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{{G1cap|[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] uses a [[Slingshot (weapon)|slingshot]] as his preferred weapon. He's like a little kid, so it makes sense that would happen. |The Transformers: The Movie|6}}

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|description=[[Wheelie (G1)| Wheelie]] is a kid you don't mess, with you see, if your a [[Sharkticon (G1)| Sharkticon]], he'll knock out your teeth.
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|pageno=9
|art=Earl Norem
|year=6
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|''This page is about [[Generation 1 (franchise)|G1]]'s rhyming 'bot, but there are other Wheelies too, we kid you not! To see all the "Wheelie"s in one location, just go to [[Wheelie (disambiguation)]]!''
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:''Wheelie is an [[Autobot]], cheerful as the sun, from the [[continuity family]] of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]].''

[[Image:Wheelieg1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"You give Wheelie sass? He ''will'' kick your ass." ]]

Come hither and listen to this ballad! This song! 
Come learn about '''Wheelie''': The Wild Boy of [[Quintessa|Quintesson]]! 
For Wheelie, so small, is an Autobot child, 
But when stakes are high, he gets mean and wild! 

He is belittled by many, who call him terrible things, 
But Wheelie suffers not their cruel arrows and slings! 
You see, Wheelie ''survives''; its just what he ''does'', 
Nothing keeps him down. How is that? It's because, 
He's a survivalist expert; a self-made Autobot! 
The Hellish planet of Quintesson is where he was taught. 

Wheelie speaks in a pattern that's structured in rhyme, 
And he hangs out with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] most of the time. 
They're two of a kind; kindred spirits and such, 
Causing all sorts of trouble with their mischievous touch! 

Wheelie cares not if he's liked; popularity doesn't matter, 
And he doesn't care if his rhyming drives others mad as a hatter. 
His critics may hate him or even wish he would ''die'', 
Wheelie's reaction to them: [[Slingshot (weapon)|Here's death in your eye!]] 

{{quote|Wheelie say find friends today!|Wheelie|''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japanese)|[[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American), [[Gerhard Acktun]] (German, ''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1 - 5'', ''Chaos'' & ''Call of the Primitives''), [[Bernd Simon]] (German, ''Fight or Flee''), [[Claus Brockmeyer]] (German, The Movie TV Dub)}}

[[Image:Wheelietftmslingshot.jpg|right|250px|thumb|From early on, it was fated: It would be me that you all hated! ]]

On far off [[Quintessa]] his ship it did crash, 
Wheelie survived, but his ship turned to ash. 
Though friendless and alone, Wheelie stayed alive, 
For Wheelie is strong and the strong must survive! 

One fateful day, the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] came in search of their friends, 
So Wheelie gaily offered to help them meet their ends. 
With his confident walk and his whimsical talk, 
Wheelie earned the respect of the Mighty [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]! 

Then with the help of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and the rest, 
Wheelie returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], most can attest. 
{{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

In 2006, for all that it's worth, 
He had to bring [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[Transformation cog|cog]] down to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}}

To accomplish the task, they paired him with fast-talking [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], 
But Galvatron stranded them on Io, that villainous cur! 
{{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}}

[[Image:FFOD4 Autobots lipoles.JPG|right|250px|thumb|With beasts big and small I've had my spats, but did Wheelie deserve to fight all these bats? ]]

Being attacked by [[lipole]]s, things began to look grim, 
But on account of the fact Blurr was faster than him, 
Wheelie threw him the cog and told him to flee, 
To [[Marissa Faireborn]]'s ship and to safety. 
But the valiant Blurr refused to leave his friend, 
And so the pair of heroes fought through to the end. 
When Marissa came and helped, the lipoles got wise, 
Targeting her ship and blowing it out of the skies! 
{{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

The trio fought on, but their nerves were shaken, 
'Til [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] showed up to save their bacon! 
Though the lipoles were dispatched, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] then arrived, 
But Sky Lynx had the power to tan all of their hides! 
Their foes now defeated, the team flew to Earth, 
Completing their mission and proving their worth. 
With the cog now delivered, Metroplex came alive. 
He thrashed [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], and the dino took a dive! 
{{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

With Grimlock and Blurr, Wheelie listened to Kup, 
As he yammered on and on and refused to shut up. 
His story was about the [[Ick-Yak]]s on [[Dread (planet)|Dread]], 
But when Grimlock mentioned [[Chaos (alien)|Chaos]], Kup lost his head! 
{{storylink|Chaos (episode)|Chaos}}

When zombie Optimus Prime came under [[Quintesson]] control, 
Destruction of the Autobots became his primary goal! 
He tricked Wheelie and others into a terrible trap 
Full of missiles and explosions to turn them to scrap! 
But Wheelie survived when [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] returned 
And left the zombie Optimus behind to be burned. 
{{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

Not long after that, with no assignment or mission, 
Wheelie volunteered for a fun competition. 
But the timestream was getting all out of place, 
And Wheelie got stuck in an unending race! 
{{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

On Earth Wheelie witnessed crimes that were weird, 
As multiple landmarks just disappeared! 
The Dinobots were suspected, but he didn't buy the hype, 
Because the true criminal was an [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|ethnic stereotype]]! 
{{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

[[Image:Daniel%26wheeliesurpriseparty.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Daniel, we are out of time. Yet, Wheelie must complete this rhyme! ]]

In his biggest adventure, Wheelie searched for a way, 
To deduce the exact date of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Magnus]]'s birthday! 
He knew finding the truth would be kind of tricky, 
So he went and paired up with Daniel Witwicky. 

Their search led them straight to a storage asteroid, 
Being spied on by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (how paranoid!). 
Cyclonus took them hostage and made his demands, 
But Magnus wouldn't leave them in villainous hands! 

When Magnus arrived, he charged straight at his foe, 
But as they went at it, little did they know, 
That Wheelie snuck past them and pressed the self-destruct, 
Which meant if they lingered their deathbeds would be tucked! 

So Cyclonus retreated as the asteroid blew up, 
And Magnus saved the kids from their monumental screw up! 
As it turned out, Magnus didn't know his own birthday, 
So their entire adventure was pointless, anyway. 
{{storylink|Surprise Party}}

With other Autobots, Wheelie found [[Paradron]], 
A utopian planet that [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] lived on! 
Galvatron tried to take it and make it his base, 
But gave up when Ultra Magnus blew up the place. 
{{storylink|Fight or Flee}}

On another adventure, Wheelie didn't do much, 
But fill out the crowds, standing around and such. 
{{storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

[[Image:AutobotsCall.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Our energy was drained. No jokes have remained. ]]

Wheelie was slightly more active in his next major caper, 
As Cybertron was being drained of its energy vapor! 
Wheelie opened fire at [[Tornedron]] (a spider bathed in light), 
But Tornedron drained his life, leaving Wheelie's body white. 

Luckily for Wheelie, Tornedron was defeated, 
And his life was restored, death successfully cheated! 
{{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

Wheelie, Kup, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], and Blurr happened on a [[Gregory Swofford|human]]'s plot, 
And when they battled a [[Hate Plague|plagued]] [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], Wheelie was shot! 
{{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

He was revived by a [[Quintesson]] who tried to work faster, 
But when Optimus Prime set out, they replaced him with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]! 
{{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

====Rodimus vs. Cyclonus====

{{note|Wheelie's part in helping Hot Rod and Kup would go on. In the form of a comic with a minor [[Retcon]].}}

Before making it all the way to the Planet of [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]], 
Wheelie and friends found themselves in a funk. 
Though he was an expert pilot who could get them there fast, 
[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] showed up and their fun would not last. 
Cyclonus was challenged to battle by Hot Rod (so brave), 
But Cyclonus's power almost banished him to his grave! 
Kup then requested help and Wheelie replied 
By talking to some friends who he knew were on his side. 
To make their ship visible was what Kup had asked, 
So [[Grapple]] and <strike>[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]</strike> [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] did so... ''and fast''! 
When Hot Rod began winning, Cyclonus became a goner 
He admitted this act was one without honor. 
They at last made it to Junkion and found all their friends. 
Now watch [[Wheelie (G1)#The Transformers cartoon|the rest of the movie]] to see how it ends. 
{{storylink|Rodimus vs. Cyclonus}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers'' comic=====

In 2010, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] hatched a plan, 
To gobble up spaceships as fast as he can! 
To accomplish this, he built a mechanical creature 
With huge, toothy jaws as its primary feature. 

[[Image:Transformers2010MangaIssue5PrimeEnergyDefense01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Want to compensate for being a tiny one? Then just buy yourself an enormous gun! ]]

The Autobots found out and were quickly deployed, 
Vowing not to give up until the beast was destroyed! 
Wheelie was among the heroes enlisted to fight, 
And helped [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] sneak inside the gargantuan blight. 
Rodimus blew up the creature with a smartly placed bomb, 
And when the Autobots celebrated, Wheelie joined right along. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 1}}

When planet [[Feminia]] and its [[Prime Energy Tower]] 
Came under attack from Decepticon power, 
Wheelie joined the Autobots in defending the thing, 
Though their best efforts proved futile against [[Predaking]]. 

Observing the fight, Wheelie compared it to a game, 
Prompting [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] to lash out, calling him stupid and lame! 
The Decepticons eventually lost and were driven away, 
When the [[Omnibot (G1)|Omnibot]]s arrived to help win the day! 

{{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5}}
{{-}}

=====''The Great Transformer War'' comic=====

During a battle between [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]], 
Wheelie mocked and insulted the defeated [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]! 
But Wheelie's cries of joy soon became cries of horror, 
When the Terrorcons brainwashed the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]] warrior! 

The [[Cohesive Control Liquid]] had seized Computron's mind 
And forced him to join up with the Decepticons' kind! 
Luckily, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] was there, observing the fight, 
And used a special device to turn everything right! {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 2}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japanese)

[[Image:HM ep01 Wheelie beats Tantrum.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Headmasters'' Wheelie could be as snarky as you please! His words to Chromedome? "It's too late for apologies!" ]]

By 2011, Wheelie was too petulant to rhyme, 
He blamed everything on [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], like, ''all'' of the time. 
Although a jerk to the core, Wheelie was not all alone, 
He hung out with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]], and the two were quite danger-prone. 

While chilling on [[Earth]], the pair were met with surprise 
By the titanic Trypticon with glowing death in his eyes! 
The Decepticon gave chase, but Wheelie outsmarted their foe, 
Luring him onto a busted bridge, where he slipped and fell below. 

They then stowed away on the [[Trainbot]]s and returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], 
To help battle the Decepticons with their (limited) brawn. 
Daniel, the wuss, was soon attacked by [[Tantrum]], 
So Wheelie had to pound the bull's head like a drum! {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

Before leaving with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to face matters unpleasant, 
[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] bequeathed to Wheelie a very special present. 
It was a mix-tape of music he'd composed on his own, 
And Wheelie played it after Blaster died in battle alone. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

As Hot Rod searched Earth for the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] he'd lost, 
[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] told Wheelie to believe in him, no matter the cost. 
Wheelie brushed off Kup's words, thinking them silly, 
And was acting all snarky, at least up until he 
Was interrupted by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]], who had a better attitude, 
So he offered to help instead of standing 'round being rude. 
Wheelie, however, couldn't help them one whit, 
So he went to an arcade with Daniel to complain about it. 
He thought himself far more useful than the adults all around him, 
And yet even at video games, ''Daniel'' proceeded to pound him. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

Next, Blaster's untimely death sent Wheelie into depression. 
"No one cares Blaster's gone" was his bitter impression. 
But Wheelie was wrong; Rodimus Prime cared quite a bit. 
He knew Blaster's death was a mistake and sought to rectify it! 
So Blaster was revived as Twincast, much to Wheelie's elation, 
And thus began the Great Cassette Operation! {{storylink|The Great Cassette Operation}}

[[Image:WheelieRebellionBeast01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wheelie, a robot, is big and metallic, 
But Fortress's cannon is big and ''most phallic''. ]]

Daniel and Wheelie then stowed away on [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]]'s battleship 
And accompanied the Autobots on their perilous trip 
To the [[Beastformer]] homeworld, known simply as [[Beast (planet)|Beast]], 
Where the 'Cons were causing trouble (to say only the least). 
Wheelie and Daniel then tried to rescue the Beastformer slaves, 
But were imprisoned ''themselves'' in the dungeon-like caves! 
Luckily for Wheelie, the Headmasters were there. 
They drove off all the villains and rescued the pair. {{storylink|Rebellion on Planet Beast}}

The meteorite [[Metamorphose]] then threatened Autobot space, 
By warping anything metal in its magnetic embrace! 
Only ''Daniel'' was safe. Only ''he'' could defeat it. 
Wheelie cheered Daniel on—he was ''sure'' he could beat it! 
But Daniel was a crybaby, a big blubbering sack, 
So Wheelie chided his buddy and cut him no slack. 
Daniel ''eventually'' manned up and blew up the rock, 
But Wheelie, ''such a jerk'', continued to mock. {{storylink|Approach of the Demon Meteorite}}

The Trainbots later invited both Wheelie and Dan 
To come visit their birthplace in far-off [[Japan]]. 
Soon after arriving, [[Sixshot]] made some trouble, 
Stirring up the Autobots, who countered on the double! 
The Headmasters went searching all over the planet, 
While Dan and Wheelie went shopping and...well, ''dammit'', 
The Trainbots shopped ''with'' them, and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] made a fuss, 
Causing Daniel to run away crying. (Jeez, what a ''wuss''.) {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

Wheelie later observed as the Autobots fought, 
To reach [[Vector Sigma]] first, for if they could not, 
The Decepticons would get there, and then there'd be trouble, 
Because they'd use Sigma's [[Cybertonuron]] to turn the Autobots to rubble! 

But they were wrong—[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] had a more menacing scheme: 
To blow up all of Cybertron! How terribly obscene! 
The bombs could not be removed, much to Wheelie's frustration, 
Leaving Rodimus to call for the planet's evacuation. 
And so Wheelie was forced to watch his planet go KER-PEW! 
Poor little guy...his day kind of ''blew''. 
Rodimus then departed on an outer space quest, 
Leaving [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to raise Wheelie (or at least do her best). {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

[[Image:WheelieEnergonGlutton01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wheelie likes to eat, drink and be merry, His favorite cereal is ''Frankenberry''. ]]

Crippled with sorrow over Cybertron's end, 
The Autobots threw a party to help their wounds mend. 
Wheelie, the hedonist, had too much to drink, 
And got drunk and passed out, that little rat-fink! 
{{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}}

Along with Daniel and Spike, Wheelie went to Peru 
To prevent the members of the Decepticon crew 
From making a volcano blow up sky-high, 
Leaving the villagers below to helplessly fry. 

As the mountain erupted, they approached in [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], 
But he couldn't beat the heat, no matter how hard he tried! 
So Wheelie tried once again, this time with the Trainbots, 
But the heat drove ''them'' off too, just like they were lame-bots! 
With no options left, they evacuated the town, 
Saving the villagers while the magma poured down. {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}}

On Athenia, Daniel was planting some seeds 
And began watering them to tend to their needs. 
As Wheelie observed this dull gardening show, 
He was shocked when he saw [[buridanka|the plant]] starting to grow! 
The plant was a creature from the world of [[Darhos]] 
That could grow to great heights, turning slimy and gross! 

[[Image:WheelieHeadOnFortMax01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Excuse me, good sir, I'm beggin' your pardon, But might Wheelie assist in planting your spice garden?" ]]

Wheelie and Daniel called to Spike for some aid. 
Spike then looked to Arcee (since she was their maid). 
But they could do nothing, and the plant ''almost'' trashed their base, 
Luckily, Fortress wiped it out, leaving not even a trace. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

When Wheelie and Daniel went to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] on a geological mission, 
They found that the red planet was in perilous condition! 
Scorponok had planted bombs near the planet's core, 
And once they went off, Mars would then be no more! 
Then the pair were attacked by the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]] [[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]], 
Who easily abducted the duo of lame whippersnappers! 

Imprisoned deep underground in a series of caves, 
Daniel concocted a scheme to trick the foul knaves. 
He staged an argument with Wheelie and even a fake brawl, 
Which let him secretly send an Autobot distress call! 
The Headmasters then arrived and rescued the youths, 
But could not find the time bombs. (What terrible sleuths!) {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}}

Returned to Athenia, Wheelie looked on in fright, 
Praying Fortress would survive his terrible fight! 
When they found that their leader had been injured severely, 
Wheelie swore to the skies that the Decepticons would pay dearly! 
But Wheelie's swearing and screeching couldn't stop what was fated; 
Mars was blown into bits and [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]] was created. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}}

With the threat of Mega Zarak now looming ahead, 
Wheelie admitted to Daniel his feelings of dread. 
But Daniel wouldn't hear it; he knew Fortress was stronger, 
He'd had enough of Wheelie's crap, and he'd take it no longer. 
So with inhuman strength (and overreacting a bit), 
He shoved Wheelie into a lake after throwing a fit. 

Before Wheelie could crush him with his mighty robot fist, 
A flying saucer zoomed past. (Oh my gawd, aliens ''do'' exist!) 
Daniel thought that the alien might be friend and not foe, 
So he tried to use a keyboard to communicate with it and, ''whoah'', 
Daniel was completely wrong—about as wrong as you can ''get''. 
The alien was ''[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]''. (He was off by more than a bit.) 
Humiliated by his actions, Daniel started to weep, 
Leaving Wheelie no choice but to soothe the little creep. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}}

When the planet called [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]] sent an SOS into space, 
Asking for [[Energon cube]]s to save their dying race, 
The Autobots, always kindly, agreed to give them their aid, 
And Wheelie and Daniel tagged along to see the delivery made. 
Then the Decepticons attacked! But Spike ''knew'' that they would, 
And he set up a small cargo ship just so that they could 
Slip away in the battle and deliver the cubes. 
Wheelie and Daniel laughed out loud at the Decepticon rubes. 
And so the cargo was delivered and Sandra was saved! 
Wheelie didn't do much this time, but at least he behaved. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

[[Image:WheelieHivePlanet01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Normally, this would bring Wheelie to tears, But he wouldn't touch a ''bug'' in a million years! ]]

When the Decepticons [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] showed up at last, 
[[Brainstorm]] told Wheelie all about their mysterious past. 
He revealed unto Wheelie that they used to be friends, 
But when they joined Scorponok, they could not make amends. {{storylink|Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!}}

Wheelie and the Autobots then found themselves stuck in a race 
To prevent the Decepticons from plundering space. 
The planet of [[Hive (planet)|Hive]] was the villains' first victim, 
But they were thwarted when the Autobots arrived to evict 'em. {{storylink|Fight to the Death on Planet Hive!!}}

As for the twin planets of [[Twin Star|Sperity and Toruin]] , 
Galvatron planned to ransack them and bring them to ruin. 
As Sperity was attacked for its huge energy stash, 
Wheelie was sent to Toruin before he could do anything rash. 

And on that barren planet Wheelie made a find: 
The people of Sperity had left their old planet behind! 
They had taken their energon far away from there, 
Which is why Galvatron couldn't find it anywhere! 
Eventually, Galvatron was forced to just call it quits, 
And the Autobots left the Speritans to start over in the pits. {{storylink|Battle for Defense of the False Planet}}

At ''[[Video Challenger]]'', Daniel proved very skilled, 
But Wheelie's reaction to him was a little less thrilled. 
So he challenged the kid to shoot an apple that he held up, 
But Daniel shot his ''arm'' instead when his aim got fouled up. 

A penal colony on [[Daros]] was their next landing point, 
So they could rescue some war criminals being slaughtered in the joint. 
One of the criminals, though, tried to cut Daniel's neck, 
And Wheelie was helpless to stop him, but hey, ''what the heck''. 
As it turns out, the criminal wasn't really ''that'' bad, 
And when he let Daniel go, no one ''really'' got mad. 
He gave information that helped them unravel a serious knot 
And let them defeat MegaZarak. (Though they hadn't found his weak spot.) {{storylink|Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!}}

[[Image:WheelieHeadFormationFriendship01.jpg|right|250px|thumb|So when Wheelie is horny his eyes glow like the Devil's? This is unsettling on ''soooo'' many levels... ]]

The Decepticons drew them next to the jungle planet [[Paradise]], 
Where they were plundering energy and doing things not-so-nice! 
So with the Headmasters setting out to solve their enemy's tests, 
Daniel and Wheelie met [[Papika]] and her voluptuous... ''face''. 
Wheelie was smitten quite quickly, and his eyes glowed deep red. 
It's best not to imagine the thoughts that went through ''his'' head. 

After learning to fish, Wheelie tried his best to impress her 
By transforming into a car, but his skills proved the lesser 
When compared to Papika's; she could talk to beasts large and small, 
Making it clear that Wheelie couldn't impress her ''at all''. 
Later, the Headmasters won the day, just like they always did, 
And Wheelie gave up on Papika. (She was out of your league, kid.) {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}}

On their travels, the Decepticons proved formidable foes, 
Having stolen energy from six planets. Why? ''Lord only knows''. 
Approaching [[Pirate Planet]], Wheelie spotted something quite freaky: 
An old space pirate ship that was battered, damaged and leaky. 
And then an awesome adventure immediately began 
Involving pirates! And pyramids! Treasure! [[Clone (subgroup)|Clones]]! And...''aw, man''. 
Wheelie sat the whole thing out, letting Daniel have all the fun. 
Of all the adventures to miss, he had to skip out on ''that'' one? {{storylink|Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship}}

As [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] struggled in vain to crack Scorponok's secret code, 
Daniel and Wheelie tried to help him cross that long, bumpy road. 
Unfortunately, their "help" proved far too insufficient, 
And they had to start over from scratch (not very efficient). 
Then Sixshot attacked and blew [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] into bits, 
And Wheelie attended his funeral between crying fits. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}}

From the Athenia base, Wheelie watched Spike blow his top; 
The 'Cons were ransacking Earth and weren't going to stop! 
They were blaming Chromedome for the team's lack of success, 
But Arcee told them to chill and to give it a rest. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}}

[[Image:IRiskMyLifeForWheelie01.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Wheelie likes to blame Chromedome for all that he can. He's a serious douchebag in this cartoon from Japan. ]]

On a mission to Earth, Chromedome had just one simple job, 
To keep Spike from getting killed, but that big robotic knob 
Screwed it all up and Spike went into intensive care. 
Daniel forgave Chromedome, but Wheelie wouldn't let it end there. 
Chromedome tried to say sorry, but Wheelie said it wasn't enough. 
Even by ''Wheelie's'' standards, he was treating Chromedome pretty rough. 

As Spike recovered from surgery, Wheelie was then put to work, 
Helping to find Mega Zarak's weakspot for Chromedome (that ''jerk''). 
After tens of minutes of labor, they all figured it out: 
The weakspot was on his chest beyond all shadow of a doubt! {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

With the Decepticons banished from Earth, the Autobots needed aid 
In gathering [[Plasma energy]] bombs so the humans would not be afraid. 
To accomplish this goal, Wheelie offered to call on friends that he knew, 
But Daniel laughed in his face! Wheelie was friendless and a ''fibber'', too! 

Then much to Daniel's surprise, Wheelie proved him totally wrong, 
When his good "friends" [[Pointblank]], [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] came along! 
Those Autobots were great warriors! Daniel was very impressed! 
But at being called Wheelie's "friends" the trio became very distressed. 
As it turns out, they ''weren't'' his "friends"; Wheelie was an absolute liar! 
They were his superior officers! His robo-pants were on fire! {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

With Wheelie's good "friends" now turned into powerful [[Targetmaster]]s, 
The veterens began insulting the obsolete Headmasters. 
In front of Daniel and Wheelie, Pointblank came down on Chromedome, 
Who feared the after effects of the disrespect he was shown. 
But Daniel and Wheelie didn't respect Chromedome any less 
(If they respected him ''at all'' is, well, ''anyone's'' guess). {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2)}}

[[Image:TheWheelieSwordIsInDanger01.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Okay, sure, Wheelie. ''Whatever you say.'' Daniel can't be a Headmaster (in ''this'' continuity, anyway). ]]

While set down on planet Master, Wheelie became full of himself, 
Vowing to become a Headmaster by improving fitness and health. 
Daniel rolled his eyes and laughed out loud; Wheelie's dreams were too silly. 
Wheelie told Daniel he could ''never'' be one; he was too fleshy and frilly. 
Very early the next morning, Wheelie snuck outside for a run, 
Only to be captured by Sixshot, whose evil scheme had begun! 

Sixshot threatened to dip Wheelie in acid if Fortress didn't agree 
To give up the [[Master Sword]]'s secrets and to do it quickly! 
Pointblank coldly suggested they just let Wheelie melt and die, 
But Daniel and Chromedome disagreed! They'd save the little guy! 
Going against orders, the pair snuck inside of Scorponok, 
With Daniel using his size to sneak past the energy locks. 

They got Wheelie out safely, but alas, their rescue was too late. 
Fortress had just handed over his secrets! Well, ain't that just ''great''? 
Furious at the trio for leaving the ship without orders, 
He gave them a mop and a bucket and said to wash ''all'' the quarters. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}}

Thanks to Wheelie's epic failure, the Decepticons took what they stole 
And began construction of the [[Zarak Shield]] as their ultimate goal. 
As the Headmasters traversed Master to thwart the sinister plan, 
Wheelie stood ontop of Battleship Maximus, hanging with Dan. 
They were startled by [[Weirdwolf]], who had concocted a plan all his own, 
He'd set bombs on the ship and didn't want their cover to be blown! 
Weirdwolf's plan was a success; the bombs completely ruined the ship 
And with his fancy new shield, Zarak prepared to beat on the crip. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}}

While [[Raiden]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] worked double-time on repairs, 
Wheelie and Dan found themselves useless to help with such affairs. 
As the grown-ups worked diligently to create tactics and plans, 
The kids went to play video games at their elder's demands. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

With the Maximus repaired, the Autobots set off into space 
After Mega Zarak whom they ''once again'' had to chase. 
In an effort to kill time, Wheelie had his ''greatest'' idea yet: 
He and Daniel would see what it was like inside a laser turret! 
Then the turret was damaged with Daniel still stuck inside, 
And jettisoned away from the ship; Wheelie just about ''cried''. 
Daniel made it back (with Sixshot's help), much to Wheelie's relief; 
If he had caused Daniel's death, Wheelie would have been crippled with grief! {{storylink|My Friend Sixshot!}}

Sixshot may have saved Daniel, but he was still no Autobot friend 
And challenged Chromedome to a duel where he'd surely meet his end. 
Wheelie, that eavesdropping punk, heard about the whole situation 
And ran and told Daniel, who wasn't keen on the confrontation. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}}

Because of that stupid duel, Mega Zarak made it to Earth first, 
Once again, it was ''all'' Chromedome's fault (that guy is really the ''worst''). 
Daniel was busy pouting, thinking Sixshot had died in the fight. 
Wheelie teased the brat, anyway (never one to pass on a slight). 
They eventually reached Earth, but tragedy wasn't far behind: 
Spike's plane crashed down in the Andes and they were all in a bind! 
Wheelie followed his good buddy, who had to rescue his mother, 
And Daniel saved the day, yet again! A true hero! (''Oh brother...'') {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}}

[[Image:FinalWheelieOhSoGay01.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The love between a boy and a robot sings a beautiful song. Not quite as beautiful is this giant robo-shlong. ]]

It turned out Scorponok's master plan involved blowing up the Earth 
And gathering up the released energy (which was of tremendous worth). 
With friends and justice, the Autobots joined hands in formation 
And prevented Scorponok's insidius detonation! 
Mega Zarak destroyed and the Decepticons driven away, 
Wheelie and Daniel were left with only goodbyes to say. 
Wheelie promised to visit Daniel again when he was older, 
And though they were apart, their passions would forever smolder. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

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=====''The Headmasters'' comic=====
[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wheelie knows of many joys, best of all is supple young boys! ]]

Shortly after the defeat of [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]], 
[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and began to attack! 
Wheelie, unprepared, took a kick right to the face. 
All can agree he was put in his place! 

When [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] took hostage [[Carly]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]], 
[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] went berserk and started to strike! 
Sending the [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Cassette dinosaurs]] running back home, 
Soundblaster was left open to an attack from [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. 

As the Autobots left Earth, Wheelie and Daniel said "Goodbye." 
They cuddled and they snuggled and started to cry. 
{{storylink|The Headmasters issue 8}}
{{-}}
=====''15 Go! Go!'' comics=====
[[Image:Wheelie15.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Aw, little Wheelie's just curious! ([[Teletraan 10]] will be furious.) ]]

[[Teletraan 15]]'s panties were so frilly and white, 
But when Wheelie peeked, [[Teletraan 10]] took this as a slight! 
10 taught him a lesson with a kick from her high heel 
That split open his head and ground his face into meal! 

[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] then showed up to give that perv Wheelie a scolding, 
And then hugged poor 15, whose spine would need some remolding! 
{{storylink|Wheelie Volume}}
{{-}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''The Transformers''====
{{note|If the part's in italics, don't look away; it's merely to show that it's from the UK.}}

[[Image:Wheeliefurmanism.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Though his speech filters through a rhyming prism, Wheelie still can manage a [[Furmanism]]! ]]

=====Marvel UK=====

''Not especially far did poor little Wheelie roam, 
''Still, all things considered, he called [[Quintessa|Quintesson]] his home. 
''So for Rodimus Prime he made himself quite the spy, 
''And routinely reported on what the locals would try. 

''The rescue of Wreck-Gar was his biggest claim to fame, 
''And that's how Wheelie helped to spoil the Quintessons' name. 
{{storylink|Space Pirates!}}''

====Generation 2====

Later, in the present, Wheelie wasn't much seen, 
He could've been too young, if you know what that means? 
Still, one could glimpse him out and about in this abode... 
Hey check it out, there's Wheelie! He's right there on the road! 
{{storylink|The Power and the Glory}}
{{-}}

===Big Looker storybooks===

[[Image:Wildboyofquintessonbattle.jpg|right|250px|thumb|So you think that Wheelie's stupid and just hate his guts? Well Wheelie's ten times cooler than ''you'' are, you sniveling putz! ]]

When Wheelie went on a space trip with his mom and his dad, 
They crashed down on [[Quintessa|Quintesson]] and their ship was damaged quite bad! 
Poor Wheelie, so young, lost both of his parents that day, 
And now with nowhere to go, he had no choice but to stay. 

But the [[Quintesson]]s, those meanies, didn't like Wheelie one bit, 
So they threw him first in a dungeon, then in a [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] pit! 
Wheelie, however, was not ''about'' to be killed, 
As it turns out, in gymnastics, Wheelie was very skilled! 
Using the gangplank as a springboard, he made his escape, 
Then fled into the jungle to live off the land like an ape! 

An undetermined time after that, a spoiled brat named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], 
Went on a space trip with his homies and, well, isn't it odd, 
They crash-landed on Quintesson just like Wheelie did? 
Except none of them died like the parents of ''that'' kid. 

No sooner had they landed, they were menaced by danger; 
The Quintessons were attacking, but what's even ''stranger'', 
Is that Wheelie saved their lives, launching fireballs at the villains, 
All the while bustin' mad rhymes that were krunk, phresh and illin'. 

Wheelie then led his new friends to his damaged old spaceship, 
And Hot Rod began on repairs so they all could make the trip, 
Away from Quintesson and they needed to leave ''soon'', 
For the Quintessons had returned with some Sharkticon goons! 

Hot Rod repaired the spaceship and just ''barely'' in time, 
And Wheelie escaped with his friends, his health and his rhymes. {{storylink|The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson}}

===3H comics===
[[Image:Departure-WheelieDaniel.jpg|right|300px|thumb|For Daniel only Arcee cried, but alas poor Wheelie also died! ]]

With [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Dr. Fujiyama]] in tow, the Autobots were quite screwed. 
It seems a legion of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbirds]] were in a terrible mood! 
With Wheelie injured thanks to a shot in the back, 
Scar-faced Daniel realized the villains would cut them no slack. 

Prepared to die to stop the evil hordes, 
Wheelie told Daniel these few final words: 

{{quote|"All through our lives, I've been your friend. But now it's time for this to end."}}

With a grenade pin pulled, signalling doom, 
Daniel ended their friendship with a massive ''Kaboom''! 
{{storylink|Departure}}

[[Image:Wheeliebrawntapoutescape.jpg|right|300px|thumb|To what universe does this Wheelie go? From Nightbird death? We'll never know! ]]

Centuries passed, with Wars both Great and of Beast, 
And once again [[Unicron]] was prepared to feast! 
An alternate Wheelie was poached from his home, 
And locked in the [[Cauldron]] where no one could roam. 

He would fight other Transformers till death, either one; 
The loser would feed his [[spark]] to hungry Unicron! 
Trapped in a cage, Wheelie was doomed to meet [[Primus|his maker]], 
However, he was saved by [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]! 

He escaped with the others, through a portal they were hurled, 
Towards perhaps his home universe, a return to his world! 
{{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Wheeliedw.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wheelie's gone feral! (Let's hope he's sterile.) ]]

{{note|Believe it or not, just like in Japan, Wheelie did not rhyme once, much to the joys of many a fan.}}

Although [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] promised peace to one and all, 
Wheelie was smart and for that ruse he did not fall. 
He joined a team along with [[Gnaw]], his [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] pet. 
Together they strove to unveil Shockwave's evil threat. 

[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] wasted no time in joining their side, 
But thought Gnaw was attacking and beat his ugly hide. 
Wheelie didn't take this well and thought Prime a brute, 
So in retaliation, he bit the Commander's boot! 
{{storylink|Passive Aggression}}

{{-}}

===IDW comics continuity===
{{ongoing}}
[[Image:Wheeliesurvival.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Wheelie is sad, for once again he's been had! ]]

All that Wheelie ever wanted was to help one and all, 
But the bigger, tougher Autobots thought he was too small. 
Then finally, one day, Wheelie at last got his due, 
And then radiation malfunctioned his ship—Wheelie cried boo-hoo! {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

Wheelie sent out a transmission, hoping someone might help. 
[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] got the call but completely ignored the whelp! {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}}

So since no Autobot cared if Wheelie lived or died, 
His ship crashed into a planet, and its systems were fried! 

The foul creatures of that world towered great heights over him, 
And when he tried [[Universal greeting|greeting]] [[Chaosteros|one]], it just tore off his limb! 
Wheelie got it back later, so he wasn't ''totally'' sunk, 
But the place where he found it stunk ten times worse than a skunk. 

Alas, poor Wheelie had to dig through poop piles in vain. 
And after all of ''that'', transforming caused him great pain. 
The trail of a crashed ship was what he next embarked upon, 
But he then found that it had been piloted by Decepticons! 

An innocent [[Varta|alien]] was being tortured by [[Spectro]] and [[Spyglass]], 
So Wheelie swooped in like a superhero and saved the shmuck's ass. 
And for that poor guy's sake, Wheelie had saved him just in time, 
So the grateful little guy taught Wheelie how to rhyme! 

And Varta (the alien) even had a ship that flew! 
To get it up and running, Wheelie's power source would do. 
Together, the friends both prepared to leave the wretched place, 
But their dreams where shattered when Spyglass shot Varta in the face! 

The Decepticons took the ship and left Wheelie to his doom, 
But he surprised all the 'Cons and made the ship go kaboom! 
One year after that, he and Varta had built a home, 
And from then on, his fate Wheelie would no longer bemoan! 
{{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

But Wheelie would not spend eternity trapped in that place. 
At last he found a ship that would travel through space. 
He didn't make it far, only just [[LV-118|next door]], 
Where he once again was left alone and sore. 
As time began to take its toll on poor Wheelie's brain, 
He began playing music to keep himself sane. 

One day he saved Rodimus from an early end, 
But claimed to not remember his Autobot friend. 
Together with Rodimus and [[Garnak|some other guy]], 
Wheelie stole another ship and returned to the sky. 
{{storylink|Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination}}

While their trip back to Cybertron was a success, 
Years of war had left the planet a mess. 
The only ones there were [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], 
Who gladly got on Wheelie and Rodimus's ride. 

Cybertron was occupied by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s [[Sweep]]s, 
And Wheelie had to defend himself against one of the creeps. 
The Autobots knew they could waste no more time, 
They had to report this invasion to Optimus Prime! 
{{storylink|Space Opera Act 2: Out of the Silent Planet}}

Their motley crew traveled to the planet of [[Earth]], 
Where Wheelie was greeted with plenty of mirth. 
He was reunited with the Autobots at [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] 
Where his comrades finally stopped to listen to him, it would seem. 
{{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix}}

When [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] seized control of the [[Kimia Facility|Kimia]] station, 
Omega Supreme was the first on the list for total devastation. 
Along with [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], Wheelie was assigned as a scout, 
But when he sniped a Sweep he gave their position out! 
Pinned down by the horde, it looked as if their lives would be gone 
Until they were suddenly rescued by the heroic... ''Megatron''? 
{{storylink|Chaos Part Two: Numbers}}

Things only got worse as the Decepticons began to merge, 
Creating the [[Deceptigod]]; a most terrible scourge! 
Wheelie fell back with the others as the monster did advance 
And it destroyed Omega Supreme, who didn't stand a chance. 
{{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}}

Wheelie could do nothing but scramble in the huge creature's wake, 
But luckily [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] was around to make Optimus break 
Open the Matrix so its energy could be released. 
And with no thanks to Wheelie, the monster's threat suddenly ceased. 
{{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}

With his mind not so well after years of taking flight, 
Wheelie sought active duty to keep his brain going right. 
So he accompanied Hardhead and Garnak with a smile, 
Guarding the sinister [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] in self-imposed exile! 

On [[Arduria]], Wheelie became doscombobulated, 
When [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] had Jhiaxus fiercely liberated! 
In pursuit of [[Regenesis]], the villains immediately fled 
To the distant LV system (leaving Wheelie filled with dread). 
{{storylink|Syndromica (1)}}

{{-}}

===Bee in the City===
[[Transcendent Technomorph|A bunch of guys]] mistook [[Bumblebee (Animated)|'Bee]] for someone named "Wheelie" 
As well as [[Hot Shot (Armada)|some]] [[Side Burn (RID)|other]] [[Cheetor (BW)|individuals]] whom he never was, really. 
{{storylink|Bee in the City}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===

In the distant year 2010, things were looking quite bleak: 
[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had seized command from [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], that psychotic freak! 
Most of the Autobots were now dead, buried and gone 
Because Shockwave used the [[Zel Quartz]] to destroy [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]!

But Wheelie had survived alongside [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] 
And along with some others, they travelled backward in time 
To 2003, before Shockwave had gone totally nuts 
And squarely kicked all of the Decepticons' butts. 

And yet it wasn't ''Wheelie'' who ended up saving the day; 
[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] wound-up thwarting the Decepticons (in his own stupid way). 

With Shockwave's sinister future now erased from the timeline, 
Wheelie vanished into nothingness, leaving sparkling starshine. 
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Wheelie toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|You can transform him in a snap! But he will still look like crap. ]]
*'''Wheelie''' (Mini Vehicle, 1986)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-80'''

: Wheelie's transformation does not go very far, he turns into a generic "futuristic car". Surprisingly enough, the fans' fancy he tickles, as he's the only new mold of the third-year [[Mini Vehicle]]s.

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed much later on, into an old friend of Prime's who was named [[Dion#Generation 1|Dion]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Wheelie/wheelie.htm More on Wheelie you will know, at TFU.info]''

===Transformers Collection===
*'''Future Cybertron''' (Transformers Collection, 2005)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF-20'''

: Wheelie was reissued in a ''[[The Transformers Collection]]'' set. [[Targetmaster]] [[Kup (G1)#Transformers Collection|Kup]] and [[Recoil#Transformers Collection|Recoil]], you also did get! This reissue's different in an unexpected way; where the old face was orange, the new one is gray!

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/Wheelie/wheelie.htm More information on reissue Wheelie, found at TFU.info. No, really!]''

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===Universe (2008)===
[[Image:Wheelielegendsuniverse.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bumblebee swine, your alt mode's mine! ]]
*'''Wheelie''' (Legends, 2009)
**''Series:'' G1 Series
:Right along with many other Mini Vehicles from Generation 1, ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Wheelie was released as a [[Legends Class|Legends]] figure for pocket-sized fun. To make the rhyming one a little neater, he now transforms into a "[[Junkion (planet)|Junk Planet]] speeder!"<ref>Wheelie's cardback calls him this, assuming Hasbro's not taking the piss.</ref> Hasbro was thoughtful, and kept Wheelie armed. They sculpted a [[Slingshot (weapon)|slingshot]]! Enemies be alarmed!

:If an evil redeco of this Wheelie toy you lack, ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|ROTF]]'' [[Shadow Striker (ROTF)|Shadow Striker]] is this Wheelie in black!

{{-}}

===Henkei! Henkei!===
*'''Minibot Spy Team''' (Multi-pack, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-19'''

:The same sculpt as the above ''Universe'' toy, this Wheelie is not exactly the same boy. ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Wheelie has colors more mellow, as over in Japan, he's light orange-yellow. He comes packed with two other Minibots totaling three, though [[Warpath (G1)#Henkei! Henkei!|Warpath]] and [[Cosmos (G1)#Henkei! Henkei!|Cosmos]] are most certainly not for free.

===Generations===
[[Image:Generations china import deluxe wheelie.jpg|300px|thumb|Blasting his enemies right off their feet, With these speakers buffing rhymes with all these phat beats.]]
*'''Wheelie''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Accessories'': Two speakers, slingshot/blaster

:Wheelie's release in ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'', was [[exclusive]] to some locations. [[Toys"R"Us]] and Asia are where he was seen, because Hasbro is most certainly quite mean. Of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|Jazz]], he is a retool.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-generations-classics-30-35/transformers-generations--movie-series-asia-exclusives-174569/ For information on this toy, this site's help you should employ!]</ref> The guy who devised that must be a fool! Transforming from a sports car with [[Jazz (Movie)|Pontiac Solstice]] headlights, into a robot with a new head, who's ready for some fights. For accessories, he comes with two speakers that are standard to this mold. They're [[C joint|clip-on attachments]] that can deploy from his doors, which never get old. Now, instead of this mold's standard gun, Wheelie decided to have more fun: His mighty teal slingshot is included here, and in it's blaster shape in incites fear!

:His [[package art]] has been changed from Jazz, too. He's been given a head and colors, all new! It's all rather sad the artists thought they were done, because Wheelie is depicted holding Jazz's gun!

:This mold was redecoed twice in its original and unmodified state. Toys of ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' [[Ricochet (Headmasters)#United 2|Stepper]] and ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Longarm (SG)|Longarm]] did it certainly create. For [[Retool#Gang-molded alternate parts|pretools]], ''Timelines'' [[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]] had utilized the mold's alternate head. ''Timelines'' [[Kick-Off (G1)#Timelines|Kick-Over]], meanwhile, was [[retool]]ed with a new head-sculpt, instead.
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==Notes==
[[Image:ToyFair1986-TFpage01a.jpg|thumb|250px| My design would've had a touch of blue, but [[Hasbro]] said "that just won't do". ]]
[[Image:FriedmanAuctionWheelieModelEdit.jpg|thumb|250px|Thank goodness I'm not black and yellow, I might be confused with [[Bumblebee (disambiguation)|some other fellow!]]]]
*In the first [[commercial]] where Wheelie did appear, his voice didn't sound anywhere near! Although Frank Welker did the gig, Wheelie's voice came much deeper, dig? In fact — and we're sure you'll all agree — he sounded like the [[Wikipedia:The Smurfs|Smurfs']] pal [[Wikipedia:Johan and Peewit|Peewit]]! (That's pronounced "Peewee", you see.)
*In an [[Toy Fair 1986|old catalog]], Wheelie's toy could be seen, but when his toy hit the market, its colors changed some time in between. And yet this obsolete coloration still lingered around; Wheelie bore the same scheme in some comics, savvy readers had found!
*Among those who dislike Wheelie is [[Floro Dery]], his creator—really! Dery's said that of all his Transformers designs, Wheelie's the one that he most maligns—maybe even the only one! Honest, it's true! You can read for yourself in this interview! <ref>[http://transformersph.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-floro-dery.html An interview from the Philippines, in which Floro Dery is really mean!]</ref>
*In the year two-thousand ten, a set of Wheelie's color models were sold by [[Ron Friedman]]! These bits of history from the [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] [[The Transformers: The Movie|movie]] were really quite groovy; showing our hero with form unseen, sporting yellow and black, they looked pretty keen!
* In the Season 3 Italian dub, Wheelie never rhymes. Instead, he says "wroom wroom" at random times.
[[Image:Unused AHM Wheelie concept.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Two designs we were spared, because nobody really cared. ]]
* In [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]], his animation model was used. He agreed with [[Arrogant Autobot officer|his boss]], and [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] was abused. They believed Hot Shot's [[Wheeljack (Armada)|friend]] had died in those flames. Thanks to those jerks, Hot Shot is who he blames. {{storylink|Past}} {{storylink|Past II}}
**The model was used again later on, this time as a generic [[Mini-Con]]! {{storylink|Miracle}}
*[[Chris Ryall]] said Wheelie would get a [[Spotlight: Wheelie|spotlight]] on his [http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-said-music-industry-is-dead.html blog]. His hide the fans did wish to flog. On [http://jizaitoys.seesaa.net/article/34599110.html Jizai's design] [[Klaus Scherwinski]] did base, for Wheelie's sake he does not lose face.
* Though Wheelie thought his body looked fine, for [[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|AHM]] he got a redesign! [[Guido Guidi]] was not enthused, and in "[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]" it didn't get used.
*His parents from [[Gobotron]] hail, who knew? The source? [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac Two]]!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Wheelie''' (ウィーリー ''Wīrī'')
*''English:'' '''Willy''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''Tourbillo''' (Canada)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Ugrabot''' (''The Movie'')
*''Italian:'' '''Scooter''', '''Saetta''' (''The Movie'')
*''Portuguese:'' '''Rodinhas''' (Portugal Comic)
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==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Wheelie Wheelie's profile by Marvel Comic hands, hosted by a club of Nordic Transfans.]

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Machines Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Autobots]]
[[Category:Mini Vehicles]]
[[Category:Poets]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Autobots]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]
[[Category:Universe Autobots]]

Saberback (BW)

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:''Saberback is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]'s [[Beast Era]].''

[[Image:SaberbackNeo.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I summon my Sabersaurus in attack mode!]]

'''Saberback''' (セイバーバック ''Seibābakku'') is a mysterious warrior. His origins are shadowy at the very best. All anyone ''does'' know is that he is a warrior not to be taken lightly. He is an expert in black [[magic]] and can create deadly illusions and spells. He is evil to the core and his wizardry reflects it. Saberback prefers to remain hidden during battle and perform his trickery from a safe place. This makes him difficult to locate by the enemy.

One of his favorite hobbies outside of sorcery is the constant berating of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Sling]].

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Kazuki Yao]] (Japanese)
[[Image:Saberback1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hihowareya! Hihowareya! Hihowareya!]]
{{charstubfiction}}
{{-}}

===''Beast Wars'' manga continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' manga====
====''Beast Wars Neo'' manga====

===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
Saberback is a compulsive liar, unable to trust anyone, not even himself. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}

During one of [[Magmatron]]'s astral journeys, Saberback was seen punching [[Killer Punch]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars Neo===
[[Image:BWN-toy Saberback.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Feeeeed me, Seymour!]]
*'''Saberback''' (Deluxe, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-30'''
**''Accessories'': Tail-weapon

: Saberback transforms into an organic ''stegosaurus''. He also has a dubious (well...okay, lame) third "Claw Trap Mode" that basically involves splaying out the dino-limbs so he's on his belly, then raising up the dino-spine and tail so the opening panels on the tail-claw face forward. His tail detaches to become a hand-held (non-firing) blaster/claw-weapon for robot mode. Saberback's robot mode has a rather Aztec feel to it, what with the headdress, loincloth, and skull chest decoration.

: This mold was also used to make the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]] [[Striker]] and the [[Walmart]]-[[exclusive]] ''[[Transformers: Dinobots|Dinobots]]'' [[Snarl (Dinobots)|Snarl]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Saberback/saberback.htm More information on Saberback at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|VsPack}}
[[Image:BWN-toy VS-30-box.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
*'''Showdown in the Desert: Corrada VS Saberback''' (Deluxe VS set, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''VS-30'''
**''Accessories'': Tail-weapon

: Saberback was also available in a two-pack with the [[Maximal]] [[Cohrada]]. The two toys were identical to their individual releases.

{{--}}

==Notes==
[[Image:bwn-saberback-manga-03-tarrot-death.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]

* Saberback is shown to use [[Wikipedia:tarot|tarot]] in efforts at [[Wikipedia:Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot|divination]].{{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]

Duel in the Labyrinth

2012-09-02T01:26:45Z

24.70.2.53:

{{episode
|series=beast wars neo
|ep=7
|image=Bwneo7 avalanche.jpg
|caption=It's time to du-du-du-du-dududududu duel!
|title="Duel in the Labyrinth"
|japanese=迷路の中の決闘
|romaji=Meiro no Naka no Kettō
|production code=BWN-07
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]], [[Production Reed|Ashi Production]]
|airdate=[[March 17|17 March]] [[1999]]
|writer=[[Katsuyuki Sumisawa]]
|director=[[Yukio Okazaki]]
|animation studio=[[Production Reed|Ashi Production]]
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''It's up to Stampy to help the Maximals beat Saberback to an Angolmois capsule lost in the tunnels of a labyrinthine planet. Oh dear.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Bwneo7 stampy scan.jpg|left|thumb|225px|To start, I will summon my Rescue Rabbit!]]

The Maximals track the energy signature of the latest [[Angolmois]] capsule to the planet [[P-0908]], a lifeless world that has been left riddled with holes and tunnels due to an ancient civilization extensively mining the planet's mineral resources. Unfortunately, as they discuss how difficult it will be to find the capsule in this maze of tunnels, [[Stampy (BWN)|Stampy]] spots the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]' ship in orbit. The villains have beaten them to the planet, and [[Saberback]] has even beamed down and found the capsule already! Saberback reports on his success to his fellow Predacons, but he refuses to be beamed back up to the ship, intending to make the mission a "work of art" by completing it without any assistance whatsoever.

As NAVI activates a radar shield to keep the Maximals hidden, the team debates what to do. Stampy advocates just giving up and trying somewhere else, but Big Convoy won't hear it, and [[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] quickly appoints [[Break]], [[Cohrada]] and Stampy to head down to the planet. Unsurprisingly, Stampy is less than enthusiastic, but Big Convoy tells him that it's going to take his great tracking ability to find the capsule in the planetary labyrinth.

[[Image:Bwneo7_saberback_bombs.jpg|left|thumb|225px|I will activate his effect and banish him to summon a Sabersaurus...]]

The trio head down to the planet, and Stampy quickly picks up the capsule's signal, only to discover that Saberback already has it in his clutches and is on the move. Fortunately for the three Maximals, Saberback is completely lost in the planet's tunnels, and they are quickly able to track him down by combining Stampy's tracking skills and Cohrada's flame-breath burning through the tunnel walls. ''Un''fortunately, they find him in an old ammo dump, and Cohrada's flame breath inadvertently sets off the bombs lying around them, blasting them all to the surface in one huge explosion. The capsule lands beside Stampy, but when he attempts to pick it up, it rolls off and disappears down one of the tunnels. The exasperated Break and Cohrada insist on bringing Stampy along to track it down again.

Back on the ''[[Gung Ho]]'', NAVI carefully puts the ship in orbit on the opposite side of the planet to the Predacons, so that they won't be detected. The Predacons themselves, though, are preoccupied wondering about Saberback, until DNAVI informs them that she detects he no longer has the capsule in his possession. [[Magmatron]] tells her not to bother transporting him, wanting to see how he does on his own.

[[Image:Bwneo7 saberback mirror.jpg|right|thumb|225px|and a second one!]]

Stomping around underground, Saberback looks at the reflection of his tarnished armor in a mirror and vows to make the Maximals pay for ruining his perfect work of art. However, when he tracks them down, he finds that the Maximals are having enough troubles as it is, as they have found the capsule teetering on the edge of a ravine overlooking a river of magma. Saberback starts a rockslide that knocks out Break and Cohrada and sends all three of them tumbling towards the magma. Stampy is able to grab his two comrades and activates his jets to stay aloft, but Saberback opens fire on the flying Maximals and damages his propulsion system, knocking him out of the sky. Luckily, at the last moment, Cohrada and Break regain consciousness and grab onto the wall, snatching Stampy just before he lands in the magma. Despite all of this, the trio make it to the capsule first, and Break tells Stampy that they're counting on him to track Saberback's signature so that they can avoid him. Stampy is overwhelmed by such a rare show of good faith by Break, and he soon has to prove himself when they come upon a cave filled with huge flowers. Assuming that ''one'' of the flowers must be Saberback in disguise, Break and Cohrada leave the capsule in Stampy's care while they blast all of them... but they've guessed wrong, as Saberback appears from behind to snatch the capsule away and fly off through a tunnel overhead. Saberback causes an explosion to collapse the tunnel, but Stampy is able to lead his buddies through the chaos to safety.

[[Image:Bwneo7 magma escape.jpg|left|thumb|225px|And I will overlay them to Xyz Summon Evolzar Laggia! Now you cannot special summon your Penguin Soldier!]]

The Maximals make it back to the surface in time to see Saberback flying off into space with the capsule in his clutches, and Break and Cohrada immediately pursue him. His flight systems still damaged, Stampy is content to cheer them on from below, but suddenly, geysers of magma erupt all around him; the explosion has triggered an eruption that threatens to consume the timid Maximal. Break and Cohrada immediately break off their pursuit of Cohrada to save Stampy, who cries tears of joy at this display of friendship. Unfortunately, this allows Saberback to escape successfully with the Angolmois capsule, and Big Convoy is not pleased to hear the team's report. Stampy is willing to take all the blame, but just then, Vector Sigma speaks through Big Convoy once more, telling them that while the mission was important, care for one's teammates is more important still. He gives them 100 push-ups as punishment, surprising Longrack with his leniency.

Back aboard the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'', Saberback presents the capsule to Magmatron, who criticises the amount of time it took him to accomplish the task. Saberback blames the Maximals for the delay, but DNAVI informs him she has detected no trace of the ''Gung Ho'' on the planet, and nobody believes him.
{{-}}

==Capsule score==
:'''Maximals: 4'''
:'''Predacons: 3'''

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
*[[Heinrad]] (1)
*[[Break]] (2)
*[[Stampy (BWN)|Stampy]] (3)
*[[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]] (4)
*[[Cohrada]] (5)
*[[Big Convoy]] (6)
*[[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] (7)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
*[[Magmatron]] (8)
*[[Guiledart]] (9)
*[[Sling]] (10)
*[[Dead End (BWN)|Dead End]] (11)
*[[Saberback]] (12)
*[[DNAVI]] (13)

|c4=
}}

==Notes==
* As Stampy plunges into the molten magma, the background music riffs an apparent homage to the ''Terminator 2'' theme.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|japanese}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo'' — ACT. 3 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]])

[[Category:Beast Wars Neo episodes]]

Talk:Trypticon (WFC)

2012-05-01T04:25:10Z

24.70.2.53: /* Is the ship in Prime even called the Nemesis? */ new section

==Some helpful quotes with regard to his sentience==
"Puzzled, Megatron read the encrypted message. Trypticon? That pile of semi-sentient junk?" - Megs, p.69

"Was the entire station sentient? Had it been given a Spark? [...] 'I do know Trypticon was created——re-created I should say; given Spark'" - Alpha, p.80-81

"'Now Shockwave,' Megatron said. 'What you see around you is a great machine, an orbiting drone, yet perhaps there is potential for a bit of Spark within." - p.154

Either Alpha Trion exaggerates how sentient Trypticon is, or Megatron is wrong. In either case, it was Shockwave who used multiple captive Sparks to turn Trypticon into a coherent, transforming being with its own immune system. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 19:03, 9 August 2010 (EDT)

:It's pretty clearly a case of the sort that shows up a bunch in Exodus, where two seperate revisions of the story both accidentally made it into the book. It's likely the Shockwave one was meant to be the one included, but they both were... so we have to take both as possible fact. There's no reason to give the Megatron comments more wieght than what Orion and Alpha Trion say earlier. So we have two different accounts of Trypticon being altered into a Transformer and brought to life. That Shockwave seems to need to use multiple borrowed Sparks to do what one Spark should do and does in the earlier origin is odd but there's no real reason to believe that His Version of the sparking is what "works" to makes Tryp. alive/sentient vs. the other. --[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 20:18, 9 August 2010 (EDT)

Trypticon also clearly isn't the station Starscream once commanded in the actual WFC game. He's a different, much less destroyed one that doesn't show up until Aerial Assault. -[[User:LV|LV]] 17:22, 30 November 2010 (EST)

== Station mode ==

Are there any good shots of his space station mode from the video game to be used for Wiki purposes? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 16:43, 9 February 2012 (EST)

== Anon's merge proposal ==

I say go with the merge. [[Omega Supreme (Animated)]] and Teletran-1 were eventually merged. - [[User:Starfield|Starﬁeld]] 20:35, 15 April 2012 (EDT)

==Merge from Nemesis (Prime)==
Shouldn't this disambiguate with [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|Nemesis Prime]] or am I the only bastard sad enough to find that funny?
: I was going to say that the main image caption would be good enough for that, but I guess it got changed to something I don't understand? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:45, 14 December 2010 (EST)
::Apparently anons have been messing around with it nonsensically for the past two days, so I just reverted the whole thing back to Abates's version from December 10th. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 17:49, 14 December 2010 (EST)
:::That's too bad, because I wanted to do an image caption along the lines of "The store exclusive version is redecoed as Ultra Magnus." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 07:03, 15 December 2010 (EST)
Shouldn't this be merged with [[Trypticon (WFC)]], this is his alt-mode, and in Exiles it's stated that Trypticon is now stuck in ship mode, so that must mean that the Nemesis that appears in ''Prime'' could be Trypticon.[[Special:Contributions/71.162.103.17|71.162.103.17]] 23:01, 8 February 2012 (EST)

:I want to say there was a discussion about multiple ships named the ''Nemesis''... was that in this continuity, or another one? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:22, 9 February 2012 (EST)
::That was movie continuity. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 01:27, 9 February 2012 (EST)
:::''Thaaaank you''!
:::In which case I'm fine with moving to Trypticon (WFC)-- but I also favor a non-standard section ==Nemesis== prior to ==Fiction== to explicitly point out that he and the ship are one in the same. The fiction section should theoretically do the same, but I think it's important to make it super-clear since the two state-of-beings are so separate. This would be similar to the ==Origin== section we sometime use to clarify when things are especially funky. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:55, 9 February 2012 (EST)
::::Trypticon appears in WFC, Exodus, and Exiles, Nemesis appears in Exiles and Prime. I've looked at both articles cloosely, they can fit perfectly together. Basically all that needs to be merged is the cartoon section.[[Special:Contributions/71.162.109.207|71.162.109.207]] 18:19, 9 February 2012 (EST)
:::::I added a merge tag anyway.[[Special:Contributions/71.162.109.207|71.162.109.207]] 18:20, 9 February 2012 (EST)

Er, shouldn't the intros have been merged rather than the Nemesis one being slapped under the existing Trypticon one? Also, now that this is about a Prime thing, it needs to be a Trypticon (Prime), yes? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:37, 17 April 2012 (EDT)
:I went with the above suggestion of a special "Nemesis" section. Maybe it would be better handled in the intro paragraph, except I don't think Trypticon becomes the ''Nemesis'' in War for Cybertron, so maybe not. I don't know the current policy on aligned disambiguations. - [[User:Starfield|Starﬁeld]] 16:50, 17 April 2012 (EDT)
::Presumably the whole Trypticon became the Nemesis thing is in the production bible everyone is working from. We might get more info when Flying Mind screens, anyway. I don't think I agree with Derik's idea though-a combined intro would be better. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:18, 17 April 2012 (EDT)
:::I agree. Summarizing up the entire entity is the point of the intro. I'm not the right person to do it, though. I didn't play WFC very much or read the novels. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 17:42, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

Y'know, now that we've moved this, I sure hope "Flying Mind" doesn't screw it up. :-\ - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 05:16, 18 April 2012 (EDT)
:I was kinda hoping we'd wait to see what happened in that episode before doing anything, but oh well. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:14, 18 April 2012 (EDT)
::Whatever happens, this is already canon, isn't it? I mean, it isn't incorrect or anything. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 20:54, 18 April 2012 (EDT)
:::Well sure, but if the warship turns out to be some ''other'' dude in the ''Prime'' cartoon, then we'll have to give it its own article and split Trypticon back out with the note that he's "sometimes" the Nemesis, or something like that. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 04:38, 19 April 2012 (EDT)
::::I'm wagering the whole "Trypticon is the Nemesis" thing is in the [[Binder of Revelation]] and there's a good chance it won't be a problem, but we'll see! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:19, 19 April 2012 (EDT)

== Is the ship in Prime even called the Nemesis? ==

I don't recall it ever being named as such, and in the credits of Flying Mind the voice of the ship is credited as "Warship".

Also, I heard recently that Trypticon isn't the only Nemesis, but rather one of many "Nemesis Class Ships" in the Aligned Continuity. Is there anything to back this up in the novels, because I have not read them yet. --[[Special:Contributions/24.70.2.53|24.70.2.53]] 00:25, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

Ship

2012-05-01T04:08:55Z

24.70.2.53: /* Synopsis */

{{episode
|series=Cybertron
|ep=12
|series2=Galaxy Force
|ep2=13
|title="Ship"
|japanese=アトランティスの攻防
|romaji=Atlantis no Kōbō
|translation=Atlantis's Offense and Defense
|image=Cyb ep12 battle for the lock.jpg
|caption=
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Aichi]], [[We've]], [[Tōkyū Agency]]
|writer=[[Gyō Yamatoya]]
|director=[[Isao Takayama]]
|animation studio=[[GONZO]]
|airdate=[[April 2]], [[2005]] (Japanese) [[September 3]], 2005 (English)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''In the shadow of the Moon, Optimus Prime battles Megatron for possession of the Omega Lock!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Image:Cyb ep12 atlantis moon.jpg|left|thumb|220px|I ship it so hard.]]

The [[Autobot]]s begin the search for the missing ''[[Atlantis]]'' in earnest, but despite the help of their civilian comrades, they are unable to find any trace of the lost starship. Eventually, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] has a brainstorm—if the ship is not on Earth, but lacked the power to teleport any further away, then there's only one place it could be: in the shadow of the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]! The [[Decepticon]]s, unfortunately, have already used the [[Planet Map]] to figure this out and are well on their way toward the ''Atlantis'', unaware they are being followed by the mysterious robot [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]].

Aboard the ''Atlantis'' out in space, [[Vector Prime]] explains to the children that he believes the [[Omega Lock]] to be on board the ship. Before they can start searching, alarms alert them to the approach of the Decepticons, so Vector Prime transforms the ''Atlantis'' into battle mode, allowing its powerful weapons systems to keep the Decepticons busy. No sooner have they begun their descent into the bowels of the ship, following the kids' sensitivity to the [[Omega Frequency]], than Megatron is able to break through the ''Atlantis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s hull, and starts after them.

[[Image:Cyb ep12 enter sideways.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Gentlemen.]]

The other Decepticons are about to follow him through when the Autobots arrive and engage them in battle. In the middle of the fight, Sideways comes streaking out of nowhere and opens fire on [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], offering Optimus Prime the distraction he needs to break off from the battle and get inside the ''Atlantis''. The other Autobots take the help where they can get it and form on Sideways to join him in attacking Starscream, when suddenly, out of the blue, the enigmatic robot summons a [[Cyber Key]] and switches his [[insignia]] to a Decepticon one! The mystified Autobots are quickly taken down by Sideways, who then transforms to vehicle mode and flies off, leaving all the combatants (not to mention viewers) wondering just ''what the hell that was all about''.

[[Image:Cyb ep12 megs lock.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Sure, go ahead and touch it. Just don't cry to me when you need new fingerprints.]]

Deep within the ''Atlantis'', Vector Prime's team have located the room containing the Omega Lock, but the device itself is nowhere to be seen. Vector Prime touches a control console, causing six pedestals to rise from the floor. The three kids and three Mini-Cons each take a pedestal, and when they all touch them simultaneously, the Omega Lock at last emerges! Vector Prime is about to perform the last step that will release the Lock—disabling the security system surrounding it—but before he can do so, Megatron swoops into the room and seizes the Lock, triggering the security system and sending the ''Atlantis'' into self-destruct mode. Before the Decepticon leader can abscond with the Omega Lock, however, Optimus Prime comes crashing through the ceiling and orders Vector Prime and the others to retreat while he battles Megatron for possession of the ancient device.

Vector Prime, the kids and the Mini-Cons join the other Autobots outside the ''Atlantis'' and watch as explosions burst all across the surface of the craft, until it finally erupts in a colossal fireball. The Autobots think Optimus Prime is done for, but moments later, the Autobot leader comes soaring out of the fading light of the explosion, Omega Lock in hand! Believing Megatron to be so many cosmic particles, the Decepticons retreat, and the Autobots regroup on the surface of the Moon. Optimus Prime moves to hand the Omega Lock to Vector Prime, when it suddenly erupts with light, shooting a beam of energy off into the depths of the space. On [[Velocitron]], the [[Planet Cup]] resonates and does the same, as does the [[Beast Totem]] of [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]]. Before the Autobots' eyes, a [[space bridge]] opens in the air above them, and a communication comes through from [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]], urgently instructing them to come to Velocitron. Ordering the other Autobots and kids back to base with the Omega Lock, Optimus Prime takes Vector Prime and [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] with him through the space bridge to the next planet and the next adventure!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (1)
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] (2)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*Airliner Autobots (6, 7)
*Submarine Autobot (8)
*Space shuttle Autobot (9)
*[[Six-Speed]] (16)
*[[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] (17)
*[[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] (18)
*[[Vector Prime]] (19)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (21)
|c2=
*[[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]] (10)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (11)
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (12)
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (20)
|h3=[[Human]]s
|c3=
*[[Lori]] (13)
*[[Coby Hansen]] (14)
*[[Bud Hansen]] (15)
|h4=Other
|c4=
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (5)
}}
==Quotes==
"Vector Prime is the man with the plan! ...you ''do'' have a plan, right?"
:—'''Bud''' lacks faith

"''Pain'' is all ''you'll'' get, Prime!!"
:—'''Megatron'''

"You'll never defeat me!" 
"It's all I ever do!"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus Prime''' as they clash over the [[Omega Lock]]. Optimus has a bit of a point.

"Megatron just went kabloowey! This can't be happening!" 
"It did. Now quit whining."
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Starscream'''

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Galaxy Force''===

The principal change to this episode is the customary insertion of the Omega Frequency and dialogue relating to it into a large number of appropriate scenes. Additional changes include:

*In ''Galaxy Force'', the airliner Autobots investigate the North Pole. In ''Cybertron,'' they search the ''South'' Pole.
*When Vector Prime activates the ''Atlantis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s battle mode in ''Galaxy Force'', an ancient recording plays (in an unintelligible language which [[Jolt (Cybertron)|Jolt]] translates), simply telling the "crew" of the ship what is happening. ''Cybertron'' replaces this with the sound of the Omega Frequency, and Jolt not translating, but simply telling them what's happening. This ancient language is later heard again announcing the self-destruct sequence, and is simply replaced with a klaxon in ''Cybertron''.
*At the conclusion of the episode, ''Cybertron'' featured Vector Prime telling the kids they are "too important". In ''Galaxy Force'', he is a little more specific, telling them there is something he "needs them to do". Not a major change, but one that inadvertently erases some foreshadowing for the future episode, "[[Race]]".

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* In the opening seconds of the ''Cybertron'' version of the episode, Jetfire asks: "Where did they go? And how do we get them back?" but it's Landmine's mouth that's moving.
===Continuity errors===
*''Cybertron'' has Vector Prime claim that "all four" of his team are fine after they escape the ''Atlantis''. There are eight of them! (Vector Prime, the three humans, the Recon Mini-Con team, and Safeguard)

===Transformers References===
* It may or may not be an intentional reference, but the sequence of the Atlantis converting to assault mode is reminiscent of Autobot City doing the same in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Trivia===
*From this episode up to "[[Champion]]" (inclusive), a different, unidentified actor replaces [[Ryan Hirakida]] as Bud.
*In the closing moments of the episode, as Optimus Prime hands him the Omega Lock, Vector Prime spontaneously develops a British [[accents|accent]]. He'll keep this upper-class method of speech for the remainder of the series.
*Megatron turns up next episode, still commanding everyone, and Starscream finds out he's alive off-panel.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Transformers: Galaxy Force'' — Vol. 04 ([[Victor Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers: Cybertron'' — The Ultimate Collection ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]])

[[Category:Cybertron episodes]]

Insecticon (WFC)

2012-04-15T18:19:22Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime cartoon */

{{disambig3|Insecticon}}
:''The Insecticons are [[Transformer]]s from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:FOCInsecticon.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Michael Bay's ''A Bug's Life''.]]

Denizens of the under levels of Cybertron, the '''Insecticons''' live in destructive swarms, eating metal and remodeling the landscape into enormous interconnected hive networks.

==Fiction==
===''Exodus''===

[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] experimented on three specimens, optimizing them for battle in the gladiatorial arenas of [[Kaon]] by turning them into [[combiner]]s- something that disgusted the gladiator [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatronus]]. They were primitive to the point of barely possessing a sentient consciousness, but surprisingly capable fighters. The way they moved together gave away their nature as combiners even when separate. Even with one of their number dead the remaining two could combine into a hovering attack mode.

The trio competed in the [[gladiatorial combat|gladiatorial]] [[Tournament of Champions]] when they encountered Megatronus. He allowed them to [[trans-scan|scan]] a vehicle form before attacking. One emerged from a scrapheap as an all-terrain vehicle with magnetic studded tracks and sought a vantage point on the combat pit's wall, while another sprayed acid on Megatronus's shoulder. Megatronus caught the third Insecticon's multiple, vibrobladed hands and tore an arm off, flinging it into the audience and causing havoc.

Taking fire from the other two, Megatronus made the wounded Insecticon fire his own ion cannon into its neck, killing it in an attempt to ensure there would be no combination. He then slammed the acid-spitter to the floor, but it wriggled away and managed to combine with the ATV, wiring itself into girders while blasting and spitting acid at the gladiator. Megatronus transformed and blasted them, before pinning them down in robot mode and smashing them to pieces with two [[energon mace|maces]]. Megatronus roared "I still function!", as the crowd began chanting a shortened version of his name: Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

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

[[Image:Prime-insecticon.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Who thinks they can squash me like a bug?]]
An Insecticon was left in stasis on Cybertron, acting as a Decepticon sentry. It was awakened by [[Jack Darby|Jack]] and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]]'s arrival in [[Kaon]]. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}}

As they used the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] to reveal a hidden passage under the city's arena, the Insecticon attacked. Arcee attempted to distract it so that Jack could escape into the newly-revealed entrance, but she was soundly beaten when it slammed her into the arena wall. The Insecticon then tracked Jack to [[Vector Sigma]], but was horrified to see the supercomputer covered in [[scraplet]]s. Jack hurled one of the scraplets at the Insecticon so that they would stop feeding on Vector Sigma, and the rest of the swarm followed it in attacking the larger beast-bot. The Insecticon was savaged, falling off the bridge into a chasm as it was eaten alive. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[Image:Crossfire Megatron and Insecticon close together.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Megatron put Eradicating Aerosol in his deck for just such an occasion.]]
When [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] was seeking Energon scraps in an old mine, he noticed an Insecticon doing the same, and was surprised that one was on [[Earth]]. Starscream demanded that the Insecticon hand over the Energon it had found, though it instead turned on him and attacked, before [[Airachnid]] called it off. Airachnid had managed to control it, due to their being related, and had earlier used its help to dismantle [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]]. Though Starscream suggested that they all team up to end [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]], Airachnid instead ordered the Insecticon to attack him, however he escaped. Sometime later, the Insecticon attacked Megatron as part of Airachnid's trap, refusing to obey him instead. The Insecticon had the upper hand on the Decepticon leader, particularly when Airachnid removed his fusion cannon from the equation, however Megatron eventually triumphed as he beheaded the Insecticon.

However, as the escaped Airachnid discovered, it was only a scout for an entire hive of Insecticons in stasis underground.{{storylink|Crossfire}}

==Games==
===''Fall of Cybertron''===
[[Image:FOC Grimlock vs Insecticons.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Me Grimlock say I squash you like Bug.]]
{{comingsoon}}

[[Category:Combiner teams]]
[[Category:Decepticon subgroups]]
[[Category:Gladiators]]
[[Category:Insecticons| Insecticon (Prime)]]
[[Category:Prime subgroups]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]

Terrorcon (Prime)

2012-03-23T23:24:36Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Terrorcon}}

:''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; en masse, 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===
[[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}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense===
{{stub}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
*'''Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2011)
[[Image:Primetoy-TerrorconCliffjumper.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Ah geez, fighting a zombie in a cemetery? What kind of third rate is this?"]]
:A [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] [[retool]].
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu''' (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")

[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zombies]]

Terrorcon (Prime)

2012-03-23T23:24:15Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Terrorcon}}

:''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; en masse, 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===
[[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}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense===
{{stub}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
*'''Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2011)
[[Image:Primetoy-TerrorconCliffjumper.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Ah geez, fighting a zombie in a cemetary? What kind of third rate is this?"]]
:A [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] [[retool]].
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu''' (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")

[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zombies]]

Terrorcon (Prime)

2012-03-23T23:24:04Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Terrorcon}}

:''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; en masse, 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===
[[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}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense===
{{stub}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
*'''Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2011)
[[Image:Primetoy-TerrorconCliffjumper.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Ah geez, fighting a zombie in a cmetary? What kind of third rate is this?"]]
:A [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] [[retool]].
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu''' (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")

[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zombies]]

Terrorcon (Prime)

2012-03-23T23:22:31Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Terrorcon}}

:''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; en masse, 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===
[[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}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense===
{{stub}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
*'''Terrorcon Cliffjumper''' (Deluxe, 2011)
[[Image:Primetoy-TerrorconCliffjumper.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"What kind of cheesy B-movie is this?"]]
:A [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] [[retool]].
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu''' (行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")

[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zombies]]

Nucleon Shock Cannon

2012-03-18T03:44:41Z

24.70.2.53:

{{picsneeded}}
One of the more powerful weapons on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the '''Missile Turret''' (also called '''[[Nucleon]] Shock Cannon''') is exactly what it sounds like: a turret that fires missiles. Desperate fighters can tear the turret from its base and carry it around, whereupon its ammo becomes (very) limited. Turrets feature a lock-on mechanism equivalent to the [[Thermo rocket launcher]].

==Fiction==
===''Prime cartoon''===
Using the [[Forge of Solus Prime|Forge]] of [[Solus Prime]], Megatron tried to make a [[Fortress Maximus (Prime)| Fortress Maximus]] Grade Nucleon Shock Cannon from a piece of metal. He soon realized without the power of a Prime, he could not activate the Forge and achieve this. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

==Games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
Missile Turrets were used during the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. After [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] was activated, [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and his men captured a missile turret emplacement and used it to shoot down the giant Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

[[Category:War for Cybertron weapons]]

Swerve (G1)

2012-03-12T06:19:18Z

24.70.2.53:

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Swerve}}
:''Swerve is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Someone's GOT to get this boy some defensive driving DVDs.]]

Gregarious would be a good word to describe '''Swerve.''' So would outgoing, enthusiastic, upbeat, joyfully irreverent, flippant, sarcastic, wise ass, troll, or "total pain in the aft." Depending on which side of his weapons-grade mouth you happen to fall on and how long you've been listening to him use it. Swerve has a sense of fun and even whimsy that stands out from your run of the mill Autobots fairly dramatically. The little fellow may get on their nerves... he'll ''probably'' get on their nerves... But it'll always be with a smile, a laugh, and an epic level quip.

He is also a menace to anyone driving nearby. He's easily distracted by just about anything that catches his attention. Despite this, he's quite intelligent and skilled as a metallurgist, analyzing the properties of a material with unique sensors in his hands. When he gets caught up in a scientific problem, he becomes almost laser-like in focus and intensity. Unfortunately, this generally leaves him just as distracted from any other tasks at hand and just as accident-prone a driver as ever. Swerve and "traffic accident" just go hand in hand. He's almost always in need of some repairs, major or minor, because of it.

Now if only [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Prime]] could get him to not get easily distracted when receiving his orders too...

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Minoru Inaba]] (Japanese)

[[Image:FFOD Part5 Swerve.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Now we know why he refuses to play in the sand.]]
Swerve participated in the defense of the [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']] in 2006, but was trod upon by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}} Later, after the [[Quintesson]] scientist [[Inquirata]] attempted to change history by removing the Autobot resistance leader known as [[Alpha Trion (G1)|A3]] from the past, a race Swerve was participating in repeated itself in an endless loop due to the ripples in the timestream. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}
{{-}}

====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic ====
[[Image:4WheeldriveBrigade1.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Swerve appeared on Earth as a member of the [[4-Wheel-Drive Brigade]]. Led by [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], the Brigade confronted the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] out in the desert, only to be caught in an explosive mine trap and fall into a pit. Working together, Swerve and the others combined their Scramble Power and worked their way free of the pit. A concentrated Scrumbuster attack drove off the Decepticons, and the Autobots won the day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation 1'' comics===
[[Image:BlackSunshine Autobot training failures.jpg|left|180px|thumb|]]
Swerve was on Cybertron observing the anti-Prime propaganda that [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] pumped through the data-net after retrieving the ''Ark'''s crew from [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Later, after the Autobots toppled Shockwave and the Decepticons' rule, he was among the group of new recruits seen failing to take on the [[auto-combatant]] training drones on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after Shockwave's rule was toppled. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
Swerve's metallurgical skills prompted [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] to contact him along with several other Transformer scientists with his discovery about Cybertron's dwindling energy reserves. Swerve, like the rest, disregarded Thunderwing's warnings. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}

In modern times, Swerve was stationed at the [[Kimia Facility]]. He was a fan of the ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalogs, although he thought [[Fisitron]] was a bit of a haliographer. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Swerve was present when [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and the [[Sweep]]s invaded Kimia. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations}} He survived the massacre and got away aboard an escape pod piloted by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Brainstorm]]. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] soon came to rescue them. Everyone seemed to feel the need to remind him in particular not to say something tactless that might set her off. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}}

[[Image:Swerve Chaos Part4.jpg|left|250px|thumb|]]
Aboard Arcee's shuttle, Swerve listened with the others to [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and Arcee's explanation of the situation with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], the [[Darkness (G1)|Heart of Darkness]] and the [[D-Void]]. Swerve reiterated everything he had just heard to Hardhead, just to confirm he understood the complicated scenario (he got it all right, except for missing the hyphen in "D-Void"). He was quite naively optimistic at the prospect of putting a stop to Galvatron's plans and saving the universe. However, once they arrived in Cybertron's atmosphere and Arcee had ordered the shuttle to fly directly at the planet's surface, Swerve was among the first to bail out. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}

[[Image:LiarsAtoD1-SwerveRedAlert.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Questquestquestquestquestquestquest.]]
Swerve was one of the Autobots who chose to accompany [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] on his quest to find the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] reluctantly allowed Swerve to board the ''[[Lost Light]]'' if he'd stop talking. Swerve doesn't know.
{{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Swerve toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Elbows. I no has them!]]
*'''Swerve''' (Mini-Vehicle, 1986, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-58'''

:Swerve is a [[retool]] of the ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toy originally used to make [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], and therefore has a similar pickup truck vehicle mode, a 4WD Off-Road. He is largely maroon and white, with squarer legs and a more elaborate face than Gears.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Swerve/swerve.htm More information on Swerve at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Alternators===
[[Image:Alternator Swerve Toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A new head. We were so spoiled...]]
*'''Swerve''' (Alternator, 2004)
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''15'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/blaster

:Swerve is a retool of ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and transforms into a red [[Wikipedia:Chevrolet Corvette C5|Corvette Z06]] featuring opening doors and hood and a realistic interior. Amusingly enough, his rocket launchers are stored next to the passenger and driver seats. Swerve is armed with his double-barreled engine gun formed from his engine, two pairs of double-barreled slide-out wrist blasters, and two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, making him one of the most heavily armed ''Alternators'' toys.

:He came with a flame hood decal reminiscent of the flames on Tracks's original toy (which was originally available with Tracks's ''Binaltech'' release), thus making him resemble [[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]] in vehicle mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/AltSwerve/swerve.htm More information on Alternators Swerve at TFU.info]''

===Encore===
[[Image:Encore Swerve toy.jpg|250px|thumb|Weird—I crashed into a paint-sprayer, and for some reason, I can see better.]]
*'''Bumble & Minibots''' (Multi-pack, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''10'''

:In 2008, Swerve was reissued in the ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' line, bundled with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]], [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]]. As with his pack-mates, his face paint was given more detailing to resemble his cartoon model better.

===Generations===
*'''Swerve''' (Deluxe, 2012)

:Planned for an Asia-only release, Swerve is a [[retool]] of [[Generations (toyline)| Generations]] [[Kup (G1)| Sergeant Kup]] using the planned-in alternate head for the mold. <ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-generations-classics-30-35/transformers-generations--movie-series-asia-exclusives-174569/ Transformers Generations & Movie Series Asia Exclusives]</ref>
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Swerve and [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] are curiously absent from 1986's ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profile book. The only other missing characters were the two [[Deluxe Vehicle]]s and the four [[Insecticon (G1)|Deluxe Insecticons]], whose absence might be explained by their toys' origins with companies in competition with [[Takara]]. Swerve and Hubcap's omissions, however, appear to be errors; all the other toys in their wave and subgroup were included. The extended, unused TFU entry [http://boltax.blogspot.com/2010/12/extended-bios.html ended up on ''Disciples of Boltax''].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Werve''' (ウェーブ ''Wēbu''; sometimes ウエーブ ''Uēbu'')
*''French:'' '''Embardo''' (Canada)

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Alternators Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Mini Vehicles]]
[[Category:Scientists]]

Swerve (G1)

2012-03-12T06:18:49Z

24.70.2.53:

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Swerve}}
:''Swerve is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Someone's GOT to get this boy some defensive driving DVDs.]]

Gregarious would be a good word to describe '''Swerve.''' So would outgoing, enthusiastic, upbeat, joyfully irreverent, flippant, sarcastic, wise ass, troll, or "total pain in the aft." Depending on which side of his weapons-grade mouth you happen to fall on and how long you've been listening to him use it. Swerve has a sense of fun and even whimsy that stands out from your run of the mill Autobots fairly dramatically. The little fellow may get on their nerves... he'll ''probably'' get on their nerves... But it'll always be with a smile, a laugh, and an epic level quip.

He is also a menace to anyone driving nearby. He's easily distracted by just about anything that catches his attention. Despite this, he's quite intelligent and skilled as a metallurgist, analyzing the properties of a material with unique sensors in his hands. When he gets caught up in a scientific problem, he becomes almost laser-like in focus and intensity. Unfortunately, this generally leaves him just as distracted from any other tasks at hand and just as accident-prone a driver as ever. Swerve and "traffic accident" just go hand in hand. He's almost always in need of some repairs, major or minor, because of it.

Now if only [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Prime]] could get him to not get easily distracted when receiving his orders too...

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Minoru Inaba]] (Japanese)

[[Image:FFOD Part5 Swerve.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Now we know why he refuses to play in the sand.]]
Swerve participated in the defense of the [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']] in 2006, but was trod upon by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}} Later, after the [[Quintesson]] scientist [[Inquirata]] attempted to change history by removing the Autobot resistance leader known as [[Alpha Trion (G1)|A3]] from the past, a race Swerve was participating in repeated itself in an endless loop due to the ripples in the timestream. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}
{{-}}

====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic ====
[[Image:4WheeldriveBrigade1.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Swerve appeared on Earth as a member of the [[4-Wheel-Drive Brigade]]. Led by [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], the Brigade confronted the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] out in the desert, only to be caught in an explosive mine trap and fall into a pit. Working together, Swerve and the others combined their Scramble Power and worked their way free of the pit. A concentrated Scrumbuster attack drove off the Decepticons, and the Autobots won the day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation 1'' comics===
[[Image:BlackSunshine Autobot training failures.jpg|left|180px|thumb|]]
Swerve was on Cybertron observing the anti-Prime propaganda that [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] pumped through the data-net after retrieving the ''Ark'''s crew from [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Later, after the Autobots toppled Shockwave and the Decepticons' rule, he was among the group of new recruits seen failing to take on the [[auto-combatant]] training drones on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after Shockwave's rule was toppled. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
Swerve's metallurgical skills prompted [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] to contact him along with several other Transformer scientists with his discovery about Cybertron's dwindling energy reserves. Swerve, like the rest, disregarded Thunderwing's warnings. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}

In modern times, Swerve was stationed at the [[Kimia Facility]]. He was a fan of the ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalogs, although he thought [[Fisitron]] was a bit of a haliographer. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Swerve was present when [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and the [[Sweep]]s invaded Kimia. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations}} He survived the massacre and got away aboard an escape pod piloted by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Brainstorm]]. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] soon came to rescue them. Everyone seemed to feel the need to remind him in particular not to say something tactless that might set her off. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}}

[[Image:Swerve Chaos Part4.jpg|left|250px|thumb|]]
Aboard Arcee's shuttle, Swerve listened with the others to [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and Arcee's explanation of the situation with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], the [[Darkness (G1)|Heart of Darkness]] and the [[D-Void]]. Swerve reiterated everything he had just heard to Hardhead, just to confirm he understood the complicated scenario (he got it all right, except for missing the hyphen in "D-Void"). He was quite naively optimistic at the prospect of putting a stop to Galvatron's plans and saving the universe. However, once they arrived in Cybertron's atmosphere and Arcee had ordered the shuttle to fly directly at the planet's surface, Swerve was among the first to bail out. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}

[[Image:LiarsAtoD1-SwerveRedAlert.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Questquestquestquestquestquestquest.]]
Swerve was one of the Autobots who chose to accompany [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] on his quest to find the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] reluctantly allowed Swerve to board the ''[[Lost Light]]'' if he'd stop talking. Swerve doesn't know.
{{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Swerve toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Elbows. I no has them!]]
*'''Swerve''' (Mini-Vehicle, 1986, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-58'''

:Swerve is a [[retool]] of the ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toy originally used to make [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], and therefore has a similar pickup truck vehicle mode, a 4WD Off-Road. He is largely maroon and white, with squarer legs and a more elaborate face than Gears.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Swerve/swerve.htm More information on Swerve at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Alternators===
[[Image:Alternator Swerve Toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A new head. We were so spoiled...]]
*'''Swerve''' (Alternator, 2004)
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''15'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/blaster

:Swerve is a retool of ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and transforms into a red [[Wikipedia:Chevrolet Corvette C5|Corvette Z06]] featuring opening doors and hood and a realistic interior. Amusingly enough, his rocket launchers are stored next to the passenger and driver seats. Swerve is armed with his double-barreled engine gun formed from his engine, two pairs of double-barreled slide-out wrist blasters, and two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, making him one of the most heavily armed ''Alternators'' toys.

:He came with a flame hood decal reminiscent of the flames on Tracks's original toy (which was originally available with Tracks's ''Binaltech'' release), thus making him resemble [[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]] in vehicle mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/AltSwerve/swerve.htm More information on Alternators Swerve at TFU.info]''

===Encore===
[[Image:Encore Swerve toy.jpg|250px|thumb|Weird—I crashed into a paint-sprayer, and for some reason, I can see better.]]
*'''Bumble & Minibots''' (Multi-pack, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''10'''

:In 2008, Swerve was reissued in the ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' line, bundled with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]], [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]]. As with his pack-mates, his face paint was given more detailing to resemble his cartoon model better.

===Generations===
*'''Swerve''' (Deluxe, 2012)

:Planned for an Asia-only release, Swerve is a [[retool]] of [[Generations (toyline)| Generations]] [[Kup (G1)| Sergeant Kup]] using the planned-in alternate head for the mold. <ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-generations-classics-30-35/transformers-generations--movie-series-asia-exclusives-174569/ Transformers Generations & Movie Series Asia Exclusives]</ref>
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Swerve and [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] are curiously absent from 1986's ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profile book. The only other missing characters were the two [[Deluxe Vehicle]]s and the four [[Insecticon (G1)|Deluxe Insecticons]], whose absence might be explained by their toys' origins with companies in competition with [[Takara]]. Swerve and Hubcap's omissions, however, appear to be errors; all the other toys in their wave and subgroup were included. The extended, unused TFU entry [http://boltax.blogspot.com/2010/12/extended-bios.html ended up on ''Disciples of Boltax''].

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Werve''' (ウェーブ ''Wēbu''; sometimes ウエーブ ''Uēbu'')
*''French:'' '''Embardo''' (Canada)

[[Category:Alternators Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Mini Vehicles]]
[[Category:Scientists]]

Swerve (G1)

2012-03-12T06:17:51Z

24.70.2.53: /* Toys */

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Swerve}}
:''Swerve is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Swerve.toy.boxart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Someone's GOT to get this boy some defensive driving DVDs.]]

Gregarious would be a good word to describe '''Swerve.''' So would outgoing, enthusiastic, upbeat, joyfully irreverent, flippant, sarcastic, wise ass, troll, or "total pain in the aft." Depending on which side of his weapons-grade mouth you happen to fall on and how long you've been listening to him use it. Swerve has a sense of fun and even whimsy that stands out from your run of the mill Autobots fairly dramatically. The little fellow may get on their nerves... he'll ''probably'' get on their nerves... But it'll always be with a smile, a laugh, and an epic level quip.

He is also a menace to anyone driving nearby. He's easily distracted by just about anything that catches his attention. Despite this, he's quite intelligent and skilled as a metallurgist, analyzing the properties of a material with unique sensors in his hands. When he gets caught up in a scientific problem, he becomes almost laser-like in focus and intensity. Unfortunately, this generally leaves him just as distracted from any other tasks at hand and just as accident-prone a driver as ever. Swerve and "traffic accident" just go hand in hand. He's almost always in need of some repairs, major or minor, because of it.

Now if only [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Prime]] could get him to not get easily distracted when receiving his orders too...

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Minoru Inaba]] (Japanese)

[[Image:FFOD Part5 Swerve.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Now we know why he refuses to play in the sand.]]
Swerve participated in the defense of the [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']] in 2006, but was trod upon by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}} Later, after the [[Quintesson]] scientist [[Inquirata]] attempted to change history by removing the Autobot resistance leader known as [[Alpha Trion (G1)|A3]] from the past, a race Swerve was participating in repeated itself in an endless loop due to the ripples in the timestream. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}
{{-}}

====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic ====
[[Image:4WheeldriveBrigade1.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Swerve appeared on Earth as a member of the [[4-Wheel-Drive Brigade]]. Led by [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], the Brigade confronted the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] out in the desert, only to be caught in an explosive mine trap and fall into a pit. Working together, Swerve and the others combined their Scramble Power and worked their way free of the pit. A concentrated Scrumbuster attack drove off the Decepticons, and the Autobots won the day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation 1'' comics===
[[Image:BlackSunshine Autobot training failures.jpg|left|180px|thumb|]]
Swerve was on Cybertron observing the anti-Prime propaganda that [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] pumped through the data-net after retrieving the ''Ark'''s crew from [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Later, after the Autobots toppled Shockwave and the Decepticons' rule, he was among the group of new recruits seen failing to take on the [[auto-combatant]] training drones on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after Shockwave's rule was toppled. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
Swerve's metallurgical skills prompted [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] to contact him along with several other Transformer scientists with his discovery about Cybertron's dwindling energy reserves. Swerve, like the rest, disregarded Thunderwing's warnings. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}

In modern times, Swerve was stationed at the [[Kimia Facility]]. He was a fan of the ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalogs, although he thought [[Fisitron]] was a bit of a haliographer. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Swerve was present when [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and the [[Sweep]]s invaded Kimia. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations}} He survived the massacre and got away aboard an escape pod piloted by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Brainstorm]]. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] soon came to rescue them. Everyone seemed to feel the need to remind him in particular not to say something tactless that might set her off. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}}

[[Image:Swerve Chaos Part4.jpg|left|250px|thumb|]]
Aboard Arcee's shuttle, Swerve listened with the others to [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and Arcee's explanation of the situation with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], the [[Darkness (G1)|Heart of Darkness]] and the [[D-Void]]. Swerve reiterated everything he had just heard to Hardhead, just to confirm he understood the complicated scenario (he got it all right, except for missing the hyphen in "D-Void"). He was quite naively optimistic at the prospect of putting a stop to Galvatron's plans and saving the universe. However, once they arrived in Cybertron's atmosphere and Arcee had ordered the shuttle to fly directly at the planet's surface, Swerve was among the first to bail out. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}

[[Image:LiarsAtoD1-SwerveRedAlert.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Questquestquestquestquestquestquest.]]
Swerve was one of the Autobots who chose to accompany [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] on his quest to find the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] reluctantly allowed Swerve to board the ''[[Lost Light]]'' if he'd stop talking. Swerve doesn't know.
{{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Swerve toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Elbows. I no has them!]]
*'''Swerve''' (Mini-Vehicle, 1986, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-58'''

:Swerve is a [[retool]] of the ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toy originally used to make [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], and therefore has a similar pickup truck vehicle mode, a 4WD Off-Road. He is largely maroon and white, with squarer legs and a more elaborate face than Gears.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Swerve/swerve.htm More information on Swerve at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Alternators===
[[Image:Alternator Swerve Toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A new head. We were so spoiled...]]
*'''Swerve''' (Alternator, 2004)
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''15'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/blaster

:Swerve is a retool of ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and transforms into a red [[Wikipedia:Chevrolet Corvette C5|Corvette Z06]] featuring opening doors and hood and a realistic interior. Amusingly enough, his rocket launchers are stored next to the passenger and driver seats. Swerve is armed with his double-barreled engine gun formed from his engine, two pairs of double-barreled slide-out wrist blasters, and two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, making him one of the most heavily armed ''Alternators'' toys.

:He came with a flame hood decal reminiscent of the flames on Tracks's original toy (which was originally available with Tracks's ''Binaltech'' release), thus making him resemble [[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]] in vehicle mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/AltSwerve/swerve.htm More information on Alternators Swerve at TFU.info]''

===Encore===
[[Image:Encore Swerve toy.jpg|250px|thumb|Weird—I crashed into a paint-sprayer, and for some reason, I can see better.]]
*'''Bumble & Minibots''' (Multi-pack, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''10'''

:In 2008, Swerve was reissued in the ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' line, bundled with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]], [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]], [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] and [[Outback (G1)|Outback]]. As with his pack-mates, his face paint was given more detailing to resemble his cartoon model better.

===Generations===
*'''Swerve''' (Deluxe, 2012)

:Planned for an Asia-only release, Swerve is a [[retool]] of [[Generations (toyline)| Generations]] [[Kup (G1)| Sergeant Kup]] using the planned-in alternate head for the mold. <ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-generations-classics-30-35/transformers-generations--movie-series-asia-exclusives-174569/ Transformers Generations & Movie Series Asia Exclusives]</ref>
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Swerve and [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] are curiously absent from 1986's ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profile book. The only other missing characters were the two [[Deluxe Vehicle]]s and the four [[Insecticon (G1)|Deluxe Insecticons]], whose absence might be explained by their toys' origins with companies in competition with [[Takara]]. Swerve and Hubcap's omissions, however, appear to be errors; all the other toys in their wave and subgroup were included. The extended, unused TFU entry [http://boltax.blogspot.com/2010/12/extended-bios.html ended up on ''Disciples of Boltax''].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Werve''' (ウェーブ ''Wēbu''; sometimes ウエーブ ''Uēbu'')
*''French:'' '''Embardo''' (Canada)

[[Category:Alternators Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Mini Vehicles]]
[[Category:Scientists]]

Vector Sigma

2012-03-07T06:50:04Z

24.70.2.53:

[[Image:VectorSigmaG1.jpg|right|400px|thumb|A Clockwork Orange]]

'''Vector Sigma''' is an ancient and incredibly powerful multiversal super computer which exists across many (conceivably all, though this is speculative) universes. Collectively these multiversal nodes are networked together as the "Vector Sigma Gestalt".<ref>[[Crossing Over: Part 6]]</ref>

Vector Sigma is generally shaped like a faceted orb. It frequently acts out the will of [[Primus]], and among its other abilities is the infusing of inanimate [[Transformer]] bodies with [[Spark|new life]]. Activating it requires a [[Key to Vector Sigma|special circuit key]], and possession of the key brings great power.

Hundreds of years in the future, some Vector Sigma nodes would be protected behind a shell program called the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]].

It was also known as '''The Big V'''.

{{quote|I am Vector Sigma. Before Cybertron was, I was.|Vector Sigma upon activation|"[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1]]"}}

==Known multiversal nodes==
The [[Caretaker]], an independent computer designed by Vector Sigma to aid the Autobot [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]] was able to uplink to the larger multiversal Vector Sigma Gestalt. It gave a 10 digit numerical designation to each reality where Vector Sigma had a node. (The caretaker also speaks of a "central hub" that the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] portion of the Marvel Comics continuity was too far away from for Caretaker to function properly.)

=== Continuities with Vector Sigma "nodes" ===
*141.207.6.661 - A [[Unicron Trilogy]] universe<ref>Specifically, the Unicron Trilogy universe [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], and possibly also [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]] and [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]] are from. Whether this is the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] comic Unicron Trilogy, the cartoon Unicron Trilogy, or a hybrid of the two is a [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|subject of debate]].</ref>
*585.354.3.116 - The ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' universe, potentially also the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] universe<ref>The [[Caretaker]] notes that the Unicron Trilogy hub and this hub recently had "disruptions", which seems to indicate the [[Unicron Singularity]]'s effects on the Unicron Trilogy and ''Universe''. The Generation 1 cartoon universe is a universe very similar to this one, if they are not indeed the very same.</ref>
*216.333.8.616 - The (a?) [[Transtech]] universe
*[[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''Generation 1'' comic universe
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoon universe
*A [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (fiction)|Shattered Glass]] universe, where the node is known as the [[Omega Terminus]]
*''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' cartoon universe
*The Compu-Core within the Robotix world of Skalorr.<ref>Gee, wonder where [[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|this]] originates.</ref>
*[[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s Generation 1 comic universe
*The ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'' universe

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Toshio Ishii]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Ktvs prime and trion.jpg|left|thumb]]

Described as the "mega-computer" which gave all Transformers life, Vector Sigma resides in a spherical chamber deep within the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Its origins are unknown, save for the cryptic sentence it speaks upon being activated, whereupon it pronounces that before Cybertron existed, it did.

In 1985, seeking to combat the [[Autobot|Autobots]]' rule of the roads, Megatron created the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and brought them to Cybertron with the intent of having Vector Sigma program them with true cybernetic personalities. Requiring Vector Sigma's [[Key to Vector Sigma|activation key]] to bring the computer online, he stole it from [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and successfully completed his plan. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} In retaliation, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] constructed his own new team, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], but Megatron had already returned to Earth with the key still in his clutches, leaving the Autobots unable to reactivate Vector Sigma. As a first-generation product of Vector Sigma, Alpha Trion shared the mega-computer's computation matrix, and sacrificed himself by merging his lifeforce with it. This action reactivated the computer long enough for Optimus Prime to instruct it to program the Aerialbots with life.

Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that the key possessed another power—the bizarre ability to generate an energy beam that "de-energizes" organic matter, transforming it into lifeless metal. Megatron attempted to use this power to turn Earth into a new Cybertron, but his plans were thwarted and the key destroyed. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

After draining the energies of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to cure the [[Hate Plague]] in 2006, Optimus Prime began to suffer premonitions of some unseen future disaster. Believing that these visions were coming to pass with the Decepticons' theft of the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|key]] to the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]] {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}}, Prime used the empty shell of the Matrix to reactivate Vector Sigma, so that he could communicate with the spirit of Alpha Trion, still living within the computer, in hopes that the old sage could provide answers. Alpha Trion indicated that the recent conflict that had erupted around the Chamber had, in fact, been engineered by Vector Sigma as a means of bringing about a new Golden Age of Cybertron. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}} The plan ultimately succeeded when the chamber's energies were released, forcing Earth's sun to go supernova, only for the excess solar energy to be rerouted into Vector Sigma by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and the Autobots' [[Nebulan]] allies, thereby re-energizing the planet. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====

{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as detailed above, save for the fact that the events of 2006 take place in 2010, and "The Rebirth" does not occur. The nature and origins of Vector Sigma were heavily revised in a major [[retcon]] in 2007, when events of the ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' [[Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|radio drama]], along with a [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|timeline]] published in the ''[[Kiss Players/15 Go! Go! Compilation]]'', merged the computer with several other concepts from across ''Transformers'' fiction, including [[Oracle (G1)|Primacron's assistant]] (also known as the Oracle) and [[Primus]]. As a consequence, it is now a ''very'' different entity than in the English version of the same episodes—or any other continuity for that matter. Japanese continuity also incorporates the events of the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoon, which are not strictly part of English cartoon continuity, and as such, are listed under a separate header in this article.}}

=====''Kiss Players''=====
[[Image:Oracle COTP thumb.gif|right|thumb|All hail the shiny sparkly cotton candy mass.]]
Vector Sigma began life as "the [[Oracle (G1)|Oracle]]", an ape-like [[Primitive]] robot created by the ancient genius, [[Primacron (G1)|Primacron]]. The Oracle possessed the power to bring robotic beings to life, and hence played an important role in Primacron's experiments. Those experiments, however, eventually resulted in the creation of [[Unicron]], who turned on his creator and destroyed the Oracle's body in the course of his attack. The Oracle's essence persevered, however, and, encased within a protective shell, fled to a dead planet at the center of the universe, which he proceeded to transform into a verdant, living world. However, he could sense that in the future, Primacron would go on to create another universal danger in the form of [[Tornedron]], and so summoned the Primitive Transformers of the future back through time to his planet, where he instructed them in how to destroy the threat. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

{{note|This time travel was inserted by the previously mentioned retcon and is not alluded to at all in the episode itself. It would seem to exist purely to prevent the Oracle's role in the episode from conflicting with everything else the retcon sets out to do.}}

[[Image:TGGPrimus2.jpg|left|150px|thumb|]]

At some undefined point later in his life, the Oracle reached into the future again when he became aware of a plot by Unicron's servants, the [[Sparkbot]]s to resurrect their evil master following his destruction in the year 2005. The Sparkbots had duped the humans [[Marissa Faireborn]], [[Shaoshao Li]] and [[Atari Hitotonari]] into helping them gather Unicron's splintered [[Angolmois|lifeforce]] from throughout space and time, telling them that the fragments they were gathering were actually parts of the "[[Allspark (disambiguation)|Allspark]]". {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #40}} After the girls had gathered up several fragments of Unicron's lifeforce, the Oracle decided to take an active hand, and began stealing away the fragments before the girls could claim them. {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #45}} Unaware of the true nature of the situation, the girls gave chase through time aboard [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|Brave Maximus]], but they wound up crashing into the "[[Wall of Time]]" and were hurled into the parallel universe of the "[[Unicron Trilogy]]". {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #47}} The Oracle personally rescued the girls from each of the different time periods they had wound up in {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio dramas #48-50}} and brought them back to their home universe to explain what was really going on, appearing in the form of a giant golden robot and introducing himself to them as "Primus". The team proceeded to pursue the Sparkbots back to prehistoric [[Earth]], where Primus prevented the resurrection of Unicron, sealed his lifeforce within the planet and created Brave Maximus to serve as a guardian. When the girls asked Primus what their future would be, he did not deign to reply, and returned them to their proper place in time before returning to his world and settling down to rest... by transforming into the familiar golden spherical form of Vector Sigma. {{storylink|Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #50}}

As Primus slept, the [[Quintesson]]s discovered his planet and invaded it, subjugating Primus and obtaining the shell that had held his essence, which went on to become the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Using Primus's shackled powers, the Quintessons transformed his planet into the metallic Cybertron, and began creating their own race of robotic slaves, which eventually became the Transformers. {{storylink|Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
[[Image:VectorSigmaHM.jpg|left|thumb|The exterior of the Vector Sigma chamber, as seen in ''The Headmasters''.]]
One year after Optimus Prime drained the energies of the Matrix to cure the [[Hate Plague]], in 2011, the loss of the Matrix's energy caused Vector Sigma to destabilize, threatening Cybertron with destruction. The Decepticons—their forces bolstered with the recent addition of [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] warriors from the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]—sought to take advantage of the chaos that ensued, seeking to gain control of the unstable computer, thereby bringing Cybertron under their dominion again. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

[[Image:VectorSigmaHM2.jpg|right|thumb|Vector Sigma itself in Headmasters, sporting a slightly different look than in the original series.]]

Determined to save the planet at any cost, Optimus Prime fought his way through the tunnels leading to Vector Sigma's chamber, led by the ghost of Alpha Trion, while [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and a group of Autobot Headmasters began searching for the Matrix, which had been left on Earth to recharge itself using the planet's natural energy. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Although they were successful in their mission, and the Matrix was even recharged by Alpha Trion, they were not fast enough to re-stabilize Vector Sigma with it, forcing Optimus Prime to sacrifice his life (again) by merging with the computer and restoring it to normal. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

Not long thereafter, Vector Sigma began a series of experiments to create a new super-alloy. [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] and his cassettes were able to penetrate Vector Sigma's chamber and learn of the experiments, which in turn prompted Galvatron to launch an all-out attack on Cybertron to secure the new alloy, [[Cybertonuron]], for himself. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} However, Galvatron's ally, Headmaster leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], was not enthused at the idea of Galvatron acquiring such a powerful weapon, and determined to keep the metal out both his hands and those of the Autobots through means most drastic—the total destruction of Cybertron itself. Powerful bombs were planted in Vector Sigma's chamber, and although the Autobots learned of the plot, they were unable to stop it, and Cybertron was reduced to a burnt-out husk. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

=====''Beast Wars Returns'' cartoon=====
:''See [[Vector Sigma#Beast Machines cartoon|Beast Machines cartoon]], below.''

=====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Chie Hirano]] (Japanese)
[[Image:Neo-VectorSigma.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Vector Sigma's Blue Period.]]

Hundreds of thousands of years into the future, long after Cybertron had been restored following its decimation in [[Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2 |2011]], Vector Sigma appeared to be in charge of the planet, handing down orders via the [[Convoy Council]]. It was under Vector Sigma's orders that [[Big Convoy]] was removed from solo warrior duty and placed in charge of a group of unruly Maximal new recruits. By means of Big Convoy's [[Energon Matrix]], Vector Sigman would occasionally possess Big Convoy for a brief instant in order to give words of wisdom and encouragement to the Maximal new recruits. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}} Big Convoy, initially very distant and anti-social, gradually became more compassionate as Vector Sigma's actions began to rub off on him.

After being resurrected by the [[Blendtron]]s, [[Unicron]] traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the intention of transforming it into his new body. He briefly achieved this goal by possessing Vector Sigma and overriding it. His scheme would have worked, however, he allowed himself to be lured out of Vector Sigma by Big Convoy, the Maximal recruits, [[Lio Convoy]] and [[Magmatron]]. Unicron underestimated their power and was destroyed. Now free, Vector Sigma oversaw the reconstruction of Cybertron by the united forces of the Maximals and the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]].

===Beast Era===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Carol Savenkoff]] (English), [[Nobutoshi Canna]] (Japanese), [[Emanuela Damasio]] (Italian), [[Martina Treger]] (German)

[[Image:Oracle (The Reformatting).jpg|right|thumb|225px|The Oracle usually appears outwardly like a ball of "outer space", but many things can be displayed on its fluid surface. A swirling mass of sparks is another common visual.]]

Three hundred years after the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] between the Autobots and Decepticons, Vector Sigma had faded into legend until it was rediscovered by [[Optimus Primal]] and his small band of [[Maximal]]s while they were on the run from [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who had conquered the entire planet. By this point in time, however, Vector Sigma had become outfitted with an additional layer of "security" that helped to mediate access to its power: the "[[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]", a "shell program" of sorts that would only allow Transformers with a "receptive [[spark]]" to access Vector Sigma. To protect Primal's Maximals from the effects of the [[transformation virus]] Megatron had used to conquer Cybertron, the Oracle reformatted them into new [[technorganic]] forms {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

[[Image:Vector sigma core.jpg|left|225px|thumb|A Diagnostic Drone interfaces with the Vector Sigma core, which appears very similar to the Generation 1 Vector Sigma.]]

Through the Oracle and Vector Sigma, Optimus Primal came to commune with the [[Allspark]], the extradimensional source of all Transformer life to which the computer was revealed to be connected, and believed that it was the will of the Allspark that Cybertron be restored to its organic beginnings. {{storylink|Survivor}} In truth, Primal was incorrect—the Oracle actually desired a ''balance'' between the organic and the technological—but it would take the disastrous unleashing of Vector Sigma's power to make him realize this. When Megatron's treacherous general, [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], discovered that Vector Sigma lay at the heart of the Oracle, he used the sparkless [[Diagnostic Drone]] to access Vector Sigma and withdraw the code for the mega-computer's key. {{storylink|The Key}} Arming the [[Tank Drone]]s at his command with the power of the Key to Vector Sigma, Tankor had Megatron unleash the key's energies upon Cybertron, in order to purge any trace of organic matter from the world by converting it into metal. Optimus Primal countered by unleashing the power of the Plasma Energy Chamber, and two enegies violently cancelled eachother out. {{storylink|End of the Line}} Primal was killed by the energy backlash and travelled to the Allspark, but chose not to join it, now understanding what the Oracle truly desired. Primal returned to reality via the Oracle, and the computer—Vector Sigma core and all—vanished. {{storylink|Fallout}}

====3H comics====
The Oracle was revealed to have been a shell program constructed by the [[Quintesson]]s in an attempt to harness the power of Vector Sigma (which the Quintesson [[Al-Badur]] described as "the ultimate physical embodiment" of Primus) and cut off its connection to the Transformers it birthed. Using the Oracle, the Quintessons allegedly fed Optimus Primal the visions and information necessary to orchestrate the technorganic reformatting of Cybertron, believing that it would leave the Cybertronians weak and disoriented, opening the planet up to an easy conquest. {{storylink|Disclosure}} In actuality, however, it was the Quintessons themselves who were being manipulated, by Primus, who used the greedy aliens to instigate this great evolutionary leap for his children. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Vector Sigma was the internal computer of Primus, which he used to analyze what was happening in the universe via information gained from the [[Sonic Canyons]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} After taking control of Cybertron, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attempted to access Vector Sigma and download its information, but concluded that he needed the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to initiate an uplink. Capturing Optimus Prime, he forcibly removed the Matrix from the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] and initiated a complete download. {{storylink|War and Peace}} However, the information was so great that it overwhelmed Shockwave's multiple secondary computers, spilling into whatever available memory it could find, including the as yet-to-be activated [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave)|Generation One}}

===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Image:ForcedFusion RID vectorsigma.jpg|right|thumb]]
[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] was chosen by Vector Sigma (also known as "the Allspark") to carry the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and lead the Autobots. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}}
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===''Animated''===
Although never actually seen, Vector Sigma's existence was noted by [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]. Like the more-famous [[AllSpark]], it possessed the ability to create Transformer life, and was used to continue the growth of the Cybertronian race after the AllSpark was jettisoned into space to end the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The Allspark Almanac II}}

===Live-action film series continuity===
[[Image:VectorSigma-DOTM.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Yep, this is very live-action film-y looking, yessirree.]]
The great historian [[Alpha Trion (ROTF)|Alpha Trion]] preserved important datatracks from Vector Sigma, the "Cybertronian Database". Some of these datatracks told of a handful of battles on the planet [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Cyber Missions|Cyber Missions}} Vector Sigma also, more appropriately, held records of the Transformer race's long history, its artifacts and terminology, and its most important combatants. <ref>Transformers.com's ''Dark of the Moon'' website</ref>
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===Aligned continuity===
====''Exodus''====
Vector Sigma had become a myth. Many believed it was located within the [[Sonic Canyons]], although a few of Cybertron's elite knew it was located beneath [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. When the [[Decepticon]]s bombed the Sonic Canyons, they bombed the area where an entrance to Vector Sigma was said to be located, causing outrage among Cybertronians. When the Autobots left Cybertron on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] opted to remain behind, believing the computer would keep him alive. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

===='''Prime''' cartoon====
{{spoiler|Orion Pax, Part 3|March 10, 2012}}
The entrance to Vector Sigma was, unbeknownst to the [[Decepticon]]s, located beneath their capital of [[Kaon]]. It remained there untouched throughout the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]] until [[Jack Darby]] and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] followed the [[Key to Vector Sigma]]' to it. In the chamber below the planet's surface, Jack used the Key to activate the supercomputer and began to download the contents of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Despite an attack of [[scraplet]]s, the download was successful, and Vector Sigma disappeared back into the depths. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
[[Image:ChaosGalvatronVectorSigma.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."]]

According to [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], Vector Sigma was "essentially erased" when Cybertron was rendered a dead and uninhabitable world by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. {{storylink|Ironing Out the Details}} It was at the very core of Cybertron. The psychotic [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], being manipulated by the [[D-Void]] through the [[Darkness (G1)|Heart of Darkness]], believed that destroying Cybertron would save the universe when, in fact, it would merge it with the [[Dead Universe]], killing all forms of life. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] attempted to stop him, but were too late to prevent him from feeding the Heart of Darkness into Vector Sigma. While [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] fought with Galvatron, Rodimus convinced an initially reluctant Optimus that the only way to save Cybertron and the universe was to release the [[Matrix of Leadership]] inside Vector Sigma. Agreeing, Prime leapt into Vector Sigma, opening the Matrix and preventing the assault of the Dead Universe on Cybertron and the rest of the universe. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}
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==Merchandise==
[[Image:VectorSigmaBotcon07b.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Long have you hunted me. Long have I eluded you.]]
* A hollow plastic Vector Sigma, packaged with a removable Circuit Key and a clear "hovering effect" display stand, was a special souvenir item offered [[Exclusive|exclusively]] at [[BotCon 2007]].
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==Notes==
* According to episode writer [[David Wise]] at various conventions (such as [[BotCon 2009]]), he was instructed to include Vector Sigma when writing "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|The Key to Vector Sigma]]" as part of the [[Hasbro]] episode mandates. Not knowing what Vector Sigma was, he pressed story editor [[Bryce Malek]], who in turn had to go to Hasbro to learn that Vector Sigma was "the computer that gave all the Transformers personalities". This caused Malek to respond: "Well, it didn't do a very good job, did it!" Of course, this does raise the question of ''where'' the Vector Sigma concept originated, as nothing like it was ever used by [[Bob Budiansky]] in the Marvel comics or toyline [[bio]]s.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Vector Sigma''' (ベクターシグマ ''Bekutā Shiguma'')

==References==
<references />

==See also==
*[[Primus]]
*[[Allspark]]

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2007/VectorSigma/VectorSigma/vectorsigma.htm Vector Sigma on TFU.info]

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Aligned continuity family

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[[Image:Hasbrobible-OPrimedescription.jpg|350px|thumb|Optimus Prime's depiction in Hasbro's brand bible at the center of the aligned continuity family.]]
The '''Aligned continuity family''' was launched in 2010 with the intention of being the foundation of most ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' projects for the decade to come.<ref name="decade">[[Hasbro Q&A/January 2011: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Jan. 2011]]</ref> Its core is the "[[Binder of Revelation]]",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/botcon-2011-coverage-hasbro-intellectual-property-panel/21870/ Seibertron.com Botcon 2011 Coverage: Hasbro Intellectual Property Panel]</ref> a 354-page<ref>[http://www.figures.com/forums/news/13305-botcon-2011-hasbro-panel-report.html Figures.com recap of Hasbro BotCon 2011 panel]</ref> [[production bible|brand bible]] co-written by [[Aaron Archer]], [[Rik Alvarez]] and other Transformer experts from [[Hasbro]] and the [[fandom]], charting billions of years worth of history for the Transformers.<ref>''[[Transformers Vault]]''.</ref> The [[Continuity family|family]] currently comprises the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' franchises,<ref name="aligned">[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/8189/20/ Hasbro continuity declaration]</ref> and it has some influence on [[Transformers Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] character portrayal.<ref name="newaligned">[http://www.tfviews.com/news/main/hasbro-q-and-a/1024 TFviews.com Hasbro Q&A, July 2010]</ref>

Hasbro has not given this family an official title. We have derived the name "Aligned" from Hasbro statements referring to this as a new "aligned continuity".<ref name="aligned" /><ref name="newaligned" /> Hasbro considered the whole continuity "a bit of an animal to define".<ref name="allspark2011botcon"/>

==Creative vision==
The Aligned venture appears to be Hasbro's attempt at synthesizing a grand unified [[continuity]] out of all of the previous lore. An expression of this can be seen in the Hall of Fame profiles, one of which was officially confirmed as being "based off of" Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> That one and several others present each character as an amalgam of traits from disparate continuities, ranging from ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' to the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to the [[live-action film series]] and more (see [[#Hall of Fame profiles|below]]).

This is a significant departure from Hasbro's [[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|previous]] [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|forays]] into meta-continuity, which preserved the integrity of old timelines as separate, coexistent universes within a single [[multiverse]]. In that schema, the Aligned family would be simply one more [[universal stream]] added to the mix, beholden to preestablished concepts like [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]]. But when asked about how [[The Fallen|a certain singularity]] would relate to the new fiction, Hasbro replied, "Anything you know from past generations of the brand may or may not be factual in the new continuity."<ref name="fallen">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=74182&view=findpost&p=1675011 Allspark.com Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]</ref> At [[BotCon 2011]], the multiverse was referred to as a "separate universe".<ref name="allspark2011botcon">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79726 AllSpark.com live transcript of Archer and Alvarez's 2011 BotCon panel]</ref>

Where, exactly, this leaves the Aligned fiction in relation to the rest of the multiverse is unclear. [[Movie continuity|Other]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|contemporary]] [[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|fiction]] has continued to tell stories set in older universes, so it seems at least that Aligned material is not meant to supersede the continuities from which it draws.

==Continuities==
''See also: [[Aligned timeline]]''

Hasbro consistently refers to all Aligned fiction as one "continuity", and while different storylines may appear to contradict each other, "reasons for the confusion will be revealed".<ref name="decade" /> However, that ideal is hampered by the fact that various elements of the fiction have separate creative teams with distinct visions that sometimes conflict. For that reason, this wiki takes the more cautious route of calling it a "continuity family". The brand bible's description in ''Transformers Vault'' states it paints the Transformers history in broad strokes, so as to give creators the necessary flexibility when crafting their stories, a belief echoed by statements made at [[BotCon 2011]]: Archer spoke of a "squint test" where everything can be seen as one family of stories, where only fans would see differences.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-hasbro-story-building-panel-172316/ TFW coverage of Botcon 2011 Hasbro Story Building Panel]</ref> Branches of fiction include:

===Hall of Fame profiles===
In May of 2010, before any Aligned franchises had launched, Hasbro announced a "Transformers Hall of Fame" honoring characters and people associated with the ''Transformers'' brand. The spot for one inductee was put to a fan-vote: [[Transformers Hall of Fame#Nominees|Five character profiles]] were published on Hasbro.com, and users could cast a vote for one of them. Most of them were described with a combination of traits from various continuities; for example, [[Jazz (disambiguation)|Jazz]] is pictured in [[Jazz (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' form]] but described as a "[[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]]" like [[Jazz (Animated)|his ''Animated'' incarnation]].<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-3.cfm Jazz's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> [[Soundwave (disambiguation)|Soundwave]], also looking like [[Soundwave (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' self]], is said to have a mysterious origin like [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|his ''Cybertron'' counterpart]], his partners are called "[[Mini-Con]]s" instead of "[[Mini-Cassette]]s", and he has [[Soundwave (ROTF)|his live-action movie incarnation]]'s vulnerability to simultaneous sonic booms.<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-1.cfm Soundwave's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> Later, a [[Hasbro Q&A]] answer stated that Jazz's entry is based on Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> [[Jazz (WFC)|The character does appear in ''War for Cybertron'' fiction]], but with no particularly Cyber-Ninja-like attributes.

===''War for Cybertron'' and ''Fall of Cybertron'' video games===
Created by [[High Moon Studios]] under Game Director [[Matt Tieger]] with tie-in games by [[Next Level Games]] and [[Vicarious Visions]], [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'']]'s aesthetics and characterizations are heavily based on [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]; for example, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] speak words, despite both being quasi-mute in the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Prime'' cartoon]]. Set in the ancient days of the [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian war, the games' plot focuses on [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s quest to harness [[Dark Energon]], which ends up corrupting the planet itself and leaving it uninhabitable for millions of years. Those events overlap a large portion of the simultaneously-released ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' novel, but they [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)#Synopsis|differ in many details]]. Two years later, ''War for Cybertron'' was followed by its sequel, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]''.

===Alex Irvine novels===
Written by [[Alex Irvine]], ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' describes the beginning of the war and then, as mentioned above, covers the same ground as the ''War for Cybertron'' games with many differing details. (Hasbro did take a small stab at reconciliation by declaring [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]'s predecessor in the games, "Zeta Prime", and the one in the novel, "Sentinel Prime", to be the same individual, "[[Sentinel Zeta Prime]]".)<ref>[http://www.ripten.com/2010/06/26/creators-talk-transformers-war-for-cybertron-at-botcon-2010-panel-lbd416/ Ripten.com's coverage of the BotCon 2010 Activision panel]</ref> Irvine also wrote the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|''War for Cybertron'' comic]] and the apocryphal short story [[Bumblebee at Tyger Pax]], both set in the novel's pre-game period. The comic contains no major discrepancies, other than maintaining the "Sentinel Prime" name, but the short story features [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] losing his ability to speak words before the game events. ''[[Transformers: Exiles]]'' continues the saga post-Cybertron.

===''Generations'' toy bios===
[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#Toys|A handful of toys]] were created directly from ''War for Cybertron'' designs and sold as part of the [[Generations (toyline)|''Generations'' toyline]]. While lacking the phrase "War for Cybertron" on their packaging, the release of the first wave was timed within days of the games and novel,<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69812 Allspark.com toy-sighting forum reports]</ref> and their on-package [[bio]]s are basically in sync with that fiction as well. Megatron's, for example, focuses on his penchant for upgrading his body with "bleeding-edge" technology,<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/cybertronian-megatron-011.jpg Cybertronian Megatron's on-package bio]</ref> which may be an allusion to his lustful utilization of Dark Energon. Bumblebee's says he was once a "chatterbox" but is now a "silent warrior",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/wfc-bumblebee-009.jpg Cybertronian Bumblebee's on-package bio]</ref> which appears to be a bridge between his ''War for Cybertron'' and then-upcoming ''Prime'' portrayals; however, it's not strictly accurate because in ''Prime'' he can still vocalize, just [[R2-D2|not in words]].

===''Prime'' cartoon===
Overseen by the team of [[Jeff Kline]], [[Duane Capizzi]], [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]], this show is set on modern-day [[Earth]] with a unique aesthetic somewhere between the [[live-action film series]] and ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''. Released five months after ''War for Cybertron'', it also features Dark Energon as a primary plot element, but it seems to be a more mysterious substance with the added quality of being able to [[Terrorcon (Prime)|reanimate corpses]].<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 2"]]</ref> Also, strangely, Megatron is able to create an army of such creatures by crashing Dark Energon into the dead world of Cybertron,<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 5"]]</ref> despite the reason for the planet's demise in ''War for Cybertron'' being its complete infection with the stuff. It was stated at [[BotCon 2011]] that Dark Energon's nature differed because of the modern era of the show, as opposed to the ancient setting of the novel and games. The producers also iterated that while they strive to maintain continuity, ultimately leeway was allowed if it served the story.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-transformers-prime-panel-172315/ TFW coverage of Hasbro Studios panel at BotCon 2011]</ref>

A [[Transformers: Prime (comic)|prequel comic]] written by [[Mike Johnson]] shows events on Cybertron immediately before the cartoon, incorporating the ''Exodus'' notion of [[space bridge]]s being a lost art and Megatron's backstory as a [[Kaon]]ian miner.

===''Online'' and ''Universe'' MMOs===
Developed by [[NetDragon]] and [[Jagex]] for their respective Eastern and Western markets, the ''[[Transformers Online]]'' and ''[[Transformers Universe]]'' MMOs tie into ''Prime'' aesthetically and broaden the universe. Their continuities will presumably not tie into each other however.

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
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===''Bot Shots'' toyline, bios and online game===
The [[Bot Shots]] characters are somewhere between [[Live-action film| the live action movies]] and [[Generation 1 (franchise)| Generation 1]] aesthetically, with some Prime mixed in for good measure. Since this kind of makes the wiki's brain hurt, we have decided to place them with the Aligned continuity.

==Notes==
* Instead of giving this continuity family an official name, Hasbro has instead referred to it with brief descriptors such as "new aligned",<ref name="newaligned" /> "aligned",<ref name="aligned" /> "modern",<ref name="decade" /><ref name="fallen" /> and "War for Cybertron/Exodus".<ref name="newaligned" /> VP of Intellectual Property Development [[Aaron Archer]] said at a [[BotCon 2010]] panel that he had considered naming it "Epochs" but then decided not to.
* The [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|subtitle-less ''Transformers'' toyline launched in 2010]] and its companion line, ''Generations'', share some of the Aligned spirit, since they likewise contain characters and concepts from previous franchises with little separation. But the only real connection between those toylines and Aligned material is the small number of [[#Generations toy bios|previously-mentioned]] ''War for Cybertron''-inspired toys. Hasbro has referred to the [[Power Core Combiners]] subline as "exist[ing] in the modern world continuity",<ref>[[Hasbro Q&A/November 2010: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]]</ref> but the context of that statement doesn't suggest a specific reference to Aligned.
* The ''Hubworld Transformers: Prime'' TV special featured footage of BotCon attendees taking a ''Transformers'' quiz, with the questions being what Optimus Prime's original name was, what his job had been, and which soap opera was the Autobots' favorite. The soap opera (''[[As the Kitchen Sinks]]'') is from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Generation 1'' cartoon]], but the "correct" answers to the first two questions were said to be "Orion Pax" and "data clerk". Aligned continuity is the only source where both of those ideas are true. This seems to reflect Hasbro's current policy of treating Aligned material as the default ''Transformers'' "truth". Something similar occurred during the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] era, where [[DK Publishing|DK]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' treated that continuity as the default "truth," so this not a completely new phenomenon.
* The Aligned continuity has influenced the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]], with [[James Roberts]] introducing elements of the Optimus-Megatron backstory with "[[Chaos Theory Part 1]]", while ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye| More than Meets the Eye]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise| Robots in Disguise]]'' series utilize ''War for Cybertron'' character designs.

==See also==

* [[Aligned timeline]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Aligned| ]]
[[Category:Continuity families]]
[[Category:Prime]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron]]

Bot Shots (toyline)

2012-03-02T07:43:14Z

24.70.2.53: /* Bot Shots singles assortment */

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[[Image:BotShots-rules.jpg|right|thumb|200px|]]
'''Bot Shots''' is an action-figure based game that involves small super-deformed auto-transforming figures with combat rules similar to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Players transform their Bot Shots figure into vehicle mode, send it into their opponent's figure, and hopefully the collision will trigger a transformation into robot mode.

A three-sided rotating symbol in their chest (either a fist, a blaster, or a sword) put into place before the game by the player, is judged against the opponent's pre-set symbol using the below hierarchy, determining the winner.

* Fist beats sword
* Sword beats blaster
* Blaster beats fist

In the event of a draw, the figure's individual power ranking determines the winner. If a figure does not transform, its owner loses by default.

One bot in each wave is designated the [[Super Bot]]. This robot is cast in translucent plastic and has marginally higher power stats. His identity is blacked out on the back of the packaging of the other figures in the wave and has unique packaging deco calling out his "Super Bot" status. The packaging treats the Super Bots as their own "Series" with Bumblebee to Baricade being numbered Series 1: B001 to B004 but Sentinel Prime listed as "Super Bot 001." Super Bots for each wave are marked below.

44 Bot Shots figures are planned for 2012.

==Series 1==
===Bot Shots singles assortment===
[[Image:BotShotstoy-OptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Someone will find a way to get alcohol involved with this game.]]
====Wave 1====
* B001 [[Bumblebee (Prime)#Bot Shots|Bumblebee]]
* B002 [[Starscream (Prime)#Bot Shots|Starscream]]
* B003 [[Optimus Prime (Prime)#Bot Shots|Optimus Prime]]
* B004 [[Barricade (Prime)#Bot Shots|Barricade]]

* Super Bot 001 [[Sentinel Zeta Prime#Bot Shots|Sentinel Prime]]

====Wave 2====
* B005 [[Mirage (BS)#Bot Shots|Mirage]]
* B006 [[Ratchet (Prime)#Bot Shots|Autobot Ratchet]]
* B007 [[Brawl (WFC)#Bot Shots|Decepticon Brawl]]

* Super Bot 002 Bumblebee

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====Wave 3====
* B008 [[Jetfire (WFC)#Bot Shots|Jetfire]]
* B009 [[Lockdown (BS)|Lockdown]]
* B010 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Bot Shots|Thundercracker]] ([[retool]] of Starscream)
* B011 [[Topspin (BS)|Topspin]]

* Super Bot 003 [[Megatron (Prime)#Bot Shots|Megatron]] (truck mode)

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====Wave 4====
* B012 Ironhide
* B013 Powerglide
* B014 Autobot Jazz
* B015 Leadfoot

* Super Bot 004 Optimus Prime

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====Wave 5====
* B016 Skywarp (redeco of Starscream)
* B017 Roadbuster
* B018 Megatron
* B019 Bumblebee (With Battle Mask)

*Super Bot 005 Shockwave

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===3-Pack assortment===
*BP001 Bumblebee / BP002 Sentinel Prime / BP003 [[Prowl (Prime)#Bot Shots|Prowl]]
*BP004 [[Megatron (Prime)#Bot Shots|Megatron]] / BP005 [[Nemesis Prime (BS)|Nemesis Prime]] / Super Bot 006 [[Acid Storm (BS)|Acid Storm]]

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===Launcher assortment===
====Wave 1====
* BL001 Optimus Prime with Trailer Launcher
* BL002 Megatron with Tank Launcher

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====Wave 2====
* BL003 [[Ironhide (Prime)#Bot Shots|Ironhide]] Launcher
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===Ultimate Battle Set===
*Decepticon Brawl / Megatron with Tank Launcher / Optimus Prime with Trailer Launcher / Bumblebee
**Includes [[Matrix]] trophy card!

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==Notes==
*Each figure's design is a mix of various incarnations of the characters, though usually settling somewhere between "Generation 1" and "movie". Because this sort of thing makes the Wiki's brain hurt, the figures are being considered [[Aligned continuity family]] characters by default.
* The numbers on each release of the figure are different. Optimus Prime will have different stats as a single, as a launcher, and in the Battle for the Matrix sets, plus slightly different deco.

[[Category:Bot Shots| ]]
[[Category: Franchises]]

Orion Pax, Part 2

2012-02-26T19:45:03Z

24.70.2.53: /* Featured characters */

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|title="Orion Pax, Part 2"
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'''Jack learns how to restore Optimus's memory.'''

==Synopsis==
On the ''[[Nemesis (Prime)|Nemesis]]'', [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] points his missiles at [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]]. Accidentally addressing him as Optimus Prime, the Seeker realizes something is wrong. Through a brief conversation, Starscream learns of Orion's deception at [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s hands, and states that the archivist has much to learn. He begins to speak, but is interrupted by a team of apprehending [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]. Starscream leaps into action and makes a quick escape, and Pax is ordered to stay in his quarters, his curiosity spiked.

Back at base, [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] finishes adjustments on the [[GroundBridge]]'s power level, hoping to increase its range. [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] pilots a test subject in the form of a toy car into the bridge, but upon reaching the end, it is destroyed. He consoles Ratchet on the failure, saying it was only the first try, but Ratchet thinks it was a doomed idea from the start. In an effort to cheer him up, Raf tells a story of his slow triumph over the rope climb in gym class, but it falls on oblivious ears, since Ratchet loudly asks what does attempting to increase the [[GroundBridge]]'s power level have anything has to do with gym class.

In the halls of the Nemesis, Starscream deftly maneuvers his way past many guards, blasting a door out in his bid for freedom. Seconds away from escape, a laser blast catches his tail, and he spins to the ground. Orion is soon visited by Megatron, who apologizes for the commotion. Orion asks why Megatron told him Starscream was dead, and he replies that Starscream is dead to the Decepticon cause—a defector to the Autobots. Megatron departs, but Orion's interest is piqued by Starscream's reference to him, and he begins to read more about this "Optimus Prime." On his page, Orion reads that he was the leader of the Autobot faction, and not Ratchet, as Megatron told him.

[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] arrives at base, and reports no leads on the location of the Decepticons' [[space bridge]]. About to send Bulkhead on his way to the next search quadrant, Ratchet recieves a high-frequency message of peculiar nature: it is addressed to him, and is from Starscream. The plane tells him that he must come alone with a medical kit to repair him, in exchange for valuable intel about Optimus.

In a forest, the GroundBridge portal opens, to the surprise and dismay of the wounded Starscream, for both Ratchet and Bulkhead step out. Ratchet plays no games with his help, refusing to repair him until he gets some information. Realizing his compromised position, Starscream tells all, but succumbs to horror when he finds the Autobots already know it as well. As Ratchet and Bulkhead depart, the medic responds to Starscream's pleading with the ultimatum that unless he knows anything about the space bridge, he's going to rot. The jet is amazed that his troops finished his project when he was gone, then realizes that this is the information Ratchet is looking for. He smugly shows the Autobot where it hurts.

The group convenes at base to discuss the plan of action in seizing the space bridge. [[June Darby|June]] voices her concern at the prospect of [[Jack Darby|Jack]] traveling to another planet, but is reassured by [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[William Fowler|Fowler]], and realizes the necessity of his mission. Ratchet works out a plan, where all four Autobots storm the space bridge chamber, jamming communications to block the deployment of Decepticon reinforcements. Fowler offers Jack a spacesuit for use on Cybertron, and Arcee volunteers to go with him. The GroundBridge opens, and the team enters.

At the Space Bridge complex, the team makes quick work of the guards. One attempts to send a message to control, but is stymied by Ratchet's scrambler and Bulkhead's fist. They arrive at the bridge, and Jack, fully suited, is bridged to the location. The space bridge is activated, and the duo step through to Arcee's home planet and Jack's destiny.

In the complex, the remaining Autobots are stopped in their tracks by a transmission from [[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]], asking for a status report. As he makes continual demands for a report, who should take the call is fumbled over, as Ratchet and Bulkhead's voices would be recognized, and Bumblebee can't speak at all. Ratchet settles on Agent Fowler, and he is patched through. He manages to field the call, and turns it around, asking Breakdown how he was, to surprising success.

Meanwhile, Orion searches through all files he can on "Optimus Prime", only to find that they have been encrypted, to his chagrin. However, Orion, a skillful hacker manages to get past them long enough to find an image that shocks him; ''he'' is Optimus Prime! This does not go unnoticed by [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] and Megatron. The latter vows that he ''will'' see to it that Orion completes [[Project Iacon]], even if he has to inflict grievous pain on him.

On Cybertron, Jack and Arcee follow the [[Key to Vector Sigma|Key]]'s signal and are surprised to find that it leads to [[Kaon]], the Decepticon capitol. As they advance on foot, they cross a bridge, unaware that underneath them, something is transforming and beginning to follow them...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (4)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (8)
*[[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (9)
*[[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (10)

|c2=
*"[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]]" (2)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (3)
*[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (6)
*[[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (7)
*[[Breakdown (Prime)|Breakdown]] (15)

|c3=
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (5)
*[[June Darby]] (11)
*[[William Fowler]] (12)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (13)
*[[Jack Darby]] (14)

|c4=
*[[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] (1)
*The creature beneath the bridge (16)

}}

==Quotes==
"You really ''have'' been kept in the dark, haven't you?"
:—'''Starscream''', upon learning of "Orion's" deception.

"The Decepticon Space Bridge is located right here, deep within an energon mine." 
"Adjacent to a raw fuel supply, clever. What's our intel?" 
"A... reliable source" 
:—'''Ratchet''' talks to '''Arcee''' about their tip, without realizing he's calling a Decepticon reliable.

"Command, this is Space Bridge Control! We are under attack! Command, do you read me?" 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>commlink static* 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>''Bulkhead smashes the Vehicon's face''* 
"Shhhh."
:—A '''Vehicon''' is reminded of the no talking rule by '''Ratchet'''.

"Don't worry, Space Bridging is just like Ground Bridging." 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Space Bridge fires up with a loud noise* 
"JUST A LITTLE MORE INTENSE."
:—'''Arcee''' tries to ease '''Jack's''' nerves about going on the big boy rides.

"Somebody say something, pronto!" 
"Rafael, patch in Agent Fowler."
:—'''Agent Fowler''' gets exactly what he wants, just not what he expected.

"You have one nano-cycle to respond or-" 
"This is space bridge control... situation normal." 
"Normal? You sure about that?" 
"We were just, calibrating the sub-systems and, we uh, had a surge, but it's fine now. How are you?" 
"Uh, uh, never better. I know it's thankless down there, keep up the good work, huh?" 
"Will do, control out."
:—'''Breakdown''' and '''Fowler''' demonstrate that hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good "how are you" at your side.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===

===Continuity errors===
*Despite Megatron's orders to wipe all sensitive files regarding Optimus Prime off their systems, at least one file remained, hidden behind a false image of the "Invader" Optimus Prime.
* What happened to the planet-wide infestation of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|zombies]] spawned in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]"?

===Continuity notes===
*Raf has undergone a rapid recovery; the braces on his legs from last episode are gone.
*Ratchet notes that Breakdown would recognize his or Bulkhead's voice. The latter is due to Breakdown and Bulkhead's rivalry (seen from Breakdown's first appearance in "[[Deus Ex Machina]]"), and the former is probably from Breakdown's encounter with Ratchet in "[[Stronger, Faster]]".
*Kaon, the Decepticon capital, makes its first actual appearance, following Megatron's dream recreation of it in "[[Sick Mind]]". Jack remembers it from the events of that episode after Arcee identifies it.

===Transformers references===

===Real-world references===
*The scene of Fowler talking to Breakdown may be a reference to ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''.
**Though it makes fictional sense, it is ironic that Kevin Micheal Richardson, who has played a Vehicon in the series, did not make the call.

===Trivia===
* Aww, Breakdown cares about the little guy.
* This is the second time Megatron denounces a mistake relating to Starscream that he "[[Out of His Head|does not intend to make again]]".

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Aligned continuity family

2012-02-16T02:01:40Z

24.70.2.53: /* Bot Shots toyline and bios */

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[[Image:Hasbrobible-OPrimedescription.jpg|350px|thumb|Optimus Prime's depiction in Hasbro's brand bible at the center of the aligned continuity family.]]
The '''Aligned continuity family''' was launched in 2010 with the intention of being the foundation of most ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' projects for the decade to come.<ref name="decade">[[Hasbro Q&A/January 2011: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Jan. 2011]]</ref> Its core is the "[[Binder of Revelation]]",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/botcon-2011-coverage-hasbro-intellectual-property-panel/21870/ Seibertron.com Botcon 2011 Coverage: Hasbro Intellectual Property Panel]</ref> a 354-page<ref>[http://www.figures.com/forums/news/13305-botcon-2011-hasbro-panel-report.html Figures.com recap of Hasbro BotCon 2011 panel]</ref> [[production bible|brand bible]] co-written by [[Aaron Archer]], [[Rik Alvarez]] and other Transformer experts from [[Hasbro]] and the [[fandom]], charting billions of years worth of history for the Transformers.<ref>''[[Transformers Vault]]''.</ref> The [[Continuity family|family]] currently comprises the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' franchises,<ref name="aligned">[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/8189/20/ Hasbro continuity declaration]</ref> and it has some influence on [[Transformers Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] character portrayal.<ref name="newaligned">[http://www.tfviews.com/news/main/hasbro-q-and-a/1024 TFviews.com Hasbro Q&A, July 2010]</ref>

Hasbro has not given this family an official title. We have derived the name "Aligned" from Hasbro statements referring to this as a new "aligned continuity".<ref name="aligned" /><ref name="newaligned" /> Hasbro considered the whole continuity "a bit of an animal to define".<ref name="allspark2011botcon"/>

==Creative vision==
The Aligned venture appears to be Hasbro's attempt at synthesizing a grand unified [[continuity]] out of all of the previous lore. An expression of this can be seen in the Hall of Fame profiles, one of which was officially confirmed as being "based off of" Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> That one and several others present each character as an amalgam of traits from disparate continuities, ranging from ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' to the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to the [[live-action film series]] and more (see [[#Hall of Fame profiles|below]]).

This is a significant departure from Hasbro's [[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|previous]] [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|forays]] into meta-continuity, which preserved the integrity of old timelines as separate, coexistent universes within a single [[multiverse]]. In that schema, the Aligned family would be simply one more [[universal stream]] added to the mix, beholden to preestablished concepts like [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]]. But when asked about how [[The Fallen|a certain singularity]] would relate to the new fiction, Hasbro replied, "Anything you know from past generations of the brand may or may not be factual in the new continuity."<ref name="fallen">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=74182&view=findpost&p=1675011 Allspark.com Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]</ref> At [[BotCon 2011]], the multiverse was referred to as a "separate universe".<ref name="allspark2011botcon">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79726 AllSpark.com live transcript of Archer and Alvarez's 2011 BotCon panel]</ref>

Where, exactly, this leaves the Aligned fiction in relation to the rest of the multiverse is unclear. [[Movie continuity|Other]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|contemporary]] [[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|fiction]] has continued to tell stories set in older universes, so it seems at least that Aligned material is not meant to supersede the continuities from which it draws.

==Continuities==
''See also: [[Aligned timeline]]''

Hasbro consistently refers to all Aligned fiction as one "continuity", and while different storylines may appear to contradict each other, "reasons for the confusion will be revealed".<ref name="decade" /> However, that ideal is hampered by the fact that various elements of the fiction have separate creative teams with distinct visions that sometimes conflict. For that reason, this wiki takes the more cautious route of calling it a "continuity family". The brand bible's description in ''Transformers Vault'' states it paints the Transformers history in broad strokes, so as to give creators the necessary flexibility when crafting their stories, a belief echoed by statements made at [[BotCon 2011]]: Archer spoke of a "squint test" where everything can be seen as one family of stories, where only fans would see differences.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-hasbro-story-building-panel-172316/ TFW coverage of Botcon 2011 Hasbro Story Building Panel]</ref> Branches of fiction include:

===Hall of Fame profiles===
In May of 2010, before any Aligned franchises had launched, Hasbro announced a "Transformers Hall of Fame" honoring characters and people associated with the ''Transformers'' brand. The spot for one inductee was put to a fan-vote: [[Transformers Hall of Fame#Nominees|Five character profiles]] were published on Hasbro.com, and users could cast a vote for one of them. Most of them were described with a combination of traits from various continuities; for example, [[Jazz (disambiguation)|Jazz]] is pictured in [[Jazz (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' form]] but described as a "[[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]]" like [[Jazz (Animated)|his ''Animated'' incarnation]].<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-3.cfm Jazz's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> [[Soundwave (disambiguation)|Soundwave]], also looking like [[Soundwave (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' self]], is said to have a mysterious origin like [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|his ''Cybertron'' counterpart]], his partners are called "[[Mini-Con]]s" instead of "[[Mini-Cassette]]s", and he has [[Soundwave (ROTF)|his live-action movie incarnation]]'s vulnerability to simultaneous sonic booms.<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-1.cfm Soundwave's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> Later, a [[Hasbro Q&A]] answer stated that Jazz's entry is based on Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> [[Jazz (WFC)|The character does appear in ''War for Cybertron'' fiction]], but with no particularly Cyber-Ninja-like attributes.

===''War for Cybertron'' and ''Fall of Cybertron'' video games===
Created by [[High Moon Studios]] under Game Director [[Matt Tieger]] with tie-in games by [[Next Level Games]] and [[Vicarious Visions]], [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'']]'s aesthetics and characterizations are heavily based on [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]; for example, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] speak words, despite both being quasi-mute in the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Prime'' cartoon]]. Set in the ancient days of the [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian war, the games' plot focuses on [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s quest to harness [[Dark Energon]], which ends up corrupting the planet itself and leaving it uninhabitable for millions of years. Those events overlap a large portion of the simultaneously-released ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' novel, but they [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)#Synopsis|differ in many details]]. Two years later, ''War for Cybertron'' was followed by its sequel, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]''.

===Alex Irvine novels===
Written by [[Alex Irvine]], ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' describes the beginning of the war and then, as mentioned above, covers the same ground as the ''War for Cybertron'' games with many differing details. (Hasbro did take a small stab at reconciliation by declaring [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]'s predecessor in the games, "Zeta Prime", and the one in the novel, "Sentinel Prime", to be the same individual, "[[Sentinel Zeta Prime]]".)<ref>[http://www.ripten.com/2010/06/26/creators-talk-transformers-war-for-cybertron-at-botcon-2010-panel-lbd416/ Ripten.com's coverage of the BotCon 2010 Activision panel]</ref> Irvine also wrote the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|''War for Cybertron'' comic]] and the apocryphal short story [[Bumblebee at Tyger Pax]], both set in the novel's pre-game period. The comic contains no major discrepancies, other than maintaining the "Sentinel Prime" name, but the short story features [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] losing his ability to speak words before the game events. ''[[Transformers: Exiles]]'' continues the saga post-Cybertron.

===''Generations'' toy bios===
[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#Toys|A handful of toys]] were created directly from ''War for Cybertron'' designs and sold as part of the [[Generations (toyline)|''Generations'' toyline]]. While lacking the phrase "War for Cybertron" on their packaging, the release of the first wave was timed within days of the games and novel,<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69812 Allspark.com toy-sighting forum reports]</ref> and their on-package [[bio]]s are basically in sync with that fiction as well. Megatron's, for example, focuses on his penchant for upgrading his body with "bleeding-edge" technology,<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/cybertronian-megatron-011.jpg Cybertronian Megatron's on-package bio]</ref> which may be an allusion to his lustful utilization of Dark Energon. Bumblebee's says he was once a "chatterbox" but is now a "silent warrior",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/wfc-bumblebee-009.jpg Cybertronian Bumblebee's on-package bio]</ref> which appears to be a bridge between his ''War for Cybertron'' and then-upcoming ''Prime'' portrayals; however, it's not strictly accurate because in ''Prime'' he can still vocalize, just [[R2-D2|not in words]].

===''Prime'' cartoon===
Overseen by the team of [[Jeff Kline]], [[Duane Capizzi]], [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]], this show is set on modern-day [[Earth]] with a unique aesthetic somewhere between the [[live-action film series]] and ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''. Released five months after ''War for Cybertron'', it also features Dark Energon as a primary plot element, but it seems to be a more mysterious substance with the added quality of being able to [[Terrorcon (Prime)|reanimate corpses]].<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 2"]]</ref> Also, strangely, Megatron is able to create an army of such creatures by crashing Dark Energon into the dead world of Cybertron,<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 5"]]</ref> despite the reason for the planet's demise in ''War for Cybertron'' being its complete infection with the stuff. It was stated at [[BotCon 2011]] that Dark Energon's nature differed because of the modern era of the show, as opposed to the ancient setting of the novel and games. The producers also iterated that while they strive to maintain continuity, ultimately leeway was allowed if it served the story.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-transformers-prime-panel-172315/ TFW coverage of Hasbro Studios panel at BotCon 2011]</ref>

A [[Transformers: Prime (comic)|prequel comic]] written by [[Mike Johnson]] shows events on Cybertron immediately before the cartoon, incorporating the ''Exodus'' notion of [[space bridge]]s being a lost art and Megatron's backstory as a [[Kaon]]ian miner.

===''Online'' and ''Universe'' MMOs===
Developed by [[NetDragon]] and [[Jagex]] for their respective Eastern and Western markets, the ''[[Transformers Online]]'' and ''[[Transformers Universe]]'' MMOs tie into ''Prime'' aesthetically and broaden the universe. Their continuities will presumably not tie into each other however.

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
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===''Bot Shots'' toyline and bios===
The [[Bot Shots]] characters are somewhere between [[Live-action film| the live action movies]] and [[Generation 1 (franchise)| Generation 1]] aesthetically, with some Prime mixed in for good measure. Since this kind of makes the wiki's brain hurt, we have decided to place them with the Aligned continuity.

==Notes==
* Instead of giving this continuity family an official name, Hasbro has instead referred to it with brief descriptors such as "new aligned",<ref name="newaligned" /> "aligned",<ref name="aligned" /> "modern",<ref name="decade" /><ref name="fallen" /> and "War for Cybertron/Exodus".<ref name="newaligned" /> VP of Intellectual Property Development [[Aaron Archer]] said at a [[BotCon 2010]] panel that he had considered naming it "Epochs" but then decided not to.
* The [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|subtitle-less ''Transformers'' toyline launched in 2010]] and its companion line, ''Generations'', share some of the Aligned spirit, since they likewise contain characters and concepts from previous franchises with little separation. But the only real connection between those toylines and Aligned material is the small number of [[#Generations toy bios|previously-mentioned]] ''War for Cybertron''-inspired toys. Hasbro has referred to the [[Power Core Combiners]] subline as "exist[ing] in the modern world continuity",<ref>[[Hasbro Q&A/November 2010: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]]</ref> but the context of that statement doesn't suggest a specific reference to Aligned.
* The ''Hubworld Transformers: Prime'' TV special featured footage of BotCon attendees taking a ''Transformers'' quiz, with the questions being what Optimus Prime's original name was, what his job had been, and which soap opera was the Autobots' favorite. The soap opera (''[[As the Kitchen Sinks]]'') is from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Generation 1'' cartoon]], but the "correct" answers to the first two questions were said to be "Orion Pax" and "data clerk". Aligned continuity is the only source where both of those ideas are true. This seems to reflect Hasbro's current policy of treating Aligned material as the default ''Transformers'' "truth". Something similar occurred during the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] era, where [[DK Publishing|DK]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' treated that continuity as the default "truth," so this not a completely new phenomenon.
* The Aligned continuity has influenced the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]], with [[James Roberts]] introducing elements of the Optimus-Megatron backstory with "[[Chaos Theory Part 1]]", while ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye| More than Meets the Eye]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise| Robots in Disguise]]'' series utilize ''War for Cybertron'' character designs.

==See also==

* [[Aligned timeline]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Aligned| ]]
[[Category:Continuity families]]
[[Category:Prime]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron]]

Aligned continuity family

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[[Image:Hasbrobible-OPrimedescription.jpg|350px|thumb|Optimus Prime's depiction in Hasbro's brand bible at the center of the aligned continuity family.]]
The '''Aligned continuity family''' was launched in 2010 with the intention of being the foundation of most ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' projects for the decade to come.<ref name="decade">[[Hasbro Q&A/January 2011: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Jan. 2011]]</ref> Its core is the "[[Binder of Revelation]]",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/botcon-2011-coverage-hasbro-intellectual-property-panel/21870/ Seibertron.com Botcon 2011 Coverage: Hasbro Intellectual Property Panel]</ref> a 354-page<ref>[http://www.figures.com/forums/news/13305-botcon-2011-hasbro-panel-report.html Figures.com recap of Hasbro BotCon 2011 panel]</ref> [[production bible|brand bible]] co-written by [[Aaron Archer]], [[Rik Alvarez]] and other Transformer experts from [[Hasbro]] and the [[fandom]], charting billions of years worth of history for the Transformers.<ref>''[[Transformers Vault]]''.</ref> The [[Continuity family|family]] currently comprises the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'' franchises,<ref name="aligned">[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/8189/20/ Hasbro continuity declaration]</ref> and it has some influence on [[Transformers Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] character portrayal.<ref name="newaligned">[http://www.tfviews.com/news/main/hasbro-q-and-a/1024 TFviews.com Hasbro Q&A, July 2010]</ref>

Hasbro has not given this family an official title. We have derived the name "Aligned" from Hasbro statements referring to this as a new "aligned continuity".<ref name="aligned" /><ref name="newaligned" /> Hasbro considered the whole continuity "a bit of an animal to define".<ref name="allspark2011botcon"/>

==Creative vision==
The Aligned venture appears to be Hasbro's attempt at synthesizing a grand unified [[continuity]] out of all of the previous lore. An expression of this can be seen in the Hall of Fame profiles, one of which was officially confirmed as being "based off of" Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> That one and several others present each character as an amalgam of traits from disparate continuities, ranging from ''[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' to the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to the [[live-action film series]] and more (see [[#Hall of Fame profiles|below]]).

This is a significant departure from Hasbro's [[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|previous]] [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|forays]] into meta-continuity, which preserved the integrity of old timelines as separate, coexistent universes within a single [[multiverse]]. In that schema, the Aligned family would be simply one more [[universal stream]] added to the mix, beholden to preestablished concepts like [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]]. But when asked about how [[The Fallen|a certain singularity]] would relate to the new fiction, Hasbro replied, "Anything you know from past generations of the brand may or may not be factual in the new continuity."<ref name="fallen">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=74182&view=findpost&p=1675011 Allspark.com Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]</ref> At [[BotCon 2011]], the multiverse was referred to as a "separate universe".<ref name="allspark2011botcon">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79726 AllSpark.com live transcript of Archer and Alvarez's 2011 BotCon panel]</ref>

Where, exactly, this leaves the Aligned fiction in relation to the rest of the multiverse is unclear. [[Movie continuity|Other]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|contemporary]] [[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|fiction]] has continued to tell stories set in older universes, so it seems at least that Aligned material is not meant to supersede the continuities from which it draws.

==Continuities==
''See also: [[Aligned timeline]]''

Hasbro consistently refers to all Aligned fiction as one "continuity", and while different storylines may appear to contradict each other, "reasons for the confusion will be revealed".<ref name="decade" /> However, that ideal is hampered by the fact that various elements of the fiction have separate creative teams with distinct visions that sometimes conflict. For that reason, this wiki takes the more cautious route of calling it a "continuity family". The brand bible's description in ''Transformers Vault'' states it paints the Transformers history in broad strokes, so as to give creators the necessary flexibility when crafting their stories, a belief echoed by statements made at [[BotCon 2011]]: Archer spoke of a "squint test" where everything can be seen as one family of stories, where only fans would see differences.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-hasbro-story-building-panel-172316/ TFW coverage of Botcon 2011 Hasbro Story Building Panel]</ref> Branches of fiction include:

===Hall of Fame profiles===
In May of 2010, before any Aligned franchises had launched, Hasbro announced a "Transformers Hall of Fame" honoring characters and people associated with the ''Transformers'' brand. The spot for one inductee was put to a fan-vote: [[Transformers Hall of Fame#Nominees|Five character profiles]] were published on Hasbro.com, and users could cast a vote for one of them. Most of them were described with a combination of traits from various continuities; for example, [[Jazz (disambiguation)|Jazz]] is pictured in [[Jazz (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' form]] but described as a "[[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]]" like [[Jazz (Animated)|his ''Animated'' incarnation]].<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-3.cfm Jazz's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> [[Soundwave (disambiguation)|Soundwave]], also looking like [[Soundwave (G1)|his ''Generation 1'' self]], is said to have a mysterious origin like [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|his ''Cybertron'' counterpart]], his partners are called "[[Mini-Con]]s" instead of "[[Mini-Cassette]]s", and he has [[Soundwave (ROTF)|his live-action movie incarnation]]'s vulnerability to simultaneous sonic booms.<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-1.cfm Soundwave's Hall of Fame profile]</ref> Later, a [[Hasbro Q&A]] answer stated that Jazz's entry is based on Aligned continuity.<ref name="newaligned" /> [[Jazz (WFC)|The character does appear in ''War for Cybertron'' fiction]], but with no particularly Cyber-Ninja-like attributes.

===''War for Cybertron'' and ''Fall of Cybertron'' video games===
Created by [[High Moon Studios]] under Game Director [[Matt Tieger]] with tie-in games by [[Next Level Games]] and [[Vicarious Visions]], [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'']]'s aesthetics and characterizations are heavily based on [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]; for example, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] speak words, despite both being quasi-mute in the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|''Prime'' cartoon]]. Set in the ancient days of the [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian war, the games' plot focuses on [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s quest to harness [[Dark Energon]], which ends up corrupting the planet itself and leaving it uninhabitable for millions of years. Those events overlap a large portion of the simultaneously-released ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' novel, but they [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)#Synopsis|differ in many details]]. Two years later, ''War for Cybertron'' was followed by its sequel, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]''.

===Alex Irvine novels===
Written by [[Alex Irvine]], ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' describes the beginning of the war and then, as mentioned above, covers the same ground as the ''War for Cybertron'' games with many differing details. (Hasbro did take a small stab at reconciliation by declaring [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]'s predecessor in the games, "Zeta Prime", and the one in the novel, "Sentinel Prime", to be the same individual, "[[Sentinel Zeta Prime]]".)<ref>[http://www.ripten.com/2010/06/26/creators-talk-transformers-war-for-cybertron-at-botcon-2010-panel-lbd416/ Ripten.com's coverage of the BotCon 2010 Activision panel]</ref> Irvine also wrote the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|''War for Cybertron'' comic]] and the apocryphal short story [[Bumblebee at Tyger Pax]], both set in the novel's pre-game period. The comic contains no major discrepancies, other than maintaining the "Sentinel Prime" name, but the short story features [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] losing his ability to speak words before the game events. ''[[Transformers: Exiles]]'' continues the saga post-Cybertron.

===''Generations'' toy bios===
[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#Toys|A handful of toys]] were created directly from ''War for Cybertron'' designs and sold as part of the [[Generations (toyline)|''Generations'' toyline]]. While lacking the phrase "War for Cybertron" on their packaging, the release of the first wave was timed within days of the games and novel,<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69812 Allspark.com toy-sighting forum reports]</ref> and their on-package [[bio]]s are basically in sync with that fiction as well. Megatron's, for example, focuses on his penchant for upgrading his body with "bleeding-edge" technology,<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/cybertronian-megatron-011.jpg Cybertronian Megatron's on-package bio]</ref> which may be an allusion to his lustful utilization of Dark Energon. Bumblebee's says he was once a "chatterbox" but is now a "silent warrior",<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/127/wfc-bumblebee-009.jpg Cybertronian Bumblebee's on-package bio]</ref> which appears to be a bridge between his ''War for Cybertron'' and then-upcoming ''Prime'' portrayals; however, it's not strictly accurate because in ''Prime'' he can still vocalize, just [[R2-D2|not in words]].

===''Prime'' cartoon===
Overseen by the team of [[Jeff Kline]], [[Duane Capizzi]], [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]], this show is set on modern-day [[Earth]] with a unique aesthetic somewhere between the [[live-action film series]] and ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''. Released five months after ''War for Cybertron'', it also features Dark Energon as a primary plot element, but it seems to be a more mysterious substance with the added quality of being able to [[Terrorcon (Prime)|reanimate corpses]].<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 2"]]</ref> Also, strangely, Megatron is able to create an army of such creatures by crashing Dark Energon into the dead world of Cybertron,<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 2|''Prime'' episode "Darkness Rising, Part 5"]]</ref> despite the reason for the planet's demise in ''War for Cybertron'' being its complete infection with the stuff. It was stated at [[BotCon 2011]] that Dark Energon's nature differed because of the modern era of the show, as opposed to the ancient setting of the novel and games. The producers also iterated that while they strive to maintain continuity, ultimately leeway was allowed if it served the story.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2011-transformers-prime-panel-172315/ TFW coverage of Hasbro Studios panel at BotCon 2011]</ref>

A [[Transformers: Prime (comic)|prequel comic]] written by [[Mike Johnson]] shows events on Cybertron immediately before the cartoon, incorporating the ''Exodus'' notion of [[space bridge]]s being a lost art and Megatron's backstory as a [[Kaon]]ian miner.

===''Online'' and ''Universe'' MMOs===
Developed by [[NetDragon]] and [[Jagex]] for their respective Eastern and Western markets, the ''[[Transformers Online]]'' and ''[[Transformers Universe]]'' MMOs tie into ''Prime'' aesthetically and broaden the universe. Their continuities will presumably not tie into each other however.

===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
{{stub}}

===''Bot Shots'' toyline and bios===
The [[Bot Shots]] characters are somewhere between [[live action film series| the live action movies]] and [[Generation 1 (franchise)| Generation 1]] aesthetically, with some Prime mixed in for good measure. Since this kind of makes the wiki's brain hurt, we have decided to place them with the Aligned continuity.

==Notes==
* Instead of giving this continuity family an official name, Hasbro has instead referred to it with brief descriptors such as "new aligned",<ref name="newaligned" /> "aligned",<ref name="aligned" /> "modern",<ref name="decade" /><ref name="fallen" /> and "War for Cybertron/Exodus".<ref name="newaligned" /> VP of Intellectual Property Development [[Aaron Archer]] said at a [[BotCon 2010]] panel that he had considered naming it "Epochs" but then decided not to.
* The [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|subtitle-less ''Transformers'' toyline launched in 2010]] and its companion line, ''Generations'', share some of the Aligned spirit, since they likewise contain characters and concepts from previous franchises with little separation. But the only real connection between those toylines and Aligned material is the small number of [[#Generations toy bios|previously-mentioned]] ''War for Cybertron''-inspired toys. Hasbro has referred to the [[Power Core Combiners]] subline as "exist[ing] in the modern world continuity",<ref>[[Hasbro Q&A/November 2010: Answers|TFWiki.net Hasbro Q&A, Nov. 2010]]</ref> but the context of that statement doesn't suggest a specific reference to Aligned.
* The ''Hubworld Transformers: Prime'' TV special featured footage of BotCon attendees taking a ''Transformers'' quiz, with the questions being what Optimus Prime's original name was, what his job had been, and which soap opera was the Autobots' favorite. The soap opera (''[[As the Kitchen Sinks]]'') is from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Generation 1'' cartoon]], but the "correct" answers to the first two questions were said to be "Orion Pax" and "data clerk". Aligned continuity is the only source where both of those ideas are true. This seems to reflect Hasbro's current policy of treating Aligned material as the default ''Transformers'' "truth". Something similar occurred during the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] era, where [[DK Publishing|DK]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' treated that continuity as the default "truth," so this not a completely new phenomenon.
* The Aligned continuity has influenced the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]], with [[James Roberts]] introducing elements of the Optimus-Megatron backstory with "[[Chaos Theory Part 1]]", while ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye| More than Meets the Eye]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise| Robots in Disguise]]'' series utilize ''War for Cybertron'' character designs.

==See also==

* [[Aligned timeline]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Aligned| ]]
[[Category:Continuity families]]
[[Category:Prime]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron]]

Death's Head (G1)

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{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]], yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine"—sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, [[titanium shott blaster]]—but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, [[titanium shott blaster]] would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Hrn. Haven't really got the hang of these funny captions on this wiki. Can't think of anything amusing to say here, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Why do the captions have to be funny anyway? Stupid policy, right? Not very informative.]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself the [[Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?
*If you wish to own an action figure of myself, the wait is over, friends! There will finally be one available in 2013 in the Marvel Legends line of action figures. I say get your wallet ready, yes?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]

Death's Head (G1)

2012-02-13T05:50:32Z

24.70.2.53: /* External notes */

{{factions|unicron}}
{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]], yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine"—sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, [[titanium shott blaster]]—but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, [[titanium shott blaster]] would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Hrn. Haven't really got the hang of these funny captions on this wiki. Can't think of anything amusing to say here, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Why do the captions have to be funny anyway? Stupid policy, right? Not very informative.]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself the [[Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?
*If you wish to own an action figure of Death's Head, there will finally be one available in 2013 in the Marvel Legends line of action figures. Get your wallets ready, yes?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]

Bot Shots (toyline)

2012-02-11T18:36:26Z

24.70.2.53: /* Bot Shots figures */

Apexus

2012-02-11T18:35:47Z

24.70.2.53:

{{factions|minicon|maximal}}
:''Apexus is a [[Maximal]] [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:G1-toy Apexus.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rising up to the challenge of our rivals.]]

'''Apexus''' (エイペクサス ''Eipekusasu'') is known as the 'vicious tiger of rage'. His motto is, "I will beat the rage of the vicious tiger into you!"

Presumably his teammates are really sick of hearing about vicious, rage-filled tigers by now.

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Apexus''' (Micron Booster, 2007)
**''Booster ID number'': '''3'''

: Apexus is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Mini-Con [[Snarl (Classics)|Snarl]], transforming into robotic tiger. He was only available in the [[Micron Booster|fifth]] "[[Micron Booster]]" assortment in Japan, where each figure came in its own blind-packed, individual box.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Rampage (SG)|Rampage]], ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Snow Cat (Universe)|Snow Cat]] and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Catilla (DOTM)|Catilla]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Cybertron/Apexus/apexus.htm More information on Apexus at TFU.info]''

[[Category:Cats]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Maximals]]
[[Category:Micron Boosters]]
[[Category:Toy-only characters]]

Raiden

2012-02-02T08:01:39Z

24.70.2.53: /* Super Collection Figure */

{{factions|autobot}}
:''Raiden is an [[Autobot]] [[combiner]] from the [[The Headmasters (franchise)|Headmasters]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Raiden boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|God of thunder! And rock and roll!]]
The main function of the [[Trainbot]]s is transport, but when an obstruction arises that prevents them from delivering their passengers, they won't hesitate to combine into the mighty '''Raiden''' (ライデン) to clear the tracks. And no obstacle is too big for Raiden's matchless ambition: he is, after all, the guy who maintains an active rivalry with [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and plans on challenging [[Predaking]] next! Fittingly enough, his other great personality trait is his peerless punctuality. This is one Robot Train that always runs on time!

Raiden is the combined form of all six Trainbots:
*[[Shōki]] (leader, torso)
*[[Getsuei]] (right leg)
*[[Kaen]] (pelvis)
*[[Seizan]] (right arm)
*[[Suiken]] (left arm)
*[[Yukikaze (Headmasters)|Yukikaze]] (left leg)

==Fiction==
===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Hmop_raiden.jpg|left|thumb|225px|I'm not a video game!]]

Raiden made his first brief appearance fighting alongside [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] against the [[Decepticon]] combiners when the villains invaded [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in 2011. They were very nearly crushed to death when [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] collapsed a building on them with his [[Sonic stun-gun|sonic stun-gun]], but the tide of the fight was turned when the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] arrived to join the battle. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

Sometime later, the Trainbots formed Raiden in order to defend [[Japan]] against the marauding [[Sixshot]]. Raiden and Sixshot fought fiercely until [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] crashed the party. The arrivals of [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s made it into a real brawl. During the fight, Raiden was swarmed by Sixshot and his hard-light doppelgangers in winged wolf modes. Raiden called for [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] to shoot at the Sixshots until he nailed the real one, even if Raiden was injured in the process. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

Raiden was formed to defend the [[Sol 1]] satellite against [[Predaking]]. He fought bravely against the bestial giant, and eventually sent the Decepticon fleeing with his tail(s?) between his legs. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} Soon thereafter, Raiden battled Predaking again, with a raging volcano as their backdrop. The Headmasters soon became involved in the skirmish and, when Raiden briefly gained the upper hand on Predaking, they offered to step in so that the Trainbots could rescue the innocent villagers trapped at the base of the volcano. {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}}

[[Image:Hmep23_raiden_vs_galvatron.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Or a ninja!]]

When [[San Francisco]] came under siege by [[buridanka|a carnivorous alien plant]], courtesy of the Decepticons, the Trainbots, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s responded to the emergency. The Trainbots combined into Raiden in order to engage Bruticus in an energy-sword duel, but as the battle went on, they switched opponents and started fist-fighting with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] while the Autobot Headmasters dealt with the vicious vegetable. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}} A little later, during a clash on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], Raiden helped [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] fend off a combined attack by the Decepticon Headmasters. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}}

After the Decepticons embarked on a quest into deep space to seek out new sources of energy, the Trainbots joined [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] in following their foes. Raiden was formed on the [[Twin Star]] planets and did battle with Predaking. {{storylink|Battle for Defense of the False Planet}} He was also briefly seen on the planet [[Paradise]], {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}} and took on [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] himself on the [[Pirate Planet]]. {{storylink|Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship}}

[[Image:Hmep35_raiden_vs_predaking.jpg|left|thumb|225px|Or a guy from Mortal Kombat! get it right!]]

Once the Autobots had returned to Earth, Raiden was next formed in defense of [[Autobot City]] as it was being attacked by Sixshot and Trypticon. He was intercepted by [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], however, and was unable to assist Ultra Magnus and [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] in their fight. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}} Raiden was next seen battling Predaking on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], as the Decepticons attempted to exploit the [[Pacific Ring of Fire]]. {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}} That battle concluded with the expulsion of the Decepticons from Earth, and soon after, Raiden helped eradicate any traces of the villains that remained on Earth by joining Defensor and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] in demolishing their now-abandoned Earth base. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

When the Autobots learned that the Decepticons had withdrawn to the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], the Trainbots joined the Autobots in pursuing them. After bombs planted by [[Weirdwolf]] damaged Fortress's battleship during a battle on Master, Raiden and Defensor were seen helping to repair it. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

After the Transformers had all returned to Earth, the Trainbots formed Raiden for the final battle with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons at the North Pole. He warred with his counterpart, Predaking, and was nearly crushed by the Battleship Maximus when Scorponok battered it away. In the end, Raiden lent his strength to the Headmasters' [[Head Formation]], feeding Fortress Maximus enough power to overcome the effects of the [[crysmagnetal]]. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
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====''The Headmasters'' comic====

[[Image:Hmmanga_raiden_claus.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]

Responding to a distress call from their [[Beastformer]] allies on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]], the Trainbots merged into Raiden to deal with the Decepticons menacing the planet. Combining in mid-air, the united team allowed gravity to do the rest of the work as they delivered a shattering "JR Kick" straight to Predaking's face, taking him out of the fight. {{storylink|Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!}}

Back on Earth, the Trainbots joined Daniel and the Autobot Headmasters in investigating a Decepticon energy-stealing operation under the sea. The Decepticons were laying in ambush with a giant robot squid, but the Headmasters responded by tying its tentacles in knots, and the Trainbots then formed Raiden to swing the swing the automaton architeuthis like a mace, flattening the other Decepticons. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 3|The Headmasters #3}}

When [[Christmas]] rolled around, Raiden got into the spirit of the season when he joined the Autobot Headmasters in handing out gifts at a Japanese children's hospital, even going so far as to don a giant Santa hat and carry a huge sack. The merriment was soon interrupted by the arrival of the Decepticon Headmasters, but rather than join the battle, Raiden followed Chromedome's instruction to disengage and transport the hospital's patients to safety. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 6|The Headmasters #6}}
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====''Super-God Masterforce'' comic====
[[Image:Mfmanga_raiden_chromedome_scramble7.jpg|left|thumb|350px]]

Several years after the Decepticons' expulsion from Earth following the final battle at the North Pole, the Trainbots were dispatched to pick up a new Autobot warrior named [[Ginrai]] who had risen to prominence on Earth and bring him to [[Athenia]] so Fortress could appoint him [[Supreme Commander]]. Naturally, the Decepticons attacked Athenia during Ginrai's stay, and Raiden was formed to fight back, only for him to wind up being cut down alongside Chromedome by a powerful blast from the combined Decepticon [[Scramble 7]]. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}

The attack on Athenia had proven that the Decepticons on Earth had joined forces with the Decepticons in space, and so the Autobots elected to do the same to better fight their enemies. Soon after, when the leader of the space-based Decepticon forces, [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], began heading for Earth, Raiden, the Autobot Headmasters and [[Grand Maximus]] gave chase. They were unable to stop him, but luckily, no sooner had he arrived than Ginrai tricked BlackZarak and the Earth Decepticon leader [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] into blasting each other. Raiden and his allies cheered for Ginrai's success. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}}

==Games==
===The Transformers (PS2)===
{{charstubfiction}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)}}

==Toys==
===The Headmasters===
[[Image:Raiden toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|His real name is Jack.]]
*'''Raiden''' (Trainbot, 1987, 1990)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-131'''
** ''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, chestplate, waist armor, back armor, 2 "Leg Beams", 2 "Wing Lasers", "Train Bazooka" rifle

: Raiden began life as the ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Trainbot", released as part of the "Real and Robo" subline. One of the few ''Diaclone'' toys not initially ported over for release in Hasbro's ''Transformers'' line, the Trainbots eventually found their way into the Transformers universe a few years later when they were released by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], with the addition of waist and back armor panels for their combined mode, as part of the ''[[The Headmasters (franchise)|Headmasters]]'' line, available only in Japan.

:The six Trainbots who form Raiden were available both individually and together in a giftset. Like his fellow ''Diaclone''-born combiner Devastator, each of Raiden's components becomes a specific part of his body; they are not interchangeable, like the later-designed "Scramble City" combiners were. Raiden requires several additional parts to complete his combination, beyond the usual extremities-and-chestplate accessories of most other combiners, which take the form of various unique weapons: his shoulder-mounted "Wing Lasers", ankle-mounted "Leg Beams" and hand-held "Train Bazooka" gun, none of which are wielded by any of the smaller Trainbots.

:The Trainbots were later re-released in 1990 as part of the ''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' toyline, but only in individual packaging, never as a giftset.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Cybertron/Raiden/raiden.htm More information on Raiden at TFU.info]''
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===Transform Jr===
[[Image:Tfjr_raiden.jpg|right|thumb|Revenge with a vengeance...]]
*'''Raiden''' (1987)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, chestplate, "Train Bazooka" rifle

: The simplified ''[[Transform Jr]]'' version of Raiden was released both as a single gift set and in three two-packs (Shouki and Seizan, Yukikaze and Suiken, and Getsuei and Kaen). Like the larger Trainbot toys, these six figures are carry-overs of pre-existing ''Diaclone'' toys. The giftset includes an Autobot [[insignia]] pocket-clip included with many ''Transform Jr'' figures.

::*''[http://www.vega.or.jp/~butto/tftcollejr-01.htm More information on Transform Jr Raiden at a Japanese fansite]
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Gum===
[[Image:Tfgum_raiden.jpg|right|thumb|Revengeance.]]
*'''Raiden''' (1987)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right fists, 2 "Leg Beams"

:Released as part of the seventh wave of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformer Gum]]'' series of snap-together [[candy toy]] model kits, this simplified version of Raiden is molded in white, blue and grey plastic. Being that he is a combiner, Raiden doesn't transform like most other ''Transformers Gum'' models; instead, his limbs can disconnect and transform into train-mode Yukikaze, Seizan, Suiken and Getsuei (his torso is not capable of transforming, so Kaen and Shouki get no such love). The figure features no paint applications, but came with stickers to add detail, and a stick of terrible gum.
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===Super Collection Figure===
[[Image:Scf_raiden.jpg|right|thumb|You were the lightning in that rain...]]
*'''Raiden''' (2001)
**''Accessories:'' Display stand

: A three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Raiden was available in the third ''Headmasters''-centric wave of Takara's ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' line. Like all the figures in the wave, it was available in both standard full color figure and colorless clear plastic versions, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. Additionally, in two out of every ten cases, the colored version of Raiden came packaged with the head and sword pieces for the wave's collectable Fortress Maximus "build-a-figure".
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==Notes==
[[Image:Robottrain.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"We've managed to avoid drowning!"]]
*"Raiden" is an alternate name by which [[wikipedia:Raijin|Raijin]], the Japanese god of thunder and lightning, is known. Our Raiden's name is a little odd by Japanese standards, as it is spelled out with phoenetic katakana (ライデン), instead of the appropriate kanji (雷電, "Thunder and Lightning").

*Raiden's on-package [[bio]] specifically notes that he dislikes Devastator, presumably a reference to the toys' shared origins as [[Diaclone]] combiners.

*Raiden's animation model is based on his ''Diaclone'' toy, rather than the ''Headmasters'' version of the figure, lacking as it does the orange armor plate added to the waist of the robot for his ''Transformers'' release.

* The Trainbots' combined train form appears in the [[title sequence]] of the [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon]], but not in the series itself. The series creators seem to have intended to use the Robot Train to travel back and forth to [[Athenia]], more closely tying ''Super-God Masterforce'' to previous Transformers series, but the idea was quietly dropped. They did, however, appear for that purpose in the [[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|manga]].
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===Foreign names===
*''English:'' '''The Robot Train''', '''Grimlock''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)

==External links==
* [http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/745/Generation+1/Raiden.html Raiden at Transformers @ The Moon]

[[Category:Combined forms]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce Autobots]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Autobots]]
[[Category:Zone Autobots]]

Snarl (BM)

2012-02-02T05:23:07Z

24.70.2.53: /* 3H Universe comics */

{{factions|maximalbm|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Snarl}}
:''Snarl is a [[Maximal]] and an [[Autobot]] from the [[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]] and [[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:SnarlUniverse.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I ''do'' believe in spooks, I ''do'' I ''do'' I ''do!'']]

A tactical genius specializing in devastating ambushes, '''Snarl''' provides the [[Technorganic|technorganic]] Maximals a sound mind for strategy that serves them well in their war against [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. He has an innate awareness of the world around him that makes him almost impossible to surprise. He considers the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]] beneath him as opponents and wishes to try his mind directly against the scheming Megatron.

By the Universe conflict, less than 3 [[Units of time|deca-cycles]] after the [[Reformatting|reformatting]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], he has become a [[Matrix Templar]], a student of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and servant of the will of [[Primus]] himself. His training as a templar has granted him the mystical ability to see others [[Spark|sparks]] and sense their weaknesses. Though an eager warrior for Primus his desire for battle might prove his undoing in the battle against [[Unicron]].

==Fiction==
===3H ''Universe'' comics===
[[Image:Wreckers4 BMSnarl.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Hey, I'm not supposed to have these colors yet!]]
A week after the [[Great Reformatting]], Snarl witnessed the [[Quintesson]] invasion of Cybertron alongside his troops [[Longhorn (BM)|Longhorn]] and [[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]]. As field commander, he sent in the signal to activate "the reserves." {{storylink|The Wreckers: Finale Part 1}} During the surge of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] stormtroopers, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] was called by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] to direct his attentions elsewhere, and so Snarl was left in charge. As Cheetor left, he noticed something peculiar about Snarl for the first time, and wondered if he might be [[Matrix Templar|one of them]].

Snarl continued to orchestrate their counteroffensive from his [[Beast Rider]] chariot, and Skydive surprised him with the report that [[T-Wrecks]]' [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobots]] were taking on the eastern flank singlehandedly. Later, T-Wrecks would try to report to Snarl that [[Triceradon (BM)|Triceradon]] had seemingly vanished before their eyes, but Longhorn noted that Snarl had disappeared in the same manner. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

[[Image:TerrorsaurSnarlvsReptilionTankor.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Feel the magic, hear the roar.]]
One year later, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Primus]] observed Snarl's disappearance - he and countless others had been abducted by [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Abduction}} His form now [[Unicron virus|stained]] by the [[Pit]], Snarl was freed along with the others held captive in the [[Cauldron]] when a jailbreak was orchestrated by [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], and a resurrected [[Optimus Primal]]. As the abductees fled, Primal appointed Snarl in charge of leading them to safety. Snarl rallied the disparate factions under his charge together as one, rescued [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] from Unicron's general [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], and would have succeeded his mission without incident if not for a surprising betrayal by [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]]. Herself corrupted by Unicron's influence, she detonated the bridge on which Snarl and the others were escaping. Thankfully, as Snarl was a Matrix Templar, Optimus Primal was able to use him as conduit to Primus. A portal to Cybertron opened up before them, and Snarl and the rest of the abductees jumped through it to safety. {{storylink|Escape (issue)|Escape}}

Snarl accompanied Optimus Primal on a visit to the [[Maximal High Council]], which Primal insisted on doing with overbearing immediacy, despite Snarl's pleas for a more measured approach. Unfortunately, Snarl's concerns were on the mark, and Primal was put on house arrest. Snarl was able to use his abilities to sneak Primal out without tipping off the sentries outside, and the two returned via a portal to Alpha Trion and Primus. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}

===Universe CD-ROM===
Snarl followed [[Optimus Primal]] in combat against [[Reptilion]] and his Decepticon forces. {{storylink|Universe CD-ROM|Universe CD-ROM}}

==Toys==
===Beast Machines===
[[Image:BM-toy Snarl.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[wikipedia:Cowardly_Lion|Whadda they got that I haven't got?]]]]
*'''Snarl''' (Deluxe, 2000)
**''Accessories:'' Tail/Ax

:Snarl transforms into a [[technorganic]] lion, and in robot mode can wield an ax formed from his tail. Both arms house gimmicks: His right arm has a geared wheel in it, allowing for ax chopping action. His left houses a spring, which launches his arm forward about half an inch for a "power punch" attack. Interestingly, he shares his gimmick (and general transformation scheme) with fellow Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], but does it all better. He even stands without toppling like a house of cards. A sliding panel on his right thigh reveals a green spark crystal when moved upwards. His beast-mode jaw opens when his head is turned left or right.

:In beast mode, Snarl was apparently given the molding to allow for light piping, but ultimately has painted eyes on both of his releases.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Snarl/snarl.htm More information on Snarl on TFU.info]''

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===Universe===
[[Image:TFU03-toy Snarl.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Know that his name is [[Razorclaw (Universe)|not Razorclaw]].]]
*'''Snarl''' (Deluxe, 2003)
**''Accessories:'' Tail/Ax

:Snarl is a black, red, and gold [[Redeco|redeco]] of ''Beast Machines'' Snarl, and was released in the first wave of ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Deluxe-class toys. He retains all the features of the previous version, and like many other early ''Universe'' toys, sports "Energon surge" deco down the back of his mane.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Autobot/TFUSnarl/snarl.htm More information on Universe Snarl at TFU.info]''

{{-}}
==Notes==
[[Image:Abduction-SnarlBM.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Hey, remember when Snarl disappeared a year ago?" "Hey, remember when you were gonna look like him?"]]
* Snarl's mold was used as the basis for an unproduced [[3H Productions]] redeco as [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]].
* Snarl was erroneously colored in his ''Universe'' deco in his "[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1]]" appearance. It's kind of annoying, since that means the only piece of official art of him in his ''Beast Machines'' colors is the glowy panel depicting his abduction in [[Abduction|''Universe'' #1]].

[[Category:Beast Machines Maximals]]
[[Category:Strategists]]
[[Category:Universe Autobots]]

Thunderclash (Armada)

2012-02-02T05:19:11Z

24.70.2.53:

{{faction|minicon}}
{{picsneeded|Fiction, toys}}
{{disambig3|Thunderclash}}
:''Thunderclash is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Armada Thunderclash MTMTE.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Thunder! Thunder! Thunderclash! Ho!]]
A greasy, amoral smooth-talking weasel, '''Thunderclash''' has somehow managed to lie, cheat and swindle his way into a position where many larger and more powerful [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] actually owe him... or at least fear that he may blackmail them, so they do what he wants. Utterly self-interested, Thunderclash doesn't do anything unless he can see a way to personally profit from it. Some say he started the rumors that his occasional partner [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]] is only in the position he is thanks to a healthy dose of nepotism. Needless to say, Skywarp hates Thunderclash's guts, but can't do a whole lot about it... yet.

An alternate-universe incarnation of Thunderclash serves the will of [[Unicron]] via the herald [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]]. This version of Thunderclash has no free will whatsoever, being a near-mindless thrall.

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' comic===
Thunderclash came with Ramjet when he and [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime]] traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to destroy [[Primus]]. Their first move was to break into the [[Vector Sigma]] chamber and neutralize both the supercomputer and [[Alpha Trion (Energon)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act|Balancing Act}} Thunderclash and [[Thunderwing (Armada)|Thunderwing]] later discovered [[Scorponok (Energon)|Dark Scorponok]] attacking people in search of fuel, and used his hunger to their advantage by pointing him towards their opponents at the [[Kalis Primary Energon Reserves Control]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 3}} When [[Vector Prime]] showed up to put a stop to their plans, Thunderclash and Ramjet's other Mini-Con minions powerlinxed with their master for his duel with the guardian of time. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Pt 5}} Ramjet ultimately lost the battle and was blown into a portal where he and his Mini-Cons would be trapped forever. Thunderclash attempted to fly to safety, but began crumbling to pieces like his dark master and was most likely sucked into the portal with him.. {{storylink|Revelations Part 1}}

==Toys==
===Armada===
*'''Skywarp with Thunderclash''' (Max-Con, 2003)

: Available only with the Decepticon [[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]], Thunderclash transforms into a Cybertronic gunship. His jet mode can be attached to the underside of Skywarp's jet-mode nosecone for storage, "launched" by pressing down on Skywarp's cockpit canopy.

: This mold is also used by [[Flashdrive|Processor]], [[Saber (Energon)|Saber]], and [[Triac]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Mini-Con/Thunderclash/thunderclash.htm More information on Thunderclash at TFU.info]''

===Universe===
*'''Ramjet with Thunderclash, Gunbarrel, Terradive and Thunderwing''' (Ultra, 2004)

: Thunderclash was barely [[Redeco|redecoed]] to be part of a Toys 'R' Us [[exclusive]] "Spring Value Pack", partnered with [[Ramjet (Universe)|Ramjet]] and a (barely) redecoed version of the [[Air Military Mini-Con Team]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Mini-Con/Thunderclash/thunderclash.htm More information on ''Universe'' Thunderclash at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
[[Image:Uni2003_Thunderclash_unused_deco.JPG|right|thumb|100px]]
* The packaging for the Toys "R" Us Ramjet sets shows a different deco for Thunderclash and the Air Military Team than what was ultimately used.

[[Category:Armada Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Cybertron Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Toys "R" Us exclusives]]
[[Category:Unicron-related characters]]
[[Category:Universe Mini-Cons]]

Laserbeak (WFC)

2012-02-01T04:36:34Z

24.70.2.53: /* Prime */

{{faction|decepticon|minicon}}
{{disambig3|Laserbeak}}
:''Laserbeak is a [[Decepticon]] [[Minicon#Aligned|Minicon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:WFCLaserbeak.jpg|thumb|300px|The clearest shot of him in the whole game.]]

Of the [[Deployer (Prime)|Deployer]]s who stand with [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]], '''Laserbeak''' may say the least, but he quickly distinguishes himself, as his powerful laser attacks can pin down an [[Autobot]] attack force... when it isn't cutting them to shreds.

==Fiction==
===''Exodus'' novel===
Megatron despised Soundwave's minions, including Laserbeak. Regardless, Soundwave found Laserbeak more valuable than [[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]], and when Soundwave did some intense thinking, his Minicons inside got restless. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Image:Deployer DarknessRising3.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Origamicon.]]
When Soundwave intercepted a message from [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], Soundwave released Laserbeak (which was resting on his chest) to bring Fowler to the ''[[Nemesis (Prime)|Nemesis]]''. After chasing Fowler's helicopter, the drone grabbed Fowler with his tentacles and returned to the Decepticon ship. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[Image:Laserbeakface.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This is bird?]]

After Soundwave picked up a possible signal from [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]], who was previously assumed dead, [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] went to investigate. Untrusting of Starscream, Soundwave decided to keep an eye on him by sending Laserbeak after him. After finding Megatron, Starscream intended to allow Megatron to perish, but was forced to reconsider when he discovered Soundwave's Minicon watching him. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

While proving a point to [[Airachnid]], Soundwave unleashed Laserbeak, who zoomed around the ''Nemesis'' bridge and shot her a couple of times. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===

When the captive [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] were brought before Soundwave in the Kaon Prison, Laserbeak swooped down and perched on his master's arm. It soon turned out, however, that Prime's team had allowed themselves to be captured so they could rescue [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]], and as they escaped and made their way through the prison, Laserbeak could be spotted lurking in the shadows, watching their progress, at three different locations. By the time Prime's group made it to Soundwave's laboratory, where Zeta Prime was being held Laserbeak had reunited with his master, and joined Soundwave in battling the Autobots. Laserbeak served as Soundwave's last line of defense in the clash, ejecting from his chest and screeching across the lab at high speeds, blasting laser bursts onto the Autobots below. He was eventually downed, however, and accompanied Soundwave in a hasty retreat, but not before Soundwave fatally wounded Zeta Prime. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
Lazerbeak{{sic}} recorded a communication between Zeta Prime and the Autobots, allowing the Decepticons to pinpoint the Autobot leader's probable location so they could obtain the [[Omega Key]]. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
[[Image:Primetoy-SoundwaveDeluxe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
*'''Soundwave''' (Deluxe, 2012)
:Laserbeak comes as an accessory. He pegs into Soundwave's chest, just like in the show! He can also be perched on Soundwave's wrist.

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==Notes==
*The [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|home console version]] of ''War for Cybertron'' has a trophy/achievement that is received by shooting the three hidden Laserbeaks in Kaon Prison Break.
*Laserbeak's appearance in ''War for Cybertron'' appears to be based off [[Laserbeak (G1)|his G1 counterpart's]] Cybertronian form from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]".
*Hasbro referred to the Deployer in ''Prime'' as Laserbeak at [[BotCon 2011]].

[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Prime Minicons]]
[[Category:Spies]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Minicons]]

Ravage (G1)/toys

2012-02-01T04:27:21Z

24.70.2.53: /* Henkei! Henkei! */

{{picsneeded|Merchandise}}
{{suite}}

You've got a lot of toys, haven't you? You cute widdle kitty!

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1toy ravage.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Behold... the world's skinniest jaguar.]]
* '''Ravage & Rumble''' (Cassette 2-pack, 1984/1985/1986)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missiles

: Originally a ''[[Micro Change]]'' "Micro Cassette Robo Jaguar", Ravage transforms into a microcassette that can fit into the tape door of the [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] toys. In his feline robot mode, he is armed with two "heat-seeking missiles", which plug into the cassette spool holes above his hips. He was released in a two-pack with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] in Hasbro markets from 1984 to 1986, outliving their fellow cassette two-pack, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], on toy store shelves by a year. In 1985, a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]] was added to Ravage's shoulder, replacing the Decepticon insignia sticker that had been there previously.

: This mold was later used to make [[Glit]], [[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]], and [[Stripes]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm More information on Ravage at TFU.info]
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[[Image:G1toy japanese ravages.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Ravage''' (Cassette, 1985/1986/1987)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''19''' (1985), '''D-59''' (1986), '''D-104''' (1987)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missiles, tape case (certain releases only)
:Other companies elected to release Ravage on his own in various countries, rather than with Rumble. [[Milton Bradley]], for instance, [[Generation 1 (European toyline)|released]] him in this fashion, on blister card packaging, in [[Germany]], [[France]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]] and [[Spain]].

: In Japan, [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] also released Ravage (aka "Jaguar") all on his lonesome, like all his cassette contemporaries, packaged in a small box, and with a clear tape case he could be "stored" in. He was re-released in Japan in 1986, this time on a blister card, with a new ID number and without his case, and then again in 1987, with his original packaging and case reinstated, and with yet another ID number.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm More information on Ravage at TFU.info]
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===Beast Wars===
[[Image:BWtoy mcdonalds jaguar.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Panther''' (McDonald's Happy Meal toy, 1996)

:The [[Panther]] toy was repurposed to be Ravage in the ''[[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|Beast Wars Metals]]'' comic. Part of the first [[McDonald's]] ''Beast Wars'' promotion, Panther transforms into a heavily-armed Humvee with electronic lights and sounds, plus a spring-loaded missile.

: No, just kidding, he transforms into a panther with no other gimmicks. In keeping with most Transformers fast-food premiums, he features an extremely simple transformation scheme, mostly just standing him up in beast mode, making the mechanical detail on the inside of his arms, legs and underbelly visible, and flipping back his beast mode head to reveal his robot mode head. His panther tail is a molded detailing in his back, unlike what his promotional art suggests. His head bears a resemblance to [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Maximal/Panther/panther.htm More information on Panther at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:BW-toy ShadowPanther.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Fuzzy kitty!]]
* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, 1996)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-7'''
**''Accessories:'' Tail-gun, water-shooting gun

: This originally Japanese toy, named [[Shadow Panther]], is a [[redeco]] of the original [[Cheetor (BW)/toys|Cheetor]] toy in black, silver, and yellow, transforming into a generic big feline. His tail/flanks separate to form a non-firing blaster, while his underbelly forms a water-shooting "gut gun" that can be used in either mode.

: Much later, this toy was offered through Hasbro's online collector service under the name "'''Tripredacus Agent'''", with an online bio indicating he was the same character as Ravage (then called "Tripredacus Agent" due to [[trademark]] issues).

: This mold was also used to make [[Tigatron]], and was planned to be used for the canceled ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' toy [[Nightprowler]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Predacon/TripredacusAgent/tripredacusagent.htm More information on "Tripredacus Agent" (aka Shadow Panther) at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:TripredacusAgent toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Mutant kitty!]]
* '''Tripredacus Agent''' (Deluxe, 2001)
**''Accessories:'' Launcher, missile, tail-flail

: This Wal-Mart [[exclusive]] is a redeco of—wait, can you guess?—[[Cheetor (BW)/toys|Transmetal 2 Cheetor]], in black, silver, and gold, transforming into a monstrous techno-organic (but not [[technorganic]]) big cat. He has a spring-loaded missile launcher on his cat-mode back that can be removed and used as a hand-held weapon, plus his tail detaches to form a hand-held flail. His left forearm has a flip-up blaster-shield (of dubious usefulness), while flipping up a panel on his right-rear leg reveals his [[spark crystal]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Predacon/TripredacusAgent/tripredacusagent.htm More information on (Transmetal 2) Tripredacus Agent at TFU.info]''

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===Beast Wars Metals===
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[[Image:BWtoy-JaguarTM.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Nobody actually transforms this thing. Ever.]]
* '''Jaguar''' (Beast Wars Metals Deluxe-sized toy, 1999)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''X-9'''
**''Accessories'': Tail-whip, left & right pistol barrels

: ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar is a heavy [[Retool|retooling]] of [[Cheetor (BW)/toys|Transmetal Cheetor]], just as Ravage's robot mode CG model in the show is an altered [[Transmetal]] Cheetor. He transforms into a robotic big cat, with flip-out thrusters for a third "flight" mode (not, as in the episode, into a cassette tape that plays wicked 1980s style electric guitar, for obvious reasons). His forearms each have a spring-loaded flip out pistol stub, which can be extended with add-on barrels that clip to his rear legs in beast mode. His tail also can detach to form a whip-weapon, but he doesn't hold it very well.

: Jaguar's chest opens double-door-style to reveal a flat panel where one of three stickers can be placed. One, a Predacon spark chamber, is factory applied. The other two, an image of the original Megatron from the Golden Disk recording or a Decepticon symbol, can be applied over the existing sticker.

: This toy was also used to represent [[Jaguar]] the Younger in the [[Beast Wars Metals (manga)|''Beast Wars Metals'' manga]] and the mold was used to make [[BotCon 2001]]'s version of [[Tigatron]]. The original version was used to make ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Cheetor (Armada)|Cheetor]], and as the basis for the non-toy character [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Ravage/ravage.htm More information on ''Beast Wars Metals'' Jaguar at TFU.info]''
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===Smallest Transforming Transformers===
[[Image:STFRavage.jpg|right|299px|thumb|So tiny... So CUTE!]]
* '''Soundwave''' (2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF 05'''

: The ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' version of Soundwave comes with a ''teeeeeny'' version of Ravage, which does actually transform into a microcassette that fits in the tape-case door. ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Ravage may very well be the actual smallest functioning ''Transformers'' toy made.

:He's about the size of your pinky fingernail.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestRavage/ravage.htm More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Jaguar at TFU.info]''
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===Alternators/Binaltech===
[[Image:AlternatorsRavage%28Corvette%29.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He brakes for Meow Mix and nothing else...well, sometimes nip.]]
* '''Battle Ravage''' (2004)
** ''Japanese name:'' '''Ravage'''
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''11'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine-blaster

: A retool of ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Tracks (G1)|Autobot Tracks]], "Battle" Ravage transforms ([[trademark]] struggles) into a 1:24-scale licensed replica of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible, with opening doors, hood, trunk, plus a "realistic" driver/passenger compartment. Each robot-mode forearm contains slide-out (non-firing) double blasters. A part of his engine forms a double-barreled hand-held blaster.

: The Tracks hardtop version of this mold was also used to make ''Alternators'' [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]], whereas the convertible version originally used for Ravage was used as the basis for the one-of-a-kind [[Michael Bay|BayBot]].

: The Japanese ''Binaltech'' version of the toy is notable for sporting the American name "Ravage" rather than the established Japanese name, "Jaguar", for [[trademark]] reasons.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Decepticon/AltBattleRavage/battleravage.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Battle Ravage at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:Alternatorsravagejaguar.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Soundwave had MTV pimp his kitty.]]
*'''Ravage''' (Alternator, 2007)
**''Alternator ID number'': '''26'''

: The second version of ''Alternators'' Ravage transforms into a 1:24-scale licensed Jaguar XK (appropriately enough), with all the normal bells and whistles inherent in the line (opening doors, seats, etc). This is a toy of many "firsts". Not only is it the first ''Alternators'' character with two distinctly different toys, it's one of the first two Decepticon Alternators with an original mold (alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]). ''And'' it's the first ''Alternators'' character to have a non-humanoid "robot" mode, as its non-car form is now a quadrupedal big cat.

: After Ravage had been released in various European markets, his and Rumble's releases in the United States were questionable for a while. Ultimately, they were shuffled to be Wal-Mart [[exclusive]]s, set in an endcap display alongside the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Devastator (G1)|Constructicon Devastator]] exclusive gift set in March/April 2007...in some stores. In others, they were crammed in the normal aisle with everything else. Assuming they even showed up at all.

: On this note, Ravage has a [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]] license plate, regardless of which country the toy was purchased in. The steering wheel, however, is on the left, as in the United States. I say, ''meow.''

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/AltRavage/ravage.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Ravage at TFU.info]''
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===The Transformers Collection===
[[Image:G1toy_TFC_ravage.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A light breeze is enough to defeat him.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (Transformers Collection, 2005)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''18'''
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missiles, tape case

: The original Ravage figure was first [[Generation 1 reissues|reissued]] as part of Takara's ''[[The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' series, packaged along with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundblaster]] (the rebuilt form of Soundwave from the Japanese [[Transformers: The Headmasters (franchise)|''Headmasters'' series]]) and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. As was the case when he was originally released with Soundblaster in 1987, Buzzsaw sports a different sticker in place of his cassette spool image; this version of Ravage now features this new decal as well, an image of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] which reveals the city-bot's weak spots when viewed through Soundblaster's clear-red chest door (in the same way [[Tech Spec]] decoders work). Ravage's sticker highlight's Maximus's right leg; Buzzsaw's pinpoints his left shoulder.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Ravage/ravage.htm More information on Transformers Collection Ravage at TFU.info]''
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===Classics (2006)===
[[Image:G1toy_commemorative_ravage.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Soundwave''' (Commemorative Edition, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missiles, tape case

: Hasbro's first reissue of the original Ravage toy (identified as "Battle Ravage" on the packaging, but by his original name in the instructions) came packaged with Soundwave and Laserbeak. The set was originally intended to be part of their [[Commemorative Series]] of Generation 1 reissues, but when that line was cancelled, it was instead released as part of the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' toyline. The phrase "Commemorative Edition" is prominently displayed on the front and sides of the box, though, and it remains exclusive to [[Toys"R"Us]], as all Commemorative Edition toys were. Just as Soundwave is effectively a redeco of the ''Transformers Collection'' Soundblaster figure, featuring a double-wide chest-door that allows Ravage and Laserbeak to fit inside him at the same time for the first time on a Hasbro release, Ravage also appears as he does in the ''Transformers Collection'' line, sporting the Fortress Maximus sticker in place of his cassette spools, but now with no way for it to be "decoded", since Soundwave's door is colorless. Ravage also comes with a tape case for the first time in Hasbro markets.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/ClassicsSoundwave/soundwave.htm More information on Classics Soundwave at TFU.info]''
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===Titanium Series===
[[Image:Titanium soundblaster.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's in there somewhere.]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (6" Cybertron Heroes)
:A ''[[Titanium Series]]'' version of the Soundblaster, a redeco of the "Cybertron Heroes" [[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]] figure, was supposed to come with a tiny version of Ravage, as opposed to the original toy's [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]. Although displayed at [[BotCon 2007]], the set was ultimately canceled along with several other solicited 6" Cybertron Heroes, but this did not stop Soundblaster from appearing as a cross-sell on the packaging for ''Titanium'' [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] in late 2008 (which claimed he would have been "also available" as of November 2008), as Hasbro was unwilling to spend the resources on altering the packaging for these already-complete products. Notably, Ravage was never actually seen in robot mode, only in cassette mode, tucked inside Soundblaster's chest.
 
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===Universe (2008)===
[[Image:Ravageuniverse2008.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I'm finally 3D now, but in exchange for some poseability.]]
*'''Autobot Hound''' (Deluxe, 2008)

:Surprisingly enough, the new-mold toy of Deluxe Class [[Hound (G1)|Autobot Hound]] for the 25th anniversary of the Transformers brand features a similarly new-mold toy of Ravage, which can be carried in "tape mode" on pegs in the back bed of Hound's vehicle form. In this mode, Ravage is compatible with either the original Soundwave or Soundblaster, and in jaguar mode, the 5mm holes can accommodate the weapons of the original Ravage (Even though there are tiny unpainted versions of the weapons above his hips).

:At [[BotCon 2008]], Hasbro claimed that Ravage's alternate mode would be marketed as a "capture mode" so that young children, unsavvy about technology from fifteen years before they were born, wouldn't be confused. Despite the toy arguably still treating Ravage as "captured" by Hound, the packaging only refers to Ravage's alternate mode as a "tape mode."

:This mold was also used to make [[BotCon 2010]] ''[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/TFURavage/ravage.htm More information on ''Universe'' (2008) Ravage at TFU.info]''
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[[Image:Universe2008toy soundwave.jpg|right|thumb]]
*'''Soundwave''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' Left & right missiles, tape case

: In 2009, the original Ravage toy was once again included with another reissue of Soundwave as part of the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' line, this time as a [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] exclusive that was prominently offered at San Diego Comic-Con 2009. He comes with his weapons and his own cassette case, and continues to sport the Fortress Maximus sticker from his ''Transformers Collection'' release in place of his cassette spools, the only tape in the set to do so.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/TFUSoundwave/soundwave.htm More information on Universe Soundwave at TFU.info]''
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===Henkei! Henkei!===
[[Image:Henkei_houndravage.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I got the moves like jaguar.]]
*'''Hound''' (Deluxe, 2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-13'''

:A [[redeco]] of Universe Ravage, Jaguar features the same plastic colors as his Universe counterpart, only his legs are a significantly darker metallic gray than the Hasbro version (so much so they almost look black in certain lights).

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===Device Label===
[[Image:Device Label Ravage.jpg|thumb|right|200px|From a data storage device often used to store music, to a data storage device often used to store music. Some things never change.]]
*'''Device Jaguar''' (Device Label, 2009)

:Part of the ''[[Transformers Device Label|Device Label]]'' series of functional electronic gizmos, "Device Jaguar" transforms from a working USB 2 gigabyte thumb drive into a black mechanoid panther.

[[Image:DeviceLabeltoy-Ravagedesktop.jpg|left|thumb|300px|$50 for a 2 gig thumb drive was a lot to ask for until we learned about this.]]

:Stored on the USB drive is an installable program called "Transformers Desktop Defender." When the Ravage device is plugged in, a Ravage avatar appears on the screen, transforming from thumb drive to jaguar mode as the program is activated. The program's setup allows you to rename your jaguar to anything you desire, alter the avatar's movement speed and his personality, decide whether he eats your desktop icons, and view his function, mission, and [[Tech Spec]] numbers. Whether he appears as Ravage or Tigatron can be selected as well.

:This mold was also used to make ''Device Label'' [[Tigatron]], and he came preloaded with the same program. It was later used to make [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] as well.
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===Encore===
[[Image:G1toy encore cassettes1.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Great Cassette Operation''' (2009)
**''ID number'': '''15'''
**''Accessories'': Left & right missiles, tape case

: The original Ravage toy was reissued once again as part of Takara's ''[[Transformers Encore]]'' line, in the first of a series of cassette multi-packs alongside [[Rewind]], [[Eject]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. This reissue of Ravage is the first to reinstate his original tape spool sticker, doing away with the Fortress Maximus sticker that had decorated the figure since ''The Transformers Collection''. Additionally, it relocates his rubsign to his flank, restoring the Decepticon insignia sticker to his shoulder that had only previously been included on his 1984 release. Of course, the figure came with its weapons and the now-standard cassette case.
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==Merchandise==
===Wallet===
*'''Ravage Wallet'''

: Released in 1984 as one of the earliest Transformers merchandise items, this vinyl wallet featured a holographic image that changed from Ravage's [[package art]] to the Decepticon version of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] Transformers [[logo]].
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===Transformers Milk Caramel===
[[Image:Caramel_ravage.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Jaguar''' (1985)
:A soft rubber figurine—known in Japan as a ''keshigomu''— of Ravage was released as part of the first wave of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers Milk Caramel]]'' [[candy toy]] range. He came packaged with chocolate-covered caramel candies, and was available in white, blue, sky blue, yellow, green and orange.

===Transformers Choco===
*'''Jaguar''' (1985)
:A solid-color, snap-together model kit of Ravage was released by Kabaya as part of their ''[[Transformers Choco]]'' line of candy toys. It was available in various colors, came with candy-coated chocolates, and could fit inside the chest of the larger ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' model kit of Soundwave.
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===Transformers Gum===
[[Image:TFgum_ravage.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Frenzy and Jaguar''' (1986)
:A larger model kit of Ravage was sold by Kabaya as part of their ''Transformers Gum'' line, in a two-pack with [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Sculpted from black and grey plastic and featuring stickers for detail, Ravage is basically identical to his original toy, except he's actually a little bit ''larger'' than it! He's also too large to fit in the chest of the ''Transformers Gum'' Soundwave figure, but you can console yourself with the gum he comes packaged with.
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===Decoy===
[[Image:Decoy_ravage.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)
:Ravage was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the Decepticons in the series, Ravage was molded in soft purple rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. Ravage was available as part of a 22-piece box set of Decepticon figures, and later, in a peach coloration randomly packed as part of various other box sets.

*'''Ravage''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''49'''
:The figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number. Like all Decepticon Decoys, Ravage was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Ravage/ravage.htm More information on (Decoy) Ravage at TFU.info]''
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===Hard Hero===
[[Image:HardHero Ravage statue.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Classy cat!]]
*'''Ravage''' (2003)

:[[Hard Hero]]'s Ravage is a 5-inch tall, 8.5-inch wide cold-cast porcelain statue. It was limited to 2000 pieces and advertised as "first in the Decepticon Cassette Series", but ultimately no other Mini-Cassette statues were ever produced.

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[[Image:HardHero_metallic_Ravage.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
*'''Ravage''' (2003)

:The Ravage statue was also available in a shiny "metallic" version, of which only 500 were produced.

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===First 4 Figures===
[[Image:Gijoebaronessravagestatue.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Admit it, you wish you were Ravage right now.]]
*'''Baroness & Ravage Statue''' (unreleased)

:[[First 4 Figures]] first revealed this statue of the [[Baroness]] and Ravage, based on the cover from the Convention Edition of [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3]], at Toy Fair UK 2006. Alas, after a three-year period of progressive delays in release attributed to a lack of retailer support, it was officially confirmed as canceled in early 2009<ref>[http://www.theterrordrome.com/2009/03/first-4-figures-baroness-ravage-statue-canceled/ TheTerrordrome.com reports on the Baroness/Ravage statue cancelation]</ref>—which is sad, since ''it's awesome''.
 
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===Transformers - Wall Plaque===
[[Image:Soundwave plaque.jpg|right|thumb|WALLcat.]]
* '''Soundwave''' (Diamond Select, 2006)

:Released by Diamond Select Toys in 2006, Soundwave was sculpted by [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1,000 pieces. He is seen emerging from the space bridge with Rumble, Laserbeak, and Ravage in tow. Despite the being solicited as a Wall Plaque, this piece can not be placed on a wall in any way.
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===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Ravage robotheroes.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Wavage!]]
*'''Optimus Prime and Ravage''' (Robot Heroes 2-pack, 2007)

: Released in 2007 as a [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]] vs. pack with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise|Optimus Prime]]. Ravage is ''adowable''!.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/RHRavage/ravage.htm More information on Robot Heroes'' Ravage at TFU.info]''
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===3D Battle-Card===
[[Image:Ravage Battle Card.jpg|right|80px|thumb|Flat Cat.]]
*'''Ravage''' (3D Battle-Card, 2007)
**''Card ID number'':

: A 23-point "uncommon" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Ravage "transforms" into a black cat. He uses the same parts layout as [[Cheetor (BW)/toys|Cheetor]], [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] and [[Optimus Primal/toys|Optimus Primal]].
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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
[[Image:DiamondSelect FrenzyRavage bust.JPG|right|200px|thumb|"Rumble? Is zat you?" '''"No."''']]
* '''Frenzy & Ravage''' (Diamond Select, 2009)

:Ravage is sculpted pouncing alongside a cartoon-colored [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] in this bust. Sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]], it was an [[exclusive]] to the online retailer BigBadToyStore and limited to 600 pieces worldwide. Frenzy's tape mode is sculpted at the front of the bust's base.

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==References==
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[[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]
[[Category:Alternators Decepticons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Decoys]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Henkei! Henkei! Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
[[Category:Transmetals 2]]
[[Category:Universe (2008)]]
[[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]

Talk:Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)

2011-12-29T16:58:46Z

24.70.2.53: /* Yay! */ new section

I think we should put some sources for the character roster. I could get started on it, if that's necessary. I hadn't heard about Metroplex being in it, only from rumors that Matt Tieger said it somewhere. --[[User:Kaymac192|Kaymac192]] 17:07, 26 October 2011 (EDT)
::It's in this month's Game Informer.[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 17:17, 26 October 2011 (EDT)
:::Ah. Well, I'll try to get started on the sourcing, and any help would be appreciated. :D --[[User:Kaymac192|Kaymac192]] 17:30, 26 October 2011 (EDT)

== Blast-Off ==

About 1:10 in to the trailer to the top right corner of Megatron there in a Decepticon that looks like a space shuttle does that confirmed
blast-off--[[User:Wwelord|Wwelord]] 16:20, 17 December 2011 (EST)
:: There are so many Blast Offs across the fiction (including a goshdarn tank!) that we have no way of knowing who or what it really is. (Astrotrain, Sky Lynx, etc). [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 16:23, 17 December 2011 (EST)
You dont have to be rude I was just asking a question and by the way why would it be Sky Lynx.--[[User:Wwelord|Wwelord]] 16:32, 17 December 2011 (EST)
:: How was I rude? And it's just as possible that it ''could'' be Sky Lynx. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 16:40, 17 December 2011 (EST)
Name one Autobot in WFC/FOC with purple lightings Sky Lynx is an AUTOBOT with RED lightings and that shuttle was shown at lest 5 sec bruticus was formed and that shuttles design can be seen on his left arm--[[User:Wwelord|Wwelord]] 16:48, 17 December 2011 (EST)
:: OK, OK. I was just trying to make a point. No need to start capslockjawing on me. Anyways, the thing is is that we don't know it's Blast Off for sure, because we've had no official confirmation on it. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 16:57, 17 December 2011 (EST)
Thank you thats all I wanted to know.--[[User:Wwelord|Wwelord]] 17:01, 17 December 2011 (EST)

== Yay! ==

You guys are great for getting everything organized. :) --[[Special:Contributions/24.70.2.53|24.70.2.53]] 11:58, 29 December 2011 (EST)

Instruments of Destruction

2011-12-15T20:57:02Z

24.70.2.53: /* Notes */

{{song
|title=Instruments of Destruction
|image=TFTM_Brawn_dies.jpg
|caption=And it got worse from there.
|series=[[The Transformers: The Movie]]
|position=insert song
|performer=[[N.R.G.]]
|written by=[[Ernie Burns|Ernest Petrangelo]], Robin Ward and Steven Serpa
|production=[[Ernie Burns]]
}}
"'''Instruments of Destruction'''" is a metal song by the band [[N.R.G.]], featured in the album ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]''.

The song plays in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' during one of the first scenes which sets the tone for the remainder of the movie; the scene where the [[Decepticon]]s brutally massacre the crew of an [[Autobot shuttle]].

==Album releases==
*1986 — ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]'' ([[Scotti Bros. Records]])
*2001 — N.R.G.: ''Transformed'' (Independent release) — New recording, plus the original "Unreleased Unedited" and instrumental versions.
*2007 — ''The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition'' ([[Legacy Recordings]])

==Notes==
*The band considers the "Instruments of Destruction" era to be one of their most fulfilling, and are very proud to have it featured in ''Transformers''. <ref>[http://www.area403.net/nrg.html Area 403's official biography for N.R.G.]</ref>
*There exist two versions of this song, the "unreleased unedited" one mentioned above and the "censored" version used in the movie. Differences in the lyrics are as follows:
**The original version of the very first line is "''Iron birds of '''foreplay'''''". In the censored version, that is toned down to "''Iron birds of '''fortune'''''".
**"''Flying tools of '''torture'''''" becomes "''Flying tools of '''torment'''''".
**A repeated change occurs in the chorus, where "''It's a violent '''seduction'''''" is replaced by "''It's a violent '''eruption'''''".
*In [[War for Cybertron]] when [[Megatron (Prime)| Megatron]] picks up an [[Ion Displacer]], he says "Now ''this'' is a ''true'' instrument of destruction!" Whether this is a reference to the song or not is unknown, but considering [[High Moon Studios]], it's likely.

==References==
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[[Category:Generation 1 songs]]

Solid Snake

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{{disambig3|Snake}}
:''Snake is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Dreammix Snake.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Snake? SNAAAAAAAKE!]]

'''Snake''' (スネーク ''Sunēku'') is the ultimate one-man commando. Well, [[Snake-Eyes|one of them]]. He carries C4 explosives with him at all times, which he can explode by remote control. He is not afraid to place the C4 directly onto his opponents.

==Games==
===''DreamMix TV World Fighters''===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Akio Ōtsuka]]

As part of [[DreamMix TV]]'s attempt to pull in more ratings, Snake was invited to battle bunches of other beings, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] on the television show ''[[World Fighters]]''. {{storylink|DreamMix TV World Fighters}}

==Notes==
*The character, [[wikipedia:Solid Snake|Solid Snake]], is from [[Konami]]'s [[wikipedia:Metal Gear (series)|''Metal Gear'' series]].
*Luckily for Snake, he managed to participate in a better fighter game, that being ''[[wikipedia:Super Smash Bros. Brawl|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.
*In ''Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'', Snake goes by the code name "[[Cobra Commander|Old Snake]]". Spoiler alert: [[Cobra]] has a Metal Gear.
*Snake is a clone of Big Boss... not that [[Big Boss]].

==External links==
*[http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Solid_Snake Solid Snake on the Metal Gear Wiki]

[[Category:External properties]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:Japanese-original characters]]
[[Category:Video game-only characters]]

Big Boss

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The villainous '''Brandon "Big Boss" Babel''' is committing crime... in a future time!

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
According to [[Ask Vector Prime|a reliable source]], Big Boss is a crime lord in the 2020s of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|universe Primax 984.17 Alpha]] and fights the [[Central Organization of Police Specialists]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Big Boss is the villain in the popular [[1987]] game ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]''. The game "story" is that in the year [[2021]], with the [[Earth Corps]] indisposed, Big Boss freed five of the terrible [[Inhumanoids]] and unleashed them on the [[Earth]]! {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
* "Big Boss" Babel is the central villain of the Hasbro toyline and DiC show ''[[C.O.P.S.]]''. This had no relation to Transformers—though one character was quietly made the son of [[Beachhead]] from ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''—until ''The AllSpark Almanac II'' came along and, in an [[easter egg]], explicitly stated the shows were in canon with each other. This is what [[fandom|fans]] do when they get the chance, and ''you love it''.

*Unless you're trying to reconcile all of it for the wiki.

*He is not related to [[Snake| a certain master of Tactical Espionage.]]

==External links==
* [[wikipedia:C.O.P.S.|''C.O.P.S.'']] at Wikipedia
* [http://www.tfarchive.com/creative/showentry.php?s=584 The Hasbro Cartoon Universe theory at TF Archive]

[[Category:Animated humans]]
[[Category:Gangsters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]

Big Boss

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The villainous '''Brandon "Big Boss" Babel''' is committing crime... in a future time!

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
According to [[Ask Vector Prime|a reliable source]], Big Boss is a crime lord in the 2020s of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|universe Primax 984.17 Alpha]] and fights the [[Central Organization of Police Specialists]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Big Boss is the villain in the popular [[1987]] game ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]''. The game "story" is that in the year [[2021]], with the [[Earth Corps]] indisposed, Big Boss freed five of the terrible [[Inhumanoids]] and unleashed them on the [[Earth]]! {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
* "Big Boss" Babel is the central villain of the Hasbro toyline and DiC show ''[[C.O.P.S.]]''. This had no relation to Transformers—though one character was quietly made the son of [[Beachhead]] from ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''—until ''The AllSpark Almanac II'' came along and, in an [[easter egg]], explicitly stated the shows were in canon with each other. This is what [[fandom|fans]] do when they get the chance, and ''you love it''.

*Unless you're trying to reconcile all of it for the wiki.

*He is not related to [[Snake| A certain master of Tactical Espionage.]]

==External links==
* [[wikipedia:C.O.P.S.|''C.O.P.S.'']] at Wikipedia
* [http://www.tfarchive.com/creative/showentry.php?s=584 The Hasbro Cartoon Universe theory at TF Archive]

[[Category:Animated humans]]
[[Category:Gangsters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]