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Relatives

2008-01-25T00:49:20Z

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''This article is about the relative relationship in [[Transformer]] race.''

Throughout the [[Transformer]]s multiverse are many Transformers who consider themselves family and refer to each other as such. The most common case is when two Transformers regard each other as siblings: "brothers" (e.g. G1 [[Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker]], or ''Robots In Disguise'''s [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]]) or "sisters" ([[Roulette]] and [[Shadow Striker]]).

Given that Transformers are not organic life and do not [[reproduction|reproduce sexually]], the origin, distinction, and exact meaning of many of these terms is frequently unclear.

== Possible Explanations ==

[[Image:Bros.gif|thumb|right|150px|You, Artist! Make me shinier!.]]

The [[Dreamwave]] [[More than Meets the Eye]] Guide provides a partial possible answer. According to the guide, when a spark naturally splits as it's being introduced to a protoform, it creates two robots who are "brothers" such as Sideswipe and Sunstreaker. When such a spark division is artificially induced, the less balanced and self-reliant pair created are referred to as "clones". (This definition of "brother" may or may not apply to RID Prime and Magnus, whose brotherhood was said to result from the special circumstance of having been created simultaneously by Alpha Trion).

However, the "[[Beast Era]]" widened the issue of reproduction with Rattrap referring to his "great-aunt" [[Arcee]] and in general the practice of Maximals and Predacons referring to the Autobots and Decepticons as their respective "ancestors", as well as themselves as being their "descendants", implying a direct genetic (for want of a better term) lineage. Various sources of debatable canonicity suggest that [[Optimus Primal]] is specifically descended from [[Optimus Prime]], usually through the phrase "his ancestor Optimus Prime" (though the events of [[Optimal Situation]] seem to prove that all Maximals could reasonably consider Optimus Prime their ancestor).
In the absence of sexual reproduction, the use and meaning of these genealogical references is difficult to explain. One possible explanation might be a situation such as when [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is brought to life in Beast Wars. Her [[spark]] and [[protoform]] are heavily damaged, and Cheetor allows some of his parts to be used as replacements while [[Rhinox]] guides the procedure. To compare to humans, this is something like assisting with childbirth and donating blood or organs. It is unlikely that this happened enough to cause "descendants" as they are described, however.

Other family designations exist as well. [[Wheelie]] has "parents" who were lost in his crash on [[Quintessa]], according to some background material. The Mini-Con Twirl very specifically calls Falcia her "mother" (which Falcia ''hates'') and seems to treat Redline like a father, since the two's spark frame energies went into constructing her physical form. In the Armada cartoon, [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] refers to [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] as his brother after Hot Shot saves his life, indicating at least an understanding of the concept. The [[Unicron Trilogy]] universe has also used the term "cousin" for certain Transformers on occasion. The Japanese Generation 1 Victory manga features Decepticon wives and children. Even the live-action movie features an Optimus and Megatron who are brothers, and it is mentioned in the related Nintendo DS game that Megatron "took the spark" of their father.

==Notable siblings==
===G1/Beast Era===
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker]]
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]
*[[Topspin]] and [[Twin Twist]]
*[[Blaster]], [[Karmen]] and [[Toaster]]
*[[Decibel]] and [[Legout]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Grand Maximus]] in Japanese G1 continuity.
*[[Leozack]] and [[Lyzack]]
*[[Sixliner]] and [[Sixtrain]]
*[[Roulette]] and [[Shadow Striker]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] in Dreamwave G1 continuity.
*[[Clamp Down]] and [[Deep Cover]]
*[[Galvatron (BWII)|BW 2 Galvatron]] and [[Megastorm]]
*[[DJ]], [[Motor Arm]] and [[Gimlet]]

===Car Robot/Robots in Disguise===
*[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]] and [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|God Magnus]]
*[[X-Brawn|Wildride]], [[Prowl (RID)|Mach Alert]] and [[Side Burn (RID)|Speedbreaker]]
*[[Gas Skunk]], [[Dark Scream|Guildo]] and [[Slapper (RID)|Gushar]] (Only in the toy catalogs)

===Unicron Trilogy===
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and [[Overcast (Energon)|Overcast]]
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] and [[Landquake (Energon)|Landquake]]
*[[Shockblast (Energon)|Shockblast]] and [[Six Shot]]
*[[Superion Maximus]] and his brother
*[[Signal Flare (Energon)|Signal Flare]] and [[Offshoot (Energon)|Offshoot]]
*[[Hardtop (Cybertron)|Hardtop]] and [[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]]
*[[Undermine]] and [[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]]

==Parents and children==
[[Image:Yourmom.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Stammy, eat your roast carrot before it becomes cold.]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] may have a mother.<ref>In an advertisement for [[Pepsi Convoy]] that shows him in a refrigerator (along with [[Destron Pizza]]), a note attached to a nearby piece of tupperware reads:
[[image:Optimusprime-mom.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Dear [[Optimus Prime (G1)|son]], Mom will be back from market with fresh food soon.]]
:''Dear Convoy''
:''Warm it before you eat''
:''Mom''

:Although the ad itself is for Pepsi Convoy, he is a separate character, and it can be assumed that the note was left for Convoy/Optimus Prime himself.</ref>.
*[[Quickswitch]] is [[Sixshot]]'s son.
*Every member of [[Dinoforce]] has families.<ref>Seems bunches of the Decepticons in [[Victory (manga)|Victory manga]] have families for whom they fight.</ref>
*[[Speeder]] is the son of [[Dai Atlas]].
*[[Lio Junior]] is the “son” of [[Lio Convoy]].<ref>Lio Junior was created by the influence of pure energy upon Lio Convoy’s [[Energon Matrix]].</ref>
*[[Stampy]] and his parents.
*[[Cohrada]] and his father.
*[[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] and his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-gran......, too many to be listed.<ref>Most of the main Maximals have families in the [[Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Beast Wars Neo manga]] because they spring from whole races of rabbit, cobra, giraffe, etc.. Transformers evolved from actual organic animals.</ref>

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==Cousins==
===Unicron Trilogy===
*[[Skywarp (Armada)|Skywarp]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]]
*[[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] and [[Zapmaster]]
*[[Bulkhead]] and [[Quickstrike (Energon)|Quickstrike]]
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] and [[Brushguard]]

==Other relatives==
*[[Rattrap]] calls [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] his "great-aunt".<ref>Rattrap said "What in the name of my great-aunt [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is going on!?" This is an in-joke referring to [[Susan Blu]], who was not only voice director on ''Beast Wars'', but the voice of Arcee in the Generation 1 cartoon series and [[Transmutate]] in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. {{storylink|Transmutate (Beast Wars episode)|Transmutate}}</ref>
*[[Hot Shot (RID)|Artfire]] and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]] are relatives.

==See also==
*[[Reproduction#Familial relationships|Familial relationships]]

==Footnote==
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Blades (G1)

2008-01-23T23:28:06Z

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:''Blades is an [[Autobot]] and a [[Protectobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Blades-mtmte-unpublished.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Profile art that actually captures the essence of a character. Madness!]]

'''Blades''' will never be the Autobot poster child. He's a dirty, underhanded street brawler at heart and proud of it. The fact that his alternate mode and function as air support can keep him at a distance from combat infuriates him. Blades would rather use his rotors to gut a Decepticon from antenna to tailpipe than to fly. When he fights, he wants to feel his enemies fuel spraying across his steel skin. Blades does his job and does it darn well, but if there's a way to get his hands dirty in the process, you can bet your processor he'll find it.

Blades combines with his fellow Protectobots to form [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]].

:''Japanese name'': '''Graze''' (グレイズ, gu-re-i-zu)<br>
:''French-Canadian name'': '''Hélicopto'''<br>
:''Italian name'': '''Rasor'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====

:''('''Note''': Events in italics occurred only in the Marvel UK books.)''

Blades and the other Protectobots were created on Earth by [[Wheeljack]] and the Autobots after they stole a recording of [[Devastator|Devastator's]] combiner transformation sequence and modified it ''(and after [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Buster Witwicky]] shared a [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-induced vision of the future with the [[Special Teams]] in it)''.

[[Image:Blades-uk125a.jpg|left|thumb|150px|"Blades! Who's the best Autobot leader?" "Well, Optimus Prime was kinda oka—"]]

Shortly after the Protectobots were given life by the Matrix, Optimus and Wheeljack learned of a cerebro-shell implanted in Prime which had allowed Megatron to tap into the Matrix and eavesdrop on their conversations. Reversing the signal, the Autobots learned of a Decepticon plot to steal the energy-converting hydrothermocline. Taking the Protectobots with him for the mission, Optimus moved to intervene on Megatron and his Combaticons' plans.

At the industrial site, a human named Ethan Zachary broke a stand-off between the two forces by suggesting they battle for the hydrothermocline in a virtual game program he had created, so that nothing of value to either side would be damaged in the melee. With their consent, Zachary uploaded Optimus, Megatron, and the two Special Teams into his computer game environment called Multi-World. Blades was teamed with [[Groove (G1)|Groove]], and they maneuvered through an area called the Cloud-Steppes, where cities floated on clouds and absurdly long walkways were supported underneath them. The Combaticon flyers cut loose one of the walkways, sending the ground-bound Groove and a group of Cloud-Steppers flailing and falling. Against his better judgement, Blades caught the falling humanoids instead of saving his teammate. This proved to be a good idea, as the Cloud-Steppers unleashed their patented cloud-in-a-knapsack trick to blind the Combaticons until Groove shot them down. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] took control of the Autobots, Blades began to muse on deserting like [[Goldbug]] and [[Blaster]]. While on a mission in London, his bad mood was made worse by being attacked by [[GI Joe|Action Force]], and he came close to killing the humans before realising this was against the Autobot code. He then ended up assisting Action Force, Grimlock and [[Centurion]] against a rampaging Megatron.'' {{storylink|Ancient Relics!}}

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====Generation 2====

[[image:blades1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This is pretty much what he's all about: shooting the crap out of guys who claim they're unarmed.]]

Some years later, Blades was working with a team of Autobot "firestormers" under Grimlock's command, when they first discovered the Liege Maximo's Cybertronian empire.

During one of their raids, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] hesitated to shoot a Decepticon who said he was weaponless. Blades blasted the Decepticon, who he claimed was in fact reaching for a weapon, and berated Hound for being "soft". {{storylink|War Without End!}}

He was later seen among a crew recruited by Grimlock to destroy the Cybertronian flagship ''[[Twilight]]''. {{storylink|Devices and Desires!}}

That mission ended in failure, but Blades survived the subsequent escape and joined another Grimlock-led team sent to Earth to back up Optimus Prime, who had gone in solo against Megatron. Rumble damaged his rotors, forcing him to land, which mostly just served to piss him off even more. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}

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===Cartoon continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (US), ? (Japan)

[[Image:G1_RevengeofBruticus_Blades_savinghumans.jpg|thumb|left|170px|A more kid friendly bad boy.]]

When the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] attacked an inhabited city on [[Earth]], Optimus Prime called upon the Protectobots to evacuate the civilians caught in the crossfire. Later, as Earth's orbit was diverted to the [[Sun]] by the [[Combaticon]]s, while [[Inferno (G1)|Infeno]] and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] fought the flames, Blades saved civilians trapped by the fires. Soon afterwards he was spraying his limited supply of coolant onto the flames, but was concerned that he was running out and couldn't cool down the whole planet. {{Storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

Blades, as part of Defensor, totally blew up [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Afterwards, he was with the Protectobots when they arrived ostensibly to save some window-washers from a burning skyscraper. Blades actually blew the workers from their dangling platform. Fortunately, Streetwise managed to catch them below. Later still, Blades and the other Protectobots were ordered to help defend [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] from a Decepticon attack. They merged into Defensor and activated his useless force field, which almost immediately deactivated, allowing the Decepticons to blast Defensor back into his component parts. {{Storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}

[[Image:G1_UltimateWeapon_FirstAid_Blades_repairbay.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Blades is to First Aid as Twins are to Ratchet.]]

In the year 2006, the Autobots were asked to help the Dutch authorities deal with French rebels. After dispersing the human aggressors, Blades was shot down by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] took him back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] for repairs. While Blades recuperated, the Combaticon [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] broke into the city and managed to steal Metroplex's [[transformation cog]], and First Aid left the Autobots when he failed to stop the theft. Unfortunately, just as First Aid left, the Autobots were called upon to deal with a rampaging [[Trypticon]]. Hot Spot ordered the remaining Protectobots to combine into Defensor even without First Aid, and they successfully saved a train full of civilians. After First Aid returned to the Autobots, Blades ferried him into Metroplex while the giant Autobot was battling [[Trypticon]], enabling the medic to realign the replacement cog properly, which in turn allowed Metroplex to triumph.{{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

[[Image:AutobotsCall.jpg|left|thumb|170px|It might have been just desserts if the whole planet hadn't gotten the same treatment two seconds later.]]

Blades was one of the first three (along with [[Wheelie]] and [[Slingshot]]) to be drained by the energy leech, [[Tornedron]]. The whole of Cybertron was likewise sucked dry moments later, though all were restored when Grimlock saved the day. {{Storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

Later in 2006, the Protectobots arrived at the aftermath of the battle between the [[Technobot]]s and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] at [[Mark Morgan]]'s laboratory. They transported the injured [[Jessica Morgan]] to County General Hospital and watched over her as the doctors restored her ability to walk with an exo-skeletal structure, enraging the robo-phobic senior Morgan. This had [[Hate Plague|negative consequences]]. What a jerkface. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

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===Dreamwave comics continuity===

[[image:Blades-warwithin.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Blades, you're shooting at the artist!]]

Blades stuck with his team after the official status downgrade of the special teams. Though officially neutral, the team deployed to counter the threat of Devastator in the Tagan Heights. When it became evident that the two titans were simply causing more damage, the Protectobots split up to deal with Devastator through more subtle means. It was Blades who got the most dangerous assignment of distracting Devastator while his team disabled the rampaging [[Ultracon]].

Some while later, the [[Chaos Trinity]] invaded the Protectobot base. Blades was quick to draw arms, but was defeated by [[Bludgeon]]. {{storylink|The War Within: The Dark Ages}}

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===IDW comics continuity===
[[image:blades2.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Blades wants your lunch money. NOW.]]

Hundreds of thousands of years ago on Cybertron, before the war with the Decepticons, Blades was part of an Autobot security force in the city of [[Kaon]]. His squad was tasked with hunting down the renegade operators of gladiatorial contests in the degenerate slum areas of Cybertron, particularly the brutal fighter who would come to be known as [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 1}}

When Megatron and many other prisoners escaped, Blades was part of the field team attempting to bring them back under control. He was seen having difficulty contacting other units, as Sentinel Prime made the decision to bring out his Apex armor. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Blades''' (Protectobot, 1986)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''P3'''
:''Japanese ID number'': '''C-72'''

: Blades transforms to a rescue helicopter resembling a Bell UH-1V Iroquois. He also comes with a pair of side-mounted (non-firing) cannons. He is a "[[Scramble City]]"-style combiner limb, who can form the arm or leg of any such combiner—though he normally forms Defensor's right arm. Like many such toys, his articulation is limited to arm rotation at the shoulders. His fists are unusual in that their post holes are on the side rather than the top, an oddity he shares with [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]. A hook-shaped handle on his gun allows him to hold it normally.

: This mold was also used to make [[Fly-Up]].

*'''Defensor''' (Gift set, 1986)
:''Japanese ID number'': '''C-76'''

: All five Protectobots were made available in many markets as a complete gift-set as well as on individual cards/boxes.

===Generation 2===
* '''Blades''' (Unreleased)
:''Team ID number:'' '''P5'''
:A ''[[Generation 2]]'' [[redeco]] of Blades, as well as the rest of the Protectobots and the [[Stunticon]]s, never made it past the stage of production samples. These toys are among the most exceedingly rare Transformers ever made.

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Blades/blades.htm Blades at TFU.info]
* [http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1170&size=0&start=0 Gallery] of unreleased MOSC Generation 2 Blades

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