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Bulkhead (Prime)

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:''Bulkhead is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Bulkhead-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Stock image of Bulkhead.]]

'''Bulkhead''' looks huge and menacing, but is actually quite careless and gentle-souled. Though he's neither a [[Ratchet (WFC)|brainiac]] nor a [[Arcee (WFC)|fast runner]], Bulkhead is one of the most sturdy members of [[Team Prime]]. He's afraid of hurting things smaller and more fragile than him, but his new [[human]] friend, [[Miko Nakadai]], has helped him grow past that. He has a low tolerance for jerks and bullies, and is quite happy to let people like that stew in the trouble they've made for themselves, but his better impulses—or at least, needling from those around him—always sway him into helping in the end.

For all his sweetness, he's still a [[Wrecker]] through and through. Yet, despite participating in several major battles and campaigns, his past career has left some painful psychological scars. Being a part of the Autobots' black ops team means you have to do the dirty work, and Bulkhead's seen many horrors and friends meet a bad end. Though saddened by his traumatic experiences with the Wreckers, he's joined up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to end the fight with Megatron, for the sake of all his brothers and comrades.

{{quote|After a long road trip, feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and kick some tailpipe!|Bulkhead on crushin' Cons|"[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Bulkhead was a Wrecker, but unlike his teammates, wound up aboard the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] in the chaos immediately preceding its departure. When the ship subsequently charted a course for [[Velocitron]], Bulkhead's foremost concern was that the planet learn of his comrades' plight back on Cybertron. Later, as the Ark prepared to leave Velocitron, Bulkhead was one of the Autobots to back up [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in a confrontation with [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]], the aggressive Speed Planet co-leader.

The Ark's next stop was the planetoid [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where sabotage caused the ship to crash. Bulkhead was one of the first to escape the crippled ship, and went on to lead the repair effort with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]]. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and Optimus Prime voyaged to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]], Bulkhead grumbled about being left behind, but wound up sounding the alarm moments later when the Decepticons initiated an attack on Junkion. In the battle that followed, Bulkhead pursued [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] into a Junkion excavation site with [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] before joining a concerted attack on the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Bulkhead was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. He joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. Unfortunately, the Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Bulkhead was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), [[Takashi Nagasako]] (Japanese)|[[Hu Qian]] (Chinese), [[Karl Schulz]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Yeong-wung Jeong]] (Korean), [[Salvador Serrano]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Salvador Reyes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Jussi Wahlgren]] (Finnish, seasons 1-2), [[Juhani Rajalin]] (Finnish, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Claudio Dos Santos]] (French), [[Affonso Amajones]] (Portuguese, season 1), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Portuguese, season 2 onwards)}}

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bulkhead was a laborer before joining the [[Wrecker]]s during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. He developed a rivalry with [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} and fought alongside [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and many others. Despite his love of being a Wrecker, he left the team to join [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] squadron during the battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]] {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} early in the war because he considered Optimus to be "the real deal". {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Bulkhead-Primevehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Stock image of Bulkhead's vehicle mode.]]
After the Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bulkhead was pulled away from a woodland area to back up [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], but when the team arrived at the battle site, Cliffjumper and the [[Decepticon]]s were gone. Sometime later, Bulkhead scared off some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, who were fighting [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]. Bulkhead returned to base, and was there when three humans were brought in. Miko questioned him at length about how cool he was. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During a subsequent visit by Agent [[William Fowler|Fowler]], Bulkhead crushed one of [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]'s tools as part of a demonstration, much to his comrade's annoyance. Bulkhead was part of the ultimately unsuccessful mission to retrieve Cliffjumper from a Decepticon [[energon]] mine. After they returned to base empty-handed, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] assigned Bulkhead to watch over [[Miko Nakadai]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:DarknessRising3 disembulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead disembowels an Eradicon.]]
Miko managed to persuade Bulkhead to do some off-roading on the way back to base. Once there, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly left to go patrolling with Bumblebee, leaving Bulkhead in charge. During an impromptu visit by Fowler, Bulkhead managed to prevent him reporting the three kids, but when Fowler was subsequently captured by the Decepticons, Bulkhead was compelled to mount a rescue mission. He [[GroundBridge]]d to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', only to find the three kids had followed him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-BulkheadandMiko.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime)'s transformation scheme prevents Miko Nakadai from being killed.]]
After trying to make sure the kids were safe, Bulkhead climbed aboard the ''Nemesis'' and began trashing Decepticons before discovering Miko had stowed away inside his chest compartment. Inside the ship, the pair eventually ran into Arcee and Bumblebee, who'd rescued Jack and Raf from some more guards. The three Autobots stuck the kids in a store room while they located Fowler in the brig and chased off [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Mission accomplished, they returned to base, where Optimus told off Bulkhead. After Jack decided he was better off without the Autobots in his life, Bulkhead took Miko to visit him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[File:DarknessRising5-BulkheadMiko.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko embraces Bulkhead.]]
Once the Autobots pinpointed the location of the Decepticon [[space bridge]] in orbit, Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead traveled there by GroundBridge, though the height made Bulkhead nervous. They battled hordes of flying Decepticons, until [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] figured out a way to destroy the space bridge, and Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee did so while Optimus kept [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] busy. They safely GroundBridged back to Earth moments before the explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Bulkhead assisted Miko with her science project, holding up her model of the solar system so she could paint it. Unfortunately Ratchet decided to take over the project, relegating Bulkhead to the role of transport. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

Bulkhead and Bumblebee brought a strange pod back from the [[Arctic]] with them. It later turned out the pod contained [[Scraplet]]s, which Bulkhead was particularly frightened by, and Miko was amused by him screaming like a little girl as they hunted for the critters. There turned out to be too many for the Autobots to deal with, but after the kids repaired an energon fuel line for the GroundBridge, Bulkhead used himself as bait to draw them through to the Arctic, where they froze. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:ConJob-Fistbump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|{{Primecap|Bulkhead and Wheeljack share a fist bump.]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack arrived on Earth, however Wheeljack's uncharacteristic silence during Bulkhead's war stories made the latter Autobot suspicious. After Bulkhead questioned Wheeljack on the [[Battle of Darkmount Pass]] and Wheeljack got an important detail wrong, the new arrival was unmasked as a Decepticon imposter. The real Wheeljack arrived and he and Bulkhead threw the imposter out via the GroundBridge. Bulkhead turned down Wheeljack's offer to go exploring the galaxy. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-Bulkheadmace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead brandishing his mace with Arcee and Bumblebee.]]
Bulkhead took part in a convoy when Fowler needed transport for a hi-tech [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] device. When the convoy was attacked by [[MECH]], he reluctantly remained in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] in accordance with Optimus's orders, but when they were attacked by flying Vehicons, the Autobots were forced to use their [[robot mode]]s anyway. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Bulkhead chastised Miko for neglecting her education, and when an energon trace was detected in [[Greece]], he attempted to use the mission as an educational field trip. Their education was cut short as Bulkhead's old enemy Breakdown arrived and the pair fought. Back at base, he alerted the other Autobots to the [[Energon Harvester]] he'd seen depicted in an ancient fresco, and the device was soon tracked down to a museum. The Autobots surrounded the museum while the kids were sent in to steal the Harvester, and fought [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and Breakdown. The Decepticons got away with the Harvester. Bulkhead went alone to Greece, where he managed to single-handedly defeat Knock Out, Breakdown, and Starscream, destroying the Harvester in the process. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:OutHead-BulkheadBreakdown.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Breakdown (Prime) simultaneously mace and hammer each other, causing a shockwave.]]
Bulkhead covered poorly for [[Jack Darby|Jack]] and Bumblebee when the pair went street racing, and was forced to go with Arcee to find them. He got to fight Breakdown again, flattening the Decepticon with a lamp post. {{storylink|Speed Metal}} Bulkhead was present for Ratchet's announcement that he had pinpointed the Decepticon's warship, as well as a downed Autobot ship. Though Bulkhead was hoping to go on the offensive and doing some serious damage to the enemy base, Optimus prioritized the other craft, as it might have contained imperiled comrades. But when Ratchet and Optimus returned form their investigation, Optimus had fallen gravely ill. The Autobot leader had been infected with the Cybonic plague, a disease of Megatron's engineering. Jack suggested that Megatron might have created a cure for the sickness, but Bulkhead told him that was a moot point; as far as they were concerned, Megatron had already perished. The Autobots decided to infiltrate the Decepticon base on the off chance they had the cure in their database nonetheless. Bulkhead stayed back at base while Arcee and Bumblebee went on the covert mission. He provided emotional support as the situation developed. Megatron's inert form was discovered within the Decepticons' base, a cure was retrieved, and Optimus was rendered well again thanks to the efforts of Bumblebee, Arcee and Ratchet. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} Later, Bumblebee and Bulkhead played [[basketball]] together in the base, though Bumblebee's behavior was very odd. Bulkhead, Optimus and Arcee traveled to the Arctic to find a lens the Decepticons had stolen from a telescope in [[Hawaii]], and ended up tangling with a heat ray the Decepticons had built with it. They succeeded in destroying it, though it turned out Megatron had been resurrected in the meantime. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

Optimus took Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate a [[Dark Energon]] reading and found Starscream attempting to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. During the following ruckus, the Autobots found the kids had followed them and tried to send them back to base, only for them to disappear in a GroundBridge accident. It was only when Bulkhead spotted a text message on [[Miko's phone]] that Ratchet could engineer a way to get the kids back from the [[shadowzone (dimension)|other dimension]] they were trapped in. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

[[File:TFPep16DoubleCreatureFeature.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.67|Bulkhead tries to cheer Miko up by suggesting they watch scary movies together.]]
During an altercation with Breakdown on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], Bulkhead was knocked out and Breakdown abducted by MECH. Bulkhead stayed off Optimus's mission to rescue the Decepticon, but Miko persuaded him to go alone. GroundBridging to [[Russia]], Bulkhead forcibly infiltrated the MECH base and rescued Breakdown, though he was forced to pummel both Breakdown and Starscream when the Decepticon jet turned up and ordered Breakdown to destroy Bulkhead. {{Storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Bulkhead was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought [[June Darby|Jack's mom]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

[[File:MetalAttraction-stuck.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to pull Arcee (Prime), who has become magnetized to Bulkhead (Prime)'s back.]]
Bulkhead and Arcee, inadvertently joined by Miko, investigated a magnetic disturbance. They came across Breakdown and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] fighting over a [[polarity gauntlet]], and during the battle, Bulkhead and Arcee were magnetically fused together by the device. They followed the Decepticons to an abandoned gas station, where another fight broke out, and the two Autobots came unstuck. Airachnid tried to escape in her helicopter form, but Bulkhead grabbed her and threw her at Breakdown. He and Arcee returned to base triumphantly with the gauntlet. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:RockBottom-Bulkheadpassion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) struggles to hold a boulder from crushing him and Miko.]]
Arcee and Bulkhead investigated an [[Stripped energon mine|abandoned energon mine]] with the kids. Bulkhead protected Miko from a cave in, but ended up having to support the ceiling. Miko banged a rock on his foot to attract help, but instead they were found by Starscream. Things looked grim for Bulkhead until Arcee came to his rescue, and the two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}} Bulkhead joined the others in investigating a [[Harbinger|wrecked Decepticon ship]] and found Starscream all webbed up. Offering to defect, Starscream pointed them to the other half of the crashed ship, where they were attacked by Airachnid, wielding an [[Immobilizer|experimental Decepticon weapon]] that froze Bulkhead in his tracks. Bulkhead was locked in position until the Autobots retrieved the weapon and Ratchet used it to unfreeze him. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}}

[[File:TMI-Mikojogsmemories.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to jog Bulkhead's memories while he writes the synthetic energon formula at the Autobot base.]]
Miko and Bulkhead sneaked into a monster truck rally together. A week or so later, during a mission to secure a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Miko accidentally discharged the cylinder into Bulkhead's brain. Though at first Bulkhead seemed fine, he began writing complex equations for synthetic energon, and it rapidly became clear that the cylinder's energy was overwriting his mind. While the other Autobots attempted to secure the cylinder, Miko tried to help Bulkhead retain his memories by taking him to the monster truck track. They were found there by Knock Out and Breakdown, who tried to take Bulkhead's head, but during the attempt, Miko again triggered the energy to discharge from Bulkhead into the sky. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state until Miko managed to wake him with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

During an energon shortage, Bulkhead and the other Autobots took part in a number of missions to try to intercept the Decepticon energon shipments. When Ratchet developed [[Synthetic Energon]] and tried it on himself, the medic was amped up enough to knock Bulkhead through a wall. Their medic accompanied them on another mission, but his changes in personality began to concern Bulkhead and the others. After he knocked Bulkhead flying and went off on his own, the other Autobots were forced to track him down before he could damage himself. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

The Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons stealing a space bridge power supply from a military base. When Raf was gravely injured, Optimus and Bulkhead went on alone, stealthily infiltrating the ''Nemesis'' and Bulkhead bridged back to base with the power supply while Optimus went after Megatron. Bulkhead watched as Ratchet and [[June Darby]] fought to save Raf's life. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} As the Autobots attempted to rescue Optimus from a zone flooded with Dark Energon, Bulkhead kept Megatron busy while the others pulled Optimus out. Back at base, the Autobots and their human friends puzzled over the natural disasters suddenly plaguing Earth, and discovered that [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] resided at the center of the Earth. Bulkhead and the others began investigating the sites of the earthquakes that had struck when the Dark Energon volcano erupted. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee came to Optimus's aid as he battled stone Unicron avatars. To their great surprise, help came in the form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. Together with the Decepticon leader, the Autobots stepped through the GroundBridge into [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Though Bulkhead was hampered by the influence of the Dark Energon, and during their fight against [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]] almost fell from the walkway, they reached Unicron's spark chamber. Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee stayed outside to fend off the anti-bots. Following Unicron's defeat, they entered the spark chamber, only for Optimus to fail to recognize them, and they had to GroundBridge back to base without him. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Bulkhead and the others scoured the globe for the space bridge, but it wasn't until Ratchet and Bulkhead were contacted by a wounded Starscream that they obtained information on the space bridges location. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the space bridge and secured it so that they could send Jack and Arcee to Cybertron. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bulkhead attacked him and was easily thrown aside, twice. Luckily it all turned out, and Bulkhead and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2-Forge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) wielding the Forge of Solus Prime.]]
Bulkhead and Bumblebee were responding to an ancient Autobot signal separately, but when Bulkhead arrived, he found Bumblebee unable to transform as his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] had been taken. They quickly worked out MECH was responsible. Bumblebee later talked Bulkhead into taking him on another mission, on which they ran into Knock Out and Breakdown. Bulkhead got to fight his nemesis again while Bumblebee chased Knock Out. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} He almost had to perform T-cog transplant surgery, but was judged unfit by Ratchet. He did get to go on an artifact retrieval mission, and spent some time hitting Breakdown before getting hold of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and using it to knock the Decepticon flying. Unfortunately moments later Bulkhead was bushwhacked by Megatron who got away with the Forge. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:LooseCannons Wheeljack works on bomb.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Wheeljack (Prime) attempts to defuse a bomb attached to Bulkhead (Prime).]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack returned to Earth, but when his fellow Wrecker decided to recklessly go after [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], Bulkhead opted to go along. The encounter ended with Bulkhead a hostage with a bomb on his chest as a lure to draw out Optimus. Though Wheeljack tried to defuse the bomb, Bulkhead opted to go the self-sacrifice route, and was only stopped from doing so by Wheeljack, who had realized Optimus was right. Wheeljack and Optimus forced Dreadwing into defusing the bomb, saving Bulkhead's life. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet as they got more information from Starscream. This led to an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bulkhead caught his car after it plunged from a bridge. Back at base, they soon established that the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus and began searching for the MECH base. Though they located the hideout, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one, and after Optimus dealt with the situation, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Responding to an energon signal, Bulkhead accidentally got himself beamed up to the Decepticon warship. After encountering and offlining Starscream (or [[Starscream clone (Prime)|a near approximation]]), and narrowly avoiding Megatron, he found the ship's power core and disabled it with his wrecking ball. The ship crashed, allowing him to disembark and drive back to base, where he found the others had captured Airachnid. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Bulkhead took part in an attack on it with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

Having found the locations of four artifacts, the Autobots started going on missions to retrieve them. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Bulkhead was sent through the Groundbridge to retrieve one of the artifacts. {{storylink|Triangulation}} He landed up in a volcanic area near the equator and was first subjected to combat with the Insecticon [[Hardshell]]. After defeating the Decepticon, he discovered that the relic he was after was [[Tox-En]]. Leaving a grenade and a false trail for the Insecticons to follow, he carried the Tox-En up a nearby volcano to dispose of it only for the Insecticons caught up with him as he reached the top. Bulkhead managed to overcome the trio and destroy the Tox-En, but as he was stepping back through the GroundBridge, Hardshell shot him from behind, {{Storylink|Toxicity}} and his smoking body was flung through the bridge into the Autobot base. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Ratchet worked frantically to save him, and eventually succeeded. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state, with Ratchet unwilling to operate further until he regained some strength. {{storylink|Hurt}} Bulkhead later regained consciousness and was even able to take a few steps, with the help of Miko acting as drill sergeant. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} His recovery continued to be slow, and when [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived, he was convinced the others were trying to replace him, despite their assurances otherwise. During another mission, Bulkhead tried to convince Ratchet to let him go help, but after Smokescreen went instead and made the mission a success, Bulkhead admitted that the new Autobot did well, then sadly dragged himself back to his quarters. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

He continued to pressure Ratchet to let him go back into combat, and was annoyed by Smokescreen's suggestion that he could use the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] as a "crutch". Finally his badgering paid off when Ratchet was convinced to let him help, though Ratchet sent him to protect Raf who was trying to hack into a satellite. Bulkhead arrived just in time to stop what he assumed was Breakdown from destroying Raf's house, but was shocked to discover that Breakdown was being controlled by Silas—now calling himself "Cylas"—and found his injuries were still hampering his fighting ability. When Smokescreen helped him defeat "Cylas", he gained a new respect for the newbie, especially when he learned that Smokescreen studied the Wreckers mission reports. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Bulkhead was part of a Team Prime mission to search for an Iacon relic that turned out to be a wild goose chase set up by Megatron. They soon found the real prize—the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}} He, Arcee and Bumblebee were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

[[File:HardKnocksBulkheadDreadwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead scores a hit on Dreadwing.]]
Smokescreen and Bulkhead were sent to find one of the Omega Keys, and Bulkhead sent his companion after the key while he faced Dreadwing. During the fight, Bulkhead managed to get the better of the Decepticon and used Dreadwing's own bomb against him. Unfortunately the key was taken by [[Starscream (WFC)|parties]] unknown. The Autobots later discovered that Smokescreen was the final relic, but located their friend too late to save him from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering the final key in exchange for surgical help. Bulkhead accompanied Optimus and Ratchet out to Starscream's location, only for them to realize too late that they'd been tricked, and Starscream got away with all three of the Autobots' three Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

Bulkhead found himself in a tricky position when Miko assumed that she'd be coming to Cybertron with the Autobots. He equipped himself with the [[Immobilizer]] when the Autobots traveled to Cybertron, and employed the weapon during the battle against the Decepticons, enabling them to regain the Omega Keys. The Autobots located the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Bulkhead was forced to hand over his key in exchange for Miko. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bulkhead returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Bulkhead and Miko bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Unable to contact the others, Bulkhead and Miko headed to a Wrecker meeting spot to try to rendezvous with Wheeljack. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Their patience was rewarded when Wheeljack turned up, having escaped the Decepticons. They watched as he blew up some of the Vehicons that were sent after him. {{storylink|Scattered}} The trio decided that blowing up an energon mine would be the best way to attract the attention of nearby Autobots. While doing so, they were attacked by a giant metal dragon which Bulkhead punched in the head. Even Wheeljack luring it into the energon mine to blow it up didn't work, but the three Wreckers were rescued by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and reunited with most of the rest of Team Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Bulkhead and Wheeljack provided a diversion at the base of [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], lobbing grenades and destroying Decepticons while the other Autobots attacked by other means. The pair were eventually captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], but when Optimus Prime returned and joined the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Bulkhead was not ready when Wheeljack lobbed their old lobbing ball at him, and it bounced off his chest, nearly crushing Miko when it landed. Ultra Magnus took the two Wreckers to [[Scotland]] with him, to investigate Decepticon activity there. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Bulkhead found himself playing conciliator between Magnus and Wheeljack, as the pair continued to get on each other's nerves. The fact that Wheeljack had brought Miko along didn't help, but when they encountered the Predacon, Bulkhead found himself battling the beast with his fellow Autobots while Miko went for help. The fight didn't end well, as one of Wheeljack's grenades brought the cavern down on them, and as a result Bulkhead was disappointed when Wheeljack opted to leave the team rather than remain under Magnus's command. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} By the time Magnus and Bulkhead had flown back to base, Wheeljack had been talked into staying. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:Team Prime Final.jpg|left|210px|thumb|upright=1.4|Team Prime, including the newest member.]]
During a mission to secure energon, Bulkhead teamed up with Smokescreen to scout out an abandoned energon mine. They emerged without finding anything. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons started stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Bulkhead was part of a team which turned up too late to prevent a theft, but at least he got to see Prime defeat Soundwave. He and Smokescreen were left at base to guard the prisoner while the others went to Antarctica, however Soundwave reactivated, knocking the pair out. {{storylink|Minus One}} When they recovered, they found that Soundwave had abducted Ratchet. Fortunately it turned out a piece Smokescreen had blasted off of Laserbeak would be useful in finding the Decepticon warship. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Bulkhead and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} The three Wreckers were ordered to take the bridge, however no sooner did they reach their target than Soundwave bridged them to another part of the ship. By the time they reached the bridge again, it had already been captured by Jack and Miko. With the warship until their control, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron and used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. After Optimus's obligatory speech, Bulkhead and Miko had a tearful farewell before he returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Bulkhead set to work building a new space port, assisted by Vehicons. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, Bulkhead and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Bulkhead was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), TBA (Japanese)|[[Nicolas Matthys]] (French), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Luis Daniel Ramírez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:BulkheadArrivesSickAsABot.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Remember the little Namekian you passed on the way to Guru's? On his way to the humans with the password. By now, he's probably already there and they're about to summon the dragon.]]After Cybertron's rebirth, a statue of Bulkhead was constructed in his honor, {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} but Bulkhead himself would end up blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

After [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] accidentally absorbed the contents of a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reminded of Bulkhead's own experience with such a device. {{storylink|Brainpower}} Bumblebee later recalled a time when Bulkhead challenged him to arm wrestling and they almost destroyed two levels of Omega One. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

[[File:BulkheadRIDV-Mode.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|Big Green wheels.]]
Bulkhead was summoned to Earth by Optimus Prime, and while he arrived ahead of the Prime, his appearance through the [[GroundBridge]] was timely, coinciding with Bumblebee, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]], [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], and [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] being infected with a malware virus carried by the Energon vampire [[Wingcode]]. Bulkhead reined in the panicked Grimlock, who had run off to do ''something'' to help (but with no idea ''what''), engaging him in a brief fight before physically dragging Grimlock back to the scrapyard unconscious. After settling him with some calming car-smashing, as well as tranquil thoughts about [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]-punching, the two Autobots set about formulating a plan - although the pair were forced to admit they were "not really thinkers." In spite of this, Grimlock came up with a clever ruse to trap Wingcode based on her hunger for more Energon, trapping her in a cave where she could not fly, caught between the two Autobots. Once pummeled into submission, her nano-cells were used as an antidote, restoring the sick Autobots, and with the mission wrapped up, Bulkhead declared he'd like to hang around until Optimus' arrival. He and Grimlock went off for some recreational granite-punching... although Bulkhead was less than gruntled to hear the [[Dinobot (RID)|Dinobot]]'s critique of his kicking technique. {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

[[File:FiveFugitives Bulkhead explosion.jpg|thumb|left|300px|You can win, you feel great. You. Can. Do. This!]]
He encountered [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] when called in by Bumblebee to aid in the Decepticon's capture, initially underestimating his lupine adversary. When the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] became distracted (i.e. arrested) by the arrival of [[Dropforge]], he pursued Steeljaw to a natural gas refinery, only to find himself locked out of the facility by one of the Decepticon's subsonic force fields. He cleverly switched to "plan B", sneaking in via one of the empty pipelines, but Steeljaw detected this cunning via the refinery's security system and detonated the gas in the pipe. Bulkhead punched his way out of the pipe, then regrouped with the other Autobots who had captured the mind-controlled Dropforge and made their way to his location. Together they confronted Steeljaw and defeated his plan to blow up [[Crown City]], but were unable to stop his escape. {{storylink|Five Fugitives}}

[[File:FiveFugitivesBulkhead.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|"Destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin! You must destroy to create! That is the law of the universe!"]]
Optimus finally made the rendezvous on Earth, bringing Ratchet, Windblade, Jazz and Drift with him, having determined that the High Council were mind controlling the population of Cybertron and were planning to invade Earth. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron to expose the council, Bulkhead and the others remained on Earth to fight the invasion. A signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Bulkhead was the first to locate the advance force, concealed by a [[Light Bender]]. During the ensuing battle, he was hit by weapons fire, but the damage was minor enough that he recovered in time to watch the destruction of the space bridge portal that had opened. The team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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====IDW ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:PrimeComicBulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Bulkhead was present at the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot's Earth base]] when [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] arrived for the first time. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet Bulkhead practise.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"I need practise like Optimus needs a face."]]
As Ratchet unveiled the [[Safe]], Bulkhead was unimpressed that he thought they needed more training. He threw himself into it though, deciding that the best defense was to smash everything he could. In doing so, he inadvertently uncovered and activated a nuclear missile which had been hidden in the base. Unimpressed, Optimus ordered him to hold up the ceiling while Ratchet and Raf dealt with the missile's warhead. Afterwards, Ratchet suggested Bulkhead and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Bulkhead, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Bulkhead struggled to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree, while enduring a mocking from Arcee and Jack. When Fowler arrived with the news that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], Bulkhead offered him a "Cybertron-size" mince pie. He and Arcee were left to mind the base with the kids while the other went to deal with the Decepticon problem, and the kids suggested the pair try to find something they had in common. They eventually discovered their mutual love of ice skating, and turned the base into an ice rink. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

Bulkhead played ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' with Raf, until suddenly the game put Raf into a hypnotic trance and made him open the GroundBridge. Bulkhead was sure he'd get blamed for this somehow, and explained to Optimus that it was only a ''minor'' problem, but moments later the Vehicons started coming through. Bulkhead fought them alongside the other Autobots until Raf was able to loop the GroundBridge, sucking the Decepticons back through. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] woke Bulkhead with the news that the [[President of the United States]] had been kidnapped. Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots visited the [[Grand Canyon]] where he and Ratchet protected [[Air Force One]] while the others defeated Starscream and rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

[[File:Titan4.9 Bumblebee and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Don't be like that, Bumblebee. I didn't mean to eat the last [[chocolate-covered wheel-nut]]."]]
Bulkhead and Arcee headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Bulkhead and Bumblebee retrieved Knock Out's [[neuron refractor]] from China, unaware that a MECH agent had stowed away in it. During [[Novo|Agent Novo]]'s escape from the Autobot base, Bulkhead was almost hit by grenades, and Novo kidnapped Miko. The Autobots searched for Miko, and located the MECH base in time for Novo, now occupying a mechanoid body, to return Miko. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples, Bulkhead bobbed for engine blocks. He accompanied Optimus Prime to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, but wasn't much help in fighting [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]]'s forces there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Following a successful solo mission to destroy a Decepticon energon store, Bulkhead was ambushed in the [[Alaska]]n forest by Megatron's forces. He was taken back to the ''Nemesis'', where Megatron stuck him in an [[Ultra Prison]], a device which would slowly erase his mind. Luckily Bulkhead had an emergency connection to [[Miko's phone]], and the alerted Autobots brought the three kids to the ship to rescue him. Later Miko said he could thank her by treating her to some monster truck rally. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

Bulkhead took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]], and did an admirable job at protecting the rear with his wrecking ball. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Bulkhead stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] specifically demanded Optimus and Bulkhead come after the two Decepticons took over a TV studio. The Autobots found themselves forced to run the ''[[Down and Out]]'' course, lest the Decepticons' hostages be harmed. Luckily Bulkhead had watched the show with Miko, so he knew where many of the traps were, though the Decepticons had made a few changes. The pair managed to get through the course and rescue the hostages, leading to Knock Out and Breakdown's defeat at the hands of Arcee. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic====
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====''Beast Hunters'' comic====
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. After that threat was dealt with, they were promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Bulkhead, [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] and [[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]] leading one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Bulkhead and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Bulkhead clumsily tried to explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks, though Arcee needed to step in to clarify for him. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

====IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[File:IDWRID3 Bulkhead at work.jpg|thumb|right|210px]]
Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship, though Bulkhead thought they should let Bee know they were there. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Bulkhead. Bulkhead and Arcee were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the [[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]] prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Bulkhead subsequently took part in a joint operation by the teams which succeeded in capturing the Decepticon. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Bulkhead dozed off while monitoring Team Bee. He later accompanied Ultra Magnus and Arcee on another visit to the team. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} Once Ultra Magnus filled the others in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy tasked with finding the identity of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]] leader, Bulkhead was thankful that they no longer needed to keep secrets from their old friend. The Autobots subsequently mounted another operation to track down Sect leader [[Overhead]], which resulted in them all almost being sucked into a black hole created by Overhead setting her space bridge to self-destruct. In the aftermath, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Bulkhead and the others loaded them onto Ultra Magnus's ship to go back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] retrieved some Cybertronian weapons, Bulkhead spent hours in the desert fruitlessly trying to get one of them to work. Just as he was about to give up, he was abruptly attacked by [[Ripclaw]], who inflicted a [[mech-venom]] sting on him. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 9}} Following the fight, Bulkhead was left inching nearer and nearer to shutdown. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 10}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
[[File:FullofFire BB Ratchet and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left]]
Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert to test new weapons Ratchet had constructed, though Bulkhead wondered whether it was wise to do so in the open. Ratchet put this down to jealousy that Bumblebee's [[Eagleshot Bow]] had a longer range than the [[Dragon Grinder|Rhino Blade]] Bulkhead had been equipped with. Once the trio were joined by Optimus, they came under attack from no less than six Predacons. Luckily the new weapons gave the Autobots the edge they needed, and Bulkhead unleashed his on both [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurr]] and [[Blight (Prime)|Blight]]. The enemy soon fled, though Optimus was pessimistic about the victory. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Bulkhead was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
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===Precursor World===
Many incarnations of Bulkhead were members of the [[Green Order]]. One group of Bulkheads were taking in the natural splendor of the [[Green Planet]] when their commander [[Green Tender Convoy]] was warned of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|interdimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] by the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The_old_universe|eponymous supreme leader]].

Another group supported their leader when the dimension-hopping [[Seacon (BWII)|pirate]] [[Sea Phantom]] arrived to plunder the Green Order's [[Creation Matrix (Generations)|Creation Matrix]].{{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)}}

* Bulkhead was phoned up by the human pastry maker{{w|Strawberry Shortcake}}, who invited him to the Berryfest Princess Parade to have glittery sparkles dumped on him. Unable to get a word in edgewise, he told Optimus that the call was for him. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Strawberry Shortcake|Strawberry Shortcake and Bulkhead}}

* Bulkhead and Megatron joined Strawberry and the [[My Little Pony|ponies]] [[Applejack]], [[Pinkie Pie]], and [[Rainbow Dash]] in scatting "{{w|Deck the Halls}}". Bulkhead's extended scat sequence, however, did not find favor among the Autobots or Megatron, causing him to awkwardly laugh it off. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}} Undeterred, Bulkhead rejoined this multiversal musical grouping in singing "{{w|Jingle Bells}}". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

* Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission, where they would be backed up by [[Batman]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

* Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet and Bumblebee as they used the [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]] mech to plow through legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

== Games ==
=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game bulkhead.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|My shield-breaking attack is essentially transforming, tripping, and falling on top of my enemy. ''Awesome...'']]
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Salvador Serrano]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Pascal Casanova]] (French)}}
The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Bulkhead was found in some sort of tomb by Miko. Almost immediately, he encountered Starscream who played on his life by nearly collapsing the whole cave on him. Thankfully, Bulkhead and Miko escaped, and the big guy unleashed tenfold on Starscream. However, one of the Vehicons managed to swipe Miko and take her captive.

Optimus regrouped with Bulkhead later to track a Decepticon signal, though Bulkheads loud speaking and noises alerted Megatron & Starscream to their presence. Bulkhead got another chance to lock fists with Starscream while Optimus fought Megatron. Ultimately, Optimus was trapped in rubble, but Bulkhead managed to get aboard the Nemesis by taking Starscream hostage (in his own ship!).

Starscream tricked Bulkhead, however, into bringing him into a room where he was ambushed by Vehicon troopers. Yet again, Bulkhead came out on top of the pile with Starscream retreating in defeat. Though, Thunderwing's escape from the ship resulted in Bulkhead having to find an alternate route out of the room to join up with the other Autobots.

The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Bulkhead was pretty shaken up by Megatron, but was the one who took Arcee in for medical care. Bulkhead later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Optimus sent Bulkhead out on several missions. His first two consisted of Bulkhead retrieving Dark Energon shards from a Dark Energon mine before the Decepticons could use them to raise an army of Terrorcons. Before the mission's end, Bulkhead had to face off against Soundwave and defeat him within the mine. Next, Bulkhead was sent to infiltrate the Nemesis and retrieve Energon stores in the Decepticons' possession. Before Bulkhead could leave the Decepticon ship, he had to contend with Starscream, and defeat him as well. Bulkhead's last missions brought him back to Autobot headquarters. The Autobots' base had been infiltrated by the Decepticons, who had used Scraplets to make its systems go haywire. After Bulkhead collected all of the Scraplets, returning the base's functions to normal, he fought Megatron and defeated the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Bulkhead and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Bulkhead and Miko could help out by beating up some Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Bulkhead (Prime)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Bulkheadsmile.jpg|thumb|It's really weird the longer you look at it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderBulkhead.jpg|thumb|Now properly desaturated, Bulkhead is ready for a role in ''War for Cybertron''.]]
* Bulkhead is, of course, an homage to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], even using a wrecking ball-like mace.
* When [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] was briefly brought in early in the design process of ''Prime'', Bulkhead was originally intended to be [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]. However, as the show evolved, the writers said they realized that they were essentially writing a new Bulkhead, and the character was brought in.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/site-updates-18/wtftfw-podcast-episode-123-with-derrick-j-wyatt-now-online-171018/</ref> Later, on a featurette on the ''Transformers: Prime Season 1'' Blu-ray, [[Rik Alvarez]] admitted that because of the death of [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', they didn't want to confuse kids with a living Ironhide.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/transformers-prime-season-1-blu-ray-review-174448/</ref> It's likely that the former story was a cover for the latter, for spoiler reasons.
* For such a big guy, he runs really ''fast''.
* Bulkhead's chin piece is actually a cover for his lower lip, as is evident whenever he smiles and in his ''Robots in Disguise'' character design.
* Bulkhead's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Bulkhead parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop. While all the characters in the game are hue-shifted from their normal colorations, Bulkhead ended up noticeably less-different than his peers.
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Another Bulkhead]] seems to have completely borrowed the look of this Bulkhead.

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Bulkhead has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Berserk Mode''' (バーサークモード ''Bāsāku Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on his box-back photo, in this mode Bulkhead holds the [[Nebula Scythe]], with [[R.A.]] attached to his right arm, [[B.B.]] on his right shoulder, and [[C.L.]] attached to the mounting point behind his head.

*'''Shootgize Galaxy Launcher''' (シュートジアイズガラクシーランチャー ''Shūtojiaizu Garakushī Ranchā'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., Gora, O.P., Zori
: Yyyyeah. Revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", in this battle mode Bulkhead holds the [[Galaxy Launcher]] Super Combo Weapon, while he's also got O.P. on his left forearm, B.B. on his back, and inexplicably [[Gora]] on his right forearm with [[Zori]] also on his back. And as far as can be told, "Shootgize" seems to be a bad portmanteau of "shoot" and "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bulkhead''' (バルクヘッド ''Barukuheddo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Gébǎn''' (隔板, "Bulkhead")

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/bulkhead Bulkhead's character page @ Hubworld.com]

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Bulkhead (Prime)

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Danieltheminer7:

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:''Bulkhead is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Bulkhead-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Stock image of ''Prime'' Bulkhead.]]

'''Bulkhead''' looks huge and menacing, but is actually quite careless and gentle-souled. Though he's neither a [[Ratchet (WFC)|brainiac]] nor a [[Arcee (WFC)|fast runner]], Bulkhead is one of the most sturdy members of [[Team Prime]]. He's afraid of hurting things smaller and more fragile than him, but his new [[human]] friend, [[Miko Nakadai]], has helped him grow past that. He has a low tolerance for jerks and bullies, and is quite happy to let people like that stew in the trouble they've made for themselves, but his better impulses—or at least, needling from those around him—always sway him into helping in the end.

For all his sweetness, he's still a [[Wrecker]] through and through. Yet, despite participating in several major battles and campaigns, his past career has left some painful psychological scars. Being a part of the Autobots' black ops team means you have to do the dirty work, and Bulkhead's seen many horrors and friends meet a bad end. Though saddened by his traumatic experiences with the Wreckers, he's joined up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to end the fight with Megatron, for the sake of all his brothers and comrades.

{{quote|After a long road trip, feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and kick some tailpipe!|Bulkhead on crushin' Cons|"[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Bulkhead was a Wrecker, but unlike his teammates, wound up aboard the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] in the chaos immediately preceding its departure. When the ship subsequently charted a course for [[Velocitron]], Bulkhead's foremost concern was that the planet learn of his comrades' plight back on Cybertron. Later, as the Ark prepared to leave Velocitron, Bulkhead was one of the Autobots to back up [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in a confrontation with [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]], the aggressive Speed Planet co-leader.

The Ark's next stop was the planetoid [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where sabotage caused the ship to crash. Bulkhead was one of the first to escape the crippled ship, and went on to lead the repair effort with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]]. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and Optimus Prime voyaged to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]], Bulkhead grumbled about being left behind, but wound up sounding the alarm moments later when the Decepticons initiated an attack on Junkion. In the battle that followed, Bulkhead pursued [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] into a Junkion excavation site with [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] before joining a concerted attack on the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Bulkhead was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. He joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. Unfortunately, the Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Bulkhead was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), [[Takashi Nagasako]] (Japanese)|[[Hu Qian]] (Chinese), [[Karl Schulz]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Yeong-wung Jeong]] (Korean), [[Salvador Serrano]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Salvador Reyes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Jussi Wahlgren]] (Finnish, seasons 1-2), [[Juhani Rajalin]] (Finnish, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Claudio Dos Santos]] (French), [[Affonso Amajones]] (Portuguese, season 1), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Portuguese, season 2 onwards)}}

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bulkhead was a laborer before joining the [[Wrecker]]s during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. He developed a rivalry with [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} and fought alongside [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and many others. Despite his love of being a Wrecker, he left the team to join [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] squadron during the battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]] {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} early in the war because he considered Optimus to be "the real deal". {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Bulkhead-Primevehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Stock image of Bulkhead's vehicle mode.]]
After the Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bulkhead was pulled away from a woodland area to back up [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], but when the team arrived at the battle site, Cliffjumper and the [[Decepticon]]s were gone. Sometime later, Bulkhead scared off some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, who were fighting [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]. Bulkhead returned to base, and was there when three humans were brought in. Miko questioned him at length about how cool he was. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During a subsequent visit by Agent [[William Fowler|Fowler]], Bulkhead crushed one of [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]'s tools as part of a demonstration, much to his comrade's annoyance. Bulkhead was part of the ultimately unsuccessful mission to retrieve Cliffjumper from a Decepticon [[energon]] mine. After they returned to base empty-handed, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] assigned Bulkhead to watch over [[Miko Nakadai]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:DarknessRising3 disembulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead disembowels an Eradicon.]]
Miko managed to persuade Bulkhead to do some off-roading on the way back to base. Once there, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly left to go patrolling with Bumblebee, leaving Bulkhead in charge. During an impromptu visit by Fowler, Bulkhead managed to prevent him reporting the three kids, but when Fowler was subsequently captured by the Decepticons, Bulkhead was compelled to mount a rescue mission. He [[GroundBridge]]d to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', only to find the three kids had followed him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-BulkheadandMiko.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime)'s transformation scheme prevents Miko Nakadai from being killed.]]
After trying to make sure the kids were safe, Bulkhead climbed aboard the ''Nemesis'' and began trashing Decepticons before discovering Miko had stowed away inside his chest compartment. Inside the ship, the pair eventually ran into Arcee and Bumblebee, who'd rescued Jack and Raf from some more guards. The three Autobots stuck the kids in a store room while they located Fowler in the brig and chased off [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Mission accomplished, they returned to base, where Optimus told off Bulkhead. After Jack decided he was better off without the Autobots in his life, Bulkhead took Miko to visit him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[File:DarknessRising5-BulkheadMiko.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko embraces Bulkhead.]]
Once the Autobots pinpointed the location of the Decepticon [[space bridge]] in orbit, Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead traveled there by GroundBridge, though the height made Bulkhead nervous. They battled hordes of flying Decepticons, until [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] figured out a way to destroy the space bridge, and Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee did so while Optimus kept [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] busy. They safely GroundBridged back to Earth moments before the explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Bulkhead assisted Miko with her science project, holding up her model of the solar system so she could paint it. Unfortunately Ratchet decided to take over the project, relegating Bulkhead to the role of transport. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

Bulkhead and Bumblebee brought a strange pod back from the [[Arctic]] with them. It later turned out the pod contained [[Scraplet]]s, which Bulkhead was particularly frightened by, and Miko was amused by him screaming like a little girl as they hunted for the critters. There turned out to be too many for the Autobots to deal with, but after the kids repaired an energon fuel line for the GroundBridge, Bulkhead used himself as bait to draw them through to the Arctic, where they froze. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:ConJob-Fistbump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Wheeljack (Prime) share a fist bump.]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack arrived on Earth, however Wheeljack's uncharacteristic silence during Bulkhead's war stories made the latter Autobot suspicious. After Bulkhead questioned Wheeljack on the [[Battle of Darkmount Pass]] and Wheeljack got an important detail wrong, the new arrival was unmasked as a Decepticon imposter. The real Wheeljack arrived and he and Bulkhead threw the imposter out via the GroundBridge. Bulkhead turned down Wheeljack's offer to go exploring the galaxy. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-Bulkheadmace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) brandishing his mace with Arcee (Prime) and Bumblebee (Prime).]]
Bulkhead took part in a convoy when Fowler needed transport for a hi-tech [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] device. When the convoy was attacked by [[MECH]], he reluctantly remained in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] in accordance with Optimus's orders, but when they were attacked by flying Vehicons, the Autobots were forced to use their [[robot mode]]s anyway. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Bulkhead chastised Miko for neglecting her education, and when an energon trace was detected in [[Greece]], he attempted to use the mission as an educational field trip. Their education was cut short as Bulkhead's old enemy Breakdown arrived and the pair fought. Back at base, he alerted the other Autobots to the [[Energon Harvester]] he'd seen depicted in an ancient fresco, and the device was soon tracked down to a museum. The Autobots surrounded the museum while the kids were sent in to steal the Harvester, and fought [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and Breakdown. The Decepticons got away with the Harvester. Bulkhead went alone to Greece, where he managed to single-handedly defeat Knock Out, Breakdown, and Starscream, destroying the Harvester in the process. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:OutHead-BulkheadBreakdown.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Breakdown (Prime) simultaneously mace and hammer each other, causing a shockwave.]]
Bulkhead covered poorly for [[Jack Darby|Jack]] and Bumblebee when the pair went street racing, and was forced to go with Arcee to find them. He got to fight Breakdown again, flattening the Decepticon with a lamp post. {{storylink|Speed Metal}} Bulkhead was present for Ratchet's announcement that he had pinpointed the Decepticon's warship, as well as a downed Autobot ship. Though Bulkhead was hoping to go on the offensive and doing some serious damage to the enemy base, Optimus prioritized the other craft, as it might have contained imperiled comrades. But when Ratchet and Optimus returned form their investigation, Optimus had fallen gravely ill. The Autobot leader had been infected with the Cybonic plague, a disease of Megatron's engineering. Jack suggested that Megatron might have created a cure for the sickness, but Bulkhead told him that was a moot point; as far as they were concerned, Megatron had already perished. The Autobots decided to infiltrate the Decepticon base on the off chance they had the cure in their database nonetheless. Bulkhead stayed back at base while Arcee and Bumblebee went on the covert mission. He provided emotional support as the situation developed. Megatron's inert form was discovered within the Decepticons' base, a cure was retrieved, and Optimus was rendered well again thanks to the efforts of Bumblebee, Arcee and Ratchet. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} Later, Bumblebee and Bulkhead played [[basketball]] together in the base, though Bumblebee's behavior was very odd. Bulkhead, Optimus and Arcee traveled to the Arctic to find a lens the Decepticons had stolen from a telescope in [[Hawaii]], and ended up tangling with a heat ray the Decepticons had built with it. They succeeded in destroying it, though it turned out Megatron had been resurrected in the meantime. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

Optimus took Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate a [[Dark Energon]] reading and found Starscream attempting to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. During the following ruckus, the Autobots found the kids had followed them and tried to send them back to base, only for them to disappear in a GroundBridge accident. It was only when Bulkhead spotted a text message on [[Miko's phone]] that Ratchet could engineer a way to get the kids back from the [[shadowzone (dimension)|other dimension]] they were trapped in. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

[[File:TFPep16DoubleCreatureFeature.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.67|Bulkhead tries to cheer Miko up by suggesting they watch scary movies together.]]
During an altercation with Breakdown on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], Bulkhead was knocked out and Breakdown abducted by MECH. Bulkhead stayed off Optimus's mission to rescue the Decepticon, but Miko persuaded him to go alone. GroundBridging to [[Russia]], Bulkhead forcibly infiltrated the MECH base and rescued Breakdown, though he was forced to pummel both Breakdown and Starscream when the Decepticon jet turned up and ordered Breakdown to destroy Bulkhead. {{Storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Bulkhead was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought [[June Darby|Jack's mom]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

[[File:MetalAttraction-stuck.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to pull Arcee (Prime), who has become magnetized to Bulkhead (Prime)'s back.]]
Bulkhead and Arcee, inadvertently joined by Miko, investigated a magnetic disturbance. They came across Breakdown and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] fighting over a [[polarity gauntlet]], and during the battle, Bulkhead and Arcee were magnetically fused together by the device. They followed the Decepticons to an abandoned gas station, where another fight broke out, and the two Autobots came unstuck. Airachnid tried to escape in her helicopter form, but Bulkhead grabbed her and threw her at Breakdown. He and Arcee returned to base triumphantly with the gauntlet. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:RockBottom-Bulkheadpassion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) struggles to hold a boulder from crushing him and Miko.]]
Arcee and Bulkhead investigated an [[Stripped energon mine|abandoned energon mine]] with the kids. Bulkhead protected Miko from a cave in, but ended up having to support the ceiling. Miko banged a rock on his foot to attract help, but instead they were found by Starscream. Things looked grim for Bulkhead until Arcee came to his rescue, and the two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}} Bulkhead joined the others in investigating a [[Harbinger|wrecked Decepticon ship]] and found Starscream all webbed up. Offering to defect, Starscream pointed them to the other half of the crashed ship, where they were attacked by Airachnid, wielding an [[Immobilizer|experimental Decepticon weapon]] that froze Bulkhead in his tracks. Bulkhead was locked in position until the Autobots retrieved the weapon and Ratchet used it to unfreeze him. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}}

[[File:TMI-Mikojogsmemories.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to jog Bulkhead's memories while he writes the synthetic energon formula at the Autobot base.]]
Miko and Bulkhead sneaked into a monster truck rally together. A week or so later, during a mission to secure a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Miko accidentally discharged the cylinder into Bulkhead's brain. Though at first Bulkhead seemed fine, he began writing complex equations for synthetic energon, and it rapidly became clear that the cylinder's energy was overwriting his mind. While the other Autobots attempted to secure the cylinder, Miko tried to help Bulkhead retain his memories by taking him to the monster truck track. They were found there by Knock Out and Breakdown, who tried to take Bulkhead's head, but during the attempt, Miko again triggered the energy to discharge from Bulkhead into the sky. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state until Miko managed to wake him with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

During an energon shortage, Bulkhead and the other Autobots took part in a number of missions to try to intercept the Decepticon energon shipments. When Ratchet developed [[Synthetic Energon]] and tried it on himself, the medic was amped up enough to knock Bulkhead through a wall. Their medic accompanied them on another mission, but his changes in personality began to concern Bulkhead and the others. After he knocked Bulkhead flying and went off on his own, the other Autobots were forced to track him down before he could damage himself. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

The Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons stealing a space bridge power supply from a military base. When Raf was gravely injured, Optimus and Bulkhead went on alone, stealthily infiltrating the ''Nemesis'' and Bulkhead bridged back to base with the power supply while Optimus went after Megatron. Bulkhead watched as Ratchet and [[June Darby]] fought to save Raf's life. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} As the Autobots attempted to rescue Optimus from a zone flooded with Dark Energon, Bulkhead kept Megatron busy while the others pulled Optimus out. Back at base, the Autobots and their human friends puzzled over the natural disasters suddenly plaguing Earth, and discovered that [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] resided at the center of the Earth. Bulkhead and the others began investigating the sites of the earthquakes that had struck when the Dark Energon volcano erupted. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee came to Optimus's aid as he battled stone Unicron avatars. To their great surprise, help came in the form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. Together with the Decepticon leader, the Autobots stepped through the GroundBridge into [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Though Bulkhead was hampered by the influence of the Dark Energon, and during their fight against [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]] almost fell from the walkway, they reached Unicron's spark chamber. Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee stayed outside to fend off the anti-bots. Following Unicron's defeat, they entered the spark chamber, only for Optimus to fail to recognize them, and they had to GroundBridge back to base without him. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Bulkhead and the others scoured the globe for the space bridge, but it wasn't until Ratchet and Bulkhead were contacted by a wounded Starscream that they obtained information on the space bridges location. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the space bridge and secured it so that they could send Jack and Arcee to Cybertron. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bulkhead attacked him and was easily thrown aside, twice. Luckily it all turned out, and Bulkhead and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2-Forge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) wielding the Forge of Solus Prime.]]
Bulkhead and Bumblebee were responding to an ancient Autobot signal separately, but when Bulkhead arrived, he found Bumblebee unable to transform as his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] had been taken. They quickly worked out MECH was responsible. Bumblebee later talked Bulkhead into taking him on another mission, on which they ran into Knock Out and Breakdown. Bulkhead got to fight his nemesis again while Bumblebee chased Knock Out. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} He almost had to perform T-cog transplant surgery, but was judged unfit by Ratchet. He did get to go on an artifact retrieval mission, and spent some time hitting Breakdown before getting hold of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and using it to knock the Decepticon flying. Unfortunately moments later Bulkhead was bushwhacked by Megatron who got away with the Forge. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:LooseCannons Wheeljack works on bomb.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Wheeljack (Prime) attempts to defuse a bomb attached to Bulkhead (Prime).]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack returned to Earth, but when his fellow Wrecker decided to recklessly go after [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], Bulkhead opted to go along. The encounter ended with Bulkhead a hostage with a bomb on his chest as a lure to draw out Optimus. Though Wheeljack tried to defuse the bomb, Bulkhead opted to go the self-sacrifice route, and was only stopped from doing so by Wheeljack, who had realized Optimus was right. Wheeljack and Optimus forced Dreadwing into defusing the bomb, saving Bulkhead's life. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet as they got more information from Starscream. This led to an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bulkhead caught his car after it plunged from a bridge. Back at base, they soon established that the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus and began searching for the MECH base. Though they located the hideout, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one, and after Optimus dealt with the situation, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Responding to an energon signal, Bulkhead accidentally got himself beamed up to the Decepticon warship. After encountering and offlining Starscream (or [[Starscream clone (Prime)|a near approximation]]), and narrowly avoiding Megatron, he found the ship's power core and disabled it with his wrecking ball. The ship crashed, allowing him to disembark and drive back to base, where he found the others had captured Airachnid. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Bulkhead took part in an attack on it with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

Having found the locations of four artifacts, the Autobots started going on missions to retrieve them. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Bulkhead was sent through the Groundbridge to retrieve one of the artifacts. {{storylink|Triangulation}} He landed up in a volcanic area near the equator and was first subjected to combat with the Insecticon [[Hardshell]]. After defeating the Decepticon, he discovered that the relic he was after was [[Tox-En]]. Leaving a grenade and a false trail for the Insecticons to follow, he carried the Tox-En up a nearby volcano to dispose of it only for the Insecticons caught up with him as he reached the top. Bulkhead managed to overcome the trio and destroy the Tox-En, but as he was stepping back through the GroundBridge, Hardshell shot him from behind, {{Storylink|Toxicity}} and his smoking body was flung through the bridge into the Autobot base. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Ratchet worked frantically to save him, and eventually succeeded. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state, with Ratchet unwilling to operate further until he regained some strength. {{storylink|Hurt}} Bulkhead later regained consciousness and was even able to take a few steps, with the help of Miko acting as drill sergeant. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} His recovery continued to be slow, and when [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived, he was convinced the others were trying to replace him, despite their assurances otherwise. During another mission, Bulkhead tried to convince Ratchet to let him go help, but after Smokescreen went instead and made the mission a success, Bulkhead admitted that the new Autobot did well, then sadly dragged himself back to his quarters. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

He continued to pressure Ratchet to let him go back into combat, and was annoyed by Smokescreen's suggestion that he could use the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] as a "crutch". Finally his badgering paid off when Ratchet was convinced to let him help, though Ratchet sent him to protect Raf who was trying to hack into a satellite. Bulkhead arrived just in time to stop what he assumed was Breakdown from destroying Raf's house, but was shocked to discover that Breakdown was being controlled by Silas—now calling himself "Cylas"—and found his injuries were still hampering his fighting ability. When Smokescreen helped him defeat "Cylas", he gained a new respect for the newbie, especially when he learned that Smokescreen studied the Wreckers mission reports. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Bulkhead was part of a Team Prime mission to search for an Iacon relic that turned out to be a wild goose chase set up by Megatron. They soon found the real prize—the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}} He, Arcee and Bumblebee were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

[[File:HardKnocksBulkheadDreadwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead scores a hit on Dreadwing.]]
Smokescreen and Bulkhead were sent to find one of the Omega Keys, and Bulkhead sent his companion after the key while he faced Dreadwing. During the fight, Bulkhead managed to get the better of the Decepticon and used Dreadwing's own bomb against him. Unfortunately the key was taken by [[Starscream (WFC)|parties]] unknown. The Autobots later discovered that Smokescreen was the final relic, but located their friend too late to save him from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering the final key in exchange for surgical help. Bulkhead accompanied Optimus and Ratchet out to Starscream's location, only for them to realize too late that they'd been tricked, and Starscream got away with all three of the Autobots' three Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

Bulkhead found himself in a tricky position when Miko assumed that she'd be coming to Cybertron with the Autobots. He equipped himself with the [[Immobilizer]] when the Autobots traveled to Cybertron, and employed the weapon during the battle against the Decepticons, enabling them to regain the Omega Keys. The Autobots located the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Bulkhead was forced to hand over his key in exchange for Miko. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bulkhead returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Bulkhead and Miko bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Unable to contact the others, Bulkhead and Miko headed to a Wrecker meeting spot to try to rendezvous with Wheeljack. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Their patience was rewarded when Wheeljack turned up, having escaped the Decepticons. They watched as he blew up some of the Vehicons that were sent after him. {{storylink|Scattered}} The trio decided that blowing up an energon mine would be the best way to attract the attention of nearby Autobots. While doing so, they were attacked by a giant metal dragon which Bulkhead punched in the head. Even Wheeljack luring it into the energon mine to blow it up didn't work, but the three Wreckers were rescued by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and reunited with most of the rest of Team Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Bulkhead and Wheeljack provided a diversion at the base of [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], lobbing grenades and destroying Decepticons while the other Autobots attacked by other means. The pair were eventually captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], but when Optimus Prime returned and joined the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Bulkhead was not ready when Wheeljack lobbed their old lobbing ball at him, and it bounced off his chest, nearly crushing Miko when it landed. Ultra Magnus took the two Wreckers to [[Scotland]] with him, to investigate Decepticon activity there. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Bulkhead found himself playing conciliator between Magnus and Wheeljack, as the pair continued to get on each other's nerves. The fact that Wheeljack had brought Miko along didn't help, but when they encountered the Predacon, Bulkhead found himself battling the beast with his fellow Autobots while Miko went for help. The fight didn't end well, as one of Wheeljack's grenades brought the cavern down on them, and as a result Bulkhead was disappointed when Wheeljack opted to leave the team rather than remain under Magnus's command. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} By the time Magnus and Bulkhead had flown back to base, Wheeljack had been talked into staying. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:Team Prime Final.jpg|left|210px|thumb|upright=1.4|Team Prime, including the newest member.]]
During a mission to secure energon, Bulkhead teamed up with Smokescreen to scout out an abandoned energon mine. They emerged without finding anything. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons started stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Bulkhead was part of a team which turned up too late to prevent a theft, but at least he got to see Prime defeat Soundwave. He and Smokescreen were left at base to guard the prisoner while the others went to Antarctica, however Soundwave reactivated, knocking the pair out. {{storylink|Minus One}} When they recovered, they found that Soundwave had abducted Ratchet. Fortunately it turned out a piece Smokescreen had blasted off of Laserbeak would be useful in finding the Decepticon warship. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Bulkhead and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} The three Wreckers were ordered to take the bridge, however no sooner did they reach their target than Soundwave bridged them to another part of the ship. By the time they reached the bridge again, it had already been captured by Jack and Miko. With the warship until their control, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron and used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. After Optimus's obligatory speech, Bulkhead and Miko had a tearful farewell before he returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Bulkhead set to work building a new space port, assisted by Vehicons. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, Bulkhead and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Bulkhead was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), TBA (Japanese)|[[Nicolas Matthys]] (French), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Luis Daniel Ramírez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:BulkheadArrivesSickAsABot.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Remember the little Namekian you passed on the way to Guru's? On his way to the humans with the password. By now, he's probably already there and they're about to summon the dragon.]]After Cybertron's rebirth, a statue of Bulkhead was constructed in his honor, {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} but Bulkhead himself would end up blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

After [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] accidentally absorbed the contents of a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reminded of Bulkhead's own experience with such a device. {{storylink|Brainpower}} Bumblebee later recalled a time when Bulkhead challenged him to arm wrestling and they almost destroyed two levels of Omega One. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

[[File:BulkheadRIDV-Mode.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|Big Green wheels.]]
Bulkhead was summoned to Earth by Optimus Prime, and while he arrived ahead of the Prime, his appearance through the [[GroundBridge]] was timely, coinciding with Bumblebee, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]], [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], and [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] being infected with a malware virus carried by the Energon vampire [[Wingcode]]. Bulkhead reined in the panicked Grimlock, who had run off to do ''something'' to help (but with no idea ''what''), engaging him in a brief fight before physically dragging Grimlock back to the scrapyard unconscious. After settling him with some calming car-smashing, as well as tranquil thoughts about [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]-punching, the two Autobots set about formulating a plan - although the pair were forced to admit they were "not really thinkers." In spite of this, Grimlock came up with a clever ruse to trap Wingcode based on her hunger for more Energon, trapping her in a cave where she could not fly, caught between the two Autobots. Once pummeled into submission, her nano-cells were used as an antidote, restoring the sick Autobots, and with the mission wrapped up, Bulkhead declared he'd like to hang around until Optimus' arrival. He and Grimlock went off for some recreational granite-punching... although Bulkhead was less than gruntled to hear the [[Dinobot (RID)|Dinobot]]'s critique of his kicking technique. {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

[[File:FiveFugitives Bulkhead explosion.jpg|thumb|left|300px|You can win, you feel great. You. Can. Do. This!]]
He encountered [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] when called in by Bumblebee to aid in the Decepticon's capture, initially underestimating his lupine adversary. When the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] became distracted (i.e. arrested) by the arrival of [[Dropforge]], he pursued Steeljaw to a natural gas refinery, only to find himself locked out of the facility by one of the Decepticon's subsonic force fields. He cleverly switched to "plan B", sneaking in via one of the empty pipelines, but Steeljaw detected this cunning via the refinery's security system and detonated the gas in the pipe. Bulkhead punched his way out of the pipe, then regrouped with the other Autobots who had captured the mind-controlled Dropforge and made their way to his location. Together they confronted Steeljaw and defeated his plan to blow up [[Crown City]], but were unable to stop his escape. {{storylink|Five Fugitives}}

[[File:FiveFugitivesBulkhead.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|"Destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin! You must destroy to create! That is the law of the universe!"]]
Optimus finally made the rendezvous on Earth, bringing Ratchet, Windblade, Jazz and Drift with him, having determined that the High Council were mind controlling the population of Cybertron and were planning to invade Earth. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron to expose the council, Bulkhead and the others remained on Earth to fight the invasion. A signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Bulkhead was the first to locate the advance force, concealed by a [[Light Bender]]. During the ensuing battle, he was hit by weapons fire, but the damage was minor enough that he recovered in time to watch the destruction of the space bridge portal that had opened. The team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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====IDW ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:PrimeComicBulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Bulkhead was present at the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot's Earth base]] when [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] arrived for the first time. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet Bulkhead practise.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"I need practise like Optimus needs a face."]]
As Ratchet unveiled the [[Safe]], Bulkhead was unimpressed that he thought they needed more training. He threw himself into it though, deciding that the best defense was to smash everything he could. In doing so, he inadvertently uncovered and activated a nuclear missile which had been hidden in the base. Unimpressed, Optimus ordered him to hold up the ceiling while Ratchet and Raf dealt with the missile's warhead. Afterwards, Ratchet suggested Bulkhead and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Bulkhead, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Bulkhead struggled to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree, while enduring a mocking from Arcee and Jack. When Fowler arrived with the news that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], Bulkhead offered him a "Cybertron-size" mince pie. He and Arcee were left to mind the base with the kids while the other went to deal with the Decepticon problem, and the kids suggested the pair try to find something they had in common. They eventually discovered their mutual love of ice skating, and turned the base into an ice rink. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

Bulkhead played ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' with Raf, until suddenly the game put Raf into a hypnotic trance and made him open the GroundBridge. Bulkhead was sure he'd get blamed for this somehow, and explained to Optimus that it was only a ''minor'' problem, but moments later the Vehicons started coming through. Bulkhead fought them alongside the other Autobots until Raf was able to loop the GroundBridge, sucking the Decepticons back through. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] woke Bulkhead with the news that the [[President of the United States]] had been kidnapped. Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots visited the [[Grand Canyon]] where he and Ratchet protected [[Air Force One]] while the others defeated Starscream and rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

[[File:Titan4.9 Bumblebee and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Don't be like that, Bumblebee. I didn't mean to eat the last [[chocolate-covered wheel-nut]]."]]
Bulkhead and Arcee headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Bulkhead and Bumblebee retrieved Knock Out's [[neuron refractor]] from China, unaware that a MECH agent had stowed away in it. During [[Novo|Agent Novo]]'s escape from the Autobot base, Bulkhead was almost hit by grenades, and Novo kidnapped Miko. The Autobots searched for Miko, and located the MECH base in time for Novo, now occupying a mechanoid body, to return Miko. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples, Bulkhead bobbed for engine blocks. He accompanied Optimus Prime to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, but wasn't much help in fighting [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]]'s forces there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Following a successful solo mission to destroy a Decepticon energon store, Bulkhead was ambushed in the [[Alaska]]n forest by Megatron's forces. He was taken back to the ''Nemesis'', where Megatron stuck him in an [[Ultra Prison]], a device which would slowly erase his mind. Luckily Bulkhead had an emergency connection to [[Miko's phone]], and the alerted Autobots brought the three kids to the ship to rescue him. Later Miko said he could thank her by treating her to some monster truck rally. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

Bulkhead took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]], and did an admirable job at protecting the rear with his wrecking ball. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Bulkhead stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] specifically demanded Optimus and Bulkhead come after the two Decepticons took over a TV studio. The Autobots found themselves forced to run the ''[[Down and Out]]'' course, lest the Decepticons' hostages be harmed. Luckily Bulkhead had watched the show with Miko, so he knew where many of the traps were, though the Decepticons had made a few changes. The pair managed to get through the course and rescue the hostages, leading to Knock Out and Breakdown's defeat at the hands of Arcee. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic====
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====''Beast Hunters'' comic====
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. After that threat was dealt with, they were promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Bulkhead, [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] and [[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]] leading one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Bulkhead and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Bulkhead clumsily tried to explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks, though Arcee needed to step in to clarify for him. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

====IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[File:IDWRID3 Bulkhead at work.jpg|thumb|right|210px]]
Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship, though Bulkhead thought they should let Bee know they were there. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Bulkhead. Bulkhead and Arcee were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the [[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]] prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Bulkhead subsequently took part in a joint operation by the teams which succeeded in capturing the Decepticon. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Bulkhead dozed off while monitoring Team Bee. He later accompanied Ultra Magnus and Arcee on another visit to the team. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} Once Ultra Magnus filled the others in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy tasked with finding the identity of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]] leader, Bulkhead was thankful that they no longer needed to keep secrets from their old friend. The Autobots subsequently mounted another operation to track down Sect leader [[Overhead]], which resulted in them all almost being sucked into a black hole created by Overhead setting her space bridge to self-destruct. In the aftermath, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Bulkhead and the others loaded them onto Ultra Magnus's ship to go back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] retrieved some Cybertronian weapons, Bulkhead spent hours in the desert fruitlessly trying to get one of them to work. Just as he was about to give up, he was abruptly attacked by [[Ripclaw]], who inflicted a [[mech-venom]] sting on him. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 9}} Following the fight, Bulkhead was left inching nearer and nearer to shutdown. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 10}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
[[File:FullofFire BB Ratchet and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left]]
Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert to test new weapons Ratchet had constructed, though Bulkhead wondered whether it was wise to do so in the open. Ratchet put this down to jealousy that Bumblebee's [[Eagleshot Bow]] had a longer range than the [[Dragon Grinder|Rhino Blade]] Bulkhead had been equipped with. Once the trio were joined by Optimus, they came under attack from no less than six Predacons. Luckily the new weapons gave the Autobots the edge they needed, and Bulkhead unleashed his on both [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurr]] and [[Blight (Prime)|Blight]]. The enemy soon fled, though Optimus was pessimistic about the victory. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Bulkhead was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
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===Precursor World===
Many incarnations of Bulkhead were members of the [[Green Order]]. One group of Bulkheads were taking in the natural splendor of the [[Green Planet]] when their commander [[Green Tender Convoy]] was warned of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|interdimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] by the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The_old_universe|eponymous supreme leader]].

Another group supported their leader when the dimension-hopping [[Seacon (BWII)|pirate]] [[Sea Phantom]] arrived to plunder the Green Order's [[Creation Matrix (Generations)|Creation Matrix]].{{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)}}

* Bulkhead was phoned up by the human pastry maker{{w|Strawberry Shortcake}}, who invited him to the Berryfest Princess Parade to have glittery sparkles dumped on him. Unable to get a word in edgewise, he told Optimus that the call was for him. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Strawberry Shortcake|Strawberry Shortcake and Bulkhead}}

* Bulkhead and Megatron joined Strawberry and the [[My Little Pony|ponies]] [[Applejack]], [[Pinkie Pie]], and [[Rainbow Dash]] in scatting "{{w|Deck the Halls}}". Bulkhead's extended scat sequence, however, did not find favor among the Autobots or Megatron, causing him to awkwardly laugh it off. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}} Undeterred, Bulkhead rejoined this multiversal musical grouping in singing "{{w|Jingle Bells}}". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

* Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission, where they would be backed up by [[Batman]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

* Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet and Bumblebee as they used the [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]] mech to plow through legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

== Games ==
=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game bulkhead.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|My shield-breaking attack is essentially transforming, tripping, and falling on top of my enemy. ''Awesome...'']]
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Salvador Serrano]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Pascal Casanova]] (French)}}
The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Bulkhead was found in some sort of tomb by Miko. Almost immediately, he encountered Starscream who played on his life by nearly collapsing the whole cave on him. Thankfully, Bulkhead and Miko escaped, and the big guy unleashed tenfold on Starscream. However, one of the Vehicons managed to swipe Miko and take her captive.

Optimus regrouped with Bulkhead later to track a Decepticon signal, though Bulkheads loud speaking and noises alerted Megatron & Starscream to their presence. Bulkhead got another chance to lock fists with Starscream while Optimus fought Megatron. Ultimately, Optimus was trapped in rubble, but Bulkhead managed to get aboard the Nemesis by taking Starscream hostage (in his own ship!).

Starscream tricked Bulkhead, however, into bringing him into a room where he was ambushed by Vehicon troopers. Yet again, Bulkhead came out on top of the pile with Starscream retreating in defeat. Though, Thunderwing's escape from the ship resulted in Bulkhead having to find an alternate route out of the room to join up with the other Autobots.

The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Bulkhead was pretty shaken up by Megatron, but was the one who took Arcee in for medical care. Bulkhead later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Optimus sent Bulkhead out on several missions. His first two consisted of Bulkhead retrieving Dark Energon shards from a Dark Energon mine before the Decepticons could use them to raise an army of Terrorcons. Before the mission's end, Bulkhead had to face off against Soundwave and defeat him within the mine. Next, Bulkhead was sent to infiltrate the Nemesis and retrieve Energon stores in the Decepticons' possession. Before Bulkhead could leave the Decepticon ship, he had to contend with Starscream, and defeat him as well. Bulkhead's last missions brought him back to Autobot headquarters. The Autobots' base had been infiltrated by the Decepticons, who had used Scraplets to make its systems go haywire. After Bulkhead collected all of the Scraplets, returning the base's functions to normal, he fought Megatron and defeated the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Bulkhead and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Bulkhead and Miko could help out by beating up some Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Bulkhead (Prime)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Bulkheadsmile.jpg|thumb|It's really weird the longer you look at it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderBulkhead.jpg|thumb|Now properly desaturated, Bulkhead is ready for a role in ''War for Cybertron''.]]
* Bulkhead is, of course, an homage to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], even using a wrecking ball-like mace.
* When [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] was briefly brought in early in the design process of ''Prime'', Bulkhead was originally intended to be [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]. However, as the show evolved, the writers said they realized that they were essentially writing a new Bulkhead, and the character was brought in.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/site-updates-18/wtftfw-podcast-episode-123-with-derrick-j-wyatt-now-online-171018/</ref> Later, on a featurette on the ''Transformers: Prime Season 1'' Blu-ray, [[Rik Alvarez]] admitted that because of the death of [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', they didn't want to confuse kids with a living Ironhide.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/transformers-prime-season-1-blu-ray-review-174448/</ref> It's likely that the former story was a cover for the latter, for spoiler reasons.
* For such a big guy, he runs really ''fast''.
* Bulkhead's chin piece is actually a cover for his lower lip, as is evident whenever he smiles and in his ''Robots in Disguise'' character design.
* Bulkhead's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Bulkhead parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop. While all the characters in the game are hue-shifted from their normal colorations, Bulkhead ended up noticeably less-different than his peers.
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Another Bulkhead]] seems to have completely borrowed the look of this Bulkhead.

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Bulkhead has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Berserk Mode''' (バーサークモード ''Bāsāku Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on his box-back photo, in this mode Bulkhead holds the [[Nebula Scythe]], with [[R.A.]] attached to his right arm, [[B.B.]] on his right shoulder, and [[C.L.]] attached to the mounting point behind his head.

*'''Shootgize Galaxy Launcher''' (シュートジアイズガラクシーランチャー ''Shūtojiaizu Garakushī Ranchā'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., Gora, O.P., Zori
: Yyyyeah. Revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", in this battle mode Bulkhead holds the [[Galaxy Launcher]] Super Combo Weapon, while he's also got O.P. on his left forearm, B.B. on his back, and inexplicably [[Gora]] on his right forearm with [[Zori]] also on his back. And as far as can be told, "Shootgize" seems to be a bad portmanteau of "shoot" and "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bulkhead''' (バルクヘッド ''Barukuheddo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Gébǎn''' (隔板, "Bulkhead")

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/bulkhead Bulkhead's character page @ Hubworld.com]

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Bulkhead (Prime)

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Danieltheminer7:

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:''Bulkhead is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Bulkhead-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Stock image of ''Prime'' Bulkhead.]]

'''Bulkhead''' looks huge and menacing, but is actually quite careless and gentle-souled. Though he's neither a [[Ratchet (WFC)|brainiac]] nor a [[Arcee (WFC)|fast runner]], Bulkhead is one of the most sturdy members of [[Team Prime]]. He's afraid of hurting things smaller and more fragile than him, but his new [[human]] friend, [[Miko Nakadai]], has helped him grow past that. He has a low tolerance for jerks and bullies, and is quite happy to let people like that stew in the trouble they've made for themselves, but his better impulses—or at least, needling from those around him—always sway him into helping in the end.

For all his sweetness, he's still a [[Wrecker]] through and through. Yet, despite participating in several major battles and campaigns, his past career has left some painful psychological scars. Being a part of the Autobots' black ops team means you have to do the dirty work, and Bulkhead's seen many horrors and friends meet a bad end. Though saddened by his traumatic experiences with the Wreckers, he's joined up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to end the fight with Megatron, for the sake of all his brothers and comrades.

{{quote|After a long road trip, feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and kick some tailpipe!|Bulkhead on crushin' Cons|"[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Bulkhead was a Wrecker, but unlike his teammates, wound up aboard the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] in the chaos immediately preceding its departure. When the ship subsequently charted a course for [[Velocitron]], Bulkhead's foremost concern was that the planet learn of his comrades' plight back on Cybertron. Later, as the Ark prepared to leave Velocitron, Bulkhead was one of the Autobots to back up [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in a confrontation with [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]], the aggressive Speed Planet co-leader.

The Ark's next stop was the planetoid [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where sabotage caused the ship to crash. Bulkhead was one of the first to escape the crippled ship, and went on to lead the repair effort with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]]. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and Optimus Prime voyaged to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]], Bulkhead grumbled about being left behind, but wound up sounding the alarm moments later when the Decepticons initiated an attack on Junkion. In the battle that followed, Bulkhead pursued [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] into a Junkion excavation site with [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] before joining a concerted attack on the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Bulkhead was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. He joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. Unfortunately, the Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Bulkhead was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), [[Takashi Nagasako]] (Japanese)|[[Hu Qian]] (Chinese), [[Karl Schulz]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Yeong-wung Jeong]] (Korean), [[Salvador Serrano]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Salvador Reyes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Jussi Wahlgren]] (Finnish, seasons 1-2), [[Juhani Rajalin]] (Finnish, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Claudio Dos Santos]] (French), [[Affonso Amajones]] (Portuguese, season 1), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Portuguese, season 2 onwards)}}

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bulkhead was a laborer before joining the [[Wrecker]]s during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. He developed a rivalry with [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} and fought alongside [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and many others. Despite his love of being a Wrecker, he left the team to join [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] squadron during the battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]] {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} early in the war because he considered Optimus to be "the real deal". {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Bulkhead-Primevehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Stock image of Bulkhead's vehicle mode.]]
After the Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bulkhead was pulled away from a woodland area to back up [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], but when the team arrived at the battle site, Cliffjumper and the [[Decepticon]]s were gone. Sometime later, Bulkhead scared off some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, who were fighting [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]. Bulkhead returned to base, and was there when three humans were brought in. Miko questioned him at length about how cool he was. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During a subsequent visit by Agent [[William Fowler|Fowler]], Bulkhead crushed one of [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]'s tools as part of a demonstration, much to his comrade's annoyance. Bulkhead was part of the ultimately unsuccessful mission to retrieve Cliffjumper from a Decepticon [[energon]] mine. After they returned to base empty-handed, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] assigned Bulkhead to watch over [[Miko Nakadai]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:DarknessRising3 disembulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead disembowels an Eradicon.]]
Miko managed to persuade Bulkhead to do some off-roading on the way back to base. Once there, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly left to go patrolling with Bumblebee, leaving Bulkhead in charge. During an impromptu visit by Fowler, Bulkhead managed to prevent him reporting the three kids, but when Fowler was subsequently captured by the Decepticons, Bulkhead was compelled to mount a rescue mission. He [[GroundBridge]]d to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', only to find the three kids had followed him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-BulkheadandMiko.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime)'s transformation scheme prevents Miko Nakadai from being killed.]]
After trying to make sure the kids were safe, Bulkhead climbed aboard the ''Nemesis'' and began trashing Decepticons before discovering Miko had stowed away inside his chest compartment. Inside the ship, the pair eventually ran into Arcee and Bumblebee, who'd rescued Jack and Raf from some more guards. The three Autobots stuck the kids in a store room while they located Fowler in the brig and chased off [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Mission accomplished, they returned to base, where Optimus told off Bulkhead. After Jack decided he was better off without the Autobots in his life, Bulkhead took Miko to visit him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[File:DarknessRising5-BulkheadMiko.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko embraces Bulkhead.]]
Once the Autobots pinpointed the location of the Decepticon [[space bridge]] in orbit, Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead traveled there by GroundBridge, though the height made Bulkhead nervous. They battled hordes of flying Decepticons, until [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] figured out a way to destroy the space bridge, and Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee did so while Optimus kept [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] busy. They safely GroundBridged back to Earth moments before the explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Bulkhead assisted Miko with her science project, holding up her model of the solar system so she could paint it. Unfortunately Ratchet decided to take over the project, relegating Bulkhead to the role of transport. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

Bulkhead and Bumblebee brought a strange pod back from the [[Arctic]] with them. It later turned out the pod contained [[Scraplet]]s, which Bulkhead was particularly frightened by, and Miko was amused by him screaming like a little girl as they hunted for the critters. There turned out to be too many for the Autobots to deal with, but after the kids repaired an energon fuel line for the GroundBridge, Bulkhead used himself as bait to draw them through to the Arctic, where they froze. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:ConJob-Fistbump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Wheeljack (Prime) share a fist bump.]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack arrived on Earth, however Wheeljack's uncharacteristic silence during Bulkhead's war stories made the latter Autobot suspicious. After Bulkhead questioned Wheeljack on the [[Battle of Darkmount Pass]] and Wheeljack got an important detail wrong, the new arrival was unmasked as a Decepticon imposter. The real Wheeljack arrived and he and Bulkhead threw the imposter out via the GroundBridge. Bulkhead turned down Wheeljack's offer to go exploring the galaxy. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-Bulkheadmace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) brandishing his mace with Arcee (Prime) and Bumblebee (Prime).]]
Bulkhead took part in a convoy when Fowler needed transport for a hi-tech [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] device. When the convoy was attacked by [[MECH]], he reluctantly remained in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] in accordance with Optimus's orders, but when they were attacked by flying Vehicons, the Autobots were forced to use their [[robot mode]]s anyway. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Bulkhead chastised Miko for neglecting her education, and when an energon trace was detected in [[Greece]], he attempted to use the mission as an educational field trip. Their education was cut short as Bulkhead's old enemy Breakdown arrived and the pair fought. Back at base, he alerted the other Autobots to the [[Energon Harvester]] he'd seen depicted in an ancient fresco, and the device was soon tracked down to a museum. The Autobots surrounded the museum while the kids were sent in to steal the Harvester, and fought [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and Breakdown. The Decepticons got away with the Harvester. Bulkhead went alone to Greece, where he managed to single-handedly defeat Knock Out, Breakdown, and Starscream, destroying the Harvester in the process. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:OutHead-BulkheadBreakdown.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Breakdown (Prime) simultaneously mace and hammer each other, causing a shockwave.]]
Bulkhead covered poorly for [[Jack Darby|Jack]] and Bumblebee when the pair went street racing, and was forced to go with Arcee to find them. He got to fight Breakdown again, flattening the Decepticon with a lamp post. {{storylink|Speed Metal}} Bulkhead was present for Ratchet's announcement that he had pinpointed the Decepticon's warship, as well as a downed Autobot ship. Though Bulkhead was hoping to go on the offensive and doing some serious damage to the enemy base, Optimus prioritized the other craft, as it might have contained imperiled comrades. But when Ratchet and Optimus returned form their investigation, Optimus had fallen gravely ill. The Autobot leader had been infected with the Cybonic plague, a disease of Megatron's engineering. Jack suggested that Megatron might have created a cure for the sickness, but Bulkhead told him that was a moot point; as far as they were concerned, Megatron had already perished. The Autobots decided to infiltrate the Decepticon base on the off chance they had the cure in their database nonetheless. Bulkhead stayed back at base while Arcee and Bumblebee went on the covert mission. He provided emotional support as the situation developed. Megatron's inert form was discovered within the Decepticons' base, a cure was retrieved, and Optimus was rendered well again thanks to the efforts of Bumblebee, Arcee and Ratchet. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} Later, Bumblebee and Bulkhead played [[basketball]] together in the base, though Bumblebee's behavior was very odd. Bulkhead, Optimus and Arcee traveled to the Arctic to find a lens the Decepticons had stolen from a telescope in [[Hawaii]], and ended up tangling with a heat ray the Decepticons had built with it. They succeeded in destroying it, though it turned out Megatron had been resurrected in the meantime. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

Optimus took Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate a [[Dark Energon]] reading and found Starscream attempting to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. During the following ruckus, the Autobots found the kids had followed them and tried to send them back to base, only for them to disappear in a GroundBridge accident. It was only when Bulkhead spotted a text message on [[Miko's phone]] that Ratchet could engineer a way to get the kids back from the [[shadowzone (dimension)|other dimension]] they were trapped in. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

[[File:TFPep16DoubleCreatureFeature.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.67|Bulkhead tries to cheer Miko up by suggesting they watch scary movies together.]]
During an altercation with Breakdown on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], Bulkhead was knocked out and Breakdown abducted by MECH. Bulkhead stayed off Optimus's mission to rescue the Decepticon, but Miko persuaded him to go alone. GroundBridging to [[Russia]], Bulkhead forcibly infiltrated the MECH base and rescued Breakdown, though he was forced to pummel both Breakdown and Starscream when the Decepticon jet turned up and ordered Breakdown to destroy Bulkhead. {{Storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Bulkhead was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought [[June Darby|Jack's mom]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

[[File:MetalAttraction-stuck.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to pull Arcee (Prime), who has become magnetized to Bulkhead (Prime)'s back.]]
Bulkhead and Arcee, inadvertently joined by Miko, investigated a magnetic disturbance. They came across Breakdown and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] fighting over a [[polarity gauntlet]], and during the battle, Bulkhead and Arcee were magnetically fused together by the device. They followed the Decepticons to an abandoned gas station, where another fight broke out, and the two Autobots came unstuck. Airachnid tried to escape in her helicopter form, but Bulkhead grabbed her and threw her at Breakdown. He and Arcee returned to base triumphantly with the gauntlet. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:RockBottom-Bulkheadpassion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) struggles to hold a boulder from crushing him and Miko.]]
Arcee and Bulkhead investigated an [[Stripped energon mine|abandoned energon mine]] with the kids. Bulkhead protected Miko from a cave in, but ended up having to support the ceiling. Miko banged a rock on his foot to attract help, but instead they were found by Starscream. Things looked grim for Bulkhead until Arcee came to his rescue, and the two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}} Bulkhead joined the others in investigating a [[Harbinger|wrecked Decepticon ship]] and found Starscream all webbed up. Offering to defect, Starscream pointed them to the other half of the crashed ship, where they were attacked by Airachnid, wielding an [[Immobilizer|experimental Decepticon weapon]] that froze Bulkhead in his tracks. Bulkhead was locked in position until the Autobots retrieved the weapon and Ratchet used it to unfreeze him. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}}

[[File:TMI-Mikojogsmemories.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to jog Bulkhead's memories while he writes the synthetic energon formula at the Autobot base.]]
Miko and Bulkhead sneaked into a monster truck rally together. A week or so later, during a mission to secure a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Miko accidentally discharged the cylinder into Bulkhead's brain. Though at first Bulkhead seemed fine, he began writing complex equations for synthetic energon, and it rapidly became clear that the cylinder's energy was overwriting his mind. While the other Autobots attempted to secure the cylinder, Miko tried to help Bulkhead retain his memories by taking him to the monster truck track. They were found there by Knock Out and Breakdown, who tried to take Bulkhead's head, but during the attempt, Miko again triggered the energy to discharge from Bulkhead into the sky. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state until Miko managed to wake him with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

During an energon shortage, Bulkhead and the other Autobots took part in a number of missions to try to intercept the Decepticon energon shipments. When Ratchet developed [[Synthetic Energon]] and tried it on himself, the medic was amped up enough to knock Bulkhead through a wall. Their medic accompanied them on another mission, but his changes in personality began to concern Bulkhead and the others. After he knocked Bulkhead flying and went off on his own, the other Autobots were forced to track him down before he could damage himself. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

The Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons stealing a space bridge power supply from a military base. When Raf was gravely injured, Optimus and Bulkhead went on alone, stealthily infiltrating the ''Nemesis'' and Bulkhead bridged back to base with the power supply while Optimus went after Megatron. Bulkhead watched as Ratchet and [[June Darby]] fought to save Raf's life. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} As the Autobots attempted to rescue Optimus from a zone flooded with Dark Energon, Bulkhead kept Megatron busy while the others pulled Optimus out. Back at base, the Autobots and their human friends puzzled over the natural disasters suddenly plaguing Earth, and discovered that [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] resided at the center of the Earth. Bulkhead and the others began investigating the sites of the earthquakes that had struck when the Dark Energon volcano erupted. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee came to Optimus's aid as he battled stone Unicron avatars. To their great surprise, help came in the form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. Together with the Decepticon leader, the Autobots stepped through the GroundBridge into [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Though Bulkhead was hampered by the influence of the Dark Energon, and during their fight against [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]] almost fell from the walkway, they reached Unicron's spark chamber. Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee stayed outside to fend off the anti-bots. Following Unicron's defeat, they entered the spark chamber, only for Optimus to fail to recognize them, and they had to GroundBridge back to base without him. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Bulkhead and the others scoured the globe for the space bridge, but it wasn't until Ratchet and Bulkhead were contacted by a wounded Starscream that they obtained information on the space bridges location. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the space bridge and secured it so that they could send Jack and Arcee to Cybertron. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bulkhead attacked him and was easily thrown aside, twice. Luckily it all turned out, and Bulkhead and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2-Forge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) wielding the Forge of Solus Prime.]]
Bulkhead and Bumblebee were responding to an ancient Autobot signal separately, but when Bulkhead arrived, he found Bumblebee unable to transform as his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] had been taken. They quickly worked out MECH was responsible. Bumblebee later talked Bulkhead into taking him on another mission, on which they ran into Knock Out and Breakdown. Bulkhead got to fight his nemesis again while Bumblebee chased Knock Out. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} He almost had to perform T-cog transplant surgery, but was judged unfit by Ratchet. He did get to go on an artifact retrieval mission, and spent some time hitting Breakdown before getting hold of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and using it to knock the Decepticon flying. Unfortunately moments later Bulkhead was bushwhacked by Megatron who got away with the Forge. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:LooseCannons Wheeljack works on bomb.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Wheeljack (Prime) attempts to defuse a bomb attached to Bulkhead (Prime).]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack returned to Earth, but when his fellow Wrecker decided to recklessly go after [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], Bulkhead opted to go along. The encounter ended with Bulkhead a hostage with a bomb on his chest as a lure to draw out Optimus. Though Wheeljack tried to defuse the bomb, Bulkhead opted to go the self-sacrifice route, and was only stopped from doing so by Wheeljack, who had realized Optimus was right. Wheeljack and Optimus forced Dreadwing into defusing the bomb, saving Bulkhead's life. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet as they got more information from Starscream. This led to an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bulkhead caught his car after it plunged from a bridge. Back at base, they soon established that the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus and began searching for the MECH base. Though they located the hideout, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one, and after Optimus dealt with the situation, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Responding to an energon signal, Bulkhead accidentally got himself beamed up to the Decepticon warship. After encountering and offlining Starscream (or [[Starscream clone (Prime)|a near approximation]]), and narrowly avoiding Megatron, he found the ship's power core and disabled it with his wrecking ball. The ship crashed, allowing him to disembark and drive back to base, where he found the others had captured Airachnid. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Bulkhead took part in an attack on it with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

Having found the locations of four artifacts, the Autobots started going on missions to retrieve them. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Bulkhead was sent through the Groundbridge to retrieve one of the artifacts. {{storylink|Triangulation}} He landed up in a volcanic area near the equator and was first subjected to combat with the Insecticon [[Hardshell]]. After defeating the Decepticon, he discovered that the relic he was after was [[Tox-En]]. Leaving a grenade and a false trail for the Insecticons to follow, he carried the Tox-En up a nearby volcano to dispose of it only for the Insecticons caught up with him as he reached the top. Bulkhead managed to overcome the trio and destroy the Tox-En, but as he was stepping back through the GroundBridge, Hardshell shot him from behind, {{Storylink|Toxicity}} and his smoking body was flung through the bridge into the Autobot base. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Ratchet worked frantically to save him, and eventually succeeded. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state, with Ratchet unwilling to operate further until he regained some strength. {{storylink|Hurt}} Bulkhead later regained consciousness and was even able to take a few steps, with the help of Miko acting as drill sergeant. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} His recovery continued to be slow, and when [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived, he was convinced the others were trying to replace him, despite their assurances otherwise. During another mission, Bulkhead tried to convince Ratchet to let him go help, but after Smokescreen went instead and made the mission a success, Bulkhead admitted that the new Autobot did well, then sadly dragged himself back to his quarters. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

He continued to pressure Ratchet to let him go back into combat, and was annoyed by Smokescreen's suggestion that he could use the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] as a "crutch". Finally his badgering paid off when Ratchet was convinced to let him help, though Ratchet sent him to protect Raf who was trying to hack into a satellite. Bulkhead arrived just in time to stop what he assumed was Breakdown from destroying Raf's house, but was shocked to discover that Breakdown was being controlled by Silas—now calling himself "Cylas"—and found his injuries were still hampering his fighting ability. When Smokescreen helped him defeat "Cylas", he gained a new respect for the newbie, especially when he learned that Smokescreen studied the Wreckers mission reports. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Bulkhead was part of a Team Prime mission to search for an Iacon relic that turned out to be a wild goose chase set up by Megatron. They soon found the real prize—the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}} He, Arcee and Bumblebee were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

[[File:HardKnocksBulkheadDreadwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead scores a hit on Dreadwing.]]
Smokescreen and Bulkhead were sent to find one of the Omega Keys, and Bulkhead sent his companion after the key while he faced Dreadwing. During the fight, Bulkhead managed to get the better of the Decepticon and used Dreadwing's own bomb against him. Unfortunately the key was taken by [[Starscream (WFC)|parties]] unknown. The Autobots later discovered that Smokescreen was the final relic, but located their friend too late to save him from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering the final key in exchange for surgical help. Bulkhead accompanied Optimus and Ratchet out to Starscream's location, only for them to realize too late that they'd been tricked, and Starscream got away with all three of the Autobots' three Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

Bulkhead found himself in a tricky position when Miko assumed that she'd be coming to Cybertron with the Autobots. He equipped himself with the [[Immobilizer]] when the Autobots traveled to Cybertron, and employed the weapon during the battle against the Decepticons, enabling them to regain the Omega Keys. The Autobots located the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Bulkhead was forced to hand over his key in exchange for Miko. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bulkhead returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Bulkhead and Miko bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Unable to contact the others, Bulkhead and Miko headed to a Wrecker meeting spot to try to rendezvous with Wheeljack. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Their patience was rewarded when Wheeljack turned up, having escaped the Decepticons. They watched as he blew up some of the Vehicons that were sent after him. {{storylink|Scattered}} The trio decided that blowing up an energon mine would be the best way to attract the attention of nearby Autobots. While doing so, they were attacked by a giant metal dragon which Bulkhead punched in the head. Even Wheeljack luring it into the energon mine to blow it up didn't work, but the three Wreckers were rescued by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and reunited with most of the rest of Team Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Bulkhead and Wheeljack provided a diversion at the base of [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], lobbing grenades and destroying Decepticons while the other Autobots attacked by other means. The pair were eventually captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], but when Optimus Prime returned and joined the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Bulkhead was not ready when Wheeljack lobbed their old lobbing ball at him, and it bounced off his chest, nearly crushing Miko when it landed. Ultra Magnus took the two Wreckers to [[Scotland]] with him, to investigate Decepticon activity there. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Bulkhead found himself playing conciliator between Magnus and Wheeljack, as the pair continued to get on each other's nerves. The fact that Wheeljack had brought Miko along didn't help, but when they encountered the Predacon, Bulkhead found himself battling the beast with his fellow Autobots while Miko went for help. The fight didn't end well, as one of Wheeljack's grenades brought the cavern down on them, and as a result Bulkhead was disappointed when Wheeljack opted to leave the team rather than remain under Magnus's command. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} By the time Magnus and Bulkhead had flown back to base, Wheeljack had been talked into staying. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:Team Prime Final.jpg|left|210px|thumb|upright=1.4|Team Prime, including the newest member.]]
During a mission to secure energon, Bulkhead teamed up with Smokescreen to scout out an abandoned energon mine. They emerged without finding anything. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons started stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Bulkhead was part of a team which turned up too late to prevent a theft, but at least he got to see Prime defeat Soundwave. He and Smokescreen were left at base to guard the prisoner while the others went to Antarctica, however Soundwave reactivated, knocking the pair out. {{storylink|Minus One}} When they recovered, they found that Soundwave had abducted Ratchet. Fortunately it turned out a piece Smokescreen had blasted off of Laserbeak would be useful in finding the Decepticon warship. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Bulkhead and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} The three Wreckers were ordered to take the bridge, however no sooner did they reach their target than Soundwave bridged them to another part of the ship. By the time they reached the bridge again, it had already been captured by Jack and Miko. With the warship until their control, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron and used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. After Optimus's obligatory speech, Bulkhead and Miko had a tearful farewell before he returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Bulkhead set to work building a new space port, assisted by Vehicons. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, Bulkhead and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Bulkhead was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), TBA (Japanese)|[[Nicolas Matthys]] (French), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Luis Daniel Ramírez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:BulkheadArrivesSickAsABot.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Remember the little Namekian you passed on the way to Guru's? On his way to the humans with the password. By now, he's probably already there and they're about to summon the dragon.]]After Cybertron's rebirth, a statue of Bulkhead was constructed in his honor, {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} but Bulkhead himself would end up blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

After [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] accidentally absorbed the contents of a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reminded of Bulkhead's own experience with such a device. {{storylink|Brainpower}} Bumblebee later recalled a time when Bulkhead challenged him to arm wrestling and they almost destroyed two levels of Omega One. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

[[File:BulkheadRIDV-Mode.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|Big Green wheels.]]
Bulkhead was summoned to Earth by Optimus Prime, and while he arrived ahead of the Prime, his appearance through the [[GroundBridge]] was timely, coinciding with Bumblebee, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]], [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], and [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] being infected with a malware virus carried by the Energon vampire [[Wingcode]]. Bulkhead reined in the panicked Grimlock, who had run off to do ''something'' to help (but with no idea ''what''), engaging him in a brief fight before physically dragging Grimlock back to the scrapyard unconscious. After settling him with some calming car-smashing, as well as tranquil thoughts about [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]-punching, the two Autobots set about formulating a plan - although the pair were forced to admit they were "not really thinkers." In spite of this, Grimlock came up with a clever ruse to trap Wingcode based on her hunger for more Energon, trapping her in a cave where she could not fly, caught between the two Autobots. Once pummeled into submission, her nano-cells were used as an antidote, restoring the sick Autobots, and with the mission wrapped up, Bulkhead declared he'd like to hang around until Optimus' arrival. He and Grimlock went off for some recreational granite-punching... although Bulkhead was less than gruntled to hear the [[Dinobot (RID)|Dinobot]]'s critique of his kicking technique. {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

[[File:FiveFugitives Bulkhead explosion.jpg|thumb|left|300px|You can win, you feel great. You. Can. Do. This!]]
He encountered [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] when called in by Bumblebee to aid in the Decepticon's capture, initially underestimating his lupine adversary. When the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] became distracted (i.e. arrested) by the arrival of [[Dropforge]], he pursued Steeljaw to a natural gas refinery, only to find himself locked out of the facility by one of the Decepticon's subsonic force fields. He cleverly switched to "plan B", sneaking in via one of the empty pipelines, but Steeljaw detected this cunning via the refinery's security system and detonated the gas in the pipe. Bulkhead punched his way out of the pipe, then regrouped with the other Autobots who had captured the mind-controlled Dropforge and made their way to his location. Together they confronted Steeljaw and defeated his plan to blow up [[Crown City]], but were unable to stop his escape. {{storylink|Five Fugitives}}

[[File:FiveFugitivesBulkhead.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|"Destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin! You must destroy to create! That is the law of the universe!"]]
Optimus finally made the rendezvous on Earth, bringing Ratchet, Windblade, Jazz and Drift with him, having determined that the High Council were mind controlling the population of Cybertron and were planning to invade Earth. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron to expose the council, Bulkhead and the others remained on Earth to fight the invasion. A signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Bulkhead was the first to locate the advance force, concealed by a [[Light Bender]]. During the ensuing battle, he was hit by weapons fire, but the damage was minor enough that he recovered in time to watch the destruction of the space bridge portal that had opened. The team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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====IDW ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:PrimeComicBulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Bulkhead was present at the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot's Earth base]] when [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] arrived for the first time. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet Bulkhead practise.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"I need practise like Optimus needs a face."]]
As Ratchet unveiled the [[Safe]], Bulkhead was unimpressed that he thought they needed more training. He threw himself into it though, deciding that the best defense was to smash everything he could. In doing so, he inadvertently uncovered and activated a nuclear missile which had been hidden in the base. Unimpressed, Optimus ordered him to hold up the ceiling while Ratchet and Raf dealt with the missile's warhead. Afterwards, Ratchet suggested Bulkhead and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Bulkhead, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Bulkhead struggled to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree, while enduring a mocking from Arcee and Jack. When Fowler arrived with the news that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], Bulkhead offered him a "Cybertron-size" mince pie. He and Arcee were left to mind the base with the kids while the other went to deal with the Decepticon problem, and the kids suggested the pair try to find something they had in common. They eventually discovered their mutual love of ice skating, and turned the base into an ice rink. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

Bulkhead played ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' with Raf, until suddenly the game put Raf into a hypnotic trance and made him open the GroundBridge. Bulkhead was sure he'd get blamed for this somehow, and explained to Optimus that it was only a ''minor'' problem, but moments later the Vehicons started coming through. Bulkhead fought them alongside the other Autobots until Raf was able to loop the GroundBridge, sucking the Decepticons back through. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] woke Bulkhead with the news that the [[President of the United States]] had been kidnapped. Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots visited the [[Grand Canyon]] where he and Ratchet protected [[Air Force One]] while the others defeated Starscream and rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

[[File:Titan4.9 Bumblebee and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Don't be like that, Bumblebee. I didn't mean to eat the last [[chocolate-covered wheel-nut]]."]]
Bulkhead and Arcee headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Bulkhead and Bumblebee retrieved Knock Out's [[neuron refractor]] from China, unaware that a MECH agent had stowed away in it. During [[Novo|Agent Novo]]'s escape from the Autobot base, Bulkhead was almost hit by grenades, and Novo kidnapped Miko. The Autobots searched for Miko, and located the MECH base in time for Novo, now occupying a mechanoid body, to return Miko. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples, Bulkhead bobbed for engine blocks. He accompanied Optimus Prime to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, but wasn't much help in fighting [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]]'s forces there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Following a successful solo mission to destroy a Decepticon energon store, Bulkhead was ambushed in the [[Alaska]]n forest by Megatron's forces. He was taken back to the ''Nemesis'', where Megatron stuck him in an [[Ultra Prison]], a device which would slowly erase his mind. Luckily Bulkhead had an emergency connection to [[Miko's phone]], and the alerted Autobots brought the three kids to the ship to rescue him. Later Miko said he could thank her by treating her to some monster truck rally. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

Bulkhead took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]], and did an admirable job at protecting the rear with his wrecking ball. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Bulkhead stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] specifically demanded Optimus and Bulkhead come after the two Decepticons took over a TV studio. The Autobots found themselves forced to run the ''[[Down and Out]]'' course, lest the Decepticons' hostages be harmed. Luckily Bulkhead had watched the show with Miko, so he knew where many of the traps were, though the Decepticons had made a few changes. The pair managed to get through the course and rescue the hostages, leading to Knock Out and Breakdown's defeat at the hands of Arcee. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic====
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====''Beast Hunters'' comic====
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. After that threat was dealt with, they were promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Bulkhead, [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] and [[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]] leading one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Bulkhead and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Bulkhead clumsily tried to explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks, though Arcee needed to step in to clarify for him. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

====IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[File:IDWRID3 Bulkhead at work.jpg|thumb|right|210px]]
Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship, though Bulkhead thought they should let Bee know they were there. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Bulkhead. Bulkhead and Arcee were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the [[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]] prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Bulkhead subsequently took part in a joint operation by the teams which succeeded in capturing the Decepticon. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Bulkhead dozed off while monitoring Team Bee. He later accompanied Ultra Magnus and Arcee on another visit to the team. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} Once Ultra Magnus filled the others in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy tasked with finding the identity of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]] leader, Bulkhead was thankful that they no longer needed to keep secrets from their old friend. The Autobots subsequently mounted another operation to track down Sect leader [[Overhead]], which resulted in them all almost being sucked into a black hole created by Overhead setting her space bridge to self-destruct. In the aftermath, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Bulkhead and the others loaded them onto Ultra Magnus's ship to go back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] retrieved some Cybertronian weapons, Bulkhead spent hours in the desert fruitlessly trying to get one of them to work. Just as he was about to give up, he was abruptly attacked by [[Ripclaw]], who inflicted a [[mech-venom]] sting on him. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 9}} Following the fight, Bulkhead was left inching nearer and nearer to shutdown. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 10}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
[[File:FullofFire BB Ratchet and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left]]
Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert to test new weapons Ratchet had constructed, though Bulkhead wondered whether it was wise to do so in the open. Ratchet put this down to jealousy that Bumblebee's [[Eagleshot Bow]] had a longer range than the [[Dragon Grinder|Rhino Blade]] Bulkhead had been equipped with. Once the trio were joined by Optimus, they came under attack from no less than six Predacons. Luckily the new weapons gave the Autobots the edge they needed, and Bulkhead unleashed his on both [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurr]] and [[Blight (Prime)|Blight]]. The enemy soon fled, though Optimus was pessimistic about the victory. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Bulkhead was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
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===Precursor World===
Many incarnations of Bulkhead were members of the [[Green Order]]. One group of Bulkheads were taking in the natural splendor of the [[Green Planet]] when their commander [[Green Tender Convoy]] was warned of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|interdimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] by the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The_old_universe|eponymous supreme leader]].

Another group supported their leader when the dimension-hopping [[Seacon (BWII)|pirate]] [[Sea Phantom]] arrived to plunder the Green Order's [[Creation Matrix (Generations)|Creation Matrix]].{{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)}}

* Bulkhead was phoned up by the human pastry maker{{w|Strawberry Shortcake}}, who invited him to the Berryfest Princess Parade to have glittery sparkles dumped on him. Unable to get a word in edgewise, he told Optimus that the call was for him. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Strawberry Shortcake|Strawberry Shortcake and Bulkhead}}

* Bulkhead and Megatron joined Strawberry and the [[My Little Pony|ponies]] [[Applejack]], [[Pinkie Pie]], and [[Rainbow Dash]] in scatting "{{w|Deck the Halls}}". Bulkhead's extended scat sequence, however, did not find favor among the Autobots or Megatron, causing him to awkwardly laugh it off. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}} Undeterred, Bulkhead rejoined this multiversal musical grouping in singing "{{w|Jingle Bells}}". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

* Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission, where they would be backed up by [[Batman]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

* Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet and Bumblebee as they used the [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]] mech to plow through legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

== Games ==
=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game bulkhead.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|My shield-breaking attack is essentially transforming, tripping, and falling on top of my enemy. ''Awesome...'']]
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Salvador Serrano]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Pascal Casanova]] (French)}}
The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Bulkhead was found in some sort of tomb by Miko. Almost immediately, he encountered Starscream who played on his life by nearly collapsing the whole cave on him. Thankfully, Bulkhead and Miko escaped, and the big guy unleashed tenfold on Starscream. However, one of the Vehicons managed to swipe Miko and take her captive.

Optimus regrouped with Bulkhead later to track a Decepticon signal, though Bulkheads loud speaking and noises alerted Megatron & Starscream to their presence. Bulkhead got another chance to lock fists with Starscream while Optimus fought Megatron. Ultimately, Optimus was trapped in rubble, but Bulkhead managed to get aboard the Nemesis by taking Starscream hostage (in his own ship!).

Starscream tricked Bulkhead, however, into bringing him into a room where he was ambushed by Vehicon troopers. Yet again, Bulkhead came out on top of the pile with Starscream retreating in defeat. Though, Thunderwing's escape from the ship resulted in Bulkhead having to find an alternate route out of the room to join up with the other Autobots.

The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Bulkhead was pretty shaken up by Megatron, but was the one who took Arcee in for medical care. Bulkhead later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Optimus sent Bulkhead out on several missions. His first two consisted of Bulkhead retrieving Dark Energon shards from a Dark Energon mine before the Decepticons could use them to raise an army of Terrorcons. Before the mission's end, Bulkhead had to face off against Soundwave and defeat him within the mine. Next, Bulkhead was sent to infiltrate the Nemesis and retrieve Energon stores in the Decepticons' possession. Before Bulkhead could leave the Decepticon ship, he had to contend with Starscream, and defeat him as well. Bulkhead's last missions brought him back to Autobot headquarters. The Autobots' base had been infiltrated by the Decepticons, who had used Scraplets to make its systems go haywire. After Bulkhead collected all of the Scraplets, returning the base's functions to normal, he fought Megatron and defeated the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Bulkhead and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Bulkhead and Miko could help out by beating up some Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Bulkhead (Prime)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Bulkheadsmile.jpg|thumb|It's really weird the longer you look at it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderBulkhead.jpg|thumb|Now properly desaturated, Bulkhead is ready for a role in ''War for Cybertron''.]]
* Bulkhead is, of course, an homage to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], even using a wrecking ball-like mace.
* When [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] was briefly brought in early in the design process of ''Prime'', Bulkhead was originally intended to be [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]. However, as the show evolved, the writers said they realized that they were essentially writing a new Bulkhead, and the character was brought in.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/site-updates-18/wtftfw-podcast-episode-123-with-derrick-j-wyatt-now-online-171018/</ref> Later, on a featurette on the ''Transformers: Prime Season 1'' Blu-ray, [[Rik Alvarez]] admitted that because of the death of [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', they didn't want to confuse kids with a living Ironhide.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/transformers-prime-season-1-blu-ray-review-174448/</ref> It's likely that the former story was a cover for the latter, for spoiler reasons.
* For such a big guy, he runs really ''fast''.
* Bulkhead's chin piece is actually a cover for his lower lip, as is evident whenever he smiles and in his ''Robots in Disguise'' character design.
* Bulkhead's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Bulkhead parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop. While all the characters in the game are hue-shifted from their normal colorations, Bulkhead ended up noticeably less-different than his peers.
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Another Bulkhead]] seems to have completely borrowed the look of this Bulkhead.

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Bulkhead has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Berserk Mode''' (バーサークモード ''Bāsāku Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on his box-back photo, in this mode Bulkhead holds the [[Nebula Scythe]], with [[R.A.]] attached to his right arm, [[B.B.]] on his right shoulder, and [[C.L.]] attached to the mounting point behind his head.

*'''Shootgize Galaxy Launcher''' (シュートジアイズガラクシーランチャー ''Shūtojiaizu Garakushī Ranchā'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., Gora, O.P., Zori
: Yyyyeah. Revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", in this battle mode Bulkhead holds the [[Galaxy Launcher]] Super Combo Weapon, while he's also got O.P. on his left forearm, B.B. on his back, and inexplicably [[Gora]] on his right forearm with [[Zori]] also on his back. And as far as can be told, "Shootgize" seems to be a bad portmanteau of "shoot" and "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bulkhead''' (バルクヘッド ''Barukuheddo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Gébǎn''' (隔板, "Bulkhead")

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/bulkhead Bulkhead's character page @ Hubworld.com]

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Bulkhead (Prime)

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Danieltheminer7:

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:''Bulkhead is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Bulkhead-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Miss me?]]

'''Bulkhead''' looks huge and menacing, but is actually quite careless and gentle-souled. Though he's neither a [[Ratchet (WFC)|brainiac]] nor a [[Arcee (WFC)|fast runner]], Bulkhead is one of the most sturdy members of [[Team Prime]]. He's afraid of hurting things smaller and more fragile than him, but his new [[human]] friend, [[Miko Nakadai]], has helped him grow past that. He has a low tolerance for jerks and bullies, and is quite happy to let people like that stew in the trouble they've made for themselves, but his better impulses—or at least, needling from those around him—always sway him into helping in the end.

For all his sweetness, he's still a [[Wrecker]] through and through. Yet, despite participating in several major battles and campaigns, his past career has left some painful psychological scars. Being a part of the Autobots' black ops team means you have to do the dirty work, and Bulkhead's seen many horrors and friends meet a bad end. Though saddened by his traumatic experiences with the Wreckers, he's joined up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to end the fight with Megatron, for the sake of all his brothers and comrades.

{{quote|After a long road trip, feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and kick some tailpipe!|Bulkhead on crushin' Cons|"[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Bulkhead was a Wrecker, but unlike his teammates, wound up aboard the [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] in the chaos immediately preceding its departure. When the ship subsequently charted a course for [[Velocitron]], Bulkhead's foremost concern was that the planet learn of his comrades' plight back on Cybertron. Later, as the Ark prepared to leave Velocitron, Bulkhead was one of the Autobots to back up [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in a confrontation with [[Ransack (Prime)|Ransack]], the aggressive Speed Planet co-leader.

The Ark's next stop was the planetoid [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where sabotage caused the ship to crash. Bulkhead was one of the first to escape the crippled ship, and went on to lead the repair effort with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]]. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and Optimus Prime voyaged to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]], Bulkhead grumbled about being left behind, but wound up sounding the alarm moments later when the Decepticons initiated an attack on Junkion. In the battle that followed, Bulkhead pursued [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] into a Junkion excavation site with [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] before joining a concerted attack on the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Bulkhead was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. He joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. Unfortunately, the Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Bulkhead was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), [[Takashi Nagasako]] (Japanese)|[[Hu Qian]] (Chinese), [[Karl Schulz]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Yeong-wung Jeong]] (Korean), [[Salvador Serrano]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Salvador Reyes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Jussi Wahlgren]] (Finnish, seasons 1-2), [[Juhani Rajalin]] (Finnish, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Claudio Dos Santos]] (French), [[Affonso Amajones]] (Portuguese, season 1), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Portuguese, season 2 onwards)}}

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Bulkhead was a laborer before joining the [[Wrecker]]s during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. He developed a rivalry with [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}} and fought alongside [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] and many others. Despite his love of being a Wrecker, he left the team to join [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] squadron during the battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]] {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} early in the war because he considered Optimus to be "the real deal". {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Bulkhead-Primevehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Stock image of [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]'s vehicle mode.]]
After the Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bulkhead was pulled away from a woodland area to back up [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], but when the team arrived at the battle site, Cliffjumper and the [[Decepticon]]s were gone. Sometime later, Bulkhead scared off some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, who were fighting [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]. Bulkhead returned to base, and was there when three humans were brought in. Miko questioned him at length about how cool he was. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} During a subsequent visit by Agent [[William Fowler|Fowler]], Bulkhead crushed one of [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]'s tools as part of a demonstration, much to his comrade's annoyance. Bulkhead was part of the ultimately unsuccessful mission to retrieve Cliffjumper from a Decepticon [[energon]] mine. After they returned to base empty-handed, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] assigned Bulkhead to watch over [[Miko Nakadai]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:DarknessRising3 disembulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead disembowels an Eradicon.|Darkness Rising, Part 3|0}}]]
Miko managed to persuade Bulkhead to do some off-roading on the way back to base. Once there, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly left to go patrolling with Bumblebee, leaving Bulkhead in charge. During an impromptu visit by Fowler, Bulkhead managed to prevent him reporting the three kids, but when Fowler was subsequently captured by the Decepticons, Bulkhead was compelled to mount a rescue mission. He [[GroundBridge]]d to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', only to find the three kids had followed him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-BulkheadandMiko.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime)'s transformation scheme prevents Miko Nakadai from being killed.|Darkness Rising, Part 4|0}}]]
After trying to make sure the kids were safe, Bulkhead climbed aboard the ''Nemesis'' and began trashing Decepticons before discovering Miko had stowed away inside his chest compartment. Inside the ship, the pair eventually ran into Arcee and Bumblebee, who'd rescued Jack and Raf from some more guards. The three Autobots stuck the kids in a store room while they located Fowler in the brig and chased off [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Mission accomplished, they returned to base, where Optimus told off Bulkhead. After Jack decided he was better off without the Autobots in his life, Bulkhead took Miko to visit him. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

[[File:DarknessRising5-BulkheadMiko.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko embraces Bulkhead.|Darkness Rising, Part 5|0}}]]
Once the Autobots pinpointed the location of the Decepticon [[space bridge]] in orbit, Optimus, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead traveled there by GroundBridge, though the height made Bulkhead nervous. They battled hordes of flying Decepticons, until [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] figured out a way to destroy the space bridge, and Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee did so while Optimus kept [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] busy. They safely GroundBridged back to Earth moments before the explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Bulkhead assisted Miko with her science project, holding up her model of the solar system so she could paint it. Unfortunately Ratchet decided to take over the project, relegating Bulkhead to the role of transport. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

Bulkhead and Bumblebee brought a strange pod back from the [[Arctic]] with them. It later turned out the pod contained [[Scraplet]]s, which Bulkhead was particularly frightened by, and Miko was amused by him screaming like a little girl as they hunted for the critters. There turned out to be too many for the Autobots to deal with, but after the kids repaired an energon fuel line for the GroundBridge, Bulkhead used himself as bait to draw them through to the Arctic, where they froze. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:ConJob-Fistbump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Wheeljack (Prime) share a fist bump.|Con Job|1}}]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack arrived on Earth, however Wheeljack's uncharacteristic silence during Bulkhead's war stories made the latter Autobot suspicious. After Bulkhead questioned Wheeljack on the [[Battle of Darkmount Pass]] and Wheeljack got an important detail wrong, the new arrival was unmasked as a Decepticon imposter. The real Wheeljack arrived and he and Bulkhead threw the imposter out via the GroundBridge. Bulkhead turned down Wheeljack's offer to go exploring the galaxy. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-Bulkheadmace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) brandishing his mace with Arcee (Prime) and Bumblebee (Prime).|Convoy (episode)|eptitle=Convoy|1}}]]
Bulkhead took part in a convoy when Fowler needed transport for a hi-tech [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] device. When the convoy was attacked by [[MECH]], he reluctantly remained in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] in accordance with Optimus's orders, but when they were attacked by flying Vehicons, the Autobots were forced to use their [[robot mode]]s anyway. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Bulkhead chastised Miko for neglecting her education, and when an energon trace was detected in [[Greece]], he attempted to use the mission as an educational field trip. Their education was cut short as Bulkhead's old enemy Breakdown arrived and the pair fought. Back at base, he alerted the other Autobots to the [[Energon Harvester]] he'd seen depicted in an ancient fresco, and the device was soon tracked down to a museum. The Autobots surrounded the museum while the kids were sent in to steal the Harvester, and fought [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and Breakdown. The Decepticons got away with the Harvester. Bulkhead went alone to Greece, where he managed to single-handedly defeat Knock Out, Breakdown, and Starscream, destroying the Harvester in the process. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:OutHead-BulkheadBreakdown.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) and Breakdown (Prime) simultaneously mace and hammer each other, causing a shockwave.|Out of His Head|1}}]]
Bulkhead covered poorly for [[Jack Darby|Jack]] and Bumblebee when the pair went street racing, and was forced to go with Arcee to find them. He got to fight Breakdown again, flattening the Decepticon with a lamp post. {{storylink|Speed Metal}} Bulkhead was present for Ratchet's announcement that he had pinpointed the Decepticon's warship, as well as a downed Autobot ship. Though Bulkhead was hoping to go on the offensive and doing some serious damage to the enemy base, Optimus prioritized the other craft, as it might have contained imperiled comrades. But when Ratchet and Optimus returned form their investigation, Optimus had fallen gravely ill. The Autobot leader had been infected with the Cybonic plague, a disease of Megatron's engineering. Jack suggested that Megatron might have created a cure for the sickness, but Bulkhead told him that was a moot point; as far as they were concerned, Megatron had already perished. The Autobots decided to infiltrate the Decepticon base on the off chance they had the cure in their database nonetheless. Bulkhead stayed back at base while Arcee and Bumblebee went on the covert mission. He provided emotional support as the situation developed. Megatron's inert form was discovered within the Decepticons' base, a cure was retrieved, and Optimus was rendered well again thanks to the efforts of Bumblebee, Arcee and Ratchet. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} Later, Bumblebee and Bulkhead played [[basketball]] together in the base, though Bumblebee's behavior was very odd. Bulkhead, Optimus and Arcee traveled to the Arctic to find a lens the Decepticons had stolen from a telescope in [[Hawaii]], and ended up tangling with a heat ray the Decepticons had built with it. They succeeded in destroying it, though it turned out Megatron had been resurrected in the meantime. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

Optimus took Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate a [[Dark Energon]] reading and found Starscream attempting to resurrect [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. During the following ruckus, the Autobots found the kids had followed them and tried to send them back to base, only for them to disappear in a GroundBridge accident. It was only when Bulkhead spotted a text message on [[Miko's phone]] that Ratchet could engineer a way to get the kids back from the [[shadowzone (dimension)|other dimension]] they were trapped in. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

[[File:TFPep16DoubleCreatureFeature.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.67|Bulkhead tries to cheer Miko up by suggesting they watch scary movies together.]]
During an altercation with Breakdown on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], Bulkhead was knocked out and Breakdown abducted by MECH. Bulkhead stayed off Optimus's mission to rescue the Decepticon, but Miko persuaded him to go alone. GroundBridging to [[Russia]], Bulkhead forcibly infiltrated the MECH base and rescued Breakdown, though he was forced to pummel both Breakdown and Starscream when the Decepticon jet turned up and ordered Breakdown to destroy Bulkhead. {{Storylink|Operation: Breakdown}} Bulkhead was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought [[June Darby|Jack's mom]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

[[File:MetalAttraction-stuck.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to pull Arcee (Prime), who has become magnetized to Bulkhead (Prime)'s back.|Metal Attraction|1}}]]
Bulkhead and Arcee, inadvertently joined by Miko, investigated a magnetic disturbance. They came across Breakdown and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] fighting over a [[polarity gauntlet]], and during the battle, Bulkhead and Arcee were magnetically fused together by the device. They followed the Decepticons to an abandoned gas station, where another fight broke out, and the two Autobots came unstuck. Airachnid tried to escape in her helicopter form, but Bulkhead grabbed her and threw her at Breakdown. He and Arcee returned to base triumphantly with the gauntlet. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:RockBottom-Bulkheadpassion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) struggles to hold a boulder from crushing him and Miko.|Rock Bottom|1}}]]
Arcee and Bulkhead investigated an [[Stripped energon mine|abandoned energon mine]] with the kids. Bulkhead protected Miko from a cave in, but ended up having to support the ceiling. Miko banged a rock on his foot to attract help, but instead they were found by Starscream. Things looked grim for Bulkhead until Arcee came to his rescue, and the two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}} Bulkhead joined the others in investigating a [[Harbinger|wrecked Decepticon ship]] and found Starscream all webbed up. Offering to defect, Starscream pointed them to the other half of the crashed ship, where they were attacked by Airachnid, wielding an [[Immobilizer|experimental Decepticon weapon]] that froze Bulkhead in his tracks. Bulkhead was locked in position until the Autobots retrieved the weapon and Ratchet used it to unfreeze him. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}}

[[File:TMI-Mikojogsmemories.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|{{Primecap|Miko Nakadai tries to jog Bulkhead's memories while he writes the synthetic energon formula at the Autobot base.|T.M.I.|1}}]]
Miko and Bulkhead sneaked into a monster truck rally together. A week or so later, during a mission to secure a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Miko accidentally discharged the cylinder into Bulkhead's brain. Though at first Bulkhead seemed fine, he began writing complex equations for synthetic energon, and it rapidly became clear that the cylinder's energy was overwriting his mind. While the other Autobots attempted to secure the cylinder, Miko tried to help Bulkhead retain his memories by taking him to the monster truck track. They were found there by Knock Out and Breakdown, who tried to take Bulkhead's head, but during the attempt, Miko again triggered the energy to discharge from Bulkhead into the sky. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state until Miko managed to wake him with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

During an energon shortage, Bulkhead and the other Autobots took part in a number of missions to try to intercept the Decepticon energon shipments. When Ratchet developed [[Synthetic Energon]] and tried it on himself, the medic was amped up enough to knock Bulkhead through a wall. Their medic accompanied them on another mission, but his changes in personality began to concern Bulkhead and the others. After he knocked Bulkhead flying and went off on his own, the other Autobots were forced to track him down before he could damage himself. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

The Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons stealing a space bridge power supply from a military base. When Raf was gravely injured, Optimus and Bulkhead went on alone, stealthily infiltrating the ''Nemesis'' and Bulkhead bridged back to base with the power supply while Optimus went after Megatron. Bulkhead watched as Ratchet and [[June Darby]] fought to save Raf's life. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} As the Autobots attempted to rescue Optimus from a zone flooded with Dark Energon, Bulkhead kept Megatron busy while the others pulled Optimus out. Back at base, the Autobots and their human friends puzzled over the natural disasters suddenly plaguing Earth, and discovered that [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] resided at the center of the Earth. Bulkhead and the others began investigating the sites of the earthquakes that had struck when the Dark Energon volcano erupted. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee came to Optimus's aid as he battled stone Unicron avatars. To their great surprise, help came in the form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. Together with the Decepticon leader, the Autobots stepped through the GroundBridge into [[Earth's core]]. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Though Bulkhead was hampered by the influence of the Dark Energon, and during their fight against [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]] almost fell from the walkway, they reached Unicron's spark chamber. Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee stayed outside to fend off the anti-bots. Following Unicron's defeat, they entered the spark chamber, only for Optimus to fail to recognize them, and they had to GroundBridge back to base without him. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Bulkhead and the others scoured the globe for the space bridge, but it wasn't until Ratchet and Bulkhead were contacted by a wounded Starscream that they obtained information on the space bridges location. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the space bridge and secured it so that they could send Jack and Arcee to Cybertron. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bulkhead attacked him and was easily thrown aside, twice. Luckily it all turned out, and Bulkhead and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2-Forge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead (Prime) wielding the Forge of Solus Prime.|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2|2}}]]
Bulkhead and Bumblebee were responding to an ancient Autobot signal separately, but when Bulkhead arrived, he found Bumblebee unable to transform as his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] had been taken. They quickly worked out MECH was responsible. Bumblebee later talked Bulkhead into taking him on another mission, on which they ran into Knock Out and Breakdown. Bulkhead got to fight his nemesis again while Bumblebee chased Knock Out. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} He almost had to perform T-cog transplant surgery, but was judged unfit by Ratchet. He did get to go on an artifact retrieval mission, and spent some time hitting Breakdown before getting hold of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and using it to knock the Decepticon flying. Unfortunately moments later Bulkhead was bushwhacked by Megatron who got away with the Forge. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:LooseCannons Wheeljack works on bomb.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Wheeljack (Prime) attempts to defuse a bomb attached to Bulkhead (Prime).|Loose Cannons|2}}]]
Bulkhead was overjoyed when Wheeljack returned to Earth, but when his fellow Wrecker decided to recklessly go after [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], Bulkhead opted to go along. The encounter ended with Bulkhead a hostage with a bomb on his chest as a lure to draw out Optimus. Though Wheeljack tried to defuse the bomb, Bulkhead opted to go the self-sacrifice route, and was only stopped from doing so by Wheeljack, who had realized Optimus was right. Wheeljack and Optimus forced Dreadwing into defusing the bomb, saving Bulkhead's life. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet as they got more information from Starscream. This led to an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bulkhead caught his car after it plunged from a bridge. Back at base, they soon established that the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus and began searching for the MECH base. Though they located the hideout, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one, and after Optimus dealt with the situation, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Responding to an energon signal, Bulkhead accidentally got himself beamed up to the Decepticon warship. After encountering and offlining Starscream (or [[Starscream clone (Prime)|a near approximation]]), and narrowly avoiding Megatron, he found the ship's power core and disabled it with his wrecking ball. The ship crashed, allowing him to disembark and drive back to base, where he found the others had captured Airachnid. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Bulkhead took part in an attack on it with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

Having found the locations of four artifacts, the Autobots started going on missions to retrieve them. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Bulkhead was sent through the Groundbridge to retrieve one of the artifacts. {{storylink|Triangulation}} He landed up in a volcanic area near the equator and was first subjected to combat with the Insecticon [[Hardshell]]. After defeating the Decepticon, he discovered that the relic he was after was [[Tox-En]]. Leaving a grenade and a false trail for the Insecticons to follow, he carried the Tox-En up a nearby volcano to dispose of it only for the Insecticons caught up with him as he reached the top. Bulkhead managed to overcome the trio and destroy the Tox-En, but as he was stepping back through the GroundBridge, Hardshell shot him from behind, {{Storylink|Toxicity}} and his smoking body was flung through the bridge into the Autobot base. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Ratchet worked frantically to save him, and eventually succeeded. Bulkhead was left in a comatose state, with Ratchet unwilling to operate further until he regained some strength. {{storylink|Hurt}} Bulkhead later regained consciousness and was even able to take a few steps, with the help of Miko acting as drill sergeant. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} His recovery continued to be slow, and when [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived, he was convinced the others were trying to replace him, despite their assurances otherwise. During another mission, Bulkhead tried to convince Ratchet to let him go help, but after Smokescreen went instead and made the mission a success, Bulkhead admitted that the new Autobot did well, then sadly dragged himself back to his quarters. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

He continued to pressure Ratchet to let him go back into combat, and was annoyed by Smokescreen's suggestion that he could use the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]] as a "crutch". Finally his badgering paid off when Ratchet was convinced to let him help, though Ratchet sent him to protect Raf who was trying to hack into a satellite. Bulkhead arrived just in time to stop what he assumed was Breakdown from destroying Raf's house, but was shocked to discover that Breakdown was being controlled by Silas—now calling himself "Cylas"—and found his injuries were still hampering his fighting ability. When Smokescreen helped him defeat "Cylas", he gained a new respect for the newbie, especially when he learned that Smokescreen studied the Wreckers mission reports. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Bulkhead was part of a Team Prime mission to search for an Iacon relic that turned out to be a wild goose chase set up by Megatron. They soon found the real prize—the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}} He, Arcee and Bumblebee were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

[[File:HardKnocksBulkheadDreadwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{Primecap|Bulkhead scores a hit on Dreadwing.|Hard Knocks|2}}]]
Smokescreen and Bulkhead were sent to find one of the Omega Keys, and Bulkhead sent his companion after the key while he faced Dreadwing. During the fight, Bulkhead managed to get the better of the Decepticon and used Dreadwing's own bomb against him. Unfortunately the key was taken by [[Starscream (WFC)|parties]] unknown. The Autobots later discovered that Smokescreen was the final relic, but located their friend too late to save him from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering the final key in exchange for surgical help. Bulkhead accompanied Optimus and Ratchet out to Starscream's location, only for them to realize too late that they'd been tricked, and Starscream got away with all three of the Autobots' three Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

Bulkhead found himself in a tricky position when Miko assumed that she'd be coming to Cybertron with the Autobots. He equipped himself with the [[Immobilizer]] when the Autobots traveled to Cybertron, and employed the weapon during the battle against the Decepticons, enabling them to regain the Omega Keys. The Autobots located the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Bulkhead was forced to hand over his key in exchange for Miko. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bulkhead returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Bulkhead and Miko bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Unable to contact the others, Bulkhead and Miko headed to a Wrecker meeting spot to try to rendezvous with Wheeljack. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Their patience was rewarded when Wheeljack turned up, having escaped the Decepticons. They watched as he blew up some of the Vehicons that were sent after him. {{storylink|Scattered}} The trio decided that blowing up an energon mine would be the best way to attract the attention of nearby Autobots. While doing so, they were attacked by a giant metal dragon which Bulkhead punched in the head. Even Wheeljack luring it into the energon mine to blow it up didn't work, but the three Wreckers were rescued by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and reunited with most of the rest of Team Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Bulkhead and Wheeljack provided a diversion at the base of [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], lobbing grenades and destroying Decepticons while the other Autobots attacked by other means. The pair were eventually captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], but when Optimus Prime returned and joined the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Bulkhead was not ready when Wheeljack lobbed their old lobbing ball at him, and it bounced off his chest, nearly crushing Miko when it landed. Ultra Magnus took the two Wreckers to [[Scotland]] with him, to investigate Decepticon activity there. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} Bulkhead found himself playing conciliator between Magnus and Wheeljack, as the pair continued to get on each other's nerves. The fact that Wheeljack had brought Miko along didn't help, but when they encountered the Predacon, Bulkhead found himself battling the beast with his fellow Autobots while Miko went for help. The fight didn't end well, as one of Wheeljack's grenades brought the cavern down on them, and as a result Bulkhead was disappointed when Wheeljack opted to leave the team rather than remain under Magnus's command. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} By the time Magnus and Bulkhead had flown back to base, Wheeljack had been talked into staying. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:Team Prime Final.jpg|left|210px|thumb|upright=1.4|Team Prime, including the newest member.]]
During a mission to secure energon, Bulkhead teamed up with Smokescreen to scout out an abandoned energon mine. They emerged without finding anything. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons started stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Bulkhead was part of a team which turned up too late to prevent a theft, but at least he got to see Prime defeat Soundwave. He and Smokescreen were left at base to guard the prisoner while the others went to Antarctica, however Soundwave reactivated, knocking the pair out. {{storylink|Minus One}} When they recovered, they found that Soundwave had abducted Ratchet. Fortunately it turned out a piece Smokescreen had blasted off of Laserbeak would be useful in finding the Decepticon warship. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Bulkhead and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} The three Wreckers were ordered to take the bridge, however no sooner did they reach their target than Soundwave bridged them to another part of the ship. By the time they reached the bridge again, it had already been captured by Jack and Miko. With the warship until their control, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron and used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. After Optimus's obligatory speech, Bulkhead and Miko had a tearful farewell before he returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Bulkhead set to work building a new space port, assisted by Vehicons. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, Bulkhead and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Bulkhead was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English), TBA (Japanese)|[[Nicolas Matthys]] (French), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Pietro Ubaldi]] (Italian), [[Luis Daniel Ramírez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:BulkheadArrivesSickAsABot.jpeg|thumb|left|300px|Remember the little Namekian you passed on the way to Guru's? On his way to the humans with the password. By now, he's probably already there and they're about to summon the dragon.]]After Cybertron's rebirth, a statue of Bulkhead was constructed in his honor, {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} but Bulkhead himself would end up blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

After [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] accidentally absorbed the contents of a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reminded of Bulkhead's own experience with such a device. {{storylink|Brainpower}} Bumblebee later recalled a time when Bulkhead challenged him to arm wrestling and they almost destroyed two levels of Omega One. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

[[File:BulkheadRIDV-Mode.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|Big Green wheels.]]
Bulkhead was summoned to Earth by Optimus Prime, and while he arrived ahead of the Prime, his appearance through the [[GroundBridge]] was timely, coinciding with Bumblebee, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]], [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], and [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] being infected with a malware virus carried by the Energon vampire [[Wingcode]]. Bulkhead reined in the panicked Grimlock, who had run off to do ''something'' to help (but with no idea ''what''), engaging him in a brief fight before physically dragging Grimlock back to the scrapyard unconscious. After settling him with some calming car-smashing, as well as tranquil thoughts about [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]-punching, the two Autobots set about formulating a plan - although the pair were forced to admit they were "not really thinkers." In spite of this, Grimlock came up with a clever ruse to trap Wingcode based on her hunger for more Energon, trapping her in a cave where she could not fly, caught between the two Autobots. Once pummeled into submission, her nano-cells were used as an antidote, restoring the sick Autobots, and with the mission wrapped up, Bulkhead declared he'd like to hang around until Optimus' arrival. He and Grimlock went off for some recreational granite-punching... although Bulkhead was less than gruntled to hear the [[Dinobot (RID)|Dinobot]]'s critique of his kicking technique. {{storylink|Sick as a Bot}}

[[File:FiveFugitives Bulkhead explosion.jpg|thumb|left|300px|You can win, you feel great. You. Can. Do. This!]]
He encountered [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] when called in by Bumblebee to aid in the Decepticon's capture, initially underestimating his lupine adversary. When the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] became distracted (i.e. arrested) by the arrival of [[Dropforge]], he pursued Steeljaw to a natural gas refinery, only to find himself locked out of the facility by one of the Decepticon's subsonic force fields. He cleverly switched to "plan B", sneaking in via one of the empty pipelines, but Steeljaw detected this cunning via the refinery's security system and detonated the gas in the pipe. Bulkhead punched his way out of the pipe, then regrouped with the other Autobots who had captured the mind-controlled Dropforge and made their way to his location. Together they confronted Steeljaw and defeated his plan to blow up [[Crown City]], but were unable to stop his escape. {{storylink|Five Fugitives}}

[[File:FiveFugitivesBulkhead.jpeg|thumb|lright|300px|"Destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin! You must destroy to create! That is the law of the universe!"]]
Optimus finally made the rendezvous on Earth, bringing Ratchet, Windblade, Jazz and Drift with him, having determined that the High Council were mind controlling the population of Cybertron and were planning to invade Earth. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron to expose the council, Bulkhead and the others remained on Earth to fight the invasion. A signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Bulkhead was the first to locate the advance force, concealed by a [[Light Bender]]. During the ensuing battle, he was hit by weapons fire, but the damage was minor enough that he recovered in time to watch the destruction of the space bridge portal that had opened. The team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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====IDW ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:PrimeComicBulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Bulkhead was present at the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot's Earth base]] when [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] arrived for the first time. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet Bulkhead practise.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"I need practise like Optimus needs a face."]]
As Ratchet unveiled the [[Safe]], Bulkhead was unimpressed that he thought they needed more training. He threw himself into it though, deciding that the best defense was to smash everything he could. In doing so, he inadvertently uncovered and activated a nuclear missile which had been hidden in the base. Unimpressed, Optimus ordered him to hold up the ceiling while Ratchet and Raf dealt with the missile's warhead. Afterwards, Ratchet suggested Bulkhead and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Bulkhead, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Bulkhead struggled to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree, while enduring a mocking from Arcee and Jack. When Fowler arrived with the news that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], Bulkhead offered him a "Cybertron-size" mince pie. He and Arcee were left to mind the base with the kids while the other went to deal with the Decepticon problem, and the kids suggested the pair try to find something they had in common. They eventually discovered their mutual love of ice skating, and turned the base into an ice rink. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

Bulkhead played ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' with Raf, until suddenly the game put Raf into a hypnotic trance and made him open the GroundBridge. Bulkhead was sure he'd get blamed for this somehow, and explained to Optimus that it was only a ''minor'' problem, but moments later the Vehicons started coming through. Bulkhead fought them alongside the other Autobots until Raf was able to loop the GroundBridge, sucking the Decepticons back through. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] woke Bulkhead with the news that the [[President of the United States]] had been kidnapped. Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots visited the [[Grand Canyon]] where he and Ratchet protected [[Air Force One]] while the others defeated Starscream and rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

[[File:Titan4.9 Bumblebee and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Don't be like that, Bumblebee. I didn't mean to eat the last [[chocolate-covered wheel-nut]]."]]
Bulkhead and Arcee headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Bulkhead and Bumblebee retrieved Knock Out's [[neuron refractor]] from China, unaware that a MECH agent had stowed away in it. During [[Novo|Agent Novo]]'s escape from the Autobot base, Bulkhead was almost hit by grenades, and Novo kidnapped Miko. The Autobots searched for Miko, and located the MECH base in time for Novo, now occupying a mechanoid body, to return Miko. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples, Bulkhead bobbed for engine blocks. He accompanied Optimus Prime to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, but wasn't much help in fighting [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]]'s forces there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Following a successful solo mission to destroy a Decepticon energon store, Bulkhead was ambushed in the [[Alaska]]n forest by Megatron's forces. He was taken back to the ''Nemesis'', where Megatron stuck him in an [[Ultra Prison]], a device which would slowly erase his mind. Luckily Bulkhead had an emergency connection to [[Miko's phone]], and the alerted Autobots brought the three kids to the ship to rescue him. Later Miko said he could thank her by treating her to some monster truck rally. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

Bulkhead took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]], and did an admirable job at protecting the rear with his wrecking ball. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Bulkhead stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] specifically demanded Optimus and Bulkhead come after the two Decepticons took over a TV studio. The Autobots found themselves forced to run the ''[[Down and Out]]'' course, lest the Decepticons' hostages be harmed. Luckily Bulkhead had watched the show with Miko, so he knew where many of the traps were, though the Decepticons had made a few changes. The pair managed to get through the course and rescue the hostages, leading to Knock Out and Breakdown's defeat at the hands of Arcee. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic====
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====''Beast Hunters'' comic====
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. After that threat was dealt with, they were promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Bulkhead, [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] and [[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]] leading one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Bulkhead and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Bulkhead clumsily tried to explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks, though Arcee needed to step in to clarify for him. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

====IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[File:IDWRID3 Bulkhead at work.jpg|thumb|right|210px]]
Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship, though Bulkhead thought they should let Bee know they were there. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Bulkhead. Bulkhead and Arcee were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the [[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]] prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Bulkhead subsequently took part in a joint operation by the teams which succeeded in capturing the Decepticon. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Bulkhead dozed off while monitoring Team Bee. He later accompanied Ultra Magnus and Arcee on another visit to the team. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} Once Ultra Magnus filled the others in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy tasked with finding the identity of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]] leader, Bulkhead was thankful that they no longer needed to keep secrets from their old friend. The Autobots subsequently mounted another operation to track down Sect leader [[Overhead]], which resulted in them all almost being sucked into a black hole created by Overhead setting her space bridge to self-destruct. In the aftermath, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Bulkhead and the others loaded them onto Ultra Magnus's ship to go back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] retrieved some Cybertronian weapons, Bulkhead spent hours in the desert fruitlessly trying to get one of them to work. Just as he was about to give up, he was abruptly attacked by [[Ripclaw]], who inflicted a [[mech-venom]] sting on him. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 9}} Following the fight, Bulkhead was left inching nearer and nearer to shutdown. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 10}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
[[File:FullofFire BB Ratchet and Bulkhead.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left]]
Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert to test new weapons Ratchet had constructed, though Bulkhead wondered whether it was wise to do so in the open. Ratchet put this down to jealousy that Bumblebee's [[Eagleshot Bow]] had a longer range than the [[Dragon Grinder|Rhino Blade]] Bulkhead had been equipped with. Once the trio were joined by Optimus, they came under attack from no less than six Predacons. Luckily the new weapons gave the Autobots the edge they needed, and Bulkhead unleashed his on both [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurr]] and [[Blight (Prime)|Blight]]. The enemy soon fled, though Optimus was pessimistic about the victory. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Bulkhead was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
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===Precursor World===
Many incarnations of Bulkhead were members of the [[Green Order]]. One group of Bulkheads were taking in the natural splendor of the [[Green Planet]] when their commander [[Green Tender Convoy]] was warned of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|interdimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron Omega]] by the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The_old_universe|eponymous supreme leader]].

Another group supported their leader when the dimension-hopping [[Seacon (BWII)|pirate]] [[Sea Phantom]] arrived to plunder the Green Order's [[Creation Matrix (Generations)|Creation Matrix]].{{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)}}

* Bulkhead was phoned up by the human pastry maker{{w|Strawberry Shortcake}}, who invited him to the Berryfest Princess Parade to have glittery sparkles dumped on him. Unable to get a word in edgewise, he told Optimus that the call was for him. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Strawberry Shortcake|Strawberry Shortcake and Bulkhead}}

* Bulkhead and Megatron joined Strawberry and the [[My Little Pony|ponies]] [[Applejack]], [[Pinkie Pie]], and [[Rainbow Dash]] in scatting "{{w|Deck the Halls}}". Bulkhead's extended scat sequence, however, did not find favor among the Autobots or Megatron, causing him to awkwardly laugh it off. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}} Undeterred, Bulkhead rejoined this multiversal musical grouping in singing "{{w|Jingle Bells}}". {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

* Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission, where they would be backed up by [[Batman]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

* Bulkhead accompanied Ratchet and Bumblebee as they used the [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]] mech to plow through legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

== Games ==
=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game bulkhead.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|My shield-breaking attack is essentially transforming, tripping, and falling on top of my enemy. ''Awesome...'']]
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Salvador Serrano]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Pascal Casanova]] (French)}}
The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Bulkhead was found in some sort of tomb by Miko. Almost immediately, he encountered Starscream who played on his life by nearly collapsing the whole cave on him. Thankfully, Bulkhead and Miko escaped, and the big guy unleashed tenfold on Starscream. However, one of the Vehicons managed to swipe Miko and take her captive.

Optimus regrouped with Bulkhead later to track a Decepticon signal, though Bulkheads loud speaking and noises alerted Megatron & Starscream to their presence. Bulkhead got another chance to lock fists with Starscream while Optimus fought Megatron. Ultimately, Optimus was trapped in rubble, but Bulkhead managed to get aboard the Nemesis by taking Starscream hostage (in his own ship!).

Starscream tricked Bulkhead, however, into bringing him into a room where he was ambushed by Vehicon troopers. Yet again, Bulkhead came out on top of the pile with Starscream retreating in defeat. Though, Thunderwing's escape from the ship resulted in Bulkhead having to find an alternate route out of the room to join up with the other Autobots.

The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Bulkhead was pretty shaken up by Megatron, but was the one who took Arcee in for medical care. Bulkhead later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Optimus sent Bulkhead out on several missions. His first two consisted of Bulkhead retrieving Dark Energon shards from a Dark Energon mine before the Decepticons could use them to raise an army of Terrorcons. Before the mission's end, Bulkhead had to face off against Soundwave and defeat him within the mine. Next, Bulkhead was sent to infiltrate the Nemesis and retrieve Energon stores in the Decepticons' possession. Before Bulkhead could leave the Decepticon ship, he had to contend with Starscream, and defeat him as well. Bulkhead's last missions brought him back to Autobot headquarters. The Autobots' base had been infiltrated by the Decepticons, who had used Scraplets to make its systems go haywire. After Bulkhead collected all of the Scraplets, returning the base's functions to normal, he fought Megatron and defeated the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Bulkhead and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Bulkhead and Miko could help out by beating up some Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Bulkhead (Prime)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Bulkheadsmile.jpg|thumb|It's really weird the longer you look at it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderBulkhead.jpg|thumb|Now properly desaturated, Bulkhead is ready for a role in ''War for Cybertron''.]]
* Bulkhead is, of course, an homage to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], even using a wrecking ball-like mace.
* When [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] was briefly brought in early in the design process of ''Prime'', Bulkhead was originally intended to be [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]. However, as the show evolved, the writers said they realized that they were essentially writing a new Bulkhead, and the character was brought in.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/site-updates-18/wtftfw-podcast-episode-123-with-derrick-j-wyatt-now-online-171018/</ref> Later, on a featurette on the ''Transformers: Prime Season 1'' Blu-ray, [[Rik Alvarez]] admitted that because of the death of [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', they didn't want to confuse kids with a living Ironhide.<ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/transformers-prime-season-1-blu-ray-review-174448/</ref> It's likely that the former story was a cover for the latter, for spoiler reasons.
* For such a big guy, he runs really ''fast''.
* Bulkhead's chin piece is actually a cover for his lower lip, as is evident whenever he smiles and in his ''Robots in Disguise'' character design.
* Bulkhead's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Bulkhead parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop. While all the characters in the game are hue-shifted from their normal colorations, Bulkhead ended up noticeably less-different than his peers.
* [[Bulkhead (G1)|Another Bulkhead]] seems to have completely borrowed the look of this Bulkhead.

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Bulkhead has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Berserk Mode''' (バーサークモード ''Bāsāku Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on his box-back photo, in this mode Bulkhead holds the [[Nebula Scythe]], with [[R.A.]] attached to his right arm, [[B.B.]] on his right shoulder, and [[C.L.]] attached to the mounting point behind his head.

*'''Shootgize Galaxy Launcher''' (シュートジアイズガラクシーランチャー ''Shūtojiaizu Garakushī Ranchā'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.B., B.H., C.L., Gora, O.P., Zori
: Yyyyeah. Revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", in this battle mode Bulkhead holds the [[Galaxy Launcher]] Super Combo Weapon, while he's also got O.P. on his left forearm, B.B. on his back, and inexplicably [[Gora]] on his right forearm with [[Zori]] also on his back. And as far as can be told, "Shootgize" seems to be a bad portmanteau of "shoot" and "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Bulkhead''' (バルクヘッド ''Barukuheddo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Gébǎn''' (隔板, "Bulkhead")

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/bulkhead Bulkhead's character page @ Hubworld.com]

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