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Dead Prime

2012-10-09T01:51:20Z

71.255.171.230: /* Prime' cartoon */

{{noname-nickname}}
:''Dead Prime was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] went to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for a means of activating the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. They came across the dead Prime's tomb. Megatron and proceeded to cut off one of his arms. Megatron had [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] graft the arm to himself. Megatron then used the forge to turn a chunk of [[Dark Energon]] into the [[Dark Star Saber]] which he used to smash the [[Star Saber]] to pieces. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

==Notes==
* He might actually be [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|this guy]], but were not so sure.

[[Category:Prime Autobots]]

Dead Prime

2012-10-08T01:49:28Z

71.255.171.230:

{{noname-nickname}}
:''Dead Prime was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead.

==Fiction==
===''Prime' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] went to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for a means of activating the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. They come across Dead Prime's tomb. Megatron then proceeds to cut off one of his arms. Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attach it to him. Megatron then uses the forge to turn a chunk of [[Dark Energon]] into the [[Dark Star Saber]] and uses it to smash the [[Star Saber]] to pieces.{{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

==Notes==
* He might actually be [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|this guy]], but were not so sure.

[[Category:Prime Autobots]]

Dead Prime

2012-10-08T01:48:40Z

71.255.171.230:

{{noname-nickname}}
:''Dead Prime was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]] portion of the [[Alighed continuity family]].''
Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead.

==Fiction==
===''Prime' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] went to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for a means of activating the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. They come across Dead Prime's tomb. Megatron then proceeds to cut off one of his arms. Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attach it to him. Megatron then uses the forge to turn a chunk of [[Dark Energon]] into the [[Dark Star Saber]] and uses it to smash the [[Star Saber]] to pieces.{{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

==Notes==
* He might actually be [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|this guy]], but were not so sure.

[[Category:Prime Autobots]]

Dead Prime

2012-10-08T01:45:53Z

71.255.171.230:

:''Dead Prime was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]] portion of the [[Alighed continuity family]].''
Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead.

==Fiction==
===''Prime' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] went to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for a means of activating the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. They come across Dead Prime's tomb. Megatron then proceeds to cut off one of his arms. Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attach it to him. Megatron then uses the forge to turn a chunk of [[Dark Energon]] into the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Megatron uses it to smash the [[Star Saber]] to pieces.{{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

==Notes==
[[Category:Prime Autobots]]

Dead Prime

2012-10-08T01:45:02Z

71.255.171.230: New page: :''Dead Prime was a Prime from the Prime portion of the Alighned continuity family.'' Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead. ==Fiction== ===''Pri...

:''Dead Prime was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] from the [[Prime (cartoon)|Prime]] portion of the [[Alighned continuity family]].''
Dead Prime was a Prime. Now he's dead.

==Fiction==
===''Prime' cartoon===
[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] went to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for a means of activating the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. They come across Dead Prime's tomb. Megatron then proceeds to cut off one of his arms. Megatron has [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] attach it to him. Megatron then uses the forge to turn a chunk of [[Dark Energon]] into the [[Dark Star Saber]]. Megatron uses it to smash the [[Star Saber]] to pieces.{{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

==Notes==
[[Category:Prime Autobots]]

Reflector (G1)

2012-10-05T19:26:07Z

71.255.171.230: /* Generation 1 cartoon continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Reflector}}
:''Reflector is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ReflectorG1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|It's a Kodak moment. Top down: Viewfinder, Spyglass, Spectro]]
'''Reflector''' likes to watch. He lives (they live?) to observe anything and everything, from scenery, to wildlife, to architecture. But above all else, Reflector likes to watch his (their?) comrades, learn their dark secrets, and profit from them. Reflector is also very impressed with his (their) own abilities both in the fields of observation and blackmail.

Reflector is generally composed of three separate robots—[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]]—who combine into the one single-lens-reflex camera [[alternate mode|altmode]] that is Reflector.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Chris Latta]] (English), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese)|[[Ulrich Bernsdorff]] (German), [[Gerd Wiedenhofen]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1"), [[Willy Schäfer]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "S.O.S. Dinobots")}}

{{Note|Reflector possesses the unusual ability to split his singular robot mode into three copies, who all walk, talk and act with a single mind and voice. The three individual robots are never named; they are all simply "Reflector" and are all entirely identical, save for the lens aperture visible in the chest of the robot who forms the center of their camera mode. Reflector normally spends his time in this divided, triplicate state (three robots being the number required to form his camera mode), but in certain circumstances, he'll remain as one entity. Further, there are documented instances of significantly ''more'' Reflector bodies operating at once, suggesting Reflector's replication capabilities may extend beyond the creation of a simple trio.

Reflector's replication ability was never directly addressed in the cartoon, with only a seemingly-anomalous scene in "[[Divide and Conquer]]" that showed the three Reflectors colliding and combining into one hinting at it. It was evidently an ability included at the script stage but which wound up not getting a lot of face time in the finished show; the script for "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" also includes a reference to Reflector "splitting into this three identical selves". The real-world explanation for appearances of more than three Reflectors, of course, is that he made a handy [[generic]] with which the animators could pad out the meager Decepticon ranks in early episodes.}}

[[Image:MTME1_Reflector_camera.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Scale]] in a camera-con? Don't be silly.]]
Reflector was among the warriors who accompanied [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] aboard the Decepticons' [[Nemesis (G1)|space cruiser]] during its assault on the Autobots' [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] four million years ago. When the Ark crashed on Earth, Reflector was entombed in stasis with the other Transformers and awoke with the other Decepticons on Earth in 1984. Withdrawing from the Ark, the Decepticons immediately set about constructing a temporary base for themselves, and Reflector and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were assigned to patrol the perimeter. As they surveyed the desert landscape, Reflector expressed his disbelief that the Autobots had also survived the crash. Thundercracker then spotted something off in the distance, and Reflector transformed to camera mode so that Thundercracker could use him to zoom in on the mystery object. Reflector dispensed a Polaroid photograph of the truck that had caught their attention, and Thundercracker reported the intruder to Megatron as a possible Autobot (which it wasn't). {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

[[Image:GenericDecepticons MTMTE.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Anything you need reflected? I (we?) gotcha covered.]]
Reflector later battled the Autobot forces on an offshore oil rig, {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} and joined in the Decepticons' attack on [[Sherman Dam]]. Soon after, numerous Reflector robots were seen pillaging energy all across the world and helping stack [[Energon cube|energon cubes]] in the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Reflector participated in the battle royale with the Autobots shortly before the Decepticons' failed attempt at returning to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard a new space cruiser. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

While the Decepticons were in the midst of testing their new intergalactic "[[space bridge]]" transport system, Reflector took part in two battles with the Autobots when the heroic robots tried to interfere with the test run. The battle ended badly when Megatron was sucked through the space bridge and back to Cybertron, {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} but Reflector seemed unfazed by the apparent loss of his leader, as he went on to carry out orders that had previously been given to him and began staking out the laboratory of [[antimatter]] researcher [[Alcazar|Doctor Alcazar]]. Using his photographic abilities to obtain the entry code for the laboratory's security system in secret, Reflector concluded his stakeout just as Megatron returned to Earth, and he quickly reported his findings to the Decepticon leader. Reflector subsequently followed Megatron back to the lab and entered the entry code for him, allowing the villains to enter the complex stealthily. Reflector was no doubt rather cheesed off to learn that his spying had been for naught when it turned out that Alcazar had gotten rid of the antimatter formula by transmitting it to [[Chip Chase]]. When the Decepticons acquired the formula from Chip, Reflector helped charge energon cubes with the antimatter they created, and then participated in the subsequent battle with the Autobots, which ended when the antimatter cubes Megatron was using to power himself threatened to overload. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[Image:DivideandConquer_SympatheticDecepticon.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hey, Reflector, want this candy bar? *tosses it to the ground and stomps on it.*]]
Reflector later worked with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] on another attempt to transport energon cubes to Cybertron via the space bridge. In addition to the normal three Reflector robots, a fourth robot sharing their body type was present for this operation, and when Starscream required a pilot for the space bridge vessel, this unfortunate warrior was selected. He begged that he not be chosen, but his words fell on deaf ears as Starscream picked him up and dropped him into the transport craft. Fortunately for this robot, his piloting skills allowed him to traverse the space bridge, and he safely arrived on Cybertron with his energon payload.

{{note|This hapless little guy was scripted to just be a generic Decepticon, but the animators substituted in a Reflector. He was voiced by [[Ken Sansom]], rather than Reflector's normal voice actor, Chris Latta.}}

[[Image:ReflectorCartoon1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|I (we?) see EVERYTHING!]]
A group of Autobots soon arrived to investigate the Decepticon goings-on, but Reflector was quick to act and dazzled them with a blinding flash from his central lens. The Autobots soon got themselves together, though, and Reflector was dispatched when his duplicates were hurled into one another, causing them to recombine into one. Reflector's component selves later took part in a Decepticon attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] and were fired upon by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], but the three robots were confident that the Earth germ couldn't hit all of them at once. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

[[Image:FireintheSky_Reflector_formation.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]
Reflector did most of the grunt work when the Decepticons sought to drain the energy of the Earth's core via a crystal shaft in the Arctic, operating machinery and gathering energon cubes. When their digging unearthed the frozen Autobot [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], Reflector tried attacking the towering robot by running at him in a sort of cheerleader-pyramid formation, only to be—unsurprisingly—knocked to the ground with a swipe of Skyfire's arm. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

Along with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], Reflector gathered valuable intelligence on the [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power station, and he took part in the attack that their information-gathering helped facilitate. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon after, Reflector went with the other Decepticons on a mission to Peru in another attempt to seize the power of the Earth's core. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later still, Reflector was part of the Decepticon team who tried harnessing energy from an unstable meteorite. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

When the Decepticons used their space bridge to pull Cybertron itself into Earth's orbit in order to reap the energy released by the natural disasters that would result, Reflector was at Megatron's side as the Decepticon leader watched the construction of a hydroelectric energy collector. When an unexpectedly strong tidal wave demolished the structure, Megatron and Reflector escaped aboard a transport ship, though Reflector was given pause to wonder on the fate of the Decepticons' human ally, [[Doctor Arkeville]]. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} Cybertron was soon blasted out of Earth's proximity, but some robots of Reflector's body design were seen on the planet not long after, carrying the wounded Arkeville to a medical bay. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

After taking part in another energy-raiding attempt with the help of new arrivals the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}} Reflector joined the other Decepticons in relinquishing his [[power chip rectifier]] to a machine that would transfer all of the Decepticons' special abilities to Megatron, enabling him to best [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] easily in a one-on-one duel. During the combat, Megatron employed Reflector's power to generate a brilliant flash of light to blind Optimus Prime. When Megatron's deception was exposed, Reflector and the other Decepticons were sent tumbling into a river of lava by the enraged Autobots. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

Learning that the Autobots had transferred Spike's mind into a robot body, Megatron had Reflector watch over Autobot Headquarters, and his spying soon bore fruit when the unstable "Autobot Spike" came bursting through a wall and flew off. Reflector followed and summoned the other Decepticons to his position. Megatron proceeded to try and turn Spike against the Autobots, but the attempt ultimately ended in failure. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}}

Following the "Autobot Spike" affair, Reflector's role in the war suddenly began to drop off; he became less and less visible on the battlefield, and he was never heard to speak again. Throughout 1985, he was glimpsed only a few times: He joined in the Decepticons' attempt to conquer [[Washington, D.C.]], {{storylink|City of Steel}} he followed Megatron in an attempt to hijack a rocket, {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}} and he clashed with the Insecticons over stolen [[Electro-cell|electro-cells]]. {{storylink|Traitor}} A little later, he helped battle the Autobots for control of [[korlonium crystal]]s. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} After being absent for a prolonged period after this, Reflector reappeared as part of a group of Decepticons on the rampage in [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}} and soon after, he was among the Decepticons who coated themselves with [[electrum]] to cause havoc. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Reflector then disappeared from the field of battle for quite some time, returning for one final appearance that year, battling the mutinous Starscream and his [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

Reflector put in his final, very brief appearances in 2005, when he could be spotted at both the [[Battle of Autobot City]] and the coronation of Starscream soon afterward. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|The real-world reason behind Reflector's steady disappearance from the show lies with the troubled release of this toy, as discussed further down this article. In accordance with Hasbro's decision not to release the figure, the [[Production bible|series story bible]] specifically discouraged writers from use of the character after season one ended.<ref>[http://transformers.winterchill.com/bible/biblepage43.html Reflector's page in the series bible]</ref>. Indeed, following "Autobot Spike", Reflector is never called for by an episode script again, and appears only in group shots of the Decepticons at the animators' discretion.}}

====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic====
[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] photographed the incomplete [[Autobot City]] with the aid of Reflector's camera mode, so that Megatron could decipher whether or not it was powerful enough to stand up to [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Reflector was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. When Megatron was snatched up by the Keepers, not all Decepticons fell into line under Starscream's maniacal command. [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and the three Reflector robots chose to make a stand against Starscream's leadership at [[Hoover Dam]], outside the Decepticon's new base in [[Las Vegas]]. Spyglass and Skywarp drew [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s electronic attention, prompting Starscream and his communications officer to make an appearance at the Dam. As Skywarp rejected Starscream's rule, the other Reflector robots leapt out of hiding to attack the usurper. The battle quickly turned against Skywarp and Reflector, though, as Soundwave's sonic attack ripped Spectro apart, sending him over the edge of the dam and into stasis lock. Once Skywarp was disabled as well, Spyglass and Viewfinder wisely chose to abdicate to Starscream. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''

''The surviving two Reflector parts remained under Starscream's command only as long as necessary, and left Las Vegas with Megatron's splinter faction of Decepticons soon after their former leader returned to Earth. {{storylink|Annihilation}} After the Decepticons reunited, Reflector was instrumental in several attempts at blackmail and media manipulation against the [[President of the United States]], first recording him whimpering helplessly in Megatron's massive hand during an attack on the White House, and later sending the media outlets footage of the U.S. Armed Forces attempting to assassinate Autobots AND Decepticons in the Nevada desert. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

[[Image:BrothersBurden_Reflector.jpg|thumb|left|250px|]]
''A duplicate of'' Reflector remained on Cybertron and worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}} ''The true Reflector, on Earth, was heard to dismiss this duplicate as an inferior copy.'' {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}

{{note|The presence of two Reflectors originally arose as a continuity error, when the "Annihilation" novel depicted Reflector on Earth while the concurrently published comics showed him to be on Cybertron. Like a couple of other errors in the novels, this was paved over in the third book, "Fusion", with the true, Earth-bound Reflector making the above "inferior copy" remark. Coincidentally, the situation echoes the body-duplication theme seen in the Generation 1 cartoon, discussed above, but regardless, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}

===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers'' comics===
[[Image:GIJoevsTF4 Reflector.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
The three Reflector components were among the Transformers who crashed on Earth millions of years in the past, and upon being discovered by humans, they were reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]]. The Autobot [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] eventually restored everyone's original programming, and the angry Reflector trio broke into Cobra's control center to teach the fleshlings a thing or two about messing with their heads. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Reflector was then ordered by Megatron to assist [[Doctor Mindbender]] and [[Firefly]] while they used the [[SPS Satellite]] to create [[energon cube]]s. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] arrived to halt their scheme, the three Reflectors attacked him, but were easily swatted aside. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

[[Image:ArtofWar4_Reflector_message.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
In a dark alternate future where the Decepticons had conquered Earth, three black Reflectors guarded human slaves imprisoned near a factory, but were killed by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], [[Tomax and Xamot]]. As this future was also full of multiple [[Sweep]]s, [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon swarms]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage packs]], it is possible these Reflectors were some sort of [[Cloning|clones]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}}

Viewfinder was present for a Decepticon gathering on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], during which [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] took control of the Decepticon army. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} During a subsequent Decepticon assault on an Autobot peace ceremony, the Reflector trio were charged with delivering a message to Optimus Prime. After being carried to Prime in [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]'s palm, Viewfinder used his chest lens to project a hologram of Serpent O.R., allowing the Decepticon leader to negotiate with Prime. Reflector came under attack by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] during the negotiation, but Viewfinder managed to continue the transmission despite being injured. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

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===IDW comics continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

The three Reflector units found themselves on a ship, which crashed on [[LV-117]]. Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's canopy shattered and impaled him through the chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a [[Varta|friendly alien]]. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his energon converter before disembarking, causing it to explode violently shortly after takeoff. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

Spectro and Spyglass were later seen, no worse for wear, aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

{{note|In Spotlight: Sixshot, Spyglass and Spectro appear in their toy based character models.}}

[[Image:AHM3_Reflector_Rumble.jpg|right|thumb|275px|]]
All three Reflector units (speaking entirely in unison), eventually joined Megatron on [[Earth]], and helped defeat the Autobots there. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}} Following this victory, the Reflector trio help destroy [[New York City]] along with the other Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} Spectro and Spyglass enjoyed "playing games" with the city's fleshy inhabitants, but were disappointed about how easily they came apart. Viewfinder preferred to brood by himself, while still echoing the other two's dialogue. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} Reflector stayed with Megatron when [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] rebelled against his leader {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}, and fought back against the Autobots when they returned to Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} The Decepticons were ultimately defeated {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}} and Viewfinder and Spectro left the planet aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|All Hail Megatron #13}}

Spyglass was left behind, however, and was still trying to get off the planet two years later. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

In the aftermath of the war with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[D-Void]], the trio was instructed by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] to undertake a special mission involving the theft of [[Turmoil|Turmoil's]] time-sliding space cruiser. {{storylink|Night and the City}}
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===Alternity===
[[Image:Worldisflat alternity bumblebee.jpg|left|thumb]]

Three Reflector units hailing from an unknown [[universal stream]] were among the minions serving under [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]] during his complicated, cross-dimensional war with the Autobot [[Alternity]]. This incarnation of Reflector was a [[Pretender]], with each of his components able to disguise itself as an ordinary-sized human being.

Reflector was dispatched to [[Primax 905.0 Beta|universal stream 905.0 Beta]] to search for the source of a new dimensional flux of previously unheard type. In their Pretender guises, the trio tracked the source of the disruption to the Otsuka Museum of Art, and found that it was a strange tablet. Reflector was about to make off with the tablet when he was accosted by [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Bumblebee]] and [[Arcee (Energon)|Elita Seven]], and his components promptly dropped their Pretender forms to battle the little Autobot. Unfortunately for Reflector, he was no match for the unearthly powers of an Alternity: Bumblebee snatched the tablet away, and with a snap of his fingers, reduced Reflector to a nearly two-dimensional state. From across the dimensions, Megatron saw his minions collapse like paper, and lashed out with his tesseractal swords, destroying the museum and the tablet, and wounding Bumblebee. By the time Bumblebee came to, Reflector was long gone. {{storylink|The World Is Flat!}}
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===''Wings Universe''===
The Reflector trio were "one" of fourteen [[Decepticon Warlord|Warlords]] that arose championing the Decepticon cause. His / their legion, the [[Photon]]s, were an endless series of identical Cybertronians apparently patterned after their leader. As the [[Autobot Elite Guard]] began picking off the Decepticon Warlords one at a time, Reflector attended the War Councils with the other Decepticon leaders to discuss strategy. It was Reflector who suggested they pool secrets and information for the greater good of the Decepticon cause. It was also Reflector who assimilated his / their Photons into the ranks of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s Decepticons after the Warlords gave up their secrets to each other. This merger allowed him / them to avoid certain destruction when [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] sent an unwitting suicide bomber to the next council meeting, wiping out all the remaining Warlords besides Megatron. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

As [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] breached [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s walls, Reflector was there with the rest of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s forces. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}}

==Games==
===''Sector Seven'' game===

Dubbed "Non-Biological Entity - 115", a video of Reflector transforming in the midst of a child's birthday party reached the public through "hacked evidence" files. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are... Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.

: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]]. Undocumented in the instructions is that the telephoto lens is supposed to fit onto Viewfinder's gun to reduce kibble.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spectro/spectro.htm More information on (part of) Reflector at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/SpyGlass/spyglass.htm More info on another part of Reflector at TFU'info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Viewfinder/viewfinder.htm More info on yet another part of Reflector at TFU.info]''
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Milk Caramel===
[[Image:Tfcaramel_reflector.jpg|right|thumb]]
*'''Reflector''' (1985)
:A small soft-rubber figurine of Reflector (known as a ''keshigomu'' in Japan) was released as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers Milk Caramel]]'' line of [[candy toy]]s. Based specifically on the Viewfinder toy, the figure was available in multiple colors and came packaged with a piece of chocolate-covered caramel.
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===Decoy===
[[Image:ReflectorDecoy1.jpg|right|thumb|"HI! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CONSPICUOUS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT? HI!"]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)
:Reflector was among the larger ''keshigomu'' developed by Takara, molded from soft purple rubber and initially sold in a multi-pack with twenty-one other Decepticon figurines. The figure, based on Reflector's animation model (unlike the earlier ''Caramel'' figure), features a number etched into its back which is the sum total of Reflector's [[Tech Spec]] ratings, for use in the various simple games that could be played with the figures. Reflector was later available in a peach coloration as part of various other multi-packs.

*'''Reflector''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''52'''

: The Reflector figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (52, in Reflector's case). Like all Decepticons Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Reflector/reflector.htm More information on Reflector at TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
[[Image:PreReflector.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Say "Cheese" and die.]]
* Reflector was originally the "Camera Robo" from Takara's ''[[Micro Change]]'' sub-series of the ''[[Microman|New Microman]]'' line. The only noteworthy difference between the two releases, besides the whole missile-launcher-neuter-in-the-United-States thing, is that the ''Microman'' release has "MICROX" emblazoned on the center unit's decals instead of "REFLECTOR".

* Not so surprisingly, the Camera Robo was first designed as a single unit. Apparently, the primary designer of the final toy, and possibly this initial design, was mecha designer [[Shinji Aramaki]], who designed the robots for ''[[wikipedia:Megazone_23|Megazone 23]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Genesis_Climber_Mospeada|Genesis Climber Mospeada]]''.

* Reflector's role early in the cartoon makes it seem likely his toy was originally planned for inclusion in the initial 1984 line, a theory supported by the inclusion of a Hasbro product code consistent with the other 1984 toys in [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]'s files on the Decepticons in "[[Heavy Metal War]]". Why Hasbro decided not to release it so late in the game is unknown, as is the reason they later reversed that decision to make it a viable mail-away.

* In the Japanese dub of ''The Transformers'' cartoon, and in true anime fashion, Reflector announces the name of his special attack every time he uses it: "Flash Beam!"

*At [[BotCon 2010]], it was announced at the Hasbro design panel<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-hasbro-designers-panel-170066/</ref> that Reflector was being considered as the redeco for the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Reveal the Shield]] [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] toy, using a built-in alternate head for the mold that was designed to look like Perceptor's toy head (which does bear a passing resemblance to Viewfinder). However, with both the Reveal the Shield and ''Generations'' brand segments over, it is presently unknown where this concept will end up.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Reflector''' (リフレクター ''Rifurekutā'')

==References==
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[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]

Viewfinder

2012-10-05T19:20:12Z

71.255.171.230: /* Generation 1 cartoon continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Viewfinder is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Viewfinder.gif|right|294px|thumb|Viewfinder studied at the Generation 2 Optimus Prime school of disguise.]]
'''Viewfinder''' is the sinister spymaster who leads the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio. He's a master of observation - there's nothing he loves more than watching someone and dissecting their flaws. He doesn't just use his skills to advance the Decepticon cause, mind you; he's also an unrepentant blackmailer of his Decepticon comrades. His only problem is that he's [[Starscream (G1)|so smug and self-assured that he's incapable of recognizing his own flaws]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{Note|The three individual robots are never named; they are all simply "[[Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reflector]]" and are all entirely identical, save for the lens aperture visible in the chest of the robot who forms the center of their camera mode. Reflector normally spends his time in this divided, triplicate state (three robots being the number required to form his camera mode), but in certain circumstances, he'll remain as one entity.}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Viewfinder was part of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. After Megatron disappeared, [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and the united Reflector trio refused to bow to Starscream's new regime in the human city of [[Las Vegas]]. They challenged Starscream to meet them at [[Hoover Dam]] and, once he arrived, Skywarp openly announced his intention to take the leadership of the Decepticons away from Starscream. In hiding at first, Viewfinder and Spectro flew out to join Skywarp and Spyglass in attacking Starscream once the gauntlet was cast down. After Starscream eliminated Skywarp and his partner, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], destroyed Spectro with a blast of concentrated sound, though, Viewfinder and Spyglass laid down arms and agreed to follow Starscream's command. {{storylink|Hardwired}} Their loyalty was quite temporary, however: Megatron returned to Earth several days later, and invited all Decepticons truly loyal to him to abandon Starscream's "New Centurion" empire. Viewfinder and Spyglass quickly accepted the offer, and left Las Vegas with Megatron and his loyalist faction. Along with Megatron's Decepticons, Viewfinder joined forces with the Autobots to battle the awe-inspiring aliens known as the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. {{storylink|Annihilation}} After the aliens were supposedly dealt with, Megatron felt it was necessary to send a message to the American government, who had been interfering with Cybertronian matters far too much. He and the Decepticons therefore stormed up Constitution Avenue and wrecked the White House, while Megatron held the quivering and whimpering [[President of the United States|President]] menacingly in the palm of his hand. With Spectro fully repaired, Viewfinder and his partners were on hand to record the entire exchange, and then send it to the human news media to discredit the President. The human leader did not learn quickly, though, and immediately began making plans to lure the Autobots and Decepticons into an ambush in the Nevada desert. Megatron once again arranged for Viewfinder and his partners to record the American military making a blatant and unprovoked attack on the Transformers, and released the footage to the media to force the President to back off.''

''Why he didn't just order the President squished is a mystery for the ages. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Viewfinder was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}

===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Spotlightwheelie viewfinder carlbruner.jpg|right|180px|thumb|They can cross the galaxy and shatter worlds, but safety glass is beyond the Decepticon's ken.]]
The Reflector trio were low rank-Decepticon hoodlums. Early in the war, they tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

In spite of their fate, the three Reflector units reemerged on [[Earth]] around the year 2007. Viewfinder was among the leading ranks of a major ambush the Decepticons staged on Earth. The entire Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated afterward. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} Some time later, Viewfinder sat moping by himself as [[Spectro]] and [[Spyglass]] had fun murdering humans elsewhere. Even when alone, he still repeated everything the other two components said. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} When the Decepticons were finally defeated, Viewfinder was among the troops who fled the planet aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

The Reflector trio eventually obtained a starship of their own. When it crashed into the remote planet [[LV-117]], Viewfinder was impaled by a shard of viewport, killing him. The [[Autobot]] [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] later stumbled on his unambiguously dead corpse, still sitting in his command chair and was chilled by the grisly sight. His companions Spectro and Spyglass would soon join him in death. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.

: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].

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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[Image:ReflectorDecoy1.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"HI! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CONSPICUOUS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT? HI!"]]
* '''Reflector''' (Decoy, 1986)

: Reflector was one of the many characters represented by a small plastic [[decoy]] included with certain Transformers for a brief time. The decoy is based on the cartoon design of Viewfinder. Most commonly, it was made with purple plastic, but a red rare version is known to exist and goes for a lot more on the secondary market.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Viewfinder''' (ビューファインダー ''Byūfaindā'')

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Viewfinder/viewfinder.htm Viewfinder at TFU.info]

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[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
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Spyglass

2012-10-05T19:19:46Z

71.255.171.230: /* Generation 1 cartoon continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
[[Image:Spyglass.gif|right|200px|thumb|Comes with 35 millimeters of terror.]]
:''Spyglass is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Spyglass''' is Gallant to [[Spectro]]'s Goofus. He's an eager-beaver go-getter when it comes to espionage and surveillance. He's always on board with whatever sinister scheme [[Viewfinder]] cooks up for the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio, even to the point where he'll cajole the uncooperative Spectro into playing along—making sure, of course, that Spectro doesn't know too much.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{Note|The three individual robots are never named; they are all simply "[[Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reflector]]" and are all entirely identical, save for the lens aperture visible in the chest of the robot who forms the center of their camera mode. Reflector normally spends his time in this divided, triplicate state (three robots being the number required to form his camera mode), but in certain circumstances, he'll remain as one entity.}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Spyglass was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. Although he had no great love for Megatron, Spyglass was not willing to mindlessly fall in line behind [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] once their leader vanished in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. Making an alliance with [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]—who hated Starscream and wanted to hold leadership of the Decepticons for himself until Megatron inevitably returned—Spyglass arranged to get Starscream's attention. Knowing that Starscream had recruited [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to his cause and set up base in [[Las Vegas]], Spyglass and Skywarp made a stand at [[Hoover Dam]], deliberately bringing themselves inside Soundwave's scanning range yet refusing to answer his hails. Spyglass agreed to let Skywarp run the show, but the "negotiations" for Starscream's abdication quickly degenerated, and the fight was on. Spyglass's Reflector partners came out of hiding to join the battle, but Starscream and Soundwave quickly demolished Skywarp and Spectro, leaving them in deep [[stasis lock]]. With his loyalties being questioned at gunpoint, Spyglass wisely said, "What did Megatron ever do for me?" and knelt before Starscream in defeat. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''

''Spyglass and Viewfinder did not remain loyal to Starscream for long. When Megatron returned from space with the threat of the all-powerful [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] at his heels, he was too badly damaged to forcibly retake the Decepticons from Starscream as he had in the past. Megatron still refused to serve his former Air Commander, however, and when he abandoned Starscream and Las Vegas to deal with the problem posed by the Keepers, Spyglass and several other Decepticons did the same. They were wise to do so, because almost immediately thereafter the Keepers confronted Starscream, stole his body to use as a host for their minds, and imprisoned the remaining Decepticons loyal to him. Spyglass and the other Decepticons joined forces with the Autobots in driving the Keepers off planet Earth. {{storylink|Annihilation}} With Megatron back in command, Spectro was restored to full functionality and the Reflector trio were reunited. They lent their recording abilities to several efforts by Megatron to blackmail the [[President of the United States]] into keeping his nose out of Decepticon business. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Spyglass was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}
===IDW comics continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

Spyglass and Spectro were later seen, no worse for wear, aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

{{note|In Spotlight: Sixshot, Spyglass and Spectro appear in their toy based character models.}}

The Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated after a successful Decepticon ambush on Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}
[[Image:AHM3 Reflector Rumble.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Spyglass is probably the one with blue on him.]]
In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} During the Decepticons' stay in New York, Spyglass and Spectro entertained themselves by chasing down humans and offering to play games with them—games that inevitably led to the two robots breaking their playmates. This didn't discourage them too much, as they just attempted to put the humans back together again. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}

Three years later, Spyglass was among the Decepticons left behind on Earth after Astrotrain took most of the others off world. After joining a few other abandoned 'cons, he helped retrieve and repair a heavily injured [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. {{storylink|Seasons in Flight}} Led by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], the rag-tag group attacked several Autobot deserters, but laid down their arms when they realized they could work together to get off Earth. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

At some point, the Reflector trio found themselves on a ship which crashed on [[LV-117]]. Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's canopy shattered and impaled him through the chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived, and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a friendly alien. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his [[energon]] converter before disembarking, causing it to violently explode shortly after take-off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.
: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spyglass/spyglass.htm More information on Spyglass at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spyglass''' (スパイグラス ''Supaigurasu'')

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mail order exclusives]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]

Spectro

2012-10-05T19:19:17Z

71.255.171.230: /* Generation 1 cartoon continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
[[Image:Spectro.gif|right|200px|thumb|Smile! You're on carnage camera.]]
:''Spectro is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

'''Spectro''' is not much of an independent thinker. He's effective when he's taking orders or working alongside [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]], the other two members of the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio — but on his own, his limited intellect proves to be a liability. When something goes wrong, he's always the first to pass the buck and blame someone else, which has not earned him much regard in the [[optics]] of his comrades.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{Note|The three individual robots are never named; they are all simply "[[Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reflector]]" and are all entirely identical, save for the lens aperture visible in the chest of the robot who forms the center of their camera mode. Reflector normally spends his time in this divided, triplicate state (three robots being the number required to form his camera mode), but in certain circumstances, he'll remain as one entity.}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Spectro was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980's before the [[Ark II]] incident. When Megatron was snatched into space by the Keepers, Spectro refused to fall into line behind [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] as the new Decepticon commander. Spectro joined [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and his fellow Reflector thirds in confronting Starscream at Hoover Dam, hoping to force Starscream into abdicating his throne. When Skywarp and Starscream drew on each other, Spectro flew into the battle, zapping at Starscream with a pair of null rifles. His assault was interrupted by a counter-attack from Starscream's second-in-command, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]...a very severe counter-attack. Laser-like sound beams battered Spectro's circuitry, destroying his fine motor control and sending him flying over the side of the dam, where he finally exploded into fiery debris. {{storylink|Hardwired}} Spectro was recovered and eventually reconstructed after Megatron returned to Earth, and joined his fellow Reflector-bots on several photo-blackmail missions to keep the American government out of the Decepticons' way. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Spectro was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] along with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by Starscream when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}

===IDW comics continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

Spyglass and Spectro were later seen, no worse for wear, aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

{{note|In Spotlight: Sixshot, Spyglass and Spectro appear in their toy based character models.}}

The Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated after a successful Decepticon ambush on Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[Image:AHM3 Reflector Rumble.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Spectro's probably the one with red stripes on his legs.]]In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} During the invasion, Spectro and Spyglass entertained themselves by "playing" with humans trapped in the city, which sadly led to the little creatures coming apart. The two Decepticons weren't too discouraged, however—they could always try to put their toys back together again. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} Following the Decepticons' defeat, Spectro was among the Decepticons who fled Earth aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

At some point, the Reflector trio found themselves on a ship which crashed on [[LV-117]]. Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's canopy shattered and impaled him through the chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived, and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a friendly alien. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his [[energon]] converter before disembarking, causing it to violently explode shortly after take-off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.

: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spectro/spectro.htm More information on Spectro at TFU.info]''

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spectro''' (スペクトロ ''Supekutoro'')

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category: Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mail order exclusives]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]

Viewfinder

2012-10-05T19:10:14Z

71.255.171.230: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Viewfinder is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Viewfinder.gif|right|294px|thumb|Viewfinder studied at the Generation 2 Optimus Prime school of disguise.]]
'''Viewfinder''' is the sinister spymaster who leads the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio. He's a master of observation - there's nothing he loves more than watching someone and dissecting their flaws. He doesn't just use his skills to advance the Decepticon cause, mind you; he's also an unrepentant blackmailer of his Decepticon comrades. His only problem is that he's [[Starscream (G1)|so smug and self-assured that he's incapable of recognizing his own flaws]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{main|Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Viewfinder was part of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. After Megatron disappeared, [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and the united Reflector trio refused to bow to Starscream's new regime in the human city of [[Las Vegas]]. They challenged Starscream to meet them at [[Hoover Dam]] and, once he arrived, Skywarp openly announced his intention to take the leadership of the Decepticons away from Starscream. In hiding at first, Viewfinder and Spectro flew out to join Skywarp and Spyglass in attacking Starscream once the gauntlet was cast down. After Starscream eliminated Skywarp and his partner, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], destroyed Spectro with a blast of concentrated sound, though, Viewfinder and Spyglass laid down arms and agreed to follow Starscream's command. {{storylink|Hardwired}} Their loyalty was quite temporary, however: Megatron returned to Earth several days later, and invited all Decepticons truly loyal to him to abandon Starscream's "New Centurion" empire. Viewfinder and Spyglass quickly accepted the offer, and left Las Vegas with Megatron and his loyalist faction. Along with Megatron's Decepticons, Viewfinder joined forces with the Autobots to battle the awe-inspiring aliens known as the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. {{storylink|Annihilation}} After the aliens were supposedly dealt with, Megatron felt it was necessary to send a message to the American government, who had been interfering with Cybertronian matters far too much. He and the Decepticons therefore stormed up Constitution Avenue and wrecked the White House, while Megatron held the quivering and whimpering [[President of the United States|President]] menacingly in the palm of his hand. With Spectro fully repaired, Viewfinder and his partners were on hand to record the entire exchange, and then send it to the human news media to discredit the President. The human leader did not learn quickly, though, and immediately began making plans to lure the Autobots and Decepticons into an ambush in the Nevada desert. Megatron once again arranged for Viewfinder and his partners to record the American military making a blatant and unprovoked attack on the Transformers, and released the footage to the media to force the President to back off.''

''Why he didn't just order the President squished is a mystery for the ages. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Viewfinder was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}

===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Spotlightwheelie viewfinder carlbruner.jpg|right|180px|thumb|They can cross the galaxy and shatter worlds, but safety glass is beyond the Decepticon's ken.]]
The Reflector trio were low rank-Decepticon hoodlums. Early in the war, they tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

In spite of their fate, the three Reflector units reemerged on [[Earth]] around the year 2007. Viewfinder was among the leading ranks of a major ambush the Decepticons staged on Earth. The entire Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated afterward. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} Some time later, Viewfinder sat moping by himself as [[Spectro]] and [[Spyglass]] had fun murdering humans elsewhere. Even when alone, he still repeated everything the other two components said. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} When the Decepticons were finally defeated, Viewfinder was among the troops who fled the planet aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

The Reflector trio eventually obtained a starship of their own. When it crashed into the remote planet [[LV-117]], Viewfinder was impaled by a shard of viewport, killing him. The [[Autobot]] [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] later stumbled on his unambiguously dead corpse, still sitting in his command chair and was chilled by the grisly sight. His companions Spectro and Spyglass would soon join him in death. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

{{-}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.

: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].

{{-}}

==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
[[Image:ReflectorDecoy1.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"HI! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CONSPICUOUS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT? HI!"]]
* '''Reflector''' (Decoy, 1986)

: Reflector was one of the many characters represented by a small plastic [[decoy]] included with certain Transformers for a brief time. The decoy is based on the cartoon design of Viewfinder. Most commonly, it was made with purple plastic, but a red rare version is known to exist and goes for a lot more on the secondary market.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Viewfinder''' (ビューファインダー ''Byūfaindā'')

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Viewfinder/viewfinder.htm Viewfinder at TFU.info]

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Decoys]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mail order exclusives]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]

Spyglass

2012-10-05T19:09:42Z

71.255.171.230: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
[[Image:Spyglass.gif|right|200px|thumb|Comes with 35 millimeters of terror.]]
:''Spyglass is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Spyglass''' is Gallant to [[Spectro]]'s Goofus. He's an eager-beaver go-getter when it comes to espionage and surveillance. He's always on board with whatever sinister scheme [[Viewfinder]] cooks up for the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio, even to the point where he'll cajole the uncooperative Spectro into playing along—making sure, of course, that Spectro doesn't know too much.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{main|Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Spyglass was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. Although he had no great love for Megatron, Spyglass was not willing to mindlessly fall in line behind [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] once their leader vanished in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. Making an alliance with [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]—who hated Starscream and wanted to hold leadership of the Decepticons for himself until Megatron inevitably returned—Spyglass arranged to get Starscream's attention. Knowing that Starscream had recruited [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to his cause and set up base in [[Las Vegas]], Spyglass and Skywarp made a stand at [[Hoover Dam]], deliberately bringing themselves inside Soundwave's scanning range yet refusing to answer his hails. Spyglass agreed to let Skywarp run the show, but the "negotiations" for Starscream's abdication quickly degenerated, and the fight was on. Spyglass's Reflector partners came out of hiding to join the battle, but Starscream and Soundwave quickly demolished Skywarp and Spectro, leaving them in deep [[stasis lock]]. With his loyalties being questioned at gunpoint, Spyglass wisely said, "What did Megatron ever do for me?" and knelt before Starscream in defeat. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''

''Spyglass and Viewfinder did not remain loyal to Starscream for long. When Megatron returned from space with the threat of the all-powerful [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] at his heels, he was too badly damaged to forcibly retake the Decepticons from Starscream as he had in the past. Megatron still refused to serve his former Air Commander, however, and when he abandoned Starscream and Las Vegas to deal with the problem posed by the Keepers, Spyglass and several other Decepticons did the same. They were wise to do so, because almost immediately thereafter the Keepers confronted Starscream, stole his body to use as a host for their minds, and imprisoned the remaining Decepticons loyal to him. Spyglass and the other Decepticons joined forces with the Autobots in driving the Keepers off planet Earth. {{storylink|Annihilation}} With Megatron back in command, Spectro was restored to full functionality and the Reflector trio were reunited. They lent their recording abilities to several efforts by Megatron to blackmail the [[President of the United States]] into keeping his nose out of Decepticon business. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Spyglass was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}
===IDW comics continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

Spyglass and Spectro were later seen, no worse for wear, aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

{{note|In Spotlight: Sixshot, Spyglass and Spectro appear in their toy based character models.}}

The Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated after a successful Decepticon ambush on Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}
[[Image:AHM3 Reflector Rumble.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Spyglass is probably the one with blue on him.]]
In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} During the Decepticons' stay in New York, Spyglass and Spectro entertained themselves by chasing down humans and offering to play games with them—games that inevitably led to the two robots breaking their playmates. This didn't discourage them too much, as they just attempted to put the humans back together again. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}

Three years later, Spyglass was among the Decepticons left behind on Earth after Astrotrain took most of the others off world. After joining a few other abandoned 'cons, he helped retrieve and repair a heavily injured [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. {{storylink|Seasons in Flight}} Led by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], the rag-tag group attacked several Autobot deserters, but laid down their arms when they realized they could work together to get off Earth. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

At some point, the Reflector trio found themselves on a ship which crashed on [[LV-117]]. Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's canopy shattered and impaled him through the chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived, and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a friendly alien. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his [[energon]] converter before disembarking, causing it to violently explode shortly after take-off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.
: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spyglass/spyglass.htm More information on Spyglass at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spyglass''' (スパイグラス ''Supaigurasu'')

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mail order exclusives]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]

Spectro

2012-10-05T19:09:10Z

71.255.171.230: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{factions|decepticon}}
[[Image:Spectro.gif|right|200px|thumb|Smile! You're on carnage camera.]]
:''Spectro is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

'''Spectro''' is not much of an independent thinker. He's effective when he's taking orders or working alongside [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]], the other two members of the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio — but on his own, his limited intellect proves to be a liability. When something goes wrong, he's always the first to pass the buck and blame someone else, which has not earned him much regard in the [[optics]] of his comrades.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Reflectormarvel.jpg|right|100px|thumb|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]] worked with the [[Decepticon medics|Decepticon medic]] to repair their fellow Decepticons. Subsequently an oddly colored Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] were rendered inoperable by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. They didn't even get to introduce themselves in [[Introdump|painfully lengthy exposition]]. Alas, Reflector was taken away from us before his prime. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}
{{-}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{main|Reflector (G1)#Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{notekeepers}}
''Spectro was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980's before the [[Ark II]] incident. When Megatron was snatched into space by the Keepers, Spectro refused to fall into line behind [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] as the new Decepticon commander. Spectro joined [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and his fellow Reflector thirds in confronting Starscream at Hoover Dam, hoping to force Starscream into abdicating his throne. When Skywarp and Starscream drew on each other, Spectro flew into the battle, zapping at Starscream with a pair of null rifles. His assault was interrupted by a counter-attack from Starscream's second-in-command, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]...a very severe counter-attack. Laser-like sound beams battered Spectro's circuitry, destroying his fine motor control and sending him flying over the side of the dam, where he finally exploded into fiery debris. {{storylink|Hardwired}} Spectro was recovered and eventually reconstructed after Megatron returned to Earth, and joined his fellow Reflector-bots on several photo-blackmail missions to keep the American government out of the Decepticons' way. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''

Spectro was NOT part of Megatron's crew, but worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] along with his two partners, monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were seemingly destroyed by Starscream when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

{{note|The above contradiction was briefly alluded to in the Fusion novel, as the Terran version of Reflector identified himself as the "true" Reflector, with the Cybertronian version being an "inferior copy." This echoes the body-duplication theme seen [[Reflector (G1)|elsewhere in the multiverse]]. Still, what happened to the so-called true Reflector after the Keepers Trilogy remains a mystery.}}

===IDW comics continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}}

Spyglass and Spectro were later seen, no worse for wear, aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

{{note|In Spotlight: Sixshot, Spyglass and Spectro appear in their toy based character models.}}

The Reflector trio, speaking in chorus, celebrated after a successful Decepticon ambush on Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[Image:AHM3 Reflector Rumble.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Spectro's probably the one with red stripes on his legs.]]In [[New York City]], the trio observed as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] compulsively destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle, and observed in chorus that it was a pity it wasn't [[Bumblebee (G1)|the real thing]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} During the invasion, Spectro and Spyglass entertained themselves by "playing" with humans trapped in the city, which sadly led to the little creatures coming apart. The two Decepticons weren't too discouraged, however—they could always try to put their toys back together again. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} Following the Decepticons' defeat, Spectro was among the Decepticons who fled Earth aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

At some point, the Reflector trio found themselves on a ship which crashed on [[LV-117]]. Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's canopy shattered and impaled him through the chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived, and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a friendly alien. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his [[energon]] converter before disembarking, causing it to violently explode shortly after take-off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1 Reflector toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We three kings of orient are...Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
* '''Reflector''' (Mail-away, 1986/1987; wide release in Japan, 1985)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''21'''
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens.

: Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. However, [[Hasbro]] delayed selling him in the US until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Oddly, this came just as the character was being fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point|Robot Points]].

: Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera: Viewfinder as the central component with the lens, Spectro as the right-side component with the shutter button, and Spyglass as the left-side component with the flash. It includes a telephoto lens and old-style flashcube that doubles as a missile launcher, but of course, the Hasbro version has the spring-loaded mechanism neutered [[for safety reasons]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spectro/spectro.htm More information on Spectro at TFU.info]''

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spectro''' (スペクトロ ''Supekutoro'')

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category: Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mail order exclusives]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]