Death's Head (Animated)

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{{disambig2|Lockdown's ship from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''|the Marvel comics <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent|Death's Head (G1)|, yes?}}
:''The ''Death's Head'' is a starship from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:ThrilloftheHunt_DeathsHead.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Han Solo|It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.]]]]

The '''''Death's Head''''' is the personal vessel of the neutral bounty hunter, [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]. It is a heavily modified IG-2000 class vessel equipped with two Deckard cannons and three Samus blasters, along with Vandarian holographic technology purchased from [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]]<ref>[[The AllSpark Almanac]] page 164</ref>.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{note|Events from [[IDW Publishing]] comics are in italics}}

When Lockdown captured [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] many years in the past, he brought them aboard the ''Death's Head'' in order to take them to [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], but they managed to escape.

Some four million [[Units of time|stellar cycles]] later, Lockdown was hired to bring in [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and tracked him to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}} ''After a brief scuffle with [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], he continued to the planet's surface, not knowing that the female Decepticon had stowed aboard his ship. {{storylink|A Few Loose Strands}}'' Landing in [[Detroit]], Lockdown disguised the ''Death's Head'' as an inconspicuous warehouse before capturing Optimus and tying him down inside the ship. When the other [[Autobot]]s came to save their leader, Lockdown activated a number of defensive turrets, but [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] destroyed them. Lockdown eventually defeated the Autobots and took off in the ''Death's Head'', only to find Ratchet had infiltrated the ship. In the ensuing fight, Ratchet blasted its controls with his [[Electromagnetic pulse|EMP generator]]. With its engines shut off, the ''Death's Head'' crashed into a river and exploded violently. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}}

The damage to Lockdown's ship was apparently not all that it seemed, however, as he used it later on to track down his next target, [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]. He cloaked the ''Death's Head'' near the wreckage of the ''[[Nemesis (Animated)|Nemesis]]'' on the Moon, but soon had to move it when [[Clone number 2716057|it seemed]] Starscream was escaping to Earth. The ship had a stowaway this time as well: Prowl, who wanted to use the ship's sensors to track Starscream. The ''Death's Head'' was again disguised as a building in Detroit during Lockdown and Prowl's temporary partnership. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}}

During Lockdown's third visit to Earth, he captured Prowl and summoned the ''Death's Head'' to [[Tigatron Stadium]] via remote control. The ninja fought back, however, and Lockdown escaped on his ship. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

===''Web of Deception''===
Lockdown had a [[Trobulum]] cage fitted into his ship when Blackarachnia hired him to capture one of the [[Archa Seven arachnid|giant spiders]] which had contaminated her. Lockdown flew his ship to Earth and parked it on the bottom of [[Lake Erie]] while he abducted Optimus Prime and secured the Autobot to a bomb. While it was there, a trio of Autobots may have broken in accompanied by a couple of small [[human]]s and promptly been caught, either by the ship's many automated defenses, or by Lockdown himself. {{storylink|Web of Deception}}
{{note|As "Web of Deception" is a [[multipath adventure]], some accounts of the events may vary.}}

==Notes==
*The Death's Head's class and armament names are taken from other science fiction franchises. IG-2000 is the name of the ship belonging to IG-88, an android bounty hunter from the [[Star Wars]] franchise. The "Deckard cannons" take their names from bounty hunter Rick Deckard, the protagonist from [[wikipedia:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]], while the "Samus blasters" take their names from bounty hunter (are you sensing a pattern here?) [[wikipedia:Samus Aran|Samus Aran]], the hero of the Metroid franchise. Not to mention that the ship itself is named after Marvel Comics' <s>bounty hunter</s> Freelance Peacekeeping Agent [[Death's Head]], who has previously been featured in the Transformers universe, yes?

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