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Talk:Sludge (FOC)

2013-10-16T01:48:41Z

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I got some pics uploaded for Sludge.I guess you guys can handle the rest?

== Parenthetical ==

Just for my own edification: if I understand the way the Aligned family is being handled, everyone from the games who gets introduced in the cartoon/toyline gets the ''Prime'' parenthetical, correct? How does that work with Sludge, then? And I'm guessing Bruticus is at Prime because one of his decos is going to be released in the ''Prime'' toyline? Thanks. [[User:Magaroja|Magaroja]] 07:31, 12 June 2012 (EDT)

: Yeah, I'm not sure why this is at (Prime). --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:05, 12 June 2012 (EDT)

== Proof that info on page might not be correct ==

Quoting:
"Sludge is the only member of the Lightning Strike Coalition to appear in Fall of Cybertron in his original, pre-Dinobot body."

Actually, the robot mode model for Sludge is a representation of the artwork that was made available and is featured on this very page, clearly depicting his Dino-head on his back.

I have recently managed to pull the mesh and textures from the game, and details can be visually matched to show that it is indeed his Dinobot mode that is featured in the game. The colors are simply all left in the base colors for meshes (grey tones) instead of having the Unreal engine project the editable colors (like they do on Multiplayer meshes), while he is trussed up on the wall, but otherwise, it is identical.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/288/d/d/sludge__is__in_the_game__like__completely__by_xsilverboltx-d6qmrmo.jpg

The only texture I haven't located yet is the Autobot shield, which would go right behind his head (it's a blank grey rectangle on the render here), but the fact it's located there, and that there are drawn "eyes" on the sides of that particular piece means that we are indeed looking at the Apatosaurus head.

The mesh is even setup to accept skeletal deformations, implying that at some point, it was playable.

Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1

2013-04-04T00:30:08Z

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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[February 1]], [[2012]]
|coverdate=February 2011
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|inks by=[[John Wycough]] (pgs. 15–22)
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Bobby Curnow]]
|consulting editor=[[John Barber]]
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'''The Transformers of the 19th century must contend with the Elder Gods.'''

==Synopsis==
Underwater in the [[Great Banks]] by the [[Flemish Cap]] in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1887]], the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] lay silent and waiting. They are activated by a race of [[fish people]], who bring the [[Decepticon]]s to their unearthly city.

[[1888|A year later]], the [[USS Miskatonic|USS ''Miskatonic'']] is traveling to [[Ireland]] when it is attacked by a tentacled and underwater menace. [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who has been hidden aboard the ship, jumps into the water, realizing the creature as an alien lifeform, and swims to the other [[Autobot]]s to warn them.

One week later, in [[San Francisco]], the married [[Tobias Muldoon|Tobias]] and [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty Muldoon]] are walking down a street with their two children when [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], now with a new trolley mode, approaches them. With the invasion of the [[Elder God]]s, Bumblebee needs Tobias's help again. What he needs is 1,000,000 watts of electricity. Muldoon makes it to [[Edison Machine Works]] in [[Schenectady]], [[New York (state)|New York]], a week later, but is refused the absurd amount of electricity by [[Thomas Edison]] himself. One of his workers, [[Nikola Tesla]], finds the prospect intriguing and offers his assistance.

Elsewhere, in [[Port Cenotaph]], [[Nova Scotia]], the fish people surface in the thousands. Hidden underwater, Ironhide observes them, but runs into [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]], who has been pulled into the Elder Gods' servitude. Despite some fight, Ironhide succumbs to Bonecrusher's tentacles.

Two days later, Tesla and Muldoon are on a train in [[Quebec]] to [[Sant Felicien]]. Tesla finds the train strange, as it has not stopped for fuel and it is absent crew. Tesla finds out the secret when the rail ends in [[Ivujivik]], [[Ontario]], and the components of the train reveal themselves to be the [[Autobot]]s [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailblazer]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]. The Autobots travel in foot while the [[human]]s ride in the comforts of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s vehicle mode.

In Port Cenotaph, a boat's two-man crew discover that the city's populace has been changed, and that it is haunted by gigantic robots. Tentacles emerge from the water and pull the boat underwater.

On the north slope of the [[Mare Rurek Glacier]], the Autobots and the humans find what they have been seeking—the Autobot leader, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (7)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (12)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailblazer]] (16)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (17)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (18)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (19)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (23)

|c2=
*[[Skalor]] (1)
*[[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] (3)
*[[Nautilator]] (4)
*[[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]] (5)
*[[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]] (6)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (15)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (20)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (21)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (22)

|c3=
*[[Tobias Muldoon]] (8)
*[[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty Muldoon]] (9)
*[[Toby Muldoon]] (10)
*[[Katherine Muldoon]] (11)
*[[Thomas Edison]] (13)
*[[Nikola Tesla]] (14)

|c4=
*[[Fish people]] (2)
}}

==Notes==
*The fish people are drawn in homage to the [[Pretender]], [[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]], and are most certainly an adaption of the [[Wikipedia:Deep One|Deep Ones]].

===Errors===
*As confirmed by the next issue, the ''USS Mistkatonic'' is supposed to be spelled "Miskatonic" after [[wikipedia:Miskatonic University|Miskatonic University]].
*[[Ivujivik]] is in [[Quebec]], not [[Ontario]].
*[[Sant Felicien]] is slightly mispelled, and although the Saint-Félicien colony town was established in 1882, it was a coal mining and lumber milling hamlet, who's railway was still being built well into the 1890s.

====Covers (3)====
* '''Cover A:''' Art by [[Guido Guidi]], colors by [[Joana Lafuente]]
* '''Cover B:''' Art by [[Livio Ramondelli]]
* '''Cover RIA:''' Art by Guido Guidi and Livio Ramondelli

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</gallery>

===Advertisements===
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Highbrow (G1)

2009-04-13T21:51:50Z

Cypherplex:

{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Headmaster|the Autobot scientist from ''Animated''|Highbrow (Animated)}}
:''Highbrow is an [[Autobot]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] in the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Highbrow.gif|right|261px|thumb|Try to imagine if Perceptor and Sky Lynx had a kid...]]
To put it in terms even your obviously limited intellect can easily understand: "'''Highbrow''' is smarter than you are." No, no, don't allow your comparably plebeian cerebral encumbrance to strain itself beyond endurance in a futile attempt to grasp the intrinsic universal magnitude of Highbrow's innate mental acuity, for it will bear no arboreal reproductive spheres. The ultrascopic trans-infinite sublimity of his diurnal ponderances transcend the circumference of most sentient species' entire thought-spheres, if he does vocalize the notion personally (and you can be certain he will).

The greatest tragedy of his existence is to be clearly so far beyond all those around him, entrapped as they are by their own primitive psyches and abysmal ignorance in a barbaric escalation of pugnacious defenestration and rebuttal. That a paradigmatic mind such as his own should be bound or beholden to a lesser being, especially a rude, primitive swain such as the [[Nebulos|Nebulan]] biped [[Gort]] is a supreme and vexing irony.

:''Japanese name'': '''Gorter''' (see below)
:''Italian name'': '''Cruiserbot'''
:''French-Canadian name'': '''Intellect''' (short for ''intellectuel'', meaning "intellectual")

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
''Lured into [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s clutches by Nebulans hypnotised by [[Mindwipe]], Highbrow battled the Horrorcons, but was defeated and also hypnotised. While Highbrow thus suffered from amnesia, the Decepticons attempted to convince him that they were on his side. Gort, however, was unaffected, and when he recombined with Highbrow, the two ripped off Scorponok's head.'' {{storylink|All in the Minds!}} ''He kept the head without telling the other Autobots, knowing he should destroy it and thus end Scorponok for good, but couldn't bring himself to do it. Though this led to the Decepticons coming for their leader's head, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] told Highbrow he'd done as an Autobot should. To make matters worse, Highbrow was among the Autobots displaced into [[Limbo|Limbo]] by [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and the Future Autobots. {{storylink|Time Wars}}''

When the Transformers gathered by [[Primus]], Highbrow looked ready to punch out [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] if he'd tell [[Darkwing]] ''one more joke'' during the exposition. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}

During [[Unicron]]'s attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Highbrow accidentally got into [[Cloudburst]]'s way and made him steer into the path of Unicron's flame-breath and explode. Jerk. This caused Highbrow to lose it and perform a full frontal assault on Unicron, who clapped his hands and crushed him. It'd be worse if it happened to someone else. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

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====Earthforce====
{{earthforcefiction}}
''Highbrow was among the "new age" Autobots who attended [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s meeting with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] about their more brutal methods. When Grimlock threatened to quit the Autobots, Highbrow cautioned Prime that they were already too short on soldiers to allow this. Instead, Prime seemed all too willing to get rid of Grimlock, and the two of them actually came to blows. After beating some sense into each other, however, Optimus Prime agreed to allow Grimlock his autonomy, to lead "Earthforce" while he and the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'''s crew took off for space. {{storylink|Break-Away!}}''

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Johnny Haymer]] (English)

He was displeased when he discovered Gort was his Headmaster partner. He was hoping for someone who could at least match his own "intellectual capacity". Snob. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}

===Japanese cartoon continuity===
{{note|"Highbrow" is the name of the combined small Master robot and the larger [[transtector]] vehicle/robot body. When separated from his transtector, Highbrow is called Gorter.}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michitaka Kobayashi]] (Japanese)

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====''The Headmasters'' comic====

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Highbrow''' (Headmaster, 1987)

==Notes==
[[Image:G1HighbrowOriginalHead.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"Does this head make me look fat? It does, doesn't it?"]]

* In the television [[commercial]] for [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Headmasters (comic)|Headmasters]]'' limited series, the Autobot and Decepticon Headmasters are shown having different head designs than the ones their Nebulan partners would later turn into. These designs were seemingly never used in any other piece of ''Transformers'' media. The models for most of them, however, turned up in the ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' guidebook.

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1987/Autobot/Highbrow/highbrow.htm Highbrow at TFU.info]
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Highbrow Highbrow's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Chromedome (G1)

2009-04-13T21:50:30Z

Cypherplex:

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

[[Image:Chromedome manga.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"You're such a coward, Wally!"]]
{{note|Chromedome is one of those fun characters whose American and Japanese incarnations were very different. See individual fiction entries below for continuity specific profiles.}}
:''Japanese name:'' '''Chrome''' (see below)
:''Italian name:'' '''Duobot'''
:''French-Canadian name:'' '''Chromedôme'''
:''Hungarian name:'' '''Krómpáncél''' ("Chrome Armor")

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
Chomedome is an academic at heart. He only joined the war effort after the Decepticons destroyed Cybertron's [[Institute for Higher Programming]] where he did his work. He's tried to use his skills as a programmer to bring an end to the war, but so far has only succeeded in instigating a programming "arms" race. Something of a classic computer programming nerd, he's often a frustration to his cool and very image-conscious [[Nebulan]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] partner, [[Stylor]].

Chromedome was damaged during the battle with the Matrix-powered [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] at the end of the [[Matrix Quest]]. {{storylink|All Fall Down (comic issue)|All Fall Down}} Afterwards, while being repaired by [[Fixit]], he suggested going on a "Leg Quest" instead (since his own had been torn off). Funny, funny guy. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm!}}

He was last seen fleeing in terror from [[Unicron]]. Whatever happened to him, it couldn't have been worse than what happened to [[Brainstorm]], [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] in the ensuing battle. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

{{charstubfiction}}

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Kunihiko Yasui]] (Japanese)

After the Decepticons broke into the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], unleashing waves of powerful plasma energy, Chromedome was amongst the group of Autobots flung halfway across the galaxy to [[Nebulos]]. After a misunderstanding—namely, the Nebulans threatening to detonate magnetic bombs they had attached to the Autobots after their capture—Chromedome willingly became a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]. He presumably joined the rest of the Autobots in celebration after [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] was flung into space and a new [[Golden Age]] began on Cybertron.

===Japanese cartoon continuity===
{{note|"Chromedome" is the name of the combined small Master robot and the larger [[transtector]] vehicle/robot body. When separated from his transtector, Chromedome is called '''Chrome'''.}}
====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Hideyuki Hori]] (Japanese)

Four million years ago, Chromedome was one of the diminutive Autobot refugees who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in search of a new home. They eventually landed of the planet [[Master (Headmasters)|Master]], where they managed to create a civilization and live in peace. This peace was eventually disrupted when the [[Decepticon]] [[Sixshot]] attacked an [[Energon (G1)|energon]] mining facility on the planet, and Chromedome's friend [[Abel]] tried to drive him off. Sixshot annihilated Abel and his militia group in front of Chromedome's eyes, and as he cradled his friend's dead body, Chromedome felt hatred towards evil-doers for the first time in his life and vowed vengeance against the Decepticon. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

As the Transformers on Master invented [[Transtector|transtectors]], Chromedome proved himself enough to be granted one, becoming one of the planet's elite Headmaster warriors. [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'s [[second-in-command]] and field commander, he was charged with leading a crack troop of Headmaster soldiers with about one personality between the four of them. Chromedome was notable for often being the guy in charge and being slightly brasher than the rest of this brash lot. Brasher than Armada's [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]]. That's pretty darn brash. Brash. He also picked up romancing [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] when [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] was on walkabout for a new planet and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] was apparently otherwise occupied.

Chromedome had a long history of animosity with [[Sixshot]], dating back to when Sixshot killed his friend Abel before Chromedome became a Headmaster. Things got worse when Sixshot killed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The final straw came when Chromedome was forced to shoot his friend [[Jack (G1)|Jack]] after Sixshot planted a bomb in Jack and reprogrammed him to blow up the Battleship Maximus. He was finally challenged to a one-on-one fight to the death with Sixshot, but they were stopped by [[Daniel Witwicky]], who had managed to open up Sixshot to the idea of aiding the Autobots.

====''The Headmasters'' comic====
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====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
Chromedome was the one to send the six [[Master-Brace|Master-Braces]] to the Autobot [[Pretender|Pretenders]] on Earth. Alongside them he sent a recorded message updating his allies on his battles in space with Decepticon forces, namely those of [[Scorponok (G1)|MegaZarak]], who would become BlackZarak. {{storylink|Birth! Headmaster Jrs|Birth! Headmaster Jrs}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' comic====
Chromedome designed the Transtectors and the Master Suits for the Autobot Headmaster Jrs. {{storylink|Headmaster Jrs Are Born|Headmaster Jrs Are Born}}

He was later left in charge of [[Athenia]], only for him and [[Raiden]] to get beaten by [[Scramble 7]] during a Decepticon assault. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}} He got beaten again alongside [[Brainstorm]] and several others by [[BlackZarak]]. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Chromedome''' w/ '''Stylor''' (1987)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-101'''

Chromedome transforms into a Cybertronic sports coupe of vague origin, though it may be based on the Lamborghini Silhouette due to the similar rear styling. Chromedome is equipped with two non-firing laser rifles which can be mounted in both modes (either in the robot-mode fists or on the rear of the vehicle), and a hood-mounted 'infrared red range-finder' which is the socket for Stylor.

===Transform Jr===
*'''Chromedome''' (1987?)

==Merchandise==
*Chromedome was in Act 3 of [[Takara]]'s ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' (SCF) line of PVC figurines. Like all pieces in this set, he was [[blindpacked]] in both full-color and all-clear versions.
*A [[Silver Chromedome Trophy]] was given away as a [[Lucky Draw]] item (alongside the [[Gold Convoy Trophy]]) in [[TV Magazine]] in 1988.

==Notes==
[[Image:G1ChromedomeOriginalHead.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cheer up, Emo-Head.]]
* In the television [[commercial]] for [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Headmasters (comic)|Headmasters]]'' limited series, the Autobot and Decepticon Headmasters are shown having different head designs than the ones their Nebulan partners would later turn into. These designs were seemingly never used in any other piece of ''Transformers'' media. The models for most of them, however, turned up in the excellent ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' guidebook.

==External links==
*[http://tfu.info/1987/Autobot/Chromedome/chromedome.htm Chromedome at TFU.info]
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Chromedome Chromedome's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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