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Rad White

2023-12-25T01:14:15Z

Dharakjoo: /* Fiction */

{{disambig2|the human from Armada|the human from Shattered Glass|Brad White}}
:''Rad is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''

[[File:Armada Rad character model.jpg|thumb|200px|...and I want to tell you about the Traaaaaaaaaaansformers!]]

'''Bradley "Rad" White''' is your typical kid who's the son of [[Rad White's parents|brilliant scientists]]. He likes to [[High Wire (Armada)|ride his bike]], he likes to explore caves, he likes to grab excitedly at radioactive things—wait, what?

Basically, Rad has a natural, insatiable curiosity about all things. Unfortunately, this curiosity goes unchecked when he's hanging out with his best friend [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]], so it takes the watchful eye of the intelligent-but-much-more-reserved [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] to keep them both out of trouble. His parents hope that some day Rad can channel this curiosity more productively.

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kirby Morrow]] (English), [[Masataka Nakai]], [[Akiko Toda]] (young) (Japanese)|[[Jiang Guangtao]] (Chinese), [[Christian Jernbro]] (Swedish), [[Yoann Sover]] (French), [[Samuel Harjanne]] (Finnish), [[Stefan Günther]] (German), [[Stefano Crescentini]] (Italian), [[Blanca Rada]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Juan Carlos Vázquez]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[João Cappelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

When Rad was a young boy, his parents moved to a new home near the [[Cosmoscope Research Center]]. Due to a bending of time, he had a vision of the [[Transformer]]s and [[Mini-Con]]s, but his parents just dismissed this as a wild imagination.

[[File:Firstenclight.JPG|left|thumb|upright=1.66|"It's radioactive? Sweet!" *grab*]]

Years later, he and [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] went exploring into the caverns deep beneath the local observatory. Inside, they found the curious remains of a clearly artificial construction, seemingly far in advance of human technology. Against the advice of Carlos, Rad was drawn towards a [[Mini-Con storage panel|glowing, green, pentagonal artifact]] half-buried in the rubble. When he touched it, the entire structure began to shake, suddenly springing to life as thousands of computers lit up the walls.

At home, [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] felt the tremors and used her computer to pinpoint the epicenter of the apparent earthquake as the mountain caverns that Rad and Carlos were exploring. Similarly, the scientists and researchers at the observatory were baffled by the sudden movement of the Earth. As Rad and Carlos made their escape with the artifact, a bright light engulfed the chamber they were in, simultaneously shutting down all electronic equipment in Lincoln, as well as emitting three distinctly coloured distress signal beams into the sky.

One beam, green, reached an [[Exodus (Armada)|ancient starship wreck]] on the dark side of the Moon, causing it to fire hundreds of smaller beams of green light at the [[Earth]]. The two remaining signal beams, coloured red and purple, continued deep into space until they reached [[Cybertron (planet)|a cold, distant, metal world]].

Little did Rad know that he had unwittingly set in motion the next destructive phase in the great Transformers war, an endless battle of rage and hatred between the heroic [[Autobot]]s and the evil [[Decepticon]]s. Thanks a lot, kid. {{storylink|First Encounter}}

After being joined by Alexis, the kids attempted to flee on [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], but were stopped by the arrival of [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]]. Demolishor tried to grab the boys, but they were saved by the arrival of [[Hot Shot (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Hot Shot]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]. Rad fled back into the cave, calling Carlos and Alexis after him. Rad was sure they'd be safe there, but Alexis was concerned that the bigger robots might still follow them. High Wire led the three into a smaller room, to Alexis' further distress; Rad and Carlos, however, assured her that they'd be safer there. While in there, he accessed the ship's computer and the kids learned about the Transformer conflict.

At this point, High Wire activated a hidden storage panel, revealing [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]], who bonded to Carlos and Alexis. The [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] took their new friends out to play in the woods, but ran into Megatron. The timely arrival of Optimus Prime initially seemed to Rad and Carlos to make things worse, but when Alexis said she trusted the big Autobot, the boys admitted they felt they could do so as well.

Optimus Prime took them into his cab and sped off to a distant location, where he set them down. Unfortunately, Megatron had followed close behind, and so Optimus had to combine with his [[trailer]] to fight him off. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}} The commanders' battle caused a landslide to fall on the kids, but they were shielded by Hot Shot. They then dug up some more Mini-Cons, but two of those were stolen by Cyclonus. The Decepticons retreated, and so the kids and robots made proper introductions. Rad was particularly upset by the idea that he had started a massive war by reactivating High Wire.

The next day at school, [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] grilled them over recent earthquakes; Rad and Carlos played dumb, while Alexis pointed out that if there was an earthquake, it would have been mentioned on the news. When Billy asked where Rad got his new bike, Rad claimed it was a birthday present from his grandmother. He and Carlos headed on up to the mountain; on the way, Alexis chewed them out for almost blowing their cover.

At the Autobots' base, Optimus Prime presented them with [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] to aid them with their reconnaissance work; right then, another Mini-Con was detected {{storylink|Base}} in the [[Grand Canyon|Big Canyon]]. The kids ran out with the Autobots, Rad falling slightly behind, and got spiffy new adventure suits on the way.

When they got to the canyon, Rad was initially left alone once again when Alexis and Hot Shot sped off, forgetting him. They came back, though. Hot Shot then sped off as fast as he could over the rough terrain, severely shaking up the two humans. Rad sent Laserbeak off to find the Mini-Con, and was himself chided by Alexis for being a coward.

[[File:Comrade drivingHotShot.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|They're going to be exactly like this when they're thirty.]]

When the Mini-Con was finally found, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream simultaneously tried to claim it. Rad gave a yell of concern, which inspired High Wire, Grindor, and Sureshock to combine into [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]], who in turn managed to hold off both Megatron and Starscream. Optimus Prime claimed the Mini-Con—who turned out to be his old partner, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]]—and the kids helped dig up Hot Shot form where he'd gotten himself buried {{storylink|Comrade}}.

Later, they played tag with Hot Shot, which got him in trouble with Optimus Prime as he was supposed to be helping Red Alert install some equipment. They then went to find a new Mini-Con in [[Antarctica]], where Rad and Alexis rode in Red Alert while Carlos went with Hot Shot. Red Alert ended up having to save Carlos and Hot Shot from Starscream {{storylink|Soldier (episode)|Soldier}}.

[[File:Jungle-Butterfingers.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|When your girlfriend sees your Transformers collection, she sees this.]]

Rad later came up with the sensible notion of bringing some camping supplies to the Autobot base in case they ever had to stay the night. Soon after he got them to the base, another Mini-Con was detected, and so the good guys all warped over to a forest. Carlos found a path that had been cut down by illegal loggers, prompting Rad to make a speech about how important it is to protect the environment.

During this mission, Rad used Laserbeak to find the Mini-Con, [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]]. However, the Decepticons also found him, and started a forest fire. At Rad's insistence, the Autobots temporarily broke off their search to protect the animals, allowing Starscream to make off with Swindle. Rad felt guilty about this, but Optimus Prime assured him that his heart was in the right place. {{Storylink|Jungle}}

Back at the base, the kids tried to wake up the dormant Mini-Con they'd found in Antarctica, but to no avail. Rad and Carlos fell for the old "pass me that spanner that's clearly too big for your species to lift" joke and, seeing there was nothing they could do to help, decided to take High Wire and Grindor to a local carnival, followed by [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]], and [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]].

At the carnival, the boys were initially concerned that bringing five alien robots to a crowded area might blow their cover, but quickly came up with the idea of telling everyone they were super-advanced [[human]]-developed robots that would be available for purchase in the future. After a while, the boys tried to take the robots home, but it turned out that Billy and Fred were also at the carnival, and got suspicious. They tried to capture one of the Mini-Con, causing the entire situation to descend into slapstick farce.

[[File:Palace-Exploring.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|]]

They were saved by the timely arrival of Hot Shot, Sureshock, and Alexis, who managed to get things under control, swore Billy and Fred to secrecy, and gave the lads a good scolding. As punishment, Rad and Carlos had to clean up their quarters back at the base. {{storylink|Carnival}} The kids later accompanied the Autobots to the [[Sahara|Sahara Desert]], and fell into a sand pit after an altercation with Demolishor. They found themselves in an ancient temple, where they were attacked by ancient guardian robots, but fortunately Demolishor was there to blow them up. Further into the temple, they found a Mini-Con storage panel; Carlos accidentally activated a trap, and Rad knocked him out of the way. After that, the floor collapsed, but Perceptor was able to rescue them. Demolishor got the Mini-Con. {{storylink|Palace}}

The next day, back in America, Billy and Fred pursued the three to the Autobot base. Rad, Carlos, and Alexis all tried to outrun them, but soon had to split up when Cyclonus attempted to capture them. Cyclonus chased after Rad, but was thrown off the trail by Laserbeak and so captured Billy and Fred instead, intending to hold them for ransom. They tracked Laserbeak to a ghost town, where the kids tried to rescue the bullies, but all ended up being captured by Megatron, who demanded Optimus Prime hand over all their Autobots' Mini-Cons in exchange for the humans' lives. Optimus Prime went through with it, but Megatron, naturally, refused to hand them over. However, Rad was able to use Laserbeak to free all the other humans, and Hot Shot was able to rescue Rad with Fred's surprising help. {{storylink|Confrontation (episode)|Confrontation}}

The day after that, when Hot Shot whined about having to do work on the ship, Rad facetiously offered to take his place. Before anything could come of this, however, a new Mini-Con was detected in a disused subway system. The kids accompanied the Autobots in their search and actually managed to find the storage panel; as soon as they did, however, [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]], who had been discreetly following them, stumbled onto the scene. Mistaking him for a Decepticon, the kids took off, and encountered the real Decepticons in their flight. Smokescreen revealed himself to be their ally just in time for him to rescue Rad and the others from being crushed by a pile of rubble. {{storylink|Underground (episode)|Underground}}

[[File:Ruin-Hologram.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|]]

A while after that, the Autobots received a transmission from [[Atlantis]] and took the kids with them to search for yet another Mini-Con. At the ruins, while the Autobots fought the Decepticons, the kids went inside to look around. A [[Hologram|holographic]] display activated, and Carlos chased after the hologram of [[Amphitrite]]; Rad and Alexis followed. 'Amphitrite' gave them a canned history of Atlantis, focusing on how its inhabitants used the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] to dominate the world, and were eventually defeated by another civilisation who wielded the [[Skyboom (Armada)|Skyboom Shield]]. Despite this warning of the danger of the Mini-Cons' power, the kids decided to find the Mini-Con in Atlantis anyway, but it was claimed by [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] for the Decepticons. Dejected, the kids left with Optimus Prime. Rad tried to comfort Carlos, {{storylink|Ruin}} and when they got back, mused that at last he knew what happened to Atlantis.

He asked Optimus Prime if there was any way to end the war with the Decepticons, to which Optimus gave him the origin of the war and what he knew of the Mini-Cons. Rad changed his line of questioning, asking if there was a way to fight without involving the Mini-Cons; Optimus responded that the Decepticons would use Mini-Cons to fight anyway, and so the Autobots had to do the same to prevent them from capturing any more than they already had.

While searching for the Mini-Con of the week, this time on a volcanic island, Rad sent Laserbeak to look for it at Alexis' prompting. They found it, but it was carried off in a lava floe, and eventually claimed by Red Alert. During this adventure, Rad was moved by the Autobot-aligned Mini-Cons leaping into the fray to protect one of their own from falling into Decepticon hands. Seeing this put his mind at ease over the smaller robots being part of the war. {{storylink|Prehistory}}

After that adventure, the trio decided to give Billy and Fred a tour of the Autobot base, but were separated when the Decepticons attacked. Since the bullies were in danger of the automatic defenses, said defenses were shut off, allowing the Decepticons to penetrate deeper into the base that anyone would have liked. The Autobots had to turn to trickier tactics to get rid of the intruders, and Rad helped out by leading Cyclonus to the warp gate and teleporting him out of the base. After a battle, the Star Saber was reassembled and put in the hands of Hot Shot, so the day ultimately turned out all right. {{storylink|Swoop (episode)|Swoop}}

The next day, Rad and Carlos tried to sort out the human quarters on the base while Alexis and Sureshock were out shopping. For some reason, the fridge was full of tools. {{storylink|Overmatch}}

When Alexis tracked down the next Mini-Con, the trio, plus Billy and Fred, rushed off with the Autobots to cheer them on; Rad and Carlos rode in Hot Shot. They were let out so Hot Shot could focus on fighting Cyclonus. At that point, [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] arrived and dropped off Billy, who clung onto Rad often his wild ride. After the Autobots managed to acquire [[Spiral]], Alexis and Rad discussed Sideways. Both were deeply suspicious of him, but they decided not to raise their misgivings with Optimus Prime in case it turned out their first impressions were false. {{storylink|Gale}}

When Hot Shot and Sideways were warped to the Decepticons' base, Rad worried over whether or not they would return safely. Some of the other kids were certain that while the Star Saber was in his possession, Hot Shot could handle anything the evil robots could throw at him. This didn't turn out to be true; Rad witnessed Hot Shot return to Autobot headquarters barely alive, minus his sword and his partner; Sideways had betrayed the Autobots! {{storylink|Credulous}}

With Hot Shot feeling naturally depressed about this disaster, all five kids tried to cheer him up by making silly faces. Though it worked, it still wasn't enough for the Autobots to win their next confrontation with the Decepticons. Soon after, however, Scavenger came over to the Autobots, and revealed he had been a double agent all along. {{storylink|Conspiracy}}

In the aftermath of Sideways' betrayal, the trio weren't exactly eager to trust Scavenger. He seemed to be more interested in sleeping than mentoring Hot Shot, but when the kids tried to raise this with Optimus Prime, his explanation was cut short by the detection of still another Mini-Con. The Autobots warped off to somewhere with a lot of snow, while the kids observed from back at base. Scavenger heroically saved Optimus Prime's life, very nearly plunging to his own [[death]], and so the kids (and Smokescreen) apologised to him for their earlier suspicions when he got back, Scavenger accepted with characteristic stoicism. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

At some point after that incident, the boys went on a camping trip with Hot Shot and Red Alert, forgetting to tell Alexis. Carlos, Fred, and Billy played in the water and invited a little boy named Shaun to play with them, while Rad tried his hand at fishing.

That evening, a storm blew in, resulting in a landslide which trapped Red Alert, Carlos, and Shaun beneath a massive pile of mud. Optimus Prime ordered Red Alert to transform in order to escape, but Rad explained that there was a human news crew present, and so Red Alert transforming would completely blow the Autobots' cover. Hence, he deployed Laserbeak to distract the reporters while the rest of the Autobots rolled in and saved the day in their [[Alternate mode|altmodes]]. Everybody returned to base post haste, where they found Alexis waiting with baited breath. Fond reunions were had be all. {{storylink|Vacation}}

All five kids observed the battle in which [[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]] made his first appearance. They tried to make friends with the new arrival, but he turned out to belong to the monosyllabic loner school of heroism. When Blurr and Hot Shot's attitudes led to the Decepticons getting their servos on [[Downshift (Armada)|Downshift]], Alexis and Rad gave Hot Shot a talking down for letting his competitiveness get the better of him. The loss did also cause Blurr to mellow out however, and the kids were glad to see that Hot Shot and Blurr formed a friendship later that evening. {{storylink|Reinforcement}}

The next day, Blurr and Hot Shot trained together while the kids watched. They also congratulated Smokescreen for succeeding in a test where Hot Shot failed, even though Hot Shot only failed because he was competing with Blurr in addition to trying to dodge the obstacles.

This session was interrupted when Megatron challenged all the Autobots to a final, decisive battle. Due to the danger, the kids were left at the base to watch the proceedings from afar. Megatron would have won if Optimus Prime hadn't managed to get his hands on the Skyboom shield, and when the Star Saber was used against the shield, a mighty light was released which Rad and Alexis recognised as the same one that they had seen when High Wire was awoken. This light streaked off into space, to awaken [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Decisive Battle}}

Despite this victory, Optimus Prime decided the situation was too dangerous for the kids and barred them from the base. Frustrated, they wandered off, but were soon joined by the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]], who had received a transmission from the Decepticon-allied Mini-Cons. Fred figured that the Decepticon Mini-Cons were lonely and wanted to join up with their friends on Earth, so he and Rad went to deliver the message to Optimus Prime. The rest of the kids headed to the coordinates where the Decepticon-allied Mini-Cons were supposed to warp in. Unable to enter the base, Rad used Laserbeak to deliver the message, prompting Optimus Prime and Hot Shot to emerge and take matters into their own hands; Blurr and Smokescreen followed.

However, the transmission turned out to be a trap orchestrated by Megatron, who was seeking to divide and conquer. Rad, Fred, and the bulk of the Autobot forces found themselves scattered around the globe via a series of Warp Gates. Along the way, Optimus explained that the Mini-Cons viewed Megatron as something akin to a father-figure, and thus his control would not be easy to break. After bringing them to a desert, Megatron and his Mini-Cons fought Optimus Prime while Rad and Fred stood on the sidelines. Optimus Prime's refusal to harm the Mini-Cons led to them defecting to the Autobots, just as Alexis managed to re-establish contact with the group. The rest of the Autobots teleported in and drove off Megatron, leaving the Autobots victorious once again. {{storylink|Vow}}

After that adventure, the kids were allowed back into the Autobots' base, but were still not taken on missions. Rad found himself in the unenviable position to trying to keep the bored Carlos and cranky Alexis from murdering each other. Despite not being at the front of the action, the war would still impinge on their lives when Sideways hacked the Autobots' computer system. Despite Rad and Alexis' best efforts, Sideways's virus quickly took control of the base and projected himself into it. Faced with no other options, the trio resorted to physically smashing the terminals, which granted them a brief reprieve.

However, this relief proved to be short-lived when Sideways sucked the minds of the kids as well as their partner Mini-Cons into a cyberspace landscape of his own devising. Rad and Carlos actually enjoyed the lack of gravity in this new realm for a while before Sideways's digital avatar appeared to them and tried to claim their Mini-Cons.

Back at the base, Billy and Fred tried to wake the trio up. Meanwhile, in cyberspace, the kids and Mini-Cons fled Sideways, and discovered that all they saw was just an elaborate illusion. Sideways managed to capture Sureshock, but then Alexis realized that since he had gone to so much effort, he clearly wasn't in control of this illusion - and also that he couldn't really harm them.

At this, Sideways panicked and made a desperate bid to take the Mini-Cons, but the kids' lack of belief in the world they saw put paid to that plan. At that point, a massive force of evil manifested in cyberspace - Unicron, the one entity Sideways feared! The kids fled back to the meatspace through a portal opened by Red Alert, leaving Sideways to his master's mercies. {{storylink|Chase (episode)|Chase}}

When Fred tried to tell the others about strange lights seen recently in space, Rad just thought he was being silly. All the kids expressed relief when Sideways appeared on the battlefield during the next Mini-Con related skirmish, as this meant he couldn't hack their system again. The Autobots won this battle, bringing [[Prowl (Armada)|Prowl]] into the fold, and the kids were all there to welcome him when they took him back to base. When Fred's story about strange lights turned out to be the arrival of [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] and [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]], Rad was especially pleased to welcome the newest Autobot. {{Storylink|Tactician}}

In a subsequent battle, Optimus Prime was seriously injured, forcing Jetfire to take command. None of the kids were impressed by the new guy's constant boasting. They also got a brief history lesson on battles the Autobots had lost due to Thrust's tactical genius; while Carlos was confident that Jetfire could easily counter Thrust, the others weren't so sure.

As it turned out, the kids were right about Jetfire, as his overconfidence nearly led to the Autobots being taken out after he got himself caught in another of Thrust's ambushes. To his credit, Jetfire was contrite, saying he had learned his lesson and would be more cautious in the future. {{storylink|Linkup}}

The next day, the kids watched Jetfire and Smokescreen have an arm-wrestling competition. They also filled in Jetfire on who Sideways was and what he had previously gotten up to. Jetfire then displayed his cunning side by showing the kids a still of Sideways shooting down Cyclonus after Sideways had defected, which cast doubt on the turncoat's allegiance to the Decepticons. The kids tried to figure out what Sideways's deal was, while the Autobots went to obtain yet another Mini-Con. {{storylink|Detection}}

While the Autobots were dealing with [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], two Mini-Cons were detected in addition to the one the Transformers were at the time specifically fighting over - one on the Moon, and the other right in the Autobot base! The kids and Street Action Mini-Cons rushed off to look for the one on Earth, locating it when Fred fell through a rotten floor. This Mini-Con revealed itself as [[Sky Blast (Armada)|Sky Blast]] before shooting High Wire and running off. {{storylink|Awakening (Armada)|Awakening}} The kids gave chase, and Rad managed to persuade Sky Blast that he wasn't in any danger. After Rad promised his protection to Sky Blast, Red Alert took the Mini-Con, Rad, and Carlos to the beach where the factions' main forces were duking it out; while Alexis alerted the other Autobots to the situation, Rad and Carlos sought out [[Payload (Armada)|Payload]].

The situation was growing grimmer for the Autobots until Sky Blast walked off and played a melody which awoke both Payload on the beach and [[Astroscope]] on the moon; the three Mini-Cons came together and did indeed form the Requiem Blaster, which Optimus Prime obtained and used, forcing the Decepticons to retreat. Rad realized that the Mini-Cons weren't afraid of fighting ''per se'', but rather of their power falling into the wrong hands. {{storylink|Desperate}}

Out of concern for the rights of the [[Space Mini-Con Team]], Rad and the other kids disguised the Mini-Cons in baggy clothes and took them to a farm outside the city, pursued by the Autobots. At an abandoned farmhouse, they set up a complex system of home-made traps and alarms which worked surprisingly well when Thrust inevitably arrived; while they didn't manage to actually stop the Decepticon, they did delay him long enough for Optimus Prime to arrive and drive him off.

When the other Autobots arrived, Rad took a stand and urged the Autobots to see the Mini-Cons as individuals, not as weapons of war to be exploited and then tossed aside. Surprisingly, Optimus Prime had much the same view, and explained that they were fighting so the Mini-Cons would be free to live in peace, and if any of them wanted to join the struggle, that was their decision. Satisfied, the kids and Mini-Cons returned to base. {{storylink|Runaway}}

All three kids were present when [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] made his rather eager appearance at the base, but they weren't terribly impressed and went off to play a video game {{storylink|Past}} at which Alexis beat all comers. {{storylink|Past II}}

Later, the kids stayed at the base with Red Alert when the Autobots went out to counter a Decepticon attack. However, this attack proved to be nothing more than a distraction posed by Starscream, while the rest of the 'Cons attacked the Autobot base in search of the Requiem Blaster. The kids ran for hiding before the Autobots warped back, and bore witness to Megatron obtaining the Blaster and using it on Smokescreen, apparently killing him. {{storylink|Sacrifice}} Smokescreen clung to life, if only barely, and Red Alert went to task fixing him. As they watched, the children were given a brief lesson in Cybertronian anatomy, specifically on what a [[Spark]] was. Afterwards, Starscream joined the ranks of the Autobots. Though the kids were initially suspicious, they eventually welcomed him when they saw his attendant Mini-Cons genuinely looked up to him. {{storylink|Regeneration (Armada)|Regeneration}} Despite this display of camaraderie, Starscream dismissed them, as he was only concerned with defeating Megatron. The kids' favorable opinion on Starscream was further cemented when they watched him aid the Autobots rescue the Decepticon-held Mini-Cons from the enemy's moonbase. {{storylink|Rescue}} Later, the kids asked Starscream to bring them back a souvenir when he and Jetfire travelled to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] in search of a Mini-Con panel. In spite of his rude, lone-wolf demeanor, Starscream brought back a mysterious green rock for the kids, thus earning him a place in their hearts. {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}}

In return for his kindness, the kids threw Starscream a surprise party, sewing a large [[Chamois of Friendship]] out of several smaller rags. Starscream was touched by this, but unfortunately still had trouble adjusting to life with the Autobots. Rad, Alexis, and Carlos later took the [[Race Mini-Con Team]] out for a walk, inadvertently leading to Starscream being accused of stealing the Skyboom Shield for the Decepticons. Though the kids explained themselves to Hot Shot, the damaged had been done, and Starscream abandoned both his gift and the Autobots when he was duped into returning to the Decepticons by [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], ostensibly so as to destroy Megatron. {{storylink|Crack (episode)|Crack}} In the aftermath, Carlos and Billy were enraged, and so Rad and Alexis had to try and calm them down. They all went home to blow off some steam; Rad watched TV without paying any attention or interest.

[[File:Rad-armada.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?'' ...well, it's this or going outside, I guess.]]
The next day, all the kids returned to the base to discover the Autobots and their allied Mini-Cons working quickly to complete the ''[[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]]'' in order to retrieve the Decepticons' Mini-cons. The kids discussed Starscream a bit and decided never to speak of him again; Rad tried to comfort Alexis, but she said she was fine. At Fred's suggestion, they all went to see a comet. Afterwards, Alexis, still upset over Starscream, begun to walk away, though Rad followed to convince her to stay with her friends. Then, the comet was destroyed by the Decepticons' newly fisnished [[Hydra Cannon]]. {{storylink|Threaten}} Rad and Alexis raced back to their friends, though all the kids could only stand around wondering what to do when confronted with the awesome might the Decepticons had acquired. {{storylink|Crisis (Armada)|Crisis}}

As it turned out, the Decepticons were thwarted through the [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|noble sacrifice of Optimus Prime]]. The kids all suffered a heartfelt grief, and Rad mused that Prime knew he would die and how unfair it was that nobody on Earth knew he had saved their lives.

Over the next week, the Autobots busied themselves with completing the ''Axalon'', but Hot Shot and Scavenger soon came to blows. The kids were confused by this and watched from afar as the two fought on an abandoned highway. When the rest of the Autobots joined in abusing Hot Shot, the kids tried to persuade them that bullying their youngest member wouldn't help anything, but were overruled by Red Alert, who insisted that they had to get this out of their system. It turned out Scavenger was trying to snap Hot Shot out of his own depression. In due course, Hot Shot did come to terms with Optimus Prime's death, and everybody's morale was raised; it was raised so much so, in fact, that Hot Shot was chosen as the Autobots' new commander. {{storylink|Remorse}}

Under Hot Shot's understandably unsteady command, the ''Axalon'' was soon completed and preparations made to depart for Cybertron. The kids were looking forward to seeing another planet, and so were naturally miffed when Hot Shot told them that he was leaving them on Earth where it was safe. High Wire, too, told Rad to remain on Earth - in English, surprisingly. All the kids glumly returned home.

When he got home, Rad had breakfast with his parents and tried to subtly raise the subject of his not being allowed to leave the planet by asking them if they ever wanted to go into space. The adults brushed him off, just telling him to concentrate on his schoolwork.

That night, he woke up his parents and spilled the beans on the Transformers, Mini-Cons, and the [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|war]]. For some reason, they found his story about alien robots that turn into cars implausible, and told him to go back to bed. However, his father seemed to sense he was trying to tell the truth, and came into his room a few hours later. The two had a heart to heart talk, and father told son that he could go to Cybertron provided he promised to return.

Rad was thrilled at this, and ran over to Carlos' house at the crack of dawn. To his delight, Carlos had also packed his bags, as had Alexis, who they met after leaving. The three skipped over to the Autobot base, but when they arrived, Hot Shot once again insisted that it was too dangerous for them to come along. Upon hearing this, the Mini-Cons collectively rebelled and blocked all the ship's systems, refusing to budge until the kids were allowed on. Hot Shot relented, and the kids and Autobots blasted off into space. {{storylink|Depart}}

During the journey, the kids bore witness to the arrival of thousands of new Mini-Cons and the rebirth of Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Miracle (episode)|Miracle}} the conflict with [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]], and the Mini-Con powered [[spontaneous recoloration|recoloration]] of several Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Puppet}}

Following a confrontation with the Decepticons, the Autobots arrived at Cybertron, to discover it had already been conquered by Galvatron. When the Street Action Mini-Cons tried to sneak down to the surface, Rad and Alexis supported their desire to set foot on their home planet, in opposition to Carlos' fears for the little ones' safety. {{storylink|Uprising (Armada)|Uprising}} With the Mini-Cons gone, the kids were left with nothing much to do but watch the lights of battle on the surface. They did try to stop Hot Shot making a one-robot mission to the heart of the Decepticon stronghold to warn Galvatron about the impending threat of Unicron, but then Rad persuaded everyone to let him go ahead with it. {{storylink|Dash (episode)|Dash}}

At some point, Rad found a human-sized shower on the ship and, when he was in the middle of using it, Carlos walked in. Rad expressed an odd feeling that he'd met High Wire before, but Carlos just thought he was being ''loco''.

Shortly thereafter, they got a transmission from High Wire that Hot Shot, [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]], and Starscream were independently chasing Thrust (who had in the meantime allied with Sideways and Unicron) beneath Cybertron's surface. The lads went to see Alexis, and the trio then joined up with their partner Mini-Cons to plunge deep into the heart of Cybertron.

They came across Starscream standing off against Thrust. Thrust seized the opportunity and threatened the kids with the Requiem Blaster, and so Starscream, remembering their earlier kindness, bravely threw himself into the path of the blast, saving them. At that point, High Wire used his time powers to send Rad and the others to the past and future and the Rad found himself on Earth several years in the past, arriving at his new home. He asked where the Transformers were, but his parents just assumed he was confusing a dream with reality.

Time warped again, and he found himself with Alexis and Carlos millions of years in the past, in an [[Splinter timeline|future timeline]]. They encountered Hot Shot, being entangled in a semi-organic growth; Hot Shot revealed that the Mini-Cons had been created by Unicron, and the Transformers' use of them had led to the downfall of the entire race.

With that happy thought, the kids were sent back even further in time, where they witnessed the first Mini-Cons being spawned. Among these were High Wire, Sureshock, and Grindor. Rad grabbed High Wire, and the little robot imprinted in some way on the human. High Wire gained free will from this encounter, which then spread telepathically among all the other Mini-Cons. Rad urged the Mini-Cons to leave Cybertron and go to Earth, thus creating a temporal loop.

Finally, the kids were warped back to a few seconds back before Thrust killed Starscream, allowing the Mini-Cons to combine into Perceptor and knock Thrust's aim off. Thrust's blast was redirected, saving Starscream. The ceiling then collapsed, but Starscream used his own body to shield the kids while Thrust flew off. At that point, Hot Shot and Wheeljack arrived. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}}

The team continued to explore the tunnels, and the various organic... things soon separated Alexis and Starscream from the others. Rad, Carlos, the Mini-Cons, and carbots made it to the surface, where they met up with Alexis and Starscream again. Then, the group made two shocking discoveries in quick succession. First, the organic tunnels they had been exploring were actually the interior of one of Cybertron's moon. Second, that moon wasn't actually a moon, but the dormant body of Unicron. Unicron began to awaken, and Jetfire arrived just in time to take the kids to safety. {{storylink|Portent}}

When the kids learned of Starscream's demise, Alexis ran off in tears. Rad tried his best to comfort her, though he admitted to not knowing all the answers Alexis posed him in her grief. {{storylink|Cramp}} Later, he attended the cease-fire meeting between the Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Alliance}}

When Optimus Prime and Galvatron managed to sneak inside Unicron, the Street Action Mini-Cons decided to infiltrate the titan's body as well. The children and Red Alert tagged along, barely avoiding getting crushed getting through the warp gate that led to Unicron's interiors. {{storylink|Union}} Red Alert was left behind, but the rest of the group soldiered forth. They found the two leaders restrained by Unicron's tentacles, with Unicron trying to verbally break Optimus Prime through Sideways' vocal synthesizer. Unicron destroyed the Mini-Cons' human-derived personalities, restoring them to blank drones, and then dragged the kids into a bizarre mindscape. However, the kids' mental fortitude was strong enough not only to break Unicron's thrall over them, but also to restore the individual personalities of the Mini-Cons. The kids and Mini-Cons then managed to release the weapons, allowing Optimus Prime to blow up Sideways with the Requiem Blaster.

However, on the way out, Galvatron challenged Optimus Prime to a final battle, {{storylink|Origin}} on the grounds that as long as both of them still existed, the hatred and enmity would last forever and thus Unicron would never be permanently defeated. The kids fled, and were picked up by Jetfire and Cyclonus on Unicron's surface. Optimus Prime won the battle, and Unicron and Galvatron were both (apparently) destroyed.

Hot Shot and Jetfire returned the kids to Earth, where they said tearful (but temporary) goodbyes. Rad thought he'd particularly miss the mini-Cons, and was also concerned for the fate of Optimus Prime. He mused that Optimus would always be a part of them. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
Rad and Alexis stared up in horror as the Decepticons unleashed the might of the Hydra Cannon towards the Earth. Though there was little they could do to stop the incoming desolation, Optimus thankfully sacrificed himself to prevent Earth's destruction.{{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}

====''Legends'' comic====
Rad was at the beach with his friends when Alexis was pulled into the [[Legends World]] to help save [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] from sacrificing himself. {{storylink|LG-18 Armada Starscream Super Mode Prologue}}

====''Energon'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Kirby Morrow]] (English), [[Masataka Nakai]] (Japanese)|[[Christian Jernbro]] (Swedish), [[Vincent Barazzoni]] (French), [[Markus Blom]] (Finnish), [[Stefano Crescentini]] (Italian), [[Blanca Rada]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Paweł Iwanicki]] (Polish)}}

[[File:Cybertron City Rad.jpg|left|thumb]]
When Dr. [[Brian Jones]] traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with his son, Kicker, he also brought along Rad, Alexis, and Carlos to the alien planet. {{storylink|Team Optimus Prime}}

By [[2020]], Rad had been shipped off to Cybertron and was working as an assistant to Dr. Jones, presumably because he wouldn't shut up about the [[Transformer]]s. Much to Dr. Jones's chagrin, [[Sally Jones|his daughter]] appeared to have a thing for Rad.

During their collaboration, Rad told Dr. Jones about a new vein of [[energon]] that had been discovered on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], right where Dr.Jones had predicted. As it happened, [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] was listening in, and sent a force of [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] to steal it. Rad and Dr. Jones received word from [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] and alerted [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], then activated the [[space bridge]] so the [[Autobot]]s could deal with the problem. {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}} After the Terrorcons' first attack, Rad and Dr. Jones informed Optimus that a cache of Energon was discovered left behind on Mars City, and warned that the Terrorcons might launch another strike in light of the station's weakened defenses. Their assessment turned out to be correct. {{storylink|Megatron's Sword}}

Optimus Prime was injured in the following battle, and so Rad and Dr. Jones worked to repair the [[Prime Force]] drones. They also gave them a few tweaks and upgrades, making the overall combination and operation run smoother. {{storylink|The New Cybertron City}} He continued to act as assistant to Dr. Jones, aiding him in sending an [[Energon tower (technology)|energon tower]] to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] to repel a [[Decepticon]] attack. {{storylink|Kicker Beware!}}

[[File:Battle Stations Rad.jpg|thumb|DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DDDDEEEEELLLLEEEEETTTTEEEEE!!!]]

At some point, he travelled to Cybertron and was given command of that planet's new [[Energon grid (technology)|energon grid]]. Some time later, the ''[[Miranda II]]'' encountered the Decepticon-controlled [[Unicron]] and fled to Cybertron, where Rad activated the grid to keep the villains at bay. {{storylink|Battle Stations}} However, [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s arrival inspired the Decepticons across Cybertron to rise up and start causing chaos; worst of all, [[Shockblast]] escaped from prison, and so Rad directed [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] and Hot Shot to the manaic's location. Shockblast escaped, and so Rad tried to destroy him by manipulating the energon grid. Shockblast didn't die, but this did force the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Shockblast: Rampage}} Rad then worked with [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] in an attempt to use the grid to shoot down the Decepticons' mobile fortress, but they failed due to Shockblast's next attack. {{storylink|Each One Fights...}} Wing Dagger was also injured in this fight, and so Rad rebuilt him into [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]], {{storylink|Unicron Unleashed}} which he accomplished with the aid of [[Primus]]. {{storylink|Open Fire!}}

Following some more battles, the other Autobots plunged into [[Alpha Q's universe|a new universe created by Alpha Q]]. Rad reported back to Dr. Jones that he had completely lost contact with all those who had traversed into this new realm. {{storylink|Team Optimus Prime}} Eventually, [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] and [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] returned to Cybertron, where Rad greeted them. The two Autobots asked for an energon tower, which Rad seemed to think was a reasonable request, but Dr. Jones was less than thrilled. {{storylink|Bulkhead (episode)|Bulkhead}} However, the doctor evidently relented, as the Autobots were next seen with the tower they needed. {{storylink|Farewell Inferno}} Rad remained on Cybertron, overseeing the day-to-day operations while Dr. Jones sought out [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]]. When he succeeded, the two contacted Optimus Prime about this new discovery. They also rebuilt the destroyed Inferno as Roadblock, and sent him with a whole bunch of energon towers as well as Omega Supreme to aid the Autobots against Unicron. {{storylink|Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme}} Rad later heard that Optimus Prime's team was engaged in fighting Unicron, and in order to win, they would need all the energon from Cybertron. He and Dr. Jones weren't thrilled about that, but could do little to stop Primus from doing so. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}}

[[File:Ironhide Team Rad.jpg|left|thumb|Kicker did not want to be told about the Transformers.]]

Fortunately, Unicron was apparently killed, and so Rad and Dr. Jones drank a non-alcoholic (honestly!) toast. While Dr. Jones was thrilled with recent events, Rad was concerned as to the state of Primus.

A little later, during a conversation with Sally and Miranda, he detected the arrival of Megatron, Starscream, and [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] through a warp gate and alerted Wing Saber. {{storylink|Ambition}} Rad and the Joneses hid in the control room; [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] gave a cursory search of the room and gave up to go look elsewhere, at which point they fled. {{storylink|Wishes}} Miranda cooked everybody a nice dinner, and while Brian and Sally tucked in, Rad didn't have much appetite. Sally tried to feed him a few spoonfuls, but was interrupted by an earthquake, which was caused by Galvatron trying to move Cybertron to [[Planet Q|Alpha Q's planet]]. {{storylink|Galvatron!}} Fearing the worst, the men tried to find a route down to Primus's chamber. The main elevator shaft was in ruins, but they had to jump down anyway when a [[Cruellock]] drone found them. {{storylink|Break Through}}

They eventually fell down the hole through which [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] had fallen about ten years ago, and were saved from a fatal fall by Primus, despite the entity still being in sleep mode. However, before they could do anything, [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Mirage]], Demolishor, and [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] burst into the chamber. Demolishor and Snow Cat ordered Dr. Jones to show them where the location of the [[Super Energon]], while Mirage stayed behind to guard Rad. {{storylink|The Omega Train}} Rad was rescued by Kicker and [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]], and told them where Dr. Jones had gone. {{storylink|Ironhide Team}}

[[File:Sally hugs Rad.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb]]

Rad stayed in the core to oversee to revival of Primus, {{storylink|Formidable}} and when Dr. Jones returned from trying to deal with Decepticons, Rad told him that Primus was still weak and would need a lot more energon, above and beyond what the [[Omnicon]]s had been able to provide. Meanwhile, Sally managed to infiltrate the control room and turn the base defenses against the Decepticons, which also allowed the humans and Autobots to escape the core chamber. Rad and Dr. Jones went to rendezvous with Sally, who greeted Rad with a great big hug. {{storylink|Galvatron Terror}}

Rad then returned to the core to once again oversee Primus's transfusion of energon, where he argued against Dr. Jones's haste when the Omnicons started to suffer fatigue from excess energon transfer. {{storylink|Spark (episode)|Spark}} However, they ultimately succeeded, and Primus bubbled out of Cybertron to power up Optimus Prime enough to destroy Galvatron and Unicron once and for all. Rad, along with the other humans, celebrated with a big smile. {{storylink|The Sun}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[File:CybertronArmadaKids.jpg|left|thumb|Every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed Rad.]]
In 2030, Rad, Carlos, and Alexis were present at the launching of the four ancient colony ships as they began the second attempt at a galaxy-spanning [[space bridge]] network. {{storylink|Beginning}}
{{note|The images of Rad, Carlos, Alexis and [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] with spectral characters from prior series did not appear in the ''Galaxy Force'' version of the show, as at the time [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] had taken the position of the show being a [[continuity|continuity reboot]]... a position they later [[retcon]]ned, placing it as the direct sequel to ''Super Link'' as was originally planned. Confused yet?}}
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===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
When Rad and Carlos were in the third grade, Rad accidentally broke a window in Carlos's house with a baseball bat. Carlos's parents didn't want their son hanging out with Rad afterwards, but Carlos convinced them to change their minds, vouching for the good nature of his friend. {{storylink|Armada Free Comic Book Day}}

<s>Rad</s> <s>Agent Awesome</s> ''Agent Secret Agent'' built a wicked sweet [[Project Supernova]] aircraft alongside [[Carlos Lopez|Agent Sidekick]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Agent Bubblegum]], only to watch it get shot down by bullies [[Sid (Armada)|Sid]] and [[Seth]] shortly after his dramatic launch speech. With all his enthusiasm about the project gone, Rad went to fetch his bike helmet from the wreckage, only to fall into a cave full of [[Exodus (Armada)|mechanical equipment]]. Inside, he accidentally activated the three [[Street Action Mini-Con Team|Street Action Mini-Cons]] and [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], who he thought were awesome and hid in his garage, much to Alexis's chagrin. He and Carlos managed to convince her that the robots were (probably) good guys, which proved to be right when the Mini-Cons repaid their trust by building a new Supernova. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 3|Armada #3}} During its maiden flight, however, the kids and their new friends were attacked by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], having arrived on Earth in search of the Mini-Cons. After escaping from him, Rad and Alexis began arguing again about being pulled into an alien war, but eventually agreed that they couldn't back out now. Together with the Mini-Cons, they fled to a nearby canyon, where they met [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 4|Armada #4}} Prime and his Autobots confronted and defeated Megatron's Decepticons, while in the meantime Rad and his friends were attacked by [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] and had to be saved by another group of Mini-Cons. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 5|Armada #5}}

While Rad was excited about hanging out with these alien robots, Optimus Prime did not agree. While messing around in the [[Black Hills]], the kids were approached by Prime, who refused to let them get involved in the Transformers' war. Rad, Carlos and Alexis wouldn't let themselves be separated from their new Mini-Con friends so easily, however, and later helped Sparkplug when he broke Prime's orders to bust the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defense Team]] out of the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 6|Armada #6}} The kids were left with an order to call for help if their friends weren't back within thirty minutes, which they weren't. After using their [[Mini-Con panic-pager]], they were approached by the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team]], but the new arrivals refused to get involved with the Transformer war. Their attitude got Rad proper angry, and he yelled at them for trying to play irresponsible after themselves bringing the war to Earth, before heading off to save Sparkplug and the others by himself. Faced with his words and courage, the Land Military Team realized that they were at fault, and agreed to help. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 7|Armada #7}}

Seeking extra class credit for science class, Rad and Carlos went on a nature hike on their bikes. During their venture, they came across [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]], apparently on the run from [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]]. Rad was suspicious of the little 'bot, (his name literally being "Swindle" and all) but Carlos convinced him to give the Mini-Con a chance to be their friend. Before they could make headway, both [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] and [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] flew down to apprehend the group. [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]], and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] turned up to rescue them, but the Autobots were defeated when Megatron joined the fight as well. Rad and Carlos tried to sneak off in the confusion, but Swindle turned on them; Swindle revealed that he had been put up to lure them into a trap, so Megatron would have some human subjects to experiment on. He hadn't done so out of malice however; Swindle was motivated only by earning his freedom, which Starscream had promised to give him if he participated in this scheme. Predictably enough, the Decepticons laughed in the Mini-Con's face when he asked to be let go. Optimus then turned up, and knocked Rad and Carlos free from Megatron's grip, allowing them to get to a hiding place while he faced off against the Decepticons. But Optimus was quickly defeated as well. A repentant Swindle thanked both of the boys for offering him friendship when he needed it, and freed all four of the captive Autobots, allowing them to force the Decepticons into a retreat. As he pulled back, Starscream retook Swindle, which saddened both of the boys. {{storylink|Armada Free Comic Book Day}}

Some time later, Rad and his friends were hanging out with Street Action Team after they saved them from [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] and [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]]. Suddenly, the Mini-Cons went out of control in their [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]s and began heading straight for [[Kansas]], with the kids coming along for the ride. After ending up at a [[Mini-Con Ark|strange structure]] under attack from the Decepticons, Rad called the Autobots using Sparkplug's communicator, leading to a battle that distracted everyone from the fact that the Mini-Cons were entering the structure. Again, Rad decided to take matters into his own hands and followed them, only for the structure to slam shut and blast off into space with him on it. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 8|Armada #8}} He ended up on a [[Mini-Con Moonbase|base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], where the unscrupulous [[Dualor (Armada)|Dualor]] and his [[Destruction Mini-Con Team|team]] strapped him inside a space-mine to keep the Autobots at bay. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 9|Armada #9}} As such, Rad quickly learned that not all Mini-Cons were good guys, as Dualor explained that he was more than ready to sacrifice a human to protect his people from ''both'' the Autobots and Decepticons. Rad was sent into space as part of a large minefield, but Dualor was then knocked out before he could actually warn the Autobots about the human shield. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 10|Armada #10}} While the Autobots were ready to blow the entire minefield apart with [[sonic warhead]]s, [[Mirage (Armada)|Mirage]] learned about Rad's fate and recruited Sparkplug and the [[Space Mini-Con Team]] to save him. When they failed to either recall the mine or eject its explosives, [[Sky Blast (Armada)|Sky Blast]] went out in person and towed the entire mine onto an Autobot ship. Finally freed, Rad was reunited with Carlos and Alexis (or at least their [[Simulcrum]] holograms). {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 11|Armada #11}}

After staying away from the Autobots' next major conflict, Rad and his friends learned that the Autobots, Decepticons and Mini-Cons had to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to fight off the threat known as [[Unicron]]. Rad thought it sounded "intense". The kids then said their goodbyes to Optimus Prime and the Mini-Cons before returning home, not to see the Transformers again for a long while. {{storylink|The End (Armada)|The End}}

====''Energon'' comic====
[[File:KickerRadAlexis Comic.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb| Basically, kind of a big deal!]]
In the ten years following the departure of the Transformers, Rad grew up and, along with Carlos, found work at [[Alterenergy]]. The company was searching for the new energy source "[[Energon|01 Source]]" in [[Australia]] when the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] attacked their drilling operation to steal the fuel. Rad was present at Alterenergy Mobile Command when Carlos informed them of the attack, and the two agreed that it was the return of the Transformers. Rad then headed out to the drill site alone to find and save [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]], the son of Alternergy scientist [[Brian Jones]]. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath}} Upon arrival, he found that the Terrorcons had kidnapped the boy because he had the ability to detect 01 Source, or "Energon". Coincidentally, they had also captured Alexis as a hostage, and Rad went in to heroically save her and Kicker... only to be immediately attacked by the guard, [[Battle Ravage]]. With help from Carlos, he managed to blow up a nearby Energon sapper, knocking the Terrorcon out. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Three}} While it turned out the Terrorcons had taken Kicker with them, Rad and Alexis ran into a team of Autobots a short while later, and had a quick reunion with Optimus Prime and Hot Shot. After Kicker was saved with help from the [[Omnicon]]s, Rad asked Optimus if the Autobots were leaving again, but he replied that they were staying on Earth this time. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath, Part Four}}

Having a bunch of armed alien robots on their world sparked protests amongst humanity, which bothered Rad. It bothered him even more that Alexis, who had become a peace activist when she grew up, claimed to understand where the protesters were coming from instead of agreeing with him. Rad initially brushed her off and left, upsetting her, but realized he was being immature and apologized just as she got in a cab to leave. Then [[Los Angeles]] was attacked by [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticons]] and the taxi was destroyed in front of Rad's eyes. {{storylink|Multiplicity}} He was left in despair, regretting never having told Alexis about his true feelings for her, only for her to show up alive and well. Rad embraced her and told her to never leave him again, causing an awkward moment between the two semi-estranged friends. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 2}} Getting into Rad's heavy off-roading car, the two plowed through Insecticons as they left for Alterenergy's west coast headquarters. Realizing that the Autobots needed extra energy to successfully battle the hordes of Terrorcons, Rad contacted Carlos and had him prepare the [[Energon Volant Accumulator]] plane for him. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 3}} After shooting down some Insecticons and reuniting with his old Mini-Con pals on the Street Action Team, he turned the atmospheric Energon radiation captured by the EVA into gas and spread it onto [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]]'s team of Autobots. Together with some unexpected help from Megatron, they were then able to exterminate the Insecticons. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 4}}

{{Unreleased energon comic}}
Together with Brian Jones, Rad oversaw Kicker's training to help him develop his powers and avoid future abduction attempts. {{storylink|Doomsday Redux!}} When Kicker became rebellious and ran off, the Alterenergy base was attacked by a returning Demolishor, and Rad called Jetfire for help. However his troops, [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] and [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]], failed to stop Demolishor from kidnapping Kicker. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 1}} Rad blamed himself and was determined to find the boy. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 2}} He had to retrieve Kicker before [[Unicron's Four Horsemen]] forced the Autobots to lower the planetary defense shield that would have allowed Demolishor leave the planet via [[space bridge]], and managed to close in on his location thanks to Alexis, who had connections to the [[United Nations]]. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 3}} Together with some Autobot backup, Rad's team located Demolishor in [[Mexico]], and while the others held the Decepticon at bay, he personally rescued Kicker. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 4}} After Kicker killed Demolishor using his powers, he travelled to Cybertron, and Rad, Carlos and Alexis said their goodbyes to him. {{storylink|Armageddon Part 5}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:PaniniRadWhite.jpg|left|thumb|... this just takes all the fun out of irony.]]

After accidentally dropping down a hole one day, Rad found the remains of a [[Exodus (Armada)|spaceship]] hidden underground. He brought Carlos with him to explore it, but ended up bumping into some machinery and reawakening the [[Mini-Con]] [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]]. After leaving the caves and meeting with Alexis, the kids tried to communicate with High Wire, only to come under attack from [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. They were saved by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], and High Wire grabbed Rad and his friends and took them to the other Mini-Cons. {{storylink|First Encounter!}} When he heard that the Mini-Cons weren't getting involved with the [[Autobot]]-[[Decepticon]] war again, Rad became angry—Optimus Prime was getting his aft handed to him by Megatron, and they were just going to abandon him? Rad decided to take matters into his own hands and confronted Megatron, offering to take him to the Mini-Con ship in exchange for sparing Optimus Prime. However, Megatron wasn't big on deals, and merely threatened to kill Rad if he didn't show him the ship right away. He ended up being saved by High Wire and the other Mini-Cons, who had changed their minds upon witnessing his feat of bravery. After Megatron had been chased off, Optimus Prime also complimented Rad on his courage, even if it hadn't been the smartest move. {{storylink|Friends and Foes!}}

Rad and his friends quickly befriended the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] and had a great time racing in the desert on them. Their fun and games ended when Optimus Prime ordered both humans and Mini-Cons to go get the [[locator log]] from the wrecked Mini-Con ship. When they found the log, they were attacked [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]], who incapacitated the Street Action Team. Quickly improvising a plan, Rad grabbed the locator log and hid it in an unstable part of the caves. When Demolishor followed, he accidentally caused it to explode, and was buried in the ensuing rockfall. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Deep Trouble!}} Some time later, Rad was learning chemistry at school when the troublesome twosome [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] and [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] messed up his experiment behind his back. Not only did this get him into trouble with the teacher, but he also noticed that High Wire was sneaking around on the school grounds. Rad decided to bolt, and found that Carlos and Alexis had had similar problems with their Mini-Con friends trying to adapt to life on Earth. He didn't really mind the Mini-Cons' little mistakes, and promised to guide them personally. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Just a Memory!}}

When the Autobots decided to send the Mini-Cons back to their home planet, Rad said he refused to let it "end like this", but didn't actually do anything about it. When Megatron arrived to put a stop to it, Rad tried to trick him that the Mini-Cons were already gone, so he might as well leave too. When Megatron made it clear he wouldn't leave Earth just because some five or six Mini-Cons went home, the plan was canceled and the Mini-Cons remained on Earth. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 4|No Way Back!}} Some time later, Rad caught wind of [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]]'s plan to save the Mini-Cons held in the Decepticon headquarters. He thought it was a stupid plan, and convinced the Autobots to send a shuttle to stop him. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 4|Into the Lions' Den!}}

During another race around the desert, Rad and his friends were interrupted by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], who attempted to capture the Street Action Team. High Wire threw Rad off and told him to get help. When Rad expressed doubt that the Street Action Team could stand up to Starscream, the three Mini-Cons proved him wrong by combining into [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]. In the aftermath of the battle, an impressed Rad was high-fiving with High Wire when they were suddenly approached by a man named [[Amos Hume]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 7|The Two-Edged Blade}} Amos explained that he had been given a message by a Mini-Con long ago, which Rad didn't find too hard to believe. After introducing Amos to the other Mini-Cons, the kids and Autobots used the message he had received to locate and rescue the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 7|Sale of the Century!}}

===Reader's Digest ''Armada'' novels===
12-year old Brad was one of the many self-titled "Cosmo Kids" that lived in the community around the [[Cosmoscope Research Center|Cosmo Scope Research Center and Interstellar Observatory]]. He preferred to go by the nickname "Rad" however, after the radical moves he had on his bike. During an early autumn afternoon, he and his friends Carlos and Alexis headed out into the nearby mountains for some trail exploring. While riding his BMX bike, Rad noticed a trail he had never seen before, and prompted his friends to join him in scoping it out. Carlos and Alexis were hesitant to continue down the trail when they spotted some signs indicating it was dangerous, but they were goaded on by Rad into pushing forwards. The path eventually led to a cave, which the kids decided to explore. Within, they found cave paintings depicting giant robots battling one-another. One of the paintings depicted three smaller, peaceful-looking robots. As if prompted by an unknown instinct, Rad reached out to touch one of the three robots. This action triggered a mechanism hidden within the cave, which after some rumbling, revealed real-life versions of the three robots the children had touched in the drawing. Rad met High Wire, a Mini-Con who could only be understood by Rad himself. The children learned about Cybertron and its civil war from their new robot friends. The moment was cut short when Autobots and Decepticons were teleported on-site by a mechanism within the Mini-Cons' ship. Finding themselves in the middle of a vicious battle between mechanical titans, Rad and his friends thankfully escaped from harm thanks to the efforts of the Mini-Cons, and the newcomer, Optimus Prime. Learning that Optimus had the best of intentions for both Earth and the Mini-Cons, Rad promised to keep the Transformers' existence a secret, and rode back to town on High Wire, now reformatted into a high-tech BMX bike. Meeting with Carlos and Alexis the next day at school, the trio dismissed insinuations from Billy and Fred that anything exciting had happened to them the day before before heading off to class.{{storylink|Transformers Armada: The Battle Begins|The Battle Begins}}

To explain to his parents how he had gotten a totally sweet new BMX bike, Rad made up a story that he had won it in an extreme riding competition. They bought the story, and Rad took to riding High Wire to school. The next afternoon, he, Alexis and Carlos readied themselves to visit the Autobots when they encountered Billy and Fred. Their schoolmates were inquisitive as to where they had gotten the new vehicles, and Rad knew they wouldn't be fooled by the story he had told his parents. Rad instead claimed that his dad got them the vehicles through some "connections," and that his BMX was next year's model. Having narrowly avoided exposure, the trio then took off for the Autobots' base. Strangely, they found the cave leading to the headquarters now sealed by a stone door. The Mini-Cons maintained a wireless connection to their vessel however, and were able to grant themselves access to the base. But once inside, the group found the base deserted. They found Optimus and his fellow Autobots, Hot Shot and Red Alert, at a nearby highway, adopting new alternate modes. After brief introductions were made, explosions were heard off in the distance. The Decepticons were attacking the Autobots' base! Rad, Alexis and Carlos raced ahead of the Autobots on their Mini-Cons, coming face to face with Megatron. The Decepticon leader halted his assault in order to demand the children surrender their companions. The Autobots arrived on the scene before Megatron was able to act on his threat, and Rad and the others hid in some nearby brush to watch the battle unfold.

During the battle, a stray shot from Megatron caused a rock slide to tumble down towards the kids and their Mini-Cons. Hot Shot zipped in and rescued them, though the ride within the two-seat sports car was a cramped one for all three kids. As they drove back to Optimus, Alexis noticed four Mini-Con panels sticking out of the rubble. Carlos and Rad helped her dig them out. Two of the panels activated in the Autobots' presence, one of them becoming Red Alert's partner, "Longarm" and the other Hot Shot's partner "Jolt." Red Alert instructed Alexis and Rad to keep the remaining two panels safe, and the children hid themselves once again. The Decepticons were soon forced to retreat, but one of them, Cyclonus, lingered long enough to snatch the panels from Alexis and Rad before warping away. The children were torn up about allowing the Mini-Cons to fall into enemy hands, but Optimus assured them they had done everything they could. {{storylink|Transformers Armada: Race for the Mini-Con Robots|Race for the Mini-Con Robots}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
One [[Halloween]], the kids attempted to explain the holiday to their three Mini-Cons, and ended up taking them Trick-or-Treating. Rad explained they could t.p. the houses of people who didn't give them candy. {{storylink|Something Robotic This Way Comes}}

===Bendon ''Armada'' books===
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Rad, Carlos, and Alexis talked Optimus Prime into letting them explore some nearby caves in the hopes of finding other Mini-Cons, claiming that he and Carlos had already explored a few of them in the past. The trio succeeded in finding a crystal, but had to be saved by Hot Shot after a surprise Decepticon attack caused a landslide. {{storylink|Cave Catastrophe}}

In another adventure, Carlos talked Rad into joining him for a Mini-Con race, to which Alexis invited herself. They foolishly left themselves out in the open, allowing Megatron to attack. Fortunately for them (your mileage may vary), Optimus and Hot Shot were there to save them yet again. {{storylink|Race to Disaster}}
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==Notes==
*According to the now-defunct TV Tokyo ''Legends of the Microns'' website, Rad was 12 years old at the start of ''Armada''. The page also stated that he enjoyed outdoor sports, and implied that [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] gave him [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] as a personal possession.
*''[[Transformers: Armada Official Guidebook]]'' backs up that Rad was 12 years old at the start of ''Armada'', and that he enjoyed outdoor sports, specifically on his BMX bike.
*Rad's catchphrase "I'm here to tell you about the Transformers!" (sometimes varies as "I ''want'' to tell you about...) is from his introductory narration during the main titles sequence of the earlier episodes of ''Armada''. Needless to say, this became rather repetitive after twenty or so episodes.
*Rad has the unfortunate penchant of saying '"Wicked Sweet!", usually when something impresses him greatly. Perhaps Dreamwave hoped that by 2010 this would be an acceptable form of slang. Alternately, perhaps Rad was from Boston originally.
*Rad makes an [[Easter egg]] cameo appearance in [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s [[Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|''Robots in Disguise'' #29]] as a resident of [[Poverty Flat]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Brad "Rad"''' (ブラッド ''Buraddo'', ラッド ''Raddo'')
*''Korean:'' '''Richie Blatt''' (리치 브랏트 ''Richi Beurasteu'')

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High Wire (Armada)

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:''High Wire is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''

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'''High Wire''' is a bike. Motivational, intelligent, yet ego-free, he believes unwaveringly in the power of teamwork, and though he wouldn't admit it, he is great at leadership.

He combines with his fellow [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] members to form [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]. On [[Drift (episode)|at least one occasion]] he has demonstrated a limited ability to manipulate time.

{{bigquote|All together, now!|High Wire's [[bio]] quote.}}

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Terry Klassen]] (English), [[Akira Tomisaka]] (Japanese)|[[Kustaa Kantelinen]] (Finnish), [[Anders Öjebo]] (Swedish)}}
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High Wire and the Mini-Cons were created countless millennia ago, spawned from with the cells of Unicron. Outwardly innocent and yet extremely powerful, the Mini-Cons' purpose was to engineer a power struggle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, creating conflict which would feed Unicron. Due to a time loop, however, High Wire encountered three children from 21st century Earth — [[Rad White]] and his friends [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]]. Contact with Rad somehow weakened Unicron's conditioning, giving High Wire and the other Mini-Cons the ability to think for themselves. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}}

A million years ago, a ceasefire was called between the [[Autobot]]s and the [[Decepticon]]s, during which it was decided to banish the Mini-Cons from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] so they would never be used as tools of war again. High Wire was among the Mini-Cons who were placed in stasis inside [[Mini-Con storage panel]]s on board the starship ''[[Exodus (Armada)|Exodus]]'' for the long journey into deep space. Remembering his long-ago contact with Rad White, High Wire aimed the ''Exodus'' towards the planet Earth, where he knew Rad would one day be waiting for him.

However, during the launch of the ''Exodus'', the Decepticon leader [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]] betrayed the ceasefire and attacked, hoping to take all the Mini-Cons for himself. The Autobots managed to hold off the Decepticons long enough for the ''Exodus'' to make it to a warp gate and leave Cybertron behind forever. After drifting through space for countless years, the Mini-Con ship collided with Earth's moon and broke apart, half of it remaining on the moon while the rest crash-landed on the planet's surface.

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Thousands of years later, Rad White and his friend Carlos were exploring the caves under the local [[Cosmoscope Research Center|observatory]] when they discovered the remains of the ''Exodus''. Rad was drawn to the glowing, green Mini-Con panel in the darkness, and when he touched it, the systems of the ''Exodus'' reactivated and sent a signal back to Cybertron. Now the Transformers knew what had become of the Mini-Cons. After Rad and Carlos exited the caves and met up with Alexis, they were confronted by Megatron himself. In his fear, Rad stumbled and dropped the Mini-Con panel, which activated and released High Wire. High Wire was shocked to see Megatron and scanned Rad's bicycle to enable the escape for his new friends and liberators. However, Megatron managed to stop them and demanded the humans turn over High Wire. Fortunately for all concerned, the Autobot leader, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], arrived to confront the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|First Encounter}}

As more Autobots and Decepticons arrived and began grappling with each other, High Wire and the humans fled back into the mountain caves to avoid getting trampled. High Wire led the children deep into the mountain where the Mini-Con ship was buried, and located his two inoperative friends, [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]]. When Carlos and Alexis touched their Mini-Con storage panels, they came to life just like High Wire, and the trio were reunited. Eager to try out the new Earth modes they scanned, the Street Action Team went racing through the countryside with their new human companions, crossing over rivers and straight up mountainsides. Reality soon caught up with them, though, as Megatron and the Decepticons tracked them down. Fortunately, Optimus Prime and his Autobots stepped in again to save the Mini-Cons from entrapment and slavery. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}}

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After the Decepticons were driven off, the collected Autobots, Mini-Cons and humans retreated back into the mountain-ship to get to know one another. High Wire asked Optimus Prime if the Autobots would force the Mini-Cons to fight, but Optimus assured him that only the Decepticons treated Mini-Cons like slaves, and the Autobots would allow them to make their own decisions. Satisfied that their freedom would be respected, High Wire and his fellow Mini-Cons agreed to join forces with the Autobots. As the new alliance was forged, Mini-Con panels began to come on-line all over the globe, ensuring the Autobots would have plenty of work to keep them busy. {{storylink|Base}}

On their first Mini-Con hunt, High Wire and the Street Action Team worked with Optimus Prime in [[Grand Canyon|Big Canyon]], surveying the area for any signs of storage panels. High Wire tried to get a higher vantage point by standing atop of Prime's foot. When the Decepticons arrived to intervene, the Street Action Team displayed their ability to combine for the first time, forming [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]. The agile Mini-Con gestalt miraculously overwhelmed both Megatron and [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] until Optimus Prime could [[powerlinx]] with his new partner, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], and unleash a Maximum Blast. {{storylink|Comrade}}

High Wire and the Street Action Team joined the kids in teaching [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] how to play the game of "Tag" inside the Autobot base. Hot Shot was worn out trying to chase them down until he thought to use [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] to "tag" the kids for him. High Wire and the other Mini-Cons later accompanied the Autobots to Antarctica to search for a new Mini-Con. They used Prime's trailer as a mobile headquarters from which they coordinated the search. {{storylink|Soldier (episode)|Soldier}} Later, High Wire helped Rad gather supplies for the kids to use while freeloading at the Autobot base. He and the other Mini-Cons then joined the Autobots on a mission to the forest, where a firefight with the Decepticons led to a forest fire. Working with Red Alert, the Mini-Cons converted Optimus Prime's trailer into a fire engine, pumping water from a nearby lake to put out the fires. {{storylink|Jungle}}

One day, High Wire and Grindor went out to a carnival with Rad and Carlos. Hijinx ensued. {{storylink|Carnival}} Out on a desert mission, High Wire was trying to get the drop on [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] when he and the rest of the kids and Street Action Team were caught in a sandtrap. They fell into a deep series of catacombs, built by denizens of the [[Sahara]] long ago after they discovered a Mini-Con storage panel in the sand. High Wire and the others were nearly killed by the various traps and guards protecting the panel underground, and the Mini-Con team had to form Perceptor to protect the kids from harm. {{storylink|Palace}}

When Billy and Fred were kidnapped by Cyclonus, High Wire and his friends attempted to rescue them, only to be captured themselves by Megatron. They were saved once Fred used Laserbeak to zap Megatron and distract him long enough for the Autobots to save the day. {{storylink|Confrontation (episode)|Confrontation}} As the search for more Mini-Cons continued, High Wire and the Street Action Team participated in a mission deep underground in a city's subway tunnels. {{storylink|Underground (episode)|Underground}} They also confronted Megatron in a sunken underwater city, but the Decepticons succeeded in capturing the dormant Mini-Cons on both occasions. {{storylink|Ruin}}

As Rad began to learn more about the Mini-Cons, he started to question whether they should be forced to fight in a war not of their making. Almost as if in answer to his concerns, High Wire and the other Mini-Cons took up arms in the next conflict, showing valor and courage on the battlefield that made it clear they were fighting for what they believed in, just like the Autobots and the kids. {{storylink|Prehistory}}

High Wire and the Street Action Team were present for the Autobots' first encounter with [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]]. {{storylink|Gale}} Sometime later, High Wire and Grindor went camping with Red Alert, [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] and the boys. {{storylink|Vacation}} When [[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]] rescued [[Incinerator (Armada)|Incinerator]] from the Decepticons' clutches, High Wire and the Street Action Team were the first Mini-Cons to welcome him to the Autobot base. {{storylink|Reinforcement}} Later, High Wire's team and Jolt helped create a miniature obstacle course from Hot Shot and Blurr to train on. {{storylink|Decisive Battle}}

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Soon after, High Wire and the Street Action Team received a transmission from the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team|Land Military Team]] on the moon. It seemed that some of the Decepticon-allied Mini-Cons wanted peace, and were seeking an opportunity to come over to the Autobots. With the help of Rad and Fred, they convinced Optimus Prime to give the "enemy" Mini-Cons a chance, and soon the Autobots had a number of new allies. {{storylink|Vow}}

When a computer virus manifestation of Sideways infiltrated the Autobot mainframe, High Wire, Grindor and Sureshock helped the kids fight back against the infection. Sideways still had a few tricks up his sleeve, however, and he converted the minds of the Street Action Team and the kids into computerized avatars, sucking them into his digital world. In this unreal landscape, they passed by representations of Cybertron and [[Jetfire (Armada)|other]] [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|figures]], before being chased by a [[Unicron|shadowy planetoid]] back into the real world along a path Red Alert made for them. {{storylink|Chase (episode)|Chase}}

After the Autobots rescued [[Prowl (Armada)|Prowl]]'s Mini-Con panel, High Wire and the Street Action Team were the first to welcome him to the Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Tactician}} On monitor duty, the Street Action Team ID'ed [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] flying in circles over the Autobot base, and reported it to Vice-Commander [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] while Optimus was in repairs. The kids had to translate for Jetfire, though, and he'd never bothered to learn his Mini-Con bleeps from his bloops. {{storylink|Linkup}}

High Wire appeared in the battle footage [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] reviewed at base after joining the Autobots. {{storylink|Detection}}

When a Mini-Con signal went off linking the three [[Space Mini-Con Team]] panels, High Wire and the others reacted when the signal pointed to a panel hidden right inside their own base. They joined the kids in searching out the panel in the damaged sections of the ship. The search party came across [[Sky Blast (Armada)|Sky Blast]]'s panel, activating the Mini-Con. To everyone's surprise, however, Sky Blast appeared openly hostile. {{storylink|Awakening (Armada)|Awakening}} It soon became apparent, though, that Sky Blast was merely frightened. He dove out of the way when High Wire tried to tackle him, and cowered behind Rad when High Wire and the others formed Perceptor to protect the kids. They eventually coaxed him back out into the main part of the base, and convinced the new Mini-Con to assist the Autobots. {{storylink|Desperate}}

High Wire was present when Starscream first switched sides to join the Autobots. {{storylink|Regeneration (Armada)|Regeneration}} During the subsequent raid on the Decepticon base, High Wire and the Street Action Team accompanied the Autobots as Perceptor, and focused on freeing the Mini-Cons while the Autobots engaged the enemy. Perceptor briefly split into his three components when avoiding an attack by Tidal Wave. {{storylink|Rescue}}

After Starscream and Jetfire rescued [[Firebot (Armada)|Firebot]] from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], High Wire was among the Mini-Cons who welcomed the new arrival to the Autobots. {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}}

As the Decepticons threatened the safety of Earth with their [[Hydra Cannon]], High Wire and the Street Action Team watched helplessly with the kids as the Autobots tried to counter the threat. {{storylink|Crisis (Armada)|Crisis}}

Following the death of Optimus Prime in stopping the Hydra Cannon, the Autobots were preparing to follow the Decepticons into space and prevent them from using the cannon against Cybertron. Although Hot Shot and Red Alert made it clear the kids wouldn't be coming along on such a dangerous mission, High Wire knew it was their destiny to do so. He began speaking to Rad in English, and in his dreams, compelling him to seek his destiny out in space. When the kids declared their intention to join the mission, High Wire and the Street Action Team converted into Perceptor and organized the united Mini-Cons on the side of the kids. With pressure from the Mini-Cons, Hot Shot was forced to allow the humans to accompany them. {{storylink|Depart}}

The ''[[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]]'' made its way into space, and soon joined by other Mini-Cons empowered by the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]]. High Wire and the Street Action Team telepathically explained to the kids that the Mini-Cons were all coming together to fight the great enemy...[[Unicron]]. As they encountered the Decepticon ship, High Wire organized the Mini-Cons on board to man the armaments and fight back against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Miracle}}

Once they arrived in orbit around Cybertron, High Wire immediately sensed Unicron's presence. The Mini-Cons all quickly gathered together in space, forming a shield against a deadly black hole Sideways had formed as a "surprise" for the Autobots. As the power of the black hole grew stronger, the Mini-Cons unified in a green ball of energy, neutralizing the threat with a rain of light. High Wire and the Mini-Cons implored Galvatron and the others to stop fighting, but only succeeded in getting a temporary cessation of hostilities. {{storylink|Uprising (Armada)|Uprising}}

After Thrust stole the [[Skyboom (Armada)|Skyboom Shield]] and [[Requiem Blaster (Armada)|Requiem Blaster]] from Galvatron, Hot Shot joined forces with the Decepticons [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]] and Starscream to hunt him down. When he reported his position in the underground caverns of Cybertron to the ''Axalon'', High Wire recognized it as the place where the Mini-Cons were first created. The kids and their Mini-Cons went down to help with the search, but got caught in a stand-off between Thrust and Starscream. High Wire unleashed his time manipulation power just as Thrust turned the Requiem Blaster on Starscream, sending the kids to the future and the past where the Mini-Cons' creation in the first place. When time reset itself, the Street Action Team had a few extra moments to form Perceptor and distract Thrust, saving Starscream. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}}

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The search continued and led to a fight with Thrust and Sideways inside the core of Unicron, who stood revealed as Cybertron's moon. {{storylink|Portent}} Later, High Wire and the others watched on helplessly as Unicron grew more powerful, and Starscream sacrificed himself to bring an alliance between the Autobots and Decepticons. {{storylink|Cramp}} As the truce was forged between the two factions, High Wire and the Street Action Team attended as representatives of the Mini-Cons. They formed Perceptor and joined hands with Optimus Prime and Galvatron to commemorate the occasion. {{storylink|Alliance}}

With the united Transformer armada bringing the fight to Unicron, the war council reached the conclusion that Unicron needed the three super-weapons to power himself. Their best course of action therefore was to penetrate Unicron's defenses and awaken the nine individual Mini-Cons that composed the weapons, separating their will from Unicron. Although Prime and Galvatron infiltrated Unicron to achieve that purpose, High Wire, Grindor and Sureshock determined ''they'' would need to be present in order to push the Mini-Cons back to consciousness. The Street Action Team and the kids made their way into Unicron using the hidden warp tunnel below Cybertron's surface. {{storylink|Union}}
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In Unicron's heart, High Wire and the others found Optimus and Galvatron facing off against Sideways. Shockingly, Unicron was able to reassert control over the Mini-Cons, placing them back under his personal domination. Their enslavement was only temporary, however, as the kids were able to reach out to High Wire and the others, awakening them so that they could awaken the Mini-Cons of the Star Saber, Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster in turn, causing Unicron to grind to a halt. {{storylink|Origin}} As Optimus Prime and Galvatron remained inside Unicron to settle the final score between them, High Wire and the assorted kids and Mini-Cons escaped aboard Jetfire. After the final destruction of Unicron and Galvatron, the Street Action Team accompanied Hot Shot and Jetfire back to Earth, where they said their final goodbyes to the children. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}
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====''Linkage''====
While High Wire was fighting the Decepticons alongside the Autobots, others of his kin had gotten caught up in a struggle against Unicron-allied Mini-Cons. High-Wire and [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]] met with [[Servo (Armada)|Servo]], [[Falcia]] and [[Twirl (Armada)|Twirl]] outside the Autobots' base at [[Mount Astrogate]], discussing both teams' plans for the immediate future when they finally made contact with one another. Though High Wire was eager to invite his brethren to join up with the Autobots, they had their own mission to attend to. Servo told the High Wire of Redline's plans to find the [[Master Key]] and unlock their people's true potential, plus free them from their bonds to their creator [[Unicron]]. High Wire wished them luck and waved them off as they left to complete this mission. {{storylink|Linkage Part 8}}

====''Energon'' cartoon====
High Wire and his team were among the very few Mini-Cons still around on Earth and Cybertron ten years after the Unicron Battles. They primarily stayed at [[Ocean City]] and were close to [[Kicker Jones]]. Kicker was seen riding High Wire's dirt bike mode when the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] invasion first began on Earth. {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}}

High Wire made an extremely rare appearance in his individual robot mode when other Mini-Cons visited Ocean City from Mars. He also accompanied Kicker and Ironhide to [[Plains City]], where Kicker rode atop his vehicle mode briefly to rejoin the action after checking for civilian stragglers within the facility. {{storylink|Megatron's Sword}}

When Kicker first started getting a vague sense of [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s invisible presence on Ocean City, he took High Wire for a spin around the base to clear his thoughts. {{storylink|Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary}} Later, at [[Jungle City]], Kicker and [[Misha Miramond|Misha]] rode High Wire out to their "special spot" where they used to spend time together as kids. (At least they didn't make out on top of High Wire [[Mikaela Banes|like some]] [[Sam Witwicky|people would]].) {{storylink|Crisis in Jungle City}}

====''Cybertron'' comic====
Following the Powerlinx battles, the Street Action Team came to be regarded as celebrities among the Mini-Con community. Seeking respite from all of the fame that they had cultivated after the Transformers' conflicts on Earth, High Wire, Sureshock, and Grindor answered [[Anti-Blaze]]'s call to fight back against insurgents attacking his colony. As Perceptor, the trio hunted down the last few rebels that remained after the breaking of the [[Sky Terror Mini-Con Team|Sky Terror Team]], and the disappearance of [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]] and [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 12|Street Action Team's profile in Club magazine #12}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===
====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====
When the [[Exodus (Armada)|Mini-Con ship]] broke up and crashed on Earth a million years in the past, near High Wire ended up in a cave under present-day [[Lincoln, South Dakota|Lincoln]] alongside Grindor, Sureshock and [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]]. A fateful day, a human named [[Rad White]] fell into the cave and accidentally awakened the Mini-Cons, who soon befriended him and his companions, [[Carlos Lopez]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]]. High Wire and the others built the humans a [[Project Supernova|hovercraft]] and asked them to be their guides as they searched for other Mini-Cons on Earth. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 3|Armada #3}} Unfortunately, their fun and games stopped when they were tracked to Earth by the [[Decepticon]]s, and the Mini-Cons were forced to explain their war-torn past to the kids. High Wire and the others then scanned new [[alternate mode]]s and used them to run from the Decepticons until they ran into the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 4|Armada #4}} After the Decepticons were driven off by the Autobots and another group of Mini-Cons, the Street Action Team allied themselves with the Autobots. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 5|Armada #5}}

High Wire was present when Sparkplug tried to convince [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] to let him infiltrate the Decepticon base. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 6|Armada #6}} He later rescued Rad from [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] by menacing the bully with a wheelie, so Rad explained to him that not ''every'' dangerous situation requires saving. As the Street Action Team drove around town with their human friends, the [[Mini-Con Ark]]'s summoning beacon reached them, and they started driving mindlessly towards [[Kansas]]. After all the Mini-Cons on Earth were gathered around the Ark, they entered it, and it took off into space. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 8|Armada #8}} The Mini-Cons were taken to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], where another group of Mini-Cons led by [[Dualor (Armada)|Dualor]] had constructed a [[Mini-Con Moonbase|moonbase]] where their race could live in peace forever. High Wire and his teammates were against this, as they'd much rather live on Earth with Rad, Carlos and Alexis. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 9|Armada #9}} They awaited help from the Autobots, but were in a way saved by the ''Decepticons'' when they attacked the base and deactivated the energy field keeping the Mini-Cons behind bars. All residents of the moonbase subsequently evacuated it. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 10|Armada #10}}

After returning to Earth, the Street Action Team were seen listening to one of [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]]'s speeches about Mini-Con independence. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} Later, High Wire joined a team of Mini-Cons who traveled to the Decepticons' base at [[Silver Ridge]] in search of [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]]'s [[null-reality pod]]s, which were needed to bring back the lost [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}} They successfully infiltrated the base, but were forced to hide from the three [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds of Unicron]] who were stomping around inside. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} The team located the null-reality pods, and High Wire watched as Sparkplug, Over-Run and [[Comettor (Armada)|Comettor]] used them to traverse dimensions and retrieve Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}} Prime returned with news that [[Unicron]] was coming to devour their dimension's [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], so all Mini-Cons had to return to their homeworld and fight against him. After saying their goodbyes to Rad, Carlos and Alexis, the Street Action Team joined the other Mini-Cons at the [[Loop]] on Cybertron and poured their energies into the [[Mini-Con Matrix]]. This allowed Over-Run to fire a massive energy blast at Unicron, crippling him. {{storylink|The End (Armada)|The End}}

====''Energon'' comic====
Ten years later, High Wire, Grindor and Sureshock learned that the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] were assaulting various cities on Earth. Worried about their old human friends, they volunteered to return to Earth and fight this new threat in the form of [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 2}} They were assigned to [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]]'s team in [[Los Angeles]], where they battled against thousands of [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticons]]. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 3}} The team was vastly outnumbered and quickly began to run low on energy, but High Wire and the others were saved when Rad showed up in the [[Energon Volant Accumulator|E.V.A.]] and used it to power them up with [[Energon gas]]. {{storylink|Multiplicity, Pt. 4}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comics===
Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], High Wire was a chemist of sorts, and once developed a nice and clean way of processing waste fuel. Unfortunately, his attempts to save the environment were for naught, as the Decepticons soon "turned the skies black with smoke" anyway. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Just a Memory!}} He later left his home planet alongside most of the Mini-Con population, and ended up crashing on [[Earth]] and laying dormant for four million years.

High Wire was the first Mini-Con to meet [[Rad White|Rad]], [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] after they accidentally reactivated the Mini-Cons onboard their crashed ship in a cave. He helped Rad and Carlos out of the cave and tried to explain that he had come in peace, but hadn't picked up much English yet. Fortunately, [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] showed up to translate for him. ''Un''fortunately, Megatron was there to capture the Mini-Cons and conquer Earth. High Wire scanned Rad's bike for an [[alternate mode]], then transformed and carried the three kids to safety while Megatron was distracted by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. He met up with the rest of the awakened Mini-Cons, but they refused to help Optimus Prime against Megatron, as them getting involved with the war again would only end badly. {{storylink|First Encounter!}} Rad, disgusted by their cowardice, went off to save Prime by himself. High Wire realized that he couldn't let the human go alone, then raced after Rad, saving him just before Megatron could stomp on him. He ended up being punched by Megatron in the process, but was pulled out of danger by [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]]. {{storylink|Friends and Foes!}}

After the battle, High Wire and the rest of the Mini-Cons joined the Autobots. He spent some time racing with his new human friends, but they were soon sent by Optimus Prime to recover the [[locator log]] from the Mini-Cons' ship. They found it, but came under attack from [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]], who quickly took High Wire and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] out with a single blast. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Deep Trouble!}} In order to learn more about life on Earth, High Wire began following Rad around during his daily routines. While watching Rad during a chemistry class at school, he witnessed [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] and [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] messing up his experiment. Remembering his own experiments on Cybertron, he pulled the two troublemakers out of the window and avenged Rad by giving them a beating. Rad felt that this would only get him into trouble, and took High Wire to his other friends, who had similar "help gone wrong" experiences with their Mini-Con friends. High Wire was embarrassed, but Rad promised to guide him through proper human behavior. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 3|Just a Memory!}}

Some time later, High Wire almost returned to Cybertron when the Autobots decided to keep the Mini-Cons safe by sending them home. In the end, they remained on Earth due to both their refusal to abandon their friends, and a Decepticon attack which destroyed their space bridge. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 4|No Way Back!}} The Street Action Team were racing with Rad, Carlos and Alexis again when they came under attack from [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], out to get himself some Mini-Con upgrades. High Wire threw Rad off and told him to get help, then combined with his teammates into Perceptor and did battle with Starscream. After Optimus Prime showed up and saved the day, High Wire high-fived with Rad and explained that they had kept Perceptor a secret as sometimes, the fewer people know about Mini-Cons the better. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 7|The Two-Edged Blade}}

When the Autobots were threatened by Decepticon warheads fired from the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], High Wire and the other Mini-Cons offered to surrender themselves in order to buy the Autobots time to prepare. They were subsequently imprisoned on a [[solar barge]] which was then pulled towards the Moon by [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 8|Earthshaker!}} After breaking out, High Wire and [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] activated their [[magno-clamp]]s and walked out on the barge's hull, where they disconnected it from Cyclonus. Sparkplug was knocked into space in the process, but High Wire told [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] to save him, and everyone returned safely to Earth. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 8|Lost in Space!}}

===Reader's Digest ''Armada'' novels===
After fleeing the Cybertronian civil war, High Wire found himself slumbering on Earth for eons. He was awakened by Rad and his friends within a cave, where the children and the Mini-Cons quickly became friends. However, a mechanism within the remains of the Mini-Cons' ship teleported both Autobot and Decepticon combatants on-planet, bringing the Transformers' war to Earth. Grindor, High Wire and Sureshock teamed up with Optimus to thwart Megatron's attempts at capturing the Mini-Cons. Megatron was driven away when High Wire combined with his friends into Perceptor, and raised an impenetrable shield, making any further attempts to capture them on Megatron's part futile. Having reformatted himself into a high-tech BMX bike, High Wire then gave Rad a ride home back into town, having decided to stay with his new human friend rather than stay behind with Optimus and his Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers Armada: The Battle Begins|The Battle Begins}}

Rad took to riding High Wire around all the time, since he was way cooler than his old BMX. After school, the kids and their Mini-Cons readied themselves to visit the Autobots when Fred and Billy intercepted them, and questioned their schoolmates as to where they had gotten their new vehicles. Rad was able to quickly cobble together a story that his dad had gotten the next year's models through his "connections." Coming upon the mountainside concealing the Mini-Cons' ship, they found the cave leading within sealed shut by a stone door. Thanks to the wireless connection the Mini-Cons maintained with their vessel, they were able to nonetheless grant themselves access to the Autobots' base. However, they found the base deserted. Using one of the computers, Sureshock tracked Optimus's energy signature to a nearby highway. The group found him with Hot Shot and Red Alert, and the two young Autobots scrutinized the Mini-Cons, having only heard of them in old war stories. After brief introductions, the group heard explosions going off nearby; the Decepticons were attacking the Autobots' base! The children and their Mini-Cons hid in the nearby brush while the Autobots dealt with their enemies. During the battle, a stray shot from Megatron caused an rock slide to tumble down towards the kids and their Mini-Cons. Thankfully, Hot Shot left the battlefront to rescue them, and zipped them away to a safer location, with the Mini-Cons fastening themselves to Hot Shot's vehicle mode. En route, more Mini-Con panels were discovered, and Hot Shot linked up with his new partner, "Jolt," before heading back into the fray. High Wire and the others stayed behind, finding a new hiding spot to view the battle safely. The Decepticons were eventually driven back, though they unfortunately managed to snatch away a couple of dormant Mini-Cons for themselves before warping off-planet. {{storylink|Transformers Armada: Race for the Mini-Con Robots|Race for the Mini-Con Robots}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
After Alexis, Carlos and Rad failed to adequately explain [[Halloween]], they invited the Mini-Cons along with them while Trick-or-Treating. High Wire was the first to catch on, but was confused by Rad mentioning that if they didn't get candy, they could t.p. the house. {{storylink|Something Robotic This Way Comes}}

===Bendon ''Armada'' books===
High Wire participated in a Mini-Con race the kids had that also involved Sureshock and Grindor. Unsurprisingly, Megatron used the situation as an excuse to attack them. {{storylink|Race to Disaster}}
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===Toy pack-in comics===
[[File:EV4 Battle.jpg|thumb]]

[[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] rode High Wire in a battle between [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s. {{Storylink|Energon Volume 4}}
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===Legends World===
High Wire appeared as an example of a Mini-Con during an explanation on what the little robots were. After the Mini-Con-stealing [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] was chased off, he cheered alongside Grindor and Sureshock. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Armada Megatron)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

==Toys==
===''Armada''===
[[File:Armada-High-Wire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-mc|'''Street Action Mini-Con Team''' (Mini-Con 3-pack, [[2002]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara name'': '''Street Action Micron'''
:*''Takara ID number'': '''MM-01'''
:*''Takara release date'': [[December 26]], 2002
{{toydesigner|[[Aaron Archer]] (Hasbro), [[Hideaki Yoke]] and [[Takashi Kunihiro]] (Takara)}}

: Released in the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' toys, High Wire transforms into a tiny BMX bicycle with turning pedals. His [[robot mode]] is adorable. He can also combine with his teammates to form the head and backpack of [[Perceptor (Armada)#Toys|Perceptor]].

: As a Mini-Con, he has a [[Powerlinx]] socket on the side of his bike mode that allows him to attach to larger toys with compatible Powerlinx plugs, activating special [[gimmick]]s on the larger toys when attached to a "live" plug.

: He was only available in a Mini-Con three-pack with his teammates [[Grindor (Armada)#Toys|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)#Toys|Sureshock]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Mini-Con/HighWire/highwire.htm More information on High Wire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:LOTM Wheelie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-mc|'''CD Limited Edition Street Action Micron''' (CD pack-in, [[2003]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[February 1]], 2003

: These [[redeco]]s of the Street Action Microns have been tweaked to make the three more [[Show-accuracy|cartoon-accurate]]; in Wheelie's case, he has more detailed [[paint operation]]s for his face and his Perceptor head [[kibble]] is a lighter blue.

: This set was only available with the CD single of the first [[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|''Legends of the Microns'']] [[Japanese themes|theme song]], "[[Transformer: Dream Again]]" by [[Psychic Lover]].

: The team's official name has bounced a bit: the name listed above is what it's called on the packaging. Magazine solicitations called it the "Super Anime Color Edition Street Action Micron", while the "Micron Museum" portion of Takara's website called it the "Street Action Micron Anime Color (CD version)".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/CDWheelie/wheelie.htm More information on Anime Color Wheelie at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-mc|'''Wheelie''' (Change Micron, 2003)}}</ul>
:*''Change Micron ID number'': '''1'''
:*''Release date'': April ??, 2003

: Part of the first [[Kabaya]] [[candy toy]] ''[[Change Micron]]'' assortment, each of the Street Action Microns were sold in individual boxes, packed with a small bag of sugar-pellet candy.

: The most immediately-noticeable change to "Wheelie" is that his face is now painted with a red [[mouthplate]], and lacks visor paint. But these toys are also actually a completely new mold-set, with various tiny detail differences from the [[Hasbro]]/Takara releases.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/CMWheelie/wheelie.htm More information on Change Micron Wheelie at TFU.info]''

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[[File:2003-streetactionmicron-xdimension-toys.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Magna Convoy DX Set''' (Multi-pack, 2003)}}
:*''ID number'': '''MC-XX'''
:*''Release date'': [[November 19]], 2003

: The [[Exdimensions]] [[redeco]]s of the Street Action Microns were part of the "Magna Convoy DX" set, which also included "[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Convoy Final Battle Coloration]]" (Powerlinx Optimus Prime) and "[[Overload (Armada)|Ultra Magnus Special Clear Version]]". This set was only available at Japanese [[Toys"R"Us]] stores. Wheelie was given a bright red and black color scheme.

:This toy also doubles as the separate character [[Wheelie (Armada)|Wheelie]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/XWheelie/wheelie.htm More information on Exdimensions Wheelie at TFU.info]''
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===''Energon''===
[[File:Energon-High-Wire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Where are my eyes?!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Perceptor''' (Energon Class, [[2004]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara name'': '''Cliffjumper'''
:*''Takara ID number:'' '''SC-09'''
:*''Takara release date'': [[February 26]], 2004
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (Takara)}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' "Energon Class" toys, High Wire transforms into a dirt bike… that doesn't hold together very well. His robot head can be used as a kickstand in this mode. He can still combine with his pack-in partners [[Grindor (Armada)#Energon|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)#Energon|Sureshock]] to form [[Perceptor (Armada)#Energon|Perceptor]], once again forming the head and backpack. High Wire's chin-bar is actually the footrests of the bike. Weird.

: Stock photos show his visor and suspension are colored red, but the final toy omits these colors. There also don't appear to be any discernible differences between Hasbro's High Wire and Takara's "Hopper".

: This mold was also used to make ''Super Link'' [[Breakage|Brake]] and [[Accel]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Mini-Con/HighWire/highwire.htm More information on ''Energon'' High Wire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Energon Kicker HighWire toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He will crush the other Mini-Cons under his gargantuan feet!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Energon Kicker with High Wire''' (Combat Class, [[2005]])}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Eric Siebenaler]] (Hasbro)}}

: Released in the 7th wave of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' Combat Class figures, This version of High Wire is Deluxe-sized version of ''Energon'' High Wire and comes packed with [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]], who can ride his dirt bike mode. Due to his increase in size class, he now has a Spark Crystal with [[energon star]] port on his chest, rather than a Mini-Con [[Powerlinx]] port. His blaster arm features a fold out fist.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/HighWire/highwire.htm More information on large ''Energon'' High Wire at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.yojoe.com/archive/actfig/kicker/ Additional information at YoJoe.com]''
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:Toy Highwire Universe 2003.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like…'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Sunstorm with Inferno and Street Action Mini-Con Team''' (Multi-pack, 2004)}}</ul>

: An evil [[redeco]] of the original ''Armada'' Street Action Mini-Con Team was included in a [[Walmart]]-[[exclusive]] ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' multi-pack. In this set, High Wire stayed mainly black, but his Perceptor noggin changed to a dark, desaturated green. The team was packed in with [[Sunstorm (Universe)#Toys|Sunstorm]] and [[Inferno (Armada)#Universe (2003)|Inferno]].

: Oddly, all photos on the card show the set in their respective molds' original ''Armada'' color schemes, seemingly due to an ''incredibly'' rushed production.

: This version of High Wire was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' incarnation of [[Highwire]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2004/Mini-Con/TFUHighWire/highwire.htm More information on High Wire at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Perceptor''' (Basic Class, 2005)}}</ul>

: ''Energon'' got repackaged in the ''Universe'' toyline, with no changes to the contents within.

: This set was largely sold at "discount" chains, part of the first wave/year of "Basic Class" repacks sold though these outlets.
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===''Cybertron''===
[[File:Cybertron HighWire toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Blastcharge VS. High Wire''' (Mini-Con 2-pack, [[2006]])}}</ul>

: Released as part of the fourth and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' Mini-Con 2-packs, Cybertron High Wire is a redeco of ''Energon'' High Wire. His vehicle mode's paint scheme is based upon {{w|Evel Knievel}}'s various American flag-themed motorcycles. He retains his ability to combine with [[Sureshock (Armada)#Cybertron|Sureshock]] and [[Grindor (Armada)#Cybertron|Grindor]] to form a patriotically-coloured [[Perceptor (Armada)#Cybertron|Perceptor]].

: His stock photography is mistransformed, with his torso the wrong way around.

: He was only available in a two-pack with the Decepticon-allied [[Blastcharge (Cybertron)#Toys|Blastcharge]]. This wave of sets did not ship widely or for very long, making the two teams in this wave particularly hard to find.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/HighWire/highwire.htm More information on ''Cybertron'' High Wire at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:Armada High Wire character model.jpg|upright=1|thumb|''Armada'' cartoon robot mode]]
* The ''Energon'' Kicker with High Wire set was not "mech-designed" or engineered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] employees, a rarity for normal-series ''Transformers'' toys.
* Speaking of the Kicker-pack-in High Wire, this is (so far) the only instance of a Mini-Con design getting a considerably larger-scale toy.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Wheelie''' (ウィーリー ''Wīrī''), '''Hopper''' (''Super Link'', ホッパー ''Hoppā'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Vezeték''' ("Wire")
*''Korean:'' '''Wheelie''' (윌리 ''Willi'')
*''Russian:'' '''Wire'''

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Trypticon (WFC)

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{{faction|decepticon}}
{{disambigm|Trypticon (disambiguation)|Nemesis (disambiguation)}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:WFC One Shall Stand Trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|Yes, there was a grammatically incorrect caption regarding my discharge of energy weaponry. Why do you ask?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral scientific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{quote|You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am... Trypticon. I am... your death.|Trypticon, before he goes [[Godzilla]] on everyone|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the [[Dark Energon]] that had resulted from [[Unicron]]'s attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Its security was seen to by the [[Seeker (body-type)#Aligned continuity|Seeker]] caste. There were records that indicated that at the time Dark Energon was placed aboard by an ancient High Council, the station underwent a major overhaul: [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] confirmed that it was given a spark and made a living being at that point. [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] was one of the few with knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]], as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army. Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. Megatron noted to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] that there was potential for a spark within Trypticon, though Shockwave pointed out the [[Well of All Sparks|Well]] no longer produced sparks. Megatron suggested he use the sparks of the scientists killed and maimed in the seize of Trypticon to give life to the station.

The supplies of Dark Energon from the initial harvest were slender, so Megatron required the means to transfer large quantities of [[energon]] to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] in [[Crystal City]], the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.

After a team led by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. He allowed Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, and Trypticon was granted true life, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicon]]s. Ultimately, a team of Autobots aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' found a gap in the station's external defenses and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit.

Victory was brief, however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the [[Wrecker]]s and [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' launch, this proved to be in vain, as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a ''Nemesis''-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the ''Ark'' to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional [[space bridge]] in Cybertronian orbit. As the ''Ark'' emerged in unknown space, the ''Nemesis'' was nowhere within sensor range. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The ''Nemesis'' was heavily damaged due to its traveling through the last remaining, yet faulty, space bridge, and thus Trypticon's sentient functionality and transformation abilities were lost, perhaps forever. Megatron didn't care too much. The ''Nemesis'' was still a functioning, fearsome battleship, and that's all he required. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

The ''Nemesis'' detected an Autobot distress call, which turned out to be a trick devised by the [[Star Seeker]]s, who wanted to destroy the Decepticons. The ''Nemesis'' and the Star Seeker flagship, the ''[[Tidal Wave (Prime)|Tidal Wave]],'' engaged in dogfight with the ''Nemesis'', on account of its greater mobility and the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]'s poor heat dissipation, emerging victorious.

Soon after, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in orbit around [[Aquatron]], engaging the ''Ark'' orbital firefight visible to the Autobots on the planet's surface before it used a [[tractor beam]] to try and cripple the Autobot ship. In response, the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] launched and combined into [[Superion (Prime)|Superion]] who cut a swath of destruction through the ''Nemesis'' as he made his way to the engine room. In such a confined space however, the [[combiner]]'s bulk proved more of a detriment than an advantage and Megatron was able to expel him from the warship. Though [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] attempted to then ram the ''Ark'' into the ''Nemesis'', a much more powerful tractor beam, fired by the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] immobilized both ships.

The senior staff was invited down to the surface where the Curator revealed himself to be a [[Quintesson]] and that the species was now peaceful, being eager to act as a neutral third party in resolving the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. The next morning however, it was revealed that that was not the case and the rogue creations of [[Quintus Prime]] made another attempt to conquer Cybertron. When Megatron was taken prisoner, [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] fled back to the ''Nemesis'' and took over, continually delaying a rescue of Megatron, until [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] saw the ''Ark'' head towards the planet for a rescue mission, and followed suit. In his haste, Soundwave essentially crashed into the city of [[Hydratron]], taking out most of the city's defenses with it, but immobilizing the ''Nemesis''. When the Curator started to sink Hydratron, the ''Ark'' used its tow cables to lift the ''Nemesis'' upwards, bolstered by Superion, but once they'd cleared the planet's gravity well, the Autobots left the immobilized Decepticons to their repairs. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Engelbert von Nordhausen]] (German), [[Octavio Rojas]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jaime Roca]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Tero Koponen]] (Finnish), [[Carlos Campanile]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]

Long after Cybertron had been rendered uninhabitable, the ''Nemesis'' was in orbit of the planet when Starscream's [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] forces captured the Autobots [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], the latter of whom had received a coded Autobot transmission. Starscream attempted to gain this information by torturing and then imprisoning Cliffjumper alongside Arcee on board the ''Nemesis'', but failed to get any satisfaction. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

The ''Nemesis'' served as the Decepticons' primary base of operations during their time on [[Earth]]. Constantly moving through the skies of the planet and cloaked against detection by either Autobot or human systems, it provided the villains with a mobile headquarters that allowed them to often remain one step ahead of their adversaries.

Sometime after arriving on Earth, Cliffjumper got a taste of the power of the ''Nemesis'' first-hand when he found it hovering over an [[Energon]]-filled crater, and it opened fire on him. Captured by Vehicons and brought aboard, Cliffjumper was slain on the ship's bridge by his old adversary Starscream, his body unable to be reclaimed by his fellow Autobots due to the ship's perpetual cloaking field hiding its location. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Soon after, Starscream relinquished command of the ''Nemesis'' to Megatron when he returned from his three-year sojourn in deep space, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} but when he left to explore the properties of [[Dark Energon]], control of the craft returned to Starscream, who had the Autobots' human ally [[William Fowler]] captured and brought to the ship's brig for interrogation. The Autobots subsequently invaded the ship on a rescue mission, during which [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] damaged the ship's interstellar navigation array, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} leaving it unable to triangulate co-ordinates for the Decepticons' new orbital space bridge. [[File:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]] Using a human installation as a substitute, the Decepticons moved the ''Nemesis'' into space so Megatron could send Dark Energon through the bridge to Cybertron, but when the Autobots sabotaged the bridge and caused it to explode, Starscream betrayed Megatron, moving the ''Nemesis'' out of range and leaving the Decepticon leader to be consumed in the blast. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}


Although Starscream was re-instated as commander of the ''Nemesis'' with Megatron's seeming death, the crew responded unenthusiastically to his dramatic first address. Soon after, when it was discovered that Megatron had actually survived the explosion thanks to Dark Energon, his stasis-locked body became a fixture of the ship's medical bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} The ship later gained another new resident in the Autobot [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], who was captured and locked up in the brig while the evil [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] took his place among the Autobots before escaping. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Romulans!]]

When the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], the Autobots were able to locate the ship and infiltrate it in hopes of locating a cure for the [[Cybonic plague]] Optimus Prime had recently become infected with. Although successful, their actions set in motion the reawakening of Megatron, {{storylink|Sick Mind}} who returned to life and retook command in the middle of Starscream's newest plan, which involved equipping the ''Nemesis'' with a powerful heat ray. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}} With Megatron back in charge, the ''Nemesis'' continued its stoic, continuous motion around the Earth, at one point moving out of Earth's atmosphere and into orbit. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

As the Decepticons began looking for components for their new space bridge, the ''Nemesis'' returned to Earth's atmosphere and headed for a human military installation so Megatron could personally steal the new power source it contained. Optimus Prime and Bulkhead made it aboard the ''Nemesis'' and stole the power source back, but Optimus proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship's corridors until Megatron had him [[GroundBridge]]d out. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Megatron subsequently left the ''Nemesis'' under [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]'s command while he prostrated himself before [[Unicron]], {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} who took the ship back to orbit. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} When Airachnid attempted to incite rebellion among the crew, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] smacked her down and took charge of the ''Nemesis'' until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

In control of a vast swarm of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]], Airachnid launched an attack on the ''Nemesis'' in an attempt to kill Megatron. Meanwhile, Starscream was ''also'' gunning for Megatron after creating several clones of himself, which he dispatched to the ''Nemesis''. In the middle of these attempted coups was a very confused Bulkhead who was inadvertently beamed up to the ''Nemesis'' whilst investigating an energon signal. Seeking an avenue of escape, he crippled the ship's power core, causing it to crash land and allowing Bulkhead to escape in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Megatron infused the ship's core with Dark Energon, bringing it back online, but also awakening the ship's mind. It immediately began its mission, decoding the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] database and heading towards the first of the coordinates in [[New York City]]. When the Decepticons resisted, the warship put them all into stasis. Fowler and the three kids GroundBridged aboard, and the ship at first failed to detect them as it wasn't scanning for organic life, which gave them the opportunity to try to reverse the ship's energon supply. Though the warship tried to stop them, they succeeded, and the warship returned to its mindless state. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

During the hunt for the relics, [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] was infected with a virus by Ratchet so when Soundwave returned to the ship, the Iacon database was transmitted to the Autobot mainframe. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Tensions rose between [[Hardshell|Hardshell]], Knock Out, the Insecticons and the rank and file Vehicons on the ''Nemesis'', leading to an all-out brawl. {{storylink|Hurt}}

MECH leader [[Silas]] - integrated into the corpse of [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] - approached the Decepticons in an attempt to join their ranks, offering [[Project Damocles]], a space-based particle cannon, as a token of friendship. The Decepticons launched an operation to retrieve the satellite weapon's interface codes from human military servers while the ''Nemesis'' deployed Damocles into space. Though the weapon worked as intended, the Autobots and their human allies ultimately destroyed Damocles, and for his failure Silas was dragged away to Knock Out's dissection table on the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

The ''Nemesis'' was deployed to a set of coordinates from the Iacon database that indicated the resting place of an ancient relic. There, Megatron discovered that the relic was the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], a weapon of immense power, and one that must not fall into the hands of Optimus Prime. After failing to retrieve the weapon or otherwise blast it out himself, he ordered the Decepticons to carve out the massive boulder in which the sword was embedded so the ''Nemesis'' could carry it away. As it was in the process of doing so, the Autobots suddenly attacked, with Optimus Prime charging in after the Star Saber. Despite Megatron's best efforts, Optimus managed to pull the sword from the boulder and then cleaved the rock in twain when Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' drop it on the Autobot leader out of spite. As Megatron watched on helplessly, Optimus followed this up by unleashing a wave of energy at the ''Nemesis'' which destroyed part of its engine array, causing it to narrowly miss crashing into a mountainside and forcing the ship to limp away. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Basedestroyed.JPG‎|thumb|upright=1.67|The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered.]]

The ''Nemesis'' flew Megatron and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] to the Decepticons' space bridge orbiting the dark side of the Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] when they returned to Cybertron to find a way to counter the Star Saber's power. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} When [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] was determined to be an [[Omega Key]], he was captured and brought aboard the ship. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After being interrogated via cortical psychic patch, the Autobot stole the Keys stored aboard the ''Nemesis'', and escaped by literally jumping ship. Starscream later returned to the ship with all four Keys in an effort to return to the Decepticons, {{storylink|Inside Job}} and is allowed to once he is deemed fit to return by Megatron after a cortical psychic patch. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}} An enraged and disillusioned Dreadwing steals the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and gives it to the Autobots, and is killed in the ship's medical bay by Megatron when he tried to kill Starscream. The ship later flew Megatron and an army of flying Vehicons to the space bridge when the time came for a battle on Cybertron over the [[Omega Lock]]. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} When Megatron created a [[Darkmount (Earth)|new fortress]] on Earth with the Omega Lock's power, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in [[Jasper]], and was the launch point for the assault on the newly discovered [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]]. As the battle between the Autobots' [[Wheeljack (Prime)|other]] [[William Fowler|allies]] and the Decepticons' flyers raged, the ''Nemesis'' positioned itself over the base. When the battle had ended (with Wheeljack being shot down and Fowler forced to retreat), the ''Nemesis'' fired a colossal cannon on the base, destroying the mountain. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

The ''Nemesis'' was docked at Darkmount with the Decepticons now using the fortress as their main base of operations. However, the ship was still used for coordinating attacks {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} as well as storage of the Forge, the stasis-locked Airachnid, the Apex Armor, and the Star Saber. Smokescreen retrieved the Forge from the ship when prompted to save a dying Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} The ''Nemesis'' was finally deployed once again when an Autobot assault destroyed Darkmount, the Decepticons regrouping on board the ship. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

The ''Nemesis'' had a kennel set up for [[Predaking (Prime)|the Predacon]], where Starscream failed to train it. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} The ship's communication dish was damaged by the beast, blacking out Decepticon communications, and Starscream unsuccessfully tried to have it repaired before Megatron found out. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}} Soon afterwards, Starscream and Knock Out's experiment to create an army of super-soldiers backfired spectacularly when Cylas was turned into a Terrorcon that drained Energon from a victim. The ensuing battle spread all over the warship, and resulted in Cylas's death, and Airachnid being freed from her stasis pod, though she and her Insecticon army were bridged to a moon of Cybertron by Soundwave. The Decepticons' numbers were severely depleted with the loss of the Insecticons and more than half of their remaining troops. {{storylink|Thirst}}

[[File:Deadlock-NemesiswithLock.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Megatron: "Shockwave, lock onto those coordinates and fire the Omega Lock!" Shockwave: "Your redundancy is most illogical, my liege."]]
When Megatron resolved to rebuild the Omega Lock, {{storylink|Minus One}} it was constructed on the underbelly of the ''Nemesis'' by the time Ratchet had been brought aboard to finish his work on synthetic Energon. {{storylink|Persuasion}} When the formula was completed, Ratchet made a run for it and tried to sabotage his work, but was caught in a hallway of the ship. He was given to Predaking for execution, but he turned the juggernaut on the Decepticons, triggering a rampage in which many Vehicons were slaughtered. Megatron was able to defeat Predaking and ejected him from the ship, {{storylink|Synthesis}} but he still clung onto the ship while Ratchet brought the Autobots on board to take the warship. As Optimus and Megatron dueled, and the latter's lieutenants fought Arcee, Ratchet and Smokescreen, Jack and the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]-clad Miko took the bridge, banishing Soundwave to the shadowzone, while the Wreckers took on the rest of the Vehicons aboard the ship. When Megatron was killed by Bumblebee, Starscream and Shockwave fled along with what remained of the Vehicons, leaving the ship in Autobot control. The team took the ship to Cybertron, using the Omega Lock to revive the planet through the Well of All Sparks, and parking the ''Nemesis'' on the surface of the restored Cybertron, while Predaking flew off for parts unknown. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

The Autobots used the ship as a base during their work, keeping the remaining Decepticons in a cell. It was taken into battle for the last time when Unicron returned to the planet, raising an army of Terrorcons with which to destroy Primus. The warship didn't last long before it was shot down and crashed near the Well of All Sparks. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
While navigating a storm, the Vehicons had a particularly hard time piloting the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Megatron later brought the ''Nemesis'' to the [[Erta Ale volcano]] so he could force Starscream to partake in gladiatorial combat there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.7|Megatron's Law}}

Some time later, Bulkhead was taken prisoner aboard the ''Nemesis'' and put in confinement within an [[Ultra Prison]]. When the Autobots turned up to rescue their comrades, they blew a massive hole in the hull on their way out of the warship. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Trypticon acted as Megatron's personal weapon of mass destruction. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Nightra]] claimed that bounty hunter [[Blastwave]] was actually an escapee from "Trypticon Prison", implying that the ''Nemesis'' was converted for penitentiary duties following the rebirth of Cybertron. {{storylink|Guilty As Charged}}

==Commercial appearances==
[[File:NemesisXmas.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|Be very glad Trypticon isn't active to see this.]]
Two Vehicons, caught up in the holiday spirit of [[Christmas]]time, extensively decorated the ''Nemesis'' with lights, trees, and a moving reindeer that flatly droned "HO HO HO". Megatron, infuriated by the spectacle, demanded the capture of whoever was responsible so they could face punishment. The guilty Vehicons meekly kept their mouths shut. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Holiday Schmoliday|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Holiday Schmoliday"}}
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==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Sylvain Lemarié]] (French), [[Javier Gámir]] (Spain-Spanish)}}

{{quote|Ha! Ha! Ha! You haven't defeated me, Autobots. You have only untethered your own destroyer!|Trypticon decides to freak out the Aerialbots|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

[[File:WFC-Trypticontrackingdescent.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|'CUZ I'M FREE! FREE FALLIN'!]]

Before war broke out, Trypticon Station was connected to the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] so the scientists aboard could fulfill their many experiments. The crew experimented with [[Dark Energon]], its effects ravaging a portion of the outer hull, the section being eventually sealed off. High in orbit, the station missed out on most of Cybertron's technological leaps, its technology being considered "ancient" by the time of the Great War.

When war broke out, the station was assaulted by Megatron for the Dark Energon, the [[Decepticon leader]] proving able to tame its awesome power. Erroneously believing he could use Dark Energon to bring all of Cybertron under his command, Megatron had Starscream restart the Energon Bridge, bringing the station back to full operational capacity.

After Optimus Prime learnt how badly the [[Core]] had been corrupted, he ordered the [[Autobot fleet]] to abandon the planet only for Megatron to have the station target the evacuation ships. Optimus scrambled the Aerialbots into action, but only [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] managed to breach the station's defences. The three fliers aimed to sabotage the station's coolant but failed to account for back-up systems allowing the bombing to continue. As the trio ventured further into the station, the station revealed itself to be a monstrous [[Titan (group)|Titan]] known as Trypticon who turned his weapon first on various Cybertronian landmarks, such as [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]'s [[Vaults]], the [[Hall of Ancients]], the [[Stellar Galleries]] and the [[Code Archives]], before finally acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. As the Titan charged his weapon, the fliers destroyed his [[Transformation cog|conversion cog]], reverting him to his [[robot mode]].

[[File:WFC-Trypticonyoulost.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Well hello it's me, the giant.]]

Despite the cog's destruction, Trypticon continued unabated, using his [[jet pack]] and mouth laser to continue his attack before the pack was destroyed and the Titan fell outside Iacon. Optimus, [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the Titan, first overloading his shoulder-mounted weapons systems, then attacking his heat vents, before destroying Trypticon's auxillary power cores. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime unleashed an energy wave with his [[energon-axe]]. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Cybertron Adventures''===
After his weapons were restored, Trypticon made a stand for the Decepticons and started destroying Autobots. Optimus, convincing the Autobots to keep the fight going, made a stand with Bumblebee and Ironhide. The bad news was that Trypticon's only weak spot was in his mouth, but the good news was the Autobots didn't give up.

After half of his health depleted, Trypticon made one more stand, and used his true power. Even though the blasts were powerful, Optimus and the Autobots fired one huge blast, making the monster fall to his demise. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
[[File:WFC-TrypticonDS.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Megatron conquered Trypticon Space Station to manufacture Dark Energon to aid in his planet-wide conquest. However, Megatron found he needed to access the Core of Cybertron to continue to power their Dark Energon supply. Upon defeating Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and later Omega Supreme, Megatron succeeded in his quest.

However, not too long afterwards, newly ascended Autobot leader Optimus Prime freed the Core from the Dark Energon, and ordered a planet-wide evacuation of the population from Cybertron. Megatron began using Trypticon Space Station to fire upon the evacuating Autobot masses, prompting a strike from Optimus' team. The Autobots were able to make Trypticon Space Station crash to Cybertron... only for it to transform into a city-sized Decepticon dinosaur. Luckily, Optimus and his 'bots finally defeated the titan, and ended the threat of Dark Energon for good. {{Storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{bigquote|Trypticon. If you can hear me, understand that this is not a rescue mission. Despite your immense power, you failed to destroy the Autobots. You failed '''me'''. Henceforth, your chassis will be altered and redesigned to ''my'' specifications.|Megatron, upset that he didn't get to be the final boss of the first game}}

[[File:Nemesis FOC.jpg|thumb|left]]

After his defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Trypticon's body was salvaged from the Energon pool and dismantled, kept in (still very large) pieces. Though Optimus had severe reservations about this, he justified it based on the many Autobot lives Trypticon had taken.

Sometime later, [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] informed Megatron of a [[Earth|planet]] rich with resources that they could reach by space bridge, and all they needed was a vessel to take them there. While the scientist worked on the space bridge, the leader led an assault on the labs where Trypticon's body parts were being held. Though having only come to scavenge pieces of the Titan to build a new space cruiser, the Decepticons soon found that Trypticon was still alive and thus, his own starship mode could be utilized for their purposes. Soundwave was able to reassemble Trypticon, though the Titan remained in deep stasis, but before he could commence repairs Megatron overruled him, stating that, since he'd failed in his task of destroying the Autobots, he would be transformed into warship form, even as Soundwave warned that the damage meant Trypticon would be trapped in [[alternate mode]], the Titan giving only a growl as the procedure commenced. Once Soundwave's work was complete, the ''Nemesis'', as it was now referred to, pursued the ''Ark'' as it departed Cybertron, and engaged it in a fierce ship-to-ship battle in front of the wormhole of a space bridge. As Optimus and Megatron duelled, the space bridge began tearing both ships apart, and ultimately sucked both ships through to parts unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
During the war, Starscream led a small group of Decepticons on a secret mission to Trypticon's wreckage to siphon energon from his remains for their own purposes. However, at the same time, the Autobot Jetfire arrived at Trypticon's remains on a mission of his own. Jetfire redirected Starscream's stolen energon to Trypticon's weapons systems, firing upon the Decepticon base [[Kolkular]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Bulkhead infiltrate the ''Nemesis'' to snatch away the Decepticons' Energon stores. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game trypticon.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|Looks like Tom Sawyer whitewashed the ''Nemesis''.]]

When a meteor of pure [[Dark Energon]] hurtled towards Earth, Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' intercept and tow it from an anchor point on the flight deck. When the Autobots boarded the warship, they severed the anchor, the Decepticons instantly switching to a backup towing system on the underbelly. When this too was destroyed, the meteor broke apart, Megatron ordering the ''Nemesis'' to where the largest chunk had landed while his forces hunted down the separated Autobots. When the ''Nemesis'' arrived, the immobilized [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]] was duelling Optimus Prime, Megatron using the warship's artillery to quickly down the [[Herald of Unicron]]. When Thunderwing was brought aboard, and restrained in one of the ship's laboratories, he and Megatron reached an agreement that the Decepticons would repair the giant. The repairs were overseen by the captive Ratchet, himself coerced into cooperating by the captured Miko and Raf.

When Starscream was defeated by Bulkhead, the Wrecker forced him to let him onto the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet using this distraction to escape from Megatron and free Miko and Raf. When the trio chased Soundwave out of the ship's communication suite, they called in Arcee and Bumblebee who managed to defeat their Decepticon counterparts. Starscream meanwhile had lured Bulkhead into a trap, leaving him to the Vehicons, only to be defeated. Limping, Starscream made his way to Thunderwing, trying to steal away the monster's power core, only to be caught in the act by Megatron. At this moment, Thunderwing reactivated and installed the power core himself, breaking free of his restraints, and blasting through the upper hull to freedom. Though the ''Nemesis'' was left listing, the Autobots using the chaos to escape, it remained airborne. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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==Toys==
===Planet X===
==Notes==
* Trypticon's head is available as a Fire Breather-type component for [[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrator]]-class characters in ''Fall of Cybertron'' multiplayer.
* Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in ''Exodus''. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living [[spark]] (pg. 82) when [[Dark Energon]] was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with ''many'' sparks.
*When asked whether Trypticon was alive after that first sparking or not until Shockwave, [[Alex Irvine]] passed on commenting on the grounds that to do so would give something important away...
* In the end credits for ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. Now if we had only seen ''that'' in gameplay.
** [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/4d/Wfc-figures-dream-scale-trypticonsize.jpg Rendering stills] and commentary from [[High Moon Studios]] would later say that Trypticon was twice as tall as Omega Supreme. Make of this what you will.
[[File:Trypticon Station.jpg|thumb|right]]
[[File:TFP_Trypticon_crop.jpeg|thumb|left|Megatron [[Mode lock|terrorize]] Trypticon? Trypticon... [[Activation code|terrorize!]]]]
*Trypticon seems to suffer from mass-displacement. Considering the scale of his space station mode, he should be much bigger in robot form. In fact in ''Fall of Cybertron'', he appears to be smaller (likely half the size he was in the last game). In ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' despite being transformed he's still large enough to house an entire level for Jetfire.
* In "[[Flying Mind]]", neither Megatron nor the other Decepticons directly confirm that the Dark Energon is affecting Trypticon himself, despite every other piece of ''Aligned'' fiction identifying the ''Nemesis'' as Trypticon's reformatted body. A wire-frame of his robot mode can even be seen briefly during the episode, although no attention is called to it. ''The Art of Prime'' would later confirm it, along with a better look at the concept art of his robot mode; however for some reason, during the series the ship was always addressed as "the Decepticon warship", and only once as "the ''Nemesis''" (by the Autobots, no less). According to episode writer [[Bob Skir]], the awakening ''Nemesis'' wasn't meant to be Trypticon. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir]</ref> [[Rik Alvarez|Sources]] have discussed that the ''Prime'' writers disagreed on how (or even if) to use backstory from other Aligned properties, making the uncertain case of the ''Nemesis''' identity a possible result of this conflict.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (China, 报应号, "Retribution")
*''Russian:'' '''''Nemezida''''' (Немезида, "Nemesis")

==Notes==
* Trypticon's head is available as a Fire Breather-type component for [[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrator]]-class characters in ''Fall of Cybertron'' multiplayer.
* Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in ''Exodus''. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living [[spark]] (pg. 82) when [[Dark Energon]] was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with ''many'' sparks.
*When asked whether Trypticon was alive after that first sparking or not until Shockwave, [[Alex Irvine]] passed on commenting on the grounds that to do so would give something important away...
* In the end credits for ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. Now if we had only seen ''that'' in gameplay.
** [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/4d/Wfc-figures-dream-scale-trypticonsize.jpg Rendering stills] and commentary from [[High Moon Studios]] would later say that Trypticon was twice as tall as Omega Supreme. Make of this what you will.
[[File:Trypticon Station.jpg|thumb|right]]
[[File:TFP_Trypticon_crop.jpeg|thumb|left|Megatron [[Mode lock|terrorize]] Trypticon? Trypticon... [[Activation code|terrorize!]]]]
*Trypticon seems to suffer from mass-displacement. Considering the scale of his space station mode, he should be much bigger in robot form. In fact in ''Fall of Cybertron'', he appears to be smaller (likely half the size he was in the last game). In ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' despite being transformed he's still large enough to house an entire level for Jetfire.
* In "[[Flying Mind]]", neither Megatron nor the other Decepticons directly confirm that the Dark Energon is affecting Trypticon himself, despite every other piece of ''Aligned'' fiction identifying the ''Nemesis'' as Trypticon's reformatted body. A wire-frame of his robot mode can even be seen briefly during the episode, although no attention is called to it. ''The Art of Prime'' would later confirm it, along with a better look at the concept art of his robot mode; however for some reason, during the series the ship was always addressed as "the Decepticon warship", and only once as "the ''Nemesis''" (by the Autobots, no less). According to episode writer [[Bob Skir]], the awakening ''Nemesis'' wasn't meant to be Trypticon. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir]</ref> [[Rik Alvarez|Sources]] have discussed that the ''Prime'' writers disagreed on how (or even if) to use backstory from other Aligned properties, making the uncertain case of the ''Nemesis''' identity a possible result of this conflict.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (China, 报应号, "Retribution")
*''Russian:'' '''''Nemezida''''' (Немезида, "Nemesis")

==References==
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Trypticon (WFC)

2021-08-16T18:55:40Z

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{{disambigm|Trypticon (disambiguation)|Nemesis (disambiguation)}}
:''Trypticon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:WFC One Shall Stand Trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|Yes, there was a grammatically incorrect caption regarding my discharge of energy weaponry. Why do you ask?]]
A titan of a Decepticon, '''Trypticon''' casts a vast shadow across the battlefield whenever he appears. Though he once turned into Trypticon Station, a neutral scientific outpost, Trypticon's intelligence is only just enough to make him an effective warrior, even if it hardly seems needed with his vast array of weapons. He is equally formidable in his alternate form of the Decepticons' fortress of a warship, the '''''Nemesis''''', even after a [[space bridge]] accident sent his personality into [[stasis lock|stasis]]. Carrying [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and the remnants of his Decepticon uprising, the ''Nemesis'' is still a force to be reckoned with.

{{quote|You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am... Trypticon. I am... your death.|Trypticon, before he goes [[Godzilla]] on everyone|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the [[Dark Energon]] that had resulted from [[Unicron]]'s attack on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Its security was seen to by the [[Seeker (body-type)#Aligned continuity|Seeker]] caste. There were records that indicated that at the time Dark Energon was placed aboard by an ancient High Council, the station underwent a major overhaul: [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] confirmed that it was given a spark and made a living being at that point. [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] was one of the few with knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]], as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army. Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. Megatron noted to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] that there was potential for a spark within Trypticon, though Shockwave pointed out the [[Well of All Sparks|Well]] no longer produced sparks. Megatron suggested he use the sparks of the scientists killed and maimed in the seize of Trypticon to give life to the station.

The supplies of Dark Energon from the initial harvest were slender, so Megatron required the means to transfer large quantities of [[energon]] to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] in [[Crystal City]], the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.

After a team led by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. He allowed Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, and Trypticon was granted true life, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicon]]s. Ultimately, a team of Autobots aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]'' found a gap in the station's external defenses and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit.

Victory was brief, however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the [[Wrecker]]s and [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' launch, this proved to be in vain, as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a ''Nemesis''-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the ''Ark'' to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional [[space bridge]] in Cybertronian orbit. As the ''Ark'' emerged in unknown space, the ''Nemesis'' was nowhere within sensor range. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

The ''Nemesis'' was heavily damaged due to its traveling through the last remaining, yet faulty, space bridge, and thus Trypticon's sentient functionality and transformation abilities were lost, perhaps forever. Megatron didn't care too much. The ''Nemesis'' was still a functioning, fearsome battleship, and that's all he required. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

The ''Nemesis'' detected an Autobot distress call, which turned out to be a trick devised by the [[Star Seeker]]s, who wanted to destroy the Decepticons. The ''Nemesis'' and the Star Seeker flagship, the ''[[Tidal Wave (Prime)|Tidal Wave]],'' engaged in dogfight with the ''Nemesis'', on account of its greater mobility and the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]'s poor heat dissipation, emerging victorious.

Soon after, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in orbit around [[Aquatron]], engaging the ''Ark'' orbital firefight visible to the Autobots on the planet's surface before it used a [[tractor beam]] to try and cripple the Autobot ship. In response, the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] launched and combined into [[Superion (Prime)|Superion]] who cut a swath of destruction through the ''Nemesis'' as he made his way to the engine room. In such a confined space however, the [[combiner]]'s bulk proved more of a detriment than an advantage and Megatron was able to expel him from the warship. Though [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] attempted to then ram the ''Ark'' into the ''Nemesis'', a much more powerful tractor beam, fired by the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] immobilized both ships.

The senior staff was invited down to the surface where the Curator revealed himself to be a [[Quintesson]] and that the species was now peaceful, being eager to act as a neutral third party in resolving the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. The next morning however, it was revealed that that was not the case and the rogue creations of [[Quintus Prime]] made another attempt to conquer Cybertron. When Megatron was taken prisoner, [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] fled back to the ''Nemesis'' and took over, continually delaying a rescue of Megatron, until [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] saw the ''Ark'' head towards the planet for a rescue mission, and followed suit. In his haste, Soundwave essentially crashed into the city of [[Hydratron]], taking out most of the city's defenses with it, but immobilizing the ''Nemesis''. When the Curator started to sink Hydratron, the ''Ark'' used its tow cables to lift the ''Nemesis'' upwards, bolstered by Superion, but once they'd cleared the planet's gravity well, the Autobots left the immobilized Decepticons to their repairs. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (English)|[[Engelbert von Nordhausen]] (German), [[Octavio Rojas]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jaime Roca]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Tero Koponen]] (Finnish), [[Carlos Campanile]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|This doesn't look like [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] at all!]]

Long after Cybertron had been rendered uninhabitable, the ''Nemesis'' was in orbit of the planet when Starscream's [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] forces captured the Autobots [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], the latter of whom had received a coded Autobot transmission. Starscream attempted to gain this information by torturing and then imprisoning Cliffjumper alongside Arcee on board the ''Nemesis'', but failed to get any satisfaction. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

The ''Nemesis'' served as the Decepticons' primary base of operations during their time on [[Earth]]. Constantly moving through the skies of the planet and cloaked against detection by either Autobot or human systems, it provided the villains with a mobile headquarters that allowed them to often remain one step ahead of their adversaries.

Sometime after arriving on Earth, Cliffjumper got a taste of the power of the ''Nemesis'' first-hand when he found it hovering over an [[Energon]]-filled crater, and it opened fire on him. Captured by Vehicons and brought aboard, Cliffjumper was slain on the ship's bridge by his old adversary Starscream, his body unable to be reclaimed by his fellow Autobots due to the ship's perpetual cloaking field hiding its location. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Soon after, Starscream relinquished command of the ''Nemesis'' to Megatron when he returned from his three-year sojourn in deep space, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} but when he left to explore the properties of [[Dark Energon]], control of the craft returned to Starscream, who had the Autobots' human ally [[William Fowler]] captured and brought to the ship's brig for interrogation. The Autobots subsequently invaded the ship on a rescue mission, during which [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] damaged the ship's interstellar navigation array, {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} leaving it unable to triangulate co-ordinates for the Decepticons' new orbital space bridge. [[File:Masters&Students-Nemesisbridgescreen.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|The ''Nemesis'' bridge must be great for watching the Super Bowl.]] Using a human installation as a substitute, the Decepticons moved the ''Nemesis'' into space so Megatron could send Dark Energon through the bridge to Cybertron, but when the Autobots sabotaged the bridge and caused it to explode, Starscream betrayed Megatron, moving the ''Nemesis'' out of range and leaving the Decepticon leader to be consumed in the blast. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}


Although Starscream was re-instated as commander of the ''Nemesis'' with Megatron's seeming death, the crew responded unenthusiastically to his dramatic first address. Soon after, when it was discovered that Megatron had actually survived the explosion thanks to Dark Energon, his stasis-locked body became a fixture of the ship's medical bay. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} The ship later gained another new resident in the Autobot [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], who was captured and locked up in the brig while the evil [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] took his place among the Autobots before escaping. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:OutHead-Arcticbeam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Romulans!]]

When the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s electromagnetic shielding broke while orbiting above [[China]], the Autobots were able to locate the ship and infiltrate it in hopes of locating a cure for the [[Cybonic plague]] Optimus Prime had recently become infected with. Although successful, their actions set in motion the reawakening of Megatron, {{storylink|Sick Mind}} who returned to life and retook command in the middle of Starscream's newest plan, which involved equipping the ''Nemesis'' with a powerful heat ray. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}} With Megatron back in charge, the ''Nemesis'' continued its stoic, continuous motion around the Earth, at one point moving out of Earth's atmosphere and into orbit. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

As the Decepticons began looking for components for their new space bridge, the ''Nemesis'' returned to Earth's atmosphere and headed for a human military installation so Megatron could personally steal the new power source it contained. Optimus Prime and Bulkhead made it aboard the ''Nemesis'' and stole the power source back, but Optimus proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship's corridors until Megatron had him [[GroundBridge]]d out. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Megatron subsequently left the ''Nemesis'' under [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]'s command while he prostrated himself before [[Unicron]], {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} who took the ship back to orbit. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} When Airachnid attempted to incite rebellion among the crew, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] smacked her down and took charge of the ''Nemesis'' until Megatron returned with an amnesiac Optimus Prime. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Though the Decepticons tried their best to keep "Orion Pax" in the dark, they had a security lapse when Arcee managed to get on board to hunt for the lost Autobot leader. Soundwave was able to get her back off the ship through deft use of the GroundBridge. It happened again sometime later when Starscream sneaked on board to steal [[energon cube]]s and stumbled on Orion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Starscream fled the ship, but his visit raised Orion's suspicions and he accessed the Decepticon database to find out the truth. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} The Decepticons had a full log of his activities and he was left under Vehicon guard to continue his work, but soon broke free and left the ship to help the Autobots. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

In control of a vast swarm of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]], Airachnid launched an attack on the ''Nemesis'' in an attempt to kill Megatron. Meanwhile, Starscream was ''also'' gunning for Megatron after creating several clones of himself, which he dispatched to the ''Nemesis''. In the middle of these attempted coups was a very confused Bulkhead who was inadvertently beamed up to the ''Nemesis'' whilst investigating an energon signal. Seeking an avenue of escape, he crippled the ship's power core, causing it to crash land and allowing Bulkhead to escape in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Megatron infused the ship's core with Dark Energon, bringing it back online, but also awakening the ship's mind. It immediately began its mission, decoding the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] database and heading towards the first of the coordinates in [[New York City]]. When the Decepticons resisted, the warship put them all into stasis. Fowler and the three kids GroundBridged aboard, and the ship at first failed to detect them as it wasn't scanning for organic life, which gave them the opportunity to try to reverse the ship's energon supply. Though the warship tried to stop them, they succeeded, and the warship returned to its mindless state. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

During the hunt for the relics, [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] was infected with a virus by Ratchet so when Soundwave returned to the ship, the Iacon database was transmitted to the Autobot mainframe. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}}

Tensions rose between [[Hardshell|Hardshell]], Knock Out, the Insecticons and the rank and file Vehicons on the ''Nemesis'', leading to an all-out brawl. {{storylink|Hurt}}

MECH leader [[Silas]] - integrated into the corpse of [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] - approached the Decepticons in an attempt to join their ranks, offering [[Project Damocles]], a space-based particle cannon, as a token of friendship. The Decepticons launched an operation to retrieve the satellite weapon's interface codes from human military servers while the ''Nemesis'' deployed Damocles into space. Though the weapon worked as intended, the Autobots and their human allies ultimately destroyed Damocles, and for his failure Silas was dragged away to Knock Out's dissection table on the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

The ''Nemesis'' was deployed to a set of coordinates from the Iacon database that indicated the resting place of an ancient relic. There, Megatron discovered that the relic was the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], a weapon of immense power, and one that must not fall into the hands of Optimus Prime. After failing to retrieve the weapon or otherwise blast it out himself, he ordered the Decepticons to carve out the massive boulder in which the sword was embedded so the ''Nemesis'' could carry it away. As it was in the process of doing so, the Autobots suddenly attacked, with Optimus Prime charging in after the Star Saber. Despite Megatron's best efforts, Optimus managed to pull the sword from the boulder and then cleaved the rock in twain when Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' drop it on the Autobot leader out of spite. As Megatron watched on helplessly, Optimus followed this up by unleashing a wave of energy at the ''Nemesis'' which destroyed part of its engine array, causing it to narrowly miss crashing into a mountainside and forcing the ship to limp away. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Basedestroyed.JPG‎|thumb|upright=1.67|The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered.]]

The ''Nemesis'' flew Megatron and [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] to the Decepticons' space bridge orbiting the dark side of the Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] when they returned to Cybertron to find a way to counter the Star Saber's power. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} When [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] was determined to be an [[Omega Key]], he was captured and brought aboard the ship. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} After being interrogated via cortical psychic patch, the Autobot stole the Keys stored aboard the ''Nemesis'', and escaped by literally jumping ship. Starscream later returned to the ship with all four Keys in an effort to return to the Decepticons, {{storylink|Inside Job}} and is allowed to once he is deemed fit to return by Megatron after a cortical psychic patch. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}} An enraged and disillusioned Dreadwing steals the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] and gives it to the Autobots, and is killed in the ship's medical bay by Megatron when he tried to kill Starscream. The ship later flew Megatron and an army of flying Vehicons to the space bridge when the time came for a battle on Cybertron over the [[Omega Lock]]. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} When Megatron created a [[Darkmount (Earth)|new fortress]] on Earth with the Omega Lock's power, the ''Nemesis'' arrived in [[Jasper]], and was the launch point for the assault on the newly discovered [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]]. As the battle between the Autobots' [[Wheeljack (Prime)|other]] [[William Fowler|allies]] and the Decepticons' flyers raged, the ''Nemesis'' positioned itself over the base. When the battle had ended (with Wheeljack being shot down and Fowler forced to retreat), the ''Nemesis'' fired a colossal cannon on the base, destroying the mountain. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

The ''Nemesis'' was docked at Darkmount with the Decepticons now using the fortress as their main base of operations. However, the ship was still used for coordinating attacks {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} as well as storage of the Forge, the stasis-locked Airachnid, the Apex Armor, and the Star Saber. Smokescreen retrieved the Forge from the ship when prompted to save a dying Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} The ''Nemesis'' was finally deployed once again when an Autobot assault destroyed Darkmount, the Decepticons regrouping on board the ship. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

The ''Nemesis'' had a kennel set up for [[Predaking (Prime)|the Predacon]], where Starscream failed to train it. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} The ship's communication dish was damaged by the beast, blacking out Decepticon communications, and Starscream unsuccessfully tried to have it repaired before Megatron found out. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}} Soon afterwards, Starscream and Knock Out's experiment to create an army of super-soldiers backfired spectacularly when Cylas was turned into a Terrorcon that drained Energon from a victim. The ensuing battle spread all over the warship, and resulted in Cylas's death, and Airachnid being freed from her stasis pod, though she and her Insecticon army were bridged to a moon of Cybertron by Soundwave. The Decepticons' numbers were severely depleted with the loss of the Insecticons and more than half of their remaining troops. {{storylink|Thirst}}

[[File:Deadlock-NemesiswithLock.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Megatron: "Shockwave, lock onto those coordinates and fire the Omega Lock!" Shockwave: "Your redundancy is most illogical, my liege."]]
When Megatron resolved to rebuild the Omega Lock, {{storylink|Minus One}} it was constructed on the underbelly of the ''Nemesis'' by the time Ratchet had been brought aboard to finish his work on synthetic Energon. {{storylink|Persuasion}} When the formula was completed, Ratchet made a run for it and tried to sabotage his work, but was caught in a hallway of the ship. He was given to Predaking for execution, but he turned the juggernaut on the Decepticons, triggering a rampage in which many Vehicons were slaughtered. Megatron was able to defeat Predaking and ejected him from the ship, {{storylink|Synthesis}} but he still clung onto the ship while Ratchet brought the Autobots on board to take the warship. As Optimus and Megatron dueled, and the latter's lieutenants fought Arcee, Ratchet and Smokescreen, Jack and the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]-clad Miko took the bridge, banishing Soundwave to the shadowzone, while the Wreckers took on the rest of the Vehicons aboard the ship. When Megatron was killed by Bumblebee, Starscream and Shockwave fled along with what remained of the Vehicons, leaving the ship in Autobot control. The team took the ship to Cybertron, using the Omega Lock to revive the planet through the Well of All Sparks, and parking the ''Nemesis'' on the surface of the restored Cybertron, while Predaking flew off for parts unknown. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

The Autobots used the ship as a base during their work, keeping the remaining Decepticons in a cell. It was taken into battle for the last time when Unicron returned to the planet, raising an army of Terrorcons with which to destroy Primus. The warship didn't last long before it was shot down and crashed near the Well of All Sparks. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
While navigating a storm, the Vehicons had a particularly hard time piloting the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Megatron later brought the ''Nemesis'' to the [[Erta Ale volcano]] so he could force Starscream to partake in gladiatorial combat there. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.7|Megatron's Law}}

Some time later, Bulkhead was taken prisoner aboard the ''Nemesis'' and put in confinement within an [[Ultra Prison]]. When the Autobots turned up to rescue their comrades, they blew a massive hole in the hull on their way out of the warship. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Trypticon acted as Megatron's personal weapon of mass destruction. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Nightra]] claimed that bounty hunter [[Blastwave]] was actually an escapee from "Trypticon Prison", implying that the ''Nemesis'' was converted for penitentiary duties following the rebirth of Cybertron. {{storylink|Guilty As Charged}}

==Commercial appearances==
[[File:NemesisXmas.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|Be very glad Trypticon isn't active to see this.]]
Two Vehicons, caught up in the holiday spirit of [[Christmas]]time, extensively decorated the ''Nemesis'' with lights, trees, and a moving reindeer that flatly droned "HO HO HO". Megatron, infuriated by the spectacle, demanded the capture of whoever was responsible so they could face punishment. The guilty Vehicons meekly kept their mouths shut. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Holiday Schmoliday|30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Holiday Schmoliday"}}
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==Games==
===''War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Sylvain Lemarié]] (French), [[Javier Gámir]] (Spain-Spanish)}}

{{quote|Ha! Ha! Ha! You haven't defeated me, Autobots. You have only untethered your own destroyer!|Trypticon decides to freak out the Aerialbots|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}

[[File:WFC-Trypticontrackingdescent.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|'CUZ I'M FREE! FREE FALLIN'!]]

Before war broke out, Trypticon Station was connected to the [[Geosynchronous Energon Bridge]] so the scientists aboard could fulfill their many experiments. The crew experimented with [[Dark Energon]], its effects ravaging a portion of the outer hull, the section being eventually sealed off. High in orbit, the station missed out on most of Cybertron's technological leaps, its technology being considered "ancient" by the time of the Great War.

When war broke out, the station was assaulted by Megatron for the Dark Energon, the [[Decepticon leader]] proving able to tame its awesome power. Erroneously believing he could use Dark Energon to bring all of Cybertron under his command, Megatron had Starscream restart the Energon Bridge, bringing the station back to full operational capacity.

After Optimus Prime learnt how badly the [[Core]] had been corrupted, he ordered the [[Autobot fleet]] to abandon the planet only for Megatron to have the station target the evacuation ships. Optimus scrambled the Aerialbots into action, but only [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] managed to breach the station's defences. The three fliers aimed to sabotage the station's coolant but failed to account for back-up systems allowing the bombing to continue. As the trio ventured further into the station, the station revealed itself to be a monstrous [[Titan (group)|Titan]] known as Trypticon who turned his weapon first on various Cybertronian landmarks, such as [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]'s [[Vaults]], the [[Hall of Ancients]], the [[Stellar Galleries]] and the [[Code Archives]], before finally acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. As the Titan charged his weapon, the fliers destroyed his [[Transformation cog|conversion cog]], reverting him to his [[robot mode]].

[[File:WFC-Trypticonyoulost.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Well hello it's me, the giant.]]

Despite the cog's destruction, Trypticon continued unabated, using his [[jet pack]] and mouth laser to continue his attack before the pack was destroyed and the Titan fell outside Iacon. Optimus, [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the Titan, first overloading his shoulder-mounted weapons systems, then attacking his heat vents, before destroying Trypticon's auxillary power cores. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime unleashed an energy wave with his [[energon-axe]]. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Cybertron Adventures''===
After his weapons were restored, Trypticon made a stand for the Decepticons and started destroying Autobots. Optimus, convincing the Autobots to keep the fight going, made a stand with Bumblebee and Ironhide. The bad news was that Trypticon's only weak spot was in his mouth, but the good news was the Autobots didn't give up.

After half of his health depleted, Trypticon made one more stand, and used his true power. Even though the blasts were powerful, Optimus and the Autobots fired one huge blast, making the monster fall to his demise. {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures|Cybertron Adventures}}

===''War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
[[File:WFC-TrypticonDS.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Megatron conquered Trypticon Space Station to manufacture Dark Energon to aid in his planet-wide conquest. However, Megatron found he needed to access the Core of Cybertron to continue to power their Dark Energon supply. Upon defeating Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and later Omega Supreme, Megatron succeeded in his quest.

However, not too long afterwards, newly ascended Autobot leader Optimus Prime freed the Core from the Dark Energon, and ordered a planet-wide evacuation of the population from Cybertron. Megatron began using Trypticon Space Station to fire upon the evacuating Autobot masses, prompting a strike from Optimus' team. The Autobots were able to make Trypticon Space Station crash to Cybertron... only for it to transform into a city-sized Decepticon dinosaur. Luckily, Optimus and his 'bots finally defeated the titan, and ended the threat of Dark Energon for good. {{Storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron}}
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===''Fall of Cybertron''===
{{bigquote|Trypticon. If you can hear me, understand that this is not a rescue mission. Despite your immense power, you failed to destroy the Autobots. You failed '''me'''. Henceforth, your chassis will be altered and redesigned to ''my'' specifications.|Megatron, upset that he didn't get to be the final boss of the first game}}

[[File:Nemesis FOC.jpg|thumb|left]]

After his defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Trypticon's body was salvaged from the Energon pool and dismantled, kept in (still very large) pieces. Though Optimus had severe reservations about this, he justified it based on the many Autobot lives Trypticon had taken.

Sometime later, [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] informed Megatron of a [[Earth|planet]] rich with resources that they could reach by space bridge, and all they needed was a vessel to take them there. While the scientist worked on the space bridge, the leader led an assault on the labs where Trypticon's body parts were being held. Though having only come to scavenge pieces of the Titan to build a new space cruiser, the Decepticons soon found that Trypticon was still alive and thus, his own starship mode could be utilized for their purposes. Soundwave was able to reassemble Trypticon, though the Titan remained in deep stasis, but before he could commence repairs Megatron overruled him, stating that, since he'd failed in his task of destroying the Autobots, he would be transformed into warship form, even as Soundwave warned that the damage meant Trypticon would be trapped in [[alternate mode]], the Titan giving only a growl as the procedure commenced. Once Soundwave's work was complete, the ''Nemesis'', as it was now referred to, pursued the ''Ark'' as it departed Cybertron, and engaged it in a fierce ship-to-ship battle in front of the wormhole of a space bridge. As Optimus and Megatron duelled, the space bridge began tearing both ships apart, and ultimately sucked both ships through to parts unknown. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
During the war, Starscream led a small group of Decepticons on a secret mission to Trypticon's wreckage to siphon energon from his remains for their own purposes. However, at the same time, the Autobot Jetfire arrived at Trypticon's remains on a mission of his own. Jetfire redirected Starscream's stolen energon to Trypticon's weapons systems, firing upon the Decepticon base [[Kolkular]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon''===
Bulkhead infiltrate the ''Nemesis'' to snatch away the Decepticons' Energon stores. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Battle For Energon}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game trypticon.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.85|Looks like Tom Sawyer whitewashed the ''Nemesis''.]]

When a meteor of pure [[Dark Energon]] hurtled towards Earth, Megatron had the ''Nemesis'' intercept and tow it from an anchor point on the flight deck. When the Autobots boarded the warship, they severed the anchor, the Decepticons instantly switching to a backup towing system on the underbelly. When this too was destroyed, the meteor broke apart, Megatron ordering the ''Nemesis'' to where the largest chunk had landed while his forces hunted down the separated Autobots. When the ''Nemesis'' arrived, the immobilized [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]] was duelling Optimus Prime, Megatron using the warship's artillery to quickly down the [[Herald of Unicron]]. When Thunderwing was brought aboard, and restrained in one of the ship's laboratories, he and Megatron reached an agreement that the Decepticons would repair the giant. The repairs were overseen by the captive Ratchet, himself coerced into cooperating by the captured Miko and Raf.

When Starscream was defeated by Bulkhead, the Wrecker forced him to let him onto the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet using this distraction to escape from Megatron and free Miko and Raf. When the trio chased Soundwave out of the ship's communication suite, they called in Arcee and Bumblebee who managed to defeat their Decepticon counterparts. Starscream meanwhile had lured Bulkhead into a trap, leaving him to the Vehicons, only to be defeated. Limping, Starscream made his way to Thunderwing, trying to steal away the monster's power core, only to be caught in the act by Megatron. At this moment, Thunderwing reactivated and installed the power core himself, breaking free of his restraints, and blasting through the upper hull to freedom. Though the ''Nemesis'' was left listing, the Autobots using the chaos to escape, it remained airborne. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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==Toys==
===Planet X===
==Notes==
* Trypticon's head is available as a Fire Breather-type component for [[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrator]]-class characters in ''Fall of Cybertron'' multiplayer.
* Trypticon has two seemingly conflicting origins in ''Exodus''. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] researches the station and discovers that in "ancient times" it was secretly "recreated" from a simple space station and was raised to sentience, given a living [[spark]] (pg. 82) when [[Dark Energon]] was hidden aboard by an "ancient" iteration of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] headed by Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion confirms this to be true. Beforehand, however [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] refers to the station as being "semi-sentient" and afterwards as a sparkless drone before Shockwave makes it into a Transformer with ''many'' sparks.
*When asked whether Trypticon was alive after that first sparking or not until Shockwave, [[Alex Irvine]] passed on commenting on the grounds that to do so would give something important away...
* In the end credits for ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'', Trypticon is briefly seen grappling with [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]. Now if we had only seen ''that'' in gameplay.
** [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/4/4d/Wfc-figures-dream-scale-trypticonsize.jpg Rendering stills] and commentary from [[High Moon Studios]] would later say that Trypticon was twice as tall as Omega Supreme. Make of this what you will.
[[File:Trypticon Station.jpg|thumb|right]]
[[File:TFP_Trypticon_crop.jpeg|thumb|left|Megatron [[Mode lock|terrorize]] Trypticon? Trypticon... [[Activation code|terrorize!]]]]
*Trypticon seems to suffer from mass-displacement. Considering the scale of his space station mode, he should be much bigger in robot form. In fact in ''Fall of Cybertron'', he appears to be smaller (likely half the size he was in the last game). In ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' despite being transformed he's still large enough to house an entire level for Jetfire.
* In "[[Flying Mind]]", neither Megatron nor the other Decepticons directly confirm that the Dark Energon is affecting Trypticon himself, despite every other piece of ''Aligned'' fiction identifying the ''Nemesis'' as Trypticon's reformatted body. A wire-frame of his robot mode can even be seen briefly during the episode, although no attention is called to it. ''The Art of Prime'' would later confirm it, along with a better look at the concept art of his robot mode; however for some reason, during the series the ship was always addressed as "the Decepticon warship", and only once as "the ''Nemesis''" (by the Autobots, no less). According to episode writer [[Bob Skir]], the awakening ''Nemesis'' wasn't meant to be Trypticon. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir]</ref> [[Rik Alvarez|Sources]] have discussed that the ''Prime'' writers disagreed on how (or even if) to use backstory from other Aligned properties, making the uncertain case of the ''Nemesis''' identity a possible result of this conflict.

===Foreign names===
====''Nemesis''====
*''Japanese:'' '''''Nemesis''''' (ネメシス ''Nemeshisu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bàoyìng Hào''''' (China, 报应号, "Retribution")
*''Russian:'' '''''Nemezida''''' (Немезида, "Nemesis")

==References==
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[[Category:Fall of Cybertron locations]]
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)

2021-08-16T11:01:23Z

Dharakjoo: /* Chapter XIII: Till All Are One */

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|prev=Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)
|next=Transformers: Exiles
|title=''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''
|image=Fall of Cybertron PC cover.jpg‎
|caption=[[Ron Perlman|War. War never changes]].
|developer=[[High Moon Studios]] (console), [[Mercenary Technology]] (PC) Funlabs (Next Gen port)
|publisher=[[Activision]]
|writtenby=[[Dan Jolley]]
|date=[[August 21]], [[2012]] [[August 8]], [[2016]] (XB1, PS4)
|platform=PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4
|ratings=ESRB: T PEGI: 12
}}
'''''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''''' is a direct sequel to the 2010 game ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' that was released on [[August 21]], [[2012]]. Published by [[Activision]] and developed by [[High Moon Studios]] (with the PC version being handled by [[Mercenary Technology]]), the game is a continuation of the events of ''War for Cybertron''. It explores the [[Autobot]]s' attempts to escape from a rapidly deteriorating [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', as well as the gradual downfall and collapse of the remnants of Cybertronian society. A side story also focuses on the creation of the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobots]].

Considerably darker in tone than its predecessor, the game begins with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] outright conceding defeat to the [[Decepticon]]s, who are in no better straits than their enemies. The story does not shy away from the grim realities of a dying planet and its inhabitants who cope with it. Characters grieve their losses, be it their home or their comrades. Both sides are depicted resorting to extremes just to keep fighting another day, and all hope seems lost. Yet a critical discovery by [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] may light the way for the [[Transformer]] species to a new era and hope; provided they can survive the fall of Cybertron.

{{quote|This terrible war will reach its end. Not because [['Til all are one|all have finally become one]]. But simply, I fear, because all have become ''none''.|[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]}}

==Synopsis==
===Chapter I: The Exodus===
:''Character: [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]''

The [[Ark (WFC)|Ark]] heads off to the portal which will take them to [[Earth]]. [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] invades the ship using the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', sending [[Decepticon]]s over directly to the bridge of the Ark, forcing Bumblebee, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] to fight off the aggressors. With more Decepticons swarming the engine room, Optimus heads off to help, leaving Bumblebee to protect the bridge. The artillery cannons are taken offline and the ship blows a [[moleculon fuse|fuse]]. Ratchet sends Bumblebee off to fix it, and after braving nearly being sucked into space, the scout soon replaces the fuse and ascends up a lift to the defense tower. He witnesses Autobots being overrun by a [[Titan (FOC)|Titan]] and then on another level, [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] and [[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]] attacking. He reaches the defense mainframe and rushes the Decepticon manning it, reactivating the Ark's guns. The tower is hit by a claw that knocks him down a shaft. With his alternator jarred back into gear, Bumblebee transforms and races through an outer area, avoiding explosions, Decepticon tow cables and large chunks of rubble. He passes [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] having a [[Brawl (WFC)|brawl]] and bringing an [[Onslaught (WFC)|onslaught]] of destruction. He makes it to a stronghold, restocking on ammo, [[energon]] and weapons. He fights his way through a few waves of Decepticons, making his way to the engine room, where Prime and Megatron are doing battle. He pushes through enemy lines, with the help of two Titans, and makes his way to the engine room. There he finds Optimus and Megatron engaging in a fierce melee battle on the hull of the ship, and just as Megatron fires a huge cannon at Optimus, Bumblebee throws himself forwards, taking the shot meant for Prime. As Bumblebee falls, Optimus lifts his body...

[[File:FOC-Metroplexheedsthecall.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated."]]

===Chapter II: Defend the Ark===
:''Character: Optimus Prime''
Six days earlier, the Autobots are preparing the last transport for launch. [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] reports the energon reserves are aboard, and Perceptor is overseeing city shutdown, only for the news to come that the Decepticons have invaded the city. Optimus tries to contact [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], as it's his sector the Decepticons have invaded, but gets no answer. As Prime moves to head out, a [[Warp Cannon]] crashes to the ground nearby and targets the Ark. Optimus heads through the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] ruins and enters Autobot City through a side door to find the Autobots trying to get the city stable without the absent Grimlock. After helping Ratchet stabilize a badly-injured [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], Prime sends [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] to find where Grimlock's disappeared to. At the armory, [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]] reports that [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] and others are trapped in a nerve center, so he and Optimus fight their way there. After fighting off a horde of Decepticons, they unseal the [[detpak]] from the nerve center door. Sending Warpath back to the Ark, Optimus goes in to meet with Perceptor, who's struggling to get the city working again so they can fight off the Decepticons. He sends Prime to activate an old artillery gun using energon from the Ark, and Prime soon puts the weapon to good use taking out Decepticons. With news that the Warp Cannons are firing on the Ark, Optimus heads to the engine room, but as he moves towards the flight deck, the corridors restructure around him. Decepticons, including [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], have invaded the area, and Optimus finds many bodies, but heads for the [[neutron cannon]]. After fighting his way through more Decepticons, he brings the neutron gun online, but again the targeting is out. Optimus takes manual control and helps defend the Ark refueling station from a number of Decepticon tanks. When the cannon runs out of energon, Optimus heads back inside the city and is guided by a mysterious intelligence to the city's core where he pulls a lever... and the entire city transforms into [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]].

===Chapter III: Metroplex Heeds the Call===

:''Character: Optimus Prime''
Optimus and Metroplex head for the Iacon ruins where the Warp Cannons are located. Once they find the first Warp Cannon, Metroplex laboriously synchronizes his targeting systems with Optimus and together they take out the first cannon. Moving on, Prime helps the survivors of a crashed Autobot ship and finds Warpath in a huge plaza. With the second Warp Cannon shelling them, they head into a building and manage to get close enough to the cannon for Optimus to mark it for destruction by Metroplex. That done, Optimus heads down more corridors and is confronted by three Leapers, which Metroplex handily takes out by putting a fist through the wall. After fighting his way across a huge bridge, Prime gets close enough to the last Warp Cannon to mark it, only for it to take out Metroplex first. With no other choice, Optimus makes his way to the base of the cannon and forces open a door, only to be blasted by Starscream, bashed by Brawl and Onslaught, and dragged in front of Megatron. While Starscream gloats at his victory over Prime, Megatron simply blasts his Air Commander before killing an Autobot in front of the bound Prime. Luckily it turns out Metroplex is back online, and he rips the roof off Megatron's throne room before smashing Megatron into the ground repeatedly with his fist. Starscream pronounces Megatron dead, himself leader and orders the Decepticons back to base. The day is won, but unfortunately all the Autobots' energon is exhausted and they need to find more. Prime believes Grimlock may hold the key, and says Jazz and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] are tracking down their missing comrade.

[[File:FOC-Cliffjumperobservatory.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|"Historical algorithms engaged. Processing Capital Post articles. Extrapolating American cultural references."]]

===Chapter IV: Eye of the Storm===
:''Character: Cliffjumper''
[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] drops Jazz and Cliffjumper off over the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] in the middle of a rust storm to look for Grimlock. In a ruined base, they find a crashed ship which they recognize as one that was stolen by Grimlock from the base. They soon spot Decepticons moving around and sneak inside the base. As they stealthily make their way through, they overhear some Decepticons discussing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and his "pets". Using a garbage conveyor, Cliffjumper finds himself in an ancient tomb where guardians are roaming around, scanning for Autobots. Jazz reports the rust storm is increasing in intensity outside. Cliffjumper finds a [[ancient map room|huge domed room]] and activates a starmap that shows him an image of [[Earth]]. Continuing through the tomb, Cliffjumper finds more Decepticons, plus sword marks and a trail of destruction he recognizes as Grimlock's work. Eventually he reaches outside again and spots Jazz, but a collapse cuts them off from each other. Cliff hunts through the storm and finds Jazz, freeing his companion from some fallen debris. They soon find more devastation and Jazz detects a faint Autobot distress signal which Cliffjumper tracks to a huge pit, just as the Decepticons seal it. Luckily the two Autobots find a huge bomb they use to blow the pit open and, leaving Cliffjumper behind, Jazz leaps in.

[[File:FOC-Jazzvsinsecticons.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Gary?" "Gary!" "Gary?" "Gary!" "Gary!"]]

===Chapter V: Cut and Run===
:''Character: Jazz''
Jazz reaches the bottom of the pit, where he discovers [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]], who has been so badly damaged he's been forced into [[stasis lock]]. The audio he plays back from Sludge's memory is not promising. The meaning of the green pods Jazz spots is clear when he finds himself under attack by the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] horde. He blasts a tank which releases a toxic green gas, and he has to race to escape in time. Escaping the pit, he seals it and pair continue to look for the source of the distress signal. They stumble on a huge lake filled with energon which the Decepticons are mining. They fight their way across the moat to the Decepticon facility where Cliffjumper promptly manages to trip an alarm. Jazz utilizes a network of service tunnels, but creeping down one of them, he falls through a grating and is ambushed. Naturally he fights the Decepticons off and even helps out Cliffjumper who's pinned down by Wall Crawlers and other Decepticons. The pair rendezvous at the other side of the moat and head inside the tower. Within, they find Insecticons in tubes and a map pointing to Earth's solar system. Intriguing! Further in, they find Shockwave arguing with Starscream via hologram. Cliffjumper fails to creep up on Shockwave, who sets a bunch of Insecticons on them before leaving. While Jazz keeps the Insecticons busy, Cliffjumper diverts toxic waste into the refinery to make it overload. The refinery starts to melt down and the pair book out, getting picked up by Sideswipe just in time. Jazz contacts Optimus with the news there's a lake of energon ripe for the taking. The Autobots begin preparing a massive energon transport to take the energon to the Ark.

===Chapter VI: Death from Above===
:''Character: Vortex''
The Decepticons get wind of the Autobot plan, and as the transport heads back with a load of energon, Starscream tasks the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticon]]s with intercepting it and leading it to an ambush. [[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] and [[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] are sent to clear a short-cut so Brawl can take a dropship and destroy a bridge. They fly through an ancient Autobot city. The pair run into Autobots though, and Blast Off ends up racing ahead, leaving Vortex to fight them. They eventually reach the bridge, but when Brawl shells it, they find it's shielded. Vortex deactivates the shielding, allowing Brawl to take out the side supports. The central support is a little trickier, and Brawl has to blow a hole in it so Vortex can get in to find the shield controls. After fighting more Autobots, including a Titan, Vortex uses a detpak on the central support and races out as the bridge collapses.

===Chapter VII: Belly of the Beast===
:''Character: Swindle''
Starscream springs his ambush on the transport, but the transport's defenses blast them. Onslaught exasperatedly sends [[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] under the transport to try to stop it. Swindle takes out the rear wheels and heads to the front, using his grapple to avoid the deadly acid pools, and takes out the front wheels. This unleashes a pair of titans which he has to destroy. However just as victory looks certain, the transport's wheels convert into jets. As the transport takes to the air, Swindle grapples on board.

[[File:FOC-Bruticus-Game.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|"Get the Fat Man! I'll try to keep him busy!"]]

===Chapter VIII: Combaticons Combine!===
:''Character: Swindle/Bruticus''
Within the transport, Swindle begins heading through the transport, aiming to take out the anti-aircraft defenses so the other Combaticons can come over in their drop ship. He blows a hole in an exterior wall and starts making his way along the side of the transport. Starscream announces he's calling off the assault, but is corrected by Onslaught, who still believes they can pull it off. Swindle finds the anti-aircraft cannons can be destroyed by simply shooting the shells being fed into them, so he does that, then moves around to the other side of the ship. Unfortunately the Autobots are wise to what the Decepticons are doing and destroy the controls for the shell feed shields so Swindle can't deactivate them. Onslaught brings the drop ship around, and Swindle hops on. Once he uses the top turret to destroy the last gun emplacement, the Combaticons merge into [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] and start breaking things. He smashes through the transports turbine and break into the control room where the Combaticons split and make swift work of the Autobots. Unfortunately though they have the transport in their control, it's badly damaged and going down, and they can do little more than try to control its course as it crashes. Starscream's unimpressed that they managed to destroy half the energon supply in the crash, and when Onslaught talks back, pointing that the Autobots would have gotten all of it if they did nothing and everything going wrong was a result of Starscream's incompetence, Starscream orders the Combaticons arrested.

===Chapter IX: Megatron Returns===
:''Character: [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]/Megatron''
In his [[Soundwave's workshop|old workshop]] under the gladiator pits, Soundwave powers up the assembly systems so he can put Megatron's salvaged body back together. With the help of his minions, he manages to get Megatron back in one piece and uses an infusion of [[Dark Energon]] to bring his master back to life. Megatron's enraged by the news Starscream is in charge and, grabbing his cannon, heads out to confront his former lieutenant. He arrives, naturally, in the middle of Starscream's coronation. Starscream sets the assembled Decepticons onto their former leader, but as Megatron points out, he was practically forged in these arenas. Once he finishes with the many, many Decepticons, he blasts Starscream who flees. Onslaught offers to chase them down, but Megatron doesn't consider him a threat and has other plans. As the Decepticons move a huge statue of him into pride of place, Megatron meets with Shockwave who has deciphered the ancient technology to open wormholes and located a suitably energy rich planet for them to plunder. Megatron boards a drop ship and heads for the crater where [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] crashed with the intention of recovering the giant Decepticon's power core. Unfortunately his drop ship is shot down on the way.

===Chapter X: The Final Countdown===
:''Character: Megatron''
Jumping clear of the ship, Megatron notes that the Autobots have installed anti-aircraft defenses. Once the Decepticons assault the facility and take it over, Soundwave detects a power source nearby—the Autobots are using Trypticon's power core as an energy source. Furious, Megatron goes to investigate and takes out the defenses surrounding the main compound before calling in Bruticus to clear a path. The Combiner makes short work of the remaining Autobots and holds the massive doors open so Megatron can enter. After emptying the main compound of Autobots, he enters the main building where some Autobots are reporting to Optimus. Megatron slags them and makes it clear he blames Optimus for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s depleted state. The Autobots redouble their attempts to keep Megatron away, but as he gets closer to Trypticon, he realizes that the Autobots haven't removed the power core—Trypticon is still functional. Fighting through more Autobot defenses, including a titan, Megatron gets to Trypticon's legs and finds they've been bound. A few shots of Megatron's cannon frees them. Trypticon's torso is similarly easy to find, with a little help from Laserbeak. Once Megatron breaks Trypticon's bonds, Soundwave arrives and hacks the computer while Megatron smashes the Autobots attacking them. Trypticon, however, is still badly damaged. Megatron informs Trypticon that he failed to destroy the Autobots and will be rebuilt into a new form—the ''Nemesis''.

[[File:FOC-theonecalledGrimlock.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"You and I have a chance to make our country a better place for all of us. I'd like you to make sure that chance isn't wasted."]]

===Chapter XI: Starscream's Betrayal===
:''Characters: Decepticon trooper/Starscream/Grimlock''
As the Nemesis nears launch, the Decepticons are roused by an alarm as someone tries to hack Shockwave's data logs. A trooper and his friend are sent to check the main server. As the two troopers enter the server, they discuss Starscream's humiliating defeat, only for Starscream himself to decloak and flatten them. Hoping to build an army of his own, Starscream analyzes the data logs and discovers that Shockwave's latest experiments are imprisoned within the tower. He uses EMP detpaks to take out the security towers providing the defenses, which knocks out the [[force field]]s protecting the maintenance shafts. Flying inside, he finds Shockwave experimenting on Grimlock with [[Hardshell]], [[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]], and [[Sharpshot]]. Once they leave, Starscream drops into the lab and informs Grimlock he'll be set free if he pledges allegiance to the Air Commander. Grimlock responds that he can free himself, then throws Starscream into a wall. Grimlock's surgically altered body leaves him confused and unable to transform, and before long he searches for [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] by smashing everything in his path. He finds Swoop, only to be confronted by a hologram of Shockwave, who has predicted this move. After destroying all the Decepticons in the lab, he solves the problem of freeing Swoop by smashing more things. Swoop reveals that he has gained a new [[alternate mode]], although Grimlock still cannot transform. The pair search for the rest of their team, and discover more of Shockwave's experiments—Insecticons in tubes—and Swoop remembers where [[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] is. Unfortunately Hardshell is waiting for them with some artillery, and Grimlock has to throw fuel pods at him until the ship's destroyed. Grimlock holds the Insecticon up to the optical scanner so they can progress. When they reach the surgical lab, it's totally trashed and there's a big hole in the floor. Grimlock and Swoop jump in.

[[File:FOC-Grimlockspacetrex.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"There are times that I feel the primal part of me... pulling me away."]]

===Chapter XII: Grimlock Smash===
:''Character: Grimlock/Swoop''
Beneath the lab, the ground gives way under Grimlock, dropping him into a tunnel, and he decides they'll split up to find Slug. He soon finds the area is infested with Insecticons. Shockwave's voice rings out, telling Grimlock that he has yet to fulfill his full potential and transform, and Kickback has volunteered to help. The Insecticon taunts Grimlock and unleashes a huge "bruiser" Insecticon to fight him, causing Grimlock to get angry enough to finally change into his new ''T. rex'' alternate mode. Kickback decides discretion is the better part of not being slagged, but before he can escape, the door crashes down on him as Slug enters. Slug relates the news that Sludge didn't make it out of the caves, and [[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]]'s been taken by Shockwave for "extensive testing". As they step outside where Swoop is waiting, they see Shockwave's [[space bridge]] tower firing up. They soon track down Snarl being guarded by Sharpshot and squash his captor. Searching for a place to take shelter and patch up Snarl, they find an observatory and Slug discovers Shockwave's plans to open a space bridge portal. They contact Optimus, who orders Grimlock to return to base, but Grimlock insists on taking the space bridge himself. With Swoop's help, he flies to the tower and fights his way through more Decepticons until he finds Shockwave working. As he goes to attack Shockwave, he's seized by energy chains, while Shockwave reports to Megatron that all is ready. Grimlock switches to dino mode to break free and rips Shockwave's arm off before bashing the space bridge which explodes. Back in Autobot City, the Autobots note that Megatron's portal is becoming unstable and decide they must urgently launch. Metroplex offers whatever spark energy he has left, which allows the Autobots to launch the Ark, at the cost of Metroplex's life.

===Chapter XIII: Till All Are One===
:''Characters: Soundwave/Jetfire/Bruticus/Jazz/Optimus/Megatron''
The ''Nemesis'' draws close to the ''Ark'' as it nears the portal. Megatron orders Soundwave to lead the first wave of the assault. Soundwave rides a tow cable over and, with the help of Rumble and Laserbeak, neutralizes the Ark's cannons. The Decepticons begin their assault en masse. [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] flies outside and severs the tow cables, but even though he's successful, Bruticus flies right past him and lands on the hull of the ''Ark''. After smashing his way through the Autobot defenses, he busts the ship's main energon tank. Jetfire raises the alarm, and Jazz responds. He tries grappling onto Bruticus and shooting the giant in the face, but with the help of Jetfire and an EMP mine, the Autobots hit Bruticus with a series of air strikes, sending him flying off into space. Elsewhere, Bumblebee jumps in the path of Megatron's shot, saving Optimus. Enraged, Optimus punches Megatron across the hull and they face off once again. Their fight is eventually interrupted by the unstable space bridge portal sucking them and both starships in before closing. Afterwards, the two Autobots manage to escape and fist bump each others.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] ([[Fred Tatasciore]])
*[[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] ([[Keith Szarabajka]])
*[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] ([[Nolan North]])
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] ([[Troy Baker]])
*[[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]] ([[Jamieson Price]])
*[[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] ([[Jim Ward]])
*[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] ([[Travis Willingham]])
*[[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]]
*[[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]
*[[Scattershot (WFC)|Scattershot]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]
*[[Hound (Prime)|Hound]] <ref>[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/26/play-transformers-fall-of-cybertron-multiplayer-on-july-31 Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - G1 Optimus Vignette]</ref>
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] <ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/transformers-video-game-discussion/27314578d1345329191-full-game-being-played-live-right-now-um.jpg]</ref>
'''Dinobots'''
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] ([[Gregg Berger]])
*[[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] ([[Mark Allan Stewart]])
*[[Slug (FOC)|Slug]] (Travis Willingham)
*[[Snarl (FOC)|Snarl]] ([[Sam Riegel]])
|c2=
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (Fred Tatasciore)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (Sam Riegel)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] ([[Steve Blum]])
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] ([[Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.]])
*[[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]] (Nolan North)
**[[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]] (Nolan North)
**[[Swindle (FOC)|Swindle]] (Steve Blum)
**[[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]] (Travis Willingham)
**[[Vortex (FOC)|Vortex]] ([[Dave Boat]])
**[[Blast Off (FOC)|Blast Off]] ([[Keith Silverstein]])
*[[Dragstrip (WFC)|Dragstrip]]
*[[Quake (FOC)|Quake]]
*[[Thundercracker (WFC)|Thundercracker]]
*[[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]]
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]
*[[Dead End (WFC)|Dead End]]
*[[Demolishor (WFC)|Demolishor]]
'''Insecticons'''
*[[Sharpshot]] (Steve Blum)
*[[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]] (Troy Baker)
*[[Hardshell]]
|h3=Non-Player|c3=
'''Autobots'''
*[[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]] (Fred Tatasciore)
*[[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]]*
*[[Titan (FOC)|Titan]]*
*[[Heavy Soldier]]*
'''Decepticons'''
*[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]] (Keith Silverstein)
*[[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]]
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]]*
*[[Leaper]]*
*[[Guardian (FOC)|Guardian]]*
*[[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]
*Insecticon Swarmers
*Insecticon Bruiser
*Insecticon Spitter
'''Other'''
*Soldiers*
*Rocket Soldiers*
*Shotgunners*
*[[Flier (WFC)|Fliers]]*
*[[Marauder (FOC)|Marauder]]
*[[Wall Crawler]]*
*Scrappers*
*Sharpshooters*
*[[Lever Transformer]]
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Denotes a character who speaks (or squawks), but is credited as "Additional Voices". 

==Quotes==
"Metroplex heeds the call of the last Prime"
:—'''Metroplex''' assures Optimus that he's not there to render him into his component molecules.

"All we want is to leave!" 
"No one leaves without ''my'' permission!" 
"''I wasn't asking''." 
:—What '''Optimus Prime''' thought would be the last time he would have to tell '''Megatron''' how it was.

"Cliffjumper, you catch any of that?" 
"You mean the screaming, the horror, followed by more screaming?" 
"Uh, yeah, that'd be it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Cliffjumper''' discuss what they heard from Sludge's memory core.

"Ungh! This lever is heavy! Couldn't they just make it a button?"
:—'''Vortex''' makes a valid point.

"Seriously?! We're still trying to stop this thing with drop ships? I haven't stopped the AA guns yet!" 
"Think of this as an encouragement to HURRY THE SCRAP UP!"
:—'''Swindle''' and '''Onslaught'''

"Always tinkering, aren't you, Shockwave? Must be quite the test!" 
:—'''Starscream''', after hearing Shockwave and the Insecticons discuss experiments on Grimlock.

"Nothing feels right... Hard to think."
:—'''Grimlock''', shortly after breaking free.

"I remember you, Grimlock. Do you remember me? Me? Me?" 
"''Kickback''..."
:—'''Kickback''' taunts '''Grimlock''' to provoke him into transforming.

'''Kickback''': Time for me to take my leave! 
''[Slug knocks the door down on Kickback]'' 
'''Slug''': Excuse me.
:—[[The Transformers: The Movie|Never gets old]], '''Slug'''.

'''Slug''': You cut through those guys like they were [[Beryllium baloney|Beryllium Bologna]]! 
'''Grimlock''': You mean [[Cesium salami|Cesium Salami]]! 
'''Slug''': No...Beryllium Bologna! 
'''Grimlock''': Cesium Salami!
:—[[The Transformers: The Movie|Again with this argument, guys?]]

"You're weak, Optimus. You run when you should fight!"
:—'''Grimlock''' gives Optimus a piece of his mind.

"Pathetic! This is the so called Ark? The Autobots have placed all of their hopes on a glorified cargo hauler!"
:—'''Megatron''' gives his two cents about the Ark.

"No problem! It slices, it dices!"
:—'''Bruticus''', your Swindle's showing.

"After eons of conflict, I finally see the truth of your words, Megatron." 
"And what might that be, Optimus?" 
''[Megatron swings his sword, only for Optimus to stop his strike]'' 
"This universe, no matter how vast, will never be big enough for you and I to coexist. " 
''[Optimus punches Megatron across the Ark]'' 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' tells '''Megatron''' that he's done holding back.

==Gameplay==
Like ''War for Cybertron'', this game is an over-the-shoulder third-person shooter. The player has access to a range of weapons split between light and heavy and can carry one of each class at a time. As one would expect from a ''Transformers'' game, the player character can also transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] which provides more maneuverability and in some cases the power of flight. Whereas in the previous game, characters had two abilities that were charged up by shooting opponents, each character now has "dash" and a unique ability that works on a time recharge. Abilities include Vortex's shockwave, Cliffjumper's cloaking, and Optimus Prime's ability to order a missile strike.

While ''War for Cybertron'' had three-bot teams in each campaign level, with the user playing as their choice of the three, ''Fall of Cybertron'' instead follows a single character at a time, though the character often teams up with other NPCs. This allows levels to be tailored to the player character's special abilities, such as Jazz's level having plenty of places to use his grapple, and Megatron's levels having places which are only reachable by hovering. The player will sometimes also automatically switch between characters as the narrative demands.

''Fall of Cybertron'' introduces an upgrade mechanic. The player collects energon from defeated opponents which they can use at [[Teletraan-1 (WFC)|Teletraan-1]] machines scattered throughout the levels to buy character upgrades, T.E.C.H. items such as [[C.L.U.T.C.H.]] drones, and weapon upgrades. Upgrades carry over between characters, so Megatron gets the benefit of upgrades purchased by Optimus Prime. Collecting the blueprints hidden in each level unlocks more upgrades or weapons. Also hidden throughout the levels are [[Source:Fall of Cybertron audio logs|audio logs]], recordings left by various characters which give extra information or insight into an aspect of the game world. Energon can be used to open [[Armory Recreator]]s, which contain weapons and equipment.

Grimlock's sections alter the game mechanics substantially. He has no ranged attack, relying on melee with his sword. Rather than gaining currency from defeating Decepticons, their deaths fill his "rage meter", eventually allowing him to transform to his dino mode that lets him use his [[fire-breath]] and jaws to wreak more havoc. Similarly, Bruticus behaves like a melee brawler, fighting with a mix of weaponry like Vortex's propellers, a flamethrower, and the [[Sonic Pain Wave]].

===Multiplayer===
Fall of Cybertron follows War for Cybertron's tradition in having a fleshed-out, online multiplayer mode. The general idea is the same, but quite a number of gameplay elements have been added, removed, or altered. For example, vehicle mode abilities have been removed, but every character has the ability to dash. Weapons are also exclusive to each class and can't be wielded by other players.

Players can create custom characters to participate in the regular multiplayer mode. Customization options are greatly expanded from the previous game: Individual heads, bodies/[[Alternate mode|alt-modes]], shoulders, arms, legs, and wheels can be selected, all based on existing character models. The color palette is also expanded, and players can alter the shininess of characters and choose from three different voices per faction.

Characters level up by performing well in battle. Completing challenges will also yield experience points. Class weapons and abilities become unlocked by reaching certain levels. Reaching level 25 in every class unlocks "Prime Mode," which resets all experience points and challenges and gives the player a cool spinny icon next to their name. Reaching level 25 for all classes in Prime Mode grants the player access to "Elite" heads, which are 4 heads per class, and are the most iconic character of the class (Bumblebee, Optimus, Starscream and Megatron) with a crown.

Finally, [[Energon shard]]s can be gained along with experience points and can be spent on custom body parts and decals.

;Classes
The four classes return, with some alterations:
*[[Infiltrator (FOC)|Infiltrators]] - Cars. Fast, with an emphasis on stealth. Replaces the [[Scout (WFC)|Scout]] class.
*[[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyers]] - Trucks. Mixture of defensive and offensive abilities, with emphasis on explosions. Replaces the [[Leader (WFC)|Leader]] class.
*[[Titan (FOC)|Titans]] - Tanks. Huge health and defense, heavy weapons. Replaces the [[Soldier (WFC)|Soldier]] class.
*[[Scientist (WFC)|Scientists]] - Jets. Great speed, no armor, emphasis on healing and buffer abilities.

;Playlists
*Team Death Match - [[Fred Tatasciore|''ELIMINATE THE ENEMY TEAM!'']] Kills count as points for the player's team, and 40 points are required to win on default settings.
*Conquest - There are 3 nodes, A, B and C. Team members wait at nodes to fill a bar and capture the node, and all teams are competing constantly for the nodes. The possession of a node adds points, and the rate at which points are added is increased based on how many nodes the team has. The match ends once a team reaches 400 points.
*Headhunter - This match is very similar to Team Deathmatch, except killed enemies drop their [[Spark]]. Players must pick up these sparks and return them to teamless nodes to gain a point per spark. These nodes occasionally move, the approaching change signaled by beacons that mark their location, which flash when nodes are about to move.
*Capture the Flag - Both teams have flags in their base. Players must protect their own flag and capture the enemy flag. Each capture grants a point, and the amount of points required for a team to win is 3.
* Deathmatch: Kill opponents to win. It's a free-for-all. (Check the notes)

;Teletraan-1
The signature Autobot computer here lets the player sift through global player rankings and see the challenges they have completed. Prime Mode is also activated through this menu.

;Escalation
Up to 4 players face off against increasingly difficult waves. Once the players finish wave 15, the game ends and the players are scored on how many kills, deaths, and energon chips they collected throughout the match.

==Trophy/Achievement list==
When completing various goals and tasks during the campaign and in online multiplayer, the player can earn 51 Trophies on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and 50 Achievements on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. There are four kinds of Trophies: Platinum is the highest, and is only unlocked after earning all the other trophies. It is followed by Gold, which include harder tasks and worth more experience. Then Silver, with less experience than Gold, and finally Bronze which represent easier tasks and worth the least experience. On the Xbox, each achievement has a Gamerscore ([[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]) that adds to the player's total Gamerscore, which is essentially the Xbox Live version of "Street Cred"; up to 1000[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]] can be earned in ''Fall of Cybertron''. The PC version features the same achievements via Steam, but without individual values and weights from the console versions.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
| '''Achievement/Trophy image'''
| '''Achievement/Trophy name'''
| '''Achievement/Trophy description'''
| '''Gamerscore'''
| '''PS Trophy'''
|-
|[[File:FoC_Exodus.png|60px]]
| The Exodus
| Complete Chapter I
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
| [[File:FoC_Defend_Ark.png‎|60px]]
| Defend the Ark
| Complete Chapter II
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Metroplex_Heeds_Call.png‎|60px]]
| Metroplex Heeds the Call
| Complete Chapter III
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Eye_of_Storm.png|60px]]
| Eye of the Storm
| Complete Chapter IV
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Cut_and_Run.png|60px]]
| Cut and Run
| Complete Chapter V
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Death_From_Above.png|60px]]
| Death from Above
| Complete Chapter VI
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Belly_of_Beast.png|60px]]
| Belly of the Beast
| Complete Chapter VII
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Combaticons_Combine.png|60px]]
| Combaticons Combine!
| Complete Chapter VIII
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Megatron_Returns.png|60px]]
| Megatron Returns
| Complete Chapter IX
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Final_Countdown.png|60px]]
| The Final Countdown
| Complete Chapter X
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Starscream's_Betrayal.png|60px]]
| Starscream's Betrayal
| Complete Chapter XI
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Grimlock_Smash.png|60px]]
| Grimlock Smash
| Complete Chapter XII
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Till_All_Are_One_Optimus.png|60px]]
| [['Til all are one|Till All Are One]] - (Optimus Ending)
| Complete Chapter XIII as Optimus (secret achievement)
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
| [[File:FoC_Till_All_Are_One_Megatron.png|60px]]
| Till All Are One - (Megatron Ending)
| Complete Chapter XIII as Megatron (secret achievement)
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Battle_is_Far_From_Over.png‎|60px]]
| [[The battle is far from over!|The Battle is Far From Over!]]
| Complete Campaign - Easy
| 25[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_More_Than_Meets_The_Eye.png|60px]]
| [[More than Meets the Eye (mini-series)|More Than Meets the Eye]]
| Complete Campaign - Normal
| 50[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Silver.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_All_Hail_You.png|60px]]
| [[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail You!]]
| Complete Campaign - Hard
| 100[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Gold.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Last_Stand.png|60px]]
| [[The Last Stand]]
| Chapter II: Save two Autobots when Optimus is downed by the first Leaper
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Carnage_in_C_Major.png|60px]]
| [[Carnage in C-Minor|Carnage in C-Major]]
| Chapter III: Take out a cluster of five Decepticons using Metroplex's Air Strike
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Invisibility_Spray.png|60px]]
| [[Invisibility spray|Invisibility Spray]]
| Chapter IV: Sneak through the Trash Compactor Facility undetected
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Target_Master_2.0.png‎|60px]]
| [[Targetmaster (technology)|Target Master]] 2.0
| Chapter V: Shoot a Sniper out of the air with a scoped weapon
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Car_Wash_of_Doom.png|60px]]
| [[Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom|Car Wash of Doom]]
| Chapter VI: Destroy all of the homing mines chasing Blast Off before they self destruct
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Club_a_Con.png|60px]]
| [[Club Con!]]
| Chapter VII: Ram a jet (on the ground or in the air)
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Fusilateral_Quintrocombiner.png|60px]]
| [[Swarm (issue)|Fusilateral Quintrocombiner]]
| Chapter VIII: Melee an enemy through the goal post
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_I_Robot_Master.png|60px]]
| [[I, Robot-Master!|I, Robot Master]]
| Chapter IX: Destroy all images of Starscream and his Statues
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_The_Harder_They_Die.png|60px]]
| [[...The Harder They Die!|The Harder They Die]]
| Chapter X: Kill five Autobots with a single hover slam attack
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
| [[File:FoC_Internal_Affairs.png|60px]]
| [[Internal Affairs!]]
| Chapter XI: Hack all of the security terminals before the Decepticons can activate them
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Slap_Grimlock.png|60px]]
| Slap the Grimlock
| Chapter XII: Kill a Leaper in the air with an explosive barrel
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Monacus_Spender.png|60px]]
| [[Monacus]] Spender
| Spend 250,000 Energon in the Teletraan-1 store
| 25[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Reconstructor.png‎|60px]]
| Reconstructor
| Fully upgrade one weapon
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Master_Builder.png|60px]]
| [[The Master Builders (episode)|Master Builder]]
| Fully upgrade all weapons
| 25[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Silver.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Teletraan_1_Regular.png|60px]]
| [[Teletraan-1 (WFC)|Teletraan-1]] Regular
| Rate all weapons, weapon upgrades, and equipment
| 10[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Chop_Shop.png|60px]]
| [[Chop Shop (G1)|Chop Shop]]
| Purchase all weapons and perks
| 50[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Silver.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Beachcomber.png|60px]]
| [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]
| Collect all blueprints
| 25[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Cassetticon_Audiophile.png|60px]]
| [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Cassetticon]] Audiophile
| Collect all audio logs
| 25[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Silver.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Octopunch_Scavenger.png|60px]]
| [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] Scavenger
| Open fifteen Armory Recreators in Campaign or Escalation
| 15[[File:Xbox_Gamerscore.png|10px]]
| [[File:PS_Bronze.png|20px]]
|-
|[[File:FoC_Reconfiguration_Matrix.png|60px]]
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| Earn MVP in any game mode during a public Multiplayer match
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| Capture three flags in a single CTF game during a public Multiplayer match
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| Personally capture all 3 nodes in a conquest game during a public Multiplayer match
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| Kill 6 different opposing players in a TDM game during a public Multiplayer match
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==Transformers references==
Aside from the obvious G1 inspired character designs, the game has some references to previous iterations of Transformers, a number of them from [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] and [[The Transformers: The Movie|the 1986 movie]].

* Most of the achievements and trophies are named in homage to Generation 1, such as characters, cartoon episodes, [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic]] issues, and more. Due to the sheer number, we have opted to list them in the achievement list above instead.
* Soundwave does a short impression of a light fixture.
* Jazz and Cliffjumper are paired together, just as they were in the film and in the episode [[Starscream's Brigade]].
* Jazz finds an inscription on a tank in the Sea of Rust that says "IX-XVII-MCMLXXXIV," or the date that "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" first aired.
* During his coronation, Starscream is wearing the same crown his [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 counterpart]] wore in the movie, and the dialogue he has with Megatron during the scene is almost word-for-word as well. He even blasts him in tank mode, though this does not kill him like it did in the movie. The crown can be found in Starscream's level and worn for its duration.
* When Megatron is done killing off soldiers under Starscream's command, Starscream calls Megatron a [[Pretender to the Throne!|pretender to the throne]].
* When Kickback runs to the door, Slug pushes it from outside and the door falls, smashing Kickback to the ground and when Slug sees Kickback under the door, he says "Excuse me!". This is a straight homage to the scene where [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] pushes the door and it smashes the [[Quintesson]] prosecutor.
* A secret room can be found in Grimlock's level containing his waiter outfit from "[[Madman's Paradise]]"; upon finding it, Grimlock utters his famous movie quote, "Me Grimlock no bozo, me king." It also contains three swords that resemble the [[Master Sword]] mounted on fixtures around the room.
* After defeating a group of Insecticons, Slug says that Grimlock tore through them like they were "[[beryllium baloney]]", but Grimlock says "[[cesium salami]]", mirroring the scene where their Generation 1 counterparts argue on [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]].
* In an audio log left by [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]], the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' is described as [[Vanguard-class Deep Space Interceptor]], a term which originated in [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]].
* The five [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]s are originally grouped together as the "[[Lightning Strike Coalition]]", the name of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s breakaway Autobot faction in "[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages]]". On that note, the Coalition's logo serves as the difficulty symbols.
* The [[Path Blaster]] is named for the [[Pathblaster]] from "[[Time Wars]]". One of its modifications is named for Generation 1 episode "[[The Gambler]]" and involves the use of [[Destronium]], a substance introduced in ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* The [[Riot Cannon]]'s "Planet Buster" modification is likewise named after the [[Planet Buster]] that appeared in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon.
* The [[neutron assault rifle]]'s special modification is the "P.O.K.E. Beta"—not the first [[Punch of Kill Everything]] reference in the game series.
* One of the corrosive slime cannon's modifications for multiplayer is the [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] Disperser.
* Other weapon modifications available include [[tachyon transmitter]], [[fireblast]], [[turbo booster]]s, [[unspace|transwarp]] ballistics, and [[R-infinity accelerator|R-Infinity]] finders.
* Bruticus's special attack is the [[Sonic Pain Wave]], one of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' franchise]] [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]'s weapons.
* When Cliffjumper is accessing the Teletraan-1 store one of the random phrases apologizes for not being able to provide [[glass gas]], the unique weapon of G1 [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]. The Glass Gas Cannon is awarded, however, after beating the main campaign.
* In Chapter IX, playing as Megatron after his awakening Soundwave says "Less talk, more work", quoting the G1 episode "[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2]]".
As part of the expanding [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned continuity]], ''Fall of Cybertron'' also incorporates thematic and visual references to the ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]'' novel and the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' television series:
* Bumblebee's voice circuits/vocal processor having been damaged prior to the story's beginning, essentially rendering him mute.
* Optimus Prime's [[Path Blaster|rifle]] design, which was described by [[High Moon Studios]] as being an earlier version of the rifles Optimus uses in the ''Prime'' television series.
* Optimus being referred to as having been a librarian named Orion Pax and Megatron having been a gladiator from Kaon named Megatronus.
* Cliffjumper's head design and Megatron's reformatted/rebuilt body design.
* Dark Energon's power to revive the dead is an aspect from the ''Prime'' television series that was not seen in the previous game, ''War For Cybertron''.
* Trypticon being reformatted into the ''Nemesis''.
* The discovery that there were [[Ancient]]s who had traveled to other planets, particularly Earth.
* One of the weapons is called an [[Energon Harvester]].

==PC version notes==
Initially, developer High Moon Studios commented (as late as [[BotCon 2012]] on the end of April of that year) that there would not be a Windows PC version of ''Fall for Cybertron'' due to their own lack of experience with the PC platform and the criticism the PC version of ''War for Cybertron'' had received. However, shortly before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2012 in early June, publisher Activision announced a PC version of the game, to be developed by [[Mercenary Technology]], a new studio formed by "veterans of the industry".

The PC version of ''Fall of Cybertron'' improves upon the console versions of ''Fall'' (and indeed the PC version of ''War for Cybertron'') by featuring higher quality graphics, higher resolution textures, runs at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second (versus 30 frames for the console version). Unfortunately, as is standard in most console game ports, the graphical settings are lacking and the controls cannot be reset/rebound.

==Notes==
*This game, like its predecessor, plays a Stan Bush song at the end, this time being a slightly modified version of "[[The Touch]]", using elements from both the 2007 and 2009 versions to create a unique hybrid of the two. Soundwave plays it, while Bumblebee dances "The Carlton Dance," made famous by {{w|Alfonso Ribeiro}} on ''{{w|The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air}}'', which is also performed in the game by the [[Lever Transformer]] hidden in Chapter V.
*One of the unlocks for beating the game is the Glass Gas Cannon, however, Teletraan still tells Cliffjumper during replays that it is not available.
*In chapter 8, when Bruticus is beating the slag out of the Autobots, one of the screams used is the "Wilhelm Scream".
*If Grimlock is recreated in any multiplayer mode, his T-rex alt mode will function differently than the campaign mode, behaving more like a typical vehicle mode.
*In an unfortunate oversight, the downloadable demo for the game is the first section of Chapter VI, in which one can find an audio log that blows the surprise of Megatron's death earlier in the game. Oops.
*Sludge's model is noted to have been set up for skeletal deformation; which would only be needed if the character had needed to transform in-game. The model also sports beast kibble, so Sludge may have initially had a bigger role in the story mode than what he had in the final game; either that, or he was intended to be a usable model in Multiplayer.
*Unlike its predecessor ''War for Cybertron'', ''Fall of Cybertron'' has not been dubbed in languages other than English.
*Some backstory elements are expanded upon in [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Logs]] for the iPhone.

==Errors==
*When Soundwave looks at Megatron's arm after he has been crushed by Metroplex, it is in the design of his upgraded body from later in the game, rather than the original one he just had.
*When Shockwave speaks to Grimlock just when the latter comes in to rescue Swoop, the subtitles say, "your attempt to "'you'" rescue your friend was easily predicted."

==External links==
*[http://www.transformersgame.com/ Official Website]
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/10/06/november-cover-revealed-transformers-fall-of-cybertron.aspx November cover revealed: Fall of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/07/transformers-high-moon-studios-tour.aspx Transformers: High Moon Studio tour] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/fall-of-cybertron-the-new-optimus-prime.aspx Fall of Cybertron: The New Optimus Prime] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/games/transformers_fall_of_cybertron/b/xbox360/archive/2011/10/14/grimlock-rises-in-transformers-fall-of-cybertron-teaser-trailer.aspx Grimlock Rises In Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Teaser Trailer] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/12/behind-the-crosshairs-the-weapons-of-transformers.aspx Behind the Crosshairs: The Weapons of Transformers] @ GameInformer
*[http://youtu.be/Tn4ECyCExeg Fall of Cybertron Teaser 01] @ YouTube
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/13/the-illustrated-tour-of-cybertron.aspx The Illustrated Tour of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/17/directing-transformers-fall-of-cybertron.aspx The Story And Direction Of Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/19/animating-the-transformers.aspx Animating The Transformers] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/20/clever-devils-the-enemies-and-ai-of-fall-of-cybertron.aspx The Enemies & AI Of Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/21/transformers-resurrecting-the-dinobots.aspx Transformers: Resurrecting The Dinobots] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/24/fall-of-cybertron-deep-character-dive-jazz.aspx Fall Of Cybertron Deep Character Dive: Jazz] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/26/the-transformers-timeline.aspx The Transformers Timeline] @ Game Informer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/26/true-to-character-transformer-fall-of-cybertron.aspx True To Form: Safeguarding The Transformers License] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/28/creating-the-sounds-of-the-transformers.aspx Creating The Soundscape Of Transformers] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/31/larger-than-life-designing-transformer-s-set-piece-moments.aspx Larger Than Life: Designing Fall of Cybertron's Set Piece Moments] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/02/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-gameplay-roundtable.aspx Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Gameplay Roundtable] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/podcasts/archive/2011/11/03/tfse.aspx Special Edition Podcast: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsINYfFG5Q Fall of Cybertron Cinematic Teaser Trailer] @ YouTube
*[http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ul8dqy/video-game-awards-transformers-fall-of-cybertron-trailer Fall of Cybertron Cinematic Trailer] @ Spike TV ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E358n7pcI Mirrored] @ YouTube)
*[http://www.gamespot.com/transformers-fall-of-cybertron/videos/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-official-trailer-6368583/ Fall of Cybertron Official Gameplay Trailer] @ GameSpot

==Footnotes==

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User talk:Cyberlink420

2021-01-18T08:54:50Z

Dharakjoo: /* Starscreams ghost */

==Previous discussions==
Previous discussions can be found at [[User talk:Cyberlink420/Archive1|Archive]]. However, please do not edit the Archive page.



== Editing Pages ==

I see you have taken out one of my edits in the Starscream tfp page.... was that edit irrelevant or something? [[User:LittleAutobot1218|LittleAutobot1218]] 12:23, 13 February 2020 (EST)
: More or less. The edit didn't really add anything of substance to the article, and it had both grammar and formatting issues. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 12:36, 13 February 2020 (EST)
Sorry... I didn't really know about that [[User:LittleAutobot1218|LittleAutobot1218]] 8:57, 2 20 February 2020 (EST)

=="Unidentified character"==
Yeah let’s just say Blurr was unidentified by me. But if u say it is Blurr i’ll take you from your word. Btw I don’t know who Blurr is {{unsigned|Octane}}

=="Red Five" (Cyberverse)==

I thought that too, but I also thought that the way he was part of the group that was otherwise made up of named characters, his prominent red colouring and the fact he was the first one to be "shot down" as part of the diversion was a reference to the Redshirt trope, which then became playing with the trope because he didn't ''actually'' die.

I have to admit that as soon as I saw the guy, I thought, "A red generic? Oh, no. The poor doomed bastard." And then when his shuttle blew up first...{{unsigned|WM-R}}

==Didn't they confirm that the Bumblebee movie is a reboot?==

It's what I read. Apparently,it was announced at the New York Toy Fair 2019 {{unsigned|‎Thetransformersmorethanmeetstheeye}}
:Already discussed [[Talk:Live-action_film_series#Bumblebee_needs_to_be_removed|here]]. The upshot is that the announcement was vague marketing speak but that actual released products link the BB movie to the previous ones. Basically, the announcement was Hasbro's way of saying "we know the old movies sucked, we promise future ones will be better" without actually insulting their own prior product. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 10:35, 15 November 2019 (EST)

== Removing Periods ==

So I am really sorry for doing this I was at work and was working on this and left my computer open when i went to a meeting and one of my coworkers must of messed with it.--[[User:Oldmajor|Oldmajor]] ([[User talk:Oldmajor|talk]]) 11:46, 14 January 2020 (EST)

== Phil LaMarr ==
Your right, I know I shouldn't be reverting back and fourth with occupations, I apologize for that. I just couldn't make up my mind to agree on if he's notable for being a comedian or not, because he did work on MadTV. But like I said before, I'm really sorry. [[User:MarioKartFan9|MarioKartFan9]] ([[User talk:MarioKartFan9|talk]]) 16:09, 5 February 2020 (EST)

== Creating a page ==

I wanted to add a page regarding Outright Games due to their role in publishing Transformers: Battlegrounds and I wanted to ask if it was okay to add the page before the game has been released or not. If so and the game is cancelled, I'm willing to delete it afterwards. -- [[User:DKSlayer64|DKSlayer64]] 13:21, 12 June 2020 (EDT)
:There's no reason why not, though I would recommend looking at some other game company articles on the wiki as examples so you get an idea of how to properly format the article. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:18, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

== On 3A/ThreeA/ThreeZero ==

Considering that the line of ThreeZero and its figures, I wanted to ask if we should consider adding the figures that are being made by the company under the corresponding characters' Merchandise pages, if possible. -- [[User:DKSlayer64|DKSlayer64]] ([[User talk:DKSlayer64|talk]]) 13:56, 12 June 2020 (EDT)
:It's an officially-licensed product, so yeah, it should probably on there. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:18, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

== rba ==

Did u watch the decepticon episode More than meets the eye of rescue bots academy and if so. how?[[User:Freakertron|Freakertron]] ([[User talk:Freakertron|talk]]) 03:38, 21 June 2020 (EDT)
:It aired in the UK; it's floating out there if you know where to look. (and no, I won't say where) -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 09:49, 21 June 2020 (EDT)

== Continuity Notes ==

How are Continuity Notes defined? What are some examples? {{unsigned|96megatron}}
:Intentional callbacks and references to past events, not just vague connections. For example, using a macguffin obtained in the last movie or a character specifically mentioning something that happened in a previous movie would constitute a continuity note. A list of new characters or "character uses a weapon they've used in every other movie" is not, nor is just a list of film plot points. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 20:28, 2 August 2020 (EDT)
Thank you for taking the time for the response. Are there any of these bullet points that can be kept?
−
*This film reveals the existence of ‘The Creators’, a mysterious race of aliens responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and creating our titular transforming robotic aliens, or at least their elemental metal. Originally it was believed the Allspark was the sole progenitor of the race of ‘Transformers’. How 'the Allspark' and ‘The Creators’ are connected remains to be told.
*<s>Sometime after the 'Battle for Chicago', the U.S. has provided the company, Kinetic Solutions Incorporated, with the collected Decepticons’ remains and their abandoned technology for research. However, during the massive clean up some of the technology was stolen by quite a hefty amount of people, not associated with the U.S. government. Even ending up in the hands of those both within and outside of the United States, the Russians have even started a bidding war.</s>
*<s>Following the disbanding of NEST, a new paramilitary unit, called Cemetery Wind was formed, composed of just humans, some who’ve lost families in the Battle of Chicago, and is headed by Harold Attinger, tasked with dealing with the remaining Decepticons forces. Although some of Earth’s government officials are under the assumption that the Autobots are still assisting in efforts to put an end to the remaining Decepticons threat.</s>
*<s>Brains, last seen in the previous film going down with the Decepticon mothership, alongside Wheelie, leaving his fate ambiguous is revealed to still be alive (albeit without one of his legs attached, using it as a makeshift cane). Wheelie's fate was something that was still unknown, until his reappearance in the following film, ''The Last Knight''.</s>
*Sometime after the final battle of ''Dark of the Moon'', Optimus had his arm reattached, after being removed by Sentinel Prime during their final fight, presumably by Ratchet, our best offscreen medic.
*In the KSI lab, among the spoils of war, are the heads of Sentinel Prime and Megatron, provided through government contracts.
*Established in the first film, Optimus Prime has held a no-harming-or-killing-humans rule (although his Autobots don't always follow that rule), the betrayal and subsequent hunting of his kind by the humans challenges Optimus' one rule.
--[[User:96megatron|96megatron]]
:Marked the ones that shouldn't be brought back; the remaining ones could stand to be rewritten to be more concise. (Also, just type four ~ to sign your posts.) -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 22:16, 2 August 2020 (EDT)

== Creating a page for the Activators ==

Having noticed your edits to my edits to the Mini-Con page, I decided to put forth the idea that the Activator Mini-Cons should possibly be given their own page, considering that the Weaponizer Mini-Cons from the same series have one of their own. It would serve the purpose of lessening the amount of links and text in that section, and makes a certain amount of sense given, again, the Weaponizer Mini-Cons have a page of their own for a similar purpose. -- [[User:ChangingFate|ChangingFate]] ([[User talk:ChangingFate|talk]]) 17:47, 9 August 2020 (EDT)

== Robots In Disguise reprint ==

Okay i can understand your other edits and respect but why did you delete the link that proved it was out?--[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 22:38, 13 August 2020 (EDT)
:Because we generally don't put purchase links in the reprint sections. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:00, 13 August 2020 (EDT)
::Someone did it for volume 1. Granted, you just use the word generally, but still don't you think they need some proof to show that their is a second volume and not fake as hell. If you have another option, I'm all ears.--[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 23:57, 13 August 2020 (EDT)
:::Put the link in the edit description when you add it. Also, none of those Volume 1 links actually go to the respective store listings. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 00:24, 14 August 2020 (EDT)

== SG Movie Optimus ==

I used a version of that photo with a clear background to use as the main picture of [[Optimus Prime (SG Movie)|this page]] but do you think the old one is still better for the merchandise section? Perhaps I should use the picture of SG Optimus carrying the Ion Blaster as the main picture and use the old picture in the merchandise section, since that old picture did show all the accessories and the full figure.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 19:55, 17 August 2020 (EDT)

== Sentinel Prime is not Zeta Prime ==

If we have to apply what "Hasbro" says, then we should apply what Transformers DOTM's script says. You see, in this script, Sentinel Prime united the cybertronian tribes. In fact, Nova Prime from G1 did it. So, if I use your way, then we should call it Sentinel Nova Prime.

Again, it makes no sense. Even if Hasbro says the "full name" of Zeta Prime, it appears that the character is only called Zeta Prime in the final work. You cannot imagine a new character called "Sentinel Zeta Prime" just for one quote from Hasbro.

What about Hasbro ? Check discussions about the project WFC, everyone asked Hasbro with this question : "Are we going to get Sentinel or Zeta or both ?". Hasbro finally answered "Zeta Prime" with a picture of the character. They didn't say "Sentinel Zeta Prime".

If you want to add the truth in this page, then rename it Zeta Prime (WFC) or delete it once and for all.

Zeta Prime has nothing to do with Alpha Trion. This page is full of lies. Sentinel Prime is the PREDECESSOR of Zeta Prime. Sentinel Prime had the matrix. Zeta Prime didn't get the matrix.

'''Even Exodus proved they weren't the same character about the belt.'''

Like it or not, they will never be the same character.
The truth speaks. -- [[User:TransformersFan00|TransformersFan00]] ([[User talk:TransformersFan00|talk]]) 10:14, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
:Well clearly you haven't read any of the fucking novels, because A: Sentinel Prime does not have the Matrix in Exodus, and B: He's called Sentinel Zeta Prime multiple times in the Covenant of Primus. But please, do go on about your "truth" that can be easily disproven by, you know, actually knowing what happened. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 10:34, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
::Again, go watch the G1, the ORIGINAL Transformers and the cartoon of 2005. Sentinel and Zeta are not the same character. Plus not the same skin appeareance AT ALL. You misinterpret everything. Go bring your "proofs" and it will be EASY to disprove them. Hasbro has already contradicted itself. Come with more of your "proofs" and contradictions. You talk about Exodus ? Don't you see the belt ? Your "Sentinel Zeta Prime" is so unrealistic for Sentinel is the mentor of Optimus WHEREAS Zeta is not the mentor of Optimus. You could say Sentinel and Zeta are the predecessors of Optimus, but then so are Alpha, Nominus and Nova. So then, Sentinel Zeta Alpha Nova Nominus Prime is the predecessor of Optimus. You are completely out of the reality. -- [[User:TransformersFan00|TransformersFan00]] ([[User talk:TransformersFan00|talk]]) 10:44, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
:::G1 and the movies have nothing to do with one another, nor do they have anything to do with WFC. I don't think you understand how continuities, reboots, and reusing names for trademark purposes works. I'd hate to have to see you try to reconcile [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 11:05, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
::::This is hypocritical. You talk about continuity but the page says "Sentinel Zeta Prime" fought against the Quintessons and was close to Alpha Trion. Don't you see this come from G1 ???? In this case, it is Sentinel Prime, not Zeta Prime. So think before you speak. If we truly apply your false point of view, then we should call this character Sentinel Nova Nominus Zeta Prime.
::::So uncivilised. --[[User:TransformersFan00|TransformersFan00]] ([[User talk:TransformersFan00|talk]]) 11:24, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
:::::So what I'm getting from this is that you don't understand that WFC takes place in a different universe than G1. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 11:30, 26 August 2020 (EDT)

And the moral of today's story: don't be dumb. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 11:34, 26 August 2020 (EDT)

==Darkside Optimus Prime==
The image i put us Darkside Optimus Prime according to the source I found viva video and is confirmed to be Darkside Optimus Prime in a G1 body but I don’t know where it originated and reverse search hasn’t help at all so it will be an stub here {{unsigned|Nelspeedracer}}
:You're going to have to be more specific. How can you be certain it's Darkside Optimus Prime and not Nemesis Prime? Heck, if you don't even know where it's from, it shouldn't be on the wiki in the first place. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 18:10, 1 September 2020 (EDT)
::That’s Nemesis Prime from the All Spark manga. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:14, 1 September 2020 (EDT)
:::My bad I’ll have Darkside Optimus Prime into Nemesis Prime then {{unsigned|Nelspeedracer}}
::::Although why it’s Nemesis Prime and not Darkside Optimus Prime when he was brought to life from his dark mind and so was Darkside Optimus Prime so I’m a bit confused {{unsigned|Nelspeedracer}}
:::::Because not everything's always going to line up 100% between different versions of the same character. In the Basics video you took that screencap from, it even says Nemesis Prime is sometimes the manifestation of Optimus's dark thoughts.
:::::Also, I'll be blunt: You have this bad habit of trying to add information to pages just for the sake of adding it without doing proper research into where it's from, what it actually means, or if it's even correct. Adding things in such a state only creates more work for other editors, and it shouldn't have to be everyone else's responsibility to fill in the rest because you refuse to do the legwork yourself. In the future, please don't add information without properly verifying its accuracy. (And please [[Transformers Wiki:Policies#SIGN YOUR POSTS|sign your posts]].)-- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 18:53, 1 September 2020 (EDT)

== Airwave ==

Undo revision 1454429 by MistaTee (talk) "They" is standard pronoun usage for a character with no established gender.)
:Geezis, I hope you're not going to go through every character and do this. Shouldn't we assume every character who is not female is male? [[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 17:57, 29 October 2020 (EDT)
::With how much fiction has introduced characters that had no stated gender in their bios (whether they were canonized male or female), and with how clear it has been official sources use this wiki as an information resource (Scrapmetal, Quintesson Balliff, Roadburner's depiction in the Legends game, etc.), the wiki should be as accurate as possible in presenting the information that is known, and if we don't know a character's gender, the most correct way would be to refer to them with they/them pronouns. Its not gonna kill anyone to use singular they. [[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 19:40, 29 October 2020 (EDT)
:::What qualifies whether it's known or not? For example, in G1 up to and including through the 86 movie, only Arcee and the female autobots are named as such. Would this mean everyone else from that period is male or genderless? Do we go by their voices? [[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 01:23, 30 October 2020 (EDT)
::::With Hasbro's original intent being there would be no girls in Transformers, and considering everyone from that era have been referred to with male/female pronouns by this point (I believe), nothing would change about them. But in general, when I say "known pronouns", I mean that they have been referred to with pronouns, whether in story or toy bio. If they don't have any fiction and/or bio info that identifies them, they should really be referred to by they/them. Easiest examples being Mini-Cons/Microns that were released as special exclusives with no bio attached and absolutely no fiction, or any BotBots without any pronouns in the official website bios. The ER Airwave is a new character without a bio and no fiction identifying their gender, so we should refer to them as they/them. [[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 08:40, 30 October 2020 (EDT)
:::::I see your logic, however they/them is plural. You should really use "it" [https://englishgrammarhere.com/pronouns/pronouns-in-english-pronouns-list/]. Though I do prefer "they" to these nu-pronouns, ze, xe, whatever. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 15:04, 1 November 2020 (EST)
::::::Better idea: let's not do that, because "they/them" are [https://www.mypronouns.org/they-them acceptable pronouns] for nonbinary individuals or individuals of unspecified gender, and calling someone "it" is a really shitty thing to do. It stays as is. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 15:27, 1 November 2020 (EST)

== Support ==

Helping out a new guy,
Hello, I'm Azrael and I'm teaching myself the basic of editing, could you tell me why you unedited my edit for future refence for Magmatron page, thank you. {{unsigned|Azrael}}
:As I said on your talk page, the rules say you shouldn't be editing image captions if you're still new. The captions are meant as a reward and incentive for the people who put in the hard work fixing pages, adding content, and making the wiki better. We're meant to be informative first and foremost; while we do allow humor, it's largely an afterthought by comparison. Once you've gotten a lot more substantial edits under your belt, like adding episode summaries or filling in toy information, feel free to add in a few captions here and there! But if you're only here to add jokes and not put in any actual work, you're probably best going elsewhere. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 13:29, 5 November 2020 (EST)

Thank you, the thing I wish to add for now is the official bio and stat blocks that some characters have like IDW Beast Wars or the original 80's G1, as a way see the official info about some people.

Hello, me again, I just notice you change to my change to the Lost light page, may I ask why. I was just trying to help people understand the roles on the ship for the whole crew and not just the ones in command to help better show the ship crew and their function overall. {{unsigned|Azrael}}

Because literally 95% of it was made up or inaccurate. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 08:19, 17 November 2020 (EST)
: While I will admit to taking some liberty using the main profile to try to see where they were on the ship along with using what they did beforehand and with characters info dumps to figure out their job. Some characters that die in all version of the lost light like Pipes alone with those who clearly left, Bob and Sunstreak, is not wrong. So no I wasn't 95% making it up. But in the spirit of cooperation, how about you help me correct my mistakes to display a more accurate list of the crew to still proved the readers of this wiki with a list of crew and their roles better.
::How about you stop trying to add pointless labels (most of which are your own personal fanon) to the list? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 10:58, 17 November 2020 (EST)

== Starscreams ghost ==

Apparently they were the creator of [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]]'s page in 2007 during the Wikia days, and is credited for the bio on the page, and I think their User Page was just grandfathered in when the wiki moved.[[User:DDog|DDog]] ([[User talk:DDog|talk]]) 23:28, 20 November 2020 (EST)

==Apologize==
Oops, sorry about that. It was just a sandbox. ^u^0 --[[User:Dharakjoo|Dharakjoo]] ([[User talk:Dharakjoo|talk]]) 03:54, 18 January 2021 (EST)

User:Dharakjoo/PR Transformers: Shatter

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'''PR Transformers: Shatter''' is the fifth film of PR: Transformers and the direct sequel to the four PR: Transformers live action films.

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Dharakjoo: Created page with "*Sandbox **PR Transformers: Shatter - The direct sequel to four PR Transformers live-action films (not considered to be reboot) and..."

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**[[User:Dharakjoo/PR Transformers: Shatter|PR Transformers: Shatter]] - The direct sequel to four PR Transformers live-action films (not considered to be reboot) and serves as a part of [[User:Dharakjoo/PR Cybertroniaverse|PR Cybertroniaverse]].