Trypticon (WFC)

2012-02-09T21:19:41Z

71.162.103.17: /* Exiles */

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{{disambig3|Trypticon}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:WFC One Shall Stand Trailer.jpg|thumb|300px|Yes, there was a grammatically incorrect caption regarding my discharge of energy weaponry. Why do you ask?]]
'''Trypticon''' Station, located within the [[Trypticon Asteroid Belt]], was built long ago and entrusted to the care of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s to protect a powerful [[Dark Energon|secret]] hidden within. When [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]], commander of the Seekers went over to [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] early in the war, the station, which he commanded, went with him.

Trypticon is more than just a station, though: it was programmed to be a sentient [[drone]] too, and was eventually recreated as a fully sentient, living Transformer.

{{quote|You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am... Trypticon. I am... your death.|Trypticon, before he goes [[Godzilla]] on everyone|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Exodus''===
Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the [[Dark Energon]] that had resulted from [[Unicron]]'s attack on the planet. Its security was seen to by the Seeker caste. There are records that indicate that at the time Dark Energon was placed aboard by an ancient High Council the station underwent a major overhaul: [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] confirmed that it was given a spark and made a living being at that point. [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] was one of the few with knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]], as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army. Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. Megatron noted to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] that there was potential for a spark within Trypticon, though Shockwave pointed out the [[Well of All Sparks|Well]] no longer produced sparks. Megatron suggested he use the sparks of the scientists killed and maimed in the seize of Trypticon to give life to the station.

The supplies of Dark Energon from the initial harvest were slender, so Megatron required the means to transfer large quantities of [[energon]] to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] in [[Crystal City]], the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.

After a team led by [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. He allowed Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, and Trypticon was granted true life, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicon]]s. Ultimately, a team of Autobots aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' found a gap in the station's external defenses and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit.

Victory was brief, however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the [[Wrecker]]s and [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' launch, this proved to be in vain, as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a ''Nemesis''-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the ''Ark'' to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional [[space bridge]] in Cybertronian orbit. As the ''Ark'' emerged in unknown space, the ''Nemesis'' was nowhere within sensor range. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

===''Exiles''===
The ''Nemesis'' was heavily damaged due to its traveling through the last remaining, yet faulty, space bridge, and thus Trypticon's sentient functionality and transformation abilities were lost, perhaps forever. Megatron didn't care too much. The ''Nemesis'' was still a functioning, fearsome battleship, and that's all he required. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles}}
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===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{Main|Nemesis (Prime)}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)

{{quote|Ha! Ha! Ha! You haven't defeated me, Autobots. You have only untethered your own destroyer!|Trypticon decides to freak out the Aerialbots|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

[[Image:WFC-Trypticontrackingdescent.jpg|left|thumb|250px|'CUZ I'M FREE! FREE FALLIN'!]]

After Optimus Prime learned of the coming corruption of the [[Core]], he ordered an evacuation of all Autobots. When Megatron started using his space station to blow up the ships, Optimus Prime sent Jetfire, Air Raid, and Silverbolt to destroy the station. Flooding it with coolant while under heavy fire, the jets were about to blow it up...until they discovered that the station itself was alive. At this point, the Trypticon orbital weapon gun began first targeting locations on Cybertron such as [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]'s [[Vaults]], the [[Hall of Ancients]], the [[Stellar Galleries]] and the [[Code Archives]] before finally acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. The fliers hoped that they could prevent Iacon's destruction by destroying Trypticon's [[Transformation cog|conversion cog]], reverting him to his robot mode.

[[Image:WFC-Trypticonyoulost.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]

Unfortunately for the aerial Autobots, his robot mode was a gigantic, metal dinosaur. Jetfire destroyed his jetpack, and Trypticon plummeted to the planet below. Optimus, Ironhide, and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the titan, destroying his shoulder-mounted weapons systems by overloading them with energon batteries. The Autobots proceeded to shoot his exposed heat vents and to destroy a set of three power cores along his shoulders and back. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime hit him with his axe. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}
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===Transformers: Cybertron Adventures===

After his weapons were restored, Trypticon made a stand for the Decepticons and started destroying Autobots. Optimus, convincing the Autobots to keep the fight going, made a stand with Bumblebee and Ironhide. The bad news was that Trypticon's only weak spot was in his mouth, but the good news was the Autobots didn't give up.

After half of his health depleted, Trypticon made one more stand, and used his true power. Even though the blasts were powerful, Optimus and the Autobots fired one huge blast, making the monster fall to his demise. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
[[Image:WFC-TrypticonDS.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]
Megatron conquered Trypticon Space Station to manufacture Dark Energon to aid in his planet-wide conquest. However, Megatron found he needed to access the Core of Cybertron to continue to power their Dark Energon supply. Upon defeating Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and later Omega Supreme, Megatron succeeded in his quest.

However, not too long afterwards, newly ascended Autobot leader Optimus Prime freed the Core from the Dark Energon, and ordered a planet-wide evacuation of the population from Cybertron. Megatron began using Trypticon Space Station to fire upon the evacuating Autobot masses, prompting a strike from Optimus' team. The Autobots were able to make Trypticon Space Station crash to Cybertron... only for it to transform into a city-sized Decepticon dinosaur. Luckily, Optimus and his men finally defeated the titan, and ended the threat of Dark Energon for good.
{{Storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}
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==Notes==
* Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in ''Exodus''. [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]] researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living [[spark]] (pg. 82) when [[Dark Energon]] was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with ''many'' sparks.

*When asked whether Trypticon was alive after that first sparking or not until Shockwave, Alex Irvine passed on commenting on the grounds that to do so would give something important away...

* In the end credits for ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. Now if we had only seen ''that'' in gameplay.

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Talk:Nemesis (Prime)

2012-02-09T04:01:28Z

71.162.103.17:

Shouldn't this disambiguate with [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|Nemesis Prime]] or am I the only bastard sad enough to find that funny?
: I was going to say that the main image caption would be good enough for that, but I guess it got changed to something I don't understand? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:45, 14 December 2010 (EST)
::Apparently anons have been messing around with it nonsensically for the past two days, so I just reverted the whole thing back to Abates's version from December 10th. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 17:49, 14 December 2010 (EST)
:::That's too bad, because I wanted to do an image caption along the lines of "The store exclusive version is redecoed as Ultra Magnus." [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 07:03, 15 December 2010 (EST)
Shouldn't this be merged with [[Trypticon (WFC)]], this is his alt-mode, and in Exiles it's stated that Trypticon is now stuck in ship mode, so that must mean that the Nemesis that appears in ''Prime'' could be Trypticon.[[Special:Contributions/71.162.103.17|71.162.103.17]] 23:01, 8 February 2012 (EST)

Dead End Drone

2012-02-05T23:04:54Z

71.162.103.17:

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:''The Dead End Drone is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:DeadEndDroneAlliance.jpg|right|thumb|This image may be disturbing for some viewers.]]

'''Dead End Drones''' are copies of the Mini-Con [[Dead End (Armada)|Dead End]], produced in the thousands by [[Unicron]], and later [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]]. They are "commanded" by [[Dead End General]] units.<ref>[http://www.transformersclub.com/ Official Transformers Collectors' Club site] members' section, Micro-Sized Online! Mini-Con Profiles, 3/23/07</ref>

They came to be associated with the planet [[Gigantion]].{{fact}}

==Fiction==
===Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
[[Image:Sshot-arm-492-redshirts.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]

A plethora of Dead End Drones in globe form attacked the [[Decepticon]]s invading Unicron's body. After killing everyone following [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]], they cause him to almost fall into a crevasse. [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] saved Cyclonus, but the drones kept firing. They were eventually destroyed by [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]]. After momentary peace, a larger group came and surrounded the invaders. Before they could fire, though, they were destroyed by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. Those not destroyed retreated. {{storylink|Alliance}}

Later, when [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] and Optimus Prime invaded Unicron's interior, another group of drones (now called Laser Pods) attacked. The combined firepower of Prime and Galvatron destroyed all of them. {{storylink|Union}}
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====Linkage====
[[Image:Twirl-wheee.jpg|thumb|left|200px|]]
During Unicron's battle against the population of Cybertron, a number of Dead End Drones were seen defending him in both robot and globe forms. Several of them were cut in half by [[Ravenus]] and [[Twirl]]. {{storylink|Linkage Part 13}}
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===''Energon'' comic===
[[Image:WhatLiesBeneath3-Unicroninterior.jpg|right|thumb|150px|An army of one.]]
Dead End (or one of his clones) can be seen briefly inside the core of Unicron. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Three}}
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==Toys==
===Cybertron===
{{picsneeded|Toy}}
*'''Bug Drone''' (Micron Booster, 2005)
**''Booster ID number:'' '''2'''

: Bug Drone uses the same base plastic colors as the Mini-Con Dead End, transforming into a "moon" with a large blaster. The Drone is distinguished by silver paint on the moon's sides that Dead End lacks. Available only as part of the fourth [[Micron Booster]] assortment in Japan, Bug Drone came in a "blind-packed" box that prevented the buyer from knowing the contents of the box until it was opened.

: This mold is also used by [[Dead End General|Bug General]] and [[Kranix]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Micron/BugDrone/bugdrone.htm More information on Bug Drone at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bug Drone''' (バグドローン ''Bagu Dorōn'')

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