Prowl (WFC)

2012-05-13T21:12:24Z

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:''Prowl is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:ProwlTFU.JPG|mainpic|thumb|300px|Prickly prick.]]

An experienced militia and police officer, '''Prowl''' joined [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]'s Autobots in the war against the [[Decepticon]]s, contributing his knowledge of combat in urban areas. His weapon of choice is the [[Investigator Special]]—a electroconductive gel that's quite adept at redirecting internal signals, paralyzing his targets long enough for him to bring them in.

{{quote|"Are you asking me or [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]]? Because he can barely talk."<br>"Prowl. I don't think anyone here needs sarcasm right now."|noquote=true|[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]]|''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Prowl acted as go-between for the civilian [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] guards and various city-state militas. He allied with Optimus during Megatron's attack on [[Praxus]]. During the siege of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Prowl informed Optimus that [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] was aboard [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] Station. Optimus feared Megatron had found a new weapon. [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] asked the Autobots what they knew about [[energon]]. Prowl tried to silence [[Jazz (Prime)|Jazz]]'s jokes as he felt anything the Archivist had to say was significant, but even he laughed when Jazz felt Alpha Trion had not sufficiently explained what Energon was when he said it was the emanation of [[Primus]]. Alpha Trion then adequately explained Megatron had found [[Dark Energon]], the emanation of [[Unicron]].

Optimus ordered Prowl to lead a guerilla team to draw out the Darkened Decepticons, to waste the resource in chases, when Prowl received a communication from [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] requesting a meeting. Prowl offered to go meet him in case it was a trap, but Optimus requested Starscream speak to him on a secure channel instead. When the Darkened Decepticons stole the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], Prowl helped fight them off and got [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] to repair [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], whom Megatron almost killed. Afterwards, Prowl received a distress signal from [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]]. He traced it to [[Kaon]], as he recognized the signal blocking its source was used by gladiators to hide messages they didn't want on the [[Communication Grid]] from his pre-war days working in the [[Hydrax Plateau|Hydrax]]-[[Badlands (Cybertron)|Badlands]] circuit.

Prowl rescued Sentinel with Optimus and Jazz. While recovering, Optimus went to Cybertron's [[core]] to purge its Dark Energon corruption and returned declaring [[Ark (WFC)|Project Generation One]]. Prowl became part of the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' crew, boarding Trypticon and sustaining heavy damage battling its drones and Minicons. He helped destroy its Dark Energon Facility, causing it to crash into the planet. He boarded the ''Ark'' with the other Autobots, journeying through the last [[space bridge]] to a [[Milky Way|spiral galaxy]]. Then Prowl detected the [[AllSpark]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

After passing through the unstable [[space bridge|Space Bridge]], Prowl and the Autobots aboard the ''Ark'' found themselves in the vicinity of a Cybertronian colony world called [[Velocitron]]. They located it in part thanks to a mysterious starmap projected outwards from Optimus Prime's chest by the Matrix itself. Prowl was assigned to Hound's second response team, as Optimus Prime made planetfall with his initial squad. It was a time of great stress between Velocitron's rulers, [[Override (Prime)|Override]] and [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]], and the Autobots' arrival from mythical Cybertron only exacerbated the situation. Worse still, Prowl uncovered evidence of a Decepticon agent on Velocitron. He overheard a secret meeting between a mysterious robot called "[[Makeshift (Prime)|777]]" and several Velocitronians, spreading Megatron's message of "Peace through tyranny". Prowl was unable to get a good fix on 777's face or voice, but after active sabotage temporarily disabled the ''Ark'', he came to the conclusion that one of their crew was actually a Decepticon agent. [[Jazz (Prime)|Jazz]] and Prowl conferred with Optimus about the situation, but ultimately concluded there was little they could do at the moment other than remain on guard. Although the Autobots secured an ally in Override, they left Velocitron on the brink of civil war during their departure, as Ransack's followers had been corrupted by the Decepticon rhetoric spread by the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s traitor.

The next leg of their journey through the Space Bridge brought the Autobots to fabled [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], a world composed entirely of space junk. Prowl was onboard the ''Ark'' during the initial landing again, and was therefore present when the engines blew out in another act of deliberate sabotage. At Prime's request, he kept an optic on the shifty Junkion named [[Axer (Prime)|Axer]], whom even Junkion Leader [[Wreck-Gar (Prime)|Wreck-Gar]] didn't trust. Prowl got some intel on Axer from another Junkion named [[Shearbolt]], and learned that not all Junkions were natives—some came from Cybertron and other worlds, and Axer was among the most recent arrivals. Shearbolt seemed to be holding something back, and so Prowl resolved to keep both him and Axer under observation during their time on Junkion.

Unfortunately, Shearbolt disappeared soon afterwards. And when Prowl eventually located the Autobot—dead and stuffed inside a starship belonging to Axer—[[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] confirmed via energon decay that Shearbolt had been dead BEFORE Prowl supposedly had a conversation with him. Shocking as it was, this confirmed the existence of a mythical "Shifter", one of the descendents of the [[Thirteen]]'s trickster, [[Amalgamous Prime]]. Tracking down Axer, he confirmed that the Autobot they thought was Hound was actually a Decepticon shifter named Makeshift. After securing Makeshift, Prowl and Ironhide oversaw the repair work on the ''Ark'' while Optimus Prime finished up his Matrix-driven quest on the other side of Junkion's Space Bridge. Makeshift's Decepticon comrades found them, however, forcing Prowl and the others to square off against the Seekers while waiting for Prime to return. He eventually did, and the situation became a bit too esoteric for Prowl's taste...[[Nexus Prime|multiformed legendary figures]] and [[Cyber Caliber|weapons out of myth]] threatening to [[Requiem Blaster (Prime)|tear apart the planet]].

The situation resolved itself once Prime got a heading for the AllSpark in a flash of insight. Unfortunately, Megatron shared that insight, and the two Cybertronian forces began a race to acquire the prize. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Universe''===
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==Toys==
===Bot Shots===
[[Image:Bot Shots S1 BP003 Prowl.jpg|thumb|300px|Wait...I'm a repaint of him?]]
*'''Sentinel Prime / Prowl / Bumblebee''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BP003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''540'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''255'''
***''Sword strength'': '''835'''

: A [[redeco]] of ''[[Bot Shots]]'' [[Barricade (Prime)#Bot Shots|Barricade]], Prowl is a teeny little police car with a spring-loaded automatic transformation to robot mode triggered when his front bumper is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels. He was only available in a three-pack with [[Sentinel Zeta Prime#Bot Shots|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Prime)#Bot Shots|Bumblebee]].

==Notes==
*Prowl is based on [[Prowl (G1)|Generation 1 Prowl]], but his weapons and tactics—using stars and knives to fight Sentinel's prison guards, as well as some aspects of his facial design—bear some similarity to [[Prowl (Animated)|''Animated'' Prowl]], along with his [[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]] background.
*He isn't in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'' games]]. We blame his absence from the [[live-action film series|films]].

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