Headmaster (Animated)

2008-03-31T19:15:08Z

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:''The Headmaster is a [[human]] in the [[Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Headm_anim.JPG|right|thumb|300px|HeadOn. Apply directly to the Bulkhead.]]

The '''Headmaster''' is the alternate identity of '''Henry Masterson''', a disgruntled [[Sumdac Systems]] employee with the ability to take control of robots by replacing their heads with robotic heads that he controls. He's a gigantic dork who plays too many video games and seems to have crossed the line between reality and fiction. His vocabulary is littered with slang from teh internets, with terms like "n00bs" and "Total ownage!"

The Headmaster's control unit possesses a veritable arsenal of onboard weaponry, with grenades, missiles, and lasers, the latter of which can be used for combat or to decapitate his robot victims. The control unit can also transform from head to bipedal robot.

{{quote|Total OWNAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!|The Headmaster...all the time|"[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Animated===
:''Voice actor'': [[Alexander Polinsky]] (English), [[Alexander Doering]] (German)

[[Image:Henrymastersonandhead.jpg|left|200px|thumb|All ur face r belong 2 us.]]
Henry Masterson grew up tinkering with Sumdac Systems robots and got a job as an engineer for them at a relatively young age. His genius caught the attention of his superiors, and he eventually had the honor of presenting his "Headmaster" project, a human-piloted transforming battle suit that could remove and replace the heads of automatons, to [[Isaac Sumdac]] himself. The demonstration went awry when the Headmaster unit proved to be too heavy for his robotic test subject, making it collapse and sending its weaponry towards [[Detroit]]. Sumdac, incensed by Masterson's plans to put his invention to military use, fired him in a fit of Donald Trump-esque rage.

Masterson apparently absconded with his Headmaster prototype and went off to sulk and play with his Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots. He decided that having his own company would be "wicked sweet", as would exacting his revenge on Sumdac. Needing a robot sturdy enough to support his control unit, he chanced upon a news report on [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]. The emo jerk ambushed and decapitated Bulkhead and subsequently went on a rampage in the Autobot's body.

[[Image:Headmastertotalownage.jpg|right|thumb|150px|im inside ur body shootn ur doods]]
He demolished several Sumdac [[police drone]]s en route to a solar power plant. Dubbing himself "the Headmaster", he hijacked local television broadcasts to deliver his ultimatum: Unless he was paid $700 billion, personally delivered by Isaac Sumdac, he would set the [[solar fusion reactor]] to overload, which would result in the obliteration of the entire state of [[Michigan]] (including Masterson himself). Sumdac arrived in a [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|tractor trailer]], accompanied by [[Sari Sumdac|his daughter]], [[Captain Fanzone]], and a [[Bumblebee (Animated)|small]] [[Prowl (Animated)|convoy]] of [[Ratchet (Animated)|vehicles]]. Sumdac offered Henry the money, but the Headmaster grabbed him and announced his intention to take the ransom money and destroy the city of Detroit anyway, then use the threat of future robot attacks to sell his Headmaster units to the military.

When he checked the trailer for the money, he found only the enraged head of Bulkhead. The convoy of vehicles revealed themselves as the [[Autobot]]s and engaged the Headmaster in combat. After taking a pounding from them, the Headmaster unleashed the weaponry of his control unit. He managed to corner Optimus Prime and began to slice the Autobot leader's head off. Prevented from doing so thanks to an ambush by Bulkhead's severed head, the Headmaster was soon felled by Prowl. Masterson decided to flee, but his flying Headmaster unit was knocked out of the sky by the still-disembodied Bulkhead. With the Autobots distracted by the overloading reactor, the Headmaster transformed his head unit into robot mode and fled. {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}}

The Headmaster will come back to pwn some n00bs later on. Hax! {{storylink|Return of the Headmaster (episode)|Return of the Headmaster}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
*'''Bulkhead''' (Leader, 2008)
:The Headmaster appears as a second head that can be fitted over Bulkhead's head. This feature is available on all Leader class toys. Applying the head alters the sound gimmicks of said toys, causing them to play clips of the Headmaster. However, he seems to lack the ability to transform into the robot mode briefly seen in his debut episode.

==Trivia==
* The Headmaster is the first ''Animated'' supervillain to escape capture by the end of the episode. Guess he isn't a ''total'' loser.
* Like [[Nanosec|some]] villains in the series, his real name is a pun on his eventual supervillain name.
* Because the Headmaster is not an actual Transformer, his transformation sound is very different.
* Headmaster seems to be the Transformers equivalent of [[Wikipedia:Control Freak (villain)|Control Freak]] from the [[Wikipedia:Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans cartoon]], even having the same voice actor, [[Derrick Wyatt|creator]], and similar manner of speaking. Although Headmaster's peculiarities are centered around computers, Control Freak's were centered around television.
* His costume and robot head appear to be based on [[Marvel Comics]]' [http://en.marveldatabase.com/Galactus_%28Earth-616%29 Galactus].
* He is every phony Internet tough guy you've ever met.

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