Null-ray

2007-11-21T00:43:42Z

71.135.191.4: /* Generation 1 cartoon */

[[Image:Nullray-normal.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Pew pew pew.]]

:''The null-ray is a weapon from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]''

One of the signature weapons of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and the [[Seeker]]s, the '''null-ray''' is capable of stopping any electrical device with one shot, be it human or [[Transformer]].

Except [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. All a blast from the null-ray does is make him angry. It doesn't work on the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s either, but they were already pissed at Screamer and the jets.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
After causing a tidal wave at [[Sherman Dam]], Megatron ordered Starscream to shoot three of the generators with blasts from the null-ray as part of their efforts to make [[Energon cube]]s. Why they would need the generators to stop working is beyond our understanding, but Megatron's schemes always have layers within them, and are far too complex for [[human|simple flesh creature]]s to understand. {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

After being discovered by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Starscream shot him with the null-ray, allowing the [[Decepticon]]s to modify his [[Circuits#Memory Circuits|memory circuits]] to lead the [[Autobot]]s into a trap. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}}

Later, when Megatron had the [[power chip rectifier]]s of the Decepticons installed in him before his battle with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Starscream lamented that he could no longer use the null-ray or his cluster bombs. A threat of termination from Megatron shut him up. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

[[Image:Nullray-jet.jpg|thumb|left|Starscream suffering from a runny nose.]]
Determined not to be replaced by the human-built [[Nightbird]], Starscream used his null-ray to fritz her circuits. Naturally, Megatron wasn't too happy about the loss of his new female "companion" and immediately labeled Starscream a traitor. Again. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

When Starscream partnered up with the (more than usually) paranoid [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], Starscream fired his null-ray at Red Alert, causing his unstable [[Circuits#Logic circuits|logic circuits]] to stabilize. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}}

[[Image:Nullray-finger.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"I am [[Primus|GOD]]!"]]
Later, Starscream was shown firing the null-ray from his nose while in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}}. Later still, he was shown firing it through his finger. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

Starscream last used his null-ray at his own coronation as [[Emperor of Destruction|leader of the Decepticons]]. During the coronation, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s played trumpets, but Starscream, eager to get on with the ceremony, used the null-ray to slice the instruments in half. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie (1986)|The Transformers Movie}}

In 2005, [[Marissa Faireborn]] had a hand-held blaster which fired null-rays. Whether this was reverse engineered from a captured Seeker, developed with the help of the Autobots, or was acquired by some sort of convoluted plan of Starscream's to replace Megatron, is unknown. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|FFOD4}}

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