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Trypticon (WFC)

2012-04-19T01:41:55Z

71.255.163.179: /* Prime cartoon */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Trypticon}}
{{disambig3|Nemesis}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from 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?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral sciencific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his current alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{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==
===Aligned novels===
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}}

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|Exiles}}
{{charstubfiction}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{Note|The ''Nemesis'' was first named by the Autobots in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]". Beforehand, it was referred to as "the Decepticon warship".}}
[[Image:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|right|thumb|400px|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]
When [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] followed strange energy readings, he found the ''Nemesis'' hovering over a crater filled with [[Energon]]. The ship fired on him before disgorging [[Vehicon (Prime)|Decepticon drones]] who cleaned his clock. He was dragged back to the ship where [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] dispatched him. The ship sailed off before the rest of the [[Autobot]]s could reach the location. Starscream used the ship's equipment to open the [[space bridge]], allowing [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s return. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Once Megatron had come on board with the chunk of [[Dark Energon]] he'd found, they flew the ship to the main Decepticon Energon mine. There it stayed until the Autobots attacked the mine in search of Cliffjumper, and Megatron ordered the mine destroyed. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[Image:DarknessRising3-Nemesis.jpg|left|thumb|300px|It's quite large.]]
Megatron's use of the Dark Energon on himself set the Decepticon leader on a new path, and he temporarily left control of the ship in Starscream's hands. After [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] intercepted a communication from [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], Starscream had the human kidnapped, and parked the ''Nemesis'' in a canyon while he interrogated Fowler. The ship was attacked by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. While fighting the Decepticons stationed on top of the ''Nemesis'', he ripped the ship's main dish off and used to demolish some of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} He, [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] invaded the ship, along with their three humans companions. While the three kids were left in a side room, the Autobots headed to the ship's brig, where they were able to rescue Fowler. When Megatron returned to the ship and found the damage, he was very upset. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[Image:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]]

With the ship damaged and unable to set the space bridge's target, Starscream put an alternate plan involving Soundwave into motion. The ''Nemesis'' was moved to near the space bridge, thought the Autobots reached it by [[GroundBridge]] first. Though the Autobots and their allies fought bravely, the space bridge was successfully opened. Standing on the hull of the ''Nemesis'', Megatron hurled his Dark Energon chunk through the bridge and turned [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s dead into [[zombie]]s. Starscream moved the ship away from the space bridge as it became apparent that the Autobots were up to something, and the ''Nemesis'' was clear of the subsequent explosion. The same could not be said for Megatron. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Starscream's attempt at speechifying to the ''Nemesis'' crew met with an unenthusiastic reception, so he sought satisfaction elsewhere. After Megatron was recovered from the site of the space bridge's destruction, Starscream reluctantly returned him to the ship and placed him in stasis in the sick bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

The Decepticons captured [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and put him in the ship's brig while they sent [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] to the Autobots in his place. While they were waiting on the ship's upper hull for Makeshift to activate the GroundBridge, Wheeljack broke free and scaled the outside of the ship to attack them. Makeshift exploded on top of the ship shortly after returning, though it's unclear how much damage the ship sustained. {{storylink|Con Job}}

The ship's electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], leaving a trail [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] was able to locate it with. When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] was infected with [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged to the ship to locate the cure. Discovering Megatron's body, Bumblebee entered his mind via [[cortical psychic patch]] to find it. Meanwhile, Starscream and [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attempted to convinced Soundwave to euthanize Megatron. When they discovered the cortical patch, Bumblebee had retrieved the cure and the Autobots escaped, but not before Arcee fired at Megatron. Though his mind was now blank, Soundwave insisted they keep their leader on life support. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[Image:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Romulans!]]
Starscream's new plan involved mounting a heat ray on the top of the ship so that they could melt a glacier in the [[Arctic]] so they could get to a huge energon deposit. Unfortunately the Autobots turned up and Optimus attacked the heat ray, causing it to explode. The top of the ship was still blazing away minutes later as it departed. Meanwhile Bumblebee, possessed by Megatron's spark, GroundBridged onto the ship and resurrected Megatron. Neither of the outcomes was favorable for Starscream. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Megatron put Starscream in the infirmary, but Starscream decided to use the chunk of Dark Energon he still had hidden to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. When he ran into Autobots, he was forced to use the Decepticon GroundBridge to return to the ship, minus his right arm. Knock Out fetched a new arm from storage, but Starscream, believing Skyquake to have risen, again left the ship... and got into trouble and had to GroundBridge back. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

The ship was cruising through the clouds at speed when news came in that Breakdown had been kidnapped by [[MECH]]. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Some time after Breakdown's "escape", Megatron sent him out to secure a [[polarity gauntlet]], but instead the 'Con returned to the ship with [[Airachnid]], who was suddenly keen to rejoin the Decepticon cause. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Airachnid and Starscream were sent out to check the wreck of the ''[[Harbinger]]'' for a [[Immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]], and Airachnid came back without either her partner or the weapon. {{storylink|Partners}} At some point the Decepticons took the ''Nemesis'' out of the atmosphere and into orbit. Knock Out and Breakdown brought a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] back to the ship, only to find it was empty. They were able to use the ship's sensors to detect the missing data on Earth, but proved fruitless in actually retrieving it. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

The ship returned to Earth's atmosphere as the Decepticons looked for components for their new space bridge. They located an adequate power source in a human military installation, but when the Autobots tried to stop the Vehicons from taking it, the 'Cons brought the ''Nemesis'' itself to the battlefield so Megatron could pick up the power source personally. Optimus and Bulkhead managed to get on board the ship and steal the power source back. Prime began a rampage through the ship, looking to take revenge on Megatron for injuring [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]]. Megatron had Soundwave GroundBridge Optimus off the ship to the volcano he'd found. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

It handily turned out that the volcano was spewing Dark Energon, so Megatron had the ship park nearby while the [[Decepticon Miner|miners]] gathered the stuff up and filled the ship's hold with it. Megatron subsequently left the ship under Airachnid's command while he went to have to a chat with [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Airachnid took the ship into orbit to wait, though she was of the opinion that Megatron probably wasn't coming back. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Soundwave disagreed and took control of the ship until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}}

Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{-}}

===''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|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{--}}

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}
{{comingsoon}}

==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.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (报应号, "''Retribution''")

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Trypticon (WFC)

2012-04-19T01:37:25Z

71.255.163.179: /* Prime cartoon */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Trypticon}}
{{disambig3|Nemesis}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from 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?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral sciencific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his current alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{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==
===Aligned novels===
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}}

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|Exiles}}
{{charstubfiction}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Image:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|right|thumb|400px|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]
When [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] followed strange energy readings, he found the ''Nemesis'' hovering over a crater filled with [[Energon]]. The ship fired on him before disgorging [[Vehicon (Prime)|Decepticon drones]] who cleaned his clock. He was dragged back to the ship where [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] dispatched him. The ship sailed off before the rest of the [[Autobot]]s could reach the location. Starscream used the ship's equipment to open the [[space bridge]], allowing [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s return. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Once Megatron had come on board with the chunk of [[Dark Energon]] he'd found, they flew the ship to the main Decepticon Energon mine. There it stayed until the Autobots attacked the mine in search of Cliffjumper, and Megatron ordered the mine destroyed. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[Image:DarknessRising3-Nemesis.jpg|left|thumb|300px|It's quite large.]]
Megatron's use of the Dark Energon on himself set the Decepticon leader on a new path, and he temporarily left control of the ship in Starscream's hands. After [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] intercepted a communication from [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], Starscream had the human kidnapped, and parked the ''Nemesis'' in a canyon while he interrogated Fowler. The ship was attacked by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. While fighting the Decepticons stationed on top of the ''Nemesis'', he ripped the ship's main dish off and used to demolish some of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} He, [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] invaded the ship, along with their three humans companions. While the three kids were left in a side room, the Autobots headed to the ship's brig, where they were able to rescue Fowler. When Megatron returned to the ship and found the damage, he was very upset. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[Image:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]]

With the ship damaged and unable to set the space bridge's target, Starscream put an alternate plan involving Soundwave into motion. The ''Nemesis'' was moved to near the space bridge, thought the Autobots reached it by [[GroundBridge]] first. Though the Autobots and their allies fought bravely, the space bridge was successfully opened. Standing on the hull of the ''Nemesis'', Megatron hurled his Dark Energon chunk through the bridge and turned [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s dead into [[zombie]]s. Starscream moved the ship away from the space bridge as it became apparent that the Autobots were up to something, and the ''Nemesis'' was clear of the subsequent explosion. The same could not be said for Megatron. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Starscream's attempt at speechifying to the ''Nemesis'' crew met with an unenthusiastic reception, so he sought satisfaction elsewhere. After Megatron was recovered from the site of the space bridge's destruction, Starscream reluctantly returned him to the ship and placed him in stasis in the sick bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

The Decepticons captured [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and put him in the ship's brig while they sent [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] to the Autobots in his place. While they were waiting on the ship's upper hull for Makeshift to activate the GroundBridge, Wheeljack broke free and scaled the outside of the ship to attack them. Makeshift exploded on top of the ship shortly after returning, though it's unclear how much damage the ship sustained. {{storylink|Con Job}}

The ship's electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], leaving a trail [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] was able to locate it with. When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] was infected with [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged to the ship to locate the cure. Discovering Megatron's body, Bumblebee entered his mind via [[cortical psychic patch]] to find it. Meanwhile, Starscream and [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attempted to convinced Soundwave to euthanize Megatron. When they discovered the cortical patch, Bumblebee had retrieved the cure and the Autobots escaped, but not before Arcee fired at Megatron. Though his mind was now blank, Soundwave insisted they keep their leader on life support. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[Image:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Romulans!]]
Starscream's new plan involved mounting a heat ray on the top of the ship so that they could melt a glacier in the [[Arctic]] so they could get to a huge energon deposit. Unfortunately the Autobots turned up and Optimus attacked the heat ray, causing it to explode. The top of the ship was still blazing away minutes later as it departed. Meanwhile Bumblebee, possessed by Megatron's spark, GroundBridged onto the ship and resurrected Megatron. Neither of the outcomes was favorable for Starscream. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Megatron put Starscream in the infirmary, but Starscream decided to use the chunk of Dark Energon he still had hidden to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. When he ran into Autobots, he was forced to use the Decepticon GroundBridge to return to the ship, minus his right arm. Knock Out fetched a new arm from storage, but Starscream, believing Skyquake to have risen, again left the ship... and got into trouble and had to GroundBridge back. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

The ship was cruising through the clouds at speed when news came in that Breakdown had been kidnapped by [[MECH]]. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Some time after Breakdown's "escape", Megatron sent him out to secure a [[polarity gauntlet]], but instead the 'Con returned to the ship with [[Airachnid]], who was suddenly keen to rejoin the Decepticon cause. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Airachnid and Starscream were sent out to check the wreck of the ''[[Harbinger]]'' for a [[Immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]], and Airachnid came back without either her partner or the weapon. {{storylink|Partners}} At some point the Decepticons took the ''Nemesis'' out of the atmosphere and into orbit. Knock Out and Breakdown brought a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] back to the ship, only to find it was empty. They were able to use the ship's sensors to detect the missing data on Earth, but proved fruitless in actually retrieving it. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

The ship returned to Earth's atmosphere as the Decepticons looked for components for their new space bridge. They located an adequate power source in a human military installation, but when the Autobots tried to stop the Vehicons from taking it, the 'Cons brought the ''Nemesis'' itself to the battlefield so Megatron could pick up the power source personally. Optimus and Bulkhead managed to get on board the ship and steal the power source back. Prime began a rampage through the ship, looking to take revenge on Megatron for injuring [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]]. Megatron had Soundwave GroundBridge Optimus off the ship to the volcano he'd found. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

It handily turned out that the volcano was spewing Dark Energon, so Megatron had the ship park nearby while the [[Decepticon Miner|miners]] gathered the stuff up and filled the ship's hold with it. Megatron subsequently left the ship under Airachnid's command while he went to have to a chat with [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Airachnid took the ship into orbit to wait, though she was of the opinion that Megatron probably wasn't coming back. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Soundwave disagreed and took control of the ship until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}}

Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{-}}

===''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|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{--}}

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}
{{comingsoon}}

==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.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (报应号, "''Retribution''")

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Trypticon (WFC)

2012-04-19T01:36:27Z

71.255.163.179: /* Prime cartoon */

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:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from 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?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral sciencific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his current alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{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==
===Aligned novels===
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}}

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|Exiles}}
{{charstubfiction}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Image:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|right|thumb|400px|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]

[[Image:DarknessRising3-Nemesis.jpg|left|thumb|300px|It's quite large.]]
When [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] followed strange energy readings, he found the ''Nemesis'' hovering over a crater filled with [[Energon]]. The ship fired on him before disgorging [[Vehicon (Prime)|Decepticon drones]] who cleaned his clock. He was dragged back to the ship where [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] dispatched him. The ship sailed off before the rest of the [[Autobot]]s could reach the location. Starscream used the ship's equipment to open the [[space bridge]], allowing [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s return. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Once Megatron had come on board with the chunk of [[Dark Energon]] he'd found, they flew the ship to the main Decepticon Energon mine. There it stayed until the Autobots attacked the mine in search of Cliffjumper, and Megatron ordered the mine destroyed. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

Megatron's use of the Dark Energon on himself set the Decepticon leader on a new path, and he temporarily left control of the ship in Starscream's hands. After [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] intercepted a communication from [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], Starscream had the human kidnapped, and parked the ''Nemesis'' in a canyon while he interrogated Fowler. The ship was attacked by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. While fighting the Decepticons stationed on top of the ''Nemesis'', he ripped the ship's main dish off and used to demolish some of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} He, [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] invaded the ship, along with their three humans companions. While the three kids were left in a side room, the Autobots headed to the ship's brig, where they were able to rescue Fowler. When Megatron returned to the ship and found the damage, he was very upset. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[Image:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]]

With the ship damaged and unable to set the space bridge's target, Starscream put an alternate plan involving Soundwave into motion. The ''Nemesis'' was moved to near the space bridge, thought the Autobots reached it by [[GroundBridge]] first. Though the Autobots and their allies fought bravely, the space bridge was successfully opened. Standing on the hull of the ''Nemesis'', Megatron hurled his Dark Energon chunk through the bridge and turned [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s dead into [[zombie]]s. Starscream moved the ship away from the space bridge as it became apparent that the Autobots were up to something, and the ''Nemesis'' was clear of the subsequent explosion. The same could not be said for Megatron. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Starscream's attempt at speechifying to the ''Nemesis'' crew met with an unenthusiastic reception, so he sought satisfaction elsewhere. After Megatron was recovered from the site of the space bridge's destruction, Starscream reluctantly returned him to the ship and placed him in stasis in the sick bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

The Decepticons captured [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and put him in the ship's brig while they sent [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] to the Autobots in his place. While they were waiting on the ship's upper hull for Makeshift to activate the GroundBridge, Wheeljack broke free and scaled the outside of the ship to attack them. Makeshift exploded on top of the ship shortly after returning, though it's unclear how much damage the ship sustained. {{storylink|Con Job}}

The ship's electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], leaving a trail [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] was able to locate it with. When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] was infected with [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged to the ship to locate the cure. Discovering Megatron's body, Bumblebee entered his mind via [[cortical psychic patch]] to find it. Meanwhile, Starscream and [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attempted to convinced Soundwave to euthanize Megatron. When they discovered the cortical patch, Bumblebee had retrieved the cure and the Autobots escaped, but not before Arcee fired at Megatron. Though his mind was now blank, Soundwave insisted they keep their leader on life support. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[Image:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Romulans!]]
Starscream's new plan involved mounting a heat ray on the top of the ship so that they could melt a glacier in the [[Arctic]] so they could get to a huge energon deposit. Unfortunately the Autobots turned up and Optimus attacked the heat ray, causing it to explode. The top of the ship was still blazing away minutes later as it departed. Meanwhile Bumblebee, possessed by Megatron's spark, GroundBridged onto the ship and resurrected Megatron. Neither of the outcomes was favorable for Starscream. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Megatron put Starscream in the infirmary, but Starscream decided to use the chunk of Dark Energon he still had hidden to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. When he ran into Autobots, he was forced to use the Decepticon GroundBridge to return to the ship, minus his right arm. Knock Out fetched a new arm from storage, but Starscream, believing Skyquake to have risen, again left the ship... and got into trouble and had to GroundBridge back. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

The ship was cruising through the clouds at speed when news came in that Breakdown had been kidnapped by [[MECH]]. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Some time after Breakdown's "escape", Megatron sent him out to secure a [[polarity gauntlet]], but instead the 'Con returned to the ship with [[Airachnid]], who was suddenly keen to rejoin the Decepticon cause. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Airachnid and Starscream were sent out to check the wreck of the ''[[Harbinger]]'' for a [[Immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]], and Airachnid came back without either her partner or the weapon. {{storylink|Partners}} At some point the Decepticons took the ''Nemesis'' out of the atmosphere and into orbit. Knock Out and Breakdown brought a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] back to the ship, only to find it was empty. They were able to use the ship's sensors to detect the missing data on Earth, but proved fruitless in actually retrieving it. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

The ship returned to Earth's atmosphere as the Decepticons looked for components for their new space bridge. They located an adequate power source in a human military installation, but when the Autobots tried to stop the Vehicons from taking it, the 'Cons brought the ''Nemesis'' itself to the battlefield so Megatron could pick up the power source personally. Optimus and Bulkhead managed to get on board the ship and steal the power source back. Prime began a rampage through the ship, looking to take revenge on Megatron for injuring [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]]. Megatron had Soundwave GroundBridge Optimus off the ship to the volcano he'd found. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

It handily turned out that the volcano was spewing Dark Energon, so Megatron had the ship park nearby while the [[Decepticon Miner|miners]] gathered the stuff up and filled the ship's hold with it. Megatron subsequently left the ship under Airachnid's command while he went to have to a chat with [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Airachnid took the ship into orbit to wait, though she was of the opinion that Megatron probably wasn't coming back. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Soundwave disagreed and took control of the ship until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}}

Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{-}}

===''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|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''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)|War for Cybertron}}
{{--}}

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}
{{comingsoon}}

==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.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (报应号, "''Retribution''")

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2012-04-19T01:33:39Z

71.255.163.179:

I found a different description for the episode that is pretty much the same except it says the Nemesis becomes sentient. Shouldn't the description be changed on here?

When they say the ''[[Nemesis (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' "becomes sentient", do they mean [[Trypticon (WFC)|this guy]] is going to appear in the show?[[Special:Contributions/71.255.163.179|71.255.163.179]] 21:33, 18 April 2012 (EDT)