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Diagnostic Drone

2026-04-28T23:05:15Z

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[[File:GrandMal Schematics.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Ahhhh... I am a genius. Heeheeheehee!]]
A '''Diagnostic Drone''' is a type of autonomous drone which generally assists [[Transformer]]s in performing administrative or technical tasks. They have some measure of artificial intelligence and are small, roughly ovoid devices with one visual sensor, two clawed arms, and two "wings". They can hover or fly. Diagnostic Drones are explicitly depicted as [[spark]]less. Several have been shown to have the ability to speak and use advanced experimental technology, but only one is known to have had apparent emotions and a sense of humor; that unit was either a true artificial intelligence, or a very good simulation of one.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====Theft of the Golden Disk====
[[File:Cryotekdrone.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb]]
A black and white Diagnostic Drone accompanied [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Christopher Gaze]] (Season 1), [[Paul Dobson]] (Season 2) (English), [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japanese)|[[Tong Chunguang]] (Chinese), [[Mino Caprio]] (Italian, first drone), [[Vladimiro Conti]] (Italian, first drone, ''[[The Weak Component]]''), [[Hans Hohlbein]] (German), [[Frédéric Meaux]] (French, first drone), [[Patrick Donnay]] (French, second drone), [[Sérgio Stern]] (Brazilian Portuguese, first drone), [[Walmir Barbosa]] (Brazilian Portuguese, second drone)}}
Diagnostic Drones were used by [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] during his tenure as ruler of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

One drone in particular served as Megatron's right-hand man. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}} This drone displayed a seemingly full range of emotions, although its ability to make decisions was handicapped in some ways by its programming. Despite this nearly full sentience, it was explicitly stated to have no spark.

After one of Megatron's many attempts to purge his systems of the [[Beast mode|organic components]], the drone informed Megatron that the procedure had been successful. It was proved wrong when Megatron became frustrated with his drones’ inability to take out the Maximals during their latest confrontation. Megatron scorched the Diagnostic Drone out of anger, though this left it relatively unharmed. When Megatron asked why his drones were having so much trouble with the small group of Maximals despite their technological superiority, the Diagnostic Drone suggested that free-will might be a factor. Megatron admitted that the drone might have a point, and created the Vehicon generals [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] and [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

The Diagnostic Drone continue to aid Megatron in his attempts to purge his body from its organic components, despite regularly warning the Vehicon leader that the procedures were still in their experimental stages. In the wake of a power-feedback, Megatron was rendered weak and unable to defend himself. The drone informed him that all planetary systems were down, and his forces would be unable to defend him until power was restored in half a solar-cycle. After the time period had passed, the drone informed Megatron that his strength was returning. Sure enough, all systems came back online immediately after. The Diagnostic Drone was surprised to see Megatron keep his end of a bargain he made with Rattrap, and allow the Maximals walk away from his citadel. Megatron explained that they could always liberate the Maximals’ sparks another day. {{storylink|The Weak Component}}

On yet another attempt at removing Megatron's organic half, the Diagnostic Drone reminded Megatron that the process of transplanting his spark into a purely technological body would be infinitely simpler. Megatron disregarded the idea, as it would mean leaving his spark vulnerable, if only for an instant. The drone's next suggestion was to capture Nightscream, who he believe generated a beast mode on an entirely inorganic planet. By studying whatever process spontaneously generated an organic half within Nightscream, the drone was confident it could rid Megatron of his own organic component. Megatron approved of this plan, and sent his three Vehicon generals to accompany the Diagnostic Drone on its hunt for the Maximal.

The Diagnostic Drone was able to lock onto Nightscream using his echo-location frequency. Tankor managed to acquire the bat, and the Vehicons began to make their way back to home base. En route, the Diagnostic Drone noted that Nightscream wasn't being repaired by their portable reparation chamber, but was healing due to properties inherent in his technogranic body. Intrigued, he demanded that Nightscream reveal to him the secret behind his healing process. In response, Nightscream blasted the drone, leaving it to be recovered by Tankor.

Away from prying eyes, Tankor reprogrammed the Diagnostic Drone to be loyal to him instead of Megatron. Tankor ordered the Drone to maintain a charade of loyalty toward Megatron, and to track down the Oracle's energy signature. The Drone was also instructed to sabotage all further attempts Megatron made to purging his body of its beast mode. {{storylink|Survivor}}

Later, the drone accompanied Tankor to the Oracle's location. Tankor tasked the drone to enter the Oracle, and retrieve the Key to Vector Sigma. The Diagnostic Drone succeeded and downloaded the key's code to Tankor.

After “Tankor” paid the Maximals a visit, and “overloaded” due to the Key's power, the Diagnostic Drone accompanied a group of Tank Drones to retrieve the general's “body.” In truth, the Tankor the Maximals had witnessed “dying” was a double, part of an elaborate ruse Tankor had set up to fool both Megatron and Optimus. {{storylink|The Key}}

Tankor fed words to the drone from a distance to get Megatron to go along with the next phase of his plan. The Diagnostic Drone informed Megatron that Tankor had “somehow” stumbled upon the key to Vector Sigma, and showed Megatron doctored footage showing Tankor's demise. The drone then encouraged Megatron to download the code to the Key to Vector Sigma to his Vehicon drones, and use its power on a planetary level. The drone almost flubbed the whole charade by continuing to parrot Tankor's words even as the Vehicon general rambled that Megatron would go mad and die due to the key's influence on his beast mode. Despite the drone quickly covering up his mistake, Megatron began to grow suspicious of the drone's behaviour.

The Diagnostic Drone next accompanied Thrust and Jetstorm on their search for a Maximal to test the key's power on, as per Megatron's instructions. Since Tankor's grand scheme necessitated that the Maximals be left alone for the time being, the drone kept the two Vehicon generals busy by insisting that his superior scanners detected Maximal signatures where there were none. Eventually, Blackarachnia came to them anyways. The Diagnostic Drone was knocked unconscious when Blackarachnia lashed out against Jetstorm. Rather than remain on-site, it returned to Megatron's inner sanctum to inform him that the Key's tests were not going smoothly. After the “organics” displayed the extent of their power, the Diagnostic Drone convinced Megatron to only download the Key's code to his Tank Drones, lest one of his two remaining generals grew ambitious and turned on him. Megatron agreed. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

The Diagnostic Drone returned to Tankor's side to inform him that his plan was going smoothly. Tank Drones were being loaded with the Key program, and all signs pointed towards Megatron intending to go through with unleashing the Key's power soon. Tankor and the drone then found out that Megatron had taken the precaution to disconnect the Tank Drones from Tankor's control, despite the Vehicon general's apparent demise. The Diagnostic Drone was tasked with generating a false vision through the Oracle, and goad Optimus Primal into provoking Megatron to use the Key on a planetary scale as soon a possible. It led Optimus to the Plasma Energy Chamber, and then informed Megatron that the Maximals had found the device. But Megatron had puzzled out that the Diagnostic Drone was no longer loyal to him by this point. After it attempted one too many times to goad him into unleashing his doomsday weapon, Megatron shut the drone down. {{storylink|End of the Line}}

Near the end of Megatron's rule, after his spark was de- and repolarized, his spark became stuck in a Diagnostic Drone. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Despite being trapped in this puny form, Megatron still proved himself to be a daunting opponent. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Nonetheless, the frame he was confined within could not suit his needs in his final confrontation against the Maximals. He put a new Diagnostic Drone in charge of constructing him a new body, using the specs of one of Optimus Primal's old bodies. Once the body was constructed, the Diagnostic Drone transferred Megatron's spark into it. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

The Maximals were soon felled by the Vehicon horde, and Diagnostic Drones brought the captured sparks of Optimus's troops to the spark containment chamber within the Grand Mal. They readied to open the containment chamber and allow Megatron access to the lifeforce of the Cybertronians within, but a stray shot destroyed the control panel. The drones were tasked at repairing the damage panel while Megatron amused himself at chasing Optimus around the city. When their work was finally complete, the drones opened the chamber, allowing Megatron to begin his grand ascension. Their fates after Cybertron's reformatting are unknown. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
Diagnostic Drones were put to use at the [[Vaults]] storing data cassettes. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

A similar drone later helped [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] carry out [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s plan to expose the core of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

===''TransTech''===
The case of D. Drone V [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] was mentioned during an argument regarding the [[G1 GoBots|GoBots]], and claims from [[Crystal Widow]] and [[Demolishor (TransTech)|General Demolishor]]. It is implied to relate to a manner of property dispute similar to what happened in ''Beast Machines''. Evidently, Tankor's misuse of Diagnostic Drone landed him in court. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}

===''Shattered Glass''===
[[File:Shattered Glass Diagnostic Drone.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|"So be it. Save his head. Dispose of the rest."]]
A Diagnostic Drone is seen along with [[Scrapper (SG)|Scrapper]] and [[Hook (SG)|Hook]], who are giving [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] medical treatment. This one has the addition of an adorable nurse's cap. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}}
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===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
[[File:DiagnosticDroneAAII.jpg|left|thumb|100px]]
On time off from [[Project Powermaster]], [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] reprogrammed a Diagnostic Drone into [[Tutorbot 2.0]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:IDWMtMtE 7 Drone.jpg|frame|Overlord? Interesting. Yeessss...]]
Multiples drones functioned as cameras, they retransmitted on live Megatron's call for recruitment into the [[Decepticon]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}}

A Diagnostic Drone assisted [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] with repairs aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On‎|Hangers On}}

Later, another medical Drone reacted to [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]'s mention of [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s name, and summoned [[Drift (G1)|someone]] to retrieve the evidence Alert had left with the comatose [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

One Drone was crushed by a [[Legislator]] in an attack on the medibay. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus}}

When he left the ''Lost Light'' aboard the ''[[O Fortuna]]'', [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]'s leaving present from [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]] and [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] contained a photograph of himself, Ratchet, [[Ambulon]] and the Diagnostic Drone. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

The Diagnostic Drone and Velocity were shown observing Ambulon through a time window after his passing. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] used the Diagnostic Drones to force [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] and his squad to leave the treatment facility. {{storylink|Escape Part One}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] sweeped up a Diagnostic Drone that was littering the floor of the Decepticon base. {{storylink|The Beautiful Flower Has Thorns? Temptation of the Female Soldier, Airachnid!}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:InexorableMarch Vehicons.jpg|thumb|left]]
After the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] had ended, Galvatron put the finishing touches on his own Vehicon generals with the aid of a Diagnostic Drone. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Megatron used Diagnostic Drones to repair and upgrade his front-line Vehicon soldiers. Although easily the most intelligent of the Vehicon drones, their combat abilities were quite lacking. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Notes==
*The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' Diagnostic Drone is a "virtual redeco" of the beast partner of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|''Titans Return'' Crashbash]].
*The "[[Sky Spy#The Functionist Universe|Sky Spy]]" in [[Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|''Lost Light'' #1]] is, oddly, a recolor of the Diagnostic Drone model.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Flying Computer''' (フライングコンピューター ''Furaingu Konpyūtā''), '''Fly''' (フライ ''Furai'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Yīliáo Fēng''' (医疗蜂, "Medical Bee")

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Obsidian (BM)

2025-05-12T21:52:51Z

Aggression25: /* Beast Machines cartoon */

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{{disambig3|Obsidian}}
:''Obsidian is a [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:ObsidianDJart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."]]
'''Obsidian''' and his consort [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] have fought for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in countless battles... and won them all. Though he is sophisticated and canny, able to concoct strategies with layers upon layers, his purpose is single-minded. He defends Cybertron.

There is some fine print. Whoever happens to be in charge, whether a benevolent or malevolent force, in his reasoning, ''is'' Cybertron. Once power changes hands, so does he. He is loyal only to the planet, and perhaps his consort Strika, not to any moral ideals. As his fellow [[Vehicon General]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] has remarked, "If you're loyal to everybody, can you really be loyal to anybody?"... a question that has given Obsidian pause.

While he was pretending to be dumber than even [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], his [[activation code]] (and, indeed, his entire vocabulary) was "obliterate". He dropped the word when the ruse was over.

Obsidian is sometimes a former [[Autobot]] or a former [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]].<ref>While most other sources hint at or outright declare him having once been an Autobot, ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' calls Obsidian "one of the most feared and deadly Predacon warrior-generals from Cybertron's past."</ref>

{{bigquote|Control the air and you control the battle. Control the mind, you control the war.|Obsidian's ''Universe'' and ''Wings Universe'' profiles}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Paul Dobson]] (English), [[Masaya Onosaka]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Deyuan]] (Chinese), [[Dario de Castro]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Andreas Hosang]] (German), [[Patrick Donnay]] (French), [[Héctor Moreno]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Sparkwar1-itsatrap.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Tired of the Maximals using his world as a playground and getting fed up with Thrust's inability to handle them, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] selected two Sparks to be his new generals. When Thrust first saw Obsidian and Strika, he remarked "Very nice, boss. Very, very nice." However, the feeling wasn't mutual, as Thrust discovered when he started to inform the new guys of their enemies—and was batted away by Obsidian, bouncing off the wall and sliding to a halt at his "feet".

[[File:Sparkwar1-thrustthinkshestheboss.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Obsidian: Larger than you remember.]]

Obsidian was quick to act against the Maximals, ambushing [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] with Strika. Screaming "Obliterate!" repeatedly, he pursued Silverbolt but was tackled by [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], sending both crashing into the ground. When Optimus tried to reason with him, Obsidian merely fired at him and transformed, escaping into the city. He rendezvoused with Strika and let the Maximals into a trap, as hundred of drones modeled after the two generals surrounded them. Transforming to robot mode, Obsidian remarked "Although he took his name from [[Optimus Prime (G1)|a great leader]], Optimus Primal never learned the first rule of warfare: NEVER underestimate your opponent." The Maximals were able to escape the trap, but found all of their escape routes blocked by drones, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] surprised at the number of drones and Optimus realizing that it wasn't number but tactics; their new opponents were master strategists. Forced to barricade themselves inside the Counsel Citadel, Primal realized that they had been herded there, at which point Obsidian contacted him and offered the Maximals the chance to surrender themselves. Revealing who he and Strika were, Obsidian informed Optimus that "Megatron IS Cybertron. To defend one is to defend the other. And to betray Megatron is to invite death." Despite their advantage, Obsidian and Strika were unable to capture the Maximals due to [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]]'s timely arrival, disrupting the drones' targeting systems and allowing the Maximals to escape. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}}

[[File:Obsidianbm.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Obsidian, LA Nails spokes-bot.]]

Obsidian's next major move was against [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], and Silverbolt. Sent to a shell yard by Megatron and told to wait for the Maximals (as Megatron had sent Optimus a flash about the Sparks and their possible locations, which of course was a trap), Obsidian attacked the trio, outgunning and outflanking them easily. However, a power core thrown by Cheetor was hit by a shot from one of Obsidian's drones even as he was desperately telling them to cease fire, causing a huge explosion that sent him and his drones flying away in a fiery shockwave. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}}

When Megatron began to enact his plan for the Sparks, Obsidian and Strika were stationed to watch over the ground and air around the BFH. While he didn't get to do much personally, Obsidian attempted to engage Savage/Noble in single combat, only to have one of his own drones smacked into him and then Strika thrown into him. Ouch. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}}

After Megatron's seeming destruction, the generals were at a loss. Without a leader they had no purpose, and when Cheetor and Nightscream approached them with an offer to join the Maximals they accepted, much to Thrust's annoyance: he snarled at Obsidian that if he was loyal to ''everyone'', he was loyal to no one.. A possessed Jet Drone suddenly attacked both the generals and the Maximals, destroying the drones that were present. Obsidian and Strika did not join Cheetor and Nightscream in the fight against the Jet Drone (wusses). Later, Optimus welcomed the two to the group and sent them to patrol the inside of the [[Grand Mal]], where they unsuccessfully tried to stop Megatron's depolarized Spark from entering. After Megatron was re-polarized and bonded to a Diagnostic Drone, Obsidian and Strika seized him and made their escape, pledging their loyalty to evil once again. Obsidian admitted it was Thrust who had made him and Strika realize where their loyalties lay. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}}

[[File:Endgame2-floaters.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Hey, it's the sun! Holy crap.]]

The conflict came to a head when Megatron began an all-out attack on his former base, seeking to reclaim the Sparks. Obsidian fell victim to Rattrap's identity scrambler, destroying several of his own troops before realizing his mistake. He later returned to his main fleet that was attacking the BFH, but they were unable to penetrate the shields. That changed when Megatron found a device Rattrap used to send Botanica back to the surface—a shield harmonic device synchronized to the base's shields. Obsidian and Strika were then able to fire through the shields and destroy the base's drive units, sending it plummeting into the Citadel. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}}

After repairing and placing his troops, Obsidian began a second attack on the Grand Mal with Strika and Thrust. Taking down the shields and defeating several Maximals, the trio were left with only Cheetor in their way. However, the Maximal led them into the engine room, where he brought the anti-gravity generators online and sent Obsidian and Strika into Cybertron's orbit. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
While Obsidian and Strika were agreeing to side with the Maximals, after Megatron's apparent death, Megatron's spark animated an [[Aero Drone]] body. Unimpressed with their duplicity, Megatron cut off their access to their drone armies and opened fire on them. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

====3H comics====
Though marooned in orbit, Strika and Obsidian were otherwise undamaged and were able to serve Cybertron once more. When the [[Quintesson]]s invaded technorganic Cybertron one week after the [[Great Transformation]], Obsidian rewired an orbiting monitoring station for combat, while Strika used its artillery to take down an impressive target. The Quintesson ship ''[[Paradigm]]'' was destroyed in low orbit over [[Polyhex]]. Strika and Obsidian turned their attentions to the planetary defense grid. Though they had faith in the Maximals below, as they ''had'' bested even ''them'', the two still served the lofty goal of protecting Cybertron from invaders. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

====''Legends'' comic====
Obsidian and Strika were still floating in the skies following the end of the Spark War. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

====''Timelines''====
{{voiceactor|[[Paul Dobson]] (English)}}
During the time that the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' spent in stasis on [[Earth]], Obsidian was an Autobot general. [[Saber]] was a skilled operative of his, but Saber's sense of honor occasionally clashed with his superior's pragmatic approach to war. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/15}}

The Tripredacus agent [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] was held prisoner and interrogated by a group of [[Autobot]]s and [[Maximal]]s which included Obsidian. However, it transpired that the questioning was merely a test of suitability by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] insurrectionist [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], and the entity appearing to be Obsidian was in fact a disguised [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|Intimidation Game}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Obsidian was one of the most seasoned and decorated military officers in Cybertronian history. After the departure of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Obsidian was essential to the remaining Autobot guerrilla campaigns on Cybertron. As a strategist and tactical coordinator, he worked closely with his comrade Strika, remaining personally off the battlefield but engineering a campaign of urban warfare and counter-action that prevented [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] from ever taking full control of Cybertron's resources.

[[File:Termination ObsidianPromotesCityCommanders.jpg|thumb|upright=1.9|left]]
When [[Unicron]] threw Decepticon-controlled Cybertron into disarray in 2005, Obsidian stepped out from the shadows and led the Autobots to a decisive military victory, claiming Cybertron as their own for the first time in over four million years. His contributions were publicly recognized by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], and Obsidian was decorated with nearly every military rank and honor in the book. {{storylink|Termination|''Wings Universe'' Obsidian profile}}

At the dawn of the [[Machine Wars (event)|Machine Wars]] in 2013, Optimus Prime was comatose and years of peace under the second [[Golden Age]] had left Cybertron unprepared for outright war. As the highest ranking military official left on Cybertron, Obsidian assumed command of planetary defense. He promoted [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], [[Clampdown (G1)|Clamp Down]], [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]], [[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] to [[City Commander]]s, ordered the release of all prisoners—Autobot and Decepticon—willing to fight, and authorized the use of all weapons of war available to the Cybertronian defenders. {{storylink|Termination}}

Two days before Jhiaxus’s army reached Cybertron, [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] and Obsidian conversed over video transmissions. Obsidian learned that the [[Sandstorm (MW)|Sandstorm]] that was helping him was actually a double, as the real [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] was currently with Pyro on Earth. Obsidian then took the time to plant a [[serro-gyro mekarach]] on the clone, which would later activate itself during the battle to come. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}

[[File:Termination ObsidianCheckmatesMegaplex.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|KING ME!]]
The war effort initially seemed to be going poorly, as one-by-one the City Commanders withdrew from their assigned city-states, allowing the clone armies to occupy greater and greater territory. Three days later, however, Obsidian struck back by attacking Thunderclones near the Rad Zone while disguised as civilians. Their deception was successful, and Obsidian's forces managed to capture the clone general [[Thundercracker (MW)|Thundercracker]] and learn the location of their leader, [[Megaplex]]: Iacon. Obsidian marched a half-dozen troops into Iacon, using Thundercracker as a hostage to draw out Megaplex. When the clone commander arrived, Obsidian revealed his trump card: an entire army of Cybertronians, drawn from the various city-states and cloaked inside Iacon. The previous retreats by the City Commanders had been a ruse, allowing Obsidian to bring them all together at the clones' key military location, obliterating them all. However, the clone Sandstorm's actual personality activated at that moment, and Sandstorm gunned down Obsidian and assumed command of the clone army. Jhiaxus and the rest of his forces soon arrived, explaining that Megaplex had become too much like his template Megatron. Jhiaxus offered both Megaplex and Obsidian's forces the same choice: leave Cybertron or be destroyed. {{storylink|Termination}}

[[File:ObsidianStrikabattlefield-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left]]
Facing off against a squad of [[Sandstorm drone]]s, Obsidian and Strika declared to the onlooking Jhiaxus that they would fight him to the bitter end. With Jhiaxus unwilling to let up his invasion, Obsidian engaged the enemy, slicing in half a nearby drone. The whole battlefield then lit up with laser blasts, and Obsidian and his cohort pressed on in their defending of their homeworld. The serro-gyro mekarach then did what Obsidian intended, disabling the clone Sandstorm and drawing on Sandstorm's energon supply to send a pre-arranged signal to Earth. This prompted Pyro to enact their plan: deploying Alpha and Bravo Teams as reinforcements to Cybertron.

Obsidian ultimately succeeded when Jhiaxus surrendered, the Cybertronian declaring that he had in fact won because he inadvertently got Autobot and Decepticon to fight for each other rather than against each other. A week later, the [[Pax Cybertronia]] was signed on Earth by the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's clones, bringing about the end of the Great War. Obsidian and Strika immediately vanished from public view, however, saying that they did not want their faces to remind the public of the war. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}
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===Toy bios===
Created as a "mindless aerial-attack automaton", Obsidian served his creator, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], with an armanent of heat-seeking missiles that could penerate 800 meters underground. A low-flying aerial combat unit, Obsidian acted in conjunction with [[Tank Drone|tank drones]] and played "symphonic scores" to unnerve his [[Maximal]] opponents. While he proved aggressive in battle, Obsidian was quite calm outside of it, hovering peacefully for hours. {{Storylink|#Beast Machines|Beast Machines bio}}

===''Universe'' CD-ROM===
[[File:UnivCDROM TractorBeam.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Whee.]]
On one version of Cybertron, Obsidian fought alongside the [[Decepticon]]s [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]], [[Reptilion|Reptillion]] {{sic}}, and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] against [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and his Autobots. One of these battles—the most violent of that year—was interrupted by [[Acheron|a mysterious ship]] that sucked those Decepticons up on beams of light and sped away. None of the combatants realized that it was taking its captives to Unicron for use in a massive army. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe CD-ROM|Universe CD-ROM}}

===''Universe'' comic===
[[File:KnowthatIamRazorclaw.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|A universe where I can not spell "possibilities"!]]

An Obsidian hailed from [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}} where he was an Autobot general during the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], decorated with the highest military honors for leading many successful campaigns on Cybertron against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}} In Obsidian's universe during the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] took permanent control of Waspinator's body and staged a coup against [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] after slaughtering most of the Maximals. Megatron was quickly defeated by the upstart, but on the way back to Cybertron he managed to escape, travelling forward in time and creating a transformation virus that allowed him to take over Cybertron. (Sound familiar?) When Starscream's [[Transmetal]]lized troops arrived, the virus severely weakened them but allowed them to stay mobile. They eventually found the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], who granted them [[technorganic]] bodies. Megatron retaliated by creating [[Vehicon General]]s. (This ring a bell?) After Silverbolt was freed from his Jetstorm body, Megatron retaliated by bringing the vaunted Autobot general Obsidian online. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

When Megatron gave him a new, helicopter-based body, Obsidian hid his thirst for revenge behind a feigned loyalty. He conspired with the brute Tankor, eventually using the latter's raw strength to carry out Megatron's termination. The vain Obsidian, an ex-Autobot, supplanted the Predacon's rule with an iron-fisted tyranny of his own. With his enforcer Tankor at his side, Obsidian put down uprisings, {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}} battled against the many resistance groups that had sprung up across Cybertron, {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}} and basically held the planet in fear... until Unicron decided that such a mindset would serve his own purposes, and he pulled them out of their universe entirely. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}}

Unicron, his ruined form trapped between dimensions, sought to revitalize himself by pitting abducted [[Transformer]]s against each other within his own body, absorbing their [[energon radiation]] and, eventually, sparks. But Obsidian was spared this fate, instead overseeing the [[Cauldron|deathmatch arena]] along with Tankor, Razorclaw, Reptilion, and [[Striker]]. [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], one of the intended victims, recognized Obsidian. Obsidian confirmed the familiarity, but noted that in his and Tankor's own timeline, Silverbolt had "[[Furmanism|died screaming]]". {{storylink|Abduction}}

[[File:Optimusprimaluniverseend.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Dunk tank!]]
Two others from Silverbolt's party, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], were scheduled for an immediate duel within the Cauldron, and Obsidian tossed them their weapons. Sideswipe tried to turn on his captor, but his punch was repelled by Reptilion's machinery. As Sideswipe was punished, Obsidian reassured them that over time, all "remaining veneer of civilisation" would be stripped from them. For all his boasting and accomplishments, though, Obsidian still did a pretty crappy job of keeping [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] from freeing Silverbolt and dozens of other captives. He was nowhere to be seen as Optimus Primal battled Razorclaw, and showed up to pursue the fleeing captives, along with the other generals, only after they had left the Cauldron.

However, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] opted to stay behind with the generals, as [[Unicron virus|Unicron's influence]] had corrupted them. Obsidian and Tankor escorted Blackarachnia to Unicron's core, where she was reunited with [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Much later, Optimus Primal waged one last desperate assault against Unicron, and his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] were able to defeat the [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]]. As Unicron himself seemed to dissolve below them, Obsidian and [[Strika (BM)|Nemesis Strika]] were left behind and were last seen falling to their deaths. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[All That Remains|''Windblade'' vol. 2 #3]]}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-ElitaOne.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Obsidian! Fetch me the TV remote!"]]
Obsidian served aboard [[Vigilem|Carcer]], a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] flying through space under [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. {{storylink|All That Remains}} As her second in command, he was aware that the Titan was not Carcer but in fact [[Vigilem]], something he was sworn to secrecy on. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|Desperate Measures}} After battling [[combiner]]s from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] briefly touched the Titan, Obsidian reported the events to Elita One, who was amused by the news. {{storylink|All That Remains}} When [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] arrived on Carcer to invite the inhabitants into Cybertron's [[Council of Worlds]], Elita One asked Obsidian for his opinion on the matter, and he voiced his belief that Starscream was lying about the supposed peace they'd find on Cybertron. Nonetheless, Windblade convinced the crew of Carcer to join the Council of Worlds, and two weeks later Obsidian and Strika were sent as ambassadors. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} He would end up running the Justice Committee, which handled inter-world legal issues. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

As the Carcer crew integrated into Cybertron's society, Obsidian was seen greeting [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] on the streets of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Choose Me}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] announced that he'd annexed [[Earth]] into the Council of Worlds, the ambassadors gathered for a meeting to discuss the event. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[Image:taao1 obsidian windblade.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|You might think they're trying to undercut Starscream but we couldn't possibly comment.]]

The political situation was so messy on Cybertron that Obsidian began to see why Elita One kept the bulk of them away. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}} The ongoing police brutality began to threaten Carcerian interests though, as he found ''someone'' who knew [[mnemosurgery]] and was assaulting Decepticons had finally hit someone who was a supplier to Carcer. Elita One tasked him to help Windblade reform the [[Badgeless]]. Obsidian called a meeting of the Justice Committee—an annoyed Starscream noting purely internal crime was not committee business—and questioned [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] on the security business he ran as a way to punk Starscream by showing nobody trusted the Badgeless, before whipping out all the evidence that first horrified the delegates and secondly showed it was now affecting another colony. To Ironhide's surprise, Obsidian then proposed the Autobot himself become a special prosecutor to clean up the Badgeless and prove it wasn't corrupt. Starscream was backed into a corner. When the Badgeless killed a Decepticon that night, Obsidian arrived at the scene and threatened that Elita would hear about this, and the Badgeless had better get their 'facts' in order. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

The following day, as Obsidian and Airazor groused about Cybertron to each other, an anti-Badgeless march came towards the Council building and Obsidian remarked that as they were stuck with Cybertron's problems, they'd have to ''solve'' them. At the Council meeting on the unrest, Obsidian quietly helped Ironhide propose he take personal control of the police and reform it wholesale. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}} At the next Council meeting, Obsidian offered his congratulations to Ironhide for his progress in cleaning up the police force. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}}

[[File:ApplicableSkills-fangsandfur.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Not the bird.]]
Once Prime arrived to explain himself for laying claim to [[Earth]], Obsidian and Strika voiced their opinion that he had no right annexing a populated world. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}} As the situation on Earth heated up, Optimus succeeded in raising a Titan from the ground - a seemingly supernatural feat that made many individuals on the Council reconsider their earlier ruling. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}}

When Windblade returned to Cybertron, Obsidian met her at the Space Bridge, where he offered her comfort over her insecurities before listing the many things they had to do when his communicator suddenly pinged. He and Windblade called an emergency meeting of the Council to allow a declaration of war, explaining that Carcer's sensors had detected a Space Bridge spitting out a horde of undead (and hostile) Titans that would arrive at Cybertron in six hours. {{storylink|Ping}}

[[File:ObsidiansStand DesperateMeasures.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|He has better things to do today than die with honor.]]
When the Cybertronians tried to seize Carcer from Elita, Obsidian advised his leader to simply tell the truth, but his suggestion was shot down. {{storylink|Desperate Times}} Overseeing the battle with [[Lancer]] and [[Greenlight]], he began to suspect the Cybertronians were simply trying to distract them. Greenlight later reported a breach which sealed itself, prompting Obsidian to check the cameras, letting him see that Windblade was leading a team to the armoury. Obsidian saw through the ruse and reported the situation to Elita while he went to defend the Titan's brain module, arriving before any intruders could enter. When the ''real'' Windblade's team arrived, Obsidian tried to talk them down from reactivating the Titan, stating that they should trust him, before they all came to blows. Outnumbered, Obsidian was mauled by [[Tigatron]] before [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and [[Fireshot]] grounded him by destroying his propellers. Desperate, he begged Windblade not to go through with the mind meld, but she felt she had no choice and Vigilem was reactivated. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|Desperate Measures}}

When Windblade realized the folly of her action, Obisdian screamed to her to keep Vigilem's higher functions, asking that her allies trust him. When Windblade seemed to be losing control, Obsidian opted to pull the plug but Tigatron kept him down, prompting Obsidian to scream that the Eukarian was dooming them all and allowing Vigilem time to release [[Liege Maximo]]. When Elita One arrived to bring a permanent end to Vigilem, Obsidian begged her to hold her fire, to no avail as Elita emptied her weapon into the Titan's brain module, killing him and seemingly Windblade as well. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Once Cybertron had begun to rebuild, Obsidian attended a Council meeting where Optimus and Starscream argued over trading with the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 3: Behind My Bleeding Back|Behind My Bleeding Back}}

[[File:FirstStrike6 ObsidianVSOptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Seems to have finally taken [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]'s [[Spark of Darkness|words on loyalty]] to heart.]]
Growing increasingly disillusioned with Optimus Prime, Obsidian kept an optic on the prison where [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[M.A.S.K.]] were being held (it didn't violate any of the current statutes) in case Optimus tried anything. Sure enough Optimus's team broke the humans out of jail. Obsidian soon brought the news to Starscream who, after taking a moment to bask in his glory, mobilized all forces after Optimus. When Obsidian questioned Elita's decision to have Starscream take command, the First revealed to her subordinate that she intended for all humans to die and that Obsidian had best wrap up the killings before too much time was wasted. {{storylink|First Strike issue 5|First Strike #5}} Catching up with the rogues and villains outside of the core's chamber, Obsidian engaged Optimus at Elita's command, his missile barrage nearly disintegrating [[Scarlett]] and [[Joe Colton]]. [[Merklynn|Garrison Kreiger]] then activated the alien [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]], revealed himself to be an alien known as "Merklynn" and created [[New Prysmos]] using Cybertron's energon supply. Obsidian later held a briefing regarding the alien site and its effect on Cybertron's energon. {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}}

[[File:TheChosenOne ObsidianReportsToElita.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|Trusted advisor, strategist and study-buddy.]]
When the Council of Worlds met to discuss the unsuitability of Cybertron's energon, Obsidian stood by Starscream during his rant. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}

Obsidian showed up to see [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] off on her mission into space to track down the escaped Liege Maximo. He presented Greenlight and Lancer to Chromia as reliable crewmates for her journey. After Windblade revealed Liege Maximo's freedom to the public, free elections were called, with Elita throwing her name in the ring. After she'd secured herself as a candidate, Obsidian confirmed she was the favoured to win before offering his aid for the debates. Elita declined and asked him to instead begin drawing up battle plans for Maximo's return, allowing for a 33% fatality rate. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

When [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] attacked Cybertron, Elita drafted the [[Torchbearer]]s into her service so as to have [[Victorion]] breach the monster's innards and destroy him from within. Unicron's heralds, the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]], proved too much for Cybertron's ragtag fleet with the flagship [[Worldsweeper]] crippling Carcer. As the ship began falling apart, Obsidian was crushed underneath debris, killing him. {{storylink|Our Finest}} His corpse was presumably destroyed when Elita defiantly rammed the totaled ship into Unicron's face. {{storylink|Road's End}}

===''Kre-O'' comic===
When [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] came under attack from Earth's five most wanted criminals, Obsidian led the Autobots against them. He held his own against [[Doctor Arkeville]] during the fight. The villains nearly made their escape with a disk containing Metroplex's brain, much to Obsidian's dismay. Thankfully, [[Carzap (BT)|Carzap]] managed to intercept the disk, and the villains were forced to flee empty-handed. With their base safe once more, Obsidian thanked the Autobots under his command for a job well-done. {{storylink|The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Obsidian was [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razor-Claw]]'s loyal general and was chosen to be his representative to the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] after the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]]. {{Storylink|Derailment}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[War World: Awakenings|''Transformers'' #26]]}}

[[File:TItans ObsidianBrawn.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.6|Trying out for [[Rotor Force]].]]
Obsidian studied multiple disciplines in [[Crystal City]] before the wars. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

Obsidian was part of a crowd of Decepticons who watched [[Termagax]] denounce them (and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in particular) for twisting her ideals. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} He was recruited into [[Strika's Heavies]] just before a major Decepticon attack on the [[Forge Pyramid|Pyramid]]. When [[Apeface]] asked him if he wanted a weapon, Obsidian simply replied he himself ''was'' the weapon. During the assault, Obsidian breached the Pyramid through a hole in the roof created by [[Nova Storm (G1)|Nova Storm]] and swiftly sliced [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s chest open with his rotor blades. He was forced to back off however, when [[Javelin]] shot him in the shoulder. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}}

[[File:TheLandscapeOfFear ObsidianApefaceFly.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Obsidian Tzu]]
Obsidian joined the rest of Strika's Heavies in the massive assault on Crystal City, musing beforehand about his fondness for the place. He and [[Wingstun]] scouted the city ahead of the main force and found its streets largely deserted. Suddenly, Wingstun's head was blown off by [[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]] and Obsidian promptly moved to engage the attacking Autobot. [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] barely shouted out a warning before Obsidian eviscerated Sidetrack in a single pass and called down an airstrike on his position, sending Kup's team scattering for cover as he escaped. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} After [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]] arrived on the battlefield, most of the Decepticons retreated, save the Heavies. When [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] exited Lodestar, Strika ordered her team to take him down and Obsidian flew into battle alongside Apeface, rebuffing his comrade's attempt at small talk. Obsidian sliced Computron's arm, but was casually finger-flicked to the ground by the [[combiner]], whereupon he found himself held at gunpoint by some arriving Autobots. In the end, the Heavies stood down as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] successfully forged a temporary truce with Megatron. {{storylink|The Landscape of Fear}}

Obsidian and the Decepticons flew out to intercept the Autobots as they made their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|End of Time}} He watched as Megatron was forced to let the Autobots go after they removed the [[imploder]] being used to hold them hostage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Obsidian and Strika were some of the greatest generals in Cybertronian history, who'd fought and won a thousand wars over the course of their long careers. As Megatron's newest Vehicon Generals, Obsidian considered Megatron to be synonymous with Cybertron. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:BM Obsidian-Hasbrotoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb| [https://biosector01.com/wiki/Nidhiki This time, your farewell will be forever, brother.]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-vh|'''Obsidian''' (Basic, 2000)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors
:*''Known designers'': [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' Basics, Obsidian transforms into a twin-rotor assault helicopter vaguely similar to an Osprey. His cockpit in helicopter mode is multi-jointed to allow it movement to look around, the Vehicons' toy aesthetic being "living vehicles". The cockpit's "eyes" further enhance the effect. The two rotor blades are pressure-launch projectiles. His nominal robot "flight" mode keeps his tail section together but curled up below him (as in the show), but the tail section can split up to form a pair of "normal" legs as well. His orange spark crystal is located on the robot mode's back.

: The same mold is used by ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Obsidian (RID)|Obsidian]]. A hand-painted mock-up of the mold was presented as a proposed [[Wreckers]] [[Rotorbolt (Universe)#Expanded Universe|Rotorbolt]] as a future [[BotCon]] exclusive, but was never produced.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Vehicon/Obsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Beast Machines Obsidian at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BM-toy ObsidianQuickstrike2pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1| [https://biosector01.com/wiki/Lhikan You lost the right to call me brother long ago!]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m2vh|'''Obsidian''' / '''Quickstrike''' (2-pack, 2000)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

:Obsidian was also available in a two-pack with the [[Maximal]] [[Quickstrike (BM)#2pack|Quickstrike]]. Both toys are actually on their original individual cards, but packed within a thick cardboard backing with "Beast Machines 2 Pack" printed on it. The set was sold at the now-defunct ToyCo retail store, which was similar to [[KB Toys]] and appeared in several of the "Mills" family of shopping centers, like Arizona Mills or Ontario Mills, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:TFU03-toy Obsidian.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Oh, fine, everyone immediately recognize your old enemy Tankor, but does anyone think I'm the dashing Rotorbolt? No!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Tankor & Obsidian''' (Ultra, 2003)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Ultras (actually ''technically'' from the "1.5" wave, a small revision to the initial wave), this [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Machines'' Obsidian toy was only available with his larger partner [[Tankor (BM)#Universe (2003)|Tankor]]. He features the silver "energon surge" paint deco most of the early ''Universe'' toys featured.

: This toy's coloration is not ''too'' far from the proposed colors for the unmade [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] (save the "energon surge" deco, of course). As such, many fans use him as a substitute for the haughty Predacon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/Obsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Universe Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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===''Beast Wars Returns''===
[[File:BM Obsidian-BWRtoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I was as I always was... a stage magician! ...no no no wait...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-vh|'''Vehicon Obsidian''' (Basic, [[2005]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''BR-14'''
:*''Release date'': [[April 14]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

: In 2005, the toy was [[redeco]]ed and released as part of the [[Toys"R"Us]] Japan [[exclusive]] ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars Returns]]'' series, [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s version of ''Beast Machines''. Having been produced several years after the cartoon was, this version had a deco considerably more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] than the original, but still not quite there, physical differences between the mold and show model regardless.

:Interestingly, ''Beast Wars Returns'' Obsidian's vertical stabilizers/heels have been swapped in comparison to previous releases of the mold.
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:BotCon2013toy-Obsidianteal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I am ''not'' as I always was. For a while I was that thing over there! <-]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars: Termination''' (Box set, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' 2 gatling guns

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Obsidian is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' Voyager Class [[Highbrow (TF 2010)#Toys|Highbrow]], featuring a new head, and transforming into a World War II-era fighter resembling a {{w|Lockheed P-38 Lightning|P-38 Lightning}}. He features propellers which are geared to spin if you press the engines down, is armed with two non-firing gatling guns which can mount on his hip guards/small front wings via [[5 mm post]]. The propellers on his forearms can be swung down to function as "spinning blade weapons". With the cockpit shell halves splitting open and forming the wings, at the same time revealing the thruster attached underneath the "main" cockpit body, which is then flipped down, the cockpit [[kibble]] on his back actually turns into a [[jet pack]].

:[[File:BotCon2013toy-ObsidianGreen.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Yo.]]
: Originally, Obsidian was revealed as having a green, toy-accurate color scheme, but was later revised to be a more cartoon-accurate dark teal.

: Obsidian was only sold in a [[BotCon 2013]]-[[exclusive]] boxset with [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Timelines 2|Hoist]], [[Megaplex#Timelines 2|Megaplex]], [[Skywarp (MW)#Timelines 2|Skywarp]], and [[Strika (BM)#Timelines 2|Strika]].

: The original version of this toy, with the [[Retool#Gang-molded alternate parts|alternate head]], was used to make ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' GDO [[Powerdive#Generations|Powerdive]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BCObsidian/obsidian.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy ObsidianKreon.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 small pistols

: The ''[[Kre-O]] Machine Wars'' five-pack was exclusive to [[BotCon 2013]], and includes Kreons of [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Hoist]], [[Megaplex#Kre-O|Megaplex]], Obsidian, [[Skywarp (MW)#Kre-O|Skywarp]], and [[Strika (BM)#Kre-O|Strika]], limited to 1500 pieces. They have generally more parts than the [[Kreon]]s packed in with larger ''[[Kre-O]]'' sets, but do not have alternate vehicle builds like [[Micro-Changer]]s.

: The Obsidian Kreon is based on the early promotional images of the [[#Timelines_2|full-sized BotCon Obsidian toy]], which showed it in the green and blue colors of the original ''Beast Machines'' [[#Beast Machines|Obsidian toy]]. While the larger toy changed colors to be more [[Show-accuracy|accurate]] to the [[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon model]], the Kreon retains the original bright scheme.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BCKre-OObsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:BotCon-2013-Obsidian-lithograph art.jpg|thumb|right|200px|(BotCon 2013 ''Wings Universe'' profile art)]]
* Obsidian had the pre-release name of "Blitzwing".<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/f_-M55vdPn0/gBDdVeAcrm4J</ref>
* At one point Obsidian was planned to have a Mega toy that would be more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]]. Sadly, this toy never made it past pre-production. (Rotorbolt was originally going to be a BotCon exclusive redeco of this mold, explaining why he was drawn to match Obsidian's show appearance in ''The Wreckers'' comic rather than the Basic toy.)
* Story editor [[Bob Skir]] wanted to depict Obsidian and Strika's return to Cybertron after the reformatting wave hit in the last episode, making them the only two purely mechanical beings remaining. They would refuse reformatting into techno-organic forms, seeing being in their normal bodies as punishment for their misguided actions. However, this never made it into the series.
*In his panel at [[unofficial conventions|TFNation 2019]], [[Marty Isenberg]] admitted that the inclusion of an ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' version of Obsidian in the outline for the unproduced episode "[[Trial of Megatron, Part 1]]" might have been a simple slip-up on his part, one that would have been corrected in the final cut by having [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] featured in Obsidian's place.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Obsidian''' (オブシディアン ''Obushidian'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Osedi''' (Taiwan, 奧西迪 ''Àoxīdí''), '''Jīngāngxiá''' (China, 金刚侠, "Vajra Stalwart"), '''Hēiyàoshí''' (China, 黑曜石, "Obsidian")

==References==
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Obsidian (BM)

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:''Obsidian is a [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:ObsidianDJart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."]]
'''Obsidian''' and his consort [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] have fought for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in countless battles... and won them all. Though he is sophisticated and canny, able to concoct strategies with layers upon layers, his purpose is single-minded. He defends Cybertron.

There is some fine print. Whoever happens to be in charge, whether a benevolent or malevolent force, in his reasoning, ''is'' Cybertron. Once power changes hands, so does he. He is loyal only to the planet, and perhaps his consort Strika, not to any moral ideals. As his fellow [[Vehicon General]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] has remarked, "If you're loyal to everybody, can you really be loyal to anybody?"... a question that has given Obsidian pause.

While he was pretending to be dumber than even [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], his [[activation code]] (and, indeed, his entire vocabulary) was "obliterate". He dropped the word when the ruse was over.

Obsidian is sometimes a former [[Autobot]] or a former [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]].<ref>While most other sources hint at or outright declare him having once been an Autobot, ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' calls Obsidian "one of the most feared and deadly Predacon warrior-generals from Cybertron's past."</ref>

{{bigquote|Control the air and you control the battle. Control the mind, you control the war.|Obsidian's ''Universe'' and ''Wings Universe'' profiles}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Paul Dobson]] (English), [[Masaya Onosaka]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Deyuan]] (Chinese), [[Dario de Castro]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Andreas Hosang]] (German), [[Patrick Donnay]] (French), [[Héctor Moreno]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Sparkwar1-itsatrap.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Tired of the Maximals using his world as a playground and getting fed up with Thrust's inability to handle them, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] selected two Sparks to be his new generals. When Thrust first saw Obsidian and Strika, he remarked "Very nice, boss. Very very nice." However, the feeling wasn't mutual, as Thrust discovered when he started to inform the new guys of their enemies—and was batted away by Obsidian, bouncing off the wall and sliding to a halt at his "feet".

[[File:Sparkwar1-thrustthinkshestheboss.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Obsidian: Larger than you remember.]]

Obsidian was quick to act against the Maximals, ambushing [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] with Strika. Screaming "Obliterate!" repeatedly, he pursued Silverbolt but was tackled by [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], sending both crashing into the ground. When Optimus tried to reason with him, Obsidian merely fired at him and transformed, escaping into the city. He rendezvoused with Strika and let the Maximals into a trap, as hundred of drones modeled after the two generals surrounded them. Transforming to robot mode, Obsidian remarked "Although he took his name from [[Optimus Prime (G1)|a great leader]], Optimus Primal never learned the first rule of warfare: NEVER underestimate your opponent." The Maximals were able to escape the trap, but found all of their escape routes blocked by drones, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] surprised at the number of drones and Optimus realizing that it wasn't number but tactics; their new opponents were master strategists. Forced to barricade themselves inside the Counsel Citadel, Primal realized that they had been herded there, at which point Obsidian contacted him and offered the Maximals the chance to surrender themselves. Revealing who he and Strika were, Obsidian informed Optimus that "Megatron IS Cybertron. To defend one is to defend the other. And to betray Megatron is to invite death." Despite their advantage, Obsidian and Strika were unable to capture the Maximals due to [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]]'s timely arrival, disrupting the drones' targeting systems and allowing the Maximals to escape. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}}

[[File:Obsidianbm.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Obsidian, LA Nails spokes-bot.]]

Obsidian's next major move was against [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], and Silverbolt. Sent to a shell yard by Megatron and told to wait for the Maximals (as Megatron had sent Optimus a flash about the Sparks and their possible locations, which of course was a trap), Obsidian attacked the trio, outgunning and outflanking them easily. However, a power core thrown by Cheetor was hit by a shot from one of Obsidian's drones even as he was desperately telling them to cease fire, causing a huge explosion that sent him and his drones flying away in a fiery shockwave. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}}

When Megatron began to enact his plan for the Sparks, Obsidian and Strika were stationed to watch over the ground and air around the BFH. While he didn't get to do much personally, Obsidian attempted to engage Savage/Noble in single combat, only to have one of his own drones smacked into him and then Strika thrown into him. Ouch. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}}

After Megatron's seeming destruction, the generals were at a loss. Without a leader they had no purpose, and when Cheetor and Nightscream approached them with an offer to join the Maximals they accepted, much to Thrust's annoyance: he snarled at Obsidian that if he was loyal to ''everyone'', he was loyal to no one.. A possessed Jet Drone suddenly attacked both the generals and the Maximals, destroying the drones that were present. Obsidian and Strika did not join Cheetor and Nightscream in the fight against the Jet Drone (wusses). Later, Optimus welcomed the two to the group and sent them to patrol the inside of the [[Grand Mal]], where they unsuccessfully tried to stop Megatron's depolarized Spark from entering. After Megatron was re-polarized and bonded to a Diagnostic Drone, Obsidian and Strika seized him and made their escape, pledging their loyalty to evil once again. Obsidian admitted it was Thrust who had made him and Strika realize where their loyalties lay. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}}

[[File:Endgame2-floaters.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Hey, it's the sun! Holy crap.]]

The conflict came to a head when Megatron began an all-out attack on his former base, seeking to reclaim the Sparks. Obsidian fell victim to Rattrap's identity scrambler, destroying several of his own troops before realizing his mistake. He later returned to his main fleet that was attacking the BFH, but they were unable to penetrate the shields. That changed when Megatron found a device Rattrap used to send Botanica back to the surface—a shield harmonic device synchronized to the base's shields. Obsidian and Strika were then able to fire through the shields and destroy the base's drive units, sending it plummeting into the Citadel. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}}

After repairing and placing his troops, Obsidian began a second attack on the Grand Mal with Strika and Thrust. Taking down the shields and defeating several Maximals, the trio were left with only Cheetor in their way. However, the Maximal led them into the engine room, where he brought the anti-gravity generators online and sent Obsidian and Strika into Cybertron's orbit. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
While Obsidian and Strika were agreeing to side with the Maximals, after Megatron's apparent death, Megatron's spark animated an [[Aero Drone]] body. Unimpressed with their duplicity, Megatron cut off their access to their drone armies and opened fire on them. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

====3H comics====
Though marooned in orbit, Strika and Obsidian were otherwise undamaged and were able to serve Cybertron once more. When the [[Quintesson]]s invaded technorganic Cybertron one week after the [[Great Transformation]], Obsidian rewired an orbiting monitoring station for combat, while Strika used its artillery to take down an impressive target. The Quintesson ship ''[[Paradigm]]'' was destroyed in low orbit over [[Polyhex]]. Strika and Obsidian turned their attentions to the planetary defense grid. Though they had faith in the Maximals below, as they ''had'' bested even ''them'', the two still served the lofty goal of protecting Cybertron from invaders. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

====''Legends'' comic====
Obsidian and Strika were still floating in the skies following the end of the Spark War. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

====''Timelines''====
{{voiceactor|[[Paul Dobson]] (English)}}
During the time that the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' spent in stasis on [[Earth]], Obsidian was an Autobot general. [[Saber]] was a skilled operative of his, but Saber's sense of honor occasionally clashed with his superior's pragmatic approach to war. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/15}}

The Tripredacus agent [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] was held prisoner and interrogated by a group of [[Autobot]]s and [[Maximal]]s which included Obsidian. However, it transpired that the questioning was merely a test of suitability by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] insurrectionist [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], and the entity appearing to be Obsidian was in fact a disguised [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|Intimidation Game}}

====''Wings Universe''====
Obsidian was one of the most seasoned and decorated military officers in Cybertronian history. After the departure of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Obsidian was essential to the remaining Autobot guerrilla campaigns on Cybertron. As a strategist and tactical coordinator, he worked closely with his comrade Strika, remaining personally off the battlefield but engineering a campaign of urban warfare and counter-action that prevented [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] from ever taking full control of Cybertron's resources.

[[File:Termination ObsidianPromotesCityCommanders.jpg|thumb|upright=1.9|left]]
When [[Unicron]] threw Decepticon-controlled Cybertron into disarray in 2005, Obsidian stepped out from the shadows and led the Autobots to a decisive military victory, claiming Cybertron as their own for the first time in over four million years. His contributions were publicly recognized by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], and Obsidian was decorated with nearly every military rank and honor in the book. {{storylink|Termination|''Wings Universe'' Obsidian profile}}

At the dawn of the [[Machine Wars (event)|Machine Wars]] in 2013, Optimus Prime was comatose and years of peace under the second [[Golden Age]] had left Cybertron unprepared for outright war. As the highest ranking military official left on Cybertron, Obsidian assumed command of planetary defense. He promoted [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], [[Clampdown (G1)|Clamp Down]], [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]], [[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] to [[City Commander]]s, ordered the release of all prisoners—Autobot and Decepticon—willing to fight, and authorized the use of all weapons of war available to the Cybertronian defenders. {{storylink|Termination}}

Two days before Jhiaxus’s army reached Cybertron, [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] and Obsidian conversed over video transmissions. Obsidian learned that the [[Sandstorm (MW)|Sandstorm]] that was helping him was actually a double, as the real [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] was currently with Pyro on Earth. Obsidian then took the time to plant a [[serro-gyro mekarach]] on the clone, which would later activate itself during the battle to come. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}

[[File:Termination ObsidianCheckmatesMegaplex.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|KING ME!]]
The war effort initially seemed to be going poorly, as one-by-one the City Commanders withdrew from their assigned city-states, allowing the clone armies to occupy greater and greater territory. Three days later, however, Obsidian struck back by attacking Thunderclones near the Rad Zone while disguised as civilians. Their deception was successful, and Obsidian's forces managed to capture the clone general [[Thundercracker (MW)|Thundercracker]] and learn the location of their leader, [[Megaplex]]: Iacon. Obsidian marched a half-dozen troops into Iacon, using Thundercracker as a hostage to draw out Megaplex. When the clone commander arrived, Obsidian revealed his trump card: an entire army of Cybertronians, drawn from the various city-states and cloaked inside Iacon. The previous retreats by the City Commanders had been a ruse, allowing Obsidian to bring them all together at the clones' key military location, obliterating them all. However, the clone Sandstorm's actual personality activated at that moment, and Sandstorm gunned down Obsidian and assumed command of the clone army. Jhiaxus and the rest of his forces soon arrived, explaining that Megaplex had become too much like his template Megatron. Jhiaxus offered both Megaplex and Obsidian's forces the same choice: leave Cybertron or be destroyed. {{storylink|Termination}}

[[File:ObsidianStrikabattlefield-ACommonFoe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left]]
Facing off against a squad of [[Sandstorm drone]]s, Obsidian and Strika declared to the onlooking Jhiaxus that they would fight him to the bitter end. With Jhiaxus unwilling to let up his invasion, Obsidian engaged the enemy, slicing in half a nearby drone. The whole battlefield then lit up with laser blasts, and Obsidian and his cohort pressed on in their defending of their homeworld. The serro-gyro mekarach then did what Obsidian intended, disabling the clone Sandstorm and drawing on Sandstorm's energon supply to send a pre-arranged signal to Earth. This prompted Pyro to enact their plan: deploying Alpha and Bravo Teams as reinforcements to Cybertron.

Obsidian ultimately succeeded when Jhiaxus surrendered, the Cybertronian declaring that he had in fact won because he inadvertently got Autobot and Decepticon to fight for each other rather than against each other. A week later, the [[Pax Cybertronia]] was signed on Earth by the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's clones, bringing about the end of the Great War. Obsidian and Strika immediately vanished from public view, however, saying that they did not want their faces to remind the public of the war. {{storylink|A Common Foe}}
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===Toy bios===
Created as a "mindless aerial-attack automaton", Obsidian served his creator, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], with an armanent of heat-seeking missiles that could penerate 800 meters underground. A low-flying aerial combat unit, Obsidian acted in conjunction with [[Tank Drone|tank drones]] and played "symphonic scores" to unnerve his [[Maximal]] opponents. While he proved aggressive in battle, Obsidian was quite calm outside of it, hovering peacefully for hours. {{Storylink|#Beast Machines|Beast Machines bio}}

===''Universe'' CD-ROM===
[[File:UnivCDROM TractorBeam.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Whee.]]
On one version of Cybertron, Obsidian fought alongside the [[Decepticon]]s [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]], [[Reptilion|Reptillion]] {{sic}}, and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] against [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and his Autobots. One of these battles—the most violent of that year—was interrupted by [[Acheron|a mysterious ship]] that sucked those Decepticons up on beams of light and sped away. None of the combatants realized that it was taking its captives to Unicron for use in a massive army. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe CD-ROM|Universe CD-ROM}}

===''Universe'' comic===
[[File:KnowthatIamRazorclaw.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|A universe where I can not spell "possibilities"!]]

An Obsidian hailed from [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}} where he was an Autobot general during the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], decorated with the highest military honors for leading many successful campaigns on Cybertron against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}} In Obsidian's universe during the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] took permanent control of Waspinator's body and staged a coup against [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] after slaughtering most of the Maximals. Megatron was quickly defeated by the upstart, but on the way back to Cybertron he managed to escape, travelling forward in time and creating a transformation virus that allowed him to take over Cybertron. (Sound familiar?) When Starscream's [[Transmetal]]lized troops arrived, the virus severely weakened them but allowed them to stay mobile. They eventually found the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], who granted them [[technorganic]] bodies. Megatron retaliated by creating [[Vehicon General]]s. (This ring a bell?) After Silverbolt was freed from his Jetstorm body, Megatron retaliated by bringing the vaunted Autobot general Obsidian online. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

When Megatron gave him a new, helicopter-based body, Obsidian hid his thirst for revenge behind a feigned loyalty. He conspired with the brute Tankor, eventually using the latter's raw strength to carry out Megatron's termination. The vain Obsidian, an ex-Autobot, supplanted the Predacon's rule with an iron-fisted tyranny of his own. With his enforcer Tankor at his side, Obsidian put down uprisings, {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}} battled against the many resistance groups that had sprung up across Cybertron, {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}} and basically held the planet in fear... until Unicron decided that such a mindset would serve his own purposes, and he pulled them out of their universe entirely. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|''Universe'' Obsidian profile}}

Unicron, his ruined form trapped between dimensions, sought to revitalize himself by pitting abducted [[Transformer]]s against each other within his own body, absorbing their [[energon radiation]] and, eventually, sparks. But Obsidian was spared this fate, instead overseeing the [[Cauldron|deathmatch arena]] along with Tankor, Razorclaw, Reptilion, and [[Striker]]. [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], one of the intended victims, recognized Obsidian. Obsidian confirmed the familiarity, but noted that in his and Tankor's own timeline, Silverbolt had "[[Furmanism|died screaming]]". {{storylink|Abduction}}

[[File:Optimusprimaluniverseend.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Dunk tank!]]
Two others from Silverbolt's party, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], were scheduled for an immediate duel within the Cauldron, and Obsidian tossed them their weapons. Sideswipe tried to turn on his captor, but his punch was repelled by Reptilion's machinery. As Sideswipe was punished, Obsidian reassured them that over time, all "remaining veneer of civilisation" would be stripped from them. For all his boasting and accomplishments, though, Obsidian still did a pretty crappy job of keeping [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] from freeing Silverbolt and dozens of other captives. He was nowhere to be seen as Optimus Primal battled Razorclaw, and showed up to pursue the fleeing captives, along with the other generals, only after they had left the Cauldron.

However, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] opted to stay behind with the generals, as [[Unicron virus|Unicron's influence]] had corrupted them. Obsidian and Tankor escorted Blackarachnia to Unicron's core, where she was reunited with [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]. {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Much later, Optimus Primal waged one last desperate assault against Unicron, and his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] were able to defeat the [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]]. As Unicron himself seemed to dissolve below them, Obsidian and [[Strika (BM)|Nemesis Strika]] were left behind and were last seen falling to their deaths. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[All That Remains|''Windblade'' vol. 2 #3]]}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-ElitaOne.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|"Obsidian! Fetch me the TV remote!"]]
Obsidian served aboard [[Vigilem|Carcer]], a [[Titan (group)|Titan]] flying through space under [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. {{storylink|All That Remains}} As her second in command, he was aware that the Titan was not Carcer but in fact [[Vigilem]], something he was sworn to secrecy on. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|Desperate Measures}} After battling [[combiner]]s from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] briefly touched the Titan, Obsidian reported the events to Elita One, who was amused by the news. {{storylink|All That Remains}} When [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] arrived on Carcer to invite the inhabitants into Cybertron's [[Council of Worlds]], Elita One asked Obsidian for his opinion on the matter, and he voiced his belief that Starscream was lying about the supposed peace they'd find on Cybertron. Nonetheless, Windblade convinced the crew of Carcer to join the Council of Worlds, and two weeks later Obsidian and Strika were sent as ambassadors. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} He would end up running the Justice Committee, which handled inter-world legal issues. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

As the Carcer crew integrated into Cybertron's society, Obsidian was seen greeting [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] on the streets of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Choose Me}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] announced that he'd annexed [[Earth]] into the Council of Worlds, the ambassadors gathered for a meeting to discuss the event. {{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

[[Image:taao1 obsidian windblade.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|You might think they're trying to undercut Starscream but we couldn't possibly comment.]]

The political situation was so messy on Cybertron that Obsidian began to see why Elita One kept the bulk of them away. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}} The ongoing police brutality began to threaten Carcerian interests though, as he found ''someone'' who knew [[mnemosurgery]] and was assaulting Decepticons had finally hit someone who was a supplier to Carcer. Elita One tasked him to help Windblade reform the [[Badgeless]]. Obsidian called a meeting of the Justice Committee—an annoyed Starscream noting purely internal crime was not committee business—and questioned [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] on the security business he ran as a way to punk Starscream by showing nobody trusted the Badgeless, before whipping out all the evidence that first horrified the delegates and secondly showed it was now affecting another colony. To Ironhide's surprise, Obsidian then proposed the Autobot himself become a special prosecutor to clean up the Badgeless and prove it wasn't corrupt. Starscream was backed into a corner. When the Badgeless killed a Decepticon that night, Obsidian arrived at the scene and threatened that Elita would hear about this, and the Badgeless had better get their 'facts' in order. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

The following day, as Obsidian and Airazor groused about Cybertron to each other, an anti-Badgeless march came towards the Council building and Obsidian remarked that as they were stuck with Cybertron's problems, they'd have to ''solve'' them. At the Council meeting on the unrest, Obsidian quietly helped Ironhide propose he take personal control of the police and reform it wholesale. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}} At the next Council meeting, Obsidian offered his congratulations to Ironhide for his progress in cleaning up the police force. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}}

[[File:ApplicableSkills-fangsandfur.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Not the bird.]]
Once Prime arrived to explain himself for laying claim to [[Earth]], Obsidian and Strika voiced their opinion that he had no right annexing a populated world. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}} As the situation on Earth heated up, Optimus succeeded in raising a Titan from the ground - a seemingly supernatural feat that made many individuals on the Council reconsider their earlier ruling. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}}

When Windblade returned to Cybertron, Obsidian met her at the Space Bridge, where he offered her comfort over her insecurities before listing the many things they had to do when his communicator suddenly pinged. He and Windblade called an emergency meeting of the Council to allow a declaration of war, explaining that Carcer's sensors had detected a Space Bridge spitting out a horde of undead (and hostile) Titans that would arrive at Cybertron in six hours. {{storylink|Ping}}

[[File:ObsidiansStand DesperateMeasures.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|He has better things to do today than die with honor.]]
When the Cybertronians tried to seize Carcer from Elita, Obsidian advised his leader to simply tell the truth, but his suggestion was shot down. {{storylink|Desperate Times}} Overseeing the battle with [[Lancer]] and [[Greenlight]], he began to suspect the Cybertronians were simply trying to distract them. Greenlight later reported a breach which sealed itself, prompting Obsidian to check the cameras, letting him see that Windblade was leading a team to the armoury. Obsidian saw through the ruse and reported the situation to Elita while he went to defend the Titan's brain module, arriving before any intruders could enter. When the ''real'' Windblade's team arrived, Obsidian tried to talk them down from reactivating the Titan, stating that they should trust him, before they all came to blows. Outnumbered, Obsidian was mauled by [[Tigatron]] before [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and [[Fireshot]] grounded him by destroying his propellers. Desperate, he begged Windblade not to go through with the mind meld, but she felt she had no choice and Vigilem was reactivated. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|Desperate Measures}}

When Windblade realized the folly of her action, Obisdian screamed to her to keep Vigilem's higher functions, asking that her allies trust him. When Windblade seemed to be losing control, Obsidian opted to pull the plug but Tigatron kept him down, prompting Obsidian to scream that the Eukarian was dooming them all and allowing Vigilem time to release [[Liege Maximo]]. When Elita One arrived to bring a permanent end to Vigilem, Obsidian begged her to hold her fire, to no avail as Elita emptied her weapon into the Titan's brain module, killing him and seemingly Windblade as well. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

Once Cybertron had begun to rebuild, Obsidian attended a Council meeting where Optimus and Starscream argued over trading with the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 3: Behind My Bleeding Back|Behind My Bleeding Back}}

[[File:FirstStrike6 ObsidianVSOptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Seems to have finally taken [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]'s [[Spark of Darkness|words on loyalty]] to heart.]]
Growing increasingly disillusioned with Optimus Prime, Obsidian kept an optic on the prison where [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[M.A.S.K.]] were being held (it didn't violate any of the current statutes) in case Optimus tried anything. Sure enough Optimus's team broke the humans out of jail. Obsidian soon brought the news to Starscream who, after taking a moment to bask in his glory, mobilized all forces after Optimus. When Obsidian questioned Elita's decision to have Starscream take command, the First revealed to her subordinate that she intended for all humans to die and that Obsidian had best wrap up the killings before too much time was wasted. {{storylink|First Strike issue 5|First Strike #5}} Catching up with the rogues and villains outside of the core's chamber, Obsidian engaged Optimus at Elita's command, his missile barrage nearly disintegrating [[Scarlett]] and [[Joe Colton]]. [[Merklynn|Garrison Kreiger]] then activated the alien [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]], revealed himself to be an alien known as "Merklynn" and created [[New Prysmos]] using Cybertron's energon supply. Obsidian later held a briefing regarding the alien site and its effect on Cybertron's energon. {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}}

[[File:TheChosenOne ObsidianReportsToElita.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|Trusted advisor, strategist and study-buddy.]]
When the Council of Worlds met to discuss the unsuitability of Cybertron's energon, Obsidian stood by Starscream during his rant. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}

Obsidian showed up to see [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] off on her mission into space to track down the escaped Liege Maximo. He presented Greenlight and Lancer to Chromia as reliable crewmates for her journey. After Windblade revealed Liege Maximo's freedom to the public, free elections were called, with Elita throwing her name in the ring. After she'd secured herself as a candidate, Obsidian confirmed she was the favoured to win before offering his aid for the debates. Elita declined and asked him to instead begin drawing up battle plans for Maximo's return, allowing for a 33% fatality rate. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

When [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] attacked Cybertron, Elita drafted the [[Torchbearer]]s into her service so as to have [[Victorion]] breach the monster's innards and destroy him from within. Unicron's heralds, the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]], proved too much for Cybertron's ragtag fleet with the flagship [[Worldsweeper]] crippling Carcer. As the ship began falling apart, Obsidian was crushed underneath debris, killing him. {{storylink|Our Finest}} His corpse was presumably destroyed when Elita defiantly rammed the totaled ship into Unicron's face. {{storylink|Road's End}}

===''Kre-O'' comic===
When [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] came under attack from Earth's five most wanted criminals, Obsidian led the Autobots against them. He held his own against [[Doctor Arkeville]] during the fight. The villains nearly made their escape with a disk containing Metroplex's brain, much to Obsidian's dismay. Thankfully, [[Carzap (BT)|Carzap]] managed to intercept the disk, and the villains were forced to flee empty-handed. With their base safe once more, Obsidian thanked the Autobots under his command for a job well-done. {{storylink|The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Obsidian was [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razor-Claw]]'s loyal general and was chosen to be his representative to the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] after the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]]. {{Storylink|Derailment}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[War World: Awakenings|''Transformers'' #26]]}}

[[File:TItans ObsidianBrawn.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.6|Trying out for [[Rotor Force]].]]
Obsidian studied multiple disciplines in [[Crystal City]] before the wars. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

Obsidian was part of a crowd of Decepticons who watched [[Termagax]] denounce them (and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in particular) for twisting her ideals. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings|Awakenings}} He was recruited into [[Strika's Heavies]] just before a major Decepticon attack on the [[Forge Pyramid|Pyramid]]. When [[Apeface]] asked him if he wanted a weapon, Obsidian simply replied he himself ''was'' the weapon. During the assault, Obsidian breached the Pyramid through a hole in the roof created by [[Nova Storm (G1)|Nova Storm]] and swiftly sliced [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s chest open with his rotor blades. He was forced to back off however, when [[Javelin]] shot him in the shoulder. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}}

[[File:TheLandscapeOfFear ObsidianApefaceFly.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Obsidian Tzu]]
Obsidian joined the rest of Strika's Heavies in the massive assault on Crystal City, musing beforehand about his fondness for the place. He and [[Wingstun]] scouted the city ahead of the main force and found its streets largely deserted. Suddenly, Wingstun's head was blown off by [[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]] and Obsidian promptly moved to engage the attacking Autobot. [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] barely shouted out a warning before Obsidian eviscerated Sidetrack in a single pass and called down an airstrike on his position, sending Kup's team scattering for cover as he escaped. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}} After [[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]] arrived on the battlefield, most of the Decepticons retreated, save the Heavies. When [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] exited Lodestar, Strika ordered her team to take him down and Obsidian flew into battle alongside Apeface, rebuffing his comrade's attempt at small talk. Obsidian sliced Computron's arm, but was casually finger-flicked to the ground by the [[combiner]], whereupon he found himself held at gunpoint by some arriving Autobots. In the end, the Heavies stood down as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] successfully forged a temporary truce with Megatron. {{storylink|The Landscape of Fear}}

Obsidian and the Decepticons flew out to intercept the Autobots as they made their way to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|End of Time}} He watched as Megatron was forced to let the Autobots go after they removed the [[imploder]] being used to hold them hostage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Obsidian and Strika were some of the greatest generals in Cybertronian history, who'd fought and won a thousand wars over the course of their long careers. As Megatron's newest Vehicon Generals, Obsidian considered Megatron to be synonymous with Cybertron. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:BM Obsidian-Hasbrotoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb| [https://biosector01.com/wiki/Nidhiki This time, your farewell will be forever, brother.]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-vh|'''Obsidian''' (Basic, 2000)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors
:*''Known designers'': [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' Basics, Obsidian transforms into a twin-rotor assault helicopter vaguely similar to an Osprey. His cockpit in helicopter mode is multi-jointed to allow it movement to look around, the Vehicons' toy aesthetic being "living vehicles". The cockpit's "eyes" further enhance the effect. The two rotor blades are pressure-launch projectiles. His nominal robot "flight" mode keeps his tail section together but curled up below him (as in the show), but the tail section can split up to form a pair of "normal" legs as well. His orange spark crystal is located on the robot mode's back.

: The same mold is used by ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Obsidian (RID)|Obsidian]]. A hand-painted mock-up of the mold was presented as a proposed [[Wreckers]] [[Rotorbolt (Universe)#Expanded Universe|Rotorbolt]] as a future [[BotCon]] exclusive, but was never produced.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Vehicon/Obsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Beast Machines Obsidian at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BM-toy ObsidianQuickstrike2pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1| [https://biosector01.com/wiki/Lhikan You lost the right to call me brother long ago!]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m2vh|'''Obsidian''' / '''Quickstrike''' (2-pack, 2000)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

:Obsidian was also available in a two-pack with the [[Maximal]] [[Quickstrike (BM)#2pack|Quickstrike]]. Both toys are actually on their original individual cards, but packed within a thick cardboard backing with "Beast Machines 2 Pack" printed on it. The set was sold at the now-defunct ToyCo retail store, which was similar to [[KB Toys]] and appeared in several of the "Mills" family of shopping centers, like Arizona Mills or Ontario Mills, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:TFU03-toy Obsidian.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Oh, fine, everyone immediately recognize your old enemy Tankor, but does anyone think I'm the dashing Rotorbolt? No!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Tankor & Obsidian''' (Ultra, 2003)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Ultras (actually ''technically'' from the "1.5" wave, a small revision to the initial wave), this [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Machines'' Obsidian toy was only available with his larger partner [[Tankor (BM)#Universe (2003)|Tankor]]. He features the silver "energon surge" paint deco most of the early ''Universe'' toys featured.

: This toy's coloration is not ''too'' far from the proposed colors for the unmade [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] (save the "energon surge" deco, of course). As such, many fans use him as a substitute for the haughty Predacon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/Obsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Universe Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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===''Beast Wars Returns''===
[[File:BM Obsidian-BWRtoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I was as I always was... a stage magician! ...no no no wait...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-vh|'''Vehicon Obsidian''' (Basic, [[2005]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''BR-14'''
:*''Release date'': [[April 14]], 2005
:*''Accessories'': 2 rotors

: In 2005, the toy was [[redeco]]ed and released as part of the [[Toys"R"Us]] Japan [[exclusive]] ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars Returns]]'' series, [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s version of ''Beast Machines''. Having been produced several years after the cartoon was, this version had a deco considerably more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] than the original, but still not quite there, physical differences between the mold and show model regardless.

:Interestingly, ''Beast Wars Returns'' Obsidian's vertical stabilizers/heels have been swapped in comparison to previous releases of the mold.
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:BotCon2013toy-Obsidianteal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I am ''not'' as I always was. For a while I was that thing over there! <-]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars: Termination''' (Box set, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' 2 gatling guns

: ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Obsidian is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' Voyager Class [[Highbrow (TF 2010)#Toys|Highbrow]], featuring a new head, and transforming into a World War II-era fighter resembling a {{w|Lockheed P-38 Lightning|P-38 Lightning}}. He features propellers which are geared to spin if you press the engines down, is armed with two non-firing gatling guns which can mount on his hip guards/small front wings via [[5 mm post]]. The propellers on his forearms can be swung down to function as "spinning blade weapons". With the cockpit shell halves splitting open and forming the wings, at the same time revealing the thruster attached underneath the "main" cockpit body, which is then flipped down, the cockpit [[kibble]] on his back actually turns into a [[jet pack]].

:[[File:BotCon2013toy-ObsidianGreen.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Yo.]]
: Originally, Obsidian was revealed as having a green, toy-accurate color scheme, but was later revised to be a more cartoon-accurate dark teal.

: Obsidian was only sold in a [[BotCon 2013]]-[[exclusive]] boxset with [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Timelines 2|Hoist]], [[Megaplex#Timelines 2|Megaplex]], [[Skywarp (MW)#Timelines 2|Skywarp]], and [[Strika (BM)#Timelines 2|Strika]].

: The original version of this toy, with the [[Retool#Gang-molded alternate parts|alternate head]], was used to make ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' GDO [[Powerdive#Generations|Powerdive]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BCObsidian/obsidian.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy ObsidianKreon.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Machine Wars''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 small pistols

: The ''[[Kre-O]] Machine Wars'' five-pack was exclusive to [[BotCon 2013]], and includes Kreons of [[Hoist (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Hoist]], [[Megaplex#Kre-O|Megaplex]], Obsidian, [[Skywarp (MW)#Kre-O|Skywarp]], and [[Strika (BM)#Kre-O|Strika]], limited to 1500 pieces. They have generally more parts than the [[Kreon]]s packed in with larger ''[[Kre-O]]'' sets, but do not have alternate vehicle builds like [[Micro-Changer]]s.

: The Obsidian Kreon is based on the early promotional images of the [[#Timelines_2|full-sized BotCon Obsidian toy]], which showed it in the green and blue colors of the original ''Beast Machines'' [[#Beast Machines|Obsidian toy]]. While the larger toy changed colors to be more [[Show-accuracy|accurate]] to the [[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon model]], the Kreon retains the original bright scheme.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/BCKre-OObsidian/obsidian.htm More information on Obsidian at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:BotCon-2013-Obsidian-lithograph art.jpg|thumb|right|200px|(BotCon 2013 ''Wings Universe'' profile art)]]
* Obsidian had the pre-release name of "Blitzwing".<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/f_-M55vdPn0/gBDdVeAcrm4J</ref>
* At one point Obsidian was planned to have a Mega toy that would be more [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]]. Sadly, this toy never made it past pre-production. (Rotorbolt was originally going to be a BotCon exclusive redeco of this mold, explaining why he was drawn to match Obsidian's show appearance in ''The Wreckers'' comic rather than the Basic toy.)
* Story editor [[Bob Skir]] wanted to depict Obsidian and Strika's return to Cybertron after the reformatting wave hit in the last episode, making them the only two purely mechanical beings remaining. They would refuse reformatting into techno-organic forms, seeing being in their normal bodies as punishment for their misguided actions. However, this never made it into the series.
*In his panel at [[unofficial conventions|TFNation 2019]], [[Marty Isenberg]] admitted that the inclusion of an ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' version of Obsidian in the outline for the unproduced episode "[[Trial of Megatron, Part 1]]" might have been a simple slip-up on his part, one that would have been corrected in the final cut by having [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] featured in Obsidian's place.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Obsidian''' (オブシディアン ''Obushidian'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Osedi''' (Taiwan, 奧西迪 ''Àoxīdí''), '''Jīngāngxiá''' (China, 金刚侠, "Vajra Stalwart"), '''Hēiyàoshí''' (China, 黑曜石, "Obsidian")

==References==
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Spark

2025-05-12T18:35:57Z

Aggression25: /* Multiple sparks in one body */

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[[File:Sparks.jpg|thumb|right|350px|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a Bellarian.]]
The '''spark''' is the core of [[Transformer]] life, an electrically charged mass of [[positron]]s formed from the supernatural substance known as [[Rarified Energon]]. A spark functions as a combined heart and soul for an individual Cybertronian: like a heart, a spark "pulses" at a certain frequency to animate a mechanical bodyframe; like a soul, a spark is generally accepted to contain some part of a Transformer's immaterial being, which persists after death by transcending into the [[Transformer afterlife|afterlife]]. Indeed, most Cybertronian religions hold that each spark contains an infinitesimally small portion of [[Primus]]'s divine essence. To protect their sparks, which usually can't survive outside of a compatible body for very long, most Cybertronians possess a specialized "spark chamber" somewhere in their body. Sparks come in a wide range of colors—most are some shade of blue, but Cybertronians across the [[multiverse]] have exhibited green, yellow, orange, white, and red sparks.

Most forms of Cybertronian [[reproduction]] involves the creation of a new spark—in many realities, [[Sacred treasure|supernatural artifact]]s such as the [[Vector Sigma]] supercomputer or the [[AllSpark]] can generate sparks at will, which can be implanted into a suitable receptacle to create a new Transformer. These newborn sparks contain the [[CNA|hard-coded design schematics]] that act as a Transformer's "genetic code", which dictates a Transformer's appearance and sometimes even their [[alternate mode]]s. Sparks can be safely stored in [[stasis pod]]s, "frozen" within [[photonic crystal]]s, or even transplanted from one body to another with no ill effects, but they are susceptible to weaponsfire and exotic forms of radiation. When a Transformer's body can no longer support its spark, it is "extinguished" and the Transformer is considered dead. As long as the spark is intact, however, it is possible to repair a Transformer, re-implant its spark, and effectively bring them back from the dead.

{{bigquote|When a spark goes online, there is great joy. When one is extinguished, the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Conceptual history==
[[File:Brain module.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Marvel comic]] introduced the [[brain module]] as the "core" of Transformer life.]]
Although the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon was the first piece of ''Transformers'' media to introduce and codify the nature of the spark and its role in Cybertronian physiology, various works of "[[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]" fiction had presented a number of similar concepts and ideas to prove that the [[Transformer]]s were true "living beings" and not just simple machines acting out preprogrammed directives. [[The Next Best Thing to Being There!|Issue #10]] of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original Marvel comic]] introduced the [[brain module]] as the core of Cybertronian life, which could only be manufactured and activated with the help of the life-giving [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]—without one, the resulting Transformer would be a mindless, emotionless automaton, functional but not truly "alive". Although the word "spark" did appear offhandedly in some [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comic stories]] (a "spark of life", a "life spark", [[The Bridge to Nowhere!|"Let no spark remain flickering in a single Autobot microchip!"]], [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly metaphorical statements and otherwise unconnected to the concept that would eventually evolve. [[The Transformers (cartoon)|The original Generation 1 cartoon]] introduced the [[laser core]] as a crucial component of Cybertronian anatomy, and the later episodes "[[Starscream's Brigade]]" and "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]" featured [[personality component]]s that governed a Transformer's ability to think, speak, and emote.

Early drafts of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' featured "Life Sparks", which were small glowing versions of the Transformers to whom they belonged. In one early draft, Life Sparks are said to depart the body of a Transformer upon death and dissipate into nothingness unless they are contained within another vessel. In this version of the script, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s Life Spark took the place of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]; upon his death, he bequeathed it to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]], who became the next Autobot leader for a time. [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] requested to have his enshrined in an urn at the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] only for his pleas to be ignored; his Life Spark then drifted into space, and [[Unicron]] eventually recreated it as [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]. Although this idea was discarded from the finished film entirely, a vestigial reference persisted in the UK comic story "[[Target: 2006]]" where author [[Simon Furman]] misinterpreted "Life Spark" as the name of [[Life Spark|a character]] who was rebuilt into [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]].

[[File:The Spark Rhinox spark.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
The concept of the spark as we know it today was first detailed in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]".<ref>[[Gorilla Warfare|An earlier episode]] included an offhanded reference to [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]'s spark, but its significance was not explained.</ref> Compared to brain modules and laser cores, ''Beast Wars'' couched the idea of sparks in explicitly supernatural terms and all-but compared them to a tangible "soul" that served as a Cybertronian's animating life-force. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars''; events in seasons two and three further established that all Transformers—be they [[Maximal]], [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]], [[Autobot]], or [[Decepticon]]—possess sparks. Sparks played a major role in the follow-up ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoon, which gave more information about the Transformer life cycle: each spark was a fragment of the immaterial [[Transformer afterlife|Matrix]], the "Allspark" through which all sparks arose from and eventually returned to.

The [[BotCon 1999]] prose story "[[Paradox]]" was the first to connect sparks to the benevolent creator-god [[Primus]], noting that each Spark contained an infinitesimal fraction of his divine lifeforce. In [[2004]], [[Dreamwave Productions]]' [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation One continuity]] introduced the supernatural "[[Well of All Sparks]]" as the mechanism through which new sparks entered the material world from the essence of Primus at Cybertron's core. In addition to the [[AllSpark|physical AllSpark artifact]] from the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action film]], the ability to generate sparks at will has since been backported to two [[sacred treasure|artifacts]] from the original Generation 1 cartoon: the [[Vector Sigma]] supercomputer and the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]]—this latter [[retcon]] is almost assuredly based on the role the Creation Matrix played in the original Marvel comics.

Since their introduction, sparks have featured in basically all continuities in some way, shape or form. This includes new works set in the long-running [[Generation 1 continuity family]], which has successfully introduced the concept into modern Generation 1 stories like [[IDW Publishing]]'s various comic continuities and contemporary universes like the [[Aligned continuity family]] and ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''.

==Unusual sparks==
===Immortal sparks===
[[File:Possession-StarscreamsSpark.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Many versions of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] have somehow cheated death, persisting as a kind of "ghost" even after the complete destruction of his physical form. The ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]," attributed this behaviour to the presence of an immortal, indestructible "mutant spark"—as a disembodied spark, he retained his memories, personality, and the ability to move around under his own power; he could travel through space and time and even possess other Transformers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity, [[Maximal]] scientists attempted to replicate Starscream's aberrant spark—their reckless experimentation created the murderously insane Profotorm X, who later took on the name "[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]". Like Starscream, Rampage's spark could not be extinguished through the simple destruction of his body, though it could be "split" by carving with an [[energon crystal]]. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals, and squeezing the case caused Rampage great physical pain. Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible, however; when [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] pierced his spark with "pure" crystalline energon, it created an explosion strong enough to destroy Rampage's physical body and the portion of the spark that he carried within his body, seemingly killing him for good.
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===Multiple sparks in one body===
[[File:OptimalSituation-Sparks.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
In rare cases, a Transformer may be able to take the spark of another Cybertronian into their body—essentially using their body to sustain this second spark while still maintaining their own spark and personality. In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] temporarily housed the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]; he grew into an enormous, exponentially more powerful "Optimal Optimus" form, and [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] later pulled off a similar stunt by doing the same thing with [[Megatron (G1)|the original Megatron]]. When the aberrant disembodied spark of Starscream had earlier possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] the only physical change was the body's [[Insignia|allegiance emblems]] shifting from [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to [[Decepticon]]. Based on information from the series, there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast Era body housing a Generation One spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark conceivably like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron, or some combination of these. The ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' implies that Generation One sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast Era sparks.

The [[Prime Master]] Transformers are specifically noted to carry the sparks of the [[Thirteen]] within their bodies; when they link with another Cybertronian, they bestow a portion of that power upon the Autobot or Decepticon in question by [[Prime Master/Combinations|granting them supernatural power boosts and sometimes completely altering their personalities]]. It is unclear if these Prime Masters have sparks of their own, or if they are solely powered by the sparks of the Thirteen they carry.
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===Spark powers===
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[[File:FeralScreamPt2-Cheetorspark.gif|thumb|right|200px]]
Some rare Cybertronians possess spark-based powers that set them apart from average Cybertronians. Most prominenetly, Maximals and Predacons who had been mutated into [[Transmetal 2]] forms by the [[Transmetal driver]] all possessed abnormal sparks with supernatural powers. As [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] mutated into his Transmetal 2 form, tendrils of energy emerged from his spark chamber that changed his body; after fully becoming a Transmetal 2, he was able to telekinetically holster and unholster his pistol using his spark powers.

In other continuities, Cybertronians with strange powers like technopathy or teleportation are known as "outliers". The exact relationship between these powers and the nature of the spark is not clearly understood; in ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' [[Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|#36]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] attempted to create an army of outliers by dousing the recently-arisen sparks at the [[Alyon]] [[Hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]] with radiation, but the attempt was thwarted early and it is unclear if his experiments succeeded.
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===Biological sparks===
[[File:IHaveNoMouthAndIMustStarscream-VoinSpark.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
In rare cases, sparks can even graft themselves into an organic body. During a climactic battle against Optimus Primal, Megatron's [[beast mode]] body somehow divided himself between his organic and technological components; his spark wound up inside a purely organic form and suffered no ill effects. When Megatron disentangled his spark from this form, the "[[Noble (BM)|Savage Noble]]" creature survived the process and became a mindless animal.

In the ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|Lost Light]]'' comic, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] genetically engineered a number of strange organic lifeforms with sparks like the [[Treecon]]s; using the knowledge encoded within the [[Epistemus|Magnificence]], he was able to extract the still-living spark from [[Rat-a-Tat-Tat|a Decepticon]] and implant it into the body of a genetically engineered humanoid creature he called "the [[Firstborn]]". Scorponok planned to engineer an entire race of spark-powered organics; he precipitated his plan on the theory that their sparks would divide and carry on to the next generation, and that he could one day "harvest" the sparks from their bearers and use them to repopulate the dying Decepticon race. As only one being was created before his plan was thwarted, it is unclear if this plan would have succeeded.

[[Cryak]]'s spark was able to exist, apparently indefinitely, within the body of a cybernetically enhanced [[Voin]] ape, although the experience drove her insane.
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===Technorganic sparks===
[[File:Spark colors.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Transformers who are reformatted into [[technorganic]] forms through the power of the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] possess unusually-colored sparks that generally match the color of their robot-mode eyes (for instance, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] possessed red eyes and a red spark). Whenever the technorganic Maximals transformed, they would glow with the light of their spark color; after being infused with extra power from the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] during the final battle against Megatron's [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s, their sparks became visible as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

Technorganic Transformers appear to be able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialogue from "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse" this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. While Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body, her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with the meditating Optimus Primal—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence" perhaps within the Allspark itself.
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===Branched sparks===
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[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers4- JumpstartersEnd.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Much like a human zygote, a spark can, either naturally or through artificial induction, split into two healthy but inextricably linked sparks. The resulting Cybertronians are considered [[twin]]s and possess a "branched" or "split" spark. Some Cybertronians born with branched sparks, like the small Transformers who inhabit the planet [[Devisiun (planet)|Devisiun]], may [[combiner|combine]] with their spark-sibling to form a single combined [[alternate mode]], though most possess independent transformations. Still others, like [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]], can combine with their sibling or assume an independent vehicle form as needed.

Individuals who share a branched spark have been known to experience a phenomenon known as "vicarious perception", where one twin can feel the pain of the other. In extreme situations, the death of one twin can even kill the other.
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===Mitotic sparks===
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Cybertronians who possess a mitotic spark inhabit and control multiple Transformers simultaneously. Unlike [[combiner]]s, who are two or more individual beings who can temporarily unite their minds and bodies into a single gestalt entity, mitotic Transformers possess ''one'' consciousness and will spread across many separate bodies, usually somewhere between two and three independent forms who often possess their own [[alternate mode]]s. This unusual power grants them great flexibility on the battlefield and supreme durability—a mitotic Transformer can generally survive the destruction of one body.

Some mitotic Transformers like [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] possess multiple interlinked Transformers who can all combine into one single shape; others like [[Magmatron]] and the [[Duocon]]s possess multiple non-transforming [[alternate mode]]s who combine into a single robot. [[Exarchon]] possesses a more dangerous version of this talent—he can forcibly overwrite the minds and personalities of other Transformers and subsume them into a "collective" of mind-controlled bodies.
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===Prime Spark===
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The Prime Spark has been entrusted by [[Primus]] to at least three Transformers from different dimensions and time periods: "Generation 1" [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], ''Armada'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]. When they all encountered each other at moment of their respective deaths, the assembled leaders realized that their sparks all resonated as one. [[Ask Vector Prime]] would go on to elaborate on the concept, and it could be considered a loose precursor to the idea of "[[multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]]" that Hasbro and Fun Publications would later introduce.

===Embers===
[[File:Grimlockember.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]]'s red ember is visible on his chest.]]
The Cybertronians who inhabit the backwards universe of ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' possess red, electron-charged "embers" instead of blue, positron-charged sparks. Beyond this, there are no observable differences between embers and the spark of the dimension-hopping [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] during his visit to this strange reality.
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===Anti-sparks===
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As each Transformer possesses a portion of Primus's divine life-force, so too is [[Unicron]] powered by an animating force all his own—a malevolent "anti-spark". Transformers who use [[Dark Energon]] as a fuel source invariably corrupt their being by binding Unicron's anti-spark to their own. Dark Energon has the power to resurrect dead Transformers as mindless, undead [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]]s, invariably hostile creatures who possess a portion of Unicron's own anti-spark in place of their own spark.

The Vehicons of ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' possess anti-sparks, though theirs are only loosely related to Unicron, the result of experimentation with the energies of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. In this universe, Vehicons with anti-sparks are able to assimilate other Cybertronians and forcibly transform them into more Vehicons.

Anti-sparks should not be confused with the [[Dark Spark]], the supernatural antithesis to the [[Matrix of Leadership]].
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===Point One Percenters===
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In some realities, a small number of Cybertronians possess enhanced green sparks. These rare ‘bots are known as “Point One Percenters”, so named for their extreme rarity. Point One Percenters possess enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and durability compared to the baseline Cybertronian average, though just ''how'' strong a Point One Percenter is varies from one to the next. Some possess additional abilities; "loadbearing" Point One Percenters, for instance, were the only Cybertronians capable of safely wearing and operating the mighty [[Magnus Armor]].
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===Titansparks===
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The enormous Transformers known as [[Titan (group)|Titan]]s are said to possess unique sparks; in the [[2019 IDW continuity]], these are specifically identified as "Titansparks". What exactly differentiates Titansparks from ordinary Cybertronian sparks isn't entirely clear, though [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] claims in the ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' [[Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|annual]] that these "super sparks" supposedly span multiple planes of existence and allow Titans to "commune with the divine". These unique sparks appear to be the differentiating factor between Titans and other giant Cybertronians—[[Leviathan (G1)|Leviathan]] is extremely large, roughly the size of a [[combiner]] like [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but she is specifically noted to be no different from someone like [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]].
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===Sparkless Transformers===
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Within the traditional Cybertronian worldview, a Transformer needs a spark to be considered truly "alive"—the spark gives them the ability to think, feel, and emote. Traditionally, Cybertronians without sparks are either mindless [[drone]]s, who operate on a set of preprogrammed directives, or [[zombie]]s, unliving shells forced back to life through science or sorcery. Across the [[multiverse]], Cybertronians frequently utilize nonliving machines in their starships and buildings, which vary in both complexity and functionality—sophisticated artificial intelligences like the [[Diagnostic Drone]]s, [[Deployer (BM)|Deployers]], or [[T-AI]] are by all appearance fully sentient beings, but lack sparks.

The Japanese Generation 1 continuity regards Transformers built without the assistance of [[Primus|Vector Sigma]], such as the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] and the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], to lack sparks, resulting in more bestial and less intelligent personalities.

In ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] was brought back to life with a fragment of the [[AllSpark]] in place of a normal spark, and Titan's tie-in comics would reveal that comic-original character [[Afterburn]] was really a sparkless drone. Although he showed emotion, initiative and thought beforehand, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] wrote him off as not having been a "real" bot after learning of his true nature and viewed it as pointless to mark Afterburn's death.

In rare instances, Transformers have somehow managed to transfer an engram of their mind into a new, Sparkless body—in ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'', [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s mind survived the destruction of his original body, then invaded [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]]'s sparkless "Galvatron" prototype and turned it into a new body for himself. The resulting "Galvatron" was by all accounts a sentient being with free will, but lacked a spark—but does he count as a "real" Cybertronian lifeform, or is he just an advanced copy?
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==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity====
[[File:OptimusPrimalSparkChamber.gif|thumb|left|250px|Most Cybertronians can open and close their spark chambers at will.]]
All Sparks stem from the mystical dimension known as the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]], a metaphysical matrix that contains the joined sparks of all Transformers who ever lived or ever will live. Each spark passes into the material world to learn and grow; when it is extinguished, it adds its knowledge to the totality contained within. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}} The physical mechanism by which new Sparks enter the material world is not clear. Different sources have alluded to the existence of "Matrix" and "Pit" facilities where Maximal and Predacon sparks are respectively created, but details are scarce and sometimes contradictory. {{storylink|Beast Wars Universe}} {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

Though the intrinstic essence of the spark cannot be altered through any known means, [[shell program]]s can be used to overwrite a Transformer's personality. In extreme cases, shell programs can create entirely new beings with no apparent relation to the Maximal or Predacon they might've once been. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery|Discovery}}
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=====''Beast Wars'' cartoon=====
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Newly born sparks were placed within a [[protoform]]. On long-range exploration and colonization missions, they would be stored within [[stasis pod]]s, which would keep both the protoform safe until it could acquire a [[beast mode]] using the pod's built-in [[DNA scanner]]. {{storylink|The Spark}} Most sparks were susceptible to [[energon]]; the [[energon radiation|radiation]] from raw energon could short out mechanical bodies and damage the spark, {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}} and pure energon could completely destroy the spark. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}} Traditionally, [[stasis lock]] was a way to preserve the spark by shifting into an energy-conserving low power mode until sufficiently repaired. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

[[File:FeralScream2 Cheetor's spark.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Transmetal driver]] changes the color of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s spark.]]
The Decepticon Air Commander [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possessed a mutant spark; {{storylink| Possession}} when Maximal High Command sought to recreate this power, they got the murderous [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]]. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} The original Starscream found his way to the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] and possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]'s body for a time, but [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] soon exorcised the errant spark by detonating an [[energon]] cache beneath Waspinator. {{storylink|Possession}} When Rampage awoke on prehistoric Earth, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] later used an energon knife to carve out a piece of the experiment's spark, {{storylink|Bad Spark}} and tortured him by using a cage of energon crystals to squeeze half of his spark. {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

During a desperate battle to save the original [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] made the drastic decision to carry Prime's spark in his own body until the other Maximals could repair his body. Carrying two sparks at once drastically altered Primal's body into a powerful "Optimal" form, which carried over even after he returned Prime's spark to its correct vessel. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} Not to be outdone, Megatron would later pull off a similar feat with the spark of the [[Megatron (G1)|original Megatron]]. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

The enigmatic [[Vok]] took an interest in the Cybertronians that had contaminated their experiment and abducted [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] and [[Tigatron]] to extract their sparks. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} Their [[Transmetal driver]] had a drastic effect on Cybertronian sparks; it displayed the ability to mutate both Maximals and Predacons into powerful [[Transmetal 2]] forms, which all displayed abnormal Spark-based powers like telekinesis or enhanced healing. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}} The Vok eventually created [[Tigerhawk]] from the sparkless bodies of their captives, and Tigatron and Airazor took the chance to merge into one spark and inhabit Tigerhawk as a new composite entity. {{storylink|Other Victories}}
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=====''Beast Machines'' cartoon=====
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After the end of the Beast Wars, Megatron escaped Maximal captivity, returned to Cybertron ahead of his captors, and used this head start to construct an army of sparkless [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Eager to ensure that his would become the ''only'' spark on a Cybertron stripped of free will, a "single elegant machine" of his own devising, Megatron successfully took over the planet with a [[transformation virus]] and [[Spark extractor|extracted]] the sparks from every other Cybertronian. He stored the disembodied sparks inside the former [[Council Citadel]], where he one day planned to abosrb them into his own spark. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}} Megatron laboured to purge himself of his now-hated [[beast mode]] but refused the simple option of simply transferring his spark to a purely mechanical frame, noting that doing so would leave his spark vulnerable. {{storylink|Survivor}} When Optimus Primal and his Maximals finally returned to Cybertron, they were beset by the Vehicons and infected with the virus. Their escape from the Vehicons led them to the [[Oracle (BM)|the Oracle]], who recognized Primal's "receptive spark" and reformatted the four into [[technorganic]] bodies. {{storylink|The Reformatting}} Whenever Primal used his powers to reformat another Cybertronian into a technorganic form, his spark would shine from his body. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} {{storylink|Home Soil}}

Though Megatron first sought to crush the Maximals through sheer numbers, he conceded that free will and the capacity for lateral thought had its uses and made the decision to place three of his captured sparks into Vehicon bodies, using [[shell program]]s to create the [[Vehicon General]]s. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}} Primal felt something familiar about the general [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]'s spark, {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}} and the Maximals soon discovered the truth: Tankor was really [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], just as [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] and [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] were really [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery|Discovery}} {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} Though the Maximals believed that the shell program had corrupted Rhinox's spark and turned him into an amoral villain, Optimus maintained that his former compatriot had voluntarily chosen to stand with Megatron and they had to respect this decision. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}}

[[File:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
When a clash between the Maximals and Megatron resulted in the anti-organic energies of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] meeting the anti-technological energies of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], {{storylink|End of the Line}} Optimus sacrificed himself to ensure the powers did not destroy Cybertron. His spark went on a vision quest in the afterlife for a time before he returned to his body. {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}} At the same time, Megatron attempted to purge his organic form once and for all by transferring his spark into a new mechanical form. However, his spark was instead transferred into the "[[Noble (BM)|Savage Noble]]" creature that had coalesced from his body's organic elements. Megatron posed as a Maximal to gain access to the Council Citadel and uploaded his spark into the [[Grand Mal]], the body he'd intended to wear. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}} Megatron later moved the sparks into a [[spark containment unit]] inside his body, where he brought forth the sparks of the legendary generals [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and implanted them into Vehicon bodies to act as his new enforcers. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}} Optimus Primal baited Megatron with access to the Oracle so that the Maximal leader could learn where Cybertron's sparks now resided. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}} Megatron used the knowledge he'd gleaned from the Oracle to begin absorbing the captured sparks into his own; his spark grew to an enormous size before Nightscream depolarized it with a powerful sonic scream. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}}

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Megatron's depolarized spark was unable to inhabit a material body for very long; it bounced across Cybertron, randomly possessing dead bodies before Rattrap was able to re-polarize the spark and trap it inside a helpless [[Diagnostic Drone]]. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} With the Grand Mal still in their possession, the Maximals made defending Cybertron's sparks their priority as Megatron ordered his generals to recapture them. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Communing with the sparks, the Maximals tapped into their own sparks for a power boost when the battle turned against them. Though the Maximals managed to defeat the Vehicon Generals, Megatron had managed to transfer his spark into a new combat-ready body, Optimus Primal's "Optimal Optimus" form, and extracted the sparks of every Maximal save Primal himself. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

In the following battle, Megatron emerged victorious and absorbed every spark into himself. At the cusp of his ascension however, Primal managed to manipulate the technorganic matter to shove Megatron and himself into Cybertron's [[organic core]]. As Primal reformatted the core itself and initiated the [[Great Transformation]] that saw the entire planet transformed into a [[technorganic]] world, Megatron's stolen sparks were all released and promptly returned to their original bodies. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}
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=====''Transformers Legends'' anthology=====
A portion of [[Megatron (G1)|the original Megatron]] attempted to manipulate his successor into returning his disembodied spark to his original body. After the end of the Beast Wars, the Maximals ensured that this spark was returned to its original vessel to preserve the timeline. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}

During his time as Cybertron's ruler, Megatron's disembodied spark flashed between the material world and the Allspark, which presented itself as a [[Tree of Life|metaphysical "tree"]]. [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] explained that all sparks can only "ascend" through the eight realms as far as they can share their self with the world around them. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

=====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity=====
During the [[Golden Age]] of Cybertron, Transformers referred to sparks as their "Life Force" or "Laser Core". The term "spark" did not come into usage until after the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and the rise of the Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}

====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
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Sparks were a feature of robotic life in the [[Precursor World]] that preceded the [[G1 World]]. Seeking to bring his [[Primus Vanguard]] through the rebirth of the universe, [[Primus]] attempted to use his [[Golden Noah]] to collect and ferry the wayward sparks of members of the [[Blue Order]] after they were done in by the [[Straxus (G1)|Straxuses]]'s betrayal. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}} In this world, at least the leaders of the Primus Vanguard were able to transfer their spirits to other objects, such as when [[White Gallant Convoy]] lived on within [[God Neptune]]'s [[Neptune Sword]]. [[Blue Big Convoy]] was able to do the same with the [[Matrix Sword]], {{storylink|God Neptune comic 2}} which allowed Straxus to use his spark energies to create [[Convobat|an experimental clone]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic}}

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Primus's efforts were in vain, as the only beings that would ultimately make it over to the new world were himself and [[Primacron]]. But thanks to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] that carried Primus's essence, Primus himself was able to act as a conduit between the life from the previous universe and the present universe. As such, Primacron used Primus to create living robotic beings such as the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]], the [[Lithone (species)|Lithone]], and many others. Primus was able to escape Primacron's clutches, eventually settling on the planet that would later be known as [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. There, he was discovered and exploited by the [[Quintesson]]s to create another kind of robotic life with sparks: the [[Transformer]]s. As Vector Sigma, Primus acted on the behalf of several to grant true life—sparks—to various Transformers. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale}} Transformers created without Vector Sigma were of low intelligence, being considered as more akin to animals. {{Storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

However, the existence of sparks was unknown to Transformers in general, with them believing that the [[personality component]] contained the essence of a Transformer {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} and that their "personality data" was executed by a unique energy signature referred to abstractly as "lifeforce" which was propagated throughout their bodies by laser cores. {{Storylink|GT Units Online!}} This was the case till [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], inspired by a conversation with Primacron in [[2011]], {{storylink|Controverse}} investigated the existence of the Transformer soul. His research led him to open up his personality component in [[2025]] and discover his own spark within. From this time onward, sparks were common knowledge, although the particulars of where sparks went to after death were still a mystery. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}}

In some cases, an individual's spark was used to animate another being, such as when [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]'s personality component gave life to the rudimentary human-made robot, [[B.O.T. (G1)|B.O.T.]], in [[1985]] {{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}} and when [[2005]]'s [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] was used to give life to [[Central Consciousness File X-9|a copy of his future self]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of the Past}} Around [[2030]], [[Violengiguar]] was created by the [[Vok]] from an aggregate of deceased Decepticons' sparks. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 5: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two}}

In the [[BT World]] that split from the G1 World in [[2005]], the Transformers learned of the spark earlier when the [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Protector]]'s spark possessed the body of [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

{{note|Japanese Generation 1 continuity includes the ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' cartoons. See [[#Beast Wars cartoon]] and [[#Beast Machines cartoon]] for further details.}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
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Traditionally, the spark of a Cybertronian is created when a [[protoform]] is imbued with enough energy to bring it to life. The spark can uses its hard-coded genetic instructions to reformat the protoform into a suitable robotic body with an [[alternate mode]], or it can simply animate a pre-built body. In ancient times, it was believed that the energies of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] were the font of all life and that all sparks possessed a connection to [[Primus]] himself, but as Cybertronian society developed a more atheistic worldview this was eventually dismissed as superstition. In the years before the war, scientists attempted to deduce a rational explanation for the origin of sparks.

The spark is suffused throughout the body; when a Transformer dies, their corpse releases a measurable energy burst, which was speculated to be the spark leaving the body. Certain sparks were known to have aberrant properties that counted [[Ability|special powers]] among them. A spark was known to sometimes split, resulting in the creation of siblings. The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] managed to artificially replicate this to create clones, but this process was noted to be overall inferior to natural spark separation. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye}}

During his [[Unbinding]] ritual, [[the Fallen]] gathered four Cybertronians with unique sparks, specifically those with great "genetic potential": [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]. {{storylink|Conflagration}} While Blitzwing would eventually mutate into a [[Triple Changer]] and Hot Spot was already a member of a [[combiner]] team, an [[The Age of Wrath Pt.5|unproduced issue of ''The War Within'']] would've revealed that Grimlock's spark was part of a "lineage" that dated back to the [[Thirteen]] themselves, though Jetfire's significance will forever remain a mystery.
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====Marvel Comics continuity====
{{note|The original Marvel comics were published long before the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon that would codify the concept of sparks. Subsequent stories that involve sparks in this continuity are the product of an elaborate, if not particularly smooth, [[retcon]].}}
=====''Classics''=====
The nature of the Cybertronian body and spark is highly dependent upon the rarified energon that shapes it—the "base element" of Transformer life is present across the [[multiverse]] and is responsible for the highly varied, heterogeneous properties of the Cybertronian species. Though each spark reflects the nature of [[Primus]], Rarified Energon is finite in nature and must be carefully guarded, so [[Primus]] tasked [[Nexus Prime]] of the [[Thirteen]] with guarding this miraculous substance so that it could not be used for evil. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}

The [[Last Autobot]] considered his [[Mini-Con]] creations to be "children of his own spark", though it is unclear if this sentiment is literal or metaphorical. {{storylink|The New World}}

=====''Regeneration One''=====
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The malevolent [[Dark Matrix]] creature discovered a way to consume the vestigial sparks of warriors who had made the pilgrimage to Primus's chamber, and grew more powerful with each new spark he consumed. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}

Following the second crash of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', a damaged [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] willingly wired himself into the craft's systems to preserve his spark. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Two}} When the [[Wreckers]] crashed on [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ordered his horde of [[zombie]] Decepticons to bring them to him in a state where he could see dread in their optics before he snuffed out their sparks. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] later engaged Megatron in battle the [[Decepticon leader]] swore to open Prime's spark chamber with his teeth. His own spark was ripped out of his chest and crushed seconds later by an apologetic Prime. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

After the Cybertronians had been separated from [[Primus]] and the larger [[multiverse]], they lost their biological immortality. Millenia in the future, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] had become the last Cybertronian; when he finally died, the vestiges of his spark energy provided the final catalyst for the [[Demon|Demons]] to complete their millennia-long metamorphosis and emerge as [[Botanica (BM)|a new generation]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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=====''Transformers '84''=====
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Prior to the initial launch from Cybertron, the sparks of the wounded [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] were separated from their bodies and held within a magnetic containment field aboard the ''Ark'' until their bodies could be mended; their minds, on the other hand, were removed from their bodies, uploaded onto [[crystalline containment vessel]]s, and stored in the [[mind bank]] that held the engrams of multiple Autobot reservists. When the Ark later crashed on Earth, [[Aunty|AUNTIE]] rebuilt the Dynobots with alien alternate modes and re-uploaded their sparks into their bodies. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 2|Secrets & Lies #2}}

Not long afterwards, AUNTIE would bring five more Autobots back to life as an ad-hoc defense against a berserk [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]; as these facsimile warriors contained only copied mind engrams and not their sparks, they were not truly alive, but possessed all of the memories and tactical knowledge they had possessed in life. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 3|Secrets & Lies #3}}
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====2005 IDW continuity====
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Across the galaxy, multiple mechanical races possess sparks, including the [[Quintesson]]s, {{storylink|Prey (issue)|Prey}} [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]]s, {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}} and the [[Transformer]]s themselves. The durability of a spark and its role in mechanoid physiology varies from species to species; [[Pentius]]'s spark contained a semblance of his memories and personality, which reasserted themselves when his disembodied spark found its way into [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s body, {{storylink|Belly of the Beast (issue)|Belly of the Beast}} while the Junkion [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] could readily survive as a disembodied head after the apparent destruction of his spark. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}} Machine races that did not possess sparks, like the [[Catharsian]]s, derive their sentience from a "warm-wired" physiology. {{storylink|Chasing the Infinite}}

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the spark, [[brain module]], and [[transformation cog]] constitute [[Rossum's Trinity]], three vital, interconnected organs essential to Transformer life. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} The light from a spark illuminates a Transformer's [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optics]], {{storylink|Zero Point}} and affects the colour of the [[energon]] in their systems; while most Cybertronian sparks pulse at a high frequency and turns their energon purple, [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] Transformers evolved lower-frequency sparks and "bleed" blue energon instead. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} Cybertronian science has identified at least eight known spark types, {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} though some proposed variations like estriol-positive sparks have been discredited and abandoned. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

In ancient times, [[Vector Sigma]] created sparks by sending energy pulses across the planet, igniting "[[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]]s" that birthed clusters of newborn sparks. After the "first flash", Cybertronians harvested these new sparks; they could either be implanted into a mass of [[living metal|sentio metallico]] to become a healthy [[protoform]] {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} or "frozen" indefinitely within a [[photonic crystal]]. {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} Though most unharvested sparks evaporated soon after their first flash, a particularly strong spark like a [[Point One Percenter]] could remain buried underground for some time. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

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Although various Cybertronian religions held that sparks would burn forever as a result of the Cybertronian race destroying the death god [[Mortilus]] in ancient times, {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}} the truth was that sparks were as mortal as any other life-force and could potentially burn out from old age or a disease like [[cybercrosis]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} Several [[Titan (group)|Titan]]s carried perpetually-regenerating hot spots within their bodies and used these to colonize distant worlds during the reign of the [[Thirteen]]. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Exotic technologies like [[positron core]]s were once used to treat spark-related aliments but these miraculous devices were considered lost after the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|A Lonely Pillar on the Plain}} At some point after this war, the enigmatic [[Mortilus|Necrobot]] began a tradition of harvesting the residual spark pulses from corpses and using that energy to create blue flowers to mark the graves of the many Cybertronians who had been killed in the conflict—a tradition that would only grow in complexity in the years to come. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

[[File:TheLopsidedTriangle-FrozenSparks.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
By [[Nova Prime]]'s era, the hot spots weren't producing as many sparks and occurred less and less frequently, and the looming population crisis threatened Nova's vision of a grand galactic empire. In desperation, Nova's scientists found a way to tap the [[Matrix of Leadership]] itself, and discovered a way to generate a limitless supply of new sparks from the mass of photonic crystals embedded within its frame. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} Realizing that not all Cybertronians would approve of this act, the government established a cover story: they were creating life through "spark-splicing" experiments that supposedly used energy from existing sparks to ignite new ones, which were then implanted into pre-built bodies. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} This "[[Silver Harvest]]" single-handedly revitalized the Cybertronian race, and Transformers who were born this way were said to have been "[[Reproduction#2005 IDW continuity|constructed cold]]". {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} During this time in Cybertron's history, wealthy Cybertronians who wanted to experience a new alternate mode could visit a [[Relinquishment Clinic]] to have their spark temporarily transferred into an empty body using a [[spark extractor]]; the donor's spark was held in a secure [[whiteout vacuum]]. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}}

During the reign of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], a lone, hand-shaped hot spot ignited in [[Alyon]]. Realizing that this portentous shape would only embolden the waning [[Functionist Council]], the Autobot leader deliberately kept the spot a secret and had his men experiment on the sparks by bathing them with radiation in an attempt to turn them into [[Outlier (group)|outlier]]s until [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] and a group of time-travelling Autobots drove them off. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}}

When the war finally broke out, the Autobots were able to recover a stockpile of leftover sparks frozen within photonic crystals; these became the basis for an expansive program of [[M.T.O.|"Made to Order" warriors]], purpose-built soldiers literally raised from birth to fight and die for their cause. {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} The Decepticons possessed their own M.T.O.s, but where they sourced their sparks from is not entirely clear. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} The [[Decepticon Justice Division]] leader [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]] possessed a fearsome [[Outlier (group)|Outlier]] power— he could synchronize his voice with the sparks of his victims and extinguish them, effectively talking them to death. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Garrus-9 inmates.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Reminds me of the reptile cages at the zoo...except less stinky.]]
In the early days of the conflict, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Mesothulas]] collaborated on a number of inventions for Autobot use, including spark extraction, which they viewed as a humane method of keeping prisoners under control. {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 2|Sins of the Wreckers #2}} The technology saw use at the [[Garrus-9]] detention center, where the Autobots incarcerated [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. Arcee found this limbo peaceful but was later reunited with her body to deal with the [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] six; despite [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders, the Autobots couldn't break through his destructive programming to safely extract the sparks for rehabilitation. To control her behavior, a "g-force crush" device was installed in her spark chamber, which could be operated via remote control. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

After being possessed by [[Vekktral]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] managed to resist enough to open his spark chamber so [[Rom]] could kill them both. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]]'s sparkhousing was unstable due to age and [[Ore-8]]-induced radiation poisoning. While stranded on [[Tsiehshi]], he finally experienced sparkcore stabilizer failure which threatened to blow him up. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] saved him by extending a [[force field]] around the crashing spark. Later, Kup recovered in a [[CR chamber]] fitted with a placeholder powercore to maintain his spark. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

[[File:TheFecundMoon-Luna1HotSpot.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Some years after the end of the war and the rebirth of Cybertron, two hot spots re-emerged. The first was discovered by the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' while investigating Cybertron's lost moon, [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]]; when [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] set foot on the lunar surface, it ignited a particularly large hot spot that contained over one ''billion'' unborn sparks. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} The sparks were not harvested in time, however, and the hot spot quickly burned out. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

The second hot spot occurred on Cybertron, in the abandoned Alyon region. As the Transformers were mostly concentrated in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] at the time, the rogue scientist [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] was the first to find the site and began experimenting on the sparks—using some of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s corrupted energon, he was able to implant newborn sparks into the bodies of unliving creatures like [[turbofox]]es and the countless [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]] corpses that littered the wasteland to create mindless abominations. Around this time, [[Slag (G1)|Slug]], the other [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, and a group of Camiens discovered that the hot spot had already activated while transporting a cargo of unborn Camien sparks to plant in the Alyon region, and saved the unborn sparks by chasing Bludgeon off. {{storylink|The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption}}

[[File:Salvation - Trypticon's Protoforms.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Later, however, Bludgeon returned to Alyon, slew the guards that [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] had posted to keep the sparks safe, and stole the sparks before using a replica [[Void Scepter]] to raise Trypticon. Once he'd been defeated, however, Trypticon announced that he wished to protect the sparks, took them into his own body, and allowed them to use his own [[Living metal|sentio metallico]] to develop into full-fledged protoforms. Though Slug had perished during the initial hunt for Bludgeon, Starscream was able to bring him back to life by implanting a ''new'' spark—one of the mutant Sweep sparks recovered from Bludgeon's possession—into his body. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}}

[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] utilized the [[Epistemus|Magnificence]] to create the [[Firstborn]], a spark-powered organic capable of sexual reproduction that would reproduce with others of its kind and create a new generation of Decepticon sparks. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}}

In a subsequent struggle with the [[Darkling Lord]]s, the [[Spectral Knight]] [[Galadria]] was able to cast a [[magic]] spell that healed [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]]'s spark. {{storylink|The Curtain}} Not long afterwards, [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] used some fresh sparks harvested from Trypticon's hot spot to create new bodies for Optimus Prime and [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to inhabit after they'd been rescued from [[infraspace]]. {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}}

During the final battle against the [[Functionist Council]], [[Team Rodimus (G1)|Team Rodimus]] opened twelve Matrices of Leadership at the [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]]s on Functionist Cybertron; [[Vector Sigma]] shunted the excess energy to the orbiting Luna 1, which reignited the hot spot. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers|A Spark Among Embers}} Over the following years, the new sparks harvested in the "[[Bronze Harvest]]" were brought online and became known as the [[Lunarian]]s. Taking after their progenitor Rung, they possessed an unusually high number of Point One Percenters to the point where the term would likely have to be changed in the coming years. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}
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=====Characters by spark type=====
{{quote|Rewind's '''''vitreous positive'''''. It's a relatively rare spark type. One in 150, one in 200.}}
{{quote|I'm V-positive.}}
{{quote|I know.|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]|[[Before & After]]}}
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!Ferrum-positive
!Ferrum-negative
!Isomeric-positive
!Isomeric-negative
!Vitreous-positive
!Vitreous-negative
!Unknown shared type
!Either ferrum-negative or vitreous-positive<ref group="idw">In "Elegant Chaos", Brainstorm's time-machine is coded for two spark-types: ferrum-negative and vitreous-positive, since Tailgate and Rewind can both use it. By extrapolation, Rodimus, Brainstorm, Megatron and Rung are either of those two.</ref>
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*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
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*[[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
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*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
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*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]]
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*[[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Chromedome]]
*[[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
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*[[Ammo]]
*[[Crosscut (G1)|Crosscut]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
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*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
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*[[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]]
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
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====Ask Vector Prime====
In [[Primax 185.0 Beta]], during a war between the [[Decepticon Empire]] and the [[Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere]], Galvatron sought to turn his homeworld into the ultimate weapon, intending to transfer his spark into Cybertron and become [[Grand Galvatron]]. As the transfer occurred however, the Decepticon's spark was destroyed through the sacrificial efforts of [[Ratchet (G1)|The Autobot]] and the [[Dreadnok]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/04}}

====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
Traditionally, the Vector Sigma supercomputer was the source of Cybertronian life, which continually generated new sparks. During the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], however, Vector Sigma was extinguished. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

When [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] attacked Cybertron, he was repelled by a small number of Cybertronians who possessed unusually powerful Point One Percenter sparks. Inspired by the sight—and foreseeing a day when the Point One Percenters would be needed again—[[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]] and a number of other Cybertronians began studying the properties of sparks in the hopes of artificially creating a new generation of Point One Percenters. His work after the end of the war yielded only two successes, however: the immortal [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] and the deceptively powerful [[Transmutate (BW)|Trans-Mutate]]. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

The Great War came to an end when the [[Decepticon leader]] Thunderwing claimed the [[Underbase]], absorbed its contents into his own body, and used its power to fuse his spark with the other members of the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}} With the Cybertronian race damaged, divided, and teetering on the brink of extinction, the Autobot scientist [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] bartered with the [[Human Confederacy]] and received the [[Energon Matrix]] as an alternate method of generating sparks. His fellow [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] used the device to create the Maximals and Predacons, proxy armies who would carry on the war in a series of ritualized [[Games (competition)|Games]], and hid the artifact away inside [[Lio Convoy]] once they'd grown their population to a sufficient number. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

After Lio Convoy went rogue and kickstarted the [[Grand Uprising]], [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] created a clone with his own Matrix. The clone, [[Galva Convoy]] was influenced by a [[Lord Imperious Delirious|dark source]] and eventually utilized the [[G-Virus]] to corrupt the Matrix within him and birthed the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]] who had "anti-sparks". {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}} {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}

[[Second-born intellect]]s were mechanical entities created by organic beings and not animated by sparks. When the highly advanced second-born intellect [[Lord Imperious Delirious]] learned of the Cybertronian race, he initially believed them to be an entire race of beings like himself; when he learned that they possessed sparks, however, he was instinctually disgusted by the idea of "energy beings" animating mechanical shells and began a genocidal campaign against the Cybertronian species. {{storylink|Derailment}}

====''Of Masters and Mayhem''====
[[File:OMAM-ThunderMayhemSpark.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] performed several arcane experiments on his spark, which enhanced its power and turned it green. Learning of this, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had the spark extracted and placed it into what would become the [[Matrix of Malice]]. When the [[combiner]] [[Thunder Mayhem]] incorporated this Matrix into itself, [[Fractyl]] suspected that the additional spark was what gave the combiner such power and stability. In the process of making [[Wreckage (G1)|Wreckage]] to defeat Thunder Mayhem, Fractyl hoped that the introduction of [[greenergon]], which radiated the same signature as Thunderwing's spark, would react with [[Toxitron (Universe)|Toxitron]]'s spark and produce a similar power boost. {{storylink|Foundation and Wreckage Part 1: Deadly Aim|Deadly Aim}}

When the [[Teklaan]]s began rebuilding Cybertron's ruined biosphere, [[Cergo]] remarked that understanding the Wreckers' sparks was necessary to resurrect the Cybertronian race. When [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] was convinced to turn against the aliens and joined Wreckage, the combiner highlighted his spark as proof that he was not a thing, but a true being, unlike the static Teklaans. {{storylink|Lively Pursuit}}
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====''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons====
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In a bid to resurrect [[Solus Prime]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] began draining the sparks of every Cybertronian to reconstitute her. {{storylink|Collision Course}} When his scheme was halted, thanks in part to Solus herself, the majority of the drained sparks were returned to the living universe—including the spark of Optimus Prime, who had been previously killed by Megatronus. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
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====''Power of the Primes'' marketing material====
The [[Prime Master]]s were diminutive Cybertronians who each held the sparks of one of the original [[Thirteen]] Primes. {{storylink|Power of the Primes (franchise)|Power of the Primes}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
[[File:IHaveNoMouthAndIMustStarscream-Spark.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
New sparks emerged from the AllSpark, {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} ascending to the surface via the Well of All Sparks. By the [[Expansion|Age of Expansion]], the Cybertronian government had constructed the [[Forge Pyramid|Pyramid]] atop the Well, so that new sparks could be diverted directly into the forges that would provide the new sparks with [[living metal]] harvested from the surface of Cybertron. In ancient times, these included Titansparks; however, after the [[War of the Threefold Spark]], [[Nominus Prime]] decided that forging new Titans and keeping them fuelled would exceed the limits of the [[Nominus Edict]] and restart the cycle of conquest and colonization that he sought to avoid, and as a result deliberately had all new Titansparks diverted to a secret chamber underneath the building, where they would remain in indefinite stasis. {{storylink|War World: Titans|Titans}}

When a Transformer grew tired of living, they would traditionally go "[[immersant]]", a kind of prolonged stasis that segues into some kind of death. During this journey, the spark begins to travel to the next world, a gradual dissolution of the self as the spark returns to a place where "all are one". {{storylink|Escape Part Three}} All but immortal, this leisurely perspective on life and death made it difficult for short-lived organic species like the [[A'ovan]]s to comprehend the Cybertronian worldview. {{storylink|Escape Part One}}

[[File:DarknessOnceGazedUponPartOne-Exarchonspark.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
An unknown alien race captured and modified [[Exarchon]] into a new breed of life entirely, something no longer wholly Cybertronian: although he still possessed a spark, it now acted like a living virus that could infect potential hosts, snuff out their own sparks, and turn them into receptacles for his consciousness. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One}} When he used this ability, it involved opening his own spark chamber, which manifested a torrent of swirling black energy that ensnared his victims. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Enigmatic|Enigmatic}} Exarchon's ultimate plan was to use his abilities on the AllSpark itself, becoming Cybertron. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}}

[[Cloning|Clone]]s, like the [[Skywarp drone]]s produced during the [[War of the Threefold Spark]] or the [[Insecticon clone]]s created by the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s, lacked sparks. {{storylink|Escape Part Three}} [[Soundblaster (G1)|Soundblaster]], a more advanced breed of clone, possessed a "demi-spark". {{storylink|War's End Part Four}}

When faced with the looming threat of a returned Exarchon, the Decepticons masterminded a plan to bait him with the last surviving Titanspark and trap the Threefold Spark in its cage. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} After being compelled by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], Exarchon used his abilities on the Titanspark, being sealed in its cage which was quickly destroyed by [[Pyra Magna]]. {{storylink|War's End Part Four}}
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====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
The [[AllSpark|Allspark]] was the source of all Cybertronian life, and generated sparks as it travelled across the planet. With the devastation wrought by the Great War, the mindless [[zombie]] hordes known as the [[Sparkless]] attempted to reanimate themselves by feeding on the sparks of the living. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} After the Allspark had been ejected from Cybertron, Megatron willingly drained the sparks of both Autobots and Decepticons in order to hasten the construction of his new starship, the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 2}}

In one alternate timeline, the AllSpark was extinguished, although the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s who inherited Cybertron still possessed sparks generated through some unknown method. [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]'s spark persisted after his death; acting on the will of the AllSpark, it displayed the ability to take on a semi-corporeal form as it guided [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] to the AllSpark. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}}

====2021 IDW ''Beast Wars'' comic====
[[File:MaximalsStrikeBackPart2-Terrorsaurdies.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
The artificial intelligences aboard the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' reconstructed Maximals and Predacons with techno-organic material to protect the sparks of their crews from harmful [[energon radiation]]. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 1}}

When an enraged [[Skold]] turned on [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] after he'd murdered [[Razorbeast]], she killed him by ripping his spark from his chest. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}}
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===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] used his spark energy to turn six Autobot [[protoform]]s into Decepticons. {{storylink|The Decepticons}} After becoming Galvatron, the Predacon leader used his spark to forcibly turn them into loyal servants. {{storylink|Surprise Attack!}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity====
[[File:Regeneration-SmokescreenSpark.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Unlike most Cybertronians, the [[Mini-Con]]s possessed unique "[[Digital Entity Frame]]s" instead of sparks. This mass of energy functioned similarly to a Cybertronian spark, but was connected to the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage dimension]] that served as a repository of their souls. {{storylink|Linkage Part 8}}

After being shot by the [[Requiem Blaster (Armada)|Requiem Blaster]], {{storylink|Sacrifice}} ninety percent of [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]]'s body was damaged beyond repair but his spark was intact allowing [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] to extract it and build Smokescreen a new body. {{storylink|Regeneration (Armada)|Regeneration}} After his death, the [[Mini-Con]]s were able to summon [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s spark back to the physical plane via the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Miracle (episode)|Miracle}}

After seizing the [[Omega Lock]] and three of the Cyber Planet Keys, {{storylink|Retreat}} [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] began absorbing the spark of Primus into himself which eventually caused him to grow to titanic proportions and enhanced his physical abilities. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

Once all four Cyber Planet Keys were placed in the Omega Lock, Primus's spark was fully restored. {{storylink|End}}

In their final battle, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] stabbed [[Rhisling]] directly into [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]'s spark, finally ending the Decepticon's threat. {{storylink|Unfinished}}
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====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
After his defeat, Megatron's essence was imprisoned within Unicron's spark core, where the Chaos-Bringer attempted to subsume his essence. {{storylink|This Evil Reborn}}

At some point in the brief peace that followed, Cybertronian scientists conducted experimental research to determine a connection between Energon and the "core life force" of the Transformer race. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada|More than Meets the Eye #3}} [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]]'s [[Spark Rewriter]] could forcibly convert Autobots into Decepticons. {{storylink|Omni-Potent}}

===Movie continuity===
====Live-action film series====
[[File:OptimusSparkChamber.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Sparks were generated by the [[AllSpark]], a sacred artifact of unknown origin which could bring any machine to life by imbuing it with a spark. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} This spark contains a Transformer's memories and feelings; this manifestation of their metaphysical being has been compared to a human soul. Sparkless robots composed from the same [[living metal|elemental metal]]s as the Cybertronian race, like the human-built drones mass-produced by [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], were considered to be "soulless" and not truly alive, even if they displayed the ability to speak and think independently. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] was said to devour the sparks of his fallen foes, {{storylink|Optimus Prime Versus Megatron}} {{storylink|Transformers (novel)}} and the mercenary bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] was fond of tearing the spark chambers of his victims from their lifeless bodies. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

While searching for the AllSpark on Earth, Optimus planned to put the artifact beyond Megatron's reach by inserting the artifact into his own spark chamber, which would assuredly kill him but deny Megatron the opportunity to raise an army from Earth's machines. Ultimately, however, [[Sam Witwicky]] saved the Autobot leader by forcibly inserting the AllSpark into Megatron's exposed spark chamber and killing him instead. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

[[File:AgeOfExtinction-OptimusSpark.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
Two years later, the Decepticons revived Megatron by inserting a shard of the AllSpark into the remains of his spark chamber, and the Decepticon leader soon felled [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] by shooting him through his own spark chamber. Sam was able to reignite his spark by inserting the [[Matrix of Leadership]] into Prime's empty chamber; not long afterwards, a wounded Jetfire deliberately sacrificed himself by ripping out his own spark chamber so that Optimus could use his parts, and the Autobot leader eventually killed [[The Fallen]] by crushing his spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

After his second defeat in [[Chicago]], Megatron's [[Core consciousness|consciousness]] manipulated KSI into producing a new body for him and its lack of a spark proved an invaluable asset when he later fought Optimus as "Galvatron". Thanks to a [[Vortex Grinder]] in place of his spark chamber, he was able to fight Optimus and win. After Optimus left Earth to confront the [[Creator]]s, Optimus asked his family on Earth to think of a star in the night sky as his soul. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====IDW movie comics====
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After the failed [[Ejoornian]] invasion of Cybertron, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]'s post-mortem on one of them led to him discovering that they possessed internals eerily similar to the Cybertronians, including what may have been a spark core. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

Following the destruction of the AllSpark in [[Mission City]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] conspired to use [[Sector Seven]]'s data on the artifact to create it. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 2|The Reign of Starscream #2}} After using slave labor to construct the [[Replica AllSpark]], Starscream sacrificed five Autobot sparks to ignite it but the device remained inert. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 5|The Reign of Starscream #5}}
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===Animated continuity family===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[File:AllSparkAlmanac-sparks.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
The [[AllSpark]] was the wellspring of sparks; life began when a spark was created, {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}} and when a spark expired it returned to the Well of All Sparks. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} Traditionally, Autobot protoforms were forged from the [[Living metal|protomatter]] mined from the [[Sonic Canyons]], incubated in the Matrix Chamber of the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]], and eventually exposed to the lifegiving energies of the AllSpark to bring a new Transformer online. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

A spark could be preserved indefinitely by putting the Transformer into [[stasis lock]]; during the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], the [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinel]]s [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega]] and [[Sigma Supreme]] were both able to permanently transform into their starship forms at the cost of their higher functions. {{storylink|TransWarped}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} Toward the end of the conflict, the young martial artist [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] attempted to save his mentor [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]] by transferring his spark into a blank [[protoform]], but Yoketron voluntarily allowed his spark to fade. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}} Lockdown delivered Yoketron's stolen protoforms to the Decepticons but they found no method of igniting a spark in them without the AllSpark. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

As the Autobots had deliberately jettisoned the AllSpark into space to keep the artifact out of Decepticon hands, {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} the victorious Autobots turned to Vector Sigma as an alternate method of generating new sparks. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

[[File:5ServosofDoom yoketron protoform.gif|thumb|right|250px|The hard-coded design schematics in [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]'s spark reshape a protoform's protomatter into his image.]]
[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]'s unique [[AllSpark Key]] could reignite extinguished sparks {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} and even generate new sparks under the correct circumstances—when she used the key to enhance [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]] weapons during a battle with the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, the AllSpark energy gave the human-built robots sparks, granting them sentience and the power to transform into robots. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

Upon his reconstruction via the AllSpark Key, Megatron used it to drain [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]'s spark as punishment for his earlier betrayal. When Megatron later claimed the AllSpark, he inserted it into his spark chamber before his equilibrium sensors were short-circuited by [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]]. Though impressed by the human's ingenuity, Megatron quickly recovered, proclaiming that the spark was the core of all Cybertronians and that compared to it, such things as [[armor-plating]] and servo mechanics were superficial. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

After the destruction of the AllSpark, its individual shards were scattered across [[Detroit]]; these "AllSpark fragments" caused havoc by interfering with human machinery and occasionally bringing them to life as new Transformers. One shard brought Starscream back to life and acted as a substitute for his extinguished spark; Starscream was then able to subdivide this crystal even further and used each fragment to animate an army of [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clone]]s. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}} In the battle for Megatron's [[space bridge]], Ratchet used a handful of AllSpark fragments and the AllSpark Key to jumpstart Omega Supreme's spark. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}} Megatron used a similar tactic when he brought the [[Lugnut Supreme]]s online, using the same AllSpark fragments that had revived Omega Supreme. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}} When Prowl and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] used [[processor-over-matter]] to summon together all the AllSpark fragments, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] recognized that they could not summon the totality of the pieces in time to save [[Detroit]] forcing him to surrender his spark back to the AllSpark, granting it the power it needed to protect the city. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

====Titan Magazines====
[[Afterburn]] was a sparkless drone sent by [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] to bring down the Autobots from within. Although Afterburn displayed signs of an independent personality, when the truth of his nature came to light after his death Optimus told [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] that he was never truly alive. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Megatron's Revenge}}

===''TransTech''===
[[File:Topspin&BulletbikesSpark TheComingStorm1.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
The Decepticon [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]] possessed the unusual power to manipulate sparks—without any kind of mechanical assistance, he could telepathically remove the spark from a body, implant it into a new shell, or even rip it to its component atoms with a single thought. After arriving in the multiversal city of [[Axiom Nexus]], Topspin fell into the employ of [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]], who saw Topspin's power as a way to facilitate his escape back to his [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|native reality]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Topspin's profile in Club magazine #25}} Using this power, Topspin was able to incapacitate various [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s native to the reality and swap their sparks with those of his various acolytes, secretly building up a powerbase in high places that would assist Trion's master plan. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25}} Topspin could not bring himself to destroy the helpless TransTechs' sparks, though, and hid them away inside life-sustaining containment capsules. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/12/02}}

The [[GoBot]] [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was fascinated by the concept of Sparks, and considered Transformers to be hybrids of machinery and energy in the same way that GoBots were hybrids of machinery and organic tissue. While stranded in Axiom Nexus, he stole six sparks; {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15}} upon returning to his home reality, he used those stolen sparks to create a new version of the GoBot [[combiner]] [[Puzzler]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric}} [[Waspinator (BW)|Thrustinator]] recruited the [[Spychanger|Spy Changers]] of [[Primax 085.0 Eta]] to travel to Cy-Kill's reality to rescue the six hostage sparks. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14}}
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===''Shattered Glass''===
====Fun Publications ''Shattered Glass'' continuity====
In this backwards universe, Transformers are created when the malevolent [[Omega Terminus]] supercomputer implants an negatively-charged "ember" into a newborn Transformer. Though he was originally built as an artificially-intelligent warrior who lacked an ember, [[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]] later received one from the Omega Terminus. Under its influence, he rapidly evolved into a fully-sentient Cybertronian and unlocked the power to transform into a robot mode. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

After the dimensionally-displaced [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] arrived in this negative universe, the native Decepticons were confused when they analyzed his body and found evidence of a "backwards", postiron-charged energy matrix. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}}

====IDW ''Shattered Glass'' comic====
[[File:ShatteredGlass5-Goldbugescapes.jpg|thumb|right|150px|And it was all yellow.]]
Before the Great War, [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] would've used his unique spark to communicate with the dormant [[Metroplex (SG)|Metroplex]], but [[Jetfire (SG)|Jetfire]]'s last-second betrayal forced him to bind vital information regarding his [[Titan (group)|Titan]] research to his spark to keep it out of the hands of the Autobots. The process was only a partial success, however, and Starscream's internal files were left damaged and corrupted for many megacycles until he returned to Cybertron and attempted the data transfer again. This time, the process succeeded, but his efforts drew the attention of [[Goldbug (SG)|Goldbug]]'s Autobots. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 3|Shattered Glass #3}} After killing Starscream and ripping out his spark, Goldbug was able to use the information encoded on his spark to awaken Metroplex. {{storylink|Shattered Glass issue 5|Shattered Glass #5}}

Powered by Starscream's spark, Metroplex reactivated and began a lumbering march towards New Kaon. This began merging his and Starscream's minds into one before Jetfire and [[Soundwave (SG)|Soundwave]] managed to remove it. As Metroplex, bereft of a power source, fell back into stasis, Jetfire fled with the spark to the [[Static Zone]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass II issue 5|Shattered Glass II #5}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
[[File:COP-WellOfAllSparks.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Of the original [[Thirteen]] Transformers, it was [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], the thirteenth and final Prime, who possessed a spark closest to that of their progenitor [[Primus]]. During their first battle against [[Unicron]], their plan was that this unique spark would hopefully react with Unicron's anti-spark and knock both of them offline—a plan that ultimately worked, but not before Unicron nearly crushed the sparks of the remaining twelve with apocalyptic visions of doom and despair.

After the War of the Primes, [[Solus Prime]]'s body was returned to the core of Cybertron, leaving the [[Well of All Sparks]] behind; once the Well was "ignited" through the sacrifices of [[Micronus Prime|Micronus]] and [[Onyx Prime|Onyx]], the well became the passage through which new sparks created by the AllSpark would emerge into the physical world. when the Quintessons invaded Cybertron and ushered in the [[Age of Wrath]], their malign influence was such that newborn sparks were born without names and defaulted to bland alphanumeric designations.

In the subsequent Golden Age, miniature Wells would be ignited on Cybertronian colony worlds like [[Archon]] and [[Velocitron]] to provide the inhabitants of those planets with a steady source of new sparks.

During the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Primus entrusted Optimus Prime with a portion of his spark, which also restored Optimus Prime's long-forgotten memories of his time as a member of the Thirteen. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====Aligned novels====
In a galaxy predominately populated by mechanical beings, alien races like the [[Quintesson]]s used the term "spark" to refer to the life-force of any given creature, biological or robotic. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

Through [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s experimentation, the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] research station was given a spark and imbued with life. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

During a later encounter with the Quintessons on [[Aquatron]], the aliens fed several Autobots and Decepticons to their legions of [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s and harvested their sparks to power a [[space bridge]] to Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[File:OutOfHisHead-MegatronSpark.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Before the war, new sparks were generated by the AllSpark. During the war, Optimus was forced to jettison the artifact offworld so that Megatron could not use its powers for evil. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

Over the protests of [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] inserted a shard of Dark Energon directly into his spark. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} The shard managed to keep him alive after being at ground zero of a Space Bridge explosion, {{storylink|Masters & Students}} before another shard, plunged directly into his spark, restored his body to full functionality. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

[[File:PredaconsRisingWellofAllSparks.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] and [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] shared a split spark. This allowed the former to feel the latter's emerging from stasis and subsequent death. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

A variant of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]]s, born from a mixture of Dark and [[Synthetic Energon]], could only be destroyed if their spark was extinguished. {{storylink|Thirst}}

After Megatron perished, {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}} the lasting consequence of his abuse of Dark Energon was revealed with Megatron's polluted spark now severed from the [[Transformer afterlife|AllSpark]] and bound to Unicron's Anti-Spark, allowing the Dark God to possess Megatron's corpse.

In order to prevent Unicron from devouring the physical [[AllSpark]], Optimus Prime merged the AllSpark with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and thus his own spark. Unable to separate the three, Optimus willingly surrendered his life to allow new generations to exist on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The AllSpark rejoining the [[Core]] caused it to ignite and birth a multitude of new sparks. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}
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====''Robots in Disguise'' (2015 cartoon)====
[[File:Battlegrounds1 Optimus + Primes.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Before Optimus could pass into the afterlife, the Thirteen intercepted his spark and brought it to the [[Realm of the Primes]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} To provide Optimus with the power needed to defeat [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], the Primes empowered him using their own spark energy. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} When they eventually took that power back, it left Optimus substantially weakened for some time. {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 1}}
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====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
The [[Sparksayer]] was an ancient piece of lost technology which could scan the spark of a Cybertronian and grant them an appropriate tool. {{storylink|Power Up And Energize}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
Any part of [[The One|The Source]]—Primus, Unicron, the [[Chronarchitect]] and even supernatural substances like [[Angolmois Energy]] or [[Dark Energon]]—can be harnessed to create Cybertronian life. Vector Prime noted that it was not the ''origin'' of a spark that mattered, and firmly believed that even sparks generated from "evil" sources like Dark Energon had the capacity for good. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 23/07/2015}}

In one Cybertronian folktale regarding a friendly contest between a [[Titan (group)|Metrotitan]] and a [[Malignus (G1)|Malignus]], the prideful Malignus tried to scan entropy itself, which only destroyed his body and scattered his spark to the cosmos. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/17}}

The [[Hate Collector]]s who dwelt within the abandoned [[Cauldron]] were particularly drawn to the [[Prime Spark (Spark)|Prime Spark]] carried by many iterations of [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Optimus Primal (disambiguation)|Optimus Primal]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:BattleForCybertronIV-ShockwaveSpark.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
By [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]]'s account, his spark had been brought out of the [[AllSpark]] to serve as its guardian. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

When [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] had acquired the AllSpark and used it to birth a race of [[scraplet]]s, {{storylink|Trials}} he believed that they held the sparks of the [[Ancient]]s, {{storylink|Dark Birth}} though Cheetor would later denounce his creations as sparkless abominations. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}} After witnessing Cheetor's affinity for the AllSpark, Starscream attempted to extract the guardian's spark and merge it with his own. When he tested the procedure on [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] however, Cheetor managed to stop the transfer and escape with his friend. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Upon gaining full control of the AllSpark, Starscream merged it with his spark. His first act was to extract the sparks of his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]], merging them with his own. He would have done the same to the other Autobots and Decepticons before [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] managed to use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to punch the AllSpark out of Starscream, saving everyone. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

After Bumblebee and Cheetor had returned the AllSpark to Cybertron's core, [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] willingly extracted his own spark and used it to corrupt the AllSpark. Without hesitation, Cheetor did the same, his spark purifying Shockwave's malignant energies from the AllSpark. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson]]s invaded Cybertron, they trapped the populace in a virtual reality while their sparks were drained to fuel Starscream's metamorphosis into a Quintesson [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} Before [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]'s resistance managed to free the Cybertronians, some of their sparks had been completely drained. {{storylink|The Scientist}}
==Toys==
===''Masterpiece''===
*'''Rhinox''' (June [[2024]])
**''ID number'': '''MP-59'''
:[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'']] [[Rhinox (BW)/toys#Masterpiece|Rhinox]] comes with a ''Beast Wars'' style spark that he can cradle in his hands or "float" on its compatible display stand.

==Merchandise==
===''ReAction''===
[[File:Hypersteel holding spark.JPG|thumb|upright=1]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Hyper Steel''' (2023)}}</ul>

: Part of the long-running series of ''[[Super7|ReAction]]'' 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, the [[Target]] [[exclusive]] translucent plastic version of [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#ReAction|Optimus Primal]] comes with a spark accessory which he can hold in his hand thanks to a small thumb-hole.
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==Notes==
*''Beast Wars'' writer [[Larry DiTillio]] envisioned Maximal and Predacon sparks as small fragments split from [[Nexus Zero]]. When a spark is split from the Vok nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit (BW)|Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spark''' (スパーク ''Supāku'')
*''German:'' '''Funke''' (''Beast Wars''), '''Mastermodul''' (''Armada'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng''' (火种, "spark")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Centelha''' ("sparkle"), '''faísca''' ("spark"), '''fagulha''' ("spark"), '''chama''' ("flame")
*''Swedish:'' '''Gnista''' ("spark")
*''Latin Spanish:'' '''Chispa''' ("spark"), '''Spark'''
*''Serbian'' '''Искра''' / '''Iskra''' ("spark")

==See also==
*[[Reproduction]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Transformer afterlife]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[AllSpark]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Movie]]
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Ravage (G1)

2025-04-10T05:50:35Z

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:''Ravage is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] and later [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:Ravageboxart.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|This is every comic book panel Ravage [[Character model#Model sheet poses used in fiction|has ever been in]]. Well, okay, sometimes they rotate him a bit.]]
No Decepticon has a stronger loyalty to [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] than '''Ravage''' (aka '''Battle Ravage''', '''Tripredacus Agent''', '''Tri-Predacus Agent''', '''Black Panther Man''', '''Ravrav''', '''Chief''', '''Grandmaster Cattington''', '''Dangerflouf''', '''Hairless [[Meowgatron]]''', '''Analogue Kitty''', '''Nuggy McBubatron''', and '''Meow-Meow McNiff'''<ref>https://www.facebook.com/transformers/photos/a.153259298077606/2454681957935317/?type=3&theater</ref>). One of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s most reliable [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|spies]], Ravage believes unwaveringly in the Decepticon cause, and Megatron embodies that cause. To better serve Megatron and the Decepticons, Ravage has become the most efficient and deadly war machine under his command. He hides himself in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike with grim accuracy. His name is synonymous with stealth. His survivors are few.

Ravage's only weakness is bright light, which can temporarily blind him. Perhaps his absolute loyalty to Megatron can blind him as well.

Sometimes he's a talker, other times he just growls or hisses at anything that isn't Megatron or Soundwave.

{{quote|Decepticons forever!|Ravage|"[[The Agenda (Part 2)]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:Ravage uk258.png|thumb|left|upright=0.55]]

{{main|Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:RavagePet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}

A violent beast (potentially capable of speech but preferring to growl), Ravage acted as one of Soundwave's primary spies and enforcers. Ravage excelled at this during the 1980s, when the Autobot and Decepticon conflict was renewed on Earth. He continued terrorizing Autobots and humans alike, even surviving the [[Battle of Autobot City]] in 2005. Following that, Ravage was revealed to be a "[[primitive]]" and assisted in the battle against [[Tornedron]].

In a splinter timeline, Ravage aided in the restoration of the fallen Soundwave in 2011. In 2021, Ravage travelled with his master to another dimension, only to be abandoned, whereupon the unemployed Ravage was left to seek his fortune as a police officer. Following the end of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict, Ravage was granted amnesty and rebuilt as a Predacon and proceeded to have numerous time-travelling adventures.

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===Deadly Paradise===
[[File:DeadlyParadise-RavageattacksProwl.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3]]
Ravage was stationed on [[Carob Island]], where the Decepticons had set up a mining an construction operation. Using a rare ore from the island, the Decepticons were building duplicate Autobots loyal only to Megatron. Ravage acted as a go-between the Decepticons and Madame [[Cee]], a human who's expertise and tinkering in mechanics were crucial in building the clones. Upon one of his visits to Madame Cee's workshop, Ravage came upon Madame Cee talking to the Autobot Prowl. Ravage attempted to attack Prowl, but Prowl evaded him and locked Ravage in a room. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}
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===Sticker Adventures books===
Under Megatron's orders, Ravage snuck into the Autobots’ headquarters and stole all of their fuel. It wasn't easy, but once the deed done, Ravage assured Megatron that the Autobots were as defenceless as Earth kittens. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons}}

===Marvel colouring books===
[[File:Decepticon patrol ravage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Either Ravage is really big or that's a tiny elephant]]
Ravage is super-sneaky. He used the cover of an iceberg to board the Autobots' ship and tried to pounce on [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], only to discover he'd fallen foul of a hologram. Outnumbered by the alerted Autobots, he fled the ship. During a later battle, he and the other Decepticons became accidental victims of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake. {{storylink|Search for Treasure Under the Sea}} Ravage was once successful in defeating [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] trapped him in a [[force field]] with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and Rumble. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Searching for a factory suitable for manufacturing troops, Ravage looked in a jungle fruitlessly. When they eventually found a factory, Ravage realized it was an Autobot trick, and pounced on [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] who was providing the hologram. Mirage retaliated by throwing electric balls at Ravage. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}} Ravage was among the Decepticons who attacked [[Hoover Dam]], but were driven off by the Autobots. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Ravage's spying alerted the Decepticons to a space communicator possessed by the Autobots, which allowed the Decepticons to send a fake message so they could take over the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} Like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Ravage loved to follow Megatron's orders. When the Autobots interrupted the Decepticons in the process of tearing up a forest, Ravage leaped at [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] only to completely miss and go plunging off a cliff. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

When [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] found a junk yard with a car compactor, Ravage came up with a cunning plan to lure the Autobots into it by disguising it as an [[Autobot Rest Stop]]. They compacted [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], but then the rest of the Autobots turned up, and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] paralyzed Ravage with a cloud of dust. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

Under Shockwave's orders, Ravage, Laserbeak, Kickback, and the Constructicons attacked a human village, planning to raze it and build a fuel plant in its place. Little did they know they were being spied upon from orbit by the Autobot [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]. When the Autobots attacked, Shockwave had Ravage and Kickback sneak up on them to hit them from behind. But Cosmos was still looking down upon the battlefield, and warned Grapple and Gears of the duo's approach. The Autobots then beat up the Decepticons, shoved them down a hole, and poured quick-drying cement atop of them to hold them in place. {{storylink|The Autobot Spy in the Sky}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}

Ravage faced off against [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] when the Autobots attacked the Decepticon base-camp. Ravage later tried to prevent the Autobots from abducting [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], but failed. {{storylink|The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp}}

===Transformers Pop-Up Book===
Ravage was one of the Decepticons to participate in the battle at [[Castle Decepticon]]. He pounced out of Starscream's cockpit to attack Ultra Magnus. {{Storylink|Transformers Pop-Up Book}}

===''Big Looker'' storybooks===
Ravage was among the Decepticons who tried to steal an oil truck from near the Autobots' base. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

===Dinobot War===
[[File:Time sphere dinobot war.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Disco inferno!]]
Skulking around [[Disneyland]], Ravage hid himself inside a Walkman so that [[you]] would carry him inside [[Wizard's Cave|The Wizard's Cave]] attraction where workmen had uncovered a buried UFO. After you activated a [[time-sphere]], Ravage and Laserbeak were transported four million years back in time, where they planned to locate the crashed Ark and destroy the Autobots within. After a few battles with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], the two cassettes located the site of the flying saucer, intending to take the [[time-travelling alien]]s' advanced technology. {{storylink|Dinobot War}}
{{note|As "Dinobot War" is a [[multipath adventure]], there are multiple outcomes for Ravage:}}
*One of the aliens transported him and Laserbeak to times and places unknown.
*You transported him and Laserbeak back to the present day and they slunk away, or were lost in the time-stream.
There are also several endings where Ravage kills you. Presumably he and Laserbeak then go on to carry out their plan and the Decepticons ultimately conquer the Earth.
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
[[File:AutobotsFightBack Ravage hunting.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
When the Decepticons were hit by a surge of power from a lightning collector built by the Autobots, they all began malfunctioning. Ravage spontaneously ejected from [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and attacked [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who batted him aside. Soundwave picked up the stricken "mechanical hound" as the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

On another occasion, the Decepticons spotted [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] spying on them and send Ravage after him. Ravage pursued the small Autobot, managing to fire off one of his missiles before Bumblebee used his sensitivity to bright light against him. After recovering from the eye-full of headlights, Ravage found Bumblebee had gone, but the cassette stumbled on a cave that would be perfect for testing the ion-drive for the space cruiser they were building. The news somewhat defused Megatron's temper at the escape of Bumblebee, and Ravage led the other Decepticons to his find. Ultimately, the Autobots got wind of the test and launched an attack, resulting in the ion-drive exploding and the tunnel collapsing on the Decepticons. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}
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===Listen 'n Fun audiobooks continuity===
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Ravage followed [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], and when the Autobot tried to abduct Doctor [[Heath Blaisedale]], Ravage decided to capture her for the Decepticons instead. After jumping onto Cliffjumper's hood in panther mode, he transformed to [[robot mode]](?!) and tried to grab the doctor, only for Cliffjumper to [[glass gas]] his right arm. The Autobot made off with Blaisedale, leaving Ravage in the dust, but the Decepticon notified Megatron who made alternate arrangements. When later the Decepticons wanted to attack the solar plant, Ravage successfully kidnapped Blaisedale as a diversion. He and the other Decepticon guards later fled when the Autobots came to rescue her. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
Ravage spied on [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and a bunch of Autobots in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and reported to Megatron. He was on Megatron's team as they tracked [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to [[South America]] and attempted to seize [[Mount Sheelah]]. Unfortunately the volcano blew up in their faces, trapping them with lava. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} Ravage was hanging out at the Decepticon fortress when [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] stole the Decepticons' [[global crystal]], but didn't detect the scout until it was too late. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] spotted a construction at [[Stanley Lake]], Ravage was the only Decepticon who knew his history well enough to recognize what a hydro electric station was, a method of generating power used on Cybertron "way way back in the mists of time." He accompanied Megatron to Stanley Lake on a fact-finding mission, and when the other Decepticons were washed away by a torrent thanks to the Autobots, Ravage alone escaped. He confronted [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], only to be dazzled by the Autobot's [[sound and light show]] until the other Autobots arrived, and he had to retreat. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} Sore at all the defeats, the Decepticons discussed how to defeat the Autobots, and Ravage came up with the idea of infiltrating the Autobot ranks with a spy. This plan paid off when Starscream did so and reported on an Autobot [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System|super weapon]] being stored at [[Mount Levram]]. Of course, while the Decepticons were smashing Mount Levram, the Autobots demolished the Decepticon fortress, having gotten wise to Starscream and fooled him themselves. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

===Battle Beneath the Ice===
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When human scientists discovered a mysterious city beneath the ice of the North Pole, they placed a call to Autobot City in order to get the Transformers' perspective on the discovery. The Decepticons also somehow learned of the city, and Ravage found a way to infiltrate it unnoticed. As he lurked, Ravage managed to record a conversation between one of the city-dwellers and the human Nyder, who were discussing stealing the warrior-factors from both the Autobots and Decepticons in order to encode it within themselves, thus turning their people into an army. He later came upon a group of humans as they were being given a tour of the city.

Making himself known, Ravage was threatened to leave at gunpoint by Hot Rod, who was accompanying the humans. Ravage assured him that if he had come as their enemy, he wouldn't have let them see him. Ravage went on to explain that the Decepticons hadn't shot down the humans’ plane, as the group had earlier been led to believe. One of the city-dwellers interrupted their conversation, and threatened to neutralize Ravage, pointing towards him a rod-like blaster. But Ravage was too quick for the city-dweller and pounced right for his throat. Before Ravage could reach him, Hot Rod discharged his photon lasers, and hit the city-dweller by accident. The city-dweller was revealed to be a robot, and Ravage played the conversation between Nyder and the [[Watcher]], the leader of the city-dwellers, he had previously recorded. Ravage and Hot Rod then forged a temporary alliance. Their group stumbled upon the city-dwellers analyzing a fight between Skydive and Vortex, programming themselves with the Autobots and Decepticons’ battle tactics. One of the young humans in the group, Jeff, asked Ravage to record the footage of the Gus Gopher Cartoon Show he had captured on his [[chronovid wristwatch]], and overwrite the city-dwellers’ computers with it. Ravage complied, noting that he liked this kind of sneaky plan.

Once the reprogramming was accomplished, and the city-dwellers began acting like cartoon characters, Ravage contacted the Combaticons above-ground and told them to cease fighting, and to follow the Aerialbots to the underground city. The city-dwellers defeated, the Decepticons honoured Ravage's truce and left in Blast Off's shuttle form peacefully. {{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Attack of the Insecticons====
Ravage alternatively spied on Decepticons of doubtful loyalty towards Megatron or prowled about Decepticon headquarters, keeping a lookout for intruders. He accomplished the first task in one possible adventure, where Shrapnel planned to overthrow Megatron with the use of an energy device called the Sun-Pak, and the later in another possible adventure where the Autobots attempted to retrieve the same device after it had been stolen by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Desert Flight====
Ravage was part of a Decepticon deployment stationed in a desert base. The Decepticons plotted to lure the Autobots in a trap through the use of an anti-gravity beam. Using the beam on a nearby human settlement, the Autobots would be duped into coming to the fleshliness’ rescue, only to be themselves trapped by the effects of the beam.

In the event that the Autobots used a trojan ruse to infiltrate the Decepticon base, and the Decepticons’ forcefield was disabled, Frenzy and Ravage tackled Powerglide after the later had burst into the Decepticons’ base, guns ablaze, only for the two Decepticons to crash into one another when Powerglide ducked.{{storylink|Desert Flight}}

====Decepticon Poison====
Ravage possessed an fighter jet alternate mode. He was also armed with [[proton bomb]]s. He was one of the many Decepticons who attempted to poison a water reservoir in order to turn the nearby human population into mindless slaves. Whether they succeeded or not depended on which choices the Autobots made. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}

====Autobot Alert!====
Ravage was stationed at the Decepticons’ command centre, working as a guard to make sure the Decepticons’ latest plan to conquer the Earth went smoothly. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}

====The Invisibility Factor====
In one possible scenario, Ravage accompanied Galvatron on a patrol in a desert at night. Upon spotting a spaceship that flickered in-and-out of sight, the patrol investigated. Finding the Autobots Kup and Hot Rod conversing with a woman at the ship's landing site, Ravage and the others fired upon them, causing them to scramble away. Galvatron then ordered his troops to stay and scrutinize the spaceship instead of pursuing the Autobots.

If Hot Rod and Kup decided to attack immediately, the Autobots were easily defeated and destroyed by the Ravage and the other Decepticons.

If Hot Rod and Kup silently followed the Decepticons back to their hide-out in a nearby canyon, they managed to tricked Ravage and the others into thinking that they were being ambushed by a whole squadron of Autobots. Panicking, the Decepticons attempted to retaliate by firing in all directions. Amidst the confusion, Ravage began arguing with Thrust, both of them insisting that the Autobots were attacking from a different direction.

If Hot Rod snuck down and successfully snatched the Invisibility Device from Shockwave, the Decepticons gave chase to the young Autobot. They were unable to catch him before Kup fired down onto the canyon's walls, causing it to collapse and burying the Decepticons under an avalanche of earth and rocks.

In an alternate scenario, Ravage and the other Decepticons decided to take off into space in [[Sarah Sanders]]'s ship after acquiring the Invisibility Device. Whether the Decepticons succeeded in mastering the Invisibility Device and subsequently destroyed the Autobots, or were destroyed or defeated themselves depended on what choices the Autobots made from this point on.

In another possible scenario, Ravage and the other Decepticons happened upon Sarah Sanders's ship before any Autobots had come in contact with her. While Scavenger held the woman captive, Ravage and the other Decepticons dragged the ship itself to a hidden location. In whichever scenario that followed, the Autobots managed to steal the Invisibility Device from the Decepticons, either dazzling Ravage and the others with their headlights while Hot Rod took the device right out of their hands, or tricking him and most of the other Decepticons into leaving the spaceship behind while they pursued the young Autobot on a wild goose chase. The Decepticons did not succeed in catching Hot Rod no matter what scenario ensued. {{storylink|The Invisibility Factor}}

===Frito-Lay posters===
Ravage was amongst a squad of Decepticons who attempted to get to the power source within [[Sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]]. While Megatron dueled Optimus, Ravage joined Starscream, Buzzsaw and Soundwave in an attack formation. The Decepticons were ultimately unsuccessful in gathering the data they were after. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Lee Tockar]] (English), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (Japanese)|[[Xue Weigang]] (Chinese), [[Daoiz Cabezudo]] (Portuguese), [[Federico Romano]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Sergio Romanò]] (Italian)}}

[[File:BWRavage introduction.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|This is what's called a Dutch angle. It's a cinematographic tool which suggests that something hinky is going on.]]
Ravage was one of the few Decepticon warriors who was granted amnesty at the end of the Great War and reformatted into a Predacon, complete with [[Accent|a classy Russian accent]]. He was sent by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to capture [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], clean up any messes he might have made, and deal with the rest of those on Earth. Ravage made the trip to prehistoric Earth in a specially modified stealth [[transwarp cruiser]]. He successfully contacted the [[Maximal]]s and allied with them to capture Megatron. Due to the stealth capabilities of his ship, and the fact that [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] was also an agent of the council, Ravage and the Maximals easily captured Megatron and imprisoned him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

[[File:Agenda1-Decepticonsforever.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rock Will Never Die]]

Megatron, however, had one more card to play. He knew that Ravage wasn't going to let any of the stranded Transformers live, and also knew he had the one thing that would turn Ravage to his side. Using a fragment from the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], Megatron showed Ravage something which shocked him—a message from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], the leader of the Decepticons. As a safeguard against potential defeat, Megatron had left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use transwarp technology to return to prehistoric Earth. Although the message cut out before it was finished, Megatron's plan worked: Ravage, moved by the sight of his former master, released Megatron. After Megatron explained the rest of the message, Ravage joined the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and turned on the Maximals. Megatron and Ravage attacked [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], at which point he transformed into his old mini-cassette alternate mode, jumped into the tape player on his ship and took full control. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

His latest treachery was short-lived. During the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] infiltrated his ship and used [[Fusion weaponry#Fusion grenade|fusion grenade]]s to cause an explosion that destroyed the vessel and Ravage himself. As the inferno headed toward the bridge, Ravage raised a fist and shouted, "Decepticons forever!" as he was destroyed, along with his ship. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

His head, seemingly all that remained of him, was knocked into the water below the ''Axalon'' by one of Tarantulas's [[Arachnoid]]s. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}
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====3H comics====
[[File:Ravageiguanusrazorclawpd2.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|left|Ravage 3 Bodies Evolution!<ref>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers.fanfic/msg/a5cd7fda89f12c7c?dmode=source&hl=en&pli=1</ref>]]

Even though the [[Maximal]]s had left Earth with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] were far from over! [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s "death" was actually a cover for his return in a more powerful form that had ingested the power of the [[Vok]]! He revived Ravage into a new [[Transmetal 2]] body to help boost his forces, which also included [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and [[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]], and prepared to begin the next stage of his evil plan. Meanwhile, the remnants of Ravage's previous body were recycled by the Vok to re-create [[Tigatron]]. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}} {{storylink|Primeval Dawn II}}

Soon, Ravage led an attack on [[Primal Prime]], the Vok's new champion, and managed to separate Prime from Tigatron, [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], and [[Ramulus]]. Ravage boasted of his "dark cloak" which shrouded him from even Airazor's impressive sensor array, and unleashed a volley of missiles which knocked her out of the sky. Meanwhile, Tarantulas encountered Primal Prime far from the main battle, and after a heated battle, the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] itself was ripped from his chest by the undead [[Unicron's Spawn|spawn of Unicron]]. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 2}}

[[File:Ravagespittorpd3.jpg|right|upright=1.66|thumb|Transforms from catlike thing to catlike thing.]]

Back at [[Tarantulas's lair]], with the Matrix in their possession, Ravage oversaw the construction of a [[unspace|transwarp]] portal that would transport them deep within the maw of their new master, [[Unicron]]! Their newly born ally, [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], expressed frustration at their unwillingness to finish off the Maximals during the battle, and Ravage responded brutally. Ravage was immune to Spittor's deadly venom-covered surface, but Spittor was not likewise protected from Ravage's savage claws, so Spittor quickly quit complaining. Once the portal was completed, Tarantulas allowed them to attack the Maximals; Ravage and the others had served their purpose. Ravage led them to the Ark, but warned them to not disturb the [[Autobot]]s or [[Decepticon]]s on board. But little did they know that the Vok themselves had taken control of Primal Prime's body, and remade it in their powerful image... {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 3}}

{{note|[[3H Productions]] dissolved before this storyline could be completed. Based on the subsequent ''[[Transformers: The Wreckers|Wreckers]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe]]'' storylines, it can be assumed that the Matrix of Leadership was restored to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s body at the end of this altercation, that the Maximals were triumphant, and that Tarantulas somehow fled to return to Unicron. Ravage's fate is unknown.}}

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====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
While Ravage was considered by many to be loyal only to himself, his primary loyalty was actually to Megatron and the dream of Decepticon conquest. He viewed himself as carrying on where Megatron left off, scheming and operating constantly to end Cybertron's peace and bring back a conquering empire. He had psycho blasters, guns that ''gave you seizures''. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #3}}

Alternately, Ravage was encouraged to follow the will of the [[Tripredacus Council]] by [[Sea Clamp]], and was rumored to have gained a newer, less limited body from them. {{Storylink|#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Ravage bio}}

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By the tail-end of the Great War, Ravage could combine with the Tripredacus Council and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to form [[Predacus]]. He did so when several soldiers, including Predaking, refused to follow their orders of standing down after the deaths of both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. In this form, he slayed Predaking, ensuring that the Council's far-reaching and sinister plans could continue unimpeded. He next sniped an upstart soldier going by the name "[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]" with a stun-gun, and the Council surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Predacons. For this "great risk" he took to ensure the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Ravage was granted amnesty by the Primal Council. He and Tarantulas had a good laugh the Autobots' expense afterwards, mocking their gullibility; all they had ensured was that the Tripredacus Council's machinations would continue during peacetime. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

As [[Magmatron]] was surveying the timestream, he witnessed several key events of the Beast Wars. Among those was Ravage having a conversation with the captured [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

[[File:RavageTheGathering4.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|[[IDW Publishing|IDW]] decided having his actual robot mode was a little too "Transformers"-y.]]
After Ravage's involvement in the Beast Wars, Magmatron recovered his heavily damaged torso, which still contained his spark. Magmatron then inserted the spark into a blank [[protoform]], which had already been affected by the Transmetal 2 Driver, and Ravage was reborn. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook}} In his Transmetal 2 body, he and his fellow Predacons, under the command of Magmatron, sought out [[Razorbeast]]'s band of Maximals. Viewing from a safe distance, Ravage ordered his soldiers to engage. Additional Maximal forces arrived, however, and Ravage's forces were defeated. Ravage retreated into the wilderness. {{storylink|Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering}}

Subsequently, Ravage would utilize all the Predacons under his command in a desperate attack as a diversion while he crept into the Maximal base to steal the [[chronal phase facilitator|chronal phase armbands]] left behind by Magmatron. He was confronted by Razorbeast, who guessed incorrectly that Ravage intended to use them to board the Autobot shuttle and return to Cybertron. Ravage corrected him by stating that he intended to free Megatron and eradicate the Maximal forces. His ambitions, however, were thwarted by [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] who caught him off guard and gave Razorbeast the opportunity to knock Ravage offline. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

It is not certain if Ravage's intentions for Megatron were another ruse or if he was ''actually'' out of his kitty mind regarding the tactical feasibility of this endeavor.

[[File:Lio V Ravage.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Who's the big cat NOW?]]
However, what WAS a ruse was Ravage being offline — as soon as he had been tied up by Razorbeast, the Maximal commander had to leave to help on the battlefield—upon which Ravage stopped playing dead and broke loose rather easily, managing to obtain the chronal displacement bands that Razorbeast had put him right next to after pointing them out. (A tactical genius, that Razorbeast.) However, upon activating the bands, Ravage was pulled into Chronospace by the trapped Magmatron, who warned him of the apocalypse that was to come, and ordered him to form a truce with the Maximals to fight this menace. And after hearing the warning, Ravage heeded the sage advice, sneaking out of the base while [[Chronal phase|chronically displaced]] and re-emerging to the sight of several gun barrels from [[Lio Convoy]], Razorbeast, and the Pack. However, just as he explained the situation, [[Latolata|Rartorata]] emerged from nowhere and turned Razorbeast into a frenzied monster. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

After introducing himself to Lio Convoy, Ravage agreed with him on a truce until they dealt with the menace of [[Shokaract]]. Commandeering his Predacons, Ravage's forces defeated Rartorata and Ravage extracted a sample of [[Angolmois Energy]] from the [[Blentron|Blendtron]]. When he told Lio Convoy to abandon the Angolmois-infected Razorbeast, the Pack's leader warned him that if he made light of his friend's peril again, he'd personally de-spark him. Ravage boarded the Pack's ship and returned to Cybertron with them, on the way analyzing the Angolmois Capsule, to come up with a vaccine. However, as he explained, none of them were qualified scientists for the task. After arriving on Cybertron, Shokaract blasted the Maximal ship out of the sky. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

[[File:BWTheAscending4 Grimlock Convoys Ravage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Ravage was the fifth Maximal legend who left before they became famous.]]
Ravage survived the crash, along with the Pack, and visited Magmatron again. Magmatron told Ravage to chronally-displace Shokaract so he could "enlighten him". He then showed unusual concern for Razorbeast's Maximals, asking how they were doing. Ravage then returned to the battle and hit [[Herald of Shokaract|Shokaract's Heralds]] with a grenade at an opportune moment. After Shokaract's suicide, Ravage found Magmatron returned and they all lived happily ever after.

Until [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] returned. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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====SD BotCon====
Ravage was [[Dawn of the Predacus|laughing maniacally over drinks]] with Tarantulas when the pair were approached by Beetle. Beetle told the pair they were being kicked out of the bar, since everyone else was tired of their cackling. Ravage turned to Tarantulas and asked where they could go to laugh to their hearts' content... and Tarantulas knew just the place: a children's ball pit! {{storylink|SD SG issue 5|SD BotCon #1}}

====''Timelines''====
Ravage was mentioned as being recruited along with fellow [[Mini-Cassette]]s [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] and [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] by the Predacon [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]], but for some reason left them soon afterwards to become an operative for the [[Tripredacus Council]]. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[File:Metals2-22.jpg‎|thumb|right|300x|Ready to make kharakiri, my lord!]]
Ravage was on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed onto [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}

Many millennia later, after his son, [[Jaguar]], went crazy and began killing everyone, even Predacons, General Ravage disowned him. Ravage was later chosen by the [[Tripredacus Council]] to take an army to [[Earth|Energoa]] and defeat [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and end the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. But before the general could leave Cybertron, he and his troops were attacked by Jaguar.

Ravage ordered his men to kill his son, but Jaguar easily slaughtered them all. Jaguar then told the corpse of his father that he would finish his mission and eliminate all the Transformers on Energoa. {{Storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:Soundwavewarwithin.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|MUKNY NOT CATT]]
Ravage, with a much more arboreal alt mode, was among the opponents that Optronix foresaw himself battling against in a prophetic visions bestowed upon him upon first receiving the Matrix of Leadership. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} Ravage was part of the second assassination team Megatron sent after the now new [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] Optimus Prime, alongside Soundwave, Kickback, Shrapnel, and Bombshell. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} But Optimus proved to be more formidable than any of them anticipated. Optimus lost his pursuers in Cybertron's labyrinthine underground, forcing them to rely on Ravage's sense of smell to track him down. Optimus managed to use the environment to sneak up on the Decepticons, and savaged the lot of them. After taking care of Shrapnel and Bombshell, Prime blinded Ravage with an energy burst from his own partner [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], then he tossed Kickback into the feral Decepticon, squashing him against the wall. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}}

Later, Ravage became an operative of Shockwave's faction during the [[Dark Ages]]. They made war against the [[Chaos Trinity]] to upset the plans of [[The Fallen]]. {{storylink|Conflagration}} Ravage was also present at [[Tyger Pax]] when the Decepticons and [[Ultracon]]s reluctantly planned to sign a peace treaty with the Autobots. The ceremony was interrupted by a bombing engineered by Starscream, but this only served to further cement the alliance between the three factions. Ravage was among the 'bots who struck back against Starscream's troops, fighting alongside the likes of Prowl and Bluestreak. After the Starscream's Predacons were defeated, Cybertron's finally seemed to be drawing to a close... right until Megatron returned in all his glory, with the thousand-strong [[Air Warrior|Aerospace Extermination Squadron]] at his back. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

Millions of years later, Ravage and the crew of the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' awoke on Earth in 1984, and did battle with the crew of the ''Ark'' for some time. He and the rest of Megatron's army were eventually defeated and captured by the Autobots, but their return vessel to Cybertron, the ''[[Ark II]]'', was destroyed in mid-flight, leaving the Transformers apparently dead. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} Ravage and many others were recovered and reprogrammed by the human mercenary known as [[Lazarus]]. As a test of his control and their power, Lazarus sent his robots to destroy the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]], and Ravage was there to "pacify" any human resistance. Megatron soon broke free of Lazarus's control, however, and freed his fellow Decepticons in the process. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}}

''When Megatron vanished from the face of the Earth, Ravage reluctantly joined Soundwave and many other Decepticons in following Starscream as the new leader. Starscream made his first act to take over the human city of [[Las Vegas]], turning it into a kingdom under his command. In order to ensure cooperation, he worked with the human population, promising them fame and protection in exchange for their obedience. Soundwave and his cassettes worked directly with the LVPD, supplementing their efforts with surveillance and Cybertronian based weaponry. Ravage personally intervened during a block war, dismembering a gang member before he could kill patrol officer [[Ryan O'Brien]]. The Decepticons weren't above silencing their detractors, though, and that same officer was beaten to death by some of his fellow cops later that evening, for conspiring against the Decepticons.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}

''Megatron returned from deep space sometime later, but the extent of his injuries at the hands of the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] left him unable to retake his command from Starscream. Instead, he voluntarily went into exile, but invited the other Decepticons to leave Starscream and join him. Ravage and Soundwave were among the Decepticons was eagerly accepted this invitation.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}}

''After an enormous battle with the Keepers in Las Vegas, Megatron reclaimed leadership of the Decepticons from Starscream. To properly declare his return to power to the world, Megatron made a brazen assault directly on the White House in [[Washington, D.C.]] He had Ravage patrolling the alleyways, terrorizing civilians and running interference—the cat's efforts kept a large portion of the DCPD and National Guard occupied while Megatron had his "conference" with the [[President of the United States|President]]. Later, the President sought revenge on the Transformers during an ambush in the Nevada desert. He had American troops employ [[deconstructionite]]s, tiny microchip-sized projectiles reverse engineered from Cybertronian technology, with the power to drain energy away from Transformer systems. Ravage was caught in the initial barrage, and either his small size or limited processing power made him fall victim faster than others. Megatron had to carry Ravage to safety as the Decepticons retreated.'' {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}

[[File:Ravagewarandpeace.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|RARRRRR yourself.]]
Sometime thereafter, Shockwave arrived on Earth with a detachment of Unified Cybertronian soldiers, equipped to take both Autobots and Decepticons into custody as enemies of the peace. Shockwave quickly granted clemency to Soundwave, Ravage, and the other Decepticons willing to swear fealty to him, after he disposed of Megatron. {{storylink|New World Order}} After returning to Cybertron, Soundwave was considering his options when a small sound caught his attention. He dispatched Ravage to investigate, but the poor kitty tried to tackle [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and got a mouthful of [[null-ray]]. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Starscream had plans of his own, and managed to convince Soundwave and his cassettes that following him would be more profitable than throwing in with Shockwave. During the chaos of the Autobot insurrection that soon followed, they arranged [[Sky Lynx (G1)|transport]] and fled back to Earth to loot its energy resources. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

{{BW Shell Game}}
After having sent Ravage out on his errand on prehistoric Earth, the Tripredacus Council tasked Magmatron with keeping a watch on all Maximal Channels, should their agent in the field fail in his mission. But Magmatron and Ravage were working together behind the Council's back, and the former-Decepticon sent planetary scans to Magmatron so he could implement his own plans for the stasis pods on prehistoric Earth. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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Ravage was among the Transformers laying dormant aboard the ''Ark'' when it was discovered by [[Cobra]], who took the alien robots and reprogrammed them to serve in [[Cobra Commander]]'s plot to conquer the world. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} Along with Soundwave and the other cassettes, Ravage was sent to attack the [[SPS Research Facility]], where he protected [[Zartan]] as the ninja stole a necessary module from the facility. He fought against [[Quick Kick]] and [[Mutt]], and would've killed them if he hadn't been recalled to [[Cobra Island]] when Zartan got out and deemed the mission a success. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Shortly after the Decepticons returned, however, Cobra's control of them was broken by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s tampering, and Soundwave sent out Ravage to punish his former captors. The jaguar knocked out [[Firefly]] and dragged him back to Soundwave to be used as a slave. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Ravage later attacked [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] only to be grabbed and crushed in the Autobot's fist. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

Two years later when [[Teletran 3]] had gone berserk, sending scores of Transformers and humans both forwards and backwards in time, Ravage was among the Decepticons who surrounded the tower where the disturbance had originated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}

In an alternate future in which the Decepticons had conquered Earth, packs of Ravages prowled the woods that a team of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] and Cobra members were traveling through. A few of them were destroyed by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], causing the remaining ones to flee. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Ravage-Trial by Fire.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75]]
Ravage was one of the Decepticons under [[Cobra]]'s command in [[1939]]. [[Storm Shadow|Stormshadow]] pitted him against [[Snake-Eyes]] during the two ninjas' duel among the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Transformed}} After a short but fierce battle, Snake-Eyes incapacitated Ravage with a hand grenade. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}} The injured jaguar re-emerged soon after Snake-Eyes had killed Stormshadow, but quickly lost his life to the ninja's katana. {{storylink|Trenches}}

===''The Beast Within''===
Ravage participated in an all-out Decepticon offensive, squaring off against Steeljaw as the carnage raged around them. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{main|Ravage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[File:Marktwainvsravage.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Tales of my lion-taming have been greatly exaggerated.]]
[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] sent Ravage to kill [[Tobias Muldoon]], who had deserted the Decepticons when he learned they were evil. Ravage tracked him to [[Stanford Merriweather]]'s house in [[San Francisco]] and crashed into the household, startling Muldoon, Merriweather, Merriweather's daughter [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]], and [[Mark Twain]]. The humans fled the house as Ravage broke through the wall.

He then pretty much got his ass kicked by Mark Twain, who took advantage of Ravage being momentarily trapped in rubble to flick a [[cigar]] at him, thus igniting a gas leak. The explosion flung Ravage into the bay, never to be seen again. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}

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===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Lil Formers''===
Ravage was one of the absurd amount of minion Soundwave ejected out of his chest, all in a row, in preparation for a fight. {{storylink|Lil Formers}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Ravage participated in an infiltration of [[BotCon]] to track down next year's toy designs, and use them to conquer the Autobots once and for all! While scouting out the area, he was captured by the humans organizing the convention, and put on display as a sale item. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkei ravage petted.jpg|thumb|"Who's my kitty? Who's my kitty?"]]
Ravage stole a sack of energon cubes for [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Starscream]], deftly avoiding the pursuing [[Hound (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Hound]] and delivering the booty to his waiting master. Just before Starscream could put the energon to use, however, the pair were attacked by [[Cheetor (BW)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga|Cheetor]], who stabbed Ravage in the side with one of his throwing stars and pinned both Decepticons beneath his feet. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 8}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' BunBun manga===
When [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Starscream]] attacked a power plant with the help of the brainwashed [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Skyfire]], Ravage stealthily observed and recorded the battle with the Autobots that followed. Ravage took his recording back to [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! BunBun manga|Megatron]], and then curled up in his leader's lap as he reviewed the footage. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}}

===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Device Label''===
Ravage had been given the mission to root out and interfere with the Autobot activity taking place within the computer under Megatron and Soundwave's command. {{storylink|Ravage (G1)/toys#Device Label|Ravage's Device Label Bio}}

===''Recordicons''===
Ravage was at a bar that Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and [[Lazorbeak]] were at. {{storylink|Recordicons issue 16|Recordicons #16}}

===Robot Heroes===
Soundwave hid in his harmless-looking alternate mode... until it was time to strike! He then loosed Laserbeak and Ravage from his chest compartment. {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[File:KreORavage.jpg|thumb]]

Ravage was standing upright among the Decepticon forces when they introduced the Predacons. {{storylink|Behemoth Combination! But They're Cute? The Predacon Unit}}

While [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s plan to brainwash humanity unfolded, the Decepticon patted Ravage's head. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}}

Ravage was seen flying into battle with Soundwave in [[Isami Tatewaki|some kid]]'s living room. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise! The Transformers Are by Your Side!?}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
Part of a troupe of Decepticons sent to Earth to demand the humans surrender to Megatron, Ravage met with the human representative, [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]], and quickly learned that [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] wasn't so keen on the idea of surrendering. The Decepticons seemed to have the upper hand in the ensuing battle and Ravage again invited Hawk to surrender, but the human only responded by cleaving the cat's head with his mysterious tomahawk. {{storylink|I Saw Three Ships}} Ravage was then captured by G.I. Joe and fell under the control of [[Doctor Venom]] when he turned Soundwave's body into a human-controlled mech suit. During a battle with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Venom unleashed Ravage from Soundwave's chest compartment to attack the Autobot. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Black Cybertron}} {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}}}

===''Transformers: All Spark''===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}}}}

===Legends World===
Ravage was the manager of a toy store, where he was puzzled by customer [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s attempts at using telepathy at him. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 1}} He was later shocked when Rattrap showed up to buy toys in the form of a real Transformer. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 1|Bonus Edition Vol. 1}} During [[Christmas]], Ravage was standing outside his store, wielding guns and advertising the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|newest ''Transformers'' series]]. {{storylink|Merry X'mas!!}}

===''Titans Return'' marketing material===
Bolstered by the [[Titan Master]]s, Ravage accompanied Soundwave as the Decepticons orchestrated an all-out Decepticon attack on Cybertron, which was soon routed by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters}}

===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
Ravage was one of the many Decepticons who invaded the [[Klingon]] homeworld of [[Kronos]] during Megatron's attempt to claim the planet as the seat of a new Decepticon Empire, and tangled with [[M'Ress]] before he was incapacitated by the Klingon armada. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}

===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
Transported to the Japan of an alternate universe, Ravage joined Soundwave and the other Decepticons as they scoped out the [[Photon Power Laboratory]]. {{storylink|Mazinger Z versus Transformers}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
During the war for Cybertron, Ravage was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Force Espionage Raider]]. {{storylink|Ravage (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' toy packaging}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Todaro]]}}
[[File:SiegeEpisode2-Ravage.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Ravage was one of several Decepticons who searched for the missing [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] after a failed ambush against the Autobots, but proved unable to find his comrade. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}}

[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] brought Ravage with him when he and Megatron's inner cadre left Cybertron aboard the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. Soundwave was picked up by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] on the [[Nebulos|Nebulon]] Station and ejected Ravage. Ravage leaped onto the Titan's face and started raking his eyes, making him lose his grip on Soundwave and dropping him. Later in the battle, Ravage was picked up and thrown across the room by Scorponok. After an explosion, Ravage woke up [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. He is part of the Decepticons that broke into the area where the Autobots were and began to attack. They were ordered to cease fire when a wounded Megatron arrived, being supported by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Ravage was again licking the face of an unconscious Starscream. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 4}}

After the Decepticons crash-landed on prehistoric Earth, Soundwave deployed Ravage and Laserbeak to take on a treacherous [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], but the pair were quickly defeated and thrown aside by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] warrior. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}}
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===''Transformers/Ghostbusters''===
[[File:GhostsOfCybertronPart5-cassettes.jpg|thumb|left|250px|That darn ghost cat!]]
Ravage was one of the few Decepticons who escaped [[Gozer]]'s destruction of Cybertron after [[Kremzeek]] transformed them into [[ghost]]s. A thousand years later, following the [[Ghostbusters]]' defeat of Kremzeek, Ravage was ejected from Soundwave alongside Laserbeak and Buzzsaw to deal with the humans. Reincarnated as grotesque, ectoplasm-spewing ghosts, the three Decepticons attacked [[Ray Stantz]] before being promptly dissipated when Soundwave was captured within a [[ghost trap]]. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}
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===''Transformers vs. the Terminator''===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemyPartTwo-Ravage.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kitten is angry. Kitten is offended.]]
Shortly after Soundwave awoke in 1984 aboard the ''Ark'', he dispatched Ravage to take care of [[Sarah Connor]] while he fought the [[T-800|the Terminator unit]] sent back in time to kill the Decepticons. Ravage chased her around the flight deck and eventually pursued her up onto [[Teletraan I]] and caused her to accidentally reactivate [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Though Ravage pounced on the Autobot leader, Optimus simply grabbed the Decepticon by the tail and used him as an improvised weapon against Soundwave. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Two}}

When the Autobots and Decepticons next clashed in the middle of the [[Cyberdyne Systems]] factory, Ravage trailed Sarah as she tried to raise [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and the other Autobots aboard the ''Ark'' from a nearby security booth. This time, however, the human girl grabbed a pistol, wrestled the Decepticon to the ground, and killed him by jamming the gun into his mouth and shooting him through the head. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Four}}

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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Rise of the Decepticons: We Have Deceived You|''Transformers'' #23]]}}

[[File:WeHaveDecievedYou-InfiltrationTroopers.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Captain Clench and his Zoo Crew.]]
Ravage was one of the many infiltration troopers [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] deployed during the Decepticon attack on the [[Senate]]. They rushed [[Grotusque]] and [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]] and easily defeated them. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: We Have Deceived You|We Have Deceived You}} [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] posted Ravage and Laserbeak to guard a number of high-profile prisoners that included [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]], which they did up until [[Chainclaw (G1)|Chainclaw]] burst through the floor and sent the pair running. {{storylink|War World: Prime}} He later watched a drone [[Termagax]] constructed berate the Decepticons (Megatron in particular) for twisting her ideals. {{storylink|War World: Awakenings}} As the Decepticons strengthened their hold over Iacon, Ravage joined in with his fellow Decepticons as they quashed a burgeoning rebellion in the city's [[energon storage field]]s. {{storylink|War World: Hunt|Hunt}}

Later, Ravage, [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]], and [[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]] were assigned to move [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]] to the [[Senate]] prison facility. They were interrupted mid-transfer by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Charger]], and [[Fire Beast]]; amidst the chaos, Elita was able to escape her captors and retaliated by kicking Ravage into the wall so that Bumblebee could shoot him. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}}

Ravage was among the Decepticons assembled by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] to attack [[Swindle's]] and recover the escaping [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} They fought with the Autobots, but ultimately failed to prevent the escape. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}}

Ravage gathered with the Decepticon army outside [[Crystal City]] as Strika ordered the attack. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}
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===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
[[File:PetSounds-HappyEnding.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Soundwave ejected Ravage and several other cassettes to investigate [[Ponyville]] after arriving in [[Equestria]]. Their presence drew the attention of [[Fluttershy]]; impressed by Soundwave's "pets", she soon won the affection of Ravage, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]. When the pony tried to treat a "boo-boo" on Ravage's nose, however, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] decided that she'd gone too far and swatted her away, an act that only drew the ire of Fluttershy's animal friends, [[Discord (MLP)|Discord]], and even Frenzy's fellow cassettes. However, Soundwave—keen on not losing the friendship of his faithful cassettes—agreed to a truce, and when both sides decided to become friends Ravage happily played with some of Fluttershy's animal companions. {{storylink|Pet Sounds}}

After accidentally trapping himself and some Equestrians underneath a pile of girders, Soundwave unleashed both Ravage and Laserbeak to try and blast their way free. However, the group only escaped after combining their musical talents to unleash a powerful sonic blast. {{storylink|Sick Beats}} In the final battle against [[King Sombra]], Ravage and [[Applejack]] worked together to trip up a mind-controlled [[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]]. {{storylink|Finale (The Magic of Cybertron)|Finale}}

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===''Transformers/Back to the Future''===
[[File:TFBTTF-RavageRunOver.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yeah, this is a boo-boo that Fluttershy might not be able to fix.]]
In the year 1985, Megatron sent Ravage and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] to the sleepy town of [[Hill Valley]] to find an edge in their war against the Autobots. Their mission initially turned up nothing, but while staking out the [[Twin Pines Mall]] the two watched [[Marty McFly]] use a DeLorean to escape some Libyan terrorists, then disappear. Ravage's detection of trans-temporal particles led Soundwave to suggest that the humans had invented [[time travel]], and Megatron ordered the pair to steal the DeLorean time machine. The pair tailed [[Doc Brown]] and Marty to [[Lyon Estates]], where they prepared to seize the device through force... only for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to intervene. The two humans overheard the scuffle and investigated, so both sides transformed to evade detection; when Marty picked up Ravage, however, Bumblebee took the opportunity to reverse, scare the teenager into dropping the cassette, and destroy the Decepticon by running him over. {{storylink|Transformers/Back to the Future issue 1|Transformers/Back to the Future #1}}

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===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
[[File:Unpredictable-minicassettes.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4]]

In the heat of battle, Soundwave unleashed Ravage and Laserbeak against Optimus and Bumblebee, but his reinforcements failed to have the desired effect, as the two Autobots found his minions adorable. {{storylink|Unpredictable}} Ravage and Laserbeak battled [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], and later cheered Soundwave on as he and Blaster took part in a rap battle against each other. However, this truce was short lived, and the Autobots and Decepticons were soon battling each other once more. {{storylink|Go! Go! issue 13}}

Ravage was one of several Decepticons who fought the Autobots for control of the perfect barbecue spot, but ultimately lost. {{storylink|I Want to Protect This Place}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Go! Go! issue 32}} {{storylink|The Transformers Go! Go! Search Quiz is Here!|Search Quiz}} {{storylink|The Transformers Gather on the Snowy Mountain!|Search Quiz 2}} {{storylink|Go! Go! issue 45}}}}

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===Energon Universe===
[[File:TF2023 – Optimus shoots Ravage.jpg|This may have unforseen consequences.|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
One of the Decepticons that came to [[Earth]] aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Soundwave (G1)#Energon Universe|Soundwave]] sent out Ravage to assist [[Starscream (G1)#Energon Universe|Starscream]] in holding down [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Energon Universe|Optimus Prime]]. Ravage proceeded to bite Prime's arm until the Autobot shot him off at point blank range. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 1|Transformers #1}} Soundwave was later seen cradling his body. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 3|Transformers #3}}

Later, Starscream and Soundwave were able to get [[Teletraan I|Teletraan One]] back up and running. Soundwave was about to suggest using it to repair Ravage, but Starscream, contemptuous of starting with the smallest of their number, punted the cassette aside, instead opting to revive [[Thundercracker (G1)#Energon Universe|Thundercracker]]. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 5|Transformers #5}}

When the Autobots recaptured the ''Ark'', Soundwave was carrying Ravage out when Optimus attempted to reason with Soundwave to stop the war. Soundwave looked to Ravage before throwing a punch at Optimus. Soundwave, with Ravage, then retreated with Thundercracker. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 6|Transformers #6}} When Soundwave challenged Starscream to a duel over the Decepticon leadership and gained the upper hand, Starscream pathetically tried to bargain with Soundwave, only for Soundwave to note that he hadn't forgiven Starscream for kicking Ravage, and disembowelled him. Now having claimed leadership of the Decepticons, Soundwave pledged to use the parts he'd ripped from Starscream to repair Ravage. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 7|Transformers #7}}

Later, Soundwave was looking for the parts to conduct these repairs at the Decepticons' new headquarters in the sunken ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' when he was interrupted by [[Shockwave (G1)#Energon Universe|Shockwave]]. Shockwave admonished Soundwave for bothering with the damaged [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Recordicon]], and prepared to recycle Ravage, arguing that Soundwave could have newer, stronger pets once they retook Cybertron. Before Shockwave could do so though, he was distracted by the appearance of a whale outside, and dropped Ravage to rush and see it. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 10|Transformers #10}}

[[File:TF2023 no. 18 - Ravage Revived.jpg|thumb|250px|right]]
After the reenernization of Cybertron had failed and left Shockwave's status unknown, {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 12|Transformers #12}} the Decepticons were scattered and lost the ''Nemesis''. Once they had regrouped, Soundwave led numerous raids on cities in hopes of luring the crippled Autobots out of hiding and and obtaining a stockpile of energy. After one of these raids, Soundwave lamented that Ravage's repairs would once again have to be put on hold and promised Laserbeak that their family would be whole again soon before sending him on a mission {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 15|Transformers #15}} to retrieve Megatron.

When Starscream was eventually revealed to still be alive and with the Combaticons and Astrotrain on his side, {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 16|Transformers #16}} he eventually clashed with Soundwave again in [[Seattle]]. When the Seeker tore open Soundwave's chest compartment and extracted Ravage's comatose body, he berated Soundwave for how much he cared out his tapes before preparing to finish Ravage permanently. It was then that Laserbeak returned with Megatron, who put a stop to the squabble at once. To reward Soundwave's loyalty, Megatron used his spark to revive Ravage, who nuzzled Laserbeak before leaping into a delighted Soundwave's arms. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 18|Transformers #18}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Commercials that featured original footage of Ravage include:
*A battle he took part in a battle against the Dinobots alongside [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]. Ravage blasted [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], only to find himself face-to-face with a robotic Triceratops when his opponent assumed his beast mode. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Dinobots|Dinobots commercial}}
*When [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] was duped into bringing [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] into the Decepticons' headquarters, thinking the Autobot was just a normal radio, Soundwave dispatched Laserbeak and Ravage to deal with the intruder. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Blaster|Blaster commercial}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Ravage could interfere with Optimus Prime's progress. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
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===''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''===
Ravage was among the [[Decepticon]] troops who sought to destroy [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] on his journey, confronting him in the [[Temple Ruins]]... in theory. {{storylink|Transformers: Mystery of Convoy}}

{{note|Ravage's supposed appearance in this game is from a [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy (promo video)|''Mystery of Convoy'' promo video]]. However, Ravage does not actually appear anywhere in the game, not even in unused sprite form. Given the video was made when the game was still in early development, it's likely he was planned as an enemy but then scrapped.}}

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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
{{voiceactor|[[Martin Roach]]}}
[[File:N64Ravage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Stupid sexy Ravage.]]
In an alternate timeline created when the Predacon Megatron sent a message through Transwarp back to his past self, Ravage betrayed him, then entered the ancient Autobot battle cruiser, the ''Ark''. Using its tech, he developed a prototype cloning device based on transreplication technology, through which he could produce clones of the ancient Decepticons, with memories and personalities intact. One by one, he downloaded protoform cloning data of the legendary warriors: (Decepticon) Megatron, Skywarp, Starscream, Thundercracker, Reflector, Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Soundwave. Ravage returned to Predacon space, ready to produce his clone army and already making plans of conquest. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Beast Wars Transmetals}}

{{BW fighter ending|Ravage|N64}}
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Martin Roach]]}}
Ravage battled the Maximals in pitched combat. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}
{{note|Ravage appears as a secret playable character in the North American version of the game, but does not appear at all in the game's story mode.}}

===3D Battle Card Game===
Ravage fights under the command of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] once more, this time with several allies from (potentially) different universes and/or timelines. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Ravage took part in a covert infiltration of the Autobot base led by Soundwave, allowing them to pass information back to the Decepticons and ensure a string of Decepticon victories. They were eventually uncovered by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]], and sent packing. {{storylink|Covert Operations (Legends)|Covert Operations}}

Ravage aided the Decepticon Powermasters in a battle against their hated rivals, the Autobot Powermasters. {{storylink|End of the Road (Legends)|End of the Road}}

Ravage was part of a group of Decepticons who teamed up with the Autobots [[Windblade (G1)|Wingblade]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] to battle the Ammonites on a distant planet. Together, they were able to drive off several Ammonite attacks, but the two factions soon started fighting one another over differing opinions. Eventually, the Autobots defeated the Ammonites and sent the Decepticons packing. Though angered by this turn of events, Ravage and the other Decepticons found consolation that the Ammonites also tasted defeat at the Autobots' hands, and returned to their starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

Ravage was among a group of Decepticons who accidentally time traveled back to the sixth century and ended up having to battle some similarly displaced Autobots using medieval technology. They lost, and returned to the present as prisoners of the Autobots. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court (Legends)|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
Ravage aided Soundwave in his battles with the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
[[File:ABTF-screen Acc-Ravage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Ravage is an "Accessory" character, giving Deceptihogs he's attached to "acid rounds": anything their weapon hits but does not immediately destroy has its HP quickly sapped by burning acid. This bonus can be increased with upgrades won from random-prize Crates or in the "[[King Pig|Shockwave]]'s Tower" mini-game.

He can be unlocked by purchasing him with Gems in the Barracks, with Tokens during specific [[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)/Challenge Events|Challenge Events]], or won from Crates and [[King Pig|Shockwave]]'s Tower. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Ravage-(TM).jpg|thumb|upright=2.2]]
Ravage (TM) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character first available as a reward to ''60'' players in the "Beast Wars: Episode 4" event.
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Ravage was a cruel and sadistic spy who specialized in stealth operations, but was vulnerable to bright lights. {{storylink|Transformers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook}} Soundwave considered him to be one of his most reliable saboteurs. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

By the time of the Maximals and Predacons, "Tripredacus Agent" had become a Predacon operative with a feline alternate mode. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Ravage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
* A working name for Ravage was '''Stalker'''.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-bob-budiansky-panel-coverage-170041/ Bob Budiansky Botcon Panel Coverage]</ref> Meanwhile, a partially-erased barely-legible piece of [[Bob Budiansky]]'s handwritten notes suggests "'''Tapecat'''" was at one point considered for Ravage.
* Alternate names, narration, and in-universe descriptions by other characters over the years have inconsistently described the specific sub-genus of feline which Ravage represents as a jaguar, a panther, a puma, and sometimes even as a canine.
* Ravage's original [[package art]] is by far the most-copied depiction of any Transformer. It was, of course, adapted for his cartoon [[character model]], which was utilized in his ''[[The Transformers Universe (Marvel)|Transformers Universe]]'' profile, but was also used (twice) in 1984's "back-of-the-box" battle scene,<ref>http://www.botchthecrab.com/galleryImage.asp?gallery=7&image=33</ref> and was copied in licensed coloring books and storybooks; the pose also showed up repeatedly in the Marvel Comics. In "[[Time Wars|Time Wars Part 2]]" (Marvel UK #200), artist [[Robin Smith]] copied the art multiple times across several subsequent panels. And it was, of course, recolored for [[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]]'s card-art.
* According to the ''[[The Transformers Adventure Game Books|Transformers Adventure Game Book]]'', "[[Dinobot War]]", Ravage's cassette mode is labelled as the soundtrack to the musical ''[[Cats]]''.
[[File:RiseOfCobraRobotPanther.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Note: not Baroness, not Ravage, '''and''' not actually from ''Pursuit of Cobra''. Nice going, slide. (Furthermore: panther sadly confirmed not able to use Ravage's G1 weapons.)]]
* At JoeCon 2011, [[Rik Alvarez]] and [[John Warden]] participated in a "Treasures from the Hasbro Archives" panel, which revealed that an unproduced ''Rise of Cobra'' "[[Baroness|Arctic Baroness]]" figure would have come with a robot panther modeled on Ravage. While Alvarez was ambiguous about the figure's identity, Warden consistently denied that it was actually going to '''be''' Ravage, though admitted the use of Ravage design cues was intentional. Neither the Baroness or the robot panther were tooled, with the panther in the photo being the only one in existence.
* In his first appearance, ''Kre-O'' Ravage is based on his bipedal ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' appearance, and in the third one he is based on his quadruped 1984 appearance. While only his head is seen in his second appearance, he's likely to be in quadruped form as his role there is more pet-like.
* In his third appearance, he's shown in the pose depicted on his classic G1 package art. And [[Character model#Model sheet poses used in fiction|everywhere else]].

===''Beast Wars''===
* Ravage's ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' [[robot mode]] [[character model]] is a modified Transmetal Cheetor model with Tigatron's beast head. "[[Ravage (G1)/toys#Metals|Metals Jaguar]]", the ''Beast Wars'' toy for Ravage released solely in Japan, is also a modified [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#TM1|Transmetal Cheetor]].
* Ravage's transformation to cassette mode in "[[The Agenda (Part 2)]]" was accompanied by the Generation 1 transformation sound effect.
* Ravage's profile in the IDW ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' seems to suggest that, in the body he is first seen in the ''Beast Wars'', he possess three separate modes; robot, beast, and cassette.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Jaguar''' (ジャガー ''Jagā''), '''Ravage''' (ラヴィッジ ''Ravijji'', ラベッジ ''Rabejji'')
*''Czech:'' '''Trhač'''
*''French:'' '''Saboteur''' (Canada)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Romboló''' ("Ravager")
*''Italian:'' '''Iena''' ("Hyena"), '''Ursus''' (''Beast Wars'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Pòhùai''' (Taiwan, 破壞, "Ravage"), '''Robin''' (Taiwan ''Beast Wars'', 羅賓 ''Lúobīn''), '''Jīqì Gǒu''' (China, 机器狗, "Mechanical Dog"), '''Lüèduóshòu''' (China ''Beast Wars'', 掠夺兽, "Ravening Beast")
*''Polish:'' '''Dewastator''' (''Beast Wars'', "Devastator")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Raiva''' (Portugal comics, "Rage"), '''Selvagem''' (Brazil comics, "Wild"), '''Destruição''' (Brazil ''Beast Wars'', "Destruction")
*''Russian:'' '''Grabitel'''' (Грабитель, "Robber")
*''Spanish:'' '''Destructor''' (Spain, "Destroyer"), '''Devastador''' (''Beast Wars'' Latin American dub, "Devastator")
*''Swedish:'' '''Utplånaren''' (''Generation 2'', "Obliterator")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Spustoshuvach''' (ICTV, Спустошувач, "Devastator")

==References==
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Evolution Revolution

2024-09-14T07:31:47Z

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{{disambig2|the ''Beast Machines'' promo song|the Kid Rhino VHS tape|The Original Transformers}}
{{song
|title=Evolution Revolution
|image=Evolution Revolution.jpg
|caption=It's an alteration invitation.
|series=[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]
|position=promo song
|performer=[[JW]]
|music=
|lyrics=
|arrangement=
|publisher=[[Saban Music]]
}}
"'''Evolution Revolution'''" was a song used in a music video [[commercial]] on [[Fox Kids]] in the fall of [[1999]] to promote the then-upcoming ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoon. Commercials promoting the [[August 14]]th debut of the video started airing on [[August 11]]th. The video aired during the first commercial break for Digimon, placing the time around 10:37 AM EST. It re-aired the following weekend both in its original form during the morning's final show, and in a shortened minute-long form during two earlier shows. The 1-minute version, in addition to cutting footage, reordered a few scenes. Though it admirably summarizes the themes of the program, "Evolution Revolution" never appeared in the series itself and has not been included in any of the show's DVD releases to date.

==Notes==
*[[Ask Vector Prime]] nodded to this song by stating that the [[Powerdasher]]s were often equipped with "evolution/revolution" chips.
*[[Labrat]]'s profile in "[[Not All Megatrons]]" states that Labrat and [[Leatherhide (Universe)|Leatherhide]] paved the way for the [[Beast mode|Beast Upgrade]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s "evolution revolution".

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWwEafTnZlg "Evolution Revolution" on YouTube]
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.toys.transformers/%22Evolution$20Revolution%22%7Csort:date/alt.toys.transformers/6rXCRqZbMU8/fFZbytdn3E0J A.T.T. post detailing the original airdate and time]
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.toys.transformers/%22Evolution$20Revolution%22%7Csort:date/alt.toys.transformers/2nGvw4Ywy7w/NX62xHSaKF4J A.T.T. post detailing the airdate of the shortened version and the replay of the full version]
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.toys.transformers/%22Beast$20Machines%22$20premiere%7Csort:date/alt.toys.transformers/fxfje7nHvjw/EWA1jNnql3wJ A.T.T. post detailing the airdate of the first airing of the commercial for the video's premiere]

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