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2019-05-21T15:12:54Z

Banjo oz: /* Battletrap's 'Death' in Time Wars */

==Battletrap's 'Death' in Time Wars==

Does it really count as a death if he reappears later? Its more likely that the attack from Galvatron wasn't fatal to him and that he just took a while to recover. [[Special:Contributions/84.71.227.54|84.71.227.54]] 14:36, 20 July 2009 (EDT)

This has always bugged me, but I always figured Battletrap showing up again but Flywheels *not* being present in Marvel US/G2/RG1 was a result of Furman forgetting which Duocon he killed in Time Wars, since Flywheels didn't expressly die there (though I know some fans argue one block-coloured corpse is his) but Battletrap definitely did. Sure, Battletrap could be alive (again) simply because Furman decided not to honour past UK continuity from pretty much "Two Megatrons" onward, but if that's the case then why is Flywheels absent? It's not like Hasbro would want one Duocon showcased over the other (or indeed, at all by that point). On the other hand, Furman gave Flywheels actual characterisation in the "Flame" story arc, so one would think he'd remember which Duocon was which! The more mundane explanation is that Battletrap has a Universe profile and Flywheels doesn't, and Furman picked characters only from that when adding new members to the cast in his US work. [[User:Banjo oz|Banjo oz]] ([[User talk:Banjo oz|talk]])

Battletrap (G1)

2019-05-21T15:11:33Z

Banjo oz: /* Notes */

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the ''Animated'' Autobot with a similarly-spelled name|Rattletrap}}
:''Battletrap is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The Cybertronian equivalent of a Wuzzle.]]
Of the two [[Duocon]]s, '''Battletrap''' is the sane one. In contrast to [[Flywheels]], whose two components are constantly bickering, Battletrap uses the two separate vehicles of his [[alternate mode]] in concert with each other. He likes to play with his target in the way a housecat might play with a rodent...that is, if said housecat happened to have a separate avian part of itself that could fly like a hummingbird.

Sometimes, Battletrap is the combined form of [[Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
Battletrap was a part of [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s army of Decepticons on Cybertron. Upon learning the co-ordinates of the planet [[Nebulos]] from [[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]], requesting the Decepticons help in ridding the [[Autobot]]s from his world, Scorponok ordered his army to lay siege to the alien planet. Battletrap was seen in his helicopter mode as part of a battalion carrying Decepticons from their spacecraft to the surface of Nebulos, where he remained out of sight, away from the main events. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}} Later, every Decepticon on the planet left Nebulos in pursuit of the Autobots to planet Earth. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[File:Uk202timewarsMayhems.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Battletrap isn't too proud to play dead when necessary.]]
[[File:Crankcase battletrap quake the void.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|"It takes a while to get all the dents out after being thrown against a wall, OK?"]]
''Some time later, Battletrap left Scorponok and returned to Cybertron for unknown reasons. On the bridge to [[Tyrest]], Battletrap and his [[Duocon]] partner [[Flywheels]] in their aerial modes along with other Decepticons engaged in a brief battle against [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot]]s while on a regular patrol. The Duocons managed to avoid the Sparkabots fire and were able to knock them out in an explosion, incurring the wrath of Ultra Magnus. Battletrap was out of Ultra Magnus' reach but Flywheels was not so fortunate. Paranoid of the rumors of "the walking dead" in [[Kalis]], Battletrap abandoned Flywheels to the Autobots rather than daring to cross into that [[Polities of Cybertron|city-state]].'' {{storylink|City of Fear!}} ''Battletrap was later a member of the original [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and took part in their joint mission with the [[Wrecker]]s to destroy [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in the [[Time Wars]]. He was one of the first warriors to fall during the battle, his chest torn open by Galvatron before being smashed against a wall.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

''Despite his apparent "death",'' Battletrap appeared with the gathered Autobots and Decepticons on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to hear the words of [[Primus]] through [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] immediately before the arrival of [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Despite the heavy casualties suffered by both sides, he survived the subsequent battle and also narrowly escaped death at the hands of subterranean [[Demon|Cybertronian monsters]] shortly after, though his buddy [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] wasn't so lucky. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

When Cybertron began shaking itself apart, Battletrap escaped the planet with the rest of the Decepticons under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command. Leaving their Autobot "allies" stranded, they went on to conquer the planet [[Klo]], massacring its [[Klozian|fleshy, pink-skinned inhabitants]]. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}} When the Autobots finally caught up with them, the Decepticons mostly massacred them too, with only a few survivors escaping into the swamps. However their moment of victory was interrupted by the arrival of the [[Neo-Knights]], a newly resurrected [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Last Autobot]]. Battletrap joined the other Decepticons in dogpiling Prime but was caught off guard by the arrival of the other Autobot survivors and was run over by [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]. Nevertheless, he survived the battle and retreated along with the other Decepticons when Bludgeon realised the day was lost. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}
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=====Another Time & Place=====
Battletrap was part of the raid on [[Hydrus Four]] by Bludgeon and his army. After the Autobots arrived, he allegedly was about to shoot [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] in the back, but was shot down instead by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

{{note|The text piece described Sunstreaker as being menaced by "Battletrap in tank mode". Battletrap doesn't HAVE a tank mode. Maybe this is another clue that Battletrap and Flywheels' names were mixed up early on, but more likely it was supposed to be [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], another prominent member of Bludgeon's Decepticons.}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
In the first battle between the two generations of Decepticons, Battletrap was badly wounded and had to be carried back to safety inside of the [[Warworld]]. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
Battletrap continued his service with Bludgeon's forces on into the 21st century. He was summoned by [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] to help with a waste disposal job after [[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] was branded a traitor and eliminated fighting [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]]. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Neo-decepticons counterpoint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|I've never been to Kalis before. Sounds like a nice place, I think.]]
Twenty-one years after the defeat at Klo, Battletrap joined up with [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]]'s "Neo-Decepticon" insurgency at [[Fort Scyk]] in [[Polyhex]] and participated in a raid on the Kalis [[Baird Beaming Transmitter]], allowing Soundwave to take control of one of Cybertron's orbital defence satellites and destroy the [[Last Autobot]]. {{storylink|Counterpoint}} Later, he attacked one of Cybertron's communications facilities alongside [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Windsweeper]] to blind the Autobots to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s approach. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Two}}
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===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Hirohiko Kakegawa]] (Japan), [[Rik Thomas]] (English, [[Omni Productions]] dub)}}
[[File:FinalShowdown2 Battletrap stomp.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Battletrap shows ''everyone'' his foot fungus.]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were under the command of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who first sent them into battle when the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting over a [[Floppy disk|disk]] containing data on the [[Master Sword]]. After overwhelming the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and playing a quick game of "catch", Battletrap got his hands on the disk and delivered it to Scorponok. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} Scorponok used the data to create the [[Zarak Shield]], and when a group of Autobots came to investigate, the two Duocons joined the Decepticon Targetmasters in stopping them. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}} The Decepticons were later led into a trap on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], and Battletrap was caught up in the ensuing battle. He shot down the air fighter [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]'s friend [[Kirk]] was piloting. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

By order of Scorponok, the two Duocons later planted a bomb on [[Juno]], one powerful enough to destroy the entire asteroid. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}} Battletrap and Flywheels participated in the final battle against the Autobots in the [[Arctic]]. Battletrap got the drop on [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] and was about to stomp them to death when he was interrupted by the rogue [[Sixshot]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. When it looked like Scorponok's plan to destroy the [[Earth]] was going to be successful, the Duocons fled into space to watch the results from afar. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Duocons from MtMtE -8.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"It is only logical that there will be no side-effects from this whatsoever."]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were created by Shockwave as early prototypes for his [[Triple Changer]] fascination. Instead of achieving three alternating modes, however, they gained the ability to separate into two different alternate modes at once. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #8|MTMTE #8}}
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====''TransTech''====
When he was diagnosed with [[Machanimus Disjunctus]], Battletrap was upgraded into a Triple Changer to save his life. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Battletrap bio card}} He managed to get himself stranded on [[Axiom Nexus]], and wound up with the number four spot on the "Cybertron's most wanted" list. His crimes were so numerous that he had trouble remembering them all. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} In a [[public service announcement]] for the [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]], [[Axiom Nexus News]] reporter [[Rook (TransTech)|Rook]] questioned why Battletrap was number four on the list as none of the crimes on his long record (petty theft, graffiti, etc.) included specifically malicious ones. Rook further reported criminal profiler [[Torca (TransTech)|Torca]]'s (correct) analysis that Battletrap was a grunt for a boss and not a leader on his own. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/15}}

Battletrap found Axiom Nexus to be boring, but nonetheless found excitement in the Under City, where he fell in with fellow registries on the "most wanted list" [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]], and [[Megatron (Movie)#TransTech|C-81]]. Under C-81's leadership, the group planned to steal the parts for an inter-universal gate so as to run an off-the-books travel agency. On one of their raids, the group found themselves on the run from the OZSA, the chase leading them into [[Seeker-Shinai]], where the law caught up to them. They were locked up together in the Offworlder Maximum security prison, where Battletrap and his group met [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. Thanks to these two new additions, the lot of them managed to escape prison and once more went on the run. On their way out, Battletrap fought his fair share of [[Blastcharge Strika Drone]]s.

[[File:BattletrapbattlesWaruders-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.1|First we crack the shell, then we crack the bugs inside!]]
When Battletrap and the others finally made it outdoors, they found Axiom Nexus to be completely offline. Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, they headed for the city's underground tunnel network. There, they encountered [[Burn Out]], [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], and [[Spy-Eye]], who all took off upon seeing them. Suspecting they might be off to report the prison escapees, Battletrap suggested they follow this new group while he restocked on weaponry from one of the crime group's stashes. Delving deeper underground, the group came the [[Waruder]]s. These new players proved considerably more hostile. Using his sword and gun, Battletrap discovered the Waruders' pilot/exo-suit nature. The group now knew how to dispatch the Waruders thanks to Battletrap, but they nonetheless found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Though they tried to run, Battletrap and the others eventually found themselves too battered to flee. It was at this time that both the strangers they had previously encountered and the law-enforcers [[Optimus Prime (G1)#General Optimus|General Optimus Prime]] and [[Hound (G1)#TransTech|Sergeant Hound]] met up with them. All three teams band together to fight against the Waruders. The Waruders eventually surrendered when C-81 offered them another Cybertron to feast upon instead of the local one. C-81's group built their inter-dimensional gate, and were allowed to go free in return for their part in thwarting the invasion.

Cybertron's most wanted were content with getting out of the adventure alive...all of them except Packrat, who still had felt compelled to pick-pocket one of the cops. Disgruntled by this last turn of events, Battletrap expressed interest in visiting one of the city's many pubs. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
:*''First Appearance:'' [[City on Fire|''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #12]]

When the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons ended, Battletrap appeared among the Decepticons who helped repopulate Cybertron with the Autobots and the [[NAIL]]s. After [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] returned from months in the wilds of Cybertron, Battletrap and the remaining Decepticons stood up to [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] and the Autobot-led police as they tried to execute him. Rioting broke out in the streets as Battletrap and the Decepticons violently celebrated their leader's return. {{storylink|City on Fire}} Led by [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], the rioting mob stormed the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] prison and freed Megatron. {{storylink|The Verge}}

Later, Battletrap found himself living in the Decepticon ghetto outside [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. He attacked the interlopers [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], along with the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and other disgruntled Decepticons, but they were sent packing by the arrival of [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Battletrap is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Decepticon duplicates in the Autobot campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Battletrap toy.jpg|300px|thumb|His incredible articulation allows him to.. uh... headbutt his opponents into submission?]]
*'''Battletrap''' (Duocon, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-96'''
**''Accessories'': "Double-Barreled Assault Missile Launcher"
:As a Duocon, Battletrap is a single robot which splits into two separate vehicles. When separated, the robot transforms into a simplified gray [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#AH-64 Apache copter|AH-64 Apache helicopter]] and a blue Ford F-150 camper truck. In [[robot mode]], he has a gray double-barreled cannon that mounts on his shoulder. The gray dual cannon can also be mounted on top of the truck or beneath the cockpit of the helicopter.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Battletrap/battletrap.htm More information on Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/g1-1987/battletrap/999/1/ Image gallery of Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
::*''[http://botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1987/instr_battletrap.jpg Instruction booklet for Battletrap at Botchthecrab.com]''
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===Timelines===
[[File:BotCon2015-Battletrap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[BotCon 2015|"Cybertron's Most Wanted"]], indeed.]]
*'''Cybertron's Most Wanted''' ([[BotCon 2015]] box set)
**''Accessories'': Double-barreled missile launcher, two missiles, rotor blades/"Night-Fire Blade"

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Battletrap is a blue and gray [[retool]] of ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class [[Springer (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Springer]], featuring a new head, who transforms into both an armored car and a helicopter. His helicopter rotors detach to transform into a sword that is held by his hands via [[5 mm post]], and can store underneath his car mode. He also comes with a dual missile launcher that fires its two missiles in succession via a two-step pressure launch. The launcher features a jointed 5mm handle to allow it to pivot, and can mount underneath the helicopter cockpit. He has two 5mm ports on his back, the sword hilt has an additional post, and the launcher has additional ports at the top and bottom.

:The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hot Rodimus]], and extensively retooled into ''Thrilling 30'' [[Sandstorm (G1)#Thrilling 30|Sandstorm]]. It also served as the model for the non-toy ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' incarnations of [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dynobot]] and [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Grimlock]].

:Battletrap was available exclusively in a five-figure box set, packaged with [[Packrat#Timelines|Packrat]], [[Stepper (SG)#Toys|''Shattered Glass'' Stepper]], [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|Megatron]], and [[Oilmaster#Timelines|Oilmaster]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/BCBattletrap/battletrap.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/botcon-exclusives/battletrap-the-muscle/3647/1/ Image gallery of ''Timelines'' Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
{{GenerationsSpringerMold}}

===Generations===
[[File:POTPtoy-Battletrap.jpg|right|thumb|300px|EAGLE!!!]]
*'''Battleslash''' (Legends Class, 2018)
*'''Roadtrap''' (Legends Class, 2018)

:Part of the ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' subline of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'', "Duocon Battletrap" is the combined form of [[Battleslash#Generations|Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap#Generations|Roadtrap]], two separate Legends Class toys that combine into a single roughly Deluxe-sized toy. Both were made available in the second wave of the line.

:Neither of Battletrap's halves come packaged with any weapons. Although his hands feature 5mm ports, the tab protrusions present on what are made from Battleslash's feet limit his ability to hold things: anything wider than the area above the 5mm port is unlikely to fit. When combined with the official configuration, Battleslash's rotor is positioned at an angle that can obstruct posing his legs, although this can be remedied by repositioning his arms (or just removing the rotor from its mushroom peg). Battleslash or Roadtrap can swap with either of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege (toyline)|War for Cybertron: Siege]]'' [[Flywheels#War for Cybertron: Siege|Skytread's]] components.

:Battletrap's components were first released in Singapore without prior announcement from Hasbro.
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==Notes==
*It's often speculated that Battletrap and Flywheels's names were mistakenly swapped during production, as the rollers of tank treads are not generally thought of as wheels. Their names are even swapped in the ''Headmasters'' episode "[[The Master Sword Is in Danger!!]]".
* For some reason, in all his Marvel comics appearances (US, UK, and Regeneration One), Battletrap has a different head design to his toy; most notably, sporting a visor and faceplate instead of eyes and a mouth. His [[The_Transformers_Universe|Transformers Universe]] illustration even shares this difference, and is possibly the reason for it.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Battletrap''' (バトルトラップ ''Batorutorappu'')
*''French:'' '''Guétapens''' (Canada, "Trap")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Quāntào''' (China, 圈套, "Trap")

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Roadtrap (POTP)

2019-05-21T15:01:51Z

Banjo oz: /* Notes */

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:''Roadtrap is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:POTPRoadtrapArtwork.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Form feet and legs!]]
'''Roadtrap''' is a bit of a liar. He enjoys tormenting Autobots alongside [[Battleslash]], his partner in crime, and the two can combine to form the [[Duocon]] [[Battletrap]].

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Roadtrap was among the Decepticons defending their multiple bases against Autobot invasors. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
===Generations===
[[File:POTPtoy-Roadtrap.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Blueberry bear!]]
*'''Roadtrap''' (Legends Class, 2018)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''PP-30'''
**''Japanese release date'': '''[[September 29]], 2018'''

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' Legends Class figures, Roadtrap transforms from robot to SUV and back. He can also form the pants of [[Battletrap#Generations|Battletrap]] (or ''Siege'' [[Flywheels#War for Cybertron: Siege|Skytread]]'s). His packaging artwork depicts him with a blaster which the toy proper does not have. Due to being Legends-sized, Roadtrap's lower torso mode ends up having the thinnest thighs for Battletrap.

:Like most Legends Class figures from the ''Power of the Primes'' subline, Roadtrap can carry a [[Prime Master]] (or [[Titan Master]]) while in vehicle mode. In his case, they attach at what would be his chest in robot mode.

:Roadtrap and the rest of his wave were released at retail in Singapore, and subsequently in the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and later, the United States, before Hasbro even acknowledged their existence, let alone solicited them to online retailers.
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==Notes==
* Roadtrap's head design is reminiscent of the head Battletrap sported in his Marvel comics (US, Uk and Regeneration One) appearances, which differed there from his original toy design considerably.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Roadtrap''' (ロードトラップ ''Rōdotorappu'')

[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Power of the Primes]]

Battletrap (G1)

2019-05-21T14:58:00Z

Banjo oz: /* Notes */

{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|hofsilver}}
{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the ''Animated'' Autobot with a similarly-spelled name|Rattletrap}}
:''Battletrap is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The Cybertronian equivalent of a Wuzzle.]]
Of the two [[Duocon]]s, '''Battletrap''' is the sane one. In contrast to [[Flywheels]], whose two components are constantly bickering, Battletrap uses the two separate vehicles of his [[alternate mode]] in concert with each other. He likes to play with his target in the way a housecat might play with a rodent...that is, if said housecat happened to have a separate avian part of itself that could fly like a hummingbird.

Sometimes, Battletrap is the combined form of [[Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
Battletrap was a part of [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s army of Decepticons on Cybertron. Upon learning the co-ordinates of the planet [[Nebulos]] from [[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]], requesting the Decepticons help in ridding the [[Autobot]]s from his world, Scorponok ordered his army to lay siege to the alien planet. Battletrap was seen in his helicopter mode as part of a battalion carrying Decepticons from their spacecraft to the surface of Nebulos, where he remained out of sight, away from the main events. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}} Later, every Decepticon on the planet left Nebulos in pursuit of the Autobots to planet Earth. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[File:Uk202timewarsMayhems.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Battletrap isn't too proud to play dead when necessary.]]
[[File:Crankcase battletrap quake the void.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|"It takes a while to get all the dents out after being thrown against a wall, OK?"]]
''Some time later, Battletrap left Scorponok and returned to Cybertron for unknown reasons. On the bridge to [[Tyrest]], Battletrap and his [[Duocon]] partner [[Flywheels]] in their aerial modes along with other Decepticons engaged in a brief battle against [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot]]s while on a regular patrol. The Duocons managed to avoid the Sparkabots fire and were able to knock them out in an explosion, incurring the wrath of Ultra Magnus. Battletrap was out of Ultra Magnus' reach but Flywheels was not so fortunate. Paranoid of the rumors of "the walking dead" in [[Kalis]], Battletrap abandoned Flywheels to the Autobots rather than daring to cross into that [[Polities of Cybertron|city-state]].'' {{storylink|City of Fear!}} ''Battletrap was later a member of the original [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and took part in their joint mission with the [[Wrecker]]s to destroy [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in the [[Time Wars]]. He was one of the first warriors to fall during the battle, his chest torn open by Galvatron before being smashed against a wall.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

''Despite his apparent "death",'' Battletrap appeared with the gathered Autobots and Decepticons on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to hear the words of [[Primus]] through [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] immediately before the arrival of [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Despite the heavy casualties suffered by both sides, he survived the subsequent battle and also narrowly escaped death at the hands of subterranean [[Demon|Cybertronian monsters]] shortly after, though his buddy [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] wasn't so lucky. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

When Cybertron began shaking itself apart, Battletrap escaped the planet with the rest of the Decepticons under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command. Leaving their Autobot "allies" stranded, they went on to conquer the planet [[Klo]], massacring its [[Klozian|fleshy, pink-skinned inhabitants]]. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}} When the Autobots finally caught up with them, the Decepticons mostly massacred them too, with only a few survivors escaping into the swamps. However their moment of victory was interrupted by the arrival of the [[Neo-Knights]], a newly resurrected [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Last Autobot]]. Battletrap joined the other Decepticons in dogpiling Prime but was caught off guard by the arrival of the other Autobot survivors and was run over by [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]. Nevertheless, he survived the battle and retreated along with the other Decepticons when Bludgeon realised the day was lost. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}
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=====Another Time & Place=====
Battletrap was part of the raid on [[Hydrus Four]] by Bludgeon and his army. After the Autobots arrived, he allegedly was about to shoot [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] in the back, but was shot down instead by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

{{note|The text piece described Sunstreaker as being menaced by "Battletrap in tank mode". Battletrap doesn't HAVE a tank mode. Maybe this is another clue that Battletrap and Flywheels' names were mixed up early on, but more likely it was supposed to be [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], another prominent member of Bludgeon's Decepticons.}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
In the first battle between the two generations of Decepticons, Battletrap was badly wounded and had to be carried back to safety inside of the [[Warworld]]. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
Battletrap continued his service with Bludgeon's forces on into the 21st century. He was summoned by [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] to help with a waste disposal job after [[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] was branded a traitor and eliminated fighting [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]]. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Neo-decepticons counterpoint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|I've never been to Kalis before. Sounds like a nice place, I think.]]
Twenty-one years after the defeat at Klo, Battletrap joined up with [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]]'s "Neo-Decepticon" insurgency at [[Fort Scyk]] in [[Polyhex]] and participated in a raid on the Kalis [[Baird Beaming Transmitter]], allowing Soundwave to take control of one of Cybertron's orbital defence satellites and destroy the [[Last Autobot]]. {{storylink|Counterpoint}} Later, he attacked one of Cybertron's communications facilities alongside [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Windsweeper]] to blind the Autobots to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s approach. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Two}}
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===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Hirohiko Kakegawa]] (Japan), [[Rik Thomas]] (English, [[Omni Productions]] dub)}}
[[File:FinalShowdown2 Battletrap stomp.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Battletrap shows ''everyone'' his foot fungus.]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were under the command of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who first sent them into battle when the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting over a [[Floppy disk|disk]] containing data on the [[Master Sword]]. After overwhelming the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and playing a quick game of "catch", Battletrap got his hands on the disk and delivered it to Scorponok. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} Scorponok used the data to create the [[Zarak Shield]], and when a group of Autobots came to investigate, the two Duocons joined the Decepticon Targetmasters in stopping them. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}} The Decepticons were later led into a trap on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], and Battletrap was caught up in the ensuing battle. He shot down the air fighter [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]'s friend [[Kirk]] was piloting. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

By order of Scorponok, the two Duocons later planted a bomb on [[Juno]], one powerful enough to destroy the entire asteroid. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}} Battletrap and Flywheels participated in the final battle against the Autobots in the [[Arctic]]. Battletrap got the drop on [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] and was about to stomp them to death when he was interrupted by the rogue [[Sixshot]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. When it looked like Scorponok's plan to destroy the [[Earth]] was going to be successful, the Duocons fled into space to watch the results from afar. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Duocons from MtMtE -8.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"It is only logical that there will be no side-effects from this whatsoever."]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were created by Shockwave as early prototypes for his [[Triple Changer]] fascination. Instead of achieving three alternating modes, however, they gained the ability to separate into two different alternate modes at once. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #8|MTMTE #8}}
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====''TransTech''====
When he was diagnosed with [[Machanimus Disjunctus]], Battletrap was upgraded into a Triple Changer to save his life. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Battletrap bio card}} He managed to get himself stranded on [[Axiom Nexus]], and wound up with the number four spot on the "Cybertron's most wanted" list. His crimes were so numerous that he had trouble remembering them all. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} In a [[public service announcement]] for the [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]], [[Axiom Nexus News]] reporter [[Rook (TransTech)|Rook]] questioned why Battletrap was number four on the list as none of the crimes on his long record (petty theft, graffiti, etc.) included specifically malicious ones. Rook further reported criminal profiler [[Torca (TransTech)|Torca]]'s (correct) analysis that Battletrap was a grunt for a boss and not a leader on his own. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/15}}

Battletrap found Axiom Nexus to be boring, but nonetheless found excitement in the Under City, where he fell in with fellow registries on the "most wanted list" [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]], and [[Megatron (Movie)#TransTech|C-81]]. Under C-81's leadership, the group planned to steal the parts for an inter-universal gate so as to run an off-the-books travel agency. On one of their raids, the group found themselves on the run from the OZSA, the chase leading them into [[Seeker-Shinai]], where the law caught up to them. They were locked up together in the Offworlder Maximum security prison, where Battletrap and his group met [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. Thanks to these two new additions, the lot of them managed to escape prison and once more went on the run. On their way out, Battletrap fought his fair share of [[Blastcharge Strika Drone]]s.

[[File:BattletrapbattlesWaruders-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.1|First we crack the shell, then we crack the bugs inside!]]
When Battletrap and the others finally made it outdoors, they found Axiom Nexus to be completely offline. Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, they headed for the city's underground tunnel network. There, they encountered [[Burn Out]], [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], and [[Spy-Eye]], who all took off upon seeing them. Suspecting they might be off to report the prison escapees, Battletrap suggested they follow this new group while he restocked on weaponry from one of the crime group's stashes. Delving deeper underground, the group came the [[Waruder]]s. These new players proved considerably more hostile. Using his sword and gun, Battletrap discovered the Waruders' pilot/exo-suit nature. The group now knew how to dispatch the Waruders thanks to Battletrap, but they nonetheless found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Though they tried to run, Battletrap and the others eventually found themselves too battered to flee. It was at this time that both the strangers they had previously encountered and the law-enforcers [[Optimus Prime (G1)#General Optimus|General Optimus Prime]] and [[Hound (G1)#TransTech|Sergeant Hound]] met up with them. All three teams band together to fight against the Waruders. The Waruders eventually surrendered when C-81 offered them another Cybertron to feast upon instead of the local one. C-81's group built their inter-dimensional gate, and were allowed to go free in return for their part in thwarting the invasion.

Cybertron's most wanted were content with getting out of the adventure alive...all of them except Packrat, who still had felt compelled to pick-pocket one of the cops. Disgruntled by this last turn of events, Battletrap expressed interest in visiting one of the city's many pubs. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
:*''First Appearance:'' [[City on Fire|''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #12]]

When the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons ended, Battletrap appeared among the Decepticons who helped repopulate Cybertron with the Autobots and the [[NAIL]]s. After [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] returned from months in the wilds of Cybertron, Battletrap and the remaining Decepticons stood up to [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] and the Autobot-led police as they tried to execute him. Rioting broke out in the streets as Battletrap and the Decepticons violently celebrated their leader's return. {{storylink|City on Fire}} Led by [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], the rioting mob stormed the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] prison and freed Megatron. {{storylink|The Verge}}

Later, Battletrap found himself living in the Decepticon ghetto outside [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. He attacked the interlopers [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], along with the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and other disgruntled Decepticons, but they were sent packing by the arrival of [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Battletrap is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Decepticon duplicates in the Autobot campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Battletrap toy.jpg|300px|thumb|His incredible articulation allows him to.. uh... headbutt his opponents into submission?]]
*'''Battletrap''' (Duocon, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-96'''
**''Accessories'': "Double-Barreled Assault Missile Launcher"
:As a Duocon, Battletrap is a single robot which splits into two separate vehicles. When separated, the robot transforms into a simplified gray [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#AH-64 Apache copter|AH-64 Apache helicopter]] and a blue Ford F-150 camper truck. In [[robot mode]], he has a gray double-barreled cannon that mounts on his shoulder. The gray dual cannon can also be mounted on top of the truck or beneath the cockpit of the helicopter.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Battletrap/battletrap.htm More information on Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/g1-1987/battletrap/999/1/ Image gallery of Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
::*''[http://botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1987/instr_battletrap.jpg Instruction booklet for Battletrap at Botchthecrab.com]''
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===Timelines===
[[File:BotCon2015-Battletrap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[BotCon 2015|"Cybertron's Most Wanted"]], indeed.]]
*'''Cybertron's Most Wanted''' ([[BotCon 2015]] box set)
**''Accessories'': Double-barreled missile launcher, two missiles, rotor blades/"Night-Fire Blade"

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Battletrap is a blue and gray [[retool]] of ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class [[Springer (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Springer]], featuring a new head, who transforms into both an armored car and a helicopter. His helicopter rotors detach to transform into a sword that is held by his hands via [[5 mm post]], and can store underneath his car mode. He also comes with a dual missile launcher that fires its two missiles in succession via a two-step pressure launch. The launcher features a jointed 5mm handle to allow it to pivot, and can mount underneath the helicopter cockpit. He has two 5mm ports on his back, the sword hilt has an additional post, and the launcher has additional ports at the top and bottom.

:The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hot Rodimus]], and extensively retooled into ''Thrilling 30'' [[Sandstorm (G1)#Thrilling 30|Sandstorm]]. It also served as the model for the non-toy ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' incarnations of [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dynobot]] and [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Grimlock]].

:Battletrap was available exclusively in a five-figure box set, packaged with [[Packrat#Timelines|Packrat]], [[Stepper (SG)#Toys|''Shattered Glass'' Stepper]], [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|Megatron]], and [[Oilmaster#Timelines|Oilmaster]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/BCBattletrap/battletrap.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/botcon-exclusives/battletrap-the-muscle/3647/1/ Image gallery of ''Timelines'' Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
{{GenerationsSpringerMold}}

===Generations===
[[File:POTPtoy-Battletrap.jpg|right|thumb|300px|EAGLE!!!]]
*'''Battleslash''' (Legends Class, 2018)
*'''Roadtrap''' (Legends Class, 2018)

:Part of the ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' subline of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'', "Duocon Battletrap" is the combined form of [[Battleslash#Generations|Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap#Generations|Roadtrap]], two separate Legends Class toys that combine into a single roughly Deluxe-sized toy. Both were made available in the second wave of the line.

:Neither of Battletrap's halves come packaged with any weapons. Although his hands feature 5mm ports, the tab protrusions present on what are made from Battleslash's feet limit his ability to hold things: anything wider than the area above the 5mm port is unlikely to fit. When combined with the official configuration, Battleslash's rotor is positioned at an angle that can obstruct posing his legs, although this can be remedied by repositioning his arms (or just removing the rotor from its mushroom peg). Battleslash or Roadtrap can swap with either of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege (toyline)|War for Cybertron: Siege]]'' [[Flywheels#War for Cybertron: Siege|Skytread's]] components.

:Battletrap's components were first released in Singapore without prior announcement from Hasbro.
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==Notes==
*It's often speculated that Battletrap and Flywheels's names were mistakenly swapped during production, as the rollers of tank treads are not generally thought of as wheels. Their names are even swapped in the ''Headmasters'' episode "[[The Master Sword Is in Danger!!]]".
* For some reason, in all his Marvel comics appearances (US, UK and even Regeneration One), Battletrap has a different head design to his toy; most notably, sporting a visor and faceplate instead of eyes and a mouth.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Battletrap''' (バトルトラップ ''Batorutorappu'')
*''French:'' '''Guétapens''' (Canada, "Trap")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Quāntào''' (China, 圈套, "Trap")

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Battletrap (G1)

2019-05-21T14:54:35Z

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the ''Animated'' Autobot with a similarly-spelled name|Rattletrap}}
{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon who is portrayed as a Triple Changer in ''Cybertron's Most Wanted''|the Movieverse Decepticon who is portrayed as a Triple Changer in ''Bumblebee''|Dropkick (Movie)}}
:''Battletrap is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Battletrapboxart.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The Cybertronian equivalent of a Wuzzle.]]
Of the two [[Duocon]]s, '''Battletrap''' is the sane one. In contrast to [[Flywheels]], whose two components are constantly bickering, Battletrap uses the two separate vehicles of his [[alternate mode]] in concert with each other. He likes to play with his target in the way a housecat might play with a rodent...that is, if said housecat happened to have a separate avian part of itself that could fly like a hummingbird.

Sometimes, Battletrap is the combined form of [[Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
Battletrap was a part of [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s army of Decepticons on Cybertron. Upon learning the co-ordinates of the planet [[Nebulos]] from [[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]], requesting the Decepticons help in ridding the [[Autobot]]s from his world, Scorponok ordered his army to lay siege to the alien planet. Battletrap was seen in his helicopter mode as part of a battalion carrying Decepticons from their spacecraft to the surface of Nebulos, where he remained out of sight, away from the main events. {{storylink|Broken Glass!}} Later, every Decepticon on the planet left Nebulos in pursuit of the Autobots to planet Earth. {{storylink|Brothers in Armor!!}}

[[File:Uk202timewarsMayhems.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Battletrap isn't too proud to play dead when necessary.]]
[[File:Crankcase battletrap quake the void.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|"It takes a while to get all the dents out after being thrown against a wall, OK?"]]
''Some time later, Battletrap left Scorponok and returned to Cybertron for unknown reasons. On the bridge to [[Tyrest]], Battletrap and his [[Duocon]] partner [[Flywheels]] in their aerial modes along with other Decepticons engaged in a brief battle against [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot]]s while on a regular patrol. The Duocons managed to avoid the Sparkabots fire and were able to knock them out in an explosion, incurring the wrath of Ultra Magnus. Battletrap was out of Ultra Magnus' reach but Flywheels was not so fortunate. Paranoid of the rumors of "the walking dead" in [[Kalis]], Battletrap abandoned Flywheels to the Autobots rather than daring to cross into that [[Polities of Cybertron|city-state]].'' {{storylink|City of Fear!}} ''Battletrap was later a member of the original [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and took part in their joint mission with the [[Wrecker]]s to destroy [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in the [[Time Wars]]. He was one of the first warriors to fall during the battle, his chest torn open by Galvatron before being smashed against a wall.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

''Despite his apparent "death",'' Battletrap appeared with the gathered Autobots and Decepticons on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to hear the words of [[Primus]] through [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] immediately before the arrival of [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Despite the heavy casualties suffered by both sides, he survived the subsequent battle and also narrowly escaped death at the hands of subterranean [[Demon|Cybertronian monsters]] shortly after, though his buddy [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] wasn't so lucky. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

When Cybertron began shaking itself apart, Battletrap escaped the planet with the rest of the Decepticons under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command. Leaving their Autobot "allies" stranded, they went on to conquer the planet [[Klo]], massacring its [[Klozian|fleshy, pink-skinned inhabitants]]. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}} When the Autobots finally caught up with them, the Decepticons mostly massacred them too, with only a few survivors escaping into the swamps. However their moment of victory was interrupted by the arrival of the [[Neo-Knights]], a newly resurrected [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Last Autobot]]. Battletrap joined the other Decepticons in dogpiling Prime but was caught off guard by the arrival of the other Autobot survivors and was run over by [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]]. Nevertheless, he survived the battle and retreated along with the other Decepticons when Bludgeon realised the day was lost. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}
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=====Another Time & Place=====
Battletrap was part of the raid on [[Hydrus Four]] by Bludgeon and his army. After the Autobots arrived, he allegedly was about to shoot [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] in the back, but was shot down instead by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

{{note|The text piece described Sunstreaker as being menaced by "Battletrap in tank mode". Battletrap doesn't HAVE a tank mode. Maybe this is another clue that Battletrap and Flywheels' names were mixed up early on, but more likely it was supposed to be [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], another prominent member of Bludgeon's Decepticons.}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
In the first battle between the two generations of Decepticons, Battletrap was badly wounded and had to be carried back to safety inside of the [[Warworld]]. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

====''Classics''====
{{noteclassics}}
Battletrap continued his service with Bludgeon's forces on into the 21st century. He was summoned by [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] to help with a waste disposal job after [[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] was branded a traitor and eliminated fighting [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]]. {{storylink|At Fight's End}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
[[File:Neo-decepticons counterpoint.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|I've never been to Kalis before. Sounds like a nice place, I think.]]
Twenty-one years after the defeat at Klo, Battletrap joined up with [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]]'s "Neo-Decepticon" insurgency at [[Fort Scyk]] in [[Polyhex]] and participated in a raid on the Kalis [[Baird Beaming Transmitter]], allowing Soundwave to take control of one of Cybertron's orbital defence satellites and destroy the [[Last Autobot]]. {{storylink|Counterpoint}} Later, he attacked one of Cybertron's communications facilities alongside [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Windsweeper]] to blind the Autobots to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s approach. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Two}}
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===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Hirohiko Kakegawa]] (Japan), [[Rik Thomas]] (English, [[Omni Productions]] dub)}}
[[File:FinalShowdown2 Battletrap stomp.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Battletrap shows ''everyone'' his foot fungus.]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were under the command of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who first sent them into battle when the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting over a [[Floppy disk|disk]] containing data on the [[Master Sword]]. After overwhelming the Autobot [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s and playing a quick game of "catch", Battletrap got his hands on the disk and delivered it to Scorponok. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} Scorponok used the data to create the [[Zarak Shield]], and when a group of Autobots came to investigate, the two Duocons joined the Decepticon Targetmasters in stopping them. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}} The Decepticons were later led into a trap on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], and Battletrap was caught up in the ensuing battle. He shot down the air fighter [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]'s friend [[Kirk]] was piloting. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

By order of Scorponok, the two Duocons later planted a bomb on [[Juno]], one powerful enough to destroy the entire asteroid. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}} Battletrap and Flywheels participated in the final battle against the Autobots in the [[Arctic]]. Battletrap got the drop on [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] and was about to stomp them to death when he was interrupted by the rogue [[Sixshot]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. When it looked like Scorponok's plan to destroy the [[Earth]] was going to be successful, the Duocons fled into space to watch the results from afar. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:Duocons from MtMtE -8.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"It is only logical that there will be no side-effects from this whatsoever."]]
Battletrap and Flywheels were created by Shockwave as early prototypes for his [[Triple Changer]] fascination. Instead of achieving three alternating modes, however, they gained the ability to separate into two different alternate modes at once. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #8|MTMTE #8}}
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====''TransTech''====
When he was diagnosed with [[Machanimus Disjunctus]], Battletrap was upgraded into a Triple Changer to save his life. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Battletrap bio card}} He managed to get himself stranded on [[Axiom Nexus]], and wound up with the number four spot on the "Cybertron's most wanted" list. His crimes were so numerous that he had trouble remembering them all. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} In a [[public service announcement]] for the [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]], [[Axiom Nexus News]] reporter [[Rook (TransTech)|Rook]] questioned why Battletrap was number four on the list as none of the crimes on his long record (petty theft, graffiti, etc.) included specifically malicious ones. Rook further reported criminal profiler [[Torca (TransTech)|Torca]]'s (correct) analysis that Battletrap was a grunt for a boss and not a leader on his own. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/15}}

Battletrap found Axiom Nexus to be boring, but nonetheless found excitement in the Under City, where he fell in with fellow registries on the "most wanted list" [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]], and [[Megatron (Movie)#TransTech|C-81]]. Under C-81's leadership, the group planned to steal the parts for an inter-universal gate so as to run an off-the-books travel agency. On one of their raids, the group found themselves on the run from the OZSA, the chase leading them into [[Seeker-Shinai]], where the law caught up to them. They were locked up together in the Offworlder Maximum security prison, where Battletrap and his group met [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. Thanks to these two new additions, the lot of them managed to escape prison and once more went on the run. On their way out, Battletrap fought his fair share of [[Blastcharge Strika Drone]]s.

[[File:BattletrapbattlesWaruders-CMW.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.1|First we crack the shell, then we crack the bugs inside!]]
When Battletrap and the others finally made it outdoors, they found Axiom Nexus to be completely offline. Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, they headed for the city's underground tunnel network. There, they encountered [[Burn Out]], [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], and [[Spy-Eye]], who all took off upon seeing them. Suspecting they might be off to report the prison escapees, Battletrap suggested they follow this new group while he restocked on weaponry from one of the crime group's stashes. Delving deeper underground, the group came the [[Waruder]]s. These new players proved considerably more hostile. Using his sword and gun, Battletrap discovered the Waruders' pilot/exo-suit nature. The group now knew how to dispatch the Waruders thanks to Battletrap, but they nonetheless found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Though they tried to run, Battletrap and the others eventually found themselves too battered to flee. It was at this time that both the strangers they had previously encountered and the law-enforcers [[Optimus Prime (G1)#General Optimus|General Optimus Prime]] and [[Hound (G1)#TransTech|Sergeant Hound]] met up with them. All three teams band together to fight against the Waruders. The Waruders eventually surrendered when C-81 offered them another Cybertron to feast upon instead of the local one. C-81's group built their inter-dimensional gate, and were allowed to go free in return for their part in thwarting the invasion.

Cybertron's most wanted were content with getting out of the adventure alive...all of them except Packrat, who still had felt compelled to pick-pocket one of the cops. Disgruntled by this last turn of events, Battletrap expressed interest in visiting one of the city's many pubs. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
:*''First Appearance:'' [[City on Fire|''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #12]]

When the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons ended, Battletrap appeared among the Decepticons who helped repopulate Cybertron with the Autobots and the [[NAIL]]s. After [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] returned from months in the wilds of Cybertron, Battletrap and the remaining Decepticons stood up to [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] and the Autobot-led police as they tried to execute him. Rioting broke out in the streets as Battletrap and the Decepticons violently celebrated their leader's return. {{storylink|City on Fire}} Led by [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]], the rioting mob stormed the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] prison and freed Megatron. {{storylink|The Verge}}

Later, Battletrap found himself living in the Decepticon ghetto outside [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. He attacked the interlopers [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], along with the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and other disgruntled Decepticons, but they were sent packing by the arrival of [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Battletrap is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Decepticon duplicates in the Autobot campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Battletrap toy.jpg|300px|thumb|His incredible articulation allows him to.. uh... headbutt his opponents into submission?]]
*'''Battletrap''' (Duocon, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-96'''
**''Accessories'': "Double-Barreled Assault Missile Launcher"
:As a Duocon, Battletrap is a single robot which splits into two separate vehicles. When separated, the robot transforms into a simplified gray [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#AH-64 Apache copter|AH-64 Apache helicopter]] and a blue Ford F-150 camper truck. In [[robot mode]], he has a gray double-barreled cannon that mounts on his shoulder. The gray dual cannon can also be mounted on top of the truck or beneath the cockpit of the helicopter.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Battletrap/battletrap.htm More information on Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/g1-1987/battletrap/999/1/ Image gallery of Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
::*''[http://botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1987/instr_battletrap.jpg Instruction booklet for Battletrap at Botchthecrab.com]''
{{-}}

===Timelines===
[[File:BotCon2015-Battletrap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[BotCon 2015|"Cybertron's Most Wanted"]], indeed.]]
*'''Cybertron's Most Wanted''' ([[BotCon 2015]] box set)
**''Accessories'': Double-barreled missile launcher, two missiles, rotor blades/"Night-Fire Blade"

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Battletrap is a blue and gray [[retool]] of ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class [[Springer (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Springer]], featuring a new head, who transforms into both an armored car and a helicopter. His helicopter rotors detach to transform into a sword that is held by his hands via [[5 mm post]], and can store underneath his car mode. He also comes with a dual missile launcher that fires its two missiles in succession via a two-step pressure launch. The launcher features a jointed 5mm handle to allow it to pivot, and can mount underneath the helicopter cockpit. He has two 5mm ports on his back, the sword hilt has an additional post, and the launcher has additional ports at the top and bottom.

:The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hot Rodimus]], and extensively retooled into ''Thrilling 30'' [[Sandstorm (G1)#Thrilling 30|Sandstorm]]. It also served as the model for the non-toy ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' incarnations of [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dynobot]] and [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Grimlock]].

:Battletrap was available exclusively in a five-figure box set, packaged with [[Packrat#Timelines|Packrat]], [[Stepper (SG)#Toys|''Shattered Glass'' Stepper]], [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|Megatron]], and [[Oilmaster#Timelines|Oilmaster]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/BCBattletrap/battletrap.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Battletrap at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/botcon-exclusives/battletrap-the-muscle/3647/1/ Image gallery of ''Timelines'' Battletrap at Seibertron.com]''
{{GenerationsSpringerMold}}

===Generations===
[[File:POTPtoy-Battletrap.jpg|right|thumb|300px|EAGLE!!!]]
*'''Battleslash''' (Legends Class, 2018)
*'''Roadtrap''' (Legends Class, 2018)

:Part of the ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' subline of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'', "Duocon Battletrap" is the combined form of [[Battleslash#Generations|Battleslash]] and [[Roadtrap#Generations|Roadtrap]], two separate Legends Class toys that combine into a single roughly Deluxe-sized toy. Both were made available in the second wave of the line.

:Neither of Battletrap's halves come packaged with any weapons. Although his hands feature 5mm ports, the tab protrusions present on what are made from Battleslash's feet limit his ability to hold things: anything wider than the area above the 5mm port is unlikely to fit. When combined with the official configuration, Battleslash's rotor is positioned at an angle that can obstruct posing his legs, although this can be remedied by repositioning his arms (or just removing the rotor from its mushroom peg). Battleslash or Roadtrap can swap with either of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege (toyline)|War for Cybertron: Siege]]'' [[Flywheels#War for Cybertron: Siege|Skytread's]] components.

:Battletrap's components were first released in Singapore without prior announcement from Hasbro.
{{-}}

==Notes==
*It's often speculated that Battletrap and Flywheels's names were mistakenly swapped during production, as the rollers of tank treads are not generally thought of as wheels. Their names are even swapped in the ''Headmasters'' episode "[[The Master Sword Is in Danger!!]]".
* For some reason, in all his Marvel comics appearances (including Regeneration One), Battletrap has a different head design to his toy; most notably, sporting a visor and faceplate instead of eyes and a mouth.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Battletrap''' (バトルトラップ ''Batorutorappu'')
*''French:'' '''Guétapens''' (Canada, "Trap")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Quāntào''' (China, 圈套, "Trap")

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Talk:Battletrap (G1)

2019-05-21T14:40:28Z

Banjo oz: /* Battletrap's 'Death' in Time Wars */

==Battletrap's 'Death' in Time Wars==

Does it really count as a death if he reappears later? Its more likely that the attack from Galvatron wasn't fatal to him and that he just took a while to recover. [[Special:Contributions/84.71.227.54|84.71.227.54]] 14:36, 20 July 2009 (EDT)

This has always bugged me, but I always figured Battletrap showing up again but Flywheels *not* being present in Marvel US/G2/RG1 was a result of Furman forgetting which Duocon he killed in Time Wars, since Flywheels didn't expressly die there (though I know some fans argue one block-coloured corpse is his) but Battletrap definitely did. Sure, Battletrap could be alive (again) simply because Furman decided not to honour past UK continuity from pretty much "Two Megatrons" onward, but if that's the case then why is Flywheels absent? It's not like Hasbro would want one Duocon showcased over the other (or indeed, at all by that point). On the other hand, Furman gave Flywheels actual characterisation in the "Flame" story arc, so one would think he'd remember which Duocon was which! [[User:Banjo oz|Banjo oz]] ([[User talk:Banjo oz|talk]])

Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

2013-03-04T16:43:27Z

Banjo oz: /* Quotes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' #5
|prev=Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
|next=Escape (G1)
|image=Last Stand of the Wreckers5 Cover A.jpg
|caption=This is the end, my former friend.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 19]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|story=[[Nick Roche]] & [[James Roberts]]
|script=Nick Roche & James Roberts
|art=Nick Roche
|colors=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''Where everything FINALLY hits the fan.'''

==Synopsis==
In the future, "Fisitron" will write up the story and what it means in the 332nd ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalog. But ''now'', in [[Garrus-9]], [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] tears [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] in half, bashes [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] into unconsciousness, and smirks when his ''right eye is destroyed'' by [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]. And in down in the [[Aequitas]] chamber, [[Verity Carlo]] continues to argue against detonating the deterrence chips: it won't just kill Impactor, it'll kill the [[Wrecker]]s as a concept. She puts her case to [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], arguing that he's made the Wreckers stand for something, turned a bunch of thugs with a death wish into a symbol of hope and heroism for the other robots, and ''his'' Wreckers would never kill one of their own.

[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] decides she's right, while [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] decides to abandon his egotistical visions of a glorious death and tells the others to run, that he'll cover them: dying for people he cares about, he tells Ironfist, is the most he can do, and he tells Verity that the ''[[Autobot]]s'' need the humans to look after ''them''. The Wreckers withdraw, Ironfist working out a plan to deal with Overlord, while Pyro is ingloriously torn to pieces behind them. As they withdraw, at Verity's urging, Ironfist reveals the truth he's learnt about Impactor and [[Pova]]...

''Twenty years ago, in battle, Impactor decided the best way to get a shot at [[Squadron X]] would be to fire through [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s midsection. Despite Springer's protest that he didn't '''have''' the circuit dampeners Impactor wanted him to engage and his pleas, Impactor fired. After the battle, he reported in to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to reveal all of the enemy had been caught. Prowl reported back that under the [[Neutrality Agreement]] with the [[Povian]]s, the Autobots aren't allowed to be there: to prevent the [[Decepticon]]s using this to turn Pova against them, the Wreckers had to release Squadron X immediately. Instead, Impactor took [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]]'s gun and locked himself in the room with the prisoners. Springer attempted to stop him but he murdered every single Decepticon as they lay in chains on their knees, while the other Wreckers simply stood in silence...''

Back outside, Overlord has won and Springer is about to be killed. He tells Overlord that his men will have freed every Autobot prisoner by now and will be leading them this way... except Overlord, the instant he learnt the Wreckers had arrived, ordered ''every single prisoner'' to be murdered in their cells. But luckily, the other Wreckers have arrived! Perceptor uses his sniper laser to blow the monster's hand off and free Springer! Ironfist chucks a ''massive'' chaingun of doom to his leader! Overlord is repeatedly shot!

And then he shrugs off the fire, ''rips off Springer's face'', blasts Perceptor offline, and only Ironfist is left standing, trying futilely to warn Overlord to back off. And ''that'' is when said nerd reveals the gun was loaded with deterrence chips, all of them laying roots in the monster's endoskeleton, and then he uses Aequitas to detonate them!

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Overlord learned the hard way never let [[The Fallen]] ever do your makeovers.]]
And then Ironfist falls down inactive, his head wracked by pain, and Verity is left alone as Overlord rises as a ''fire-consumed, skeletal horror'', intent on ripping her to pieces, snarling in hate that "you and your ''dead friends''" have left him unable to best [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] when he arrives. Verity, however, notes a weak spot, and informs him [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|Megatron is long dead]]; she begins to laugh at him, pointing out he's spent all this time believing Megatron is coming after him and the tyrant died not remembering Overlord ''at all''. The monster falls to his knees, his world shattered, and then Impactor rises from the mat to finish him off. Overlord won't fight back against the beating, but Impactor refuses to kill him: he's doing this for Springer, the one who told him he didn't have the right to murder Squadron X, and that Springer would want the Decepticon to stand trial for what he did.

The villain is beaten, the Decepticons have all fled now Overlord can't hold them, help is coming, and Ironfist wakes up! All is well...

Except four of the Wreckers are still dead; Springer and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] are on emergency life support, their chances of recovery unclear; Impactor and a repaired Guzzle abruptly left once Overlord was arrested; and Ironfist died en route to Earth from an aneurysm, caused by a lab accident with his [[Cerebro-sensitive bullet|cerebro-centric bullet]]s eighteen months ago that had one inching towards his brain all along.

[[Image:Prowl_LSOTW5_Pressure.jpg|thumb|right|150px|]]
On Earth, Prowl takes this report and the ostensible sole [[data slug]] Ironfist was able to make of the Aequitas data. He admits to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] that he knew about Ironfist's approaching death and had arranged for him to be placed on the Wreckers, his dream job, in exchange for bypassing the suicide lock on Aequitas. ("''Yes'', of ''course'' I regret it.") Prowl reveals the reason behind this whole mission: they couldn't allow the Decepticons to get their hands on Aequitas's transcripts of the ''Autobot'' trials, as it would be too great a propaganda weapon. Magnus notes those transcripts are the only evidence left for most of the accused, while Prowl remembers the utter ''horror'' of the trials, of hearing all the atrocities that Autobots had undertaken. Magnus believes a public trial is the only way, as [[Tyrest (Autobot)|Chief Justice Tyrest]] intends; Prowl agrees justice must be publicly done but not ''now'', believing the Autobots will be shattered if they learn about the monsters in their midst now.

He says he'll make sure the slug gets to [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], while Ultra Magnus remarks he ''knows'' Prowl hopes the data is corrupted so everyone can move on, and that he likes to think better of the Autobot than to believe he'll destroy the evidence. On his own, contemplating the slug, Prowl starts to apply some pressure to it...

And on Earth, Verity writes under the guise of "Fisitron", musing whether this is the end of the road for the Wreckers or just a stop-off to reflect. "Because that's how we ''honor'' those we've lost: by looking ''forward'', not back."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (1)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (3)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (4)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (5)
*[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] (6)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (7)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (8)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (10)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (16)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (17)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (20)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)
*[[Rad]] (22)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (23)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (24)
*[[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] (25)
*[[Tyrest (Autobot)|Tyrest]] (26)
*[[Xaaron]] (27)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (28)
|c2=
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (2)
*[[Tornado (Marvel)|Tornado]] (11)
*[[Macabre]] (12)
*[[Earthquake (G1)|Earthquake]] (13)
*[[Fang]] (18)
*[[Triton]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''."
:—'''"Fisitron"'''

"Oh, don't look so ''surprised''. You didn't expected this stunted little ''wretch'' to ''survive'', did you?" 
"You're a '''maniac'''!"
:—'''Overlord''''s opinion on Guzzle's chance of living and '''Kup''' pretty much summing up readers' thoughts of Overlord.

"Ironfist! You should know better than ''anyone'' what the Wreckers are ''really'' about! They give the other Autobots something to ''believe in''!"
:—'''Verity''' trying to motivate Ironfist.

"I figure that dying to save people you ''care about'' is the most that anyone can do." 
"I think you have your ''motto''." 
"No... my ''last words''."
:—'''Pyro''' and '''Ironfist'''

"Sweet."
:—'''Springer''' gets thrown a giant gun to shoot Overlord with.

"Sweet."
:—'''Overlord''' holds Springer's face-skin in his palm.

"Oh, man, this is PERFECT! You can't accept that he never gave chase! You lived your life thinking about him every day, and he died forgetting all about you!" 
"But... But he owes me! He owes me."
:—'''Verity''' giving '''Overlord''' the ''wonderful'' news about Megatron.

"One way or another, you've killed a ''lot'' of my friends today. It's been a ''long time coming'', but this is where you get yours!"
:—'''Impactor''' to Overlord.

"You see, this is one of those stories with a ''moral''. And the moral is simply this: life persists."
:—'''Verity'''

==Notes==
* Either Springer, Perceptor or Kup ''were'' going to die in the final issue during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> Also dropped was a Guzzle/Kup confrontation, as there simply wasn't ''room'' in the condensed beast for it.
* [[Autopedia]] profiles include Pyro, Guzzle, and Impactor. Huzzah!
* Part of "Fisitron's" narration on the first page is based upon Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''[[Wikipedia:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''. At the end of the issue, with Verity finishing the entry as "Fisitron", a book of [[Tennyson]]'s poetry is on the table.
* The visuals of the battle on Pova in this issue contrasts sharply with how it was depicted in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|the previous issue]]. In issue 4, the battle was depicted with a sense of non-reality (befitting a falsified story), taking place on a sunny day, with the participants having little damage upon their bodies, even in death. However, in issue 5, the reality shows a depressing, rainy landscape with the participants all showing the signs of battle injuries. When Impactor is shown standing above the corpses of Squadron X, he is splattered with their fluids.
* On Pova, Prowl admonished Impactor through a communications device in his palm which projected an image that resembles a [[communicube]]. The text story "[[Bullets]]" would later confirm these as communicubes.
* Ironfist's little head scar had been around since #1, so we'd all been visually forewarned what his accident had been...
* The scenes of the dead prisoners is a deliberate copy of #3's scene of the imprisoned prisoners hearing the Wreckers have come to save them...
* In what's likely a deliberate reference to the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf episode Inquisitor, Impactor almost directly quotes that show's Dave Lister, with his line to Overlord: "One way or another, you killed a lot of my friends today".
* The final scene takes place in [[Mister O's]].
* The police car parked outside is not [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] or [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<ref>[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Fisitron's Facts]]</ref>
* Impactor's [[Autopedia]] profile mentions that Impactor got the idea for his harpoon arm after meeting an unnamed dimension-hopping "freelance peacekeeping agent" who had been "ricocheting from universe to universe after leaping through an exploding time portal." [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Their meeting is chronicled in ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'', [[Datalog]] 151, which refers to the [[The Legacy of Unicron!|Marvel UK issue number]] in which Death's Head leaps through a time portal with [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and disappears from the story. The title of said datalog, "The Wreckers at the Crossroads of Time", refers to the short ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Crossroads of Time", which saw the titular Time Lord have a run-in with Death's Head following the time portal incident.
* Near the end of the issue we see [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] on trial.
* Autopedia tells us that Pyro suffers from [[Primus apotheosis]].
* Pyro's profile reveals he was at the [[Simanzi Massacre]], same as [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] in his profile. Both began to suffer their personality disorders following the Massacre...
* Speaking of Datalog numbers, the Datalog retelling of this series is numbered #332, which was the total number of issues of the Marvel UK ''Transformers'' comic had.
* Prowl starts to squeeze the chip a bit but it's left ambiguous as to whether he actually destroyed it. Even Roche and Roberts don't know whether Prowl did it! <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=690984&postcount=228 Fan account of the Auto Assembly 2010 Q&A]</ref> So how dodgy do ''you'' think Prowl is?
* James Roberts has noted that Prowl never asks about the Autobot prisoners, the alleged reason the Wreckers were sent in the first place. Brr.
* Ultra Magnus is shown in this issue in the design that [[Don Figueroa]] gave him for the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]].
*At the end of this issue, Kup and Perceptor are the only active Wreckers, with the other eight either dead, AWOL (Impactor and Guzzle), discharged (Whirl) or in critical condition (Springer), not counting Roadbuster.

===Errors===
* In the first scene in the Aequitas chamber, Topspin's body is initially colored gray and black (deactivated), but on the next page, it is colored normally.
* In the panel where Verity is on her knees mourning Ironfist's death, the part of the shirt below her ribcage is colored like skin.

===Real-world references===
* One of the sites of Flame's atrocities, [[Babu Yar]], is named very similarly to a [[wikipedia:Babi Yar|famous historical massacre site on Earth]].
* Amongst Flame's atrocities is listed the crime of "circuit-boarding", a reference to the torture technique controversially used by the CIA known as [[wikipedia:Waterboarding|waterboarding]]—kind of appropriate for a rogue Autobot.

===Covers (3)===
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* '''Cover A:''' A silhouette of Overlord looming over Impactor and Springer amidst flames with several Autobot grave markers in front of them, art by [[Nick Roche]] and colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
* '''Cover B:''' A Transformer hand lying on the ground, art and colors by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

2013-03-04T16:40:35Z

Banjo oz: /* Quotes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' #5
|prev=Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
|next=Escape (G1)
|image=Last Stand of the Wreckers5 Cover A.jpg
|caption=This is the end, my former friend.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 19]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|story=[[Nick Roche]] & [[James Roberts]]
|script=Nick Roche & James Roberts
|art=Nick Roche
|colors=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''Where everything FINALLY hits the fan.'''

==Synopsis==
In the future, "Fisitron" will write up the story and what it means in the 332nd ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalog. But ''now'', in [[Garrus-9]], [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] tears [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] in half, bashes [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] into unconsciousness, and smirks when his ''right eye is destroyed'' by [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]. And in down in the [[Aequitas]] chamber, [[Verity Carlo]] continues to argue against detonating the deterrence chips: it won't just kill Impactor, it'll kill the [[Wrecker]]s as a concept. She puts her case to [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], arguing that he's made the Wreckers stand for something, turned a bunch of thugs with a death wish into a symbol of hope and heroism for the other robots, and ''his'' Wreckers would never kill one of their own.

[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] decides she's right, while [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] decides to abandon his egotistical visions of a glorious death and tells the others to run, that he'll cover them: dying for people he cares about, he tells Ironfist, is the most he can do, and he tells Verity that the ''[[Autobot]]s'' need the humans to look after ''them''. The Wreckers withdraw, Ironfist working out a plan to deal with Overlord, while Pyro is ingloriously torn to pieces behind them. As they withdraw, at Verity's urging, Ironfist reveals the truth he's learnt about Impactor and [[Pova]]...

''Twenty years ago, in battle, Impactor decided the best way to get a shot at [[Squadron X]] would be to fire through [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s midsection. Despite Springer's protest that he didn't '''have''' the circuit dampeners Impactor wanted him to engage and his pleas, Impactor fired. After the battle, he reported in to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to reveal all of the enemy had been caught. Prowl reported back that under the [[Neutrality Agreement]] with the [[Povian]]s, the Autobots aren't allowed to be there: to prevent the [[Decepticon]]s using this to turn Pova against them, the Wreckers had to release Squadron X immediately. Instead, Impactor took [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]]'s gun and locked himself in the room with the prisoners. Springer attempted to stop him but he murdered every single Decepticon as they lay in chains on their knees, while the other Wreckers simply stood in silence...''

Back outside, Overlord has won and Springer is about to be killed. He tells Overlord that his men will have freed every Autobot prisoner by now and will be leading them this way... except Overlord, the instant he learnt the Wreckers had arrived, ordered ''every single prisoner'' to be murdered in their cells. But luckily, the other Wreckers have arrived! Perceptor uses his sniper laser to blow the monster's hand off and free Springer! Ironfist chucks a ''massive'' chaingun of doom to his leader! Overlord is repeatedly shot!

And then he shrugs off the fire, ''rips off Springer's face'', blasts Perceptor offline, and only Ironfist is left standing, trying futilely to warn Overlord to back off. And ''that'' is when said nerd reveals the gun was loaded with deterrence chips, all of them laying roots in the monster's endoskeleton, and then he uses Aequitas to detonate them!

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Overlord learned the hard way never let [[The Fallen]] ever do your makeovers.]]
And then Ironfist falls down inactive, his head wracked by pain, and Verity is left alone as Overlord rises as a ''fire-consumed, skeletal horror'', intent on ripping her to pieces, snarling in hate that "you and your ''dead friends''" have left him unable to best [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] when he arrives. Verity, however, notes a weak spot, and informs him [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|Megatron is long dead]]; she begins to laugh at him, pointing out he's spent all this time believing Megatron is coming after him and the tyrant died not remembering Overlord ''at all''. The monster falls to his knees, his world shattered, and then Impactor rises from the mat to finish him off. Overlord won't fight back against the beating, but Impactor refuses to kill him: he's doing this for Springer, the one who told him he didn't have the right to murder Squadron X, and that Springer would want the Decepticon to stand trial for what he did.

The villain is beaten, the Decepticons have all fled now Overlord can't hold them, help is coming, and Ironfist wakes up! All is well...

Except four of the Wreckers are still dead; Springer and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] are on emergency life support, their chances of recovery unclear; Impactor and a repaired Guzzle abruptly left once Overlord was arrested; and Ironfist died en route to Earth from an aneurysm, caused by a lab accident with his [[Cerebro-sensitive bullet|cerebro-centric bullet]]s eighteen months ago that had one inching towards his brain all along.

[[Image:Prowl_LSOTW5_Pressure.jpg|thumb|right|150px|]]
On Earth, Prowl takes this report and the ostensible sole [[data slug]] Ironfist was able to make of the Aequitas data. He admits to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] that he knew about Ironfist's approaching death and had arranged for him to be placed on the Wreckers, his dream job, in exchange for bypassing the suicide lock on Aequitas. ("''Yes'', of ''course'' I regret it.") Prowl reveals the reason behind this whole mission: they couldn't allow the Decepticons to get their hands on Aequitas's transcripts of the ''Autobot'' trials, as it would be too great a propaganda weapon. Magnus notes those transcripts are the only evidence left for most of the accused, while Prowl remembers the utter ''horror'' of the trials, of hearing all the atrocities that Autobots had undertaken. Magnus believes a public trial is the only way, as [[Tyrest (Autobot)|Chief Justice Tyrest]] intends; Prowl agrees justice must be publicly done but not ''now'', believing the Autobots will be shattered if they learn about the monsters in their midst now.

He says he'll make sure the slug gets to [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], while Ultra Magnus remarks he ''knows'' Prowl hopes the data is corrupted so everyone can move on, and that he likes to think better of the Autobot than to believe he'll destroy the evidence. On his own, contemplating the slug, Prowl starts to apply some pressure to it...

And on Earth, Verity writes under the guise of "Fisitron", musing whether this is the end of the road for the Wreckers or just a stop-off to reflect. "Because that's how we ''honor'' those we've lost: by looking ''forward'', not back."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (1)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (3)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (4)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (5)
*[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] (6)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (7)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (8)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (10)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (16)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (17)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (20)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)
*[[Rad]] (22)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (23)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (24)
*[[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] (25)
*[[Tyrest (Autobot)|Tyrest]] (26)
*[[Xaaron]] (27)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (28)
|c2=
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (2)
*[[Tornado (Marvel)|Tornado]] (11)
*[[Macabre]] (12)
*[[Earthquake (G1)|Earthquake]] (13)
*[[Fang]] (18)
*[[Triton]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''."
:—'''"Fisitron"'''

"Oh, don't look so ''surprised''. You didn't expected this stunted little ''wretch'' to ''survive'', did you?" 
"You're a '''maniac'''!"
:—'''Overlord''''s opinion on Guzzle's chance of living and '''Kup''' pretty much summing up readers' thoughts of Overlord.

"Ironfist! You should know better than ''anyone'' what the Wreckers are ''really'' about! They give the other Autobots something to ''believe in''!"
:—'''Verity''' trying to motivate Ironfist.

"I figure that dying to save people you ''care about'' is the most that anyone can do." 
"I think you have your ''motto''." 
"No... my ''last words''."
:—'''Pyro''' and '''Ironfist'''

"Sweet."
:—'''Springer''' gets thrown a giant gun to shoot Overlord with.

"Sweet."
:—'''Overlord''' holds Springer's face-skin in his palm.

"Oh, man, this is PERFECT! You can't accept that he never gave chase! You lived your life thinking about him every day, and he died forgetting all about you!" 
"But... But he owes me! He owes me."
:—'''Verity''' giving '''Overlord''' the ''wonderful'' news about Megatron.

"One way or another, you've killed a ''lot'' of my friends today. It's been a ''long time coming'', but this is where you get yours!"
:—'''Impactor''' to '''Overlord'''

"You see, this is one of those stories with a ''moral''. And the moral is simply this: life persists."
:—'''Verity'''

==Notes==
* Either Springer, Perceptor or Kup ''were'' going to die in the final issue during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> Also dropped was a Guzzle/Kup confrontation, as there simply wasn't ''room'' in the condensed beast for it.
* [[Autopedia]] profiles include Pyro, Guzzle, and Impactor. Huzzah!
* Part of "Fisitron's" narration on the first page is based upon Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''[[Wikipedia:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''. At the end of the issue, with Verity finishing the entry as "Fisitron", a book of [[Tennyson]]'s poetry is on the table.
* The visuals of the battle on Pova in this issue contrasts sharply with how it was depicted in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|the previous issue]]. In issue 4, the battle was depicted with a sense of non-reality (befitting a falsified story), taking place on a sunny day, with the participants having little damage upon their bodies, even in death. However, in issue 5, the reality shows a depressing, rainy landscape with the participants all showing the signs of battle injuries. When Impactor is shown standing above the corpses of Squadron X, he is splattered with their fluids.
* On Pova, Prowl admonished Impactor through a communications device in his palm which projected an image that resembles a [[communicube]]. The text story "[[Bullets]]" would later confirm these as communicubes.
* Ironfist's little head scar had been around since #1, so we'd all been visually forewarned what his accident had been...
* The scenes of the dead prisoners is a deliberate copy of #3's scene of the imprisoned prisoners hearing the Wreckers have come to save them...
* In what's likely a deliberate reference to the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf episode Inquisitor, Impactor almost directly quotes that show's Dave Lister, with his line to Overlord: "One way or another, you killed a lot of my friends today".
* The final scene takes place in [[Mister O's]].
* The police car parked outside is not [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] or [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<ref>[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Fisitron's Facts]]</ref>
* Impactor's [[Autopedia]] profile mentions that Impactor got the idea for his harpoon arm after meeting an unnamed dimension-hopping "freelance peacekeeping agent" who had been "ricocheting from universe to universe after leaping through an exploding time portal." [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Their meeting is chronicled in ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'', [[Datalog]] 151, which refers to the [[The Legacy of Unicron!|Marvel UK issue number]] in which Death's Head leaps through a time portal with [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and disappears from the story. The title of said datalog, "The Wreckers at the Crossroads of Time", refers to the short ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Crossroads of Time", which saw the titular Time Lord have a run-in with Death's Head following the time portal incident.
* Near the end of the issue we see [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] on trial.
* Autopedia tells us that Pyro suffers from [[Primus apotheosis]].
* Pyro's profile reveals he was at the [[Simanzi Massacre]], same as [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] in his profile. Both began to suffer their personality disorders following the Massacre...
* Speaking of Datalog numbers, the Datalog retelling of this series is numbered #332, which was the total number of issues of the Marvel UK ''Transformers'' comic had.
* Prowl starts to squeeze the chip a bit but it's left ambiguous as to whether he actually destroyed it. Even Roche and Roberts don't know whether Prowl did it! <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=690984&postcount=228 Fan account of the Auto Assembly 2010 Q&A]</ref> So how dodgy do ''you'' think Prowl is?
* James Roberts has noted that Prowl never asks about the Autobot prisoners, the alleged reason the Wreckers were sent in the first place. Brr.
* Ultra Magnus is shown in this issue in the design that [[Don Figueroa]] gave him for the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]].
*At the end of this issue, Kup and Perceptor are the only active Wreckers, with the other eight either dead, AWOL (Impactor and Guzzle), discharged (Whirl) or in critical condition (Springer), not counting Roadbuster.

===Errors===
* In the first scene in the Aequitas chamber, Topspin's body is initially colored gray and black (deactivated), but on the next page, it is colored normally.
* In the panel where Verity is on her knees mourning Ironfist's death, the part of the shirt below her ribcage is colored like skin.

===Real-world references===
* One of the sites of Flame's atrocities, [[Babu Yar]], is named very similarly to a [[wikipedia:Babi Yar|famous historical massacre site on Earth]].
* Amongst Flame's atrocities is listed the crime of "circuit-boarding", a reference to the torture technique controversially used by the CIA known as [[wikipedia:Waterboarding|waterboarding]]—kind of appropriate for a rogue Autobot.

===Covers (3)===
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* '''Cover A:''' A silhouette of Overlord looming over Impactor and Springer amidst flames with several Autobot grave markers in front of them, art by [[Nick Roche]] and colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
* '''Cover B:''' A Transformer hand lying on the ground, art and colors by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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[[Category:Last Stand of the Wreckers issues]]

Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

2013-03-04T16:36:36Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' #5
|prev=Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
|next=Escape (G1)
|image=Last Stand of the Wreckers5 Cover A.jpg
|caption=This is the end, my former friend.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 19]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|story=[[Nick Roche]] & [[James Roberts]]
|script=Nick Roche & James Roberts
|art=Nick Roche
|colors=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''Where everything FINALLY hits the fan.'''

==Synopsis==
In the future, "Fisitron" will write up the story and what it means in the 332nd ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalog. But ''now'', in [[Garrus-9]], [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] tears [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] in half, bashes [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] into unconsciousness, and smirks when his ''right eye is destroyed'' by [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]. And in down in the [[Aequitas]] chamber, [[Verity Carlo]] continues to argue against detonating the deterrence chips: it won't just kill Impactor, it'll kill the [[Wrecker]]s as a concept. She puts her case to [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], arguing that he's made the Wreckers stand for something, turned a bunch of thugs with a death wish into a symbol of hope and heroism for the other robots, and ''his'' Wreckers would never kill one of their own.

[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] decides she's right, while [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] decides to abandon his egotistical visions of a glorious death and tells the others to run, that he'll cover them: dying for people he cares about, he tells Ironfist, is the most he can do, and he tells Verity that the ''[[Autobot]]s'' need the humans to look after ''them''. The Wreckers withdraw, Ironfist working out a plan to deal with Overlord, while Pyro is ingloriously torn to pieces behind them. As they withdraw, at Verity's urging, Ironfist reveals the truth he's learnt about Impactor and [[Pova]]...

''Twenty years ago, in battle, Impactor decided the best way to get a shot at [[Squadron X]] would be to fire through [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s midsection. Despite Springer's protest that he didn't '''have''' the circuit dampeners Impactor wanted him to engage and his pleas, Impactor fired. After the battle, he reported in to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to reveal all of the enemy had been caught. Prowl reported back that under the [[Neutrality Agreement]] with the [[Povian]]s, the Autobots aren't allowed to be there: to prevent the [[Decepticon]]s using this to turn Pova against them, the Wreckers had to release Squadron X immediately. Instead, Impactor took [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]]'s gun and locked himself in the room with the prisoners. Springer attempted to stop him but he murdered every single Decepticon as they lay in chains on their knees, while the other Wreckers simply stood in silence...''

Back outside, Overlord has won and Springer is about to be killed. He tells Overlord that his men will have freed every Autobot prisoner by now and will be leading them this way... except Overlord, the instant he learnt the Wreckers had arrived, ordered ''every single prisoner'' to be murdered in their cells. But luckily, the other Wreckers have arrived! Perceptor uses his sniper laser to blow the monster's hand off and free Springer! Ironfist chucks a ''massive'' chaingun of doom to his leader! Overlord is repeatedly shot!

And then he shrugs off the fire, ''rips off Springer's face'', blasts Perceptor offline, and only Ironfist is left standing, trying futilely to warn Overlord to back off. And ''that'' is when said nerd reveals the gun was loaded with deterrence chips, all of them laying roots in the monster's endoskeleton, and then he uses Aequitas to detonate them!

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Overlord learned the hard way never let [[The Fallen]] ever do your makeovers.]]
And then Ironfist falls down inactive, his head wracked by pain, and Verity is left alone as Overlord rises as a ''fire-consumed, skeletal horror'', intent on ripping her to pieces, snarling in hate that "you and your ''dead friends''" have left him unable to best [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] when he arrives. Verity, however, notes a weak spot, and informs him [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|Megatron is long dead]]; she begins to laugh at him, pointing out he's spent all this time believing Megatron is coming after him and the tyrant died not remembering Overlord ''at all''. The monster falls to his knees, his world shattered, and then Impactor rises from the mat to finish him off. Overlord won't fight back against the beating, but Impactor refuses to kill him: he's doing this for Springer, the one who told him he didn't have the right to murder Squadron X, and that Springer would want the Decepticon to stand trial for what he did.

The villain is beaten, the Decepticons have all fled now Overlord can't hold them, help is coming, and Ironfist wakes up! All is well...

Except four of the Wreckers are still dead; Springer and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] are on emergency life support, their chances of recovery unclear; Impactor and a repaired Guzzle abruptly left once Overlord was arrested; and Ironfist died en route to Earth from an aneurysm, caused by a lab accident with his [[Cerebro-sensitive bullet|cerebro-centric bullet]]s eighteen months ago that had one inching towards his brain all along.

[[Image:Prowl_LSOTW5_Pressure.jpg|thumb|right|150px|]]
On Earth, Prowl takes this report and the ostensible sole [[data slug]] Ironfist was able to make of the Aequitas data. He admits to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] that he knew about Ironfist's approaching death and had arranged for him to be placed on the Wreckers, his dream job, in exchange for bypassing the suicide lock on Aequitas. ("''Yes'', of ''course'' I regret it.") Prowl reveals the reason behind this whole mission: they couldn't allow the Decepticons to get their hands on Aequitas's transcripts of the ''Autobot'' trials, as it would be too great a propaganda weapon. Magnus notes those transcripts are the only evidence left for most of the accused, while Prowl remembers the utter ''horror'' of the trials, of hearing all the atrocities that Autobots had undertaken. Magnus believes a public trial is the only way, as [[Tyrest (Autobot)|Chief Justice Tyrest]] intends; Prowl agrees justice must be publicly done but not ''now'', believing the Autobots will be shattered if they learn about the monsters in their midst now.

He says he'll make sure the slug gets to [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], while Ultra Magnus remarks he ''knows'' Prowl hopes the data is corrupted so everyone can move on, and that he likes to think better of the Autobot than to believe he'll destroy the evidence. On his own, contemplating the slug, Prowl starts to apply some pressure to it...

And on Earth, Verity writes under the guise of "Fisitron", musing whether this is the end of the road for the Wreckers or just a stop-off to reflect. "Because that's how we ''honor'' those we've lost: by looking ''forward'', not back."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (1)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (3)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (4)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (5)
*[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] (6)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (7)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (8)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (10)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (16)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (17)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (20)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)
*[[Rad]] (22)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (23)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (24)
*[[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] (25)
*[[Tyrest (Autobot)|Tyrest]] (26)
*[[Xaaron]] (27)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (28)
|c2=
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (2)
*[[Tornado (Marvel)|Tornado]] (11)
*[[Macabre]] (12)
*[[Earthquake (G1)|Earthquake]] (13)
*[[Fang]] (18)
*[[Triton]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''."
:—'''"Fisitron"'''

"Oh, don't look so ''surprised''. You didn't expected this stunted little ''wretch'' to ''survive'', did you?" 
"You're a '''maniac'''!"
:—'''Overlord''''s opinion on Guzzle's chance of living and '''Kup''' pretty much summing up readers' thoughts of Overlord.

"Ironfist! You should know better than ''anyone'' what the Wreckers are ''really'' about! They give the other Autobots something to ''believe in''!"
:—'''Verity''' trying to motivate Ironfist.

"I figure that dying to save people you ''care about'' is the most that anyone can do." 
"I think you have your ''motto''." 
"No... my ''last words''."
:—'''Pyro''' and '''Ironfist'''

"Sweet."
:—'''Springer''' gets thrown a giant gun to shoot Overlord with.

"Sweet."
:—'''Overlord''' holds Springer's face-skin in his palm.

"Oh, man, this is PERFECT! You can't accept that he never gave chase! You lived your life thinking about him every day, and he died forgetting all about you!" 
"But... But he owes me! He owes me."
:—'''Verity''' giving '''Overlord''' the ''wonderful'' news about Megatron.

"You see, this is one of those stories with a ''moral''. And the moral is simply this: life persists."
:—'''Verity'''

==Notes==
* Either Springer, Perceptor or Kup ''were'' going to die in the final issue during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> Also dropped was a Guzzle/Kup confrontation, as there simply wasn't ''room'' in the condensed beast for it.
* [[Autopedia]] profiles include Pyro, Guzzle, and Impactor. Huzzah!
* Part of "Fisitron's" narration on the first page is based upon Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''[[Wikipedia:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''. At the end of the issue, with Verity finishing the entry as "Fisitron", a book of [[Tennyson]]'s poetry is on the table.
* The visuals of the battle on Pova in this issue contrasts sharply with how it was depicted in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|the previous issue]]. In issue 4, the battle was depicted with a sense of non-reality (befitting a falsified story), taking place on a sunny day, with the participants having little damage upon their bodies, even in death. However, in issue 5, the reality shows a depressing, rainy landscape with the participants all showing the signs of battle injuries. When Impactor is shown standing above the corpses of Squadron X, he is splattered with their fluids.
* On Pova, Prowl admonished Impactor through a communications device in his palm which projected an image that resembles a [[communicube]]. The text story "[[Bullets]]" would later confirm these as communicubes.
* Ironfist's little head scar had been around since #1, so we'd all been visually forewarned what his accident had been...
* The scenes of the dead prisoners is a deliberate copy of #3's scene of the imprisoned prisoners hearing the Wreckers have come to save them...
* In what's likely a deliberate reference to the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf episode Inquisitor, Impactor almost directly quotes that show's Dave Lister, with his line to Overlord: "One way or another, you killed a lot of my friends today".
* The final scene takes place in [[Mister O's]].
* The police car parked outside is not [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] or [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<ref>[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Fisitron's Facts]]</ref>
* Impactor's [[Autopedia]] profile mentions that Impactor got the idea for his harpoon arm after meeting an unnamed dimension-hopping "freelance peacekeeping agent" who had been "ricocheting from universe to universe after leaping through an exploding time portal." [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Their meeting is chronicled in ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'', [[Datalog]] 151, which refers to the [[The Legacy of Unicron!|Marvel UK issue number]] in which Death's Head leaps through a time portal with [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and disappears from the story. The title of said datalog, "The Wreckers at the Crossroads of Time", refers to the short ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Crossroads of Time", which saw the titular Time Lord have a run-in with Death's Head following the time portal incident.
* Near the end of the issue we see [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] on trial.
* Autopedia tells us that Pyro suffers from [[Primus apotheosis]].
* Pyro's profile reveals he was at the [[Simanzi Massacre]], same as [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] in his profile. Both began to suffer their personality disorders following the Massacre...
* Speaking of Datalog numbers, the Datalog retelling of this series is numbered #332, which was the total number of issues of the Marvel UK ''Transformers'' comic had.
* Prowl starts to squeeze the chip a bit but it's left ambiguous as to whether he actually destroyed it. Even Roche and Roberts don't know whether Prowl did it! <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=690984&postcount=228 Fan account of the Auto Assembly 2010 Q&A]</ref> So how dodgy do ''you'' think Prowl is?
* James Roberts has noted that Prowl never asks about the Autobot prisoners, the alleged reason the Wreckers were sent in the first place. Brr.
* Ultra Magnus is shown in this issue in the design that [[Don Figueroa]] gave him for the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]].
*At the end of this issue, Kup and Perceptor are the only active Wreckers, with the other eight either dead, AWOL (Impactor and Guzzle), discharged (Whirl) or in critical condition (Springer), not counting Roadbuster.

===Errors===
* In the first scene in the Aequitas chamber, Topspin's body is initially colored gray and black (deactivated), but on the next page, it is colored normally.
* In the panel where Verity is on her knees mourning Ironfist's death, the part of the shirt below her ribcage is colored like skin.

===Real-world references===
* One of the sites of Flame's atrocities, [[Babu Yar]], is named very similarly to a [[wikipedia:Babi Yar|famous historical massacre site on Earth]].
* Amongst Flame's atrocities is listed the crime of "circuit-boarding", a reference to the torture technique controversially used by the CIA known as [[wikipedia:Waterboarding|waterboarding]]—kind of appropriate for a rogue Autobot.

===Covers (3)===
{{picsneeded|Covers}}
* '''Cover A:''' A silhouette of Overlord looming over Impactor and Springer amidst flames with several Autobot grave markers in front of them, art by [[Nick Roche]] and colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
* '''Cover B:''' A Transformer hand lying on the ground, art and colors by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

2013-03-04T16:35:29Z

Banjo oz: /* Notes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' #5
|prev=Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
|next=Escape (G1)
|image=Last Stand of the Wreckers5 Cover A.jpg
|caption=This is the end, my former friend.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 19]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|story=[[Nick Roche]] & [[James Roberts]]
|script=Nick Roche & James Roberts
|art=Nick Roche
|colors=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''Where everything FINALLY hits the fan.'''

==Synopsis==
In the future, "Fisitron" will write up the story and what it means in the 332nd ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' datalog. But ''now'', in [[Garrus-9]], [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] tears [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] in half, bashes [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] into unconsciousness, and smirks when his ''right eye is destroyed'' by [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]. And in down in the [[Aequitas]] chamber, [[Verity Carlo]] continues to argue against detonating the deterrence chips: it won't just kill Impactor, it'll kill the [[Wrecker]]s as a concept. She puts her case to [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], arguing that he's made the Wreckers stand for something, turned a bunch of thugs with a death wish into a symbol of hope and heroism for the other robots, and ''his'' Wreckers would never kill one of their own.

[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] decides she's right, while [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] decides to abandon his egotistical visions of a glorious death and tells the others to run, that he'll cover them: dying for people he cares about, he tells Ironfist, is the most he can do, and he tells Verity that the ''[[Autobot]]s'' need the humans to look after ''them''. The Wreckers withdraw, Ironfist working out a plan to deal with Overlord, while Pyro is ingloriously torn to pieces behind them. As they withdraw, at Verity's urging, Ironfist reveals the truth he's learnt about Impactor and [[Pova]]...

''Twenty years ago, in battle, Impactor decided the best way to get a shot at [[Squadron X]] would be to fire through [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s midsection. Despite Springer's protest that he didn't '''have''' the circuit dampeners Impactor wanted him to engage and his pleas, Impactor fired. After the battle, he reported in to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to reveal all of the enemy had been caught. Prowl reported back that under the [[Neutrality Agreement]] with the [[Povian]]s, the Autobots aren't allowed to be there: to prevent the [[Decepticon]]s using this to turn Pova against them, the Wreckers had to release Squadron X immediately. Instead, Impactor took [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]]'s gun and locked himself in the room with the prisoners. Springer attempted to stop him but he murdered every single Decepticon as they lay in chains on their knees, while the other Wreckers simply stood in silence...''

Back outside, Overlord has won and Springer is about to be killed. He tells Overlord that his men will have freed every Autobot prisoner by now and will be leading them this way... except Overlord, the instant he learnt the Wreckers had arrived, ordered ''every single prisoner'' to be murdered in their cells. But luckily, the other Wreckers have arrived! Perceptor uses his sniper laser to blow the monster's hand off and free Springer! Ironfist chucks a ''massive'' chaingun of doom to his leader! Overlord is repeatedly shot!

And then he shrugs off the fire, ''rips off Springer's face'', blasts Perceptor offline, and only Ironfist is left standing, trying futilely to warn Overlord to back off. And ''that'' is when said nerd reveals the gun was loaded with deterrence chips, all of them laying roots in the monster's endoskeleton, and then he uses Aequitas to detonate them!

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Overlord learned the hard way never let [[The Fallen]] ever do your makeovers.]]
And then Ironfist falls down inactive, his head wracked by pain, and Verity is left alone as Overlord rises as a ''fire-consumed, skeletal horror'', intent on ripping her to pieces, snarling in hate that "you and your ''dead friends''" have left him unable to best [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] when he arrives. Verity, however, notes a weak spot, and informs him [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|Megatron is long dead]]; she begins to laugh at him, pointing out he's spent all this time believing Megatron is coming after him and the tyrant died not remembering Overlord ''at all''. The monster falls to his knees, his world shattered, and then Impactor rises from the mat to finish him off. Overlord won't fight back against the beating, but Impactor refuses to kill him: he's doing this for Springer, the one who told him he didn't have the right to murder Squadron X, and that Springer would want the Decepticon to stand trial for what he did.

The villain is beaten, the Decepticons have all fled now Overlord can't hold them, help is coming, and Ironfist wakes up! All is well...

Except four of the Wreckers are still dead; Springer and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] are on emergency life support, their chances of recovery unclear; Impactor and a repaired Guzzle abruptly left once Overlord was arrested; and Ironfist died en route to Earth from an aneurysm, caused by a lab accident with his [[Cerebro-sensitive bullet|cerebro-centric bullet]]s eighteen months ago that had one inching towards his brain all along.

[[Image:Prowl_LSOTW5_Pressure.jpg|thumb|right|150px|]]
On Earth, Prowl takes this report and the ostensible sole [[data slug]] Ironfist was able to make of the Aequitas data. He admits to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] that he knew about Ironfist's approaching death and had arranged for him to be placed on the Wreckers, his dream job, in exchange for bypassing the suicide lock on Aequitas. ("''Yes'', of ''course'' I regret it.") Prowl reveals the reason behind this whole mission: they couldn't allow the Decepticons to get their hands on Aequitas's transcripts of the ''Autobot'' trials, as it would be too great a propaganda weapon. Magnus notes those transcripts are the only evidence left for most of the accused, while Prowl remembers the utter ''horror'' of the trials, of hearing all the atrocities that Autobots had undertaken. Magnus believes a public trial is the only way, as [[Tyrest (Autobot)|Chief Justice Tyrest]] intends; Prowl agrees justice must be publicly done but not ''now'', believing the Autobots will be shattered if they learn about the monsters in their midst now.

He says he'll make sure the slug gets to [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], while Ultra Magnus remarks he ''knows'' Prowl hopes the data is corrupted so everyone can move on, and that he likes to think better of the Autobot than to believe he'll destroy the evidence. On his own, contemplating the slug, Prowl starts to apply some pressure to it...

And on Earth, Verity writes under the guise of "Fisitron", musing whether this is the end of the road for the Wreckers or just a stop-off to reflect. "Because that's how we ''honor'' those we've lost: by looking ''forward'', not back."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (1)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (3)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (4)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (5)
*[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] (6)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (7)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (8)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (10)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (16)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (17)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (20)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)
*[[Rad]] (22)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (23)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (24)
*[[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] (25)
*[[Tyrest (Autobot)|Tyrest]] (26)
*[[Xaaron]] (27)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (28)
|c2=
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (2)
*[[Tornado (Marvel)|Tornado]] (11)
*[[Macabre]] (12)
*[[Earthquake (G1)|Earthquake]] (13)
*[[Fang]] (18)
*[[Triton]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''."
:—'''"Fisitron"'''

"Oh, don't look so ''surprised''. You didn't expected this stunted little ''wretch'' to ''survive'', did you?" 
"You're a '''maniac'''!"
:—'''Overlord''''s opinion on Guzzle's chance of living and '''Kup''' pretty much summing up readers' thoughts of Overlord.

"Ironfist! You should know better than ''anyone'' what the Wreckers are ''really'' about! They give the other Autobots something to ''believe in''!"
:—'''Verity''' trying to motivate Ironfist.

"I figure that dying to save people you ''care about'' is the most that anyone can do." 
"I think you have your ''motto''." 
"No... my ''last words''."
:—'''Pyro''' and '''Ironfist'''

"Sweet."
:—'''Springer''' gets thrown a giant gun to shoot Overlord with.

"Sweet."
:—'''Overlord''' holds Springer's face-skin in his palm.

"Oh, man, this is PERFECT! You can't accept that he never gave chase! You lived your life thinking about him every day, and he died forgetting all about you!" 
"But... But he owes me! He owes me."
:—'''Verity''' giving '''Overlord''' the ''wonderful'' news about Megatron.

"You see, this is one of those stories with a ''moral''. And the moral is simply this: life persists."
:—'''Verity'''

==Notes==
* Either Springer, Perceptor or Kup ''were'' going to die in the final issue during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> Also dropped was a Guzzle/Kup confrontation, as there simply wasn't ''room'' in the condensed beast for it.
* [[Autopedia]] profiles include Pyro, Guzzle, and Impactor. Huzzah!
* Part of "Fisitron's" narration on the first page is based upon Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''[[Wikipedia:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''. At the end of the issue, with Verity finishing the entry as "Fisitron", a book of [[Tennyson]]'s poetry is on the table.
* The visuals of the battle on Pova in this issue contrasts sharply with how it was depicted in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|the previous issue]]. In issue 4, the battle was depicted with a sense of non-reality (befitting a falsified story), taking place on a sunny day, with the participants having little damage upon their bodies, even in death. However, in issue 5, the reality shows a depressing, rainy landscape with the participants all showing the signs of battle injuries. When Impactor is shown standing above the corpses of Squadron X, he is splattered with their fluids.
* On Pova, Prowl admonished Impactor through a communications device in his palm which projected an image that resembles a [[communicube]]. The text story "[[Bullets]]" would later confirm these as communicubes.
* Ironfist's little head scar had been around since #1, so we'd all been visually forewarned what his accident had been...
* The scenes of the dead prisoners is a deliberate copy of #3's scene of the imprisoned prisoners hearing the Wreckers have come to save them...
* In what's likely a deliberate reference to the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf episode Inquisitor, Impactor almost directly quotes that show's Dave Lister, with his line to Overlord: "One way or another, you killed a lot of my friends today".
* The final scene takes place in [[Mister O's]].
** The police car parked outside is not [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] or [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<ref>[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Fisitron's Facts]]</ref>
* Impactor's [[Autopedia]] profile mentions that Impactor got the idea for his harpoon arm after meeting an unnamed dimension-hopping "freelance peacekeeping agent" who had been "ricocheting from universe to universe after leaping through an exploding time portal." [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Their meeting is chronicled in ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'', [[Datalog]] 151, which refers to the [[The Legacy of Unicron!|Marvel UK issue number]] in which Death's Head leaps through a time portal with [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and disappears from the story. The title of said datalog, "The Wreckers at the Crossroads of Time", refers to the short ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Crossroads of Time", which saw the titular Time Lord have a run-in with Death's Head following the time portal incident.
* Near the end of the issue we see [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] on trial.
* Autopedia tells us that Pyro suffers from [[Primus apotheosis]].
* Pyro's profile reveals he was at the [[Simanzi Massacre]], same as [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] in his profile. Both began to suffer their personality disorders following the Massacre...
* Speaking of Datalog numbers, the Datalog retelling of this series is numbered #332, which was the total number of issues of the Marvel UK ''Transformers'' comic had.
* Prowl starts to squeeze the chip a bit but it's left ambiguous as to whether he actually destroyed it. Even Roche and Roberts don't know whether Prowl did it! <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=690984&postcount=228 Fan account of the Auto Assembly 2010 Q&A]</ref> So how dodgy do ''you'' think Prowl is?
* James Roberts has noted that Prowl never asks about the Autobot prisoners, the alleged reason the Wreckers were sent in the first place. Brr.
* Ultra Magnus is shown in this issue in the design that [[Don Figueroa]] gave him for the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]].
*At the end of this issue, Kup and Perceptor are the only active Wreckers, with the other eight either dead, AWOL (Impactor and Guzzle), discharged (Whirl) or in critical condition (Springer), not counting Roadbuster.

===Errors===
* In the first scene in the Aequitas chamber, Topspin's body is initially colored gray and black (deactivated), but on the next page, it is colored normally.
* In the panel where Verity is on her knees mourning Ironfist's death, the part of the shirt below her ribcage is colored like skin.

===Real-world references===
* One of the sites of Flame's atrocities, [[Babu Yar]], is named very similarly to a [[wikipedia:Babi Yar|famous historical massacre site on Earth]].
* Amongst Flame's atrocities is listed the crime of "circuit-boarding", a reference to the torture technique controversially used by the CIA known as [[wikipedia:Waterboarding|waterboarding]]—kind of appropriate for a rogue Autobot.

===Covers (3)===
{{picsneeded|Covers}}
* '''Cover A:''' A silhouette of Overlord looming over Impactor and Springer amidst flames with several Autobot grave markers in front of them, art by [[Nick Roche]] and colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
* '''Cover B:''' A Transformer hand lying on the ground, art and colors by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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Talk:Dark Star

2010-06-29T10:33:54Z

Banjo oz: /* Defecting Decepticons? */

==Soundwave's Status==
''Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, the only major change done here is that Soundwave becomes his second-in-command.''

As of the end of this issue, as far as the reader knows, Soundwave is ''dead,'' and Scorponok is still staring out the window of the Ark; he hasn't gotten around to rebuilding his cadre yet. The point at which it becomes apparent that Soundwave is A) not dead and B) Scorponok's second-in-command, is several issues later (#54 or later, I think). Therefore, as I see it, the sentence above is misleading if not outright wrong {{m-}} the "major change" in question ''isn't'' done here at all. I think the sentence should be cut. [[User:JW|JW]] 04:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

:The change never explictly happens anywhere, though -- we are only eventually informed of it after the fact a year or so later. There's no inherently better place TO mention this change. And there's no reason Items of Note have to refer ONLY to things that happened on-panel, in this issue, as if no future issues have come out yet. We KNOW Soundwave survives -- the notes shouldn't pretend otherwise. There are already notes here indicating more characters may have died than are shown on-panel, because of what future issues have shown or told us. Similarly, it makes most sense to refer to Soundwave's status here, because this issue caused the change in status (the merging of all Decepticons of Earth) which led to Soundwave being named Scorponok's second-in-command BTS at some unplaceable later point. It's forward-looking in nature, but I don't see what's so wrong about that.

:If it makes you feel better, we could change "done here" to "made by this union", so that it doesn't sound like Soundwave's status changed in the issue itself. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 05:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
::I agree with JW. Soundwave is NOT upgraded to second-in-command in this issue. He DIES in this issue. (He gets better.) --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 05:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
::I feel I should also add that we don't even know that he was second-in-command at all, after this issue. I've skimmed through my US issues, and no where does it say he's second-in-command. He's a prominent Decepticon once he re-emerges in #61, and he has some position of authority during Civil War 2 ten issues later, but how do we know that Mindwipe wasn't Scorponok's second-in-command up until he deserted? We don't even see Soundwave for like a dozen issues. There's a long stretch of time in which it's Scorponok's Nebulan folks who do the only talking to him. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 05:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

:::I WILL FIGHT YOU TIL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH! ...Nah, kidding. I concede. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 16:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

==Defecting Decepticons?==
I definitely recall Triggerhappy and Mindwipe, but when did Thrust and Dirge change sides due to Starscream's presence? --[[User:Banjo oz|Banjo oz]] 11:52, 28 June 2010 (EDT)
:[[Games of Deception]] --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 11:55, 28 June 2010 (EDT)
::Thanks! I'd seen that story, but didn't know it was part of the Marvel continuity (is it?). In any case, thanks for the quick heads up!--[[User:Banjo oz|Banjo oz]] 06:33, 29 June 2010 (EDT)

Dark Star

2010-06-29T10:32:15Z

Banjo oz: /* Items of note */ clarification of deserting Decepticons

{{disambig3|Dark Star}}

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'''The end of the Underbase Saga... and the Transformers?'''

==Synopsis==
Out in the vacuum of space, the [[Underbase]] travels ever closer to [[Earth]]...

On that planet, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are the first to respond to the alert beacon triggered by Buster Witwicky. Seeing the responsible party, they quickly radio back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and Fortress Maximus. A full [[Autobot]] response battalion arrives within a matter of minutes. Spike is reunited with his brother only to find him on the brink of death. He places Buster within a heating unit in Fortress Maximus's chest to fight off the effects of exposure and frostbite. As the Autobots gather their wits enough to question the situation at hand, though, they are treated to a full scale [[Decepticon]] attack, as Ratbat and Scorponok have detected their approach.

The following battle is quick and merciless, and comes to a stop only when Ratbat ends up confronting Fortress Maximus and his own former prisoner, Buster. Buster outlays what Starscream told him before departing, and makes Ratbat see reason about putting his feud with the Autobots on hold until the larger issue can be dealt with. The various faction leaders agree to work together and make a space-worthy craft to hunt down Starscream.

At the edge of space, the most treacherous Decepticon of all leaves his star cruiser to bathe directly in the light of the Underbase's powerful knowledge and knowledgeable power. Before he absorbs much, however, he is blasted out of the way by Optimus Prime, manning the guns on the island starship. Unfortunately, that momentary exposure was enough to supercharge Starscream, and he manages to grab hold of the entire star cruiser he stole and toss it straight through the island ship, leaving the combined armies crippled and stranded in space, and the Decepticons in particular without any means of star travel from then on.

For some reason, Starscream chooses to let them live drifting in the vacuum of space. He also chooses to return to Earth and attack it instead of chasing down the Underbase to fulfill his lust for power. He also announces in advance the exact set of cities he plans to assault. Clearly, the "knowledge" part of the Underbase takes awhile to set in.

Optimus Prime enacts Plan B and summons the Ark to pick them all up and speed back to Earth ahead of Starscream. As the factions begin splitting into teams to cover Starscream's previously identified destinations, Optimus makes the stunning announcement that he will stay aboard the Ark and not confront Starscream. The Decepticons quickly dismiss this as pure cowardice, and leave for Earth in disgust.

[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Never again shall you take up catalog space that could be devoted to my magnificence!"]]
Autobots and Decepticons alike confront Starscream one after another and in groups, but ultimately he slaughters them all. The only difficulties he runs into are the [[Pretender|Pretenders]] and those who are binary-bonded, as the organic outer shells and bonding prove somehow resistant to his destructive energies. As the battles continue, both Ratbat and Scorponok become suspicious that Prime's alleged cowardice might actually be greed to capture the Underbase for himself, and abandon their respective battles to return to the Ark and confront him.

Aboard the Ark, Optimus Prime and Hi-Q are guarding Buster Witwicky, while constructing a rocket with reflective panels, designed to catch the Underbase and change its course. Buster makes the mistake of radioing his brother during the battle, though, and Starscream realizes the potential threat an absent Optimus Prime poses to him. He takes off for space to intercept the Autobot leader and the Ark. Ratbat and Scorponok get there ahead of him, however, and confront Prime. After Scorponok blasts Prime and annihilates Ratbat, he heads off to reach the redirected Underbase on his own. Optimus manages to replace his [[Powermaster]] engine in time to go after Scorponok, and physically drags the two of them out of the Underbase's path, so that it strikes Starscream instead. The combined power of the Underbase mutates Starscream until he is overwhelmed with power, and is obliterated.

In the aftermath, Optimus Prime explains to Scorponok that he learned his lesson about the Underbase millions of years ago. He arranged for the reflector rocket and for Buster's "ill-timed" radio message to Fortress Maximus in order to lure Starscream back out into space, where he would surely try to take all of the Underbase's power and destroy himself. The [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] leaders part in peace, but Scorponok makes it clear that the war will begin anew, tomorrow...
{{-}}
==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (2)
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (3)
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (4)
* [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (9)
* [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (14)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (18)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (19)
* [[Bluestreak]] (20)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] (21)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (22)
* [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (27)
* [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (28)
* [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (29)
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (30)
* [[Scattershot]] (33)
* [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (37)
|c2=
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (5)
* [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (7)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]] (15)
* [[Snapdragon]] (16)
* [[Apeface]] (17)
* [[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]] (23)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (25)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (26)
* [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (31)
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (32)
* [[Bugly]] (33)
* [[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (35)
* [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (36)
|c3=
* [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
|h4=[[Nebulos|Nebulons]]|c4=
* [[Hi-Q]] (24)
}}

==Errors==
* Ratbat and Scorponok figure out that Starscream stole the spacecraft to go after the Underbase... and then Buster inexplicably needs to explain it to Ratbat all over again a few pages later. (The only new information Buster gives him is that Starscream arranged for the Autobots to show up.)
* Not technically an error, but the background shot of Prowl under attack from Scorponok is copied right from "[[Totaled!]]".
* So is the entire sequence of Cerebros and Spike transforming out of their respective head modes.
* In said sequence, Cerebros' name is misspelled as "Cerebro".
* Another repeat from "Totaled": Fortress Maximus's Autobots are completely absent from the first half of the issue, most notably from the Autobot-Decepticon battle.
* On page 11, panel 2 Fortress Maximus has only 3 fingers on his left hand. Ratbat COULD have POSSIBLY eaten it off panel...MAYBE.

==Items of note==
* ''Part 4 of the [[Underbase Saga]]''.
* This issue is double-length in honor of its milestone issue number. Accordingly, it also cost 50 cents more than a standard issue.
* It features the biggest battle toll of any issue, including the battle with [[Unicron]]. Among the confirmed casualties are the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], Bluestreak, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], Goldbug, Jazz, the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]], Jetfire, Blaster, the [[Throttlebot|Throttlebots]], Thundercracker, Skywarp, the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], [[Octane]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], Omega Supreme, Ratbat and, of course, Starscream.
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] can (arguably) be retroactively added to this issue's casualty list as Beachcomber is later seen laying in Ratchet's repair bay in "[[Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer]]", and Powerglide is confirmed deactivated in "[[Yesterday's Heroes!]]".
* Bob Budiansky's reasoning for the mass murder was that he needed a big end for the story, he had too many characters, and Hasbro wouldn't care about characters that didn't have toys for sale. And hey, they weren't getting any panel-time these days anyway, "so they were already just about dead". [http://www.oneshallstand.com/articles/bob_budiansky.html]
* Many people also assume that the rest of the earlier armies, those not possessing organic enhancements like [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and Pretenders (save the ever '''''"lucky"''''' Ratchet), were also wiped out behind the scenes. Though unconfirmed, there's something to be said for this theory. Many Transformers like the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] are never seen again (within the course of the G1 series). Later issues show Prime mourning the loss of warriors not seen killed in the Underbase Saga, such as [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (and again, Powerglide), while [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] are variously shown as deactivated during "[[The Greatest Gift of All!]]", "[[Perchance to Dream]]" and "[[Makin' Tracks!]]". The greatest support for this theory is the story "[[Flashback!]]", which shows Prowl being destroyed by Starscream in San Francisco, a moment not shown in Dark Star, proving that there was indeed at least one "off panel" casualty. Still, it remains a point for debate.
* Prime refers to the casualties as "destroyed", but later issues make it clear that at least some of them could be repaired. The Dinobots, Jazz, Goldbug, Blaster and Silverbolt are all revived later in the series. Ratchet is also seen working to restore Omega Supreme. The task of repairing them all will have [[Back from the Dead|consequences]] very shortly.
* Starscream's actions would inevitably haunt the Decepticons for some time when he was reborn. [[Mindwipe (G1)|Several]] [[Triggerhappy|Decepticons]] [[Dirge (G1)|would]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|actually]] [[Thrust (G1)|desert]] on various occasions, because Starscream was among them.
* With Ratbat's demise, Scorponok is now in charge of all the Decepticons of Earth. Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, that's probably not much of a promotion.
* Soundwave is explicitly blasted by Starscream, but apparently either survives unscathed or is promptly repaired, as he soon appears in later issues. This is never explained (he has no organic components to ensure his survival), other than Soundwave is BADASS!
* The next issue shows [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] among the survivors, though by the time [[The Greatest Gift of All!|Greatest Gift]] saw print, he is shown and referred to as deactivated.
* This is clearly [[Slingshot]]'s worst day ever. He gets left behind by his fellow Aerialbots when they go pick up Buster, is ionically-disrupted by Astrotrain, transforms into jet mode only to get strafed by a Decepticon flying patrol, and finally is atomized battling Starscream. Some people just can't catch a break.
* The Seacons got axed 3 issues after their [[Club Con!|debut appearance]] (though Marvel UK had them appearing sooner). Even [[Nemesis Breaker]] lasted longer than that.
* Optimus Prime returns to the US cover corner box, although it's his original form as it appeared on the first 29 issues. This image of Prime will remain in the corner box for the next 25 issues.

===Covers===
<gallery>
Image:MarvelUS-50.jpg|'''US issue #50''' - He may be powered up, but he's still only got one ear.
Image:MarvelUK-208.jpg|'''UK issue #208''' - Starscream needs to learn to share his toys.
Image:MarvelUK-209.jpg|'''UK issue #209''' - Sure Prime, sure...
Image:MarvelUK-210.jpg|'''UK issue #210''' - Mummy, what's the bad man doing?
</gallery>
* '''US issue #50 cover:''' Starscream supreme, by [[José Delbo]] and [[Danny Bulanadi]].
* '''UK issue #208 cover:''' Starscream bathing in the Underbase, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''UK issue #209 cover:''' Starscream on the attack, by [[Geoff Senior]].
* '''UK issue #210 cover:''' Scorponok, having just blasted Prime, by Andrew Wildman.

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The Arrival issue 2

2010-06-28T16:00:07Z

Banjo oz: /* Items of note */ obvious parallel with Shooting Star

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Arrival|''Transformers Animated: The Arrival'']]'' #2''
|prev=Dispatches
|next=The Arrival issue 3
|image=Arrival2 coverA.jpg
|caption=I will break you!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 10]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=September 2008
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|art by=[[Marcelo Matere]] (on "Whatever Happened To Whatisname?")
|pencils by=[[Dario Brizuela]] (on "Attention Surplus Disorder")
|inks by=[[Leandro Corral]] (on "Attention Surplus Disorder")
|colors by=[[Liam Shalloo]] (on "Attention Surplus Disorder")
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated continuity]]
}}
'''Bumblebee finds out there's someone who craves attention more than him, while Starscream meets Professor Princess.'''

=="Attention Surplus Disorder"==
===Synopsis===
A used car salesman is broadcasting a commercial and slams his hand on the hood of a yellow car—which happens to be Bumblebee. Realizing he's on camera, Bee shows off while Prowl insists he stop bringing attention to himself. As they drive off, Angry Archer attempts to rob the lot but is scared into submission by a superhero named The Wraith. However, Bumblebee and Prowl return, steal The Wraith's thunder, and unwittingly expose him as a hack by revealing his mysterious secrets as technology broadcast from a van. The Wraith is humiliated on camera, and the [[Autobot]]s comically discuss the situation.

Later, The Wraith tries to stop an attack by Colossus Rhodes, but Rhodes has seen the broadcast and dumps The Wraith out of the van. Before The Wraith can be crushed, he is saved by Bumblebee, who adds insult to injury and proceeds to defeat Rhodes. The Wraith silently wishes to see Bumblebee boiled alive. The other Autobots arrive, and the crowds ignore The Wraith to get the Autobots' autographs.

The Autobots quickly replace The Wraith as Detroit's new heroes, and the final straw is reached when The Wraith's Alma Mater, the [[University of Michigan]], snub him to feature a halftime show with Bumblebee (who's now sporting U of M's logo). The Wraith seeks revenge, first tricking Bumblebee with a phony emergency and applying wheel boots, which keep him from transforming. Next, The Wraith stages an attack by Bumblebee at the halftime show using holograms broadcast from the hover-billboard blimps. The Autobots see the fracas and contact Bumblebee, who eventually breaks free and disables The Wraith's projectors. The Wraith attempts to crash the blimp into Bumblebee, but the other Autobots arrive, saving the day and catching The Wraith. As The Wraith is hauled away, Bumblebee feels bad, since all The Wraith wanted was attention, which he later receives through monitors at an insane asylum.

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (2)
* [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (3)
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (6)
* [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (7)
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
|c3=
* Used car salesman (1)
* [[Angry Archer]] (4)
* [[Wraith|The Wraith]] (5)
* [[Colossus Rhodes]] (9)
* Various human onlookers (10)
* Blimp guards (11)
* [[Captain Fanzone]] (12)
}}

===Quotes===
* None yet identified.

===Errors===
* Despite the main focus of Cover B, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)| Sentinel Prime]] does not appear inside this issue.
* Considering where Bumblebee's wheels are in robot mode, the wheel boots shouldn't hinder his transformation, much less prevent it, nor should they break off when he goes to robot mode. On the other hand, this issue would have about a half-dozen blank pages had the boots not done what the Wraith planned them to.

===Items of note===
*Among the used cars there is a van resembling [[Ironhide (G1)|G1 Ironhide]]'s alt-mode.
* The truck Colossus Rhodes throws at the cops resembles [[Optimus Prime (G1)|G1 Optimus Prime]].
*The Wraith mentions "The [[Ghost in the Machine]]".
*Colossus Rhodes threatens to break the Wraith in two. [[wikipedia:Batman: Knightfall|Sound familiar?]]
*A Decepticon stuck in stasis lock, misused by a human, then lets said human live despite better jugement. [[Shooting Star!|Also sound familiar]]?

=="Whatever Happened To Whatisname?"==
===Synopsis===
[[Image:StarscreamProfessorArrivalIssue2.jpg|thumb|]]
Starscream awakens, only to find himself in a forest and trapped in stasis lock. He flashes back to his fight with Optimus and wonders how things could possibly get any worse. He finds out when Professor Princess pops up in front of him. Starscream orders her to power him up, but she promptly blasts him in the face. He tries a new tactic and attempts to sweet-talk her. The Professor agrees to fix him up... and a few seconds later, Screamer is wearing a wig and covered in makeup. To add insult to injury, she shoots him again. Fortunately, the blast is enough to reactivate some of his systems, and Starscream is freed from stasis lock. He grabs the Professor and prepares to incinerate her... until she threatens to transmit the image of Starscream in his wig across at least the world, if not the galaxy. Having had enough trouble for one day, Starscream lets her go and flies away... not realizing she's also decorated his wings.

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters
|c2=
* [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (1)
|c3=
* [[Professor Princess]] (2)
}}

===Quotes===
* None yet identified.

===Errors===
* None yet identified.

===Items of note===
* None yet identified.

==Covers (3)==
* '''Cover A:''' Colossus Rhodes battles Bumblebee and the police; art by [[Irineo Maramba]] & colors by [[Kersti Myrberg]].
* '''Cover B:''' Sentinel Prime looks over holograms of the Earthbound Autobots; art by [[Marcelo Matere]].
* '''Incentive Cover RI:''' Bulkhead stock art

<gallery>
Image:Arrival2 coverA.jpg|To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
Image:Arrival2 coverB.jpg|Whoa-oh! Surprise hug from Mr. Freaky-Big!
Image:Arrival2 coverRI.jpg|Get ready to have a ball!
</gallery>

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Talk:Dark Star

2010-06-28T15:52:27Z

Banjo oz: /* Defecting Decepticons */

Talk:Dark Star

2010-06-28T15:52:06Z

Banjo oz: /* Soundwave's Status */ question about trivia note on defecting Decepticons

==Soundwave's Status==
''Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, the only major change done here is that Soundwave becomes his second-in-command.''

As of the end of this issue, as far as the reader knows, Soundwave is ''dead,'' and Scorponok is still staring out the window of the Ark; he hasn't gotten around to rebuilding his cadre yet. The point at which it becomes apparent that Soundwave is A) not dead and B) Scorponok's second-in-command, is several issues later (#54 or later, I think). Therefore, as I see it, the sentence above is misleading if not outright wrong {{m-}} the "major change" in question ''isn't'' done here at all. I think the sentence should be cut. [[User:JW|JW]] 04:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

:The change never explictly happens anywhere, though -- we are only eventually informed of it after the fact a year or so later. There's no inherently better place TO mention this change. And there's no reason Items of Note have to refer ONLY to things that happened on-panel, in this issue, as if no future issues have come out yet. We KNOW Soundwave survives -- the notes shouldn't pretend otherwise. There are already notes here indicating more characters may have died than are shown on-panel, because of what future issues have shown or told us. Similarly, it makes most sense to refer to Soundwave's status here, because this issue caused the change in status (the merging of all Decepticons of Earth) which led to Soundwave being named Scorponok's second-in-command BTS at some unplaceable later point. It's forward-looking in nature, but I don't see what's so wrong about that.

:If it makes you feel better, we could change "done here" to "made by this union", so that it doesn't sound like Soundwave's status changed in the issue itself. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 05:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
::I agree with JW. Soundwave is NOT upgraded to second-in-command in this issue. He DIES in this issue. (He gets better.) --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 05:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
::I feel I should also add that we don't even know that he was second-in-command at all, after this issue. I've skimmed through my US issues, and no where does it say he's second-in-command. He's a prominent Decepticon once he re-emerges in #61, and he has some position of authority during Civil War 2 ten issues later, but how do we know that Mindwipe wasn't Scorponok's second-in-command up until he deserted? We don't even see Soundwave for like a dozen issues. There's a long stretch of time in which it's Scorponok's Nebulan folks who do the only talking to him. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 05:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

:::I WILL FIGHT YOU TIL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH! ...Nah, kidding. I concede. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 16:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

==Defecting Decepticons==
I definitely recall Triggerhappy and Midnwipe, but when did Thrust and Dirge change sides due to Starscream's presence? --[[User:Banjo oz|Banjo oz]] 11:52, 28 June 2010 (EDT)

Dark Star

2010-06-28T15:42:14Z

Banjo oz: /* Items of note */ fixed error!

{{disambig3|Dark Star}}

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #50
|prev=Cold War!
|next=The Man in the Machine!
|title=Dark Star
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #208–210
|prev2=Cold War!
|next2=The Man in the Machine!
|image=MarvelUS-50.jpg
|caption=I'm on top of the world!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=November 1988
|coverdate=March 1989
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[José Delbo]]
|inker=[[Dave Hunt]]
|color=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|lettering=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''The end of the Underbase Saga... and the Transformers?'''

==Synopsis==
Out in the vacuum of space, the [[Underbase]] travels ever closer to [[Earth]]...

On that planet, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are the first to respond to the alert beacon triggered by Buster Witwicky. Seeing the responsible party, they quickly radio back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and Fortress Maximus. A full [[Autobot]] response battalion arrives within a matter of minutes. Spike is reunited with his brother only to find him on the brink of death. He places Buster within a heating unit in Fortress Maximus's chest to fight off the effects of exposure and frostbite. As the Autobots gather their wits enough to question the situation at hand, though, they are treated to a full scale [[Decepticon]] attack, as Ratbat and Scorponok have detected their approach.

The following battle is quick and merciless, and comes to a stop only when Ratbat ends up confronting Fortress Maximus and his own former prisoner, Buster. Buster outlays what Starscream told him before departing, and makes Ratbat see reason about putting his feud with the Autobots on hold until the larger issue can be dealt with. The various faction leaders agree to work together and make a space-worthy craft to hunt down Starscream.

At the edge of space, the most treacherous Decepticon of all leaves his star cruiser to bathe directly in the light of the Underbase's powerful knowledge and knowledgeable power. Before he absorbs much, however, he is blasted out of the way by Optimus Prime, manning the guns on the island starship. Unfortunately, that momentary exposure was enough to supercharge Starscream, and he manages to grab hold of the entire star cruiser he stole and toss it straight through the island ship, leaving the combined armies crippled and stranded in space, and the Decepticons in particular without any means of star travel from then on.

For some reason, Starscream chooses to let them live drifting in the vacuum of space. He also chooses to return to Earth and attack it instead of chasing down the Underbase to fulfill his lust for power. He also announces in advance the exact set of cities he plans to assault. Clearly, the "knowledge" part of the Underbase takes awhile to set in.

Optimus Prime enacts Plan B and summons the Ark to pick them all up and speed back to Earth ahead of Starscream. As the factions begin splitting into teams to cover Starscream's previously identified destinations, Optimus makes the stunning announcement that he will stay aboard the Ark and not confront Starscream. The Decepticons quickly dismiss this as pure cowardice, and leave for Earth in disgust.

[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Never again shall you take up catalog space that could be devoted to my magnificence!"]]
Autobots and Decepticons alike confront Starscream one after another and in groups, but ultimately he slaughters them all. The only difficulties he runs into are the [[Pretender|Pretenders]] and those who are binary-bonded, as the organic outer shells and bonding prove somehow resistant to his destructive energies. As the battles continue, both Ratbat and Scorponok become suspicious that Prime's alleged cowardice might actually be greed to capture the Underbase for himself, and abandon their respective battles to return to the Ark and confront him.

Aboard the Ark, Optimus Prime and Hi-Q are guarding Buster Witwicky, while constructing a rocket with reflective panels, designed to catch the Underbase and change its course. Buster makes the mistake of radioing his brother during the battle, though, and Starscream realizes the potential threat an absent Optimus Prime poses to him. He takes off for space to intercept the Autobot leader and the Ark. Ratbat and Scorponok get there ahead of him, however, and confront Prime. After Scorponok blasts Prime and annihilates Ratbat, he heads off to reach the redirected Underbase on his own. Optimus manages to replace his [[Powermaster]] engine in time to go after Scorponok, and physically drags the two of them out of the Underbase's path, so that it strikes Starscream instead. The combined power of the Underbase mutates Starscream until he is overwhelmed with power, and is obliterated.

In the aftermath, Optimus Prime explains to Scorponok that he learned his lesson about the Underbase millions of years ago. He arranged for the reflector rocket and for Buster's "ill-timed" radio message to Fortress Maximus in order to lure Starscream back out into space, where he would surely try to take all of the Underbase's power and destroy himself. The [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] leaders part in peace, but Scorponok makes it clear that the war will begin anew, tomorrow...
{{-}}
==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (2)
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (3)
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (4)
* [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (9)
* [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (14)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (18)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (19)
* [[Bluestreak]] (20)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] (21)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (22)
* [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (27)
* [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (28)
* [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (29)
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (30)
* [[Scattershot]] (33)
* [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (37)
|c2=
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (5)
* [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (7)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]] (15)
* [[Snapdragon]] (16)
* [[Apeface]] (17)
* [[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]] (23)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (25)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (26)
* [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (31)
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (32)
* [[Bugly]] (33)
* [[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (35)
* [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (36)
|c3=
* [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
|h4=[[Nebulos|Nebulons]]|c4=
* [[Hi-Q]] (24)
}}

==Errors==
* Ratbat and Scorponok figure out that Starscream stole the spacecraft to go after the Underbase... and then Buster inexplicably needs to explain it to Ratbat all over again a few pages later. (The only new information Buster gives him is that Starscream arranged for the Autobots to show up.)
* Not technically an error, but the background shot of Prowl under attack from Scorponok is copied right from "[[Totaled!]]".
* So is the entire sequence of Cerebros and Spike transforming out of their respective head modes.
* In said sequence, Cerebros' name is misspelled as "Cerebro".
* Another repeat from "Totaled": Fortress Maximus's Autobots are completely absent from the first half of the issue, most notably from the Autobot-Decepticon battle.
* On page 11, panel 2 Fortress Maximus has only 3 fingers on his left hand. Ratbat COULD have POSSIBLY eaten it off panel...MAYBE.

==Items of note==
* ''Part 4 of the [[Underbase Saga]]''.
* This issue is double-length in honor of its milestone issue number. Accordingly, it also cost 50 cents more than a standard issue.
* It features the biggest battle toll of any issue, including the battle with [[Unicron]]. Among the confirmed casualties are the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], Bluestreak, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], Goldbug, Jazz, the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]], Jetfire, Blaster, the [[Throttlebot|Throttlebots]], Thundercracker, Skywarp, the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], [[Octane]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], Omega Supreme, Ratbat and, of course, Starscream.
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] can (arguably) be retroactively added to this issue's casualty list as Beachcomber is later seen laying in Ratchet's repair bay in "[[Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer]]", and Powerglide is confirmed deactivated in "[[Yesterday's Heroes!]]".
* Bob Budiansky's reasoning for the mass murder was that he needed a big end for the story, he had too many characters, and Hasbro wouldn't care about characters that didn't have toys for sale. And hey, they weren't getting any panel-time these days anyway, "so they were already just about dead". [http://www.oneshallstand.com/articles/bob_budiansky.html]
* Many people also assume that the rest of the earlier armies, those not possessing organic enhancements like [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and Pretenders (save the ever '''''"lucky"''''' Ratchet), were also wiped out behind the scenes. Though unconfirmed, there's something to be said for this theory. Many Transformers like the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] are never seen again (within the course of the G1 series). Later issues show Prime mourning the loss of warriors not seen killed in the Underbase Saga, such as [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (and again, Powerglide), while [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] are variously shown as deactivated during "[[The Greatest Gift of All!]]", "[[Perchance to Dream]]" and "[[Makin' Tracks!]]". The greatest support for this theory is the story "[[Flashback!]]", which shows Prowl being destroyed by Starscream in San Francisco, a moment not shown in Dark Star, proving that there was indeed at least one "off panel" casualty. Still, it remains a point for debate.
* Prime refers to the casualties as "destroyed", but later issues make it clear that at least some of them could be repaired. The Dinobots, Jazz, Goldbug, Blaster and Silverbolt are all revived later in the series. Ratchet is also seen working to restore Omega Supreme. The task of repairing them all will have [[Back from the Dead|consequences]] very shortly.
* Starscream's actions would inevitably haunt the Decepticons for some time when he was reborn. [[Mindwipe (G1)|Several]] [[Triggerhappy|Decepticons]] [[Dirge (G1)|would]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|actually]] [[Thrust (G1)|desert]] because Starscream was among them.
* With Ratbat's demise, Scorponok is now in charge of all the Decepticons of Earth. Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, that's probably not much of a promotion.
* Soundwave is explicitly blasted by Starscream, but apparently either survives unscathed or is promptly repaired, as he soon appears in later issues. This is never explained (he has no organic components to ensure his survival), other than Soundwave is BADASS!
* The next issue shows [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] among the survivors, though by the time [[The Greatest Gift of All!|Greatest Gift]] saw print, he is shown and referred to as deactivated.
* This is clearly [[Slingshot]]'s worst day ever. He gets left behind by his fellow Aerialbots when they go pick up Buster, is ionically-disrupted by Astrotrain, transforms into jet mode only to get strafed by a Decepticon flying patrol, and finally is atomized battling Starscream. Some people just can't catch a break.
* The Seacons got axed 3 issues after their [[Club Con!|debut appearance]] (though Marvel UK had them appearing sooner). Even [[Nemesis Breaker]] lasted longer than that.
* Optimus Prime returns to the US cover corner box, although it's his original form as it appeared on the first 29 issues. This image of Prime will remain in the corner box for the next 25 issues.

===Covers===
<gallery>
Image:MarvelUS-50.jpg|'''US issue #50''' - He may be powered up, but he's still only got one ear.
Image:MarvelUK-208.jpg|'''UK issue #208''' - Starscream needs to learn to share his toys.
Image:MarvelUK-209.jpg|'''UK issue #209''' - Sure Prime, sure...
Image:MarvelUK-210.jpg|'''UK issue #210''' - Mummy, what's the bad man doing?
</gallery>
* '''US issue #50 cover:''' Starscream supreme, by [[José Delbo]] and [[Danny Bulanadi]].
* '''UK issue #208 cover:''' Starscream bathing in the Underbase, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''UK issue #209 cover:''' Starscream on the attack, by [[Geoff Senior]].
* '''UK issue #210 cover:''' Scorponok, having just blasted Prime, by Andrew Wildman.

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Dark Star

2010-06-28T15:37:40Z

Banjo oz: Expanded on the "theoretical casualties" trivia point

{{disambig3|Dark Star}}

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #50
|prev=Cold War!
|next=The Man in the Machine!
|title=Dark Star
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #208–210
|prev2=Cold War!
|next2=The Man in the Machine!
|image=MarvelUS-50.jpg
|caption=I'm on top of the world!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=November 1988
|coverdate=March 1989
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[José Delbo]]
|inker=[[Dave Hunt]]
|color=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|lettering=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''The end of the Underbase Saga... and the Transformers?'''

==Synopsis==
Out in the vacuum of space, the [[Underbase]] travels ever closer to [[Earth]]...

On that planet, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are the first to respond to the alert beacon triggered by Buster Witwicky. Seeing the responsible party, they quickly radio back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and Fortress Maximus. A full [[Autobot]] response battalion arrives within a matter of minutes. Spike is reunited with his brother only to find him on the brink of death. He places Buster within a heating unit in Fortress Maximus's chest to fight off the effects of exposure and frostbite. As the Autobots gather their wits enough to question the situation at hand, though, they are treated to a full scale [[Decepticon]] attack, as Ratbat and Scorponok have detected their approach.

The following battle is quick and merciless, and comes to a stop only when Ratbat ends up confronting Fortress Maximus and his own former prisoner, Buster. Buster outlays what Starscream told him before departing, and makes Ratbat see reason about putting his feud with the Autobots on hold until the larger issue can be dealt with. The various faction leaders agree to work together and make a space-worthy craft to hunt down Starscream.

At the edge of space, the most treacherous Decepticon of all leaves his star cruiser to bathe directly in the light of the Underbase's powerful knowledge and knowledgeable power. Before he absorbs much, however, he is blasted out of the way by Optimus Prime, manning the guns on the island starship. Unfortunately, that momentary exposure was enough to supercharge Starscream, and he manages to grab hold of the entire star cruiser he stole and toss it straight through the island ship, leaving the combined armies crippled and stranded in space, and the Decepticons in particular without any means of star travel from then on.

For some reason, Starscream chooses to let them live drifting in the vacuum of space. He also chooses to return to Earth and attack it instead of chasing down the Underbase to fulfill his lust for power. He also announces in advance the exact set of cities he plans to assault. Clearly, the "knowledge" part of the Underbase takes awhile to set in.

Optimus Prime enacts Plan B and summons the Ark to pick them all up and speed back to Earth ahead of Starscream. As the factions begin splitting into teams to cover Starscream's previously identified destinations, Optimus makes the stunning announcement that he will stay aboard the Ark and not confront Starscream. The Decepticons quickly dismiss this as pure cowardice, and leave for Earth in disgust.

[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Never again shall you take up catalog space that could be devoted to my magnificence!"]]
Autobots and Decepticons alike confront Starscream one after another and in groups, but ultimately he slaughters them all. The only difficulties he runs into are the [[Pretender|Pretenders]] and those who are binary-bonded, as the organic outer shells and bonding prove somehow resistant to his destructive energies. As the battles continue, both Ratbat and Scorponok become suspicious that Prime's alleged cowardice might actually be greed to capture the Underbase for himself, and abandon their respective battles to return to the Ark and confront him.

Aboard the Ark, Optimus Prime and Hi-Q are guarding Buster Witwicky, while constructing a rocket with reflective panels, designed to catch the Underbase and change its course. Buster makes the mistake of radioing his brother during the battle, though, and Starscream realizes the potential threat an absent Optimus Prime poses to him. He takes off for space to intercept the Autobot leader and the Ark. Ratbat and Scorponok get there ahead of him, however, and confront Prime. After Scorponok blasts Prime and annihilates Ratbat, he heads off to reach the redirected Underbase on his own. Optimus manages to replace his [[Powermaster]] engine in time to go after Scorponok, and physically drags the two of them out of the Underbase's path, so that it strikes Starscream instead. The combined power of the Underbase mutates Starscream until he is overwhelmed with power, and is obliterated.

In the aftermath, Optimus Prime explains to Scorponok that he learned his lesson about the Underbase millions of years ago. He arranged for the reflector rocket and for Buster's "ill-timed" radio message to Fortress Maximus in order to lure Starscream back out into space, where he would surely try to take all of the Underbase's power and destroy himself. The [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] leaders part in peace, but Scorponok makes it clear that the war will begin anew, tomorrow...
{{-}}
==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (2)
* [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (3)
* [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (4)
* [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (9)
* [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (14)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (18)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (19)
* [[Bluestreak]] (20)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] (21)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (22)
* [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (27)
* [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (28)
* [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (29)
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (30)
* [[Scattershot]] (33)
* [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (37)
|c2=
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] (5)
* [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (7)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]] (15)
* [[Snapdragon]] (16)
* [[Apeface]] (17)
* [[Seawing (G1)|Seawing]] (23)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (25)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (26)
* [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (31)
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (32)
* [[Bugly]] (33)
* [[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (35)
* [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (36)
|c3=
* [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (11)
|h4=[[Nebulos|Nebulons]]|c4=
* [[Hi-Q]] (24)
}}

==Errors==
* Ratbat and Scorponok figure out that Starscream stole the spacecraft to go after the Underbase... and then Buster inexplicably needs to explain it to Ratbat all over again a few pages later. (The only new information Buster gives him is that Starscream arranged for the Autobots to show up.)
* Not technically an error, but the background shot of Prowl under attack from Scorponok is copied right from "[[Totaled!]]".
* So is the entire sequence of Cerebros and Spike transforming out of their respective head modes.
* In said sequence, Cerebros' name is misspelled as "Cerebro".
* Another repeat from "Totaled": Fortress Maximus's Autobots are completely absent from the first half of the issue, most notably from the Autobot-Decepticon battle.
* On page 11, panel 2 Fortress Maximus has only 3 fingers on his left hand. Ratbat COULD have POSSIBLY eaten it off panel...MAYBE.

==Items of note==
* ''Part 4 of the [[Underbase Saga]]''.
* This issue is double-length in honor of its milestone issue number. Accordingly, it also cost 50 cents more than a standard issue.
* It features the biggest battle toll of any issue, including the battle with [[Unicron]]. Among the confirmed casualties are the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], Bluestreak, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], Goldbug, Jazz, the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]], Jetfire, Blaster, the [[Throttlebot|Throttlebots]], Thundercracker, Skywarp, the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], [[Octane]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]], the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], Omega Supreme, Ratbat and, of course, Starscream.
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] can (arguably) be retroactively added to this issue's casualty list as Beachcomber is later seen laying in Ratchet's repair bay in "[[Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer]]", and Powerglide is confirmed deactivated in "[[Yesterday's Heroes!]]". It is also difficult to imagine [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] recovering speedily from being blown apart as he is here!
* Bob Budiansky's reasoning for the mass murder was that he needed a big end for the story, he had too many characters, and Hasbro wouldn't care about characters that didn't have toys for sale. And hey, they weren't getting any panel-time these days anyway, "so they were already just about dead". [http://www.oneshallstand.com/articles/bob_budiansky.html]
* Many people also assume that the rest of the earlier armies, those not possessing organic enhancements like [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and Pretenders (save the ever '''''"lucky"''''' Ratchet), were also wiped out behind the scenes. Though unconfirmed, there's something to be said for this theory. Many Transformers like the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] are never seen again (within the course of the G1 series). Later issues show Prime mourning the loss of warriors not seen killed in the Underbase Saga, such as [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (and again, Powerglide), while [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] are variously shown as deactivated during "[[The Greatest Gift of All!]]", "[[Perchance to Dream]]" and "[[Makin' Tracks!]]". The greatest support for this theory is the story "[[Flashback!]]", which shows Prowl being destroyed by Starscream in San Francisco, a moment not shown in Dark Star, proving that there was indeed at least one "off panel" casualty. Still, it remains a point for debate.
* Prime refers to the casualties as "destroyed", but later issues make it clear that at least some of them could be repaired. The Dinobots, Jazz, Goldbug, Blaster and Silverbolt are all revived later in the series. Ratchet is also seen working to restore Omega Supreme. The task of repairing them all will have [[Back from the Dead|consequences]] very shortly.
* Starscream's actions would inevitably haunt the Decepticons for some time when he was reborn. [[Mindwipe (G1)|Several]] [[Triggerhappy|Decepticons]] [[Dirge (G1)|would]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|actually]] [[Thrust (G1)|desert]] because Starscream was among them.
* With Ratbat's demise, Scorponok is now in charge of all the Decepticons of Earth. Since most of them were wiped out in this issue, that's probably not much of a promotion.
* Soundwave is explicitly blasted by Starscream, but apparently either survives unscathed or is promptly repaired, as he soon appears in later issues. This is never explained (he has no organic components to ensure his survival), other than Soundwave is BADASS!
* The next issue shows [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] among the survivors, though by the time [[The Greatest Gift of All!|Greatest Gift]] saw print, he is shown and referred to as deactivated.
* This is clearly [[Slingshot]]'s worst day ever. He gets left behind by his fellow Aerialbots when they go pick up Buster, is ionically-disrupted by Astrotrain, transforms into jet mode only to get strafed by a Decepticon flying patrol, and finally is atomized battling Starscream. Some people just can't catch a break.
* The Seacons got axed 3 issues after their [[Club Con!|debut appearance]] (though Marvel UK had them appearing sooner). Even [[Nemesis Breaker]] lasted longer than that.
* Optimus Prime returns to the US cover corner box, although it's his original form as it appeared on the first 29 issues. This image of Prime will remain in the corner box for the next 25 issues.

===Covers===
<gallery>
Image:MarvelUS-50.jpg|'''US issue #50''' - He may be powered up, but he's still only got one ear.
Image:MarvelUK-208.jpg|'''UK issue #208''' - Starscream needs to learn to share his toys.
Image:MarvelUK-209.jpg|'''UK issue #209''' - Sure Prime, sure...
Image:MarvelUK-210.jpg|'''UK issue #210''' - Mummy, what's the bad man doing?
</gallery>
* '''US issue #50 cover:''' Starscream supreme, by [[José Delbo]] and [[Danny Bulanadi]].
* '''UK issue #208 cover:''' Starscream bathing in the Underbase, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''UK issue #209 cover:''' Starscream on the attack, by [[Geoff Senior]].
* '''UK issue #210 cover:''' Scorponok, having just blasted Prime, by Andrew Wildman.

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Afterdeath!

2010-06-28T15:10:17Z

Banjo oz: Further details to "when were the Combaticons/Protectobots created" trivia point

{{picsneeded|IDW Generations covers}}
{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #24
|prev=Decepticon Graffiti!
|next=Gone but Not Forgotten!
|title=Afterdeath!
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #105–106
|prev2=Resurrection!
|next2=Gone but Not Forgotten!
|image=MarvelUS-24.jpg
|caption=Playstation 3... thousand
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=September 1986
|coverdate=January 1987
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[Don Perlin]]
|inkers=[[Ian Akin]] & [[Brian Garvey]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Janice Chiang]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''Optimus Prime kills himself over a video game. Seriously.'''

==Synopsis==
Ethan Zachary is a programmer at [[Energy Futures Industries]] who works on a device called a [[hydrothermocline]]. The hydrothermocline is intended to draw energy from the different thermal layers of the ocean, and is seen as a potentially inexhaustible power supply for the world.

Megatron wants to steal the hydrothermocline, and takes [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] to the laboratory where the hydrothermocline is being stored. Optimus Prime and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] show up to stop them. After a bit of grandstanding, during which Ethan is captured, it becomes clear that if the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] continue to fight, they will end up destroying the very thing the Decepticons have come to steal. Ethan offers a compromise: the Transformers fight their battle in a [[computer-generated imagery|computer-generated]] virtual world—a computer game called ''[[Multi-World]]''.

[[Image:Protectobots-marvel24.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Groove is already not paying attention.]]
Megatron agrees, but only if the stakes are increased to include not only the hydrothermocline, but also the life of the losing leader. Optimus Prime agrees to these terms, and the game is played. The Protectobots must fight the Combaticons while remaining true to their principles, assisting and/or sparing the lives of the inhabitants of the computer world while the Combaticons attempt to destroy them. This gains the trust of assistance of these computer characters, who help the Protectobots defeat the Combaticons.

At last, Megatron and Optimus Prime face off, but while Megatron has lost the assistance of his Combaticons, Optimus Prime still has the Protectobots, now in the form of Defensor. Defensor kills Megatron, and himself, in the game by destroying the platform they're standing on. But, Megatron cheats by using a "back door" password, enabling himself to be recreated in the game at any point. He chooses, in this case, right behind Optimus Prime, from which point he shoots Prime in the back. Prime manages to avoid falling by holding on to a ledge, but defeats Megatron only at the cost of the lives of the computer generated characters.

Although this earns him victory in the game, Optimus Prime feels that he has "cheated" by sacrificing his principles (unaware of how Megatron has already cheated previously). Prime tells Ethan to destroy him instead. Ethan presses the button, and [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|Prime is destroyed]].

The Decepticons leave with the hydrothermocline, and the Protectobots gather up the shattered body of the Autobot leader. As they leave, we see that Ethan Zachary has saved a copy of Optimus Prime's character on a five-and-a-quarter-inch [[floppy disk]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (4)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (5)
* [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] (10)
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (11)
* [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (12)
* [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (13)
* [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (14)
* [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (16)
|c2=
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (3)
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (6)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (7)
* [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (8)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (15)
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (17)
|c3=
* [[Ethan Zachary]] (1)
* [[Margaret]] (2)
}}

==Errors==
* On page 10, Optimus Prime tells Brawl that Autobots don't cheat. The speech bubble appears to be a response, but it is depicted as being spoken by Blades.

==Items of note==
* Prime's entire mind fits on a five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disk. ''No, seriously. IT DOES.''
* Even by today's standards, the ''Multi-World'' is an ''incredible'' computer game. The graphics and AI put even modern games to shame. No wonder Ethan needed cheat codes.
* Scenes that take place in ''Multi-World'' are displayed in comic panels with 'cut' corners.
* Budiansky's intention was to show the high moral standards Optimus lived up to, though he admits "perhaps I was taking it to an absurd extreme". He always planned to bring Optimus back though! [http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/]
* The Protectobots and the Combaticons make their first appearance with no introduction or origin offered. Under US continuity, it ''seems'' that we are to simply assume that the Protectobots and Combaticons were created just before this story occurs (in the same fashion as the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s in "[[Heavy Traffic!]]"). However, a [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-induced dream sequence in the UK story "[[Second Generation!]]" shows the Protectobots being created on Earth prior to this story's events. It's worth noting that a brief flashback in "[[Club Con!]]" shows Defensor on Cybertron several centuries ago. This is very likely an error, though, as he was depicted as "normal" height and is standing next to [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], who should be on Earth at the time, not to mention that in the same issue, a [[Battlecharger]] is drawn among the Autobots, proving continuity wasn't at its best that day! On the other hand, in "[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]]", the Combaticon Onslaught is shown to share an unknown history with the Cybertronian [[Mindset]], which is difficult to resolve with his Earthly construction.
*''References to past issues'': Wheeljack extracts the [[Cerebro-shell]] injected by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] in "[[Heavy Traffic!]]" and uses it to learn of Megatron's plans.
* This issue was reprinted as issue #7 of [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Generations]]'' series.
* In UK issue #105, the start of Hot Spot's objections to Prime leading the mission in Multi-World was blacked out to make a better cliffhanger for issue #106.

===Covers (3)===
<gallery>
Image:MarvelUS-24.jpg|'''US issue #24''' - Look, just turn off the screen, we can pretend this never happened.
Image:Marvel UK 105.jpg|'''UK issue #105''' - Ah, if only...
Image:Marvel UK 106.jpg|'''UK issue #106''' - And one shall CHEAT!
</gallery>
* '''US cover:''' Megatron shooting Optimus in the game by [[Herb Trimpe]].
* '''UK issue #105 cover:''' Defensor vs. Bruticus by [[Lee Sullivan]].
* '''UK issue #106 cover:''' reuse of art from US cover, recolored and cropped, with a new caption to boot by [[Robin Bouttell]].

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Grimlock (G1)

2010-06-28T14:56:19Z

Banjo oz: /* Trivia */ added source of Marvel "ruse" explaination about Grimlock's changing speech style

{{factions|autobot|autobotg2|maximal|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Grimlock}}
:''Me Grimlock am [[Autobot]] [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] and later [[Maximal]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Grimlockg1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock draw self-portrait.]]

Some Autobots wonder why '''Grimlock''' is even on their side. His disposition is much more suited to the [[Decepticon]]s. After all, he values power and strength over wisdom and compassion, and furthermore, he doesn't really get along with most Autobots. When faced with a problem, his usual responses are to slice it with his [[Energo weapon|energo-sword]], tear it to pieces with his bare hands, or outright eat it. He is more willing to accept casualties than most of the Autobot leadership, and doesn't seem particularly concerned about the [[Human|fleshies]] either. These things, coupled with his dislike of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], have led to a defection or two on Grimlock's part. He'd have no problem offing the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] if he thought he could get away with it, though.

What the Autobots don't realize is that the only thing he hates more than weakness is those who abuse their strength, meaning when push comes to shove, Grimlock will always fall in on the right side of the fence. And despite their disagreements, Grimlock holds a respect for Prime's strength and leadership.

Grimlock is the leader of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], a small but powerful strike squad. Grimlock himself is extremely strong and durable, and is one of the few Transformers who can not only stand toe-to-toe with Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], but actually give them a run for their money. Despite his strength and prowess, Grimlock continually struggles with his pronouns.

{{bigquote|Me, Grimlock BADASS!|Grimlock on himself|"[[The War Within]]"}}

{{note|Grimlock's intelligence level in the cartoon was substantially lower than in most of his other portrayals. See the entries below for details.}}

:''Preliminary names:'' '''Tyrannobot''' / '''Trapjaw'''<ref name="bible">The [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Generation 1'' cartoon]] [[production bible|series bible]] contains one description of him that was originally typed with the name "Trapjaw", then its title was crossed out by hand and rewritten "Grimlock". Another description was typed with "Jawbreaker", again crossed out and relabeled "Grimlock".</ref> / '''Jawbreaker'''<ref name="bible" /> / '''Tyrex'''<ref>"Tyrex" is from the [[Sunbow Productions]] cast list page for "[[Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction]]", and was evidently coined by writer [[Donald F. Glut]].[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html]</ref>
:''Chinese name:'' '''Gāng Sǔo''' (鋼鎖, "Steel Lock")
:''Chinese name (Taiwan, Generation 2):'' '''Sz Sǔo''' (死鎖, "Dead Lock")
:''French-Canadian name (Generation 1)'': '''La Menace''' ("The Threat")
:''French-Canadian name (Beast Wars)'': '''Menace''' ("Threat")
:''Hungarian name (The Movie):'' '''Mogorva''' ("Grimlock") in one of the dubs
:''Italian name:'' '''Tiran'''
:''Portuguese name (Brazil comics):'' '''Trancoso''' / '''Grunhido''' ("Grunt")
:''Spanish name (BW):'' '''Ferozaurio'''

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Gregg Berger|Gregg Berger]] (English), [[Takurō Kitagawa|Takurō Kitagawa]] (Japanese), [[Edgar Fruitier|Edgar Fruitier]] (French Canadian), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)

{{Note|In the cartoon series, Grimlock, as with the other Dinobots, was more dimwitted than in most other continuities. For instance, the Dinobots originally decide to help the Autobots, because "them have face like this on chest...", referring to the Autobot sigil. Pre-movie, this lack of intelligence is usually coupled together with their great power to make them dangerous wild cards. Post-movie, however, Grimlock and the Dinobots are generally played as just plain dumb for comic relief.}}

{{bigquote|You don't frighten me, you mechanical throwbacks!|Megatron}}
{{bigquote|Good, Megatron! We love stupid enemies.|Grimlock|"[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"}}

[[Image:Grimhead.JPG|left|250px|thumb|It take while for me Grimlock to settle into character model.]]
When mysterious tremors shook the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s investigation revealed strange objects behind a rock wall. After removing the wall, the Autobots found a cave full of dinosaur bones. The Autobots decided the idea of dinosaurs was interesting and researched the prehistoric beasts. Wheeljack and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] asked Optimus Prime if they could build robot dinosaurs, and Prime agreed this was a good idea, only God knows why. Grimlock, [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] were built and unveiled to the Autobots, but the Dinobots were dimwitted and violent, and they attacked their makers, Frankenstein's monster style. Grimlock blasted [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] with his fire-breath, damaging it. Optimus Prime decreed that the Dinobots "must be destroyed." However, Wheeljack convinced him instead to lock them away, and the trio were herded back into the cave and buried alive.

[[Image:Grimlockskywarp.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Mmm, taste like chicken!]]
Later, the Decepticons took over a hydroelectric plant, and when the Autobots arrived to stop them, the Autobots were defeated and captured. Wheeljack, Ratchet, and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], left behind at the Autobot base to finish repairing Teletraan I, decided to go against Optimus' orders and release the Dinobots, but not before upgrading their brains to be smarter and more obedient. After the Dinobots were reactivated, Wheeljack asked them to save their friends. Grimlock said he would obey... this time. They successfully attacked the Decepticons and freed the imprisoned Autobots. Optimus forgave Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Bumblebee for disobeying his orders and welcomed the victorious Dinobots back to the Autobots. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

After a [[Meteorini Chipperoni|meteor]] surging with unknown energies struck the [[Earth]], Optimus ordered the three Dinobots to guard it. He was so pleased with the Dinobots he asked Ratchet and Wheeljack to build two more. Meanwhile, Megatron was frustrated at the Dinobots' success and sent [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to probe them for potential weaknesses. Reading the Dinobots' minds, he discovered that Grimlock was arrogant and believed he would make a better leader than the weak Optimus Prime. Megatron decided to use this to his advantage and approached them himself. He played to Grimlock's jealousy and agreed with him that the strongest should be leader. The Dinobots declared Optimus Prime their enemy.

[[Image:Grimlockapologize.jpg|left|180px|thumb|After he stop shaking hand, me Grimlock going to eat him!]]

Realizing the meteorite was due to explode, Optimus left to warn the Dinobots, but they attacked him. Instead of destroying him completely, however, Grimlock carried him to the Decepticons, who had stolen the meteorite during the battle. Megatron was angry that Optimus Prime was not destroyed, and Starscream suggested that despite Grimlock's arrogance, inside he was still compassionate (or as compassionate as Grimlock could get). Grimlock didn't take this well and blasted Starscream right in the chest. They were interrupted by the two new Dinobots, [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], whom Megatron ordered the original three Dinobots to attack. At the climax of the battle, the meteorite exploded, but Optimus Prime pushed Grimlock out of the way, saving him. Grimlock realized the error of his ways, and the Dinobots forced the Decepticons into retreat. Grimlock then apologized for his jealousy. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

When [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was brought into Earth's orbit, wreaking havoc, Optimus asked the Dinobots to help control the damage. Grimlock announced he didn't much care if the planet fell apart, but Wheeljack quickly pointed out that he was still on the planet. Defeated by superior logic, Grimlock agreed to help and the Dinobots were soon attempting to stop a tsunami. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} After Cybertron left Earth's orbit, the Dinobots even helped to rebuild the shattered human cities. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

Teletraan I activated the Dinobots when the newly-built [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s breached Autobot headquarters. With the battle moving outside, Grimlock commanded the Dinobots to transform, only to find themselves facing [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. Attempting to bite the combiner, Grimlock was swatted aside. The Dinobots were able to hold Devastator off long enough for the Autobots to discover that Megatron had defeated Optimus by cheating during their single combat. The Autobots were then able to help defeat the Constructicons and the rest of the Decepticons, driving them into a lava-filled chasm. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

{{quote|Autobots bite off more than they can chew. ''Then'' send for Dinobots!|Grimlock, "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"}}

The Decepticons joined forces with [[Sub-Atlantica]] and staged a full-scale attack on [[Washington, D.C.]]. The Autobots were overwhelmed, forcing Wheeljack to call for the Dinobots' assistance. Grimlock expressed his frustration at being called whenever the Autobots were in over their heads. With their help, the Autobots were able to overturn the Decepticons' advance and plunge the now-burning city of Sub-Atlantica back into the sea. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}}

This pattern of the Autobots' dependence on the Dinobots repeated when the artificial intelligence [[TORQ III]], put under Decepticon control, turned all machines against Mankind. With every piece of help he and his troops gave, Grimlock was never slow to add a scathing remark about the inabilities of the Autobots. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} That said, he was not unwilling to admit the failings of his own troops, either. He willingly took them to the time-displaced "[[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]]", where they trained in the wilderness {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} and helped stop a Decepticon raid on the prehistoric paradise, with Grimlock inspiring the native [[dinosaur]]s to help them fight the Decepticons. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

When the Autobots were "exposed" by [[Shawn Berger]] as being the true perpetrators of the various attacks conducted by the Decepticons, they were banished from Earth. Grimlock (and presumably the Dinobots) were among the Autobots that voluntarily stepped onto a rocket that eventually blasted them towards the [[Sun]]. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

[[Image:DesertionDinobotsPt1 Grimlock bites Megs.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hmmm... Guns.]]

The final straw for Grimlock came when he and the Dinobots were injured in a Decepticon trap at an airfield. Enraged, Grimlock refused to take orders from Optimus Prime any more and led the Dinobots away from the Ark. When the Autobots began to suffer from [[Cybertonium]] deficiency, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and his girlfriend [[Carly]] attempted to persuade the Dinobots—who continued to function perfectly, as they had been built on Earth without Cybertonium—to steal some of the mineral from a Decepticon shipment coming in from Cybertron. Although Grimlock was willing to let the Autobots die and decided to crush the humans, he recognized the Cybertron connection to the Cybertonium. Instead of securing the element, Grimlock opted to lead the Dinobots to Cybertron itself, where they were captured by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} He altered the Dinobots' [[Circuits|memory circuits]] and put them to work in the Cybertonium mines, where they remained until Spike and Carly repaired them. Grimlock and Spike faked having an argument, compelling the guards to lower the energy fences to remove the troublesome humans—only to be obliterated by the Dinobots. Grimlock led the group back to Earth, where the Dinobots agreed to follow Prime's orders again—until such time as Grimlock didn't feel like it. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[Image:TFTM Grimlock Quintessa.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock mad that name "[[T-Wrecks]]" already taken. (Maybe by me Grimlock.)]]

In the year 2005, Grimlock and the other Dinobots were stationed on the Autobots' Moonbase 1, seemingly overseeing weapons production. When word arrived from Earth that Autobot City was suffering a massive Decepticon attack, they traveled to Earth with Optimus Prime and were dispatched by the Autobot leader to take on Devastator. Though they attacked fearlessly, the giant combiner robot was too much for them, shrugging off their attacks and overwhelming them in short order.

After fleeing [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s attack on [[Autobot City]], the Dinobots, along with [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], crashed on [[Quintessa]], and were separated from the two Autobots. During their search, the Dinobots met [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]. Grimlock initially didn't like the rhyming little robot, but soon grew quite fond of him, letting him ride on his back. Eventually, the Dinobots managed to locate where Kup and Hot Rod were being held by the planet's rulers, the [[Quintesson]]s. The Dinobots entered the Quintessons' execution room with all the grace they could muster, and Grimlock immediately declared his desire to munch metal. After the Dinobots saved Hot Rod and Kup from the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], a Quintesson judge ordered the Sharkticons to execute the Dinobots. Grimlock stomped his foot on the ground and ordered the Sharkticons to execute the Quintessons. They complied with the Dinobot's order. Heading for the [[Junkion (planet)|planet of Junk]], Grimlock watched the Autobots and the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] celebrate their new friendship. The party was ended when a Junkion [[Kiss|kissed]] Grimlock, causing him to reassert his status as "king". Later, Grimlock achieved one of his life's greatest accomplishments by literally kicking the butt of [[Unicron|a deity]], only to realize shortly afterward that he needed a new strategy. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

When [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], Kup and Spike were kidnapped, Rodimus Prime took Grimlock on a stealth(!) mission to [[Chaar]], to investigate whether the Decepticons were responsible. The pair found the Decepticons, but realised their eternal foes were far too low on power to have kidnapped anyone. As they discussed the ramifications of their discovery, Grimlock's raised voice alerted the Decepticons, who attacked. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} Despite the Decepticons' depowered state, the pair were overwhelmed, and only the intervention of [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in a stolen [[Skuxxoid]] ship saved them. Retiring to a safe location, Grimlock tried unsuccessfully to rouse Rodimus and the Autobots feared that their leader had died. They were overjoyed when he returned to the land of the living, and Grimlock announced he loved Arcee, despite her protests that she hadn't done anything. Following a vision Rodimus had had, they headed for Quintessa, arriving in time to find Ultra Magnus, Kup and Spike on trial. Grimlock jumped from Springer's helicopter mode, ready to attack, only for the Quintessons to zoom past him in their haste to escape. He was greatly disappointed. With Quintessa set to explode, the Autobots vacated the planet as well. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}}

The destruction of Quintessa destroyed the Autobot rescue ship, sending its occupants hurtling through space to eventually splat-land on the planet [[Goo]]. After an altercation with some sort of garbage-processing machine, the Autobots again found themselves under attack by the Decepticons, this time under the control of the Quintessons. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}} Fortunately the Autobots were rescued in short order by the Junkions and taken back to Junk. There Rodimus had another vision, which led them back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}} Grimlock accompanied Springer and Arcee to Earth, where they attempted to defend [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] from [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. They were frozen when Galvatron triggered a Quintesson device, deactivating every Transformer everywhere, and promptly ''un''frozen when Spike subsequently destroyed the device. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

Enjoying another of Kup's tales about planet [[Dread]], Grimlock asked about [[Chaos (alien)|Chaos]], a monster he'd heard lived there, and Kup told him to forget he ever heard the name. A lead took the Autobots to Goo, where they discovered that the Decepticons had found a source of [[death crystal]]s. Grimlock and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] finally managed to get the truth from Kup—the death crystals were produced by Chaos. The group travelled to Dread, where Grimlock, Wheelie and Wreck Gar were left with [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. They soon got bored and found Kup and Blurr in time to save the pair from an attack by the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s. The Autobots subsequently attacked the Decepticons, who had been working on a cannon with which they interned to fire death crystals at Cybertron. While Kup entered [[Queeg Mountain]] to find Chaos, the other Autobots held off the Predacons. After the Decepticon defeat, Grimlock asked Kup to tell another story. {{storylink|Chaos (episode)|Chaos}}

When the reanimated Optimus Prime returned to Cybertron and reported the alleged deaths of Hot Rod, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Spike and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]], Grimlock angrily swore to stomp the Quintessons into the ground. However, the Dinobots were left behind whilst the rest of the Autobots were led by Optimus Prime into a Quintesson trap. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

[[Image:Madman Paradise Grimlock drinks.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock hope they not [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|immortalize this in plastic]].]]

Grimlock helped to sniff out the "[[dinosaur transform static]]" that implicated Trypticon in the theft of world monuments, though before the Trypticon link was discovered, Grimlock and the Dinobots were accused of being the culprits by [[Six-Gun]]. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}} Grimlock continued his newfound sense of helpfulness by serving drinks at a major diplomatic event held on Cybertron. When Daniel wandered off in boredom, Grimlock followed his friend and they were both transported to the other-dimensional realm of [[Menonia]], where Grimlock was duped into fighting on the side of the tyrannical Quintesson [[Mara-Al-Utha]]. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

Grimlock was occasionally among the Autobots seen attacking Galvatron's forces in space, and later on the planet [[Eurythma]]. {{storylink|Carnage in C-Minor}} At one point, he was stationed at Autobot City when [[Victor Drath]] attempted to infiltrate Metroplex using the lifeless bodies of Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots. The real Ultra Magnus and Springer managed to tip off the Autobots in the city fast enough for them to raise the defenses. {{storylink|Only Human}}

Later in the year, when Decepticon leader Galvatron had Cybertron infused with function-inverting anti-electrons, a dose of the particles gave Grimlock super-intelligence. During a mission to [[Unicron]]'s disembodied head, where the Autobots were outmatched by the new Decepticon [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], Grimlock used components of Unicron's head to construct the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] to battle them. Even combined as [[Computron (G1)|Computron]], the Technobots felt they could not match the Terrorcons, until Grimlock transferred his super-intelligence into Computron, reverting to his old self and allowing the Technobots to claim victory. {{storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

[[Image:CallofthePrimitives Grimlock Primacron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock threaten space monkey into giving me Grimlock energon wine.]]
Grimlock's greatest victory came when he and a large number of other Transformers with animal transformations were summoned to a world at the center of the galaxy by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, [[Primacron]], creator of Unicron. The assistant had assembled these "[[Primitive]]" Transformers in the hope that their simple instincts could defeat Primacron's newest creation, [[Tornedron]], but one by one they fell to him, with Grimlock apparently crushed under Trypticon. Grimlock survived, however, and followed Tornedron back to Primacron's lab. When Tornedron turned on his master, like his predecessor had, Primacron's complicated plans and equations could not find a way to stop him. Grimlock, on the other hand, randomly flicked a switch which reversed Tornedron's energy polarity, undoing the damage he had done and dissipating the creature. Dancing around over his successful saving of the universe, Grimlock decimated Primacron's lab, which he decided was the smartest thing he'd ever done. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

Grimlock piloted the shuttle bringing [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to an important meeting<ref>The meeting was with [[Tommy Kennedy]] and its importance was debatable, but Prime was upset at being late.</ref> and took a wrong turn, making Prime very late. Prime subsequently took him to have his brain circuits upgraded. {{storylink|The Transformers (cartoon)|Season 5}}/ {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====

{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as detailed above, except that the events of 2006 are pushed back to 2010. Japanese continuity inserts several new stories into the gaps in the timeline, as covered below.}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====

[[Image:Binaltech grimlock cardart.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Me Grimlock built Ford tough!]]

In 2004, Grimlock and the Dinobots served as the front line and primary strength of the forces led by Optimus Prime, battling on Cybertron to prevent Megatron from taking complete control of the planet. To break the Autobots' war effort, the Decepticons used primitive telepathic alien lifeforms named "[[Unleasher]]s" to assault the Dinobots' psychically, causing the bestial impulses of their dinosaur modes to overwhelm their minds and driving them into a rampage. Faced with their own potential destruction at the claws and fangs of the rampaging Dinobots, the Autobots were forced to deactivate their out-of-control comrades. Studying Grimlock's brain casing, Wheeljack was able to isolate the psychic sub-routine warping the Dinobots' minds, but its removal proved virtually impossible, thanks in part to the shortage of supplies caused by the war effort. As a stop-gap measure, Wheeljack proposed taking Grimlock's brain casing to Earth and installing it in one of the new "[[Binaltech]]" bodies that had been developed there between the Autobots and [[Earth Defense Command]]: a body with a vehicular alternate form, thereby removing the corrupting influence of Grimlock's dinosaur mode as a temporary solution until the problem could be permanently fixed. Grimlock grumbled at the notion of losing the power of his dinosaur form, but, eager to get back to fighting, agreed to the process, and Wheeljack promptly sped his brain casing to Earth, where it was installed in a new body styled after a Ford Mustang. {{storylink|Beast in the Machine}}

As the Binaltech conflict continued, thanks to the efforts of the time-tossed Decepticon [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and the mysterious time- and space-bending entity known as the [[Optimus Primal|Protector]], its events were ultimately diverged from the mainstream timeline into a parallel universe.

{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Skip to the next section below to continue reading about the original timeline; exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}

In 2008 of this timeline, Grimlock and Hound were on patrol on Earth when they crossed paths with [[Bluestreak]]—but not the Bluestreak of their world. This Bluestreak had traveled across the dimensions, from the mainstream timeline, to inform the Binaltech Autobots that the [[spark]] of their [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (previously lost in a [[subspace]] accident {{storylink|Prowl & Chase}}) had appeared in his home universe, and begun to destabilize. Grimlock couldn't quite wrap his head around the whole ordeal, and didn't take kindly to Bluestreak's endless waffling as they took him back to Autobot City to explain his story, but he was able to work out his frustrations when they happened upon a rampaging [[phonon hologram]]—a malfunctioning science project created by knock-off Binaltech technology. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 1}} Grimlock was subsequently part of the Autobot team who tracked down the source of the signal destabilizing Prowl's spark, which proved to be the work of [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and [[Doctor Arkeville]], who were using energy from Prowl's spark to power a synthetic [[electrum]] giant. Grimlock gave his sword to Jazz, who used it to take out the subspace node on the creature that was channeling Prowl's life-force, shutting it down. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 2}}

Later, Grimlock was among the Autobot forces who battled [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]'s Decepticons in [[Australia]]. When the battle ended with Nemesis Prime's destruction, the Autobots all rolled for home... but Grimlock couldn't shake the feeling that he had forgotten something very important. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 4}}

{{note|But what that was, we have no idea.}}

=====''The Great Transformer War'' manga=====
Shortly after creating the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s, Grimlock joined [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and others as they observed a battle between [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]]. Thanks to upgrades by [[Doctor Dalton]], Computron was faring well in battle. However, during his internment by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], Dalton was forced to upgrade the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]s, as well.

The Terrorcons took control of Computron with a "[[Cohesive Control Liquid]]", much to Grimlock's horror. Dalton explained that the only way to save Computron was for a [[human]] to burn off the control liquid. [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] wanted to go, but Spike forbade him and went himself. As Daniel pouted, Grimlock poked fun at him for still being a puny kid. Eventually, the Technobots were saved and the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 2}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
[[Image:FourWarriors Grimlock hyptonized.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock cannot hope to defeat Aquaman.]]

In the year 2011, the Decepticons invaded Cybertron in full force. Grimlock was deployed by [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] to fend off the invaders. He was seen fighting alongside his fellow Dinobots as well as the [[Throttlebot]]s against the invading Decepticons. However, they didn't fare too well against the Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], as they were all quickly put to sleep by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]'s hypnosis attack. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} Grimlock continued to fight to defend Cybertron, joining Optimus Prime and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] in holding off the Decepticon advance. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

=====Hero Set=====

In year 2025, Grimlock joined Jazz and Bumblebee in battling Starscream in the far reaches of space. <ref>Packaging blurb for the Japanese-exclusive "Hero Set" release of the [[Pretender Classic]] versions of Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock and Starscream, confirmed to be part of cartoon continuity by Takara's [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|2007 timeline]].</ref>

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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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{{note|The comic Dinobots had average, functional intellects. Grimlock spoke normally for most of the early issues, but by [[King of the Hill!|Marvel US issue #27]], Grimlock began affecting a caveman-esque speech pattern to mask his intelligence, <ref>Grimlock possesses a brilliant mind but considers intellectuals weak. He chooses to talk dumb rather than be thought of as weak. ''Marvel UK #200 "Secrets of the Transformers" booklet.''</ref> leaving his fellow Autobots to think he has a glitch in his speech processor. The other Dinobots speak normally.}}

Millions of years ago on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Grimlock and four other warriors who would later become the Dinobots snuck into a [[Decepticon|Decepticon]] spaceport and stole a number of ships and hid them in the [[Rad Zone]], suspecting that one day they might become fed up with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s leadership and strike out on their own. {{storylink|A Savage Circle}}

[[Image:Arkshuttle3.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Countless kids were left wondering what "cur leader Grimlock" means.]]
While the Autobots remained dormant inside [[Mount St. Hilary]], the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] detected Cybertronian life. Dispatching a probe, the Ark learned that [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had come to Earth and was wandering the [[Savage Land]]. The Ark used data gathered from the Savage Land to convert five of the dormant Autobots into the Dinobots. They traveled to fight Shockwave, but their battle reached a stalemate when all combatants became trapped in a tar pit and buried under a collapsing cliff side. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

Information on this battle were stored on the Ark's memory banks and were discovered four million years later by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] {{storylink|The Last Stand}}, and Ratchet, at the moment the last Autobot on Earth that remained functional, tempted [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] with details of Shockwave's alleged defeat as currency for a deal with him. Promising Megatron that he would find the Dinobots and use them to defeat Shockwave on Megatron's behalf, {{storylink|Warrior School!}} Ratchet traveled to the Savage Land and retrieved the bodies of the Dinobots. Ratchet faked this defeat using video of [[Slag (G1)|Slag]]'s memories and when Megatron doublecrossed him, he ambushed Megatron with the Dinobots. However, Grimlock and the others were no match for Megatron, and they were knocked aside. Ratchet managed a victory regardless, and he and the Dinobots returned to the Ark. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

[[Image:Grimlocktestsnewhand.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Now that's a bedside manner.]]
''On the way back to the Ark, Grimlock had his first encounter with a [[human]], which didn't end well. Ratchet sought to explain why humans feared them with a story about the Autobots' battle with the Decepticons at [[Sherman Dam]]. At story's end, they reached the Ark, but it was guarded mercilessly by [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]]! After Guardian disposed of [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}} the Dinobots attacked Guardian together, but they were defeated and were forced to regroup. Grimlock was furious when Ratchet said Swoop's injuries were not top priority, as he had an Ark full of Autobots in need of care. While Ratchet was tending to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], Grimlock led the remaining Dinobots on a second attack against Guardian. This time they were successful, though they didn't realize that Guardian was hardwired with a bomb that threatened them all. {{storylink|The Wrath of Guardian!}} Thankfully, Wheeljack was able to control Optimus Prime's headless body by remote and seize Grimlock's arm before he could deliver the blow that would destroy them all. Ultimately, their lives were saved by Swoop, who carried Guardian up into the sky as the bomb detonated. With Swoop believed dead, Grimlock took his Dinobots elsewhere. {{storylink|The Wrath of Grimlock!}}''

''After Swoop returned in a berserker rage, it became apparent that the Dinobots had reverted to their base instincts due to their primary cybo-dendrons having burnt out from millions of years stuck in tar, so the Autobots plotted to round them up. Grimlock and Sludge were the final targets, and as the two tore through a snowy part of [[Canada]], Optimus Prime vowed to stop them even if it cost him his life. [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] discovered that the source of the rage was coming from a Decepticon-crafted signal, but when the signal was destroyed, the Dinobots entered a deep hibernation stat from which there may not have been any return. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}} While Grimlock sat comatose, he dreamed of slaying Megatron, though he subsequently died at the hands of Starscream. {{storylink|Victory!}} After being repaired by Ratchet, Grimlock dreamed of defeating Megatron {{storylink|Victory!}} Grimlock and the other Dinobots were eventually reawakened, and ''they attended the unveiling of the Autobots' last line of defense, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. Jointly, Optimus Prime detailed a plan to attack the Decepticon base and immediately retreat after stealing data from [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. Grimlock was displeased at this, and refused to fight a war in which he was unable to fight. He seceded his Dinobots from the Autobots, and they struck out on their own. {{storylink|Command Performances!}} ''Grimlock and the other Dinobots met up with Sludge's human friend, [[Joy Meadows]]. {{storylink|In the National Interest}}''

''While wandering the countryside, Grimlock and the other Dinobots chanced across the time-traveling [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] as he was beating up on a small group of Autobots who had recently arrived from Cybertron. {{storylink|Fallen Angel (issue)|Fallen Angel}} The all-powerful Galvatron bested Grimlock in hand-to-hand combat, and Grimlock was about to receive a deadly blow from his own sword when he was rescued by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]. The combatants were scattered when Shockwave's Decepticons fired upon Galvatron and allowed the time-traveller to leave. {{storylink|Resurrection!}}''

[[Image:Grimlockkingofthehill.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Blah blah Grimlock thinks in real English, but dude, check out that creepy grin on Slag.]]

Paleontology student [[Rachel Becker]] found Grimlock's footprints in the [[Cascade Mountain Range]], so she, [[Robert Paaswell|her professor]], and [[Marty Cooper|his assistant]] pitched tents to observe the area overnight. The Dinobots were indeed hiding nearby, and when Swoop brought Grimlock news of Optimus Prime's
death, Grimlock prepared to take leadership of the Autobots for himself. The Dinobot Commander interrupted a committee of high-ranking Autobots attempting to nominate a replacement, and he rudely nominated himself. Unsurprisingly, the Autobots were not impressed, and Grimlock was turned away. Grimlock got a chance to prove himself when [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] attacked the Ark. At first his plan was to hide in the forest, let Trypticon "soften up" the Autobots, remove the Decepticon, and impose leadership over the weakened faction, but Grimlock's doubts increased as the Autobots were pummeled. Additionally, he was surprised when Rachel Becker approached Grimlock with no fear, since he was certain that all humans were cowards. When Rachel's life was threatened by Trypticon, Grimlock attacked Trypticon himself, which signaled the other Dinobots to follow his lead. In the aftermath of his victory against the Decepticon intruder, the high-ranking Autobots decided that Grimlock had displayed all the desired traits of a great Autobot leader—wisdom, compassion, courage, charisma, and military skill. {{storylink|King of the Hill!}}

[[Image:Variablevoltageharness.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Time it took for power to corrupt Grimlock: Approximately 3 seconds.]]

Unfortunately for the Autobots, Grimlock set about immediately picking out a crown for himself and affecting an unintelligent way of speaking. His first point of order was to steal back the assorted equipment and tools that the [[Mechanic]] had stolen from them shortly before his assumption of command. To his dismay, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] and Blaster refused to harm humans if necessary to complete the mission. {{storylink|Mechanical Difficulties!}} The two Autobots deserted. {{storylink|Crater Critters}} ''Now that the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] were on Earth, they began terrorizing Swoop, who had a dark history with the Predacon [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]. Swoop was afraid to admit that he had lost his name to Divebomb millions of years ago after losing a fight with the Predacon, but Grimlock admitted that he had known ever since he had taken command of the Autobots and had access to Optimus Prime's files... and didn't care! He and the other Dinobots stood up for Swoop and kicked the Predacons' sorry behinds. {{storylink|Grudge Match!}}'' When Blaster and Goldbug didn't return, Grimlock labeled them traitors and ordered the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] to bring them in. Grimlock had in the meantime completed repairs on the Ark itself, and with Wheeljack's new [[Geothermal Generator]], they were no longer dependent on humans for fuel. {{storylink|Used Autobots}} Expecting Blaster and Goldbug's forced return, Grimlock had a [[variable voltage harness]] constructed to serve as their punishment. He ordered the Ark to launch into Earth orbit. {{storylink|Child's Play (issue)|Child's Play}} Immediately the Ark overtook the Decepticon [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]], who was being taken for a ride by Blaster and the [[Spacehiker]] children. Fearing Grimlock's growing megalomania, Wheeljack had called his old friend [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] for help. Before Grimlock could capture Blast Off, the children threw Blaster from the airlock into space. Grimlock used the children as bait, threatening to end their lives if Blaster did not show up. Blaster returned himself to the Ark to the welcome arms of the other Autobots, who had grown tired of Grimlock's tyranny. Despite Sky Lynx's intervention outside the Ark, he was surrounded by the Dinobots, and Blaster was forced to give himself up to protect the safety of the children. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}}

[[Image:Grimlockokeydokeyblaster.jpg|right|300px|thumb|We've replaced ruthless early-to-mid Marvel Comics Grimlock with Season 3 cartoon Grimlock. Let's see if Blaster notices.]]

Blaster was placed in the variable voltage harness for his treason. Some time thereafter, Grimlock's Autobots stationed on the Ark met up with Autobots from Nebulos stationed on the ''[[Steelhaven (G1)|Steelhaven]]''. Grimlock was furious that the ''Steelhaven''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Autobots were led by a human, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], and he challenged Spike's [[Binary bonding|binary bonded]] partner, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fruitloop Multipuck]], to a duel for ultimate Autobot supremacy. Forktongue Maxiface was in no condition to fight, as he had suffered terrible damage recently at the hands of Shockwave, so Grimlock offered Blaster to fight in his stead. Both ships' crews unloaded onto Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] to watch the fight, but Blaster and Grimlock's grudge match quickly rumbled past the horizon line. After exchanging blows, Grimlock and Blaster noticed explosions back at the ships' landing site, and agreed to a short truce to investigate. Indeed, Ratbat's Decepticons had ambushed the Autobots in their absence, but with the introduction of Blaster and Grimlock to what had been up to that point a massacre, the tide quickly turned. Grimlock's sword pierced the forcefield of the Decepticons' [[Club Con|flying island base]], and the Decepticons retreated. In the wake, Fortress Maximus admitted that he had sent Goldbug and the ''Steelhaven'''s skeleton crew to Nebulos to rebuild Optimus Prime, their true leader. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

Optimus Prime returned from Nebulos as a [[Power Master]] and took back the reins of command, ''easily sweet-talking Grimlock into going along with it'' {{storylink|The Quest!}}, though both Grimlock and Fortress Maximus kept high-profile positions in the ranks. The trio watched a commercial for [[Club Con]], a tropical resort suspiciously helmed by Decepticons. Grimlock wanted to bust some heads, but Optimus thought a more subtle approach was needed. {{storylink|Club Con!}} ''Meanwhile, Earth was coming apart at the seams due to a timestorm caused by the displacement of Galvatron, [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] from Earth's future. Optimus, Grimlock, and Fortress Maximus held court, and decided an attack on the future Decepticon's undergrund base was due. During the battle, shockingly, Optimus and others were displaced to [[limbo]] by [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and other Autobots from the future. Believing these future Autobots were imposters, responsible for the apparent deaths of Optimus Prime and the other displaced Autobots, Fortress Maximus and Grimlock led a vengeful charge. By the time the truth was learned, the stakes had shifted, and the future and present Autobots, including Grimlock, teamed up to face the combined might of Galvatron and a [[Straxus (G1)|clone of Megatron]]. {{storylink|Time Wars}}''

[[Image:Grimlockdarkstar.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Yeah, those Pretenders are ''real'' sorry.]]

Answering a distress call in the [[Arctic]], Grimlock and the Autobots found [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]... and a Decepticon ambush! After a number of casualties, a brittle truce was forged when it was discovered that this was all a setup by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to divert attention away from his grab at the [[Underbase]]. Both factions found Starscream about to meet the Underbase in space, but Starscream was able to absorb enough Underbase energy to throw his ship into theirs. Starscream departed for Earth, to conquer the cities of [[New York City|New York]], [[Tokyo]], and [[Buenos Aires]], and Optimus had thoughtfully kept the Ark nearby to help ship everyone back to Earth. Grimlock and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] led a team sent ahead to Tokyo to await Starscream. After the Underbase-powered Decepticon destroyed the Dinobots, Grimlock was quick to fire upon Starscream and scored one of the few consequential hits on the fearsome traitor. Grimlock hunted him down and bit at Starscream's leg, but Starscream was able to grab the Dinobot commander and place him between himself and "friendly" fire from the Decepticon [[Pretender]]s. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}} Grimlock perished, and was next seen undergoing futile repairs onboard the Ark. {{storylink|Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?}}

[[Image:Grimlockyesterdaysheroes.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wait, if Grimlock still looks like his original [[character model]], whose tail-gun is that?]]

Grimlock was brought back on-line by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] using [[Pretender]] technology stolen from Megatron. {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}} While Grimlock, along with [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], handily defeated Megatron's minions, he was unable to save Ratchet when [[Megatron's base]] exploded. {{storylink|Skin Deep}} Afterward, Grimlock, Jazz and Bumblebee briefly joined the Autobot resistance movement on Cybertron before attempting to return to Earth via [[Trans-Time Dimensional Portal|trans-time dimensional portal]]. However, [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], seeking to crush the resistance's momentum, sent ''the latest incarnation of'' the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] to destroy the three Autobot Pretenders. Infiltrating [[Autobase (G1)|Autobase]], the three Decepticons sabotaged the portal, teleporting all six Transformers (and the [[Micromaster]] [[Rescue Patrol]]) deep into the heart of Cybertron, where the Autobots discovered the resting place of their god, [[Primus]]. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}

Grimlock at first thought it was all a Decepticon trick and was [[Atechnogenesis|skeptical]] that the Transformers even had a god. When the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] appeared, Grimlock demanded the ancient Transformer "prove it" by telling them the story of the Transformers' origin. The Keeper's story (complete with holographic slide-show) was suitably convincing, but unfortunately gave the Mayhem Attack Squad time to sneak up on the Autobots, and another battle ensued. The outnumbered Decepticons were no match for Grimlock and company, but [[Octopunch]]'s last-ditch shot ricocheted off the Dinobot's back, waking Primus. A few seconds too late, the Autobots in Autobase repaired the portal, sending the lost Transformers to Earth. Grimlock immediately demanded they find the Earth-based Autobots to warn them of [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Primal Scream (issue)|Primal Scream}}

[[Image:Grimlockdarkcreation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Like cartoon Grimlock, Grimlock's shell has beautiful, soulful blue eyes.]]

After rejoining Optimus Prime's forces, Grimlock, Jazz and Bumblebee formed a team in the search for the lost [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Traveling to [[VsQs]], where Optimus Prime's funeral barge had crashed, the three began to search an abandoned science station for any clue as to the Matrix's whereabouts. While Bumblebee searched the computer logs, Grimlock went looking for the science team—only to discover they had all been killed. Before the Autobots could formulate a plan, Thunderwing attacked. Grimlock's first reaction was to attack, but not even all three of them could defeat the Decepticon leader. Instead, they were "saved" by the [[Matrix Spawn]], which became Thunderwing's new target. The three Autobots searched the wrecked station independently and recovered the Matrix. Low on [[Energon (fuel)|energon]], the three attempted to return to their shuttle, but the moon's heavy gravity slowed them down, allowing Thunderwing to overtake them, defeat the three weakened Autobots and claim the Matrix for his own. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}

After Thunderwing's defeat, the Autobots sent a shuttle to VsQs to rescue Grimlock and the others, who were low on energon and on the verge of [[Stasis lock|stasis lock]]. Grimlock was none too grateful for his rescue, instead berating himself for failing to destroy Thunderwing and guilty that he was alive while the other Dinobots were still deactivated. However, without Ratchet or the Matrix, the Autobots knew of no way to bring back their fallen. Grimlock sought Optimus's permission to travel to [[Hydrus Four]] and investigate the rumors of the substance [[Nucleon]]. When Optimus refused, Grimlock stole a shuttle and the bodies of the Dinobots and went anyway, which everyone really should have seen coming. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}}

[[Image:Grimlockpriceoflife.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Grimlock never looked like his inner Pretender robot.]]

Once on Hydrus Four, Grimlock sought out the medi-center on the island of Farooth, where the well of Nucleon was kept. Along the way, he encountered the substance's three guardians, zombie-like mechanoids who attempted to bar visitors from tapping the Nucleon. Two engaged him in combat, but Grimlock dispatched them easily. Unlike destroying Decepticons, he could take no pleasure in his victories, which seemed pointless. He began to question his motives: Was he really trying to save the Dinobots, or just prove himself a better leader than Prime? By the time he reached the island of Farooth, Grimlock simply wanted the grim business done with.

At the well, Grimlock encountered the final guardian. The Hydrusian didn't want to fight, but instead warned him that Nucleon always came with unexpected side effects. To quell the doubts that had plagued him since his arrival, Grimlock decided to test the Nucleon on himself, plunging a hand into the well. Feeling a surge of power and no immediate side effects, Grimlock decided it had to be safe and went to work reviving the other Dinobots, ignoring the Hydrusian's parting
words, "Time will tell." {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

With the Dinobots revived, Grimlock loaded up as much Nucleon as he could and returned to the Ark. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} The Dinobots found it empty, as Primus had teleported the Earth-bound Transformers back to Cybertron. Electing not to waste time looking for the others, Grimlock ordered [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] to set course for Cybertron while Sludge and [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] pumped the Nucleon into the Ark's life-support pods. The Dinobots were unaware that the life-support pods also held Megatron, as Grimlock had departed before Ratchet's rescue. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}

[[Image:G1 Grimlock vs demons.jpg|left|250px|thumb|They brought claws to a sword fight.]]

Grimlock was the first Transformer to begin feeling the Nucleon's effects. Before he even left Hydrus Four, he began suffering erratic joint locks. He tried to hide the symptoms as long as he could, but after Unicron's defeat, they began to worsen, until his entire body seized up during a battle. [[Hi-Q]] came to his rescue, recognizing that the Nucleon was still transforming Grimlock's body. Hi-Q accelerated the process, as the Nucleon granted Grimlock a new, more powerful body, but at the cost of [[Action Master|his ability to transform]]. {{storylink|Still Life!}}

[[Image:Grimlockendoftheroad.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Octopunch: "I see what you did there."]]
Optimus Prime died from injuries sustained in the war, and named Grimlock his chosen successor (although Grimlock still had to put up with Dumb Prowl as his self-appointed advisor and conscience). While Prowl began naive negotiations with the Decepticons for continued peace, Grimlock had his Dinobots arrange precautionary measures against any treachery. {{storylink|Exodus!}} Sure enough, the new Decepticon leader [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] sabotaged the Autobot ships on Cybertron and took off to loot and plunder with his army. Thanks to Grimlock, though, the Autobots not only had a set of ships held in reserve, but the Dinobots had also placed tracking devices on the Decepticon shuttles, leading the Autobot pursuit force right to the planet [[Klo]]. {{storylink|A Savage Circle}} Unfortunately, Grimlock's knack for forward-thinking ran a little short here, and he led his Dinobots into a trap as soon as the troops arrived on Klo. It seemed the Decepticons had discovered Grimlock's tracking device and anticipated their arrival. One massacre later and the only Autobots left alive were Grimlock, Prowl, Slag, Kup and Blaster. Despite their misfortunes, they managed to overcome the Decepticon hunting party sent after them, and carried the battle back to Bludgeon and his men. Luckily, a miracle arrived in the form of a resurrected Optimus Prime and his new friend, the awesomely powerful [[Last Autobot]], who began spontaneously reviving all the Autobots who fell in battle with the Decepticons. Facing an ever growing number of fully recharged Autobots, Bludgeon fled with his remaining Decepticons, and Grimlock and the Autobots stood victorious. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
''Following their adventures on [[Quintessa]] and the war with Unicron, {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} Grimlock and the Dinobots were stationed on Cybertron during the Autobot war effort to consolidate control over the planet. In 2008, the Decepticons staged a brazen and unprovoked attack on the Autobot location, prompting an incredible battle. Grimlock led the charge of his Dinobots, and literally began to "munch metal". When [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] returned to Cybertron from the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] with information, however, Grimlock exited the battle to attend a war room meeting with [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], Kup and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. They learned from Smokescreen that Unicron had survived their last encounter, and his head had been drawn to Junk, where he then took over the minds of the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] and began forcing them to rebuild his lost body out of their planet. Realizing that the Decepticons were just pawns being used by Unicron to distract them, the Autobots realized the true battle awaited them on Junk. Rodimus Prime questioned whether he could pull enough troops away from the battle at hand to be of any use on Junk, but Grimlock reminded Roddy who he was talking to, and assured that his Dinobots would be more than enough firepower. Rodimus agreed, and brought Grimlock, [[Scattershot]], Smokescreen and the rest of the Dinobots with him to confront Unicron. While Scattershot and Smokescreen distracted Unicron in the shuttle, Grimlock brought the Dinobots down to the planet and stopped the mind-warped Junkions from making any further repairs on Unicron's body. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}''

''Later, Grimlock was part of Rodimus Prime's crew who came to Earth to free Autobot City from Quintesson occupation. {{storylink|Space Pirates!}}''

=====Earthforce=====
{{Earthforcefiction}}
[[Image:Primevsgrimlockbreakaway.jpg|left|250px|thumb|The clumsy, awkward fight you've been waiting for!]]

''In one alternate timeline, Grimlock found a way to revive his fellow Dinobots after their destruction in the Underbase Saga. This method may or may not have involved Nucleon, as it did in the main timeline, and Grimlock apparently did not or could not bring back the means for restoring all the Autobots in the Ark's life pods. With the Dinobots back together they came on strong, battling a new splinter group of Decepticons that had sprung up on Earth under Shockwave's command. Grimlock personally brought down both [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the [[Battlecharger]]s himself. Despite their victory, Optimus Prime harangued Grimlock and his team for their brutal tactics, flying in the face of the "[[Autobot Code]]". {{storylink|Two Steps Back!}} This led to a shouting match between the two Autobots where Grimlock threatened to take his Dinobots and quit the Autobot army altogether. The situation deteriorated further into a physical brawl, but ultimately Prime and Grimlock knocked some sense into each other. With Unicron inching ever closer to Cybertron, Optimus Prime decided that the Autobots aboard the Ark were needed elsewhere, yet Earth still needed defenders. Therefore he promoted Grimlock to Autobot Commander: Earth. Grimlock was given his Dinobots, his fellow (former) Classic Pretenders, and the five Autobots recently reawakened by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] as troops. In return for their autonomy, all Optimus Prime asked for was to show some restraint.''

''He was probably kidding. Or concussed. Whatever. {{storylink|Break-Away!}}''

[[Image:Earthforce.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Charrrge!]]
''From the beginning, Grimlock made it clear to his troops that they would not be fighting the war Prime's way. To get things done right, they'd have to toss the Autobot Code out the window. To demonstrate what he meant by this, Grimlock picked up a copy of the Autobot Code and tossed it out the window. Grimlock isn't big on metaphors. {{storylink|Once upon a Time...}}''

''Shortly after Earthforce started up, Grimlock received a transmission from Shockwave, challenging him to a duel leader-to-leader. Grimlock vigorously accepted, and traveled 300 miles away to the coordinates Shockwave transmitted, deep in the [[Canada|Canadian]] wilderness during a snowstorm. Only problem was... he couldn't find Shockwave. Grimlock wandered around in the snow and ice for awhile until he found him, or rather, he found a snowman shaped like Shockwave with a sign out front saying "April Fools! — Slag, Snarl, Sludge, Swoop". Two [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] patrolling the area had the misfortune of coming across Grimlock right at that moment. What happened next was censored by the Comic Code Authority, Mothers Against Violence, and viewers like you. He later headed back to the base with the biggest snowball he could carry. (Wonder what he was going to do with it?) {{storylink|Snow Fun!}}''

''Later, Grimlock made a deal with the [[Survivors]], lending them aid to rescue their Decepticon comrade [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] in exchange for them joining Earthforce under his command. {{storylink|Where Wolf?}}''

''After Wheeljack finished the construction of Autobot Earthbase, Grimlock gave him a hearty slap on the back as congratulations on a job well done. After they learned Wheeljack had effectively locked them out of the base with the defense grid fully active and hunting for targets, Grimlock hung Wheeljack upside-down by his ankle and smothered his face in the snow. (Centuries later, the good guys are apparently [[A Better Mousetrap|still this dumb]].) {{storylink|The House that Wheeljack Built!}} As if that weren't enough, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] staged a full-scale Decepticon assault before the grid could be repaired, putting Earthforce on the defensive. Grimlock took his Dinobots out to kick butt, and threw his energo-sword right through [[Octane]]'s wing. They soon drove off the Decepticons. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer!}}''

''It was just one annoyance after another for Grimlock when Optimus Prime came to inspect the newly finished Earthbase. First, he and the Dinobots had to hide the fact that Slag was an unbridled killing machine unfit to wear the Autobot symbol. That wacky Slag—always killin' folk. {{storylink|The 4,000,000 Year Itch!}} Then Dumb Prime wanted to use Wheeljack's Bodyshop to revive one of the most obnoxious Autobots on Grimlock's hit list—the vanity-obsessed [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]. Grimlock tried to sabotage the revival process several times, but eventually Tracks was brought on-line anyway, while Grimlock got forcibly and painfully dragged through the auto-restoration machine. To make things worse, Prime assigned Tracks to Earthforce, meaning Grimlock had to put up with him permanently. {{storylink|Makin' Tracks!}}''

''When Snarl was diagnosed with the fatal disease [[Corrodia Gravis]], Grimlock and Earthforce had to seek out Starscream, the only Transformer capable of giving his Dinobot comrade a compatible systems boost. {{storylink|Assassins}} To make things even more complicated, they found the Decepticons at war with each other at their Louisiana headquarters, with Megatron, Shockwave and their [[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]] assassins trying to take out Starscream and Soundwave. Forced to choose sides, Grimlock sent Sludge and Swoop to protect Starscream from the assassins while he and the others dealt with the two former Decepticon leaders. After Slag charbroiled Megatron and Grimlock plunged his energo-sword through Shockwave's chest, they gave up the fight and took off. Starscream then agreed to the systems boost in exchange for Grimlock's promise to help if Megatron tried to assassinate him again. {{storylink|The Lesser Evil}}''

''After [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] went crazy due to a [[cerebro-shell]], Grimlock and the Autobots were forced to give an interview and a guided tour of their base to the reporter [[Irwin Spoon]] in exchange for his help removing the shell from their friend. {{storylink|Inside Story!}} Grimlock was less than thrilled. He probably was relieved when the nosy human got kidnapped and brainwashed by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]—at least Grimlock got to skip his interview! {{storylink|End of the Road! (UK)|End of the Road!}}''

=====''Another Time and Place''=====
{{note|The "Another Time and Place" text story was meant to be a conclusion to the Marvel continuity, but its events were ignored by [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|Generation 2]]. It was [[Withered Hope|later labeled]] a "dead end" [[splinter timeline]].}}

[[Image:TFAnnual1991rip.JPG|left|150px|thumb|Break off me Grimlock piece of that Kit Kat bar!]]

In the months that followed the war on Klo, as more and more Autobots began to succumb to the Nucleon's effects and lose their ability to transform, Grimlock's guilt over his actions grew. When he heard the medical facilities on Hydrus-Four had reopened and discovered a means of reversing Nucleon's effect, he jumped at the chance. Taking his fellow Dinobots back there, Grimlock and his comrades ran smack into a Decepticon trap. Bludgeon and his crew had followed the Dinobots to Hydrus-Four and cut in ahead of them, taking control of the med-facility and installing a [[Holocaust Trigger]] device, which totally overwhelmed the Dinobots' equilibrium as they entered, knocking them out. Grimlock awoke hours later to find Bludgeon's sickly-skullhead grinning at him, as the Master of [[Metallikato]] planned to use the Nucleon to revitalize his warriors and bring the Great Megatron himself back to life. Luckily, Optimus Prime and Prowl arrived with a rescue party in time to stop the macabre resurrection ceremony from being completed. Bludgeon was destroyed, and Prime and Grimlock personally ripped apart the half-reanimated Megatron. Normally, [[Furmanism|it never ends]], but this time it truly did. {{storylink|Another Time and Place}}
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====Generation 2====
[[Image:WarWithoutEnd-Grimlockdino.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Autobot re-enactment of Jurassic Park took a lot of liberties.]]
After the coming of the [[Last Autobot]], much of the Autobot army scattered. Grimlock took command of a small commando team, leading strikes against [[Cybertronian (faction)|Decepticon outposts]] across the galaxy.

After encountering seventeen conquered worlds, cyberformed into "[[Eco-structuring|little Cybertrons]]," Grimlock realized the problem was greater than he had originally imagined and contacted Optimus Prime. After comparing notes in an abandoned base, the base was attacked by the flagship [[Twilight (G2)|''Twilight'']] and captured by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]. Jhiaxus told Optimus and Grimlock in no uncertain terms that the war had been practically over for millions of years; the Autobot/Decepticon war was just a sideshow while Jhiaxus's Decepticons had conquered the greater galaxy. While Optimus took Jhiaxus's description of their insignificance to heart, Grimlock refused to give up, bolstering the Autobot leader's spirits. Grimlock and Optimus subsequently burst free from their cell and led an escape from the ''Twilight''. {{storylink|War Without End!}}

Grimlock was part of a group of Autobots led by Optimus Prime when they clashed with the Decepticons on an alien world. There was word of a weapon of great power on this planet, and both sides struggled for supremacy over it. Autobot and Decepticon alike eventually fled the planet when the weapon's titanic guardian awoke. {{storylink|Ghosts}}

Grimlock clashed with Jhiaxus's Decepticons once again when the Autobots met them in battle in a planet amidst the [[K'tord Nebula]]. The fighting reached a fever pitch when it was discovered that their warrior natures were being manipulated by the parasitic organisms that lived on the planet. Though both sides carefully lowered their weapons, Grimlock did so with more reluctance. {{storylink|Primal Fear!}}

[[Image:DevicesandDesires-Grimlocktickedoff.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Many scientists believe that despite their size, Tyrannosaur arms were surprisingly functional.]]

Despite his loyalty to Autobot ways, Grimlock still chafed under Optimus' leadership. Disobeying his orders (which somehow still surprised Optimus), Grimlock led a raiding party against Jhiaxus, seeking to destroy the ''Twilight''. Unfortunately, the Dinobot failed to anticipate Jhiaxus' increased security measures, and the mission cost [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] their lives. Their deaths forced Grimlock to question his methods and his attitude toward Optimus Prime. He admitted that he envied Prime for the loyalty he inspired in the Autobots, and that this, not the leadership of the Autobots, was what he'd truly desired. Thus, no one was more surprised than Grimlock when Optimus Prime placed the Dinobot in command while he traveled back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Devices and Desires! (Marvel)|Devices and Desires!}}

[[Image:Prowlg2muzzle.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Megatron wants to muzzle him...now if only he had a mouth.]]

While Optimus Prime communed with the Matrix to learn more about Jhiaxus's origins, Grimlock, his Dinobots, and some other Autobots played war games on an Autobot base situated on a remote asteroid. The Dinobots' team won against the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]' team. {{storylink|The Power and the Glory}}

Grimlock's command status proved invaluable when Optimus met Megatron on Earth alone, intending to form an alliance against Jhiaxus. Megatron beat Optimus half to death, and Prime only lived because Grimlock disobeyed orders and led an Autobot brigade to Earth. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}} After Megatron was beaten and humiliated by Jhiaxus, what was left of the Decepticon leader returned to Earth to reconsider Prime's alliance offer. Grimlock, seeing the Decepticon leader in their base, immediately attacked him, though Megatron was able to easily repel the Dinobot even in his sad condition. As Megatron asked Prime whether the Autobots had a muzzle for Grimlock, Prowl was forced to restrain Grimlock from further attacks. {{storylink|Tales of Earth Part Five}}

Grimlock joined Optimus Prime and the Autobots again on the planet [[Ethos]], where Jhiaxus's [[Cybertronian Empire]] had recently enacted genocide on the local population. Grimlock coordinated their search and rescue efforts with a headset. The Cybertronians were quickly upon them, and the Autobots found themselves greatly outclassed. Only the arrival of the Decepticons, much to the Autobots' embarrassment, helped turn the tide. {{storylink|Escalation!}}

Grimlock accompanied the Autobot/Decepticon alliance to the moon [[J'asik]], where they found another ravaged world. This time, however, the Cybertronian Empire's involvement was in doubt; the late inhabitants had been destablized at a molecular level. {{storylink|Swarm (issue)|Swarm}}

[[Image:Biggrim.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock work hard!]]

Eventually, the Empire attacked Autobase on Earth, with Grimlock gunning down scores of its troops. As Optimus Prime and Megatron prepared to investigate elsewhere, Optimus put Grimlock in charge during his absence. The alliance between Autobots and Decepticons gave Grimlock a chance to work alongside two new Rotor Force members, [[Leadfoot]] and [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]], both of whom were impressed with Grimlock's style. {{storylink|Total War!}}

As the battle continued, Grimlock and Razorclaw stopped for a moment to witness a mushroom cloud from a great distance as the ''Twilight'' nuked [[San Francisco]]. {{storylink|Dark Shadows!}}

But the Empire was the least of Grimlock's worries. Soon the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] was upon them, a living bi-product of the Empire's dark origins, and with both Optimus and Megatron out of contact, it fell to Grimlock and the Predacon [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] to organise the Transformers in a desperate defensive action. They utilized a combination of shield generators, sky snipers, thermal mines, but nothing stopped the Swarm. However, their plans allowed the Autobots to hold out just long enough —barring a few casualties — for Megatron to arrive with the [[Rheanimum]] that ensured their survival.

During this operation, Manta Ray deliberately ignored Razorclaw's orders in favor of Grimlock's and, when the Predacon attempted to execute him for treason, Leadfoot cut Razorclaw in two, securing them as new recruits for the Autobots. In the end, Optimus Prime united with the Swarm and cleansed it of its dark impulses. The Swarm was dispersed, and Grimlock celebrated a victory with Prime's united forces. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

====Fun Publications ''Classics'' comics====
[[Image:Classics Ultramagnus Springer Grimlock comic.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock like to make self look smart by hanging around bots who no hold binoculars correctly.]]

He liked to call [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] "Little Prime". {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

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===Transformers PD-Type===
[[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] recruited Grimlock as backup for a duel with [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. Grimlock became bored watching the two of them fight in the sky, but when Star Saber finally succeeded in knocking Deathsaurus to the ground, Grimlock gnawed on his head while Star Saber looked on, pleased at the outcome of his clever plan. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##8 "Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!"|Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!}}

===3H ''Reaching the Omega Point'' comics===
Grimlock was among the legendary Transformers summoned from [[J'nwan]] by [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] to help battle [[Shokaract]]. {{storylink|Terminus}}

===Universe===
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{bigquote|Me not like Optimus Prime or Autobots that much... but me like you and yours even less!|Grimlock's voice recording on a bomb he left for the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]}}

Years ago, before the war, Grimlock was part of a cage-fighting arena. He and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] fought beside and against each other on numerous occasions. Starscream believed Grimlock was a natural born killer, but Grimlock really just carried a lot of rage and needed an outlet.

[[Image:Skidswheeljackgrimlockkupironhidetww.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock great at retreating.]]
When the war began, Grimlock sided with the Decepticons. Then, after a while, he switched sides and went to the Autobots. Nobody is quite sure why or what happened. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} He eventually became leader of a squad including [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]].

By the time [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] was killed and a new leader had to be chosen, the Autobots were losing the war, and Grimlock was growing impatient with the [[Council of Ancients]]' strategy. Grimlock called a secret meeting with Prowl, Jazz, and his running crew: If the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] wasn't up to doing what had to be done, then they'd do it for him—and take the Prime out in the process. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}}

Optimus Prime, having defeated a team of Decepticons by himself, still didn't settle Grimlock's nerves. Prime's decision to evacuate Cybertron did it; Grimlock had enough. He left and went to brood by himself. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2}} Starscream and his Seekers dropped by while Grimlock was alone. Starscream baited Grimlock, telling him he was a Decepticon inside and was just in denial. He gave him a choice: go to [[Sector Zero-Six]] and help the Seekers take out the Autobot command post, or warn the post about their arrival. Grimlock, out of spite, instead evacuated the Autobots from the base and left the Decepticons a present: a bomb. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}}

[[Image:Grimlocktwwmycall.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock squat a lot.]]

While he was on his way back to Iacon to help with the defense, Prowl ordered him away, instead telling him to go find Optimus Prime. Grimlock decided that it was a good opportunity to give the new Prime a piece of his mind. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}} While he and the team went deep into Cybertron's core to find Prime, they found out about Megatron's plan to win the war and turn Cybertron into a mobile battle station with which to conquer the universe. Grimlock split up his team: He would go find Optimus Prime, and the rest of the team would shut down the transformation system for Cybertron. To his surprise, Prime abruptly was standing next to him. Prime ordered Grimlock to help him find Megatron. Grimlock shoved his [[Energo weapon|energo-sword]] into Prime's hands and gave clear instructions: If Megatron is the problem, then fix it. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5}} When the crisis was over, Grimlock no longer questioned Optimus Prime. He knew that Prime had figured things out, and though he hadn't executed Megatron, he wasn't going to spend his time in the war running away. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6}}

[[Image:Grimlockultramagnusnoooo.jpg|left|200px|thumb|ME GRIMLOCK DAMN YOU, SALAZAR!]]
During the Dark Ages, Optimus Prime and Megatron were seemingly destroyed in a [[Space bridge|space bridge]] explosion, which created a crack in space through which the ancient being known as [[The Fallen]] emerged. With the loss of Optimus Prime, Grimlock broke off from the Autobots now led by Prowl and formed the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]]. Grimlock was targeted, along with [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]], by the Fallen, who wished to use their apparently unique [[Spark]]s to help in his revival of [[Primus]], which would allow Unicron to locate him. {{storylink|Fragmentation}}

The Fallen sent [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] and [[Bugly]], who arranged for Grimlock to receive a communication between Jetfire and Shockwave. {{storylink|Devastation (Dreamwave)|Devastation}} Believing Jetfire was intending to defect, Grimlock headed for the meeting. However, when the [[Chaos Trinity]] arrived and captured Jetfire, Grimlock jumped out of the shadows and attacked. The Fallen had to watch his followers take a sound beating. After dispatching the mystics, Grimlock attempted to execute Jetfire. The Autobot scientist was saved only because the Fallen himself soon arrived. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}}

Grimlock being Grimlock, he launched himself at the Fallen, but was completely overwhelmed. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} He woke up later strapped to a table and had to listen to Jetfire trying to convince him to help them both escape. Grimlock broke free with ease and was part of the multi-faction army that attempted to halt the Fallen's plans. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Later, Grimlock served both as leader of the Dynobots and the right-hand bot to Ultra Magnus, who had taken control in Optimus' absence and had managed to secure a truce with Shockwave. Grimlock was less than happy about this, partly because he didn't trust the Decepticons, and partly because he had no idea what to do with himself in peacetime. He never got to find out, as the truce was betrayed by Starscream's forces, and Grimlock was apparently killed when he dove in front of a shot meant for Magnus. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath issue 1}}

{{note|Due to [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s closure, the conclusion of the ''War Within'' series was never seen; as Grimlock appears in the modern-day Dreamwave books, however, he obviously was revived somehow. Really, did you actually think [[Simon Furman|Furman]] would kill off Grimlock?}}

[[Image:DWPrimeDirective3_Grimlock.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Me fight with all me—"? Me Grimlock not Irish!]]

Millennia later, the Ark and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' left Cybertron in search of new resources to fuel the war, but never returned. Grimlock and the Dynobots followed a [[Insecticon (G1)|group of Decepticons]] to a primitive world that would later be known to them as Earth, all of them looking for the lost Ark. The Dynobots assumed alternate forms similar to Earth's indigenous giant reptiles, dinosaurs, and fought off an attempted ambush by the small crew of Decepticons they had been tracking. {{storylink|Extermination}} Millions of years later in 1984, the other Autobots and Decepticons on Earth awakened and the Great War began anew. The Autobots and humans eventually defeated the Decepticons and all the Transformers were to be sent back to Cybertron on the ''[[Ark II]]''. However, the ship was destroyed during launch due to sabotage by General [[Robert Hallo]] and [[Lazarus|Adam Rook]], in the hopes of recovering the Transformers and reprogramming them to be war machines. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1}}

At some point, Megatron captured the other four Dinobots, a fact which he used as leverage to get Grimlock to turn traitor and join the Decepticons after they were reactivated by Lazarus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}} Grimlock's only real contribution to the Decepticons was crushing unoccupied cars in [[San Francisco]] {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5}} and being beaten up, and beaten down by [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]. After the Decepticons abandoned him, Optimus Prime offered to take Grimlock back, but he refused, stating circumstances had changed too much. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6}}

[[Image:NewWorldOrder Grimlock Blitzwing.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock silence Blitzwing, then Prime next.]]
Grimlock's apparent allegiance to the Decepticons didn't last very long, though, as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] soon showed up with his [[Triple Changer]]s. Grimlock's true loyalty became obvious when he stopped Blitzwing from blowing off Optimus's head by grabbing his tank turret and bending it into a pretzel with one hand. After that, Shockwave sent Megatron off to Cybertron, prompting Grimlock to rejoin the Autobots in the ''Ark''. {{storylink|New World Order}} When Optimus' group surrendered to Ultra Magnus, some of the Autobots remained on Earth, Grimlock among them. He travelled to the frozen north, and freed the other Dinobots from Megatron's holding tank. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}

Stealing a Decepticon shuttle, the Dinobots then headed for Cybertron, intending to free Optimus Prime and his group. After a rough landing, they acquired some transportation from Octane and hurried to Iacon. {{storylink|Cold War}} There, Grimlock did his part by leading a massive Dinobot assault on Shockwave's complex, before breaking off to take care of the Decepticon leader himself. Blitzwing again got in his way, however, and Grimlock was forced to battle both, a battle that was going his way until Ultra Magnus shot him in the face. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} Perceptor repaired the Dinobot command, and Grimlock did his part for the rebellion by giving Hot Rod some back-up. For a third and final time, he fought Blitzwing, this time taking out the Decepticon with ease, grabbing him by the tank turret and throwing him into a [[Guardian robot|Guardian]]. Leaving the main conflict, Grimlock followed Shockwave, Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus into the citadel, and ended up saving the two Autobots, stating that he'd hate to lose the chance to pay back the "stuffy traitor". Optimus Prime thanked Primus, but Grimlock said Prime should be thanking ''him''. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

While the main group of Earth Autobots returned, the Dinobots remained on Cybertron to give Ultra Magnus some needed muscle. They were assigned to help Kup fortify the new Autobot bases on Cybertron's moons. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

{{note|As noted above, any further exploits of Grimlock in the present were cut short due to Dreamwave's bankruptcy.}}

===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===
Grimlock was among the Autobots who were awakened by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] in 1939 after laying dormant on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years. He was eager to start smashing Decepticons again, and probably would've smashed the humans as well if [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] hadn't been here to tell him they were friendly. While the other Autobots were a bit wishy-washy about helping G.I. Joe in their fight against [[Cobra]] and their Decepticon allies, Grimlock threw himself into battle almost immediately, using his [[World War II]]-era tank mode to destroy one or two incoming [[Rattler]]s. {{storylink|Transformed}}

With [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] as company, Grimlock fought his way across the Fera Islands until he ran into [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], whose earthquakes were too much for him and the other Autobot tanks to handle. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} Grimlock was knocked off a cliff by Rumble's attacks, and as he was struggling to keep himself from falling to his doom, he urged Roadblock to save himself. However, the human refused to let Grimlock give up, and stayed behind to motivate him, drill sergeant style. While the human's words did give Grimlock newfound strength, the cliff still crumbled, and he and Roadblock fell. Thankfully, [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] saved them just in time, although Grimlock didn't enjoy feeling small in comparison to the combiner. {{storylink|Wolves}}

On the way to the Cobra [[Terrordrome]], Grimlock listened to [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] being pessimistic about their chances of survival, and casually asked the human if he was a coward. Upon reaching the Terrordrome, Grimlock fought and defeated [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], having always hated him for his cowardly guerilla tactics back on Cybertron. Shortly thereafter, the Autobots and Joes came under attack from [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], and Roadblock suggested that Grimlock show the giant some real firepower... only for the Dinobot to be swatted aside like a fly. Grimlock presumably died along with the other Transformers when the [[Matrix of Leadership]] was destroyed in order to stop Bruticus. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers'' comics===
{{bigquote|It just isn't a proper party without Grimlock around. That guy is nuts.|Hot Rod}}

[[Image:DDGrimlock.jpg|right|120px|thumb|All the grace of an earthquake.]]
Grimlock and his team were transported to Earth's prehistoric past by a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]]. A joint [[Cobra]]/[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team traveled through a time portal to bring them back. Unfortunately, Shockwave's Decepticons blocked their return. Just as Shockwave's victory appeared complete, [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] and [[Lady Jaye]] successfully opened up the final time portal, and the humans returned, with some heavy artillery in the form of the five Autobots, now reformatted in huge, powerful dinosaur bodies. Grimlock took the lead by knocking Shockwave through a wall, and beating the tar out of the 'Cons, alongside his new Dinobots, their new abilities more than a match for the Decepticon forces. When the Decepticons retreated, Grimlock transformed and requested an audience with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4}}

Grimlock was part of the small team sent to help with the Joes' decommissioning of their Cybertronian mechs. Grimlock was more than a little vocal about his distaste for the post, and lack of interest in the humans. He was, however, willing to help the Joes fight Cobra, when the latter attacked en masse... even if he complained about helping the weak fleshlings. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1}} When [[Cobra Commander]] was cornered in an underground facility, Grimlock did his part by terrifying him into talking. They were interrupted when [[Serpent O.R.]] appeared, and attempted to take control of both Grimlock, and [[G.I. Joe battle mech|Roadblock's robot]]. Grimlock resisted, but Roadblock's robot turned around and punched him in the face. Grimlock responded by ripping its arm off. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2}}

As Serpent O.R. teleported to Cybertron, Grimlock's team pursued him, but ended up having to fight off [[cannibalizer]]s in a junkyard. Although Grimlock was shot in the face and knocked down, he soon got back up and continued the hunt for Serpent O.R., only to run into his new troops—the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] and [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]. The Autobots and their human companions were captured and imprisoned in the Decepticons' base in the [[Gladiator Zone]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3}} They eventually managed to escape thanks to [[Snake-Eyes]], but Grimlock insulted the humans anyway. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4}}

After hearing that Serpent O.R. had captured Optimus Prime, Grimlock violently interrogated [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] for directions to where Prime was being kept. By the time the team arrived, they found that Serpent O.R. had stolen the [[Matrix of Leadership]], only to have his new "Serpentor Prime" body taken from him by Cobra Commander. Grimlock and Snake-Eyes attacked him, but were smashed into a wall by his tentacles and taken out of action. After [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] defeated Cobra Commander, Grimlock admitted that the humans were great warriors and great friends, and apologized for being hard on them. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5}}

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===The Beast Within===
In a devastating battle with the Decepticons, Grimlock made the decision to combine with the other Dinobots to form the "[[Beast (G1)|Beast]]". {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
Grimlock's response to the Autobots finding a badly-damaged and helpless Starscream was to suggest that they should throw the garbage out in as many pieces as possible. When that turned out to be off the table, he was happily in support of brainwashing Starscream instead. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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{{bigquote|Will he be pleased to see us?|[[Guzzle]]}}
{{bigquote|Hell no. He's never pleased to see '''''anyone'''''.|Kup|"[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4]]"}}

Grimlock is the leader of the D'''y'''nobots, a group of close knit hunters and guardsmen who, in no small part due to Grimlock's influence, prefer to work outside the Autobot rulebook.

At the start of Megatron's rise to power, the Dynobots turned out to an open casting call for Megatron's underground gladiatorial games, and got a good deal more respect from the Predacons than the other attendees. It turned out to be a recruitment drive for the Decepticon army. What they thought of that is unknown, as Autobot security forces raided the party soon after. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}}

He later met Slag again in a brig; Grimlock had angered a field commander but Slag had shot a vice-admiral in the back to con him into a frontal assault, so Slag won. Grimlock thought this Slag guy sounded like a good bloke, and the two of them discussed the formation of their own rule-breaking strike team. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2}}

[[Image:SpotlightShockwave GrimlockSlag trexscan.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Me Grimlock in love!]]

After [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] destroyed a cache of energon the Dynobots had been hoarding, causing them severe energon burns and equally severe humiliation, they swore revenge. So, against orders from Optimus Prime, they followed Shockwave when he left Cybertron to stabilize "[[ultra-Energon]]" deposits he had sent to other worlds as a precaution against the depletion of Cybertron's own energon reserves.

When Shockwave reached his first destination—Earth, at the end of the last Ice Age—the Dynobots destroyed his ship, but Slag revealed that the high energon levels of the planet would put them in stasis lock, since they hadn't come prepared like Shockwave. Slag then came up with the idea that they should scan the local life forms and create alt-modes based on those animals, but with synthetic flesh coatings to protect against the high levels of energon radiation. Grimlock was
completely against the idea, but since Slag couldn't come up with something better, he relented. However, he refused to take on the form of the weak mammalians that dominated the planet, demanding "something with some... bite." Scanning fossil deposits, Slag found the remains of some [[Dinosaur|extinct reptilian animals]] and brought up a holographic representation of one to see if Grimlock approved. What popped up was a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', which Grimlock seemed to fall in love with the moment he saw it. The choice made, Grimlock took the Tyrannosaur as his altmode and had Slag find more dinosaurs as templates for the rest of the Dynobots.

[[Image:SpotlightShockwave Grimlock stasislock.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One, two three... Red light!]]

On teleporting down to the planet's surface to confront Shockwave, they gained an initial advantage, as Shockwave's logic was unable to comprehend the effort and risks they had taken for their revenge. However, when Shockwave recognized this weakness, he shut down his logic processors and executed a "rage" program to enable him to operate on pure instinct. He shrugged off the Dynobots' attacks and beat them severely, ending the assault by burning off their organic coatings.
Unable to accept another defeat, Grimlock transformed to robot mode and fought against his imminent [[Stasis lock|stasis lock]] to no avail.

However, before leaving the Dynobots' ship, he had enabled a "dead man's switch" designed to take Shockwave with them if they were defeated. When he entered stasis lock, this failsafe activated, firing on a nearby dormant volcano and causing an eruption which buried Shockwave and the Dynobots under ash and lava. Thousands of years later, their entombed bodies were discovered by a human archaeological team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

[[Image:SpotlightGrimlock punch KLUNG.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Punch! Daylight come and me Grimlock wanna go home.]]

Thousands of years later in 2007, the [[human]] organization [[Skywatch]] took over jurisdiction of the dig site and excavated Shockwave and the Dynobots. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5}}

When the [[Reaper]]s attacked the Decepticons, Skywatch decided to awaken the most advanced of their "Eureka Six", which turned out to be Grimlock. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5}}

Grimlock's reactivation was sabotaged by an agent of the [[Machination]] and when he awoke, they had no control over him. He escaped the facility, confused and angry. His escape was engineered by the head of the Machination, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who wanted Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate the Earth by running interference and delaying Megatron's plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.

[[Image:GrimlockMaxDino01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock's roar sound funny...]]

Grimlock considered for a second, but refused the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two fought and Scorponok quickly gained the upper hand, mostly due to his [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] upgrade. Grimlock was able to activate his transporter chip, which beamed him back to his ship, the ''[[Skyfire (ship)|Skyfire]]'', which was buried deep in ice somewhere. Grimlock hoped he could use the ship to find the other Dynobots. {{storylink|Spotlight: Grimlock}}

Finding himself trapped, both on a useless ship and in a less than inconspicuous form, Grimlock was forced to try and contact some of his less reputable acquaintances in an attempt to get the ''Skyfire'' into some sort of working order. Meanwhile, the Machination had tracked him down and had sent their [[Sunstreaker clone|Tsunami Unit]] to apprehend him. Grimlock's early warning system detected them, and he circled round as they began to attack, bursting from the ice and transforming. The battle very quickly turned in his favor with four of the clones falling in the opening moments. The surviving Headmasters were rather shaken, but managed to fulfill their mission: attach a device which would [[Orbital jump|orbital bounce]] him to Nevada, near Skywatch's base. Grimlock materialized in the middle of a busy street in [[Fallon]]. As a car crashed into his toe, he realized things had just gone from bad to worse. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 1}}

[[Image:GrimlockSludgeSwoopMaxDino02.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Hey... he stole that move from Shockwave!]]

Grimlock knew Scorponok was trying to deliberately set him up as a rampaging monster, but ''didn't'' expect his fellow Dynobots to be sent to take him down! He was able to fight them all off but unable to break their reprogramming by appealing to their team ethos ... and when they ''did'' regain sentience and memory, it was because Scorponok let them so they could get pissed off at the knowledge Grimlock had set up a "dead man's switch" ''without'' informing them. Grimlock's defence was that such a sneaky, amoral and rule-breaking act was what the Dynobots were ''all about'', which surprisingly worked. While saying this, he grudgingly and with much moaning saved a human from burning to death. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2}}

Convinced he'd brought his team round, Grimlock began issuing orders, only to be met by an icy silence. Swoop spoke for the group, saying his trust was hard earned and Grimlock tossed it away. Disgusted he abandoned the team, prompting the others to follow. Grimlock tried pleading with them, then turned in a huff, stating he'd be better off on his own. He was interrupted by the arrival of the Sunstreaker clones, who blasted him in the chest. Enraged, he vented his frustrations on the clones until their numbers began to tell. He was saved by the arrival of the other Dynobots, who felt that whatever had happened, they were still a team. However, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of clones, until the arrival of the "help" Grimlock had requested earlier: the [[Monsterbot]]s. Seeing the newcomers take the fight to the enemy, Grimlock extolled his unit to show the Monsterbots how it's ''really'' done. Decimated and demoralized, the surviving Machination clones escaped with their lives. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3}}

[[Image:MaxDinos3 Grimlock SS clone.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Me Grimlock best is at what do. And it not very nice.]]

Aboard the Monsterbots' ship, the Dynobots wondered why Grimlock would side with the outcasts. They gave Grimlock a stern look when he exited the cockpit. The Dynobots didn't see the point of fighting Scorponok, but Grimlock said that Scorponok made it their fight when he turned the Dynobots against him. Snarl disagreed, saying that it had always been Grimlock's fight, that he and the other Dynobots went along with him, and that it was now Grimlock's wounded pride at stake. After the Monsterbots blasted away the defenses, Grimlock exited the ship, saying that there was no way he could let this go, and that with or without the Dynobots, there would be a reckoning for Scorponok. The Dynobots decided that arguing was pointless and followed Grimlock. When [[Hunter O'Nion]] pulled the cords from [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]'s head, shutting him down, the clones ceased to function. Sludge cried out in victory, but the moment was short-lived as Scorponok blasted Sludge into stasis. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}}

[[Image:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Sludge.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He's dead, Grim.]]

Grimlock stared down at Sludge's dead body, brooding about how it was his fault Sludge was dead... while a battle between Scorponok and Shockwave (for rights of revenge upon Grimlock) raged on around him. Eventually Snarl, Slag, and Swoop decide to get to the Monsterbots' ship while the getting was good, but Grimlock stayed behind with Sludge. Grimlock tried infusing some of his [[spark]] energy into Sludge to revive him, but it seemed to have no effect. Shockwave got the upper hand and let Scorponok escape, and in frustration, Grimlock attacked Shockwave. Grimlock and Shockwave were too busy fighting to notice the return of Slag, Snarl, and Swoop, who reasoned that, while helping Grimlock might not be much of a cause, it still beat being no better than the Monsterbots. They were noticed by Sludge, however, who seemed to have recovered due to Grimlock's treatment after all. The four of them dove into the fray proper, but Grimlock ordered them to go after Scorponok instead. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] was about to get squished by Scorponok, the remaining Dynobots showed up in just the nick of time. At Hot Rod's urgings, Swoop severed the connections keeping Scorponok's head conscious. Grimlock in the mean time had found out Shockwave was using their battle to stall for time so that Soundwave could free him from Skywatch's control. The Decepticon attempted to abandon the fight, but Grimlock stubbornly refused to let him walk away, and rolled out a grenade, which incapacitated them both.
[[Image:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Magnus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Magnus was unaware that Grimlock had watched ''Jurassic Park'', and had already hired a fat man to bring the fences down.]]
By this time [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] had arrived and taken Scorponok into custody. Grimlock and Shockwave were both arrested and taken off-world. Ultra Magnus later told Grimlock that having Scorponok and Shockwave in custody could help offset Grimlock's own sentence. Grimlock wasn't interested, asking only that the blame was put squarely on him and that the other Dynobots' warrants were cancelled. Magnus agreed, and Grimlock was left to muse on the fact that Sludge and his team were alive and well, thanks to him. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

Grimlock was taken to [[Garrus-9]]. When the [[Wreckers]] broke into the jail, Kup and Guzzle were sent to maximum security to fetch Grimlock as back-up. However, upon reaching his cell, they found it was empty. The Decepticon [[Snare]] revealed that Grimlock was "long gone". When asked if [[Overlord]] had killed him, Snare replied that instead he had kept him alive, sending him footage of the pit fighting, forcing to watch the horrific events while he was powerless to intervene. Snare believed it may have driven him mad. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4}}

His location and mental state remain unknown.

===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
{{bigquote|Shadows lengthen. The twilight of the Cybertronian race gathers. The end is nigh.|[[Shokaract]]}}
{{bigquote|Reminds me of the good ol' days.|Grimlock}}

[[Image:BWTheGathering4_Grimlock_KingofBeasts.jpg|thumb|200px|Intelligent, sickle toed murder-lizard.]]

Grimlock was less than thrilled about being forced to go through the [[Maximal]] downsizing. To add insult to injury, the resulting peace meant he had no outlet for his warlike tendencies. As such, he frequently volunteered for any dangerous, potentially risky or outright suicidal missions, and when forced on to a science or exploration vessel, he preferred to spend the entire trip in stasis, rather than dealing with the prolonged inactivity. He had a personalized reformatting chip installed that deliberately seeks out only the strongest, deadliest beast modes (alive or extinct) on a planet. {{storylink|Beast Wars Sourcebook}}

Grimlock was among the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'''s protoforms when the ship crashed on Earth. When [[Razorbeast]] and [[Optimus Minor]] were attempting to "rescue" [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] from [[Magmatron]], the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] detected a spark signature that was apparently off the scale, big and mad. Grimlock showed up and acted as the perfect distraction, making ''very'' short work of the Predacons. (Apparently, he was in a very bad mood after waking up and took it out on the Preds.) Magmatron offered Grimlock the chance to withdraw, and when the incredulous Grimlock refused, the Predacon general attacked. Magmatron narrowly arose as the victor by use of his triple beast modes. Grimlock was knocked out, but later helped to construct the Maximals' new base. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4}}

Later, when [[Prowl II|Prowl]] remarked they had work to do on Earth, with [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]'s Predacon militia still a threat, [[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]] reminded him that they had Grimlock on their side. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1}} The bot in question was patrolling the jungle around the base at the time and bumped into the three-mech team of [[Manterror]], [[Retrax]] and [[Snapper]]. He only noticed Manterror and Retrax however, as Snapper was being crushed under his right foot at the time. While Retrax rolled for his life, Manterror had to face Grimlock on his own, and lost his wings for his trouble. This little group turned out to be a distraction, however, intended to lure the Maximals' big gun away while Ravage led an all-out strike on the base.

[[Image:BWTheAscending4_Grimlock_Convoys_Ravage.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Me Grimlock have to pull newbies out of fire.]]

The former Dinobot wasn't about to be left out in the cold, however, and he returned to base ready for "the main course," which consisted of crushing [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]] under his foot and tearing apart [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and half a dozen other Predacons. Still, even with him and [[Torca]] working overtime, things might have gone poorly without [[Lio Convoy]]'s arrival. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2}}

When Lio Convoy and Ravage led a joint force to stop [[Shokaract]], Grimlock accompanied them. The former Autobot and former Decepticon had a moment of antagonism when the fight started. But once the battle got underway, Grimlock fell in with the Convoys. As Shokaract declared the end of the Cybertronian race, Grimlock seemed to reminisce, even as he transformed to his beast mode and led a charge. He was one of the survivors, although presumably, he would be a victim of Megatron's [[Transformation virus]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comics===

[[Image:Henkei grimlock pack in.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]

When [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Megatron]] and the Decepticons attacked Earth in the 21st century, Grimlock and the Autobots were there to stop them. During a battle in Tokyo, when [[Bumblebee (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Bumblebee]] doused [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Starscream]] with a fire engine's hose, Grimlock exploited the opening to lash the Decepticon with his tail and sending him crashing into Megatron. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}}

Later, Grimlock saved a runaway train when it was forced off the tracks by [[Astrotrain (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Astrotrain]], {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} then joined the other Autobots in battling the rampaging Triple Changer. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Some time later, when the newcomer [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] was brought into the Autobot ranks, he and Grimlock decided to fight immediately upon meeting each other. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 11}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===

Grimlock was part of a small Autobot team led by Optimus Prime who left Cybertron to pursue the [[Energon Cube]] through space. When the giant energy source crashed on Earth, in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Grimlock and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater, and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities (Grimlock, in contrast to his comrades, took the conspicuous form of a tyrannosaurus rex, for reasons best known to himself). Despite their attempts at remianing unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s Roswell.

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{{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}} {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}} {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} {{storylink|Revenge (issue)|Revenge}} {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}

==Games==
===3D Battle-Card Game===
Grimlock battled [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s Decepticon forces under [[Optimus Primal]]'s leadership, alongside several Autobot allies. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

==Toys==
:''Main article: [[Grimlock (G1)/toys]]''

==Merchandise==
:''Main article: [[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock (G1) merchandise]]''

==Trivia==
[[Image:Grimlock Natural History Museum.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Me Grimlock BIG person, so they put Grimlock's statue in Natural History Museum.]]

* There is a Grimlock toy placed in the showcase in the dinosaur section of the [[wikipedia:Natural_History_Museum|Natural History Museum]] in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]].

* An actor in a Grimlock costume was among "live" Transformers one could meet at the 1985 [[Universal Studios Tour]].

* Grimlock's speech impediment is caused by varying conditions, depending on continuity. To explain the difference in UK/US writing styles, Marvel UK (in the 1989 booklet "Transformers: The Facts") explained it as a ruse. In the cartoon it was a result of primitive thought processes. In Dreamwave MTMTE, it is confirmed as the result of a virus, while the [[Transformers Hall of Fame]] blames it on a battle with Scorponok. In ''[[Spotlight: Grimlock]]'', there was a brief mention of a damaged vocal processor. This was not only ignored by subsequent issues, but the rest of the spotlight. Devil's Due didn't bother explaining, they just got him in the "Me Grimlock's" during part three.

* According to [[Gone but Not Forgotten!|Marvel UK #107]]'s letters page, Grimlock considers the 23rd of August 1986 his birthday. It's the date he took over the Transformers letters page. He also thinks he could take out Soundwave in a fight.

* [[Bob Budiansky]] made Grimlock the Autobot Commander mainly because he would contrast with Prime's leadership: Grim had no empathy for humans, he just wanted to fight Decepticons and was ruthless at it. "I thought his different approach would shake up the direction of the book in an exciting way and confound readers’ expectations." <ref>[http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/2009/11/21/todds-take-with-bob-budiansky-the-architect-of-the-transformers/ Metal Machine interview with Bob]</ref> In practice, Grimlock didn't fight the Decepticons during his leadership (apart from the UK's ''[[Ancient Relics!]]'') until the end of it and instead focused his ruthlessness on rogue Autobots, but Furman would later try out the same idea.

* Grimlock is generally regarded as [[Simon Furman]]'s signature character.

* Grimlock's function is Lieutenant Commander instead of Dinobot Commander on his Pretender Classic and Alternator toys. Lieutenant Commander is [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]'s rank. Deal with it, egobot.

[[Image:G2GrimlockArtwork.jpg|thumb|100px|Me Grimlock change into digital champion to save digital world!]]

* Grimlock has his very own fanboy, [[Noise]], who someday wants to grow up and be just like him—a godless killing machine.

* Grimlock once had the words '''Big Grim''' scrawled on his right shoulder. {{storylink|Dark Shadows!}}

* Despite being released in three different color schemes during the ''Generation 2'' toyline, a piece of recolored card artwork—seemingly from the collection of a former [[Hasbro]] employee—has recently surfaced on [[eBay]] (alongside recolored artwork of [[:Image:Swoop_iconic.jpg|Swoop]] and [[:Image:G2SludgeBoxart.jpg|Sludge]]), showing what may have been an intended fourth version of the Grimlock toy for that line. Being orange with teal stripes, it certainly ''looks'' very [[neon|'90s]].

* Grimlock's beast mode in ''The Gathering'' does not actually match any dromaeosaur on record, seeming to combine elements of both the dromaeosaur body type with that of a carnosaur or tyrannosaurid. A fuzor, perhaps? The ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' profile seems to have tried to rectify this by calling him a ''Megaraptor''. Which is fine...except ''Megaraptor'' was recently revealed as a misidentified carnosaur. Let's face it, a [[Beorht|wizard]] did it.

* In "[[The Ascending issue 3]]", Grimlock is shown fighting in his robot mode. His tail weapon appears to take the form of a blaster. In Issue 4, he is the only Transformer, Maximal or Predacon, the same height as the two Convoys.
[[Image:PatLeeGrimlockHead.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Same bot time, same bot channel.]]

* In every instance in which Grimlock is drawn by [[Pat Lee]], Grimlock's eyes/visor protrude past his [[Mouthplate|faceplate]], rather than sitting behind it like normal. This becomes especially pronounced (and comical) towards the end of Dreamwave's [[Prime Directive|first mini-series]].

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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm Grimlock at TFU.info]
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Grimlock Grimlock's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Mechanical Difficulties!

2010-06-28T14:52:49Z

Banjo oz: Added notes on Grimlock's change of speech (1st time occurs here)

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #28
|prev=King of the Hill!
|next=Crater Critters
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #121–122
|prev2=Fire on High!
|next2=Crater Critters
|title="Mechanical Difficulties!"
|image=MarvelUS-28.jpg
|caption=I think that I shall never see/A weapon as deadly as a tree.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=January 1987
|coverdate=May 1987
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[Don Perlin]]
|inkers=[[Ian Akin]] &; [[Brian Garvey]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Janice Chiang]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''Blaster and Goldbug are ordered to catch the Mechanic, at any cost!'''

==Synopsis==
Aided by stolen [[Autobot]] technology, the Mechanic launches a crime wave, stealing high technology equipment and extorting huge payments from the [[Portland]] underworld. Grimlock sends Blaster and Goldbug to find the Mechanic and retrieve their stolen technology, even at the cost of [[human]] lives. Meanwhile, members of the Portland police are also attempting to bring the Mechanic to justice. Believing the Mechanic's super-tools to be of [[Transformer]] origin, the police have been instructed to deal aggressively with any Transformers they encounter. In one attempt to trap the Mechanic, the police and the Autobots hinder each other's progress, and the Mechanic escapes.

The Mechanic calls a meeting of all the crime bosses of the Pacific Northwest, during which he displays modifications to their cars that equip them with heavy weaponry. The police and the Autobots, having come to an agreement to work together, invade this meeting, capturing the crime bosses and the Mechanic's henchman, Juan, but the Mechanic himself escapes once again.

Believing Grimlock to be an unfit commander, and knowing that Grimlock will see their mission to recover the Mechanic as a failure, Blaster and Goldbug decide to head out on their own.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] (3)
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (4)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (8)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (10)

|c3=
* [[Mechanic]] (1)
* [[Juan]] (2)
* [[Deadhead and Fuzzy]] (5)
* [[Detective Altman]] (6)
* [[Detective Greco]] (7)
* [[Mister Bigelow]] (9)
}}

==Errors==
* On page 2, Ratchet's cryogenic sprayer's beam is colored like a laser, though it's drawn like a frost beam.
* In this issue, Goldbug is drawn consistently as Bumblebee's body with Goldbug's head and colored in Bumblebee's color scheme (although he has the correct [[character model]] on the cover).
* The Mechanic's crippling fear of police officers, so important in his previous appearance, seems to have completely disappeared here.
* At one point Goldbug asks, "About what, Commander Grimlock?" From context, it's clear Grimlock just asked him something like, "Me want your opinion, Goldbug," but no such dialog balloon exists.

==Items of note==
[[Image:Human.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Seriously, what is going on?]]
* This is the first Marvel US issue to be sold for $1.00.
* Grimlock speaks in the manner of his cartoon counterpart for the first time in this issue ("Why you not destroy humans?"), and will do so for the rest of his appearances in the comic along with (at least until his demise in "[[Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star]]") a much more "buffoonish" and self-centered personality as well. Later, in Marvel UK's 1989 booklet "[[Transformers: The Facts]]", the writer claims that Grimlock's varying speech pattern is a deliberate ruse on his part, because he considers intellectuals weak, though this is never specifically stated in any story.
* Blaster's plan is kind of ridiculous. Detective Greco carries Blaster (in altmode) into the hangar full of gangsters, singing scat and dancing to music. He pulls out his badge and turns off the music, which is the signal for the police outside to rush in. It's unclear what any of that accomplished.
* ''References to other Transformers continuities/issues:'' the Mechanic acquired his Autobot technology in "[[Funeral for a Friend!]]".

===UK printing===
* This issue marked the beginning of a trend to only use UK covers. From this point on very few U.S. covers would be reprinted for UK issues — and only one by a U.S. artist.
* In issue #121's letter column, Grimlock seems to think that there are toys available of individual Junkions in the U.S.!
*Issue #122 included a bonus 6-page ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|Action Force]]'' strip "Dummy Run!" by [[Steve White]] & [[Geoff Senior]]. It was originally printed in issue #18 of the ''Action Force'' weekly comic.

===Covers (3)===
<gallery>
Image:MarvelUS-28.jpg|'''US Issue 28''' - Guns are one thing, but ''trees''?
Image:MarvelUK-121.jpg|'''UK Issue 121''' - And people say that Animated's villains are goofy!
Image:MarvelUK-122.jpg|'''UK Issue 122''' - I can't see that being a good business plan
</gallery>

* '''U.S. cover:''' The Mechanic vs Goldbug and Blaster by [[Ian Akin]]
* '''UK issue 121 cover:''' Goldbug, Blaster and the Mechanic by [[Jeff Anderson]]
* '''UK issue 122 cover:''' Goldbug, about to be disassembled by Jeff Anderson

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