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Playback (G1)

2011-10-12T15:14:00Z

76.242.36.81: /* Notes */

{{factions|autobot}}
:''Playback is an [[Autobot]] [[Autobot Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Playback body.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Leaving aside the question of why he needs a magnifying glass to find a hole as big as his head, shouldn't he have zoom capabilities built into his optics?]]
<strike>'''Playback''' isn't live, he's on tape!</strike>

'''Playback''' isn't '''a'''live, he's '''a''' tape!

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comic continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[Image:Playback rise.jpg|left|150px|thumb|I LIVE! I HUNGER!]]
''Playback was an Autobot prisoner of war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He was released, along with [[Hosehead]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]], to be hunted by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] as part of a Decepticon High Command test to see if the hunter was fit to become high commander of the Decepticons. Playback was the first of the three Autobots to die, left to rot on a beach, which attracted the attention of the Autobot detective [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]. While his noisy partner [[Siren]] chased after Hosehead and Horsepower, Nightbeat investigated Playback's body, determining that the dead Autobot was a Decepticon prisoner of war.''

''Further investigation was interrupted when Siren and Hosehead returned with Thunderwing in tow. Nightbeat's Headmaster unit [[Muzzle]] linked up with Playback's corpse, frightening the Decepticon enough for the Autobots to destroy Playback's fuel tanks, sending a burning Thunderwing into the sea.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}
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==Notes==
[[Image:Casettebot model.jpg|right|100px|thumb|]]
* When pressed for information, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|said]] Playback was "a Cybertronian Autobot, another of the cassette ones, I think."
* As the title of the story in which Playback appears is an obvious homage to the classic detective novel ''[[Wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Wikipedia:Raymond Chandler|Raymond Chandler]], writer [[Simon Furman]] most likely took Playback's name from the title of a different Chandler novel, ''[[Wikipedia:Playback (novel)|Playback]]''.

==External links==
* [http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/playback.htm Playback on the Obscure Transformers Website]
* [http://transfans.co.uk/comics_guide_detail.php?id=305&page=15 Transformers #244 Letters Page on Transfans.co.uk]

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:European-original characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]

Playback (G1)

2011-10-12T15:11:36Z

76.242.36.81:

{{factions|autobot}}
:''Playback is an [[Autobot]] [[Autobot Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Playback body.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Leaving aside the question of why he needs a magnifying glass to find a hole as big as his head, shouldn't he have zoom capabilities built into his optics?]]
<strike>'''Playback''' isn't live, he's on tape!</strike>

'''Playback''' isn't '''a'''live, he's '''a''' tape!

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comic continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[Image:Playback rise.jpg|left|150px|thumb|I LIVE! I HUNGER!]]
''Playback was an Autobot prisoner of war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He was released, along with [[Hosehead]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]], to be hunted by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] as part of a Decepticon High Command test to see if the hunter was fit to become high commander of the Decepticons. Playback was the first of the three Autobots to die, left to rot on a beach, which attracted the attention of the Autobot detective [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]. While his noisy partner [[Siren]] chased after Hosehead and Horsepower, Nightbeat investigated Playback's body, determining that the dead Autobot was a Decepticon prisoner of war.''

''Further investigation was interrupted when Siren and Hosehead returned with Thunderwing in tow. Nightbeat's Headmaster unit [[Muzzle]] linked up with Playback's corpse, frightening the Decepticon enough for the Autobots to destroy Playback's fuel tanks, sending a burning Thunderwing into the sea.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Casettebot model.jpg|right|100px|thumb|]]
* When pressed for information, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|said]] Playback was "a Cybertronian Autobot, another of the cassette ones, I think."
* As the title of the story in which Playback appears is an obvious homage to the classic detective novel ''[[Wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Wikipedia:Raymond Chandler|Raymond Chandler]], it is possible that writer [[Simon Furman]] took Playback's name from the title of a different Chandler novel, ''[[Wikipedia:Playback (novel)|Playback]]''.

==External links==
* [http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/ukcomics/playback.htm Playback on the Obscure Transformers Website]
* [http://transfans.co.uk/comics_guide_detail.php?id=305&page=15 Transformers #244 Letters Page on Transfans.co.uk]

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:European-original characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]
[[Category:Mini-Cassettes]]

Headmaster (technology)

2011-10-12T15:10:09Z

76.242.36.81: /* Fiction-only Headmasters */

{{picsneeded}}
{{disambig3|Headmaster}}
[[Image:Trialbyfire-headmaster-rollcall.jpg|right|300px|thumb|This probably hurts.]]
'''Headmasters''' are a type of symbiotic variation on the [[Transformer]] lifeform in which a smaller being, frequently but not exclusively organic, [[Transformation|transforms]] into the head of a larger robot. Headmaster bonding typically occurs between two sentient beings, but there have been cases in which the head or the body (such as the [[Transtector]]s or the [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] clones created by the [[Machination]]) is a non-sentient construct controlled entirely by the other partner.

When it occurs between two sentient beings, the benefits of the Headmaster procedure are many: The partner gains control of a larger, more powerful body, and the Transformer gains an extra perspective on the battlefield, the psychic [[binary bonding]] involved allowing him to draw on both his own ideas, tactics, and instincts as well as those of his partner as quickly as if they were coming from his own head (since they are). Agility, reaction speed, and targeting accuracy are often enhanced by the process.

The Headmaster process leaves its subject Transformers with one glaring disadvantage: when separated from their partners, they have no head. Most can continue to function as vehicles without their partners, but can do little in robot mode besides stand around.

In conversation, the term "Headmaster" can apply to both the small partner (the head) and the significant other (the body).

==Fiction==
{{note|Early promotional materials, including [[catalog]]s and toy [[commercial]]s, advertised the Decepticon Nebulan partners as "trainers" for their beastly companions, rather than equal partners. One [[commercial]] took this so far as to have the "trainers" holding whips and ordering Weirdwolf, et. al. to jump through hoops of fire.}}
===Marvel Comics===
[[Image:Fortmaxgiveshead.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Next step: Pez dispensor.]]
The Headmaster technology was primarily the invention of the [[Nebulan]] scientist [[Arcana]] and was designed originally to let Nebulans utilize the bodies of [[Autobot]]s to defend their world, something they did not trust the Autobots enough to let them do on their own.

The organic Nebulans of the Headmaster pairings were able to transform by use of a special suit of "intra-restruction armor" and a "cybernetic mindlink helmet" {{storylink|All or Nothing!}} that interfaced with bio-cybernetic augmentation in the surgically altered humanoid. As described by Arcana, the process as originally enacted allowed the Autobots (still separate, disembodied heads at that point) to radio control their old bodies, while the Nebulan partners observed and planned strategy. This joint cooperation of two minds allowed greatly increased agility and superior aim.

The technology was implemented under dire circumstances, as the Nebulan capital city of [[Koraja]] was under siege by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons, who sought the surrender of five Autobots held in Nebulan custody. Five volunteer Nebulans underwent radical reconstructive surgery to allow them to bond with the five Autobots, including Fortress Maximus, Brainstorm, Hardhead, Chromedome and Highbrow. Now under Nebulan control, the Headmaster Autobots easily repulsed the Decepticon attack, despite being outnumbered two to one. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}

The Decepticons reluctantly accepted the possible benefits of this cooperation with organics, and six of them underwent the Headmaster process, with Scorponok bonding to the Nebulan Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. Luring Fortress Maximus's team into an ambush, Scorponok and his fellow Headmasters Mindwipe, Skullcruncher, Weirdwolf, Apeface and Snapdragon soon defeated their foes, blasting them unconscious, which caused their heads to disconnect and return to human form. {{storylink|Love and Steel!}} The Autobot-allied Nebulans were taken captive and strung up in a suspended animation prison, while Scorponok's Headmasters rampaged across Nebulos, leaving Nebulan ruins and Autobot corpses in their wake. Realizing that his mind was being re-written by Scorponok, Zarak used the last shreds of his sanity to free the Autobot Headmasters. Fortress Maximus and his band soon left Nebulos for Earth, with the Decepticons in pursuit. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[Image:Trialbyfire-cerebros-headpitch.jpg|left|150px|thumb|The Headmaster Process: When your head absolutely positively has to get there overnight.]]
En route to Earth, Fortress Maximus was rebuilt into a larger form, with ''two'' Headmaster components: a small robot that transformed into his head, and his partner Galan, who now became the small robot's head.

The two squads of Headmasters soon faced off again on Earth, in a battle inside the cave that had previously held the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. During the battle, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok both used their smaller Headmaster components to travel through an increasingly tight series of tunnels. Doing so, however, exposed Fortress Maximus's partner Galan to attack, and he died saving the Earthling, Spike. With Galen killed while separated from Fortress Maximus, Spike demonstrated that it was possible for an organic to control/communicate with the larger robot's form with only the control helmet, as he took control of Fortress Maximus with nothing more than Galen's control helmet. Rejuvenated by their leader's attack, the Autobots soon drove off the Decepticon Headmasters. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}}

The Headmasters largely stayed in the background during most of the Autobots' subsequent adventures, though Fortress Maximus remained a major player in the events leading up to the Underbase catastrophe.

Later, a weakness of the ad hoc nature of the Headmaster partnership became apparent. As the partnerships continued, two minds could meld into one, or conflict on nearly every level. For example, Spike and Fortress Maximus were two separate minds sharing one body, with each dominant in his own form and able to converse with the other; while Lord Zarak and Scorponok seemed to reach some sort of fusion where he was both beings merged into one, with Scorponok to all intents and purposes becoming entirely subsumed by Zarak's personality (to the extent that, [[On the Edge of Extinction!|during the battle with Unicron]], "Scorponok"'s interior monologue identifies himself as being Zarak merely filling the role of Scorponok, implying that the original Scorponok psyche was essentially gone). A similar situation developed between Powermaster [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Hi-Q]], except in the reverse.

====Classics====
{{note| The ''Classics'' stories take place after the end of the original Marvel Comic, but in a [[splinter timeline]] that does not include the events of the Marvel UK-exclusive stories or Generation 2.}}
The Headmaster process is reversible. {{storylink|Cheap Shots}}

===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Image:Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG|right||thumb|*gasp* I promise you! You shall be avenged!]]
In this continuity, the Headmaster process was the brainchild of [[Brainstorm]], who had advocated that using an organic partner would be a good strategy in combat with the [[Decepticon]]s. It also seems much less invasive for the organic humanoid involved. No surgical alteration is apparently needed on their part, and the process seems to consist mainly of altering the Transformer's head to 1) have a control center for a partner to sit at inside and 2) transform around the partner into a fancy [[exosuit]]. While some who have undergone it have commented at feeling a closer bond with their respective partners, there is no reason to believe there is any true psychic connection between them as in the binary bonding of other continuities. Before detaching his head, the Transformer downloads his memory and personality into his auxiliary memory circuits in his chest. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}}

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
Attempting to escape the wars on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a group of diminutive Cybertronians (most of them only a little larger than human beings) fled the planet, only to have their ship crash on the hazardous, inhospitable planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]. The need for survival fostered several technological advances (helped in part by technology derived from a [[Fortress Maximus (RID)|time-traveling spaceship]] that crashed on the planet sometime later). Chief among them was the creation of "[[Transtector]]s": large, lifeless robot bodies which the smaller robots could connect to and control. The small Cybertronians had not yet actually mastered the art of [[transformation]], however, and had to undergo rigorous mental and physical training in order to become "Headmasters" (their name, obviously enough, derived from the planet itself).

The Headmasters subsequently migrated from Master and joined the Autobot and Decepticon forces on Cybertron and [[Earth]], leading to a lengthy conflict that ultimately resulted in both factions departing the Earth for a prolonged period of time. With easy access to Earth cut off, leaving its safety in doubt should it be attacked by Decepticons in the future, the Autobots on Master created [[Master-Brace]]s, technology that harnessed the mysterious [[Chōkon Power]] to transform humans and allow them to connect to Transtectors and become Headmasters themselves. A set of six Master-Braces and Transtectors were dispatched to Earth, but half the shipment was stolen by Decepticons, and both factions subsequently used the technology to turn three young human children in Headmasters in defense of Earth.

Cybertronian Headmasters possess numerous energy-manipulating superpowers. They are able to exchange Transtectors freely with their fellow Headmasters to increase their power levels and can link up with each other in the [[Head Formation]] for various destructive results. In contrast, human Headmasters do not possess any of these powers, but have their own natural physical strength and reflexes enhanced many times over by the energies filling their bodies. Their cellular structures undergo some form of ill-defined holistic transformation which allows them somehow to transform their actual, physical bodies into heads. However, unlike organic Headmasters in other continuities, they do not have to undergo any ''permanent'' alteration; they are capable of "turning off" their powers and becoming normal human beings with ease, the only drawback being that they are unable to remove the Master-Braces that give them their powers.

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[Image:Headmaster mech DW mtmte.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Did they include a bathroom in this thing?]]Headmaster technology was originally developed on Cybertron, to be used in conjunction with [[Micromaster]] technology. It would have allowed a normal-sized robot to transform its head into a small body to conserve [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. The process was perfected on Nebulon to allow organic beings to act as the head of a Cybertronian body, using aspects of [[combiner]] technology.
The process was designed to put the Nebulon in control of the body, but the actual process as perfected by [[Brainstorm]] and [[Arcana]] resulted in a mental bonding and partnership, with the robot generally maintaining control. Modified organic beings are able to contort during transformation, though appear normal when not wearing the Headmaster armor. Out of their armor, they are indistinguishable from unmodified beings, though they possess improved strength and endurance.

Profile art depicted the Headmaster heads as larger "mecha" that the human partners pilot. {{storylink|More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye}}

===IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity===
{{ongoing}}
[[Thinkbox]] was an ancient Headmaster, later retrieved by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from the [[Murkdipper]] on the planet [[Spindrift]]. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3}}

In the modern period, Headmaster technology is a product of the shadowy human organization known as the [[Machination]], using technology developed by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] on the planet [[Nebulos]]. Following a tip offered to him by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] found schematics for enhancing a biological entity with Cybertronian technology, in effect producing a "transformable man". Magnus was able to determine that Nebulan businessman [[Zarak (G1)|Mo Zarak]] had been subjected to this process shortly before Scorponok fled the premises. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ultra Magnus}}

Approximately 18 years later, the Machination captured [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Hunter O'Nion]]. They dismantled Sunstreaker and subjected Hunter to an extensive regimen of surgery and implants. Subsequently, they attempted to brainwash him into one of their soldiers. {{storylink|Escalation (IDW)|Escalation}} Hunter resisted and was able to contact Sunstreaker, allowing him to become a Headmaster to fight for the Autobots. {{storylink|Devastation (IDW)|Devastation}}

Initially, all Headmasters created by the Machination were non-sentient, guided by their human pilots. As well, all of these models were [[Sunstreaker clone|replicas]] of Sunstreaker, wired into the Autobot's actual head to help coordinate their movements. However, the success of these initial forays into the technology allowed for the first true binary-bond, enabling [[Abraham Dante]] to combine with his Decepticon master Scorponok to facilitate his rebirth. {{storylink|Devastation (IDW)|Devastation}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Brainstorm toy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Brainstorm]]

* '''Autobot Headmasters''' (1987)
** [[Brainstorm]] with [[Arcana]]
** [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] with [[Stylor]]
** [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] with [[Duros]]
** [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] with [[Gort]]
:The four large Autobot Headmasters were sold boxed. They transform into futuristic/Cybertronian vehicles. Each has a vehicle mode compartment that the smaller Nebulan figure can ride in. Plugging in the transformed Nebulan in robot mode activates tumblers in the robot's chest, activating three Tech Spec readouts.

[[Image:G1FortressMaximus toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fortress Maximus]]
* '''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1987)
** [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] with [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]
:He's big. Yeah yeah yeah.

* '''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1987)
** [[Skullcruncher]] with [[Grax]]
** [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] with [[Vorath]]
** [[Weirdwolf]] with [[Monzo]]
:The three Decepticon Headmasters were sold boxed, and transform into mechanical creatures. Each has a beast-mode compartment that the Nebulan can ride in. Like their Autobot counterparts, their chests contain tumblers activated by plugging in a head-mode Nebulan, which reveal three Tech Spec graph readouts.

* '''Headmaster Horrorcons''' (1987)
** [[Apeface]] with [[Spasma]]
** [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] with [[Krunk]]
{{main|Horrorcon}}
:The Horrorcons change from jets to beasts to robots. The Nebulan partners become the head of both the robot and beast modes.

* '''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1987)
** [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] with [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]
: He's not small. No no no.

[[Image:Headmasterteens.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Headmaster Warriors]]
* '''Headmaster Warriors''' (1987)
**[[Kirk]]
**[[Rodney]]
**[[Loafer]]
**[[Lione]]
**[[Toraizer]]
**[[Shuffler]]
:These exclusive [[Headmaster Warrior]]s represent Japanese-style Headmasters who have yet to receive Transtectors, though they are compatible with any of the other 1987 Headmasters' toys. They are extremely rare.

[[Image:G1Nightbeat toy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nightbeat]]

* '''Autobot Headmasters''' (1988)
** [[Hosehead]] with [[Lug]]
** [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] with [[Muzzle]]
** [[Siren]] with [[Quig]]
:The three 1988 Autobot Headmasters transform into Earthen land vehicles. Siren and Hosehead share a rescue vehicle theme, occasionally causing inattentive fans to mistake Nightbeat for a police car. The Nebulan companions are considerably smaller and simpler than those of the 1987 Headmasters, although they are backwards compatible with the previous year's figures. In fact, when plugged into 1987 Headmaster bodies, the 1988 Nebulan figures display the Tech Spec readouts for their 1988 robot counterparts, suggesting the simplification of the tumbler system on the Tech Spec readouts into a simple fixed display to have been a late design decision. Each comes with a "helmet" to complete the robot's head; the helmet doubles as a vehicle-mode "seat" for the figure to sit in. Two small pistols attach to the "helmet" in robot mode to complete the head.

[[Image:G1 frangry toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Fangry]]
* '''Decepticon Headmasters''' (1988)
** [[Fangry]] with [[Brisko]]
** [[Horri-Bull]] with [[Kreb]]
** [[Squeezeplay]] with [[Lokos]]
:The three small Decepticon Headmasters transform into fictional monsters. Like their Autobot counterparts, they feature smaller and simpler Nebulan figures than their 1987 predecessors, and are similarly backwards compatible with their larger forerunners, despite their smaller size. Unlike the Autobots, they do not sport additional "helmets" and pistol/antennae.

* '''Headmaster Juniors''' (1988)
** [[Cab]]
** [[Shūta Gō|Goshooter]]
** [[Minerva (Masterforce)|Minerva]]
** [[Bullhorn]]
** [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]]
** [[Wilder]]
:The 1988 Headmaster molds were released in Japan as the [[Headmaster Junior]]s, representing totally different characters though only Goshooter and Minerva were significantly [[Redeco|redecoed]] from the US versions.

[[Image:Blackzarak toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Black Zarak - meaner, and ''uglier''.]]

* '''Headmaster Autobot Base''' (1988)
** [[Grand Maximus]] with Grand, Gran and [[Cog (Masterforce)|Cog/Onomisu/Koka]]
:A redeco of Fortress Maximus with an additional [[Pretender]] shell. This Japanese exclusive represented Fortress Maximus's younger brother in ''[[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''.

* '''Headmaster Decepticon Base''' (1988)
** BlackZarak with Black Roritchi
:A redeco and [[retool]] of the Scorponok mold, this was another Japanese exclusive representing the same character, but ''meaner''.

==Merchandise==
===Super-God Masterforce===
*'''Headmaster-Braces—Goshooter''' (1988)

:Japanese exclusive role-play toys that represent the [[Master-Brace]]s used by the [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]]. They are packaged with a role-play communications device.

==Fiction-only Headmasters==
*'''Autobots'''
** [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]/[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}
** [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]/[[Galen]] {{storylink|Broken Glass!}}
** [[Playback]] {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}
** [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]/[[Hunter O'Nion]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation issue 4}}
*'''Decepticons'''
** [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]/[[Abraham Dante]] {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation issue 6}}
*'''Others'''
** [[Thinkbox]] {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 3|Heart of Darkness #3}}

==Homages==
* The [[Unicron Trilogy]] featured a few examples of smaller robots ([[Mini-Con]]s) becoming the heads of larger ones.
** ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] had two Mini-Con drivers, [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]], for his motorcycle form that could become individual heads, or combine together into a [[Mirror|larger robot/driver]].
** ''Armada'' [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]]'s Mini-Con partner [[Rollout (Armada)|Rollout]] became the head (and part of the chest) of the larger robot, who could in turn become armor for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]].
* ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]] ''[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] also had a Headmaster partner, Omega, which combined with two vehicles to form a large robot.
* The ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' series features a supervillain named [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] who can use a flying robotic head that aggressively removes another robot's head and replaces it with itself. The head itself can also transform into a small robot mode.

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Spock

2011-10-04T01:38:56Z

76.242.36.81: Too much.

{{disambig2|the guy who is definitely Spock|the actor who may<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/0786861827/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1310053685&sr=8-3 I Am Spock]''</ref> or may not<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/1568496915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310053685&sr=8-1 I Am Not Spock]''</ref> also be Spock|Leonard Nimoy}}

[[Image:Treks02e01 - Spock goes nuts.jpg|thumb|250px]]

'''Spock''' is a (presumably alien) humanoid with pointy ears. He is apparently of sound mental health most of the time.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 comics===
Included among the glimpses of various realities afflicted by the zombie-virus was Spock holding what appears to be a ray-gun. {{storylink|Infestation issue 1|Infestation #1}} Later, his familiar pointy-eared figure could be seen in civilian dress holding off a mob of zombies with a wooden stick. {{storylink|Infestation issue 2|Infestation #2}}

===''Dark of the Moon'' film===
[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] identified a ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode he was watching as "the one where Spock goes nuts". {{storylink|Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Infestation sketch 09.jpg|thumb|]]
* [[Leonard Nimoy]] portrayed Spock on ''Star Trek''.
* Wheelie's line is the first of three references to Spock in ''Dark of the Moon'', referencing Nimoy's presence among the cast as the voice of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. The second is Sentinel's own line, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Finally, Bumblebee plays a voice clip of Spock saying "I will always be your friend", from ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''.
*Spock is involved in the crossover event, ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]''. As he did not interact with the ''Transformers'' universe in that event, his actions are not detailed here.
*Spock's logical character was the inspiration for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]].<ref>[http://rustingcarcass.yuku.com/topic/954/t/Bob-Budiansky.html Rusting Carcass interview] with [[Bob Budiansky]]</ref>
*In the ''Infestation'' sketchbook, a zombified, rotting Spock is shown clawing his way out of a Mark VI torpedo casing filled with highly-evolved worms. The notion that Spock could "rise from the dead" out of a Mark VI torpedo casing is of course ridiculous and merits no further discussion.
{{--}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Spock Spock] at Memory Alpha
* [[Wikipedia:Spock|Spock]] at Wikipedia

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