he was a lousy leader, his brilliant solution was to revive a leader that was even worse: Megatron. Crankcase (having his head un-smooshed by some idiot) got dragged along to [[Hydrus Four]], where Bludgeon had the lame idea of using [[Nucleon]] to revitalize their old commander. "Great, another leader who talks with his fists," thought Crankcase. Crankcase was so sure everything would go wrong, he wasn't even impressed when the Decepticons captured the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] with the [[Holocaust Trigger]] and didn't even have to raise a weapon. Big whoop. Oh sure, Crankcase took his turn torturing their captives like all the other Decepticons, but he just knew the Dinobots would get free and ruin everything, he just knew it. So it was no surprise to Crankcase when he came across the [[Micromaster]] named [[Roadhandler (G1)|Roadhandler]] about to free [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. The Dinobot commander charged Crankcase and hit him with enough force to embed the Triggercon in the far wall. {{storylink|Another Time and Place}}

====''Generation 2''====
{{note|[[Simon Furman|Some idiot]] decided that "Another Time and Place" will have no relation to G2, which is pointless as the [[Human|dumb stubby]] wrote "Another Time and Place", and it means Crankcase's skull would start out smashed.}}
[[Image:CrankcaseG2-7shooting.jpg|right|150px|thumb|My toy's head is way lamer than this.]]
Some idiot un-smooshed Crankcase's head, so he remained an active member of Bludgeon's army. That was stupid. It was only a matter of time before he would get injured again, like from Generation 2 Cybertronian acid rain, so what was the point of repairing him? No one ever listens to Crankcase, though, so he went ahead and died when the Cybertronians caved in his chassis. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

It figures that Megatron was in charge again by this time. Crankcase had no luck under Megatron before, [[Furmanism|what chance did either have now?]] {{storylink|The Power and the Glory}} You didn't think they'd win a battle against [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], now did you.
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====''Classics''====
Crankcase's complaining must've pissed off [[Jetstorm (G2 Decepticon)|someone important]], because he was assigned waste disposal duty on Bludgeon's team. Great -- like he didn't have enough to grumble about already. What's worse, he was commanded to dispose of [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]], who Bludgeon had branded a traitor. The only thing worse than hauling garbage is hauling garbage that might suddenly wake up and eat you. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

===IDW comics continuity ===
[[Image:Stormbringer3 NebulousDecepticons2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nebulos: it's... so... YOWZAH!]]
Crankcase was stuck on [[Nebulos]] with a bunch of other incompetent Decepticon redshirts that quickly got their skidplates handed to them by that [[Pretender]] [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. Yeah, like nobody expected that to happen. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}}
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===''TransTech''===
In the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] city of [[Axiom Nexus]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Needlenose]] and Crankcase assaulted what they thought was an [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] refinery, but it turned out to be a waste fuel storage depot. Eyuw. {{storylink|Around Cybertron#Around Cybertron #1|Around Cybertron #1}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Crankcase toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|What a waste of plastic.]]
*'''Crankcase''' (Triggercon, 1988)

: Crankcase transforms into a four-wheel-drive off-road vehicle of indeterminate model. Similar to the other Triggercons, he has flip-out weaponry, which in his case are two double-barreled laser cannons which deploy from his robot-mode backpack/shoulders using a gear mechanism. In vehicle mode, they flip out from his camper and through his windshield. The windshield HE JUST HAD WASHED, thank you very much. Some people...

: None of the Triggercons (or Triggerbots) were released in [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''Transformers'' lines. Figures that he gets forgotten as usual...

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Crankcase/crankcase.htm Crankcase's stupid toy at TFU.info.]''
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==Notes==
* A [[Movie (franchise)|live-action movie series]] [[homage]] character, [[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]], was released as a [[Walmart]] [[exclusive]] as a late part of the [[Movie (toyline)|live-action movie toyline]]. The [[redeco]] was originally intended to be ''this'' Crankcase, and part of the [[Universe (2008 toyline)|2008 ''Universe'' toyline]]. Notably, his head can smoosh as part of his transformation.

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Crankcase Crankcase's Universe profile at NTFA.net, like anyone cares.]
*[http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=120&size=0&start=0 Seibertron.com's Crankcase gallery.]

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Clench (G1)

2010-06-18T12:39:38Z

167.21.198.26: Undo revision 465942 by Jeysie (Talk)

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{{disambig3|Clench}}
:''Clench is a [[Decepticon]] [[Obliterator]] from the [[Generation 2]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He is also known as '''Colossus'''.''

[[Image:G2-Clench-boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|You were supposed to be this colossus! You were this great legendary thing!]]
Utterly devoted to destroying the [[Autobot]]s, the Decepticon leader '''Clench''' is fueled by anger, hatred and malevolence. He wades into battle blasting, smashing and running over anything in his path with no mercy, then shooting anything else with heavy firepower.

So naturally, he's a registered driver in [[Texas]].
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==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 2 UK====
[[Image:WarWithoutEndG2UK-Clench.jpg|left|200px|thumb|C'mon, at least shout your name and powers or something.]]
Clench was part of the Decepticon force led by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], sent to [[Earth]] to smash stuff up and lure out [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Mostly, he just drove over some parked cars. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}}
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===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:MegsOrigin2 Clench dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Insert crappy "Let me give you a hand" joke here.]]
Long before the war, a group of ex-miners including [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] took part in a violent uprising against leaders who had exploited them while pocketing the fruits of their labor. They found themselves on the lam in [[Kaon]], which is where they apparently met Clench. Clench employed these same bitter ex-miners to work as gladiators in an [[Gladiatorial combat|underground bloodsport]] (in which he also occasionally partook), placing them at greater risk than they had ever known and conditioning them to give into their murderous impulses, all while hoarding the fruits of their labor for ''himself.'' Clearly, he had thought this through.

So Megatron eventually killed him during one of the fights and took over. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2}}
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===Timelines: Generation 2: Redux===
{{comingsoon|fanclub}}
{{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G2-toy Clench.jpg|right|300px|thumb|MEGAWEAPON!]]
*'''Clench''' (Obliterator, 1993)
**''Accessories'': 6 missiles

: Clench transforms into the front half of a long-nosed truck cab of undetermined model. The back half of his vehicle form, the truck bed and container, turns into a large, double-barreled, missile-launching artillery platform that uses "gravity feed" to load a new pair of missiles for rapid firing. Pressing a button between the barrels pops up a spring-loaded targeting reticule. Both [[gimmick]]s are available in truck mode as well. In truck mode, the support strut for the artillery cannon becomes a rear-mounted, extending gripper-claw.

: He was first released as part of the "transitional" period of ''Transformers'' in the European market, in Generation 1 style packaging, yet bearing the new ''Generation 2'' Decepticon sigil.

:Despite what his tiny fictional appearance and his boxart would suggest, Clench is actually a very dark blue-green in colour. With neat little sparkles! Yay. Sparkles.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm More information on Clench at TFU.info]''
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===Generation 2===
*'''Colossus''' (Obliterator, 1994)
**''Accessories'': 6 missiles

:Clench was re-released in Europe without changes in ''[[Generation 2 (European toyline)|Generation 2]]'' proper under the name "Colossus."

===Timelines===
[[Image:Timelinestoy-ClenchG2Redux.jpg|right|thumb|300px|His name is "Clench" because that's what your fist is doing right now around your-- oh, hey, kids!]]
*'''Generation 2: Redux''' (BotCon 2010 box set)
**''Accessories'': Shield

:A [[retool]] of of ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Ultra-class [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]], Clench transforms into a six-wheeled SWAT assault truck with positionable mine-scoops and a rotating double-barreled turret on top. His right arm has a spring-loaded flip-out (non-firing) blaster cannon that can actually be deployed in vehicle mode as well. his blast shield can be mounted on his left arm, and placed on his turret in vehicle mode. It is unknown if the toy comes with Onslaught's electronics.

: Clench is part of the [[BotCon 2010]] boxed set, alongside [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]], [[Pyro#Timelines|Spark]], [[Streetwise (G1)#Timelines|Streetwise]] and [[Sky-Byte (Timelines)|Sky-Byte]].

:The original version of this toy was redecoed into [[Hardhead (G1)#Universe (2008)|Hardhead]].

{{comingsoontoy}}
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==Trivia==

* No, really, his toy's license plate says "Texas." It's also clearly some kind of European plate, so apparently this is the Texas in Europe.

[[Image:Timelines-Clenchfake.jpg|right|thumb|300px|THIS TOY REVEAL MAKES US SO ANGRY!!! BOTCON IS [[Ruined FOREVER|RUINED FOREVER]]!!!]]

* Speaking of Clench's stickers, those on his truck hood are oddly involved by Transformers standards: jagged lightning bolts that at their center feature a gunsight-target view of a red wolf in crosshairs. Exactly what this is supposed to symbolize is unclear.

* His Function is "Leader." This supposedly means he's the main baddie of 1993's line, though Hasbro Europe was pretty liberal with the "Leader" label during that time. But most of the other "Leaders" were members of multi-bot groups, and since Clench is a Decepticon sub-group of one, then it follows he's likely the head honcho of them all.

* After some crafty fans found images of [[BotCon 2010]] [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] in BotCon.com's directory structure, a (fake) photoshopped image of [[Universe (2008)|''Universe'']] [[Octane|Tankor]] was found also soon thereafter, and reported as real news. About half an hour later, the BotCon 2010 site went live, revealing Clench's true mold. Oh, those [[Fun Publications]] guys, such [[Shattered Expectations|pranksters]].

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Clench (G1)

2010-06-17T20:44:25Z

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