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Nimue

2007-02-26T16:30:15Z

71.235.137.236: /* Animated continuity */

:''Nimue is a [[human]] character in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Nimue.gif|thumb|right|250px|Why would I need saving?]]

Nimue lives in Medieval [[Camelot]]. She is a devoted daughter, a bit of a spit-fire and slightly flighty.

She chooses [[Spike]] as her champion when he time travels with [[Hoist (G1)]] and [[Warpath]] back in time, following [[Starscream]], [[Rumble]] and [[Ramjet]] into a "dragon mound."

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==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===

During a fight between the Autobots and Decepticons, Startscream, Rumble and Ramjet stumble upon a cave with an interesting energy signature. They accidently travel back in time, followed by Spike, Hoist and Warpath.

The small group of Decepticons, led by Starscream, decide to rule the Medieval world where they do not have to contend with either Optimus Prime or Megatron. The take the side of a local lord who is battling against one of his neighbors, Nimue's father, for control. Spike and the Autobots promise to help Nimue and her father to defeat them.

In the end, with a little help from Merlin... um [[Beort]], the Autobots are victorious and they return to the future.
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters|Nimue]]
[[Category: Generation 1 characters|Nimue]]
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Nebulos

2007-02-04T11:53:58Z

71.235.137.236: /* IDW Publishing continuity */

{{disambig2|the Planet/Race of People|the Autobot Targetmaster|Nebulon (Autobot)}}

[[Image:Bonk.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Read this in an Australian accent.]]

'''Nebulos''' (sometimes called '''Nebulon''') is a planet inhabited by organic lifeforms, most notably a race of humanoids called Nebulans or Nebulons. These beings have found themselves involved with the [[Transformers]] in several different dimensions within the multiverse and are usually responsible for or deeply involved in the [[Headmaster]], [[Targetmaster]], and [[Powermaster]] technologies.

The physical appearance of Nebulans varies greatly by continuity, as they originated in the toyline wearing robotic armor. As such, each continuity to feature the planet has had free rein to imagine what the inhabitants looked like underneath.

==Generation 1==

===Marvel Comics continuity===

Nebulans appear to be essentially identical to [[human|humans]] from Earth.

A planet of humanoids that had lived without war for thousands of years. A group of Autobots led by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] sought to relocate to Nebulos in order to escape their own millenia-old conflict on Cybertron, but their arrival created dissension and mistrust within the Nebulan community. The arrival of a group of [[Decepticon]]s led by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] soon afterward only escalated these tensions, and Nebulos' age of peace was lost as citizens binary-bonded to Transformers on both sides of the conflict to become [[Headmaster]]s and [[Targetmaster]]s.

Realizing the damage that was being done to Nebulos' once-peaceful culture, the Autobots abandoned the planet to join Transformers already on the planet [[Earth]], believing (correctly) that the Decepticons would pursue them off-Nebulos.

After this the citizens of Nebulos tainted their own energy sources so as to be poisonous to any Transformers that might seek to return to their world. When Decepticons [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] arrived soon after the departure of the other Transformers, they soon found themselves victim of this poisoning, and lay dormant for a time. They were later revived by Nebulan traitors [[Hi-Test]] and [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]], who had stolen power-conversion plans that eventually created the [[Powermaster]]s. Hi-Q, the creator of this process, eventually binary-bonded with a reborn [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], and several of his staff joined with other Autobots, in order to combat the threat posed by Darkwing and Dreadwind. They, too, eventually left Nebulos to join the other Transformers on Earth.

===American animated continuity===

Nebulons are extremely human-like aliens who possess green skin and dark green or white hair. Their facial features seem to tend towards a rather Native American cast. Some of the oldest of their ruling class, the [[Hive]], appear to have had cyborg alterations or even taken on fully robotic bodies. ''(The robotic Hive members look identical to [[Lithone|Lithonians]].)''

Nebulos was a world whose inhabitants were enslaved by the Hive, a group of eleven Nebulon telekinetics whose focus on development of their mental powers had caused their bodies to wither, led by [[Lord Zarak]]. The populace was mainly forced to do routine farm work, watched over by the machines which the Hive controlled telepathically.

Several Transformers crashed on Nebulos. A small band of Nebulon rebels, led by [[Gort]], captured the Autobots, believing them to be Hive machines. The Decepticons were captured by the Hive. Convincing the rebels that they are not Hive machines, the Autobots volunteered to help, offering up four of their own to serve as Headmasters, with Nebulon partners inside their heads to serve as secondary operators.

Zarak demanded his own Headmasters, but [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] only wished to offer up the Decepticon animals for this. The rest offered their weapons, which Zarak willingly accepted. The Autobots learned of this and adapted the new [[Targetmaster]] designs.

Zarak rebuilt a Hive facility into Scorponok, only to be countered by Fortress Maximus, an old Hive city converted into a Headmaster body by [[Spike Witwicky]] and [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]]. Defeated, the Hive and the Decepticons fled in Scorponok.

=== Dreamwave Comics continuity ===
No native Nebulan, sans *-master armor, is ever seen in the DW books, and the world itself only appears in the [[More Than Meets The Eye (Dreamwave)|''More Than Meets The Eye'' guidebook]] and one panel of the ''[[War Within]]'' comic. Dreamwave's Nebulon, like much of its continuity, is built from a fusion of previous iterations.

Some basics from the ''More Than Meets The Eye'' guide: Nebulon is the fourth world of its system. It has a dual set of rings circling it and multiple moons. It is inhabited by many wild organic lifeforms and the humanoid Nebulan species. The moons circling Nebulon contain their own civilizations. One of these is the Hive Moon, which is home to a green-skinned, somewhat insectoid off-shoot of the Nebulan race.

=== IDW Publishing continuity ===
Here Nebulans are a hairless, green OR redish-pink skinned humanoid race with pointy ears. Their eyes are black where a humans are white and feature large, perhaps light-reflective, yellow pupils. They have a bit of a vampiric look to human eyes.

The architecture of Nebulos strongly favors domes, rounded bulbous towers, and organic curves. Many of the buildings have a "cracked" ancient look to the outside and green moss-like growth can be seen in patches on their exteriors. The technology level appears significantly in advance of Earth.

Scorponok has had ties to Nebulos, having used businessman [[Zarak|Mo Zarak]]'s corporation as a front for his own operations: creating a fusion of Nebulan and Cybertronian technology that seems to be a precursor to the various *-master technologies. These operations were apparently foiled by the timely intervention of Ultra Magnus. Skorponok, however, escaped.

Later Nevulos was the site of operations for a Decepticon infitration team including [[Ruckus]], [[Darkwing]], [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], and [[Skullcruncher]] among others. It became the first target of the resurrected [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] and was at least partially, if not totally devastated by his attack. The post-Thunderwing status of the planet and its inhabitants remains unrevealed.

==Unicron Trilogy==
Following the conclusion of the [[Energon (franchise)|Energon War]], the [[Autobot]] [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] spent some time on the planet Nebulon. There he picked up a new accent from the locals, which to some [[human]] ears resembles that of Australians. Sort of.

Little else is known of this version of Nebulon, other than that its pea soup is notably thick.

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The Fallen

2007-01-29T21:39:27Z

71.235.137.236:

{{featured}}{{disambig2|the servant of Unicron|the first episode of ''Cybertron''|Fallen (episode)}}

: ''The Fallen is a Transformer in the [[Generation 1]] continuity family (and possibly in more).''

[[Image:Thefallen.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Y'know, it's funny, these people they go to sleep, they think everything's fine, everything's good, and wake up the next day and they're on fire!"]]

At the dawn of time, [[Primus]] created new life, the [[13 original Transformers]], to crew his planetary form into battle against his eternal nemesis [[Unicron]]. One of these 13, his original name now lost to the mists of time, turned against his siblings, his creator, and his universe, and betrayed them all.

As [[Vector Prime]] was constructed to safeguard Space/Time, this robot's function was to oversee the primal force of entropy, the aging and disolution of order in this universe as presage to a new creation. However, this guardian of entropy became obssessed with the darker side of chaos and death, and in the black place these urges lead him, the betrayer found a new god, more suited to his nature. He turned against Primus and became '''the Fallen'''.

Now he is a being of power, darkness, and absolute dedication to [[Unicron]]. At the end of the first battle between the two Gods, for his treachery, the Fallen was sealed into extradimensional limbo along with his new master.

He is also on fire.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====''The War Within: The Dark Ages''====

Approximately 7 million years ago, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] were lost in a [[space bridge]] accident. This accident weakened the barrier between reality and the dimension in which the Fallen was trapped, allowing the Fallen to eventually break free and return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He was intent on initiating "[[The Unbinding]]," which would break the [[Seal of Primus]] and herald the Second Coming of Unicron.

To accomplish this task, he recruited a trio of [[Decepticon]] outcasts, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Mindwipe]], and [[Bugly]], who hungered for a command of the occult, which the Fallen could grant. As per the Fallen's instructions, the recruits were to round up four Transformers with "unique [[Spark]]s," [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Blitzwing]], and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. When the recruits faltered, the Fallen stepped in, singlehandledly abducting Blitzwing from his well-guarded holding cell and besting the powerhouse Grimlock.

The four, dubbed enigmatically the "Angles of Dissolution," awakened strapped to a four-paneled apparatus deep within the core of Cybertron, the [[Well of All Sparks]]. Though a combined army of forces from several factions penetrated the Fallen's operation, his defeat came only when Primus was roused from his slumber and condemned his wayward creation to an explosive demise. {{storylink|The War Within: The Dark Ages}}

===Fun Publications ''Cybertron'' comic===
[[Image:Vectorprimeut.jpg|left|thumb|140px|Back, and to the left.]]
The silhouette of the Fallen is seen standing behind [[Vector Prime]], another of the first 13 Transformers.

''('''Note''': This, and comments by [[Hasbro]] copy-writer [[Forest Lee]] suggest that the Fallen, Vector Prime, and the other original 13 are singular entities across the multiverse. This is likely apocryphal until officially published, however.)''

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==Toys==
[[Image:Thefallentitanium.JPG|right|thumb|175px|Hey, Stegmutt! Mister The Fallen is ON FIRE!]]
===Titanium Series===
*'''Fallen''' (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, 2007)
[[Image:Thefallentoytank.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. That's, like, deep, or something.]]
: Was announced and on-display at [[BotCon 2006]]. Instead of being based on his comic appearance, he's loosely based on [[Don Figueroa]]'s design for pre-[[Earth]] [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] as seen in ''[[Infiltration]]'' and ''[[Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer]]'', though obviously with the Fallen's head and deco. He transforms into a Cybertronic tank.

: Not yet released.

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==Trivia==
[[Image:Fallenpatlee.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Raaagh, pudding!]]
*The Fallen was created by [[Pat Lee]], his first (and only) original Transformers character. The early design concept not only lacked the Fallen's characteristic mouthplate, but differed incredibly from the final product. Envisioned as a medieval, ancient-looking Transformer, he glowed like a furnace, though he was not depicted as being perpetually on fire until [[Andrew Wildman]] pencilled his appearances in ''[[The Dark Ages]]'' and the colorists caught on.

*When questioned about him constantly being aflame, War Within writer Simon Furman stated that the Fallen is always on fire "because it looks cool".

[[Image:Thefallentank.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The Judasmobile.]]
*The Fallen's [[altmode]], a tank, though designed, was never used in-fiction.

*Very little of the Fallen's backstory is given in his actual fictional appearances, leaving much of ''The Dark Ages'' somewhat confusing on its own. Helpful inserts from the ''More Than Meets the Eye'' profile books and DK's ''Transformers: The Ultimate Guide'', published around the same time, spelled out more. And the bio for his Titanium figure gave the rest.

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Transformation

2006-12-04T17:51:17Z

71.235.137.236:

'''Transformation''' is the process by which a Transformer alters his form between modes. It should not be confused with [[reformatting]] a type of full-body upgrade.

Maintaining a transformed state requires a constant output of energy. The 'base' state for a Transformer seems to vary- sometimes robot, sometimes vehicle or skirmish mode. Most Beast Warriors seem to have their beast mode as their base state.

Transformation is a mentally rigorous task, requiring the transformer to focus on reconfiguring all the elements of his body in a way he or she isn't used to thinking about.
In the [[Beast Era]], this difficult task was choreographed by an on board computer that reconfigured the transformers body for them. Post-reformatting, the new [[technorganic]] forms granted to Cybertron's inhabitants lacked on board computers, requiring them to re-learn the mental disciplines involved.

Try turning on your back and walking spider-style like that kid in ''The Poltergeist''. Not easy, is it?

== Special Cases ==

==="Quick-Changers"===

Some Transformers, specifically the Autobot [[Jumpstarters]] and the Decepticon [[Battle Chargers]], are specifically designed to transform much faster than your average transformer, usually taking less than half of an Earth second to switch from robot to alt-mode or vice versa. How much of this abillity is physical and how much mental is unknown.

==="Multi-Changers"===

Robots with multiple transformations (tripple changers, et al.) are a special case. Though there seems to be some aspect of natural aptitude at play in one's ability to master multiple forms, and of course the special physical construction granting those forms- the balance of the matter seems to be one of training. Most six-changers are said to have mastered their plethora of transformations through rigorous study.

==="Adaptable Alt. Form"===
Some groups of Transformers such as the [[Go-Bots (toyline)|Go-Bots]] use a process similar to reformatting to more radically alter their forms while transforming. This ability to start with one robot and alternate form tant transform easily to entirely different cariations without extensive mechanical work comes from unique metals in the Go-Bots' bodies, and does not apply to most Transformers.

The [[Action Master]] [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]] appears to possess something akin to this abillity however.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics===
[[Unicron]] was the first Transformer, fashioning his metal prison into a robotic semblance of his original form. [[Primus]], watching froma distance was all like- "Oh ''snap'', robots that turn into things? why didn't I think of that?"

===Animated continuity===

Transformation was an [[Autobot]] innovation, developed during their first war with the [[Decepticon]]s when it became apparent that they could not match their firepower and strength. The art of transformation allowed the Autobots to disguise their forms, thereby allowing for stealthy attacks on their enemies. This strategy met with great success, and the Decepticons were defeating, allowing the era of peacetime known as the Golden Age of Cybertron to settle in. The Decepticons subsequently adopted transformation technology themselves, coupled with robot-mode flight powers, and re-ignited the civil war.

The city Transformers [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and [[Trypticon]] are both specifically stated to possess devices know as [[transforming cog]]s that control their transformation processes, and are essential to allow them to transform at all. However, no other Transformers are ever noted to have these doo-dads in them, so it's not clear if all Transformers require them, or if Metroplex and Trypticon are a special case, perhaps because of their size.

Transformation is not a trait limited to Cybertronians. The Quintessons later [[Overcharge|accquired the technology]], presumably using it to create [[Sharkticon]]s, while creatures as far afield as the [[lipoles]] of [[Io]] displayed the ability.

''('''Note:''' It was originally intended for the [[Lithone]]s to be able to transform as well, but this idea was nixed. Whether or not this would indicate that the Lithones are, like the [[Junkion]]s and [[Paradron]]ians, former Cybertronians is unclear.)''

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Pretender

2006-10-23T13:32:11Z

71.235.137.236: m Sorry, more format tweeking

''"'''Pretenders''' hide the Transformers inside."''

Disguise has always been a key component of Transformer operations on other worlds. Pretenders attempt to take this concept to the next level. Pretenders are Transformers fitted with special external armor shells that can disguise their very nature as robots. Rather than hiding themselves as the machinery or vehicles of a world, Pretender Shells can alow a robot to take on the appearance of a native lifeform itself.

On top of their exploration and infiltration uses the shells can also function as powerful battle armor, aid in self-repair, and even function independently of their robot as a second combatant mentally controled by their "wearer." The major drawback of the technology is that the core robot will feel whatever pain is inflicted on the shell, sometimes even more strongly than pain inflicted on the robot itself.

The most common style of Pretender is an inner robot with a single humanoid shell (usually resembling a monster for [[Decepticon]]s or a [[human]] in battle armor for [[Autobot]]s).

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics===

''(The disguise aspect of Pretender shells emphasized by the toy promotion was established in the comic book, but as the Pretenders in this continuity remained giant-sized in these shells they were odd and rather dubious disguises at best and only really functioned well in that aspect in one story involving [[Femax]]. When [[Simon Furman]] took over the book he instead emphasized the shell's capabilities as advanced super power-boosting armor.)''

Pretender technology was created by [[Lord Zarek]] to help his troups operate semi-annonymously on an Earth that had become (partially due to his influence with the [[Z Corperation]]) openly and publically hostile towards giant alien robots. The idea was that giant organic-looking alien monsters would somehow attract less attention.

This technology was stolen by [[Optimus Prime]] (at the time reduced to a computerized personality) and replicated by the Autobots. The Autobots fasioned their shells after the humans, with the stated rationalization that the Decepticons were rather unobservant and wouldn't notice that these humans were many stories tall.

===Masterforce cartoon===

Autobot Pretenders were stationed on Earth long ago in human disguises. (''Unlike other continuities, the disguised Autobots did shrink to human-sized in the Japanese continuity, and could make their armor disapear to become indistinguishable from ordinary humans. Nice someone worked that out.)''

===IDW comics===

In it's most gruesome variation Pretender technology here was the invention of the Decepticon [[Thunderwing]], and used living robotic tissue painfully culled from live (quite possibly unwilling) subjects to create a powerful symbiotic, living carapace. The goal of this technology was to allow Transformers to survive an impending environmental collapse on their home planet Cybertron. Even [[Megatron]] rejected the concept as unnatural and repulsive. Both cases where the technology was implimented ended in disaster as the melding of the robots mind with the shell was improperly alliened or hastily executed. Subjet one, Thunderwing, became unfathomably powerful but totally insane and destructive. Subject two, [[Bludgeon]], tried to rush the process and ended up comatose inside his new shell. It is unknown if reserch will continue further (but it seems rather unlikely given the moral issues and planetary-level threat posed by Thunderwing).

==Known Pretender Types==

'''Pretenders'''
: (The default. Single robot with a single humanoid shell.)

*Bludgeon
*Bomb-Burst
*Bugly
*Bumblebee
*Cloudburst
*Doubleheader
*Finback
*Grand Maximus
*Grimlock
*Groundbreaker
*Iguanus
*Jazz
*Landmine (G1)
*Longtooth
*Metalhawk
*Octopunch
*Pincher
*Skullgrin
*Sky High
*Splashdown
*Starscream
*Stranglehold
*Submarauder
*Waverider

'''Pretender Beasts'''
: (Pretenders with quadropedal Earth animal-based shells.)

*Carnivac
*Catilla
*Chainclaw
*Snarler

'''Pretender Vehicles'''
: (Pretenders whose shells are vehicles that transform into combat decks for their inner robots.)

*Gunnrunner
*Roadgrabber

'''Mega Pretenders'''
: (Both the inner robot and the humanoid shell transform and can combine their alternate modes into a larger vehicle.)

*Crossblades
*Thunderwing
*Vroom

'''Ultra Pretenders'''
: (The ultimate. Double Pretenders whose outermost shell is a large vehicle. This contains another secondary humanoid Pretender shell that is itself able to transform into a vehicle, and that can be piloted by its inner robot. ''Both suffer from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]''}

*Roadblock
*Skyhammer

'''Pretender Monsters'''
: (Smaller pretenders with super-deformed rubbery monster shells. Their inner robots can combine to form [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]].)

'''Crossformers'''
: (SPACE MAFIA!! Japanese counterpart to the US Mega Pretenders, the shells were remolded to be less organic.)

*Black Shadow
*Blue Baccus

'''Dinoforce'''
: (Can combine to form [[Dinoking (G1)|Dinoking]])

'''Double Pretenders (unproduced)'''
: (Prototypes for "Double Pretenders," two small robots in one shell, that splits into top and bottom at the waist, were designed but never put in production.)

*unnamed Spider-monster duo.

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Pretender

2006-10-23T13:28:00Z

71.235.137.236: m formatting

''"'''Pretenders''' hide the Transformers inside."''

Disguise has always been a key component of Transformer operations on other worlds. Pretenders attempt to take this concept to the next level. Pretenders are Transformers fitted with special external armor shells that can disguise their very nature as robots. Rather than hiding themselves as the machinery or vehicles of a world, Pretender Shells can alow a robot to take on the appearance of a native lifeform itself.

On top of their exploration and infiltration uses the shells can also function as powerful battle armor, aid in self-repair, and even function independently of their robot as a second combatant mentally controled by their "wearer." The major drawback of the technology is that the core robot will feel whatever pain is inflicted on the shell, sometimes even more strongly than pain inflicted on the robot itself.

The most common style of Pretender is an inner robot with a single humanoid shell (usually resembling a monster for [[Decepticon]]s or a [[human]] in battle armor for [[Autobot]]s).

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics===

''(The disguise aspect of Pretender shells emphasized by the toy promotion was established in the comic book, but as the Pretenders in this continuity remained giant-sized in these shells they were odd and rather dubious disguises at best and only really functioned well in that aspect in one story involving [[Femax]]. When [[Simon Furman]] took over the book he instead emphasized the shell's capabilities as advanced super power-boosting armor.)''

Pretender technology was created by [[Lord Zarek]] to help his troups operate semi-annonymously on an Earth that had become (partially due to his influence with the [[Z Corperation]]) openly and publically hostile towards giant alien robots. The idea was that giant organic-looking alien monsters would somehow attract less attention.

This technology was stolen by [[Optimus Prime]] (at the time reduced to a computerized personality) and replicated by the Autobots. The Autobots fasioned their shells after the humans, with the stated rationalization that the Decepticons were rather unobservant and wouldn't notice that these humans were many stories tall.

===Masterforce cartoon===

Autobot Pretenders were stationed on Earth long ago in human disguises. (''Unlike other continuities, the disguised Autobots did shrink to human-sized in the Japanese continuity, and could make their armor disapear to become indistinguishable from ordinary humans. Nice someone worked that out.)''

===IDW comics===

In it's most gruesome variation Pretender technology here was the invention of the Decepticon [[Thunderwing]], and used living robotic tissue painfully culled from live (quite possibly unwilling) subjects to create a powerful symbiotic, living carapace. The goal of this technology was to allow Transformers to survive an impending environmental collapse on their home planet Cybertron. Even [[Megatron]] rejected the concept as unnatural and repulsive. Both cases where the technology was implimented ended in disaster as the melding of the robots mind with the shell was improperly alliened or hastily executed. Subjet one, Thunderwing, became unfathomably powerful but totally insane and destructive. Subject two, [[Bludgeon]], tried to rush the process and ended up comatose inside his new shell. It is unknown if reserch will continue further (but it seems rather unlikely given the moral issues and planetary-level threat posed by Thunderwing).

==Known Pretender Types==

*'''Pretenders'''
: The default. Single robot with a single humanoid shell.

*Bludgeon
*Bomb-Burst
*Bugly
*Bumblebee
*Cloudburst
*Doubleheader
*Finback
*Grand Maximus
*Grimlock
*Groundbreaker
*Iguanus
*Jazz
*Landmine (G1)
*Longtooth
*Metalhawk
*Octopunch
*Pincher
*Skullgrin
*Sky High
*Splashdown
*Starscream
*Stranglehold
*Submarauder
*Waverider

*'''Pretender Beasts'''
:Pretenders with quadropedal Earth animal-based shells.

*Carnivac
*Catilla
*Chainclaw
*Snarler

*'''Pretender Vehicles'''
:Pretenders whose shells are vehicles that transform into combat decks for their inner robots.

*Gunnrunner
*Roadgrabber

*'''Mega Pretenders'''
:Both the inner robot and the humanoid shell transform and can combine their alternate modes into a larger vehicle.

*Crossblades
*Thunderwing
*Vroom

*'''Ultra Pretenders'''
: The ultimate. Double Pretenders whose outermost shell is a large vehicle. This contains another secondary humanoid Pretender shell that is itself able to transform into a vehicle, and that can be piloted by its inner robot. ''Both suffer from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]''

*Roadblock
*Skyhammer

*'''Pretender Monsters'''
:Smaller pretenders with super-deformed rubbery monster shells. Their inner robots can combine to form [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]].

*'''Crossformers'''
:SPACE MAFIA!!
*Japanese counterpart to the US Mega Pretenders, the shells were remolded to be less organic.

*Black Shadow
*Blue Baccus

*'''Dinoforce'''
:Can combine to form [[Dinoking (G1)|Dinoking]]

*''Double Pretenders (unproduced)
*:Prototypes for "Double Pretenders," two small robots in one shell (that split into top and bottom at the waist) were designed by Hasbro but never put in production.

*unnamed Spider-monster duo.

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Gold Plastic Syndrome

2006-10-23T13:24:59Z

71.235.137.236: Known Victims

A term coined by the fandom, '''Gold Plastic Syndrome''' (commonly shorthanded to '''GPS''') is used to describe the phenomenon of a toy's plastic decomposing and becoming brittle to the point of shattering or crumbling under minimal-stress conditions. This is different from the relatively more common stress-fracture type of plastic breakage that can occur in some Transformers toys. All noted instances of GPS have occured in hard, glossy gold-colored plastics that appear to have a "swirl" to their coloraton.

GPS is notably widespread among toys made in the tail-end of [[Generation 1]], typically the second year of [[Pretender]]s and even some European-market exclusives, but examples have surfaced from lines as recent as ''[[Generation 2]]'' and the ''[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' series. Transformers toys are not the only ones to suffer from this; there have been reports of G.I. Joe and Visionaries toys' gold plastics also crumbling seemingly of their own accord.

==The Cause of GPS==
==GPS Misconceptions==
The most common misconception about GPS is that ''all'' gold-colored plastic can suffer from this rot. Only certain plastic grades (described above) have been noted to be susceptible to GPS crumbling; in the past few years, more durable, pliable plastics have become the norm for toy construction, so the gold plastic on more recent toys like [[Cannonball (UT)|Cannonball]] are highly unlikely to have the flaw.

Also, not every type of plastic breakage is the kind caused by GPS. In most instances of broken toys, visible stress marks appear long before any breakage in the form of discoloration (since these plastics havea bit more "give" to them), and are typically very clean "snaps" due to excess pressure. GPS breakages seemingly come from simple decomposition of the plastic without any form of excess force at all, and the breaks tend to leave shards of plastic and dust.

==Known Victims==

Black Zarek
Roadblock
Skyhammer
Slingshot (G2)

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Pretender

2006-10-23T13:21:39Z

71.235.137.236: expanded a lot. added fiction section

''"'''Pretenders''' hide the Transformers inside."''

Disguise has always been a key component of Transformer operations on other worlds. Pretenders attempt to take this concept to the next level. Pretenders are Transformers fitted with special external armor shells that can disguise their very nature as robots. Rather than hiding themselves as the machinery or vehicles of a world, Pretender Shells can alow a robot to take on the appearance of a native lifeform itself.

On top of their exploration and infiltration uses the shells can also function as powerful battle armor, aid in self-repair, and even function independently of their robot as a second combatant mentally controled by their "wearer." The major drawback of the technology is that the core robot will feel whatever pain is inflicted on the shell, sometimes even more strongly than pain inflicted on the robot itself.

The most common style of Pretender is an inner robot with a single humanoid shell (usually resembling a monster for [[Decepticon]]s or a [[human]] in battle armor for [[Autobot]]s).

==Fiction==

===Marvel Comics===

''(The disguise aspect of Pretender shells emphasized by the toy promotion was established in the comic book, but as the Pretenders in this continuity remained giant-sized in these shells they were odd and rather dubious disguises at best and only ever really functioned well in that aspect in one story involving [[Femax]]. When [[Simon Furman]] took over the book he instead emphasized the shell's capabilities as advanced super power-boosting armor.)''

Pretender technology was created by [[Lord Zarek]] to help his troups operate semi-annonymously on an Earth that had become (partially due to his influence with the [[Z Corperation]]) openly and publically hostile towards giant alien robots. The idea was that giant organic-looking alien monsters would somehow attract less attention.

This technology was stolen by [[Optimus Prime]] (at the time reduced to a computerized personality) and replicated by the Autobots. The Autobots fasioned their shells after the humans, with the stated rationalization that the Decepticons were rather unobservant and wouldn't notice that these humans were many stories tall.

===Masterforce cartoon===

Autobot Pretenders were stationed on Earth long ago in human disguises. (''Unlike other continuities, the disguised Autobots did shrink to human-sized in the Japanese continuity, and could make their armor disapear to become indistinguishable from ordinary humans. Nice someone worked that out.)''

===IDW comics===

In it's most gruesome variation Pretender technology here was the invention of the Decepticon [[Thunderwing]], and used living robotic tissue painfully culled from live (quite possibly unwilling) subjects to create a powerful symbiotic, living carapace. The goal of this technology was to allow Transformers to survive an impending environmental collapse on their home planet Cybertron. Even [[Megatron]] rejected the concept as unnatural and repulsive. Both cases where the technology was implimented ended in disaster as the melding of the robots mind with the shell was improperly alliened or hastily executed. Subjet one, Thunderwing, became unfathomably powerful but totally insane and destructive. Subject two, [[Bludgeon]], tried to rush the process and ended up comatose inside his new shell. It is unknown if reserch will continue further (but it seems rather unlikely given the moral issues and planetary-level threat posed by Thunderwing).

==Known Pretender Types==

*'''Pretenders'''
: The default. Single robot with a single humanoid shell.

Bludgeon
Bomb-Burst
Bugly
Bumblebee
Cloudburst
Doubleheader
Finback
Grand Maximus
Grimlock
Groundbreaker
Iguanus
Jazz
Landmine (G1)
Longtooth
Metalhawk
Octopunch
Pincher
Skullgrin
Sky High
Splashdown
Starscream
Stranglehold
Submarauder
Waverider

*'''Pretender Beasts'''
:Pretenders with quadropedal Earth animal-based shells.

Carnivac
Catilla
Chainclaw
Snarler

*'''Pretender Vehicles'''
:Pretenders whose shells are vehicles that transform into combat decks for their inner robots.

Gunnrunner
Roadgrabber

*'''Mega Pretenders'''
:Both the inner robot and the humanoid shell transform and can combine their alternate modes into a larger vehicle.

Crossblades
Thunderwing
Vroom

*'''Ultra Pretenders'''
: The ultimate. Double Pretenders whose outermost shell is a large vehicle. This contains another secondary humanoid Pretender shell that is itself able to transform into a vehicle, and that can be piloted by its inner robot. ''Both suffer from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]''

Roadblock
Skyhammer

*'''Pretender Monsters'''
:Smaller pretenders with super-deformed rubbery monster shells. Their inner robots can combine to form [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]].

*'''Crossformers'''
:SPACE MAFIA!!
*Japanese counterpart to the US Mega Pretenders, the shells were remolded to be less organic.

Black Shadow
Blue Baccus

*'''Dinoforce'''
:Can combine to form [[Dinoking (G1)|Dinoking]]

*''Double Pretenders (unproduced)
*:Prototypes for "Double Pretenders," two small robots in one shell (that split into top and bottom at the waist) were designed by Hasbro but never put in production.

unnamed Spider-monster duo.

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