Broadside (G1)

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

[[Image:DW_G1Broadside.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Every mode is a loser.]]

'''Broadside''' is a huge loser. He's the forgotten [[Autobot]] [[Triple Changer]] who turns into an aircraft carrier and an impossibly large "jet". Broadside also happens to be terrified of heights. And gets seasick on the water.

His life must suuuuuuck.

:''Italian name'': '''Mistral'''<br>
:''French-Canadian name'': '''Navalo'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

Broadside appeared as part of the [[Wreckers]] commanded by [[Springer]] in Cybertron, while they were been attacked at their [[Kalis]] base by the Legion of the Lost. {{storylink|Legion of the Lost!}}

===Animated continuity===
'''Voice actor:''' [[Bill Martin]] (US), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japan)

Broadside had a troubled history in the animated continuity. A large Autobot spaceship that looked exactly like Broadside's jet mode appeared in ''[[Five Faces of Darkness]]'', but was destroyed in the episode. In the following episode, ''[[The Killing Jar]]'', a [[Quintesson]] scientist disguised his spaceship as Broadside and beckoned the [[Decepticon]] [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] to come inside. For some reason, Cyclonus complied! His first confirmed appearance was in ''[[Thief In The Night]]'', where he appeared in aircraft carrier mode. He fell on [[Devastator]] in ''[[Carnage in C-Minor]]'', appearing in robot mode (albeit an old prototype design). In ''[[Grimlock's New Brain]]'' and ''[[The Burden Hardest to Bear]]'', Broadside finally appeared in his correct robot mode.

According to ''[[Carnage in C-Minor]]'', Broadside has quite a temper when it comes to his paint job, which suggests he could be related to Sunstreaker.

===Dreamwave comics continuity===

During the first arc of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s tenure as Autobot Supreme Commander, Broadside was an enormous warrior, as tall as the special combiner teams, and supposedly nearly as powerful. He helped defend the Autobot capital of [[Iacon]].

A few thousand years after that, Broadside, now the size of a standard transformer, is a member of the [[Wreckers]] fighting in the Tagan Heights. Most notably he organized the evacuation of his team when [[Devastator]] and [[Defensor]] where decimating the area. Possibly, Broadside had himself reduced after the signing of the [[Crisis Intervention Accords]] to keep his combat status nominal.

According to his DW "More Than Meets the Eye" bio Broadside was magically cured of his fear of heights and seasickness when Shockwave turned him into a triple-changer, but he still likes to complain about both anyway. (So basically in the DW-verse he's a whiner instead of a loser.)

===IDW Comics continuity===
Broadside is a member of the elite combat unit "The Wreckers." Broadside appears to be the teams strongarm, and is second only to [[Roadbuster]] for total armament. Typically in the air he worked alongside [[Whirl]] and [[Sandstorm]], while on the ground he worked with Roadbuster and [[Scoop]]. He appears not to have the animated continuity version's phobias. But then, there isn't really time to complain when [[Thunderwing (G1)|an omnicidal Pretender]] is trying to kill you. {{storylink|Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1_Broadside_toy.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A loser in three modes.]]
*'''Broadside''' (1986)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-85'''

: Broadside transforms into an aircraft carrier, and a rather unconvincing apparently-aircraft carrier-sized jet fighter. He carries a rifle and a small axe as weapons in robot mode.

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==Trivia==
* Broadside has the distinction of having two animated character models, one based on a prototype toy that apparently went just short of production for some reason, and one based on the actual toy. The prototype design - which was used for the 1986 box mural, [[Carnage in C-Minor]] and his [[Marvel Comics]] appearances, albeit with a different coloration - features a head with antennae and a red humanoid face which appears to mounted on a horizontal pivot of some kind within the section of the aircraft carrier that folds back.

*His italian name, Mistral, refers to a [[Wikipedia:Mistral (L9013)|French Navy helicopter carrier]] and the [[Wikipedia:Maserati Mistral|Maserati Mistral]], a Grand Prix car, not Chilean woman poet, [[Wikipedia:Gabriela Mistral|Gabriela Mistral]].

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Broadside/broadside.htm Broadside at TFU.info]

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