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Brick Springstern

2006-11-16T00:08:57Z

69.196.130.62: Added his "other" name to the page as a note

[[Image:Brickspringhorn-tfg3.jpg|right|thumb|"Can't start a fire without a light...even if we're just dancing in the night."]]
:''Brick Springstern is a [[human]] character in the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''

'''''Brick Springhorn''' and the Tenth Avenue Band'' are a popular human musical group. Brick is known worldwide for his hit song ''Born in America'', and his concerts can fill a stadium with 80,000 people.

The [[Decepticon]]s used this to their advantage when they placed a [[power siphon]] over the stage to convert the crowd's roars of applause into [[energon]].

''Note: His name is given as both Brick Springstern and Brick Springhorn in the same issue''

[[Category: Earth culture|Springhorn, Brick]]
[[Category: Entertainers|Springhorn, Brick]]
[[Category: Humans|Springhorn, Brick]]
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Paul Charteris

2006-08-27T19:14:23Z

69.196.130.62: Changed all refs to "Melody" to "Melony", as per the novels

''Paul Charteris is a human from the [[Generation 1]] continuity.

[[Image:Paul charteris.jpg|thumb|Paul Charteris <STRIKE>defies</STRIKE> defines the archetype of the pretty boy action hero.]]
Paul Charteris is a plainclothes detective with the NYPD Vice Squad. In his 11 years on the force, he's bounced between departments, including Vice, Homicide, and Major Crimes.

He joined the [[Followers]], a secret society that gathers information of the Transformers on Earth, following a traumatic encounter with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] shortly after the Transformers' arrival on Earth.

Paul is a severely lapsed Catholic.

''Paul Charteris was 41 in October 2002, and a teenager in 1984. Whups, that doesn't add up...''

==History==
===Backstory===
Paul was a teenager studying to be a priest in St. Michael's seminary in 1984. When the Transformers appeared Paul underwent a "crisis of faith," unable to accept the Vatican's re-interpretation of scripture to allow for the existence of life on other planets. Lacking the strength to weather this apparent invalidation of his beliefs, but unable to admit it, Paul experienced bucketloads of teenaged angst mixed with Catholic Guilt.

When Starscream questioned a priest at St. Michael's, seeking to understand the motivations of religious humans, Paul overheard their shielded conversation. Father Simon's frank assessment that Paul was going to fail in his struggle caused Paul (who was severely sleep deprived and overwrought) to attempt suicide. Starscream saved his life, then told him God did not exist -- except in his own reflection.

Paul left seminary, subsequently joining both the New York Police Department and the Followers, which offered a different way to confront the object of his fears.

In October 2002, on orders from the Followers, Paul left his job without warning to attend a goodwill event with the Autobots in [[Tokyo|Ginza, Tokyo]].

===Events of the Keepers Trilogy===
====Hardwired====
Paul was among the humans caught in [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s surprise assault, and subsequently transported to [[Labyrinth]] by the [[Keepers]].

Once there, Paul met [[Melony Harcourt]], a fellow Follower whose sexual advances he repeatedly rebuffed because she wore a figurative neon sign over her head proclaiming 'damaged goods' in sans-serif italics.

Together they were the only two of the 212 human abductees unwilling to use the Keepers' [[Paradise Room]] to explore their greatest memories and fantasies. When the nature of the room changed, exposing worst memories and deepest secrets, Paul was tricked into re-experiencing his confrontation with Starscream by one the of the Keepers' thralls. He also witnessed the death of Melony's sister.

Paul and Melony are keen observers of behavior, and it was Paul that deduced the Keepers' true intentions towards the Transformers.

When Labyrinth was destroyed, Paul returned to Earth along with his fellow abductees and the hastily-decamping Keepers. They arrived in Las Vegas.

====Annihilation====
Paul and Melony were captured by the New Vegas Police Department. Starscream (who had taken over Las Vegas in their absence) wished to know about the Keepers. Paul is very wary of this police-force turned Decepticon Militia, especially the shifty Chief [[Carl Lomax]].

Starscream recognized Paul from their much-earlier meeting and, aware he was a Follower, wanted him to deliver an offer of alliance to the organization. Paul was unable to convince Starscream of the Keepers' threat due to his ongoing mental breakdown. He was separated from Melony when she attacked Starscream and was sentenced to death.

After being debriefed by the Followers' leader, Paul was sent back to Las Vegas to evacuate the other Followers in the city in advance of a military strike. This plan went to hell when the military moved in early, and Paul learned Melony had been horribly altered to serve as a vessel for one of the Keepers. Discovering from Chief Lomax (revealed to be a fellow Follower) that most Followers were already fleeing the city, Paul decided to kill the altered Melony instead.

Paul attacked the Keepers at the ''Seven Wonders and More Casino'', shooting Melony's body and injuring several more before being fatally wounded. His actions managed to distract the Keepers from the incoming nuclear missile until it was too late for them to stop it. He died in the arms of a Keeper whose body Melony had seized control of.

Paul's quest to save Melony's soul should perhaps be termed a 'qualified success.' Though both were much happier and well-adjusted, having worked through many of their respective issues by their final moments, they were still dead.

==Associated Characters==
===Father Simon===
A good-willed but perhaps excessively frank Catholic priest that instructed Paul as a teenager. He has a sharp mind, capable of trading barbs and rhetoric with Starscream. He considers Paul the exception that proves the rule -- that humans are capable of adapting to changes in their world with faith.

===Wendy===
Paul's ex-girlfriend, a MBA from Harvard. She broke up with him in a note, telling him he was ''a hollow shell of a man''.

She wasn't wrong.

[[Category: Generation 1|Charteris, Paul]]
[[Category: Humans|Charteris, Paul]]
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Mirage (G1)

2006-07-30T00:56:08Z

69.196.130.62: /* Marvel Comics Continuity */

{{disambig3|Mirage}}

''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity.''

[[Image:Mirageg1.jpg|thumb|right]]

'''Mirage''' is what humans call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent Cybertronian society, with his own large estate and high-priced friends. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

The other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite, beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the Decepticons can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer.

He sounds like Bing Crosby.

''Japanese name: '''Ligier''' ''<br>
''Italian name: '''Mistero''' ''

=Fiction=
===Animated Continuity===
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Frank Welker]] (US), [[Takurō Kitagawa]](Japan)

===Marvel Comics Continuity===

Mirage was one of the Autobots on board the Ark when it crashed, and was subsequently reactivated in 1984. He didn't do much of any note before being blown to pieces by Octane during an Arctic battle arranged by [[Starscream (G1)| Starscream]]

===Robot Masters===

===Dreamwave Generation 1 Continuity===
When [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] came to Earth and announced that the Autobot/Decepticon wars were over and that the two factions had been united, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime. The rest of the Autobots were wary of this development, and so a few (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor.

Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed, and Cliffjumper seemed to forgive him.

=Toys=
===Generation 1===
* Mirage
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''07'''
: This toy is easily broken at the waist piviot. Hasbro and/or Takara have announced that the mold for Mirage is either lost or damaged, so an reissue is unlikely. Mirage was also included in the 1986 ''Good Bye Convoy'' giftset. Mirage is also the only 1984 Autobot who has not been reissued in some form.

===Generation 2===
* Mirage
Mirage was released in 1995 as a black and yellow recolor of the Gobot [[Double Clutch (G2)|Double Clutch]]. He was also planned to be released as a flipchanger, but the Generation 2 line was cancelled to make way for [[Beast Wars]]. The unreleased mold was first used in [[Machine Wars]].

===Machine Wars===
* Mirage
:Mirage's form in Machine Wars transforms into an blue and white Formula racer. Like the other Machine Wars basics, the toy is a flipchanger, and his weapons are hidden in his alt mode. Unlike most of the Machine Wars toys, the head looks very similar to his G1 form. This is because the mold was originaly designed as Mirage for Generation 2.

===Robot Masters===
* Rijie
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''RM-03'''
: THis toy used the ''Machine Wars'' mold, but in Generation 1 colors.
: Because of legal reasons, "Ligier" could not be used for the name of the ''Robot Masters'' toy, so "Rijie", which has the same pronuciation in Japan, was used instead.

===Alternators===
* Mirage

=External Links=

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Buzzsaw (G1)

2006-07-30T00:47:07Z

69.196.130.62: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{disambig3|Buzzsaw}}
''Buzzsaw is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Generation 1]] continuity.''

[[Image:Buzzsawg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|He hovers like some vast, predatory bird. Except not so much with the "vast" part.]]

'''Buzzsaw''' is an artist -- rather, he likes to make art out of ''his victims''. He approaches his victims with reasoned clarity and sophistication, gutting them with what he believes to be inspirational precision. However, his ego is easily wounded, and he's not adept at improvisation. If one of his "masterpieces" is interrupted and he cannot procede as planned, he would rather retreat to sulk than rethink his approach.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
Buzzsaw cannon-blasted [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. However, he had little time to celebrate what may be the single most lop-sided takedown in Transformers history, as he was destroyed by the Underbase-powered [[Starscream (G1)| Starscream]] soon afterwards. So it goes.

===Animated continuity===
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Frank Welker]] (US), x (Japan)

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===

==Toys==
* '''Soundwave w/ Buzzsaw'''
: Available from Hasbro from 1984 to 1986. The same mold was used for [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Garboil]].
* '''Buzzsaw''' (VS-Z)
: Came packaged with [[Skids (G1)| Skids]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]].
* During ''Headmasters'', Buzzsaw was available by himself or with Soundblaster, wearing a new sticker featuring [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus's]] weak spot.
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-106'''
* '''Soundblaster w/ Buzzsaw and Ravage''' (Transformers Collection)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-106''', '''TFC-18'''

==External Links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Buzzsaw Buzzsaw's Transformers Universe profile]

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