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Robots Video Arcade

2007-05-18T04:25:54Z

75.132.102.22: /* Animated continuity */

:''The Robots Video Arcade is a [[Places|place]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Arcade_Front.jpg|thumb|250px|Seriously, how did you not notice the hydrant that's HALF THE SIZE OF YOUR CAR?!]]

The '''Robots Video Arcade''' is where [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] like to goof off when they're supposed to be getting a new polarizer for [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. The place apparently only allows 12- to 34-year-olds, but it has many of the popular video games of 1985, including:

*''Robot Resource''
*''Ha Ha Ha'' (which may be the same as ''Resource'')
*''Oh!!''
*''Pan!!''
*''Chu!!''
*''SFX''
*''Ho''-something (''Hot? [[Hojoni]]?'')

You can find it next to the Rose Beauty Saloon [sic]. Look for [[Carly|Carly's]] car violating several laws of traffic and physics.

{{ - }}

==Fiction==

===Animated continuity===
[[image:Arcade_RobotResource.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Here I am revered,'' Bumblebee thought, ''and the robots do <b>my</b> bidding.'']]
[[image:Arcade_OhPan.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Not pictured: SPOOM!!, SHEEEAK!!, and NNNN!!]]
While running an errand for Wheeljack, Spike and Bumblebee spent some time at the Robots Video Arcade. Bumblebee attracted a crowd for his mad ''Robot Resource'' skillz (double bonus points on the first goal!), and a young lady asked Spike to introduce her to the "cute Autobot." Spike, possibly jealous, cut their meeting short with the classic my-oh-my-look-at-the-time excuse. But that didn't stop the girl from stalking her new acquaintances... and thus did Carly enter the Autobots' adventures. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}
[[image:Arcade_Hahaha.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The video game finds your human weaknesses amusing. And exploitable. Also, Spike? Avert your gaze, perv.]]
[[image:Arcade_ChuSFXHo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|That watch wasn't there two seconds ago!]]

[[Category: Businesses]]
[[Category: Generation 1]]
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Robots Video Arcade

2007-05-18T04:24:47Z

75.132.102.22: /* Animated continuity */

:''The Robots Video Arcade is a [[Places|place]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Arcade_Front.jpg|thumb|250px|Seriously, how did you not notice the hydrant that's HALF THE SIZE OF YOUR CAR?!]]

The '''Robots Video Arcade''' is where [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] like to goof off when they're supposed to be getting a new polarizer for [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. The place apparently only allows 12- to 34-year-olds, but it has many of the popular video games of 1985, including:

*''Robot Resource''
*''Ha Ha Ha'' (which may be the same as ''Resource'')
*''Oh!!''
*''Pan!!''
*''Chu!!''
*''SFX''
*''Ho''-something (''Hot? [[Hojoni]]?'')

You can find it next to the Rose Beauty Saloon [sic]. Look for [[Carly|Carly's]] car violating several laws of traffic and physics.

{{ - }}

==Fiction==

===Animated continuity===
[[image:Arcade_RobotResource.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Here I am revered,'' Bumblebee thought, ''and the robots do <b>my</b> bidding.'']]
[[image:Arcade_OhPan.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Not pictured: SPOOM!!, SHEEEAK!!, and NNNN!!]]
While running an errand for Wheeljack, Spike and Bumblebee spent some time at the Robots Video Arcade. Bumblebee attracted a crowd for his mad ''Robot Resource'' skillz (double bonus points on the first goal!), and a young lady asked Spike to introduce her to the "cute Autobot." Spike, possibly jealous, cut their meeting short with the classic my-oh-my-look-at-the-time excuse. But that didn't stop the girl from stalking her new acquaintances... and thus did Carly enter the Autobots' adventures. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}
[[image:Arcade_Hahaha.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The video game finds your human weaknesses amusing. And exploitable. Also, Spike? Avert your gaze, perv.]]
[[image:Arcade_ChuSFXHo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|What time is it in Dorklahoma?]]

[[Category: Businesses]]
[[Category: Generation 1]]
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Spike Witwicky (G1)

2007-05-09T19:04:21Z

75.132.102.22: /* Animated continuity */

:''Spike Witwicky is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[image:Lolpuberty.jpg|right|175px|thumb|Amazing what a bit of testosterone can do for a guy. Rawr.]]

'''Spike Witwicky''' is the oldest (and sometimes only) son of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Spike, like most Witwickys, has a tendency to form close bonds to the Autobots and become one of their main human allies.

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{{ - }}

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (US), [[Show Hayami]] → [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japan)

[[Image:Spike_SemiNude.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050131.html Batman can breathe in space.] Spike can talk through that scuba gear.]]
[[Image:Spike_ospit.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Awww snap.]]
In 1984, Spike was a 14-year-old adolescent working with his father [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] on an oil rig when the Decepticons attacked. After the Autobots rescued them, they volunteered to become their native guides to planet Earth.

Spike had many adventures with the Autobots, taking part in just about everything they did on Earth for at least the next few years. He became especially close friends with the little Autobot [[Bumblebee]]. In the course of these adventures he met [[Carly Witwicky|Carly]], an impetuous prodigy and MIT graduate. Despite being (much) smarter, older (she could drive), and hotter than him, Carly displayed a noticeable affection for the somewhat-dim Spike. They mated and produced [[Daniel Witwicky|offspring]].

[[Image:SpikeHeadmasterRebirth1.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Spike is BACK! ...and BLACK!]]

As an adult in the distant year 2005, Spike was stationed with Bumblebee on one of the Autobot's secret moonbases. He had a bit of a potty-mouth about being eaten by the monster-planet [[Unicron]] but was saved from its belly by his afforementioned offspring. Later, when the Autobots had regained control of the planet, he became Earth's ambassador or something. Marooned on the distant planet [[Nebulos]] he became a [[Headmaster]] partner to [[Cerebros|Cerebros]] and single handedly rebuilt an ancient city into [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|a giant transformer]].

He polished up good.

===Headmasters Cartoon===
Uh, disregard those last two sentences and add in some misogyny.

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''

Spike Witwicky was away at college for the first few years of the Autobot/Decepticon war on Earth until he returned home to find his younger brother [[Buster_Witwicky|Buster]] kidnapped by the Decepticons. Spike soon became the binary-bond partner to the [[Headmasters|Headmaster]] [[Fortress_Maximus_(G1)|Fortress Maximus]], after Fortress Maximus' first partner, [[Galen]], was killed in a battle with the Deception [[Scorponok_(G1)|Scorponok]].

Thereafter he struggled with balancing his responsibillities to his family with those to the Autobots. Once Buster was rescued, and with [[Optimus Prime]] returned to life to take his place as Autobot leader, Spike went into retirement, mothballing poor Max. This retirement wouldn't last however as it was interupted, first by a pair of Deceptioon [[Pretenders]], then by the crash of the [[Ark]] and a raving [[Galvatron]]. Through the course of these conflicts Spike learned that the [[binary bonding]] he had undergone with Maximus was far deeper and more permanent than he'd believed. Fortress Maximus was always there with him in his head, always a part of him. After his battle with Galvatron he seemed to have made peace with his connection to Fortress Maximus and his role as (perhaps) the last Autobot protector of Earth.

[[Image:Spikewitwicky2009.jpg|150px|right|thumb|In 2009, jheri curls return with a vengeance. Just you wait.]]
[[Image:Spikewitwickytimewars.jpg|150px|left|thumb|White jumpsuits were so 2006.]]
''In an alternate timeline in the year 2009, Decepticons had built a machine to destroy Earth while a space-time anomaly was eating entire planets. After [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] orchestrated a plan to travel twenty years back in time to the source of the anomaly, Spike Witwicky and his son Daniel accused Rodimus of shirking his responsibilities towards Earth and guilted Rodimus into allotting more troops to help destroy the Decepticons' machine.''

In another alternate timeline in the year 2009, Spike Witwicky was part of a very small Autobot/human resistance movement in a world where [[Galvatron II]]'s Decepticons controlled North America. The handful of Autobots who remained alive despaired and were on the cusp of giving up, but Spike and [[Lisa]] (who shared growing feelings for each other) guilted them into one last suicidal attack on Decepticon headquarters in New York before the rest of the world could unleash a nuclear holocaust onto America at midnight. Though there were several casualties, Spike managed to hoist an American flag on the Decepticon stronghold on live television, a symbolic measure which prompted the end of the planned nuclear strike. Before Galvatron II could respond, the Decepticon despot was abducted by [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] into another timeline.

====''Generation 2''====
[[Image:Spikewitwickyg2.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Now the jumpsuit's in BROWN?]]

Spike followed up on the now [[Megatron]]-controlled Ark, which he'd apparently stuffed Fortress Maximus aboard and then abandoned after his battle with Galvatron (great job protecting Earth there, "Last Autobot").

He reunited with Max and together they... um sort of stopped Megatron (well, delayed him a little... maybe) by throwing themselves into the ship's antimatter core.

He blowed up '''real good.
{{-}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===

It's to be assumed that Spike and his father, Sparkplug, met the Autobots early on in their time on Earth (in a similar fashion as Spike and Sparkplug did in the cartoon, or Buster and Sparkplug did in the Marvel Comics). Spike definitely had a younger brother named Buster (like in the Marvel comics), yet it was Spike who formed a close friendship with Bumblebee (like in the cartoon, rather than missing out on the first few years of the Witwicky family's interaction with the Transformers while engaging in drinking orgies at college, like he did in the Marvel comics). The exact details of the Witwicky's early years as the Autobots' human associates are therefore not known.

Somewhere in the time after 1984, Spike married Carly, who then gave birth to Spike's son, Daniel. After the explosion of the Ark II in 1999, which caused the death of Spike's father Sparkplug, Spike tried to leave his involvement with the Transformers behind and settled down with his wife and son in Cleveland, Ohio, trying to live a new life as a normal family. The newfound peace wouldn't last for long, though, as Spike was soon recruited by a shady military official named [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] seeking his help in reviving Optimus Prime, whose body his men had recently found in the Arctic. Spike, who had been entrusted by Prime with a fragment of the Matrix, used that fragment to bring Prime back to life. {{Storylink|Prime Directive, Part 1}} {{Storylink|Prime Directive, Part 2}}

Prime subsequently used the Matrix to revive and assemble a group of his Autobots, which he would then lead against Megatron's Decepticons. Meanwhile, Spike was imprisoned by General Hallo, who had double motives behind reviving the Autobots and even tried to kill them by bombing them. With the help of [[Larry|Larry, the World's Most Resourceful Janitor]], Spike was able to escape his cell and uncover Hallo's sinister schemes, but not in time to stop him from launching a nuclear strike against the Autobots which was ultimately averted when [[Superion]] sacrificed his life in order to make it detonate before it could reach its target. {{Storylink|Prime Directive, Part 5}} {{Storylink|Prime Directive, Part 6}}

Following these events, Spike once again returned to his family and tried to leave his past with the Transformers behind. A few months later, though, his old friend Bumblebee, who had just decided to quit the Autobot army following a fierce battle against [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], showed up by his house. Spike, frustrated that the Autobots refused to leave him alone, hurled a few nasty insults against his old buddy before changing his mind and joining him on a men's night out in the city. The follow-up scene of Carly shouting at Spike singing [[drinking_songs|drinking songs]] with Bumblebee was never published due to the untimely faltering of Dreamwave.

===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers'' continuity===
In response to the forming of the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and its commandeered Transformers, the United States government assembled a strike team dubbed [[G.I. Joe]]. Spike Witwicky (codename Spike) was listed on the roster, but was never seen. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs the Transformers, Part 2}}

''(Oddly, Spike Witwicky's was the only name of a military specialist on the roster which was not ordered last name, first name.)''

==Trivia==

*Spike and Buster were both derived from the same "young male human friend" character in early backstory material. For more on the name variation see [[Butch Witwicky]].

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Fortress Maximus with Spike''' (Headmaster, 1987)
:Spike was a [[Headmaster]] figure who came with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Gray and blue, he transformed into [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]]' head, who then in turn became Fortress Maximus' head. Although the tech specs referred to 'the Nebulan leader, Spike', most assume it was supposed to represent the character from TV, making this the first Transformers toy of an Earth human.

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Autobot Espionage Team'''
:PVC figures of Spike and Bumblebee came sold together as "Autobot Espionage Team." (At this point, Hasbro did not have the trademark rights to Bumblebee's name.) The two came packaged with HOC Fortress Maximus' right leg.

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Twirl (Armada)

2006-12-10T19:27:35Z

75.132.102.22: Editing the picture caption for Twirl.

:''Twirl is a [[Mini-Con]] in the [[Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] continuity.''

[[Image:Twirl.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This is totally awesome, like, ohmigosh!!]]

'''Twirl''' is the youngest and least serious member of the [[Sonic Assault Team]]. To many, she is a flighty, featherbrained ditz who is more interested in dancing and interior design than anything else. They are so right. To those who can understand Mini-Con speak, she has a chirpy, airheaded manner.

Despite this, she is a valued member of the Team, even though [[Falcia]] constantly cuts her down verbally. Twirl takes it all in stride, as she knows deep down Falcia cares about her. She's also formed a bond with the Autobot [[Ravenus]]. Her weapon mode is incredibly powerful; it's possible the main reason she's on the team is simply so she doesn't fall into [[Decepticon]] hands.

Falcia is ''not'' Twirl's mother, no matter what Twirl thinks. Both Falcia and [[Redline]] flatly and vehemently deny any claim of parentage. Falcia gets rather violent at the suggestion.

==Fiction==
===Micron Legends: Linkage Mini-Comics===

Twirl's [[Mini-Con storage panel]] was one of several held within Redline's internal compartment for safekeeping when the ''[[Exodus]]'' went down. When Falcia reactivated on [[Earth]] and found [[Servo]], she followed him to the [[Super Stunt Team]]'s new base and forcibly removed Twirl's panel from Redline. When she left to rejoin her teammate [[Combusta]], she was attacked by the [[Speed Chaser Team]] in [[Magnawing]] mode, and Twirl's panel was damaged.

[[Image:Twirl-Baby.jpg|left|thumb|Isn't this when Maury Povich usually shows up?]]

Twirl would have died there, but the Mini-Cons developed a plan to save her. They quickly put together a machine that would take energy from the [[spark frame]]s of Redline and Falcia to create a new body for Twirl while the two sent their consciousnesses into the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]] to retrieve Twirl's mind before it could diffuse and be lost forever. The plan was a success, and Twirl returned to full functionality.

She and Falcia accompanied [[Servo]] to the Autobots' base hidden in the mountains near the [[Cosmo Scope Research Center]] in Colorado, so he could tell the Mini-Cons who were under Autobot protection of their plans. Falcia threatened to flatten her after she made another remark about "family" when Falcia decided to stick with Redline for the time being rather than join the Autobots, as was her original plan.

Twirl and the other Mini-Cons set up machinery on one of the Hawaiian islands so Redline and Falcia could retrieve the [[Master Key]] and upgrade all Mini-Cons, freeing them from their servility programs and power-locks. The Speed Chaser team and [[Aqua Raider Team]] attacked to stop them, bringing with them the mutated [[Bulk]] Ravenus. Twirl was incapable of resisting Ravenus' enhanced [[Powerlinx]] command and linked with the monster against her will. During the link, she discovered Ravenus' true nature as an Autobot and begged the other Mini-Cons to spare his life after she was released from him by [[Kingbolt]].

[[Image:Twirl-wheee.jpg|right|thumb|WHEEE!]]

After undergoing the Master Key upgrade herself, Twirl went to [[Cybertron_(planet)|Cybertron]] with all of the other Mini-Cons to fight their creator, [[Unicron]]. In particular, she fought alongside Ravenus, who joined the fight wanting to make up for the wrong he did in his addicted, mutated form. One year after the battle, she returned to Earth and helped form an independent Mini-Con city.

==Toys==
===Armada===
*'''Twirl''' (Mini-Con, 2003)
: Twirl's toy is a [[redeco]] of the [[Air Military Mini-Con Team]] member [[Thunderwing_(Armada)|Thunderwing]], transforming into a stealth bomber, with a third, spinning-blade weapon mode. She was available only with the seventh volume of ''Micron Legend'' (the Japanese name for the ''[[Armada]]'' series) on DVD in Japan.

: She uses the same mold as [[Ichibi]], [[Razorclaw (Cybertron)|Razorclaw]], and [[Seeker (Energon)|Seeker]].

==Trivia==
* [[Linkage (comic)|Linkage]] author/illustrator [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] noted that he very specifically had Reese Witherspoon's performance in ''Legally Blonde'' in mind when writing Twirl.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/Twirl/twirl.htm Twirl at TFU.info]
*[http://members.fortunecity.com/msipher/transform/linkage/linkage.html "Official" Linkage mini-comic translations]

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Wheelie (G1)

2006-12-09T14:40:04Z

75.132.102.22: /* ''Headmasters'' (Japan-only) */

:''Wheelie is an [[Autobot]], you see, in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Wheelieg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"You give me sass, I kick your ass."]]

'''Wheelie''', so small, is an Autobot child. But when stakes are high, he gets mean and wild! He carries a slingshot that shoots hurtful things; they'll hit your nose (the projectile, it stings). He has a speech pattern that ends in like sounds. It's just his deal, like [[Warpath]]'s "Bam! Zounds!"

Some think he's annoying and wish he would die. His answer to that? Here's death in your eye.

''French-Canadian name:'' '''Tourbillo'''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (US), [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japan)

His spaceship, it crashed and turned into ash. But Wheelie not scared; he climbed out of there. The planet [[Quintessa]] he's on, but now his friends are all gone. He stays alive. The fierce survive.

Wheelie journeyed from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to [[Earth]], protecting a cog for all he is worth. [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] destroyed his ship, sent him and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] flying through space, but Wheelie not scared, shot a [[Sweep]] in the face! Stranded on Io, rescued by [[Marissa Faireborn|human chick]], [[lipole|bomb-bats]] destroy her ship, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx'll]] do the trick! Transformation cog delivered, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] is alive, 'Plex fights a dinosaur, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] takes a dive!

[[Image:Wheelie-hm.jpg|left|thumb|"It's too late for apologies!" Actual Wheelie dialogue.]]
====''Headmasters'' (Japan-only)====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japan)

Wheelie was too busy being a petulant teenager to rhyme. He blames everything on [[Chromedome]] and spends a lot of time hanging out with and/or making fun of Daniel.

At one point, he got drunk at a party and passed out while [[Hardhead]] sang karaoke and Chromedome danced with [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]].

===''Headmasters'' manga===

[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|thumb|Wheelie knows of many joys, best of all is supple young boys!]]

Shortly after the defeat of [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and began to attack! Wheelie, unprepared, took a kick right to the face. Soundblaster got all up in his grill, saying "Bitch! Know your place!" When [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]], took hostage [[Carly]] and [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]], [[Daniel Witwicky|Daniel]] went berserk and started to strike! Sending the Cassette dinosaurs running back home, Soundblaster was left open to an attack from [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. As the Autobots left Earth, Wheelie and Daniel said "Goodbye". They huggled and they snuggled and the reader just screamed "WHY!?!"

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''

''None too far did Wheelie roam - still, he called [[Quintessa]] his home. For Rodimus Prime he was a spy; he'd report on what the locals try. Wreck-Gar's rescue was his claim to fame, then helped the Junkions spoil the Quints' good name.''

[[Image:Wheeliedw.jpg|left|thumb|Wheelie is feral! Let's hope he's sterile.]]
===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] promised peace to all, but for that ruse Wheelie won't fall. He joined a team, he had a [[Gnaw (G1)|pet]]; they'll unveil Shockwave's evil threat.

[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Prime]] joins their side, but he's a brute, so tiny Wheelie bites his boot.

Many fans cried for the status quo, but Dreamwave decided 'twould not be so: When introduced this time, Wheelie did nae speak in rhyme!
{{-}}
===''Universe: The Wreckers'' comics===
[[Image:Wheeliewreckers.jpg|right|150px|thumb|For only Daniel [[Arcee (G1)|she]] cried, but Wheelie also died!]]

Many [[Nightbird]]s they fight; they attack left and right! [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Fujiyama]] in tow, so the Autobots must go! But [[Daniel Witwicky|Daniel]] and he have no room to flee. Wheelie is harmed, a blast in the back! Daniel's bombs are now armed; kamikaze attack. "Through all our lives, I've been your friend. But now it's time for this to end."

====''Universe'' comics====
Is it just me or alternate Wheelie? Fight inside [[Unicron]] and release [[energon]]! Trapped in a cage until the end of the age? Now bars are released, thanks to [[Trailbreaker|truck]] and a [[Silverbolt (BW) (Fuzor)|beast]]. Now Wheelie is free to fight and to flee!

===''Teletraan Go! Go!'' mini-comics===
[[Teletraan 15]]'s panties are so frilly and white. But when Wheelie peeked, [[Teletraan 10|10]] took this as a slight! [[Kup]] also came to give Wheelie a scolding, but then hugged 15, whose spine now needs remolding!

{{-}}
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Wheelie''' (Mini Vehicle, 1986)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-80'''

: Wheelie's toy transforms along Cybertronic vehicular norms. The fans' fancy he tickles, as the only new mold of the third-year [[Mini Vehicles]].

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed much later on, into an old friend of Prime's who was named [[Dion]].

*'''Future Cybertron''' (Transformers Collection, 2005)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF-20'''

: Wheelie was reissued in a Japanese "bookbox" set, with [[Targetmaster]] [[Kup]] and [[Recoil]], you bet! The reissue's different in an unexpected way; where the old face was orange, the new one is gray!

==Trivia==
*In the first commercial where Wheelie did appear, his voice didn't sound anywhere near! Though the actor was the same, much deeper Wheelie's voice came. In fact - and I'm sure you'll all agree - he sounded exactly like Johan's friend [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_and_Peewit Pee Wee]!

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Wheelie/wheelie.htm Wheelie at TFU.info, a really good site to which you should go.]

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Wheelie (G1)

2006-12-09T14:39:12Z

75.132.102.22: /* ''Headmasters'' (Japan-only) */

:''Wheelie is an [[Autobot]], you see, in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Wheelieg1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"You give me sass, I kick your ass."]]

'''Wheelie''', so small, is an Autobot child. But when stakes are high, he gets mean and wild! He carries a slingshot that shoots hurtful things; they'll hit your nose (the projectile, it stings). He has a speech pattern that ends in like sounds. It's just his deal, like [[Warpath]]'s "Bam! Zounds!"

Some think he's annoying and wish he would die. His answer to that? Here's death in your eye.

''French-Canadian name:'' '''Tourbillo'''

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (US), [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japan)

His spaceship, it crashed and turned into ash. But Wheelie not scared; he climbed out of there. The planet [[Quintessa]] he's on, but now his friends are all gone. He stays alive. The fierce survive.

Wheelie journeyed from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to [[Earth]], protecting a cog for all he is worth. [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] destroyed his ship, sent him and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] flying through space, but Wheelie not scared, shot a [[Sweep]] in the face! Stranded on Io, rescued by [[Marissa Faireborn|human chick]], [[lipole|bomb-bats]] destroy her ship, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx'll]] do the trick! Transformation cog delivered, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] is alive, 'Plex fights a dinosaur, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] takes a dive!

[[Image:Wheelie-hm.jpg|left|thumb|"It's too late for apologies!" Actual Wheelie dialogue.]]
====''Headmasters'' (Japan-only)====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Kazue Komiya]] (Japan)

Wheelie was too busy being a petulant teenager to rhyme. He blames everything on [[Chromedome]] and spends a lot of time hanging out with and/or making fun of [[Daniel]].

At one point, he got drunk at a party and passed out while [[Hardhead]] sang karaoke and Chromedome danced with [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]].

===''Headmasters'' manga===

[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|thumb|Wheelie knows of many joys, best of all is supple young boys!]]

Shortly after the defeat of [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and began to attack! Wheelie, unprepared, took a kick right to the face. Soundblaster got all up in his grill, saying "Bitch! Know your place!" When [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]], took hostage [[Carly]] and [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]], [[Daniel Witwicky|Daniel]] went berserk and started to strike! Sending the Cassette dinosaurs running back home, Soundblaster was left open to an attack from [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. As the Autobots left Earth, Wheelie and Daniel said "Goodbye". They huggled and they snuggled and the reader just screamed "WHY!?!"

===Marvel Comics continuity===
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''

''None too far did Wheelie roam - still, he called [[Quintessa]] his home. For Rodimus Prime he was a spy; he'd report on what the locals try. Wreck-Gar's rescue was his claim to fame, then helped the Junkions spoil the Quints' good name.''

[[Image:Wheeliedw.jpg|left|thumb|Wheelie is feral! Let's hope he's sterile.]]
===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] promised peace to all, but for that ruse Wheelie won't fall. He joined a team, he had a [[Gnaw (G1)|pet]]; they'll unveil Shockwave's evil threat.

[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Prime]] joins their side, but he's a brute, so tiny Wheelie bites his boot.

Many fans cried for the status quo, but Dreamwave decided 'twould not be so: When introduced this time, Wheelie did nae speak in rhyme!
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===''Universe: The Wreckers'' comics===
[[Image:Wheeliewreckers.jpg|right|150px|thumb|For only Daniel [[Arcee (G1)|she]] cried, but Wheelie also died!]]

Many [[Nightbird]]s they fight; they attack left and right! [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Fujiyama]] in tow, so the Autobots must go! But [[Daniel Witwicky|Daniel]] and he have no room to flee. Wheelie is harmed, a blast in the back! Daniel's bombs are now armed; kamikaze attack. "Through all our lives, I've been your friend. But now it's time for this to end."

====''Universe'' comics====
Is it just me or alternate Wheelie? Fight inside [[Unicron]] and release [[energon]]! Trapped in a cage until the end of the age? Now bars are released, thanks to [[Trailbreaker|truck]] and a [[Silverbolt (BW) (Fuzor)|beast]]. Now Wheelie is free to fight and to flee!

===''Teletraan Go! Go!'' mini-comics===
[[Teletraan 15]]'s panties are so frilly and white. But when Wheelie peeked, [[Teletraan 10|10]] took this as a slight! [[Kup]] also came to give Wheelie a scolding, but then hugged 15, whose spine now needs remolding!

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Wheelie''' (Mini Vehicle, 1986)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-80'''

: Wheelie's toy transforms along Cybertronic vehicular norms. The fans' fancy he tickles, as the only new mold of the third-year [[Mini Vehicles]].

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed much later on, into an old friend of Prime's who was named [[Dion]].

*'''Future Cybertron''' (Transformers Collection, 2005)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF-20'''

: Wheelie was reissued in a Japanese "bookbox" set, with [[Targetmaster]] [[Kup]] and [[Recoil]], you bet! The reissue's different in an unexpected way; where the old face was orange, the new one is gray!

==Trivia==
*In the first commercial where Wheelie did appear, his voice didn't sound anywhere near! Though the actor was the same, much deeper Wheelie's voice came. In fact - and I'm sure you'll all agree - he sounded exactly like Johan's friend [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_and_Peewit Pee Wee]!

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Wheelie/wheelie.htm Wheelie at TFU.info, a really good site to which you should go.]

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Space bridge

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75.132.102.22: /* Generation 1 Cartoon */

The '''space bridge''' appears in several Transformer continuities. The exact properties of the space bridge vary, but typically they serve as a more convienient means moving Transformers from one planet to another than the traditional means of space travel.

Space bridges are nonetheless distinct from Transwarp in that their primary function is movement through space, not time, though the time taken to traverse a space bridge seems to depend on the technology used.

==Generation 1 Cartoon==
The Space Bridge was apparently first conceived by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in 1984, as a means of transport back to Cybertron for the Decepticons stranded on Earth, and to allow them to ferry [[energon cube]]s to revitalize the planet. Capable of virtually instantaneous transport to other galaxies, the mechanics of the Space Bridge are not particularly clear, but appear to either involve some form of interdimensional displacement, or matter-energy transformation.

The Cybertronic end of the Space Bridge is a fixture in Shockwave's command centre, where it takes the form of a cylindrical tube resembling an Earthen elevator, the top of which projects outside of the centre's dome; it is through this open end that transportees enter or depart. The Earth-based end of the Space Bridge is decidedly more flexible - the Decepticons frequently constructed new Space Bridges in various locations, normally in the form of a large metal rings. Early Earth-built Space Bridge access points proved somewhat unstable, and in order to shuttle energon cubes, transportees were required to ferry them over the bridge a small vehicle, which rolled into the ring on a train-like track, and then had to be piloted along a "beam of light" with particular concentration. Some Decepticons displayed pronounced horror at being chosen for this unenviable task, and in the very first practice run of the mechanism, the villains opted to use the captive [[Sparkplug Witwicky]], rather than risk any of their number. Megatron, however, soon proved able to traverse the bridge without a craft, and the technology was apparently refined so that transportees and energon cubes merely had to enter the ring on their own to make the journey.

The Space Bridge technology was taken to its ultimately extent when the Decepticons constructed three colossal pylons that would generate a "space pyramid," the apex of which extended to Cybertron's location in another galaxy. Using this, Cybertron was transported into Earth's orbit for a brief period, but was later blasted off into space to save the planet. Cybertron remained in the Milky Way galaxy, however - perhaps the reduced distance between it and Earth could account for the increased safety of Space Bridge transit. The process could, however, still go wrong, as it did when the Decepticons attempted to convert a baseball field into a new Space Bridge site, and a malfunction blasted a small group of Transformers to an alien world of giants. The Space Bridge was also used for planetary transportation once more when the [[Combaticon]] [[Onslaught]] wired his missile guidance systems into it and used it's powers to redirect the orbit of Earth, intended to send it spiralling into the sun, only to be stopped by an Autobot-Decepticon team-up.

===Headmasters===

Although the Space Bridge fell into disuse when the Autobots relcaimed Cybertron in 2005, rather than dismantle it since [[Vector Sigma]] maintained an Autobot power balance on the planet, thereby rendering the Decepticons unable to use it - it is apparent that they studied and duplicated the technology, installing their own Space Bridge network that allowed for easy transport between Cybertron, Earth and the planet [[Athenia]], with fixed Space Bridge receptors in each base (the transport beam was, of course, now the traditional Autobot orange, as opposed to the Decepticons' iconic purple). Their failure to destroy the Decepticon Space Bridge, however, came back to bite them when the release of the [[Matrix]]'s energy to cure the [[Hate Plague]] caused Vector Sigma to destabilise in 2011, allowing the Decepticons to use the Space Bridge to invade Cybertron.

When [[Mars]] was destroyed by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], the gravimetric balance of the solar system was disrupted, making Space Bridge travel to Earth unstable. This soon ceased to be an issue, however, when the Decepticons headed off on an interplanetary energy raid, and, in order to slow the Autobots down, [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] destroyed the Earth-based Space Bridge, causing a chain reaction that detonated the entire network.

''('''Note:''' The destruction of the Space Bridge left the only means to travel to Earth as the [[Trainbot]]s and [[Fortress Maximus|Battleship Maximus]]. After the ''Headmasters'' series, this reduced ability to travel to Earth is one of the reasons for the heavy human involvement in the following series, ''[[Masterforce]]'', since Transformers are mostly unable to join the battle on Earth themselves.''

==Marvel Comics==
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''
[[Image:Spacebridgemarvelcomic.jpg|right|thumb|Get it? Space "bridge"? Ahahaha.]]
The space bridge was built by [[Straxus (G1)|Lord Straxus]]' Cybertronic Decepticons, in response to the discovery that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s lost group of Decepticons was alive and had set up operations on Earth. The bridge, which resembles a normal Earthen suspension bridge when not in use, has two halves; one which which remains stationary on Cybertron, and another which teleports to Earth. Passing through the bridge's central arch transports objects across vast distances, instantly and painlessly. Although a properly functioning space Bridge is a far more pleasant mode of transportation than the more fuel-efficient Autobot version, the [[Trans-Time Dimensional Portal]], an improperly calibrated space bridge will annihilate any object or being who attempts to pass through its arch. Lord Straxus illustrated this fact when [[Blaster]] sent him over the edge during transit.

The original space bridge was built from the vast body of [[Spanner (G1)|Spanner]], a neutral scientist who had been captured by Straxus's forces and forced to design the Bridge. ''After the space bridge was almost completely destroyed, a new Bridge was built to replace it.''

==Robots in Disguise==

==Dreamwave Generation 1 Comics==

==Unicron Trilogy==
Space bridges are the main mode of traveling in the Unicron Trilogy. Unlike their Generation 1 counterparts, they do not appear to need use of a fixed device at both ends.

They appear to change in variation from series to series, although this is likely simply due to art direction. In [[Armada]], the Transformers are 'stretched' into warp gates, while in [[Energon]] and [[Cybertron]], space bridges tend to appear as large holes in the sky that may or may not have a clear ramp leading into it.

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