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[[Image:ChrisLatta1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not pictured: Patrick Swayze.]]<br />
'''Christopher Collins''', a.k.a. '''Chris Latta''' ([[August 30]], [[1949]] - [[June 12]], [[1994]]) was an American screen actor and voice actor. Though typically credited under his stage name '''Chris Latta''', he was occasionally credited under his given name. Some of his non-Transformers roles include [[Cobra Commander]] and [[Gung-Ho]] from ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'', Darkstorm and Cravex from ''[[Visionaries]]'', Sergeant Knox and General Dire from ''Star Blazers'', D'Compose from ''[[Inhumanoids|The Inhumanoids]]'', the Beetle and the Sandman from ''[[Spider-Man|Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends]]'' and was the first voice of Mr. Burns and Moe on ''The Simpsons''.<br />
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Latta led something of a checkered lifestyle, the details of which are not fully known, but which anecdotes and stories by members of the ''Transformers'' cast and crew have hinted at. [[Flint Dille]] has claimed that he and other members of the production staff had to frequently bail Latta out of jail; on at least one occasion Latta claimed that he had simply been jaywalking. Latta died in Ventura, California, his cause of death officially recorded as a cerebral hemorrhage following a long illness. Although his contemporaries speak fondly of him when asked at various [[BotCon|BotCons]], there have been several cryptic comments made that suggest there is more to the story of his death — [[Peter Cullen]] remarked that he was a victim of [[Hollywood]]'s tendency to "devour its young"<ref>[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/52d429f6c677ba9c?hl=en]</ref>, [[Susan Blu]] said that Latta was "a sweet guy who had his demons"<ref>[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/f89a8cbaeef0f4ae?hl=en]</ref>, and Flint Dille noted that Latta "died, and we never really found out how."<br />
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{{bigquote|Everyone else here is a comedian, but that's not what I am... What I am is a psychotic who's learned to market his problem.|An eerily prophetic line from Latta's stand-up routine.}}<br />
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==Roles==<br />
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===Generation 1===<br />
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]<br />
* [[Furg]]<br />
* [[Krunk]]<br />
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]]<br />
* [[Cobra Commander|Old Snake]]<br />
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]<br />
* [[Slammer]]<br />
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]<br />
* [[Sweep]]<br />
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490383/ Chris Latta at the Internet Movie Database]<br />
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=8087155 Chris Latta at Find-A-Grave]<br />
*[http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=Collins&amp;given=Christopher&amp;flast=Latta California Death Records]<br />
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[[Category:English voice actors]]</div>67.86.217.122https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Sparkplug_(Animated_human)&diff=758960Sparkplug (Animated human)2012-10-05T13:42:51Z<p>67.86.217.122: /* Animated cartoon */</p>
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:''Sparkplug is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:Anisparkplugwitwicky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He wants to be John Goodman in the worst way.]]<br />
'''Sparkplug''' is a construction worker in New [[Detroit]].<br />
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Whether or not he's related to [[Spike Witwicky (Animated)|any]] [[Carly Witwicky (Animated)|other]] [[Daniel Witwicky (Animated)|citizens]] is unknown.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===''Animated'' cartoon===<br />
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jeff Bennett]] (1st appearance), [[David Kaye]] (2nd appearance), and [[John Mariano]] (3rd appearance)<br />
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Sparkplug was overseeing two construction bots in a mine, being paid by [[Isaac Sumdac]] to find something. Only problem was, that something found them...and it had [[Space barnacle|friends]]. Sparkplug was attacked, and was presumed dead. {{storylink|Nature Calls|Nature Calls}}<br />
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Except he got better. While the [[Autobot|Autobots]] were looking for [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] and [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]], the Autobot [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] thought that Sparkplug's truck was Mixmaster, and fired several bursts from his stingers, which did nothing to damage the truck. Upon being attacked by another alien lifeform, Sparkplug displayed both calmness and familiarity with modern slang by asking "Dude, why you whaling on my truck?" after Bumblebee's attack. Guess that encounter in the mines wasn't as bad as we thought. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home|Sari, No One's Home}}<br />
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He later was driving an oil tanker en route to, apparently, Sheboygan, Wisconsin when his truck was attacked by the Constructicons. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd|Three's a Crowd}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Sparkplug is clearly a homage to [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], patriarch of the [[Witwicky]] family from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. And he's still wearing that hardhat. Why he talks like a frat boy in his second appearance, and with a vaguely [[Australia]]n accent in his third, is anybody's guess.<br />
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===Foreign names===<br />
*''Japanese:'' '''Sparkplug''' (スパークプラグ ''Supākupuragu'')<br />
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