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[[File:StarscreamIDWF22-Infiltration4cvrA.jpg|thumb|250px|"BANZAAAAI KICK!"]]
Ambitious. Treacherous. Opportunistic. '''Starscream'''''.

{{quote|Starscream... He's never '''''known''''' a good greater than his own well-being. He's pure '''''ambition''''' with no '''''ideology'''''–not even '''''Decepticon ideology'''''|[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] damns the winner|"[[Heavy is the Head]]"}}
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==IDW Generation 1 comics==
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Starscream and his comrades, Skywarp and Thundercracker, were recruited by Soundwave when [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] requested fliers. They believed they had been called to join Megatron's gladiatorial team, but accepted the offer to join the Decepticons. Starscream immediately proclaimed his allegiance and declared how much of an honor fighting alongside Megatron would be. After going through some upgrades to boost their firepower, the Seekers' first duty was to capture a senator, who would be executed at Megatron's recruitment rally. He was also informed by Megatron of confidential plans in which he would play a key role. When the security forces intervened, Starscream was captured, and—surprise, surprise—offered to reveal Megatron's plans to save his own neck. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, this turned out to have ''been'' Megatron's plan—Starscream, together with Soundwave, executed the council questioning him, then freed every prisoner in the building, solidifying his loyalty to Megatron... until such time as Starscream felt like betraying his leader. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

{{storylink|Shockwaves}}

In the very early stages of the war, one of Starscream's duties appears to have been recruitment, as he made a very pointed effort to convince [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to join the team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}} Around the same time he appeared as a delegate during one of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s security sessions, bringing with him a disguised Soundwave to spy on the [[Senate]]'s plans for how to stop the growing Decepticon menace. When Zeta expressed surprise at how easily Starscream accepted his idea of draining energy from civilians to power [[vamparc ribbon|weapons]], he almost let slip that he'd done worse things in Megatron's name. To cover up his blunder, he yelled out that there was a spy in their midst, causing Soundwave to escape and distracting Zeta. {{storylink|Parasites}}

Having been unable to recruit [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] to the Decepticon cause, Starscream was pleased to see that the insurgent was targeting the troublesome Autobot [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]]. Megatron let him know he was wrong about Hot Rod's intentions. {{storylink|Ruins}} When Zeta Prime then attacked [[Nyon]]'s population with his vamparc ribbons and [[Guardian robot|Omega Destructors]], Starscream compared it to something Megatron would do, but Megatron assured him he was capable of much more. {{storylink|Purge}} In spite of Starscream's opinion that Megatron was a "stubborn wreck" for his repeated attempts to sway Orion Pax to his cause, they were successful, and the Decepticons joined forces with Orion's Autobots against Zeta Prime. {{storylink|Choices}} Together, they attacked Zeta Prime and his Omega Destructors. Starscream personally led the Seekers as air support. {{storylink|Overthrown}}

After Zeta Prime was defeated and Megatron installed himself as ruler of Cybertron, he had the Decepticons hunt down all remaining Autobots. Starscream led a force to raid an Autobot hiding place in [[Ultrix]] and took special interest in Hot Rod, offering him to join the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}} With new help, the Autobots began their all out assault on the Citadel. Starscream and the Seekers were ordered to take them out but were intercepted by the Aerialbots. {{storylink|Broadcast}}

After Megatron's first defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Starscream conspired with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] to overthrow him and have him exiled to [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. {{storylink|Derelicts}} While Scorponok became the new Decepticon leader, Starscream seemingly preferred to stay in the background and showed no signs of being his second-in-command in public. {{storylink|Wreckage (issue)|Wreckage}} He annoyed Scorponok by urging him to take action rather than just hold grandiose speeches, causing Scorponok to let him in on his plan to capture the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]] for the Decepticons. Starscream participated in this attack by leading his Seekers to the refinery. {{storylink|Faces of Darkness}} Scorponok ordered him to keep the Autobot defenders busy while he left to deal with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] personally. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}}

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Starscream was present when Megatron faced Optimus Prime in open battle on [[Sherma Bridge]]. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}} During the war, he ended up as Megatron's bodyguard, a position largely for show, and developed a mutual hatred with [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} He would also appear to settle with Megatron instead of carrying on being an attempted traitor. Megatron viewed this as them moving on from such things but it was actually because Starscream feared him—a fear he initially thought was respect. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

{{bigquote|Thanks to Ore-13, Megatron, I have evolved... beyond you! I am the ''future!''|Starscream|[[Infiltration issue 6]]}}

[[File:Infiltration6 takeyourpunishment.jpg|285x240px|thumb|Starscream, seen here actually getting off easy!]]
Millions of years later, Starscream was the leader of a Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|insurgent cell]] that had operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. However, since the discovery of the mysterious, Energon-like substance known as [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]], Starscream had stepped outside standard procedure, establishing a second command bunker in [[Oregon]] above a richer seam of the ore than the one in [[Nebraska]]. Unfortunately, the abandoned Nebraska bunker had been infiltrated by a human named [[Stoker]], who had managed to obtain data on Starscream's operations, forcing Starscream to have the human eliminated, though he didn't count on [[Verity Carlo|another human]] obtaining Stoker's [[SM-40]] computer and an [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Autobot counter-insurgency agent]] bringing the evidence to the Autobots. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 1|Infiltration #1}} Meanwhile, Starscream had ordered [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] to cover his tracks by destroying all evidence of Stoker's travels and what remained of the Nebraska bunker. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5|Infiltration #5}} Starscream intended to use Ore-13 to challenge [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] for leadership of the Decepticons, but when the moment of truth finally arrived, the energy source proved insufficient to destroy the Decepticon leader, and Megatron blasted Starscream with his fusion cannon at point-blank range, virtually obliterating him. Megatron told the other Decepticons, "See to the remains. If he lives, then I'll decide what to do with him." {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

[[File:Starcasm idw dev6.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Sarcasm from Starscream?? NO!]]
As it turns out, Starscream survived and was placed in a [[CR chamber]] for extensive repairs. The other Decepticons were worried that Megatron was jumping the gun by calling in [[Sixshot]] early, and Astrotrain realized Starscream might be the only one of them willing to tell Megatron this. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} During an attack on Decepticon headquarters by the [[Reaper]]s, Starscream completed his recovery and was confident that he would prevail in the upcoming battle. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}

When [[Sixshot]] arrived, he initially attacked the Reapers, but they insisted he join them or die. Starscream then emerged from base calling out Sixshot—his hatred of Starscream caused the living weapon to decide to switch sides after all, at which point Starscream promptly activated Sixshot's shutdown command, sending him crashing to the ground. Starscream then proceeded to bomb the Reapers, causing Megatron to agree to take the fight to the Reapers. (Based on the timing of his emergence and his co-plotter Astrotrain immediately going "look at brave Starscream, Megatron!", it seems having an excuse to take out Sixshot and thus force Megatron to go against the Reapers was all planned by Starscream) {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} Starscream once again accepted Megatron as his liege, and together they teamed up to destroy the alien invaders. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

At some point during the following year, Starscream met with [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and persuaded him to lead the rest of the Autobots into an ambush (under the pretense that Megatron would be defeated, the Autobots could leave Earth, and the Decepticons would get Earth to themselves), {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}, where they were promptly defeated. Optimus was rendered almost offline, and Starscream watched in glee as Megatron delivered the news of a [[Sunstreaker (G1)|traitor]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

Some time later, Starscream, was back in a subordinate position under Megatron and getting increasingly annoyed with it. He joined in Megatron's attack on [[New York City]], quite enjoying that whole "killing humans who can't fight back" thing. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}

[[File:AHM3Starscream.JPG|150px|thumb|Hey, I just spotted the janitor from ''Futurama''!]]
Starscream personally shot down the fleeing [[Air Force One]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], after which he returned to join Megatron in New York City. Upon his arrival, Megatron mused that it was fitting to have Starscream beside him, as a Decepticon who had been with the cause since the start. Starscream, believing Megatron to be sarcastic, retorted that he'd been there before even Megatron. A somewhat weary Megatron clarified, congratulating him and complimenting his skills. He further explained that Starscream was very nearly the living embodiment of the Decepticon ideal, but a step short of realizing it. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}}

With the conquest completed, Starscream stood at Megatron's side as he addressed the gathered Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}} However, he soon reverted to type when he noticed Megatron didn't have a proper plan now that he'd won and the fun on Earth was a distraction for the troops. He taunted Megatron with the knowledge that he knew this and told him other Decepticons would start getting restless, so Megatron's position would soon be challenged by hordes of bored sociopaths whom Megatron had indoctrinated to be violent and take things. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

Later, Starscream met with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (passing a depressed [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] on the way) and discussed the possibility of overthrowing Megatron. They agreed. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} He made his move a short while later, sending the Insecticons to attack Megatron. His allies were summarily defeated, however, and Megatron revealed that he had known about Starscream's plans all along. Starscream explained his reasoning behind the revolt: while he once idolized Megatron for teaching the Decepticons to fight the "old order" and take what they want, all he had done since was lead them into a war without end. He then revealed that the Insecticons weren't his only loyalists, as he had also managed to sway the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] to his cause. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

Starscream's uprising was suddenly cut short when the Decepticons came under attack, first from human jets arrived from [[Europe]], and then the returning Autobots. Starscream was forced to team up with Megatron, who assured him that someday he would get be in charge, someday after the Decepticons won... but not now. After giving this some thought, Starscream organized his troops to fight back, ending his orders with "All hail Megatron!" {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} When Megatron was eventually defeated, Starscream picked up his injured leader, refusing to let the Autobots finish him off. When Optimus Prime asked why, he replied that leadership of the Decepticons is to be ''taken'', not offered up by chance. Before retreating, he reminded Prime that the Decepticons still had the advantage in most parts of the galaxy. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

Along with a few other Decepticons, Starscream took off into space aboard Astrotrain. Despite what he had told Prime, he was not pleased that Soundwave was keeping Megatron on life support, but his attempts to dissuade the loyalist were met with failure. He considered just throwing his former leader out Astrotrain's airlock, but had a [[The Transformers: The Movie|nagging feeling]] that he'd "somehow return, [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|even more powerful than before]]." Starscream was ready to give up, knowing that the Decepticons had no real reason to follow him, and that the faction would fall to infighting as soon as others challenged his rule. All he had was the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Megatron had seized from Optimus Prime earlier, but he had failed to find any supposed "ultimate power" within it, and prepared to throw it away. When [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] stopped him, saying that the Matrix was used by the Autobots to choose their leaders, Starscream suddenly realized that it was just what he needed to rally people to his cause. Gathering his followers, he told them that he had unlocked the unlimited powers of the Matrix, and that he had been chosen to light their [[darkest hour]]. While the roused Decepticons started hailing his name, Starscream knew fully well that his newfound leadership was wholly reliant on a seemingly useless Matrix, and wondered if this was really the right thing to have done. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

Starscream quickly proved to be an incompetent leader, gathering his troops on a lifeless asteroid and doing nothing to expand their territory or improve their conditions. As the Decepticons resorted to stealing energy and cannibalizing each other for parts, he demanded [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] do something about it, but the Insecticon would rather work on his [[cerebro-shell]]s. Though initially angry, Starscream conceded that he could use these devices after he used one to take out a rebellious [[Quake (G1)|Quake]]. {{storylink|All His Engines}} When he went to ask [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] about the same issue, he found him and Soundwave cutting open Megatron's body to make weapons. Just as Starscream began to express fake outrage about this "coup", Megatron himself appeared, revealing that the two had built him a new body with a built-in [[space bridge]]. He grudgingly admitted he knew Megatron would be back sooner or later, though Megatron neglected to take back leadership as long as Starscream had the Matrix, which he considered a possible threat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}}

Some time later, Bombshell approached Starscream to report that an Autobot ship had crashed on their defenses, but he did nothing but shrug it off and stare emptily at his Matrix, responding violently when Bombshell offered to take it from him. As it turned out, the wrecked ship had contained [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]], on a quest to take back the Matrix. After first using a cerebro-shell on [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] to make him attack Starscream, he confronted the Decepticon leader on his own. Starscream was unimpressed, having used his rank to give himself nigh-impenetrable armor, only to be taken by surprise when Rodimus shot the Matrix around his neck instead, causing it to release a burst of energy and incapacitate Starscream. Rodimus snagged the Matrix, and Megatron subsequently took back control of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Heart Like a Wheel}}

{{storylink|Spotlight: Megatron}}
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As Megatron put his new plans into action and had the Decepticons return to Earth, Starscream went off on his own to meet with Thundercracker, who had abandoned the Decepticon cause following their previous defeat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}} He tried to convince his fellow Seeker to join with him and overthrow Megatron again, seeing him as obsessed with petty revenge on humanity and lacking long-term goals. When Thundercracker refused, Starscream lost patience and gunned him down, but before he could finish the job he was attacked by [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]. As the Autobot accused him of shooting down a plane carrying Optimus Prime, Starscream pleaded for his life and revealed that Megatron was to blame. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} Fortunately for him, Brawn chose to carry Thundercracker to safety rather than capture him. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} Starscream returned to the other Decepticons and watched Optimus Prime confront Megatron in a one-on-one battle. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

Megatron would later use the space bridge technology built into in his new body to summon Starscream and the rest of the Decepticons to him on Cybertron. At first they did battle with the Autobots, but were soon mind-controlled by [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] into combining with his [[Sweep]] army and forming a huge monster. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}} Once this "[[Deceptigod]]" was defeated, the weakened component Decepticons were captured by the Autobots and outfitted with [[Inhibitor/deterrence chip|I/D chips]]. Starscream spent his time in prison snarking at [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s attempts to take control of the situation. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:AllGoodThings-Starscream.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Furmanism|Like a vast, predatory]]-oh, forget it.]]

Starscream was present when [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] visited the Decepticon camp to lecture [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who had begun to put a plan in motion. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} Believing Ratbat's methods and goals were regressive, Starscream departed the Decepticon camp to talk to the Autobots, only to be shocked by the distrusting Bumblebee's taser-cane and taken into custody for his troubles. Interrogated by Prowl, Starscream explained that Ratbat was planning to assassinate Bumblebee during the memorial ceremony for the ''Lost Light''. While the Autobots dealt with that threat, Starscream proceeded to gate-crash the ceremony himself and announced his desire to be part of the planet's new government. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Naturally, all the Autobots were suspicious, but Starscream soon proved his good faith when he helped [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] rescue some NAILs from a series of mysterious explosions, convincing Bumblebee to let him join the government. {{storylink|Stick Together}} Bumblebee, Starscream, and NAIL representative [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] soon held a public assembly to introduce their joint governance, although Starscream did most of the talking, much to Bumblebee's chagrin. {{storylink|Devisive}}

Starscream joined Metalhawk in greeting ex-Decepticon [[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] when he returned to Cybertron, but the new arrival's obvious distaste for his former faction prompted Starscream to step back and leave the welcoming to his fellow leader. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

Given his genuine desire to see the new government work out, Starscream was just as suspicious as his fellow leaders when noted Decepticon warmonger [[Turmoil]] returned to Cybertron with claims of altruism. Turmoil immediately began to foment distrust among the government by planting more doubts about the Autobots in Metalhawk's mind, so Starscream took the NAIL to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] to talk the matter out, calling upon bar owner [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to recount his own experiences with Turmoil as evidence for the prosecution. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}}

Not long after the Turmoil incident, Starscream and Metalhawk paid a visit to Autobot High Command to pester Bumblebee about setting up elections. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt}} That night, the pair returned to High Command, this time to check on the recently injured Wheeljack and to offer their assistance in locating [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], who had gone missing in the wilderness earlier that evening. Bumblebee refused their offer, and when Turmoil's spaceship disappeared shortly afterwards, Starscream and Metalhawk joined the Autobots at the spot from which it vanished. {{storylink|Night and the City}}

At dawn, the Decepticon and NAIL set out to search for the missing Autobots regardless. Shortly after spotting Blurr, also out searching, they saw the Autobot get caught in an explosion which revealed a cavern containing the original [[Crystal City]]. However, Prowl's security team quickly arrived, and prevented Starscream and Metalhawk from entering the cave. To put pressure on the Autobots, Starscream rounded up a crowd of NAILs and Decepticons and demanded that Prowl explain the situation to them. The Autobot admitted that a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] had teleported into the abandoned city, injuring itself in the process such that the surrounding area would shortly be destroyed. As Prowl returned to Wheeljack, at work in the cavern, Starscream snuck in after him, and a brief chase with the security officer led them to the Metrotitan's face. Suddenly, it awoke, and lauded Starscream as a conqueror who would unite Cybertron, something witnessed by the entire crowd, who had followed them down into the city. As the titan began to detonate, group fled together. On the way back to Iacon, the divinely blessed Starscream was held aloft by NAILs and Decepticons. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}}

{{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}}
{{storylink|City on Fire}}
{{storylink|The Verge}}
{{storylink|Before the Dawn}}
{{storylink|Plan for Everything}}
{{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}
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===Spotlight: Mirage===
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At the war's end, Starscream and a small team of Decepticons accompanied the mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] to the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]]. He led the Decepticons into the Autobot bunker after Mirage destroyed the Autobot security system, but stood back during the ensuing fight. After Megatron ordered the Autobot prisoners executed, Starscream held [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] back as Mirage prepared to kill [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}
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==Notes==
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*Starscream's appearance in [[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]] seems to be based more on this concept drawings of him for the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]] game, rather than his actual appearance in either of the two games. This is most noticeable when looking at his pelvic region and thighs.

*Also, the crown he occasionally wears in later issues of the comic is based on the crown he sports in Fall of Cybertron, which in itself is based on the crown he wears in [[The Transformers: The Movie]].

==References==

[[Category:Decepticon leaders]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Neutrals]]
[[Category:Seekers]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity

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Ambitious. Treacherous. Opportunistic. '''Starscream'''''.

{{quote|Starscream... He's never '''''known''''' a good greater than his own well-being. He's pure '''''ambition''''' with no '''''ideology'''''–not even '''''Decepticon ideology'''''|[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] damns the winner|"[[Heavy is the Head]]"}}
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==IDW Generation 1 comics==
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Starscream and his comrades, Skywarp and Thundercracker, were recruited by Soundwave when [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] requested fliers. They believed they had been called to join Megatron's gladiatorial team, but accepted the offer to join the Decepticons. Starscream immediately proclaimed his allegiance and declared how much of an honor fighting alongside Megatron would be. After going through some upgrades to boost their firepower, the Seekers' first duty was to capture a senator, who would be executed at Megatron's recruitment rally. He was also informed by Megatron of confidential plans in which he would play a key role. When the security forces intervened, Starscream was captured, and—surprise, surprise—offered to reveal Megatron's plans to save his own neck. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, this turned out to have ''been'' Megatron's plan—Starscream, together with Soundwave, executed the council questioning him, then freed every prisoner in the building, solidifying his loyalty to Megatron... until such time as Starscream felt like betraying his leader. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

{{storylink|Shockwaves}}

In the very early stages of the war, one of Starscream's duties appears to have been recruitment, as he made a very pointed effort to convince [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to join the team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}} Around the same time he appeared as a delegate during one of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s security sessions, bringing with him a disguised Soundwave to spy on the [[Senate]]'s plans for how to stop the growing Decepticon menace. When Zeta expressed surprise at how easily Starscream accepted his idea of draining energy from civilians to power [[vamparc ribbon|weapons]], he almost let slip that he'd done worse things in Megatron's name. To cover up his blunder, he yelled out that there was a spy in their midst, causing Soundwave to escape and distracting Zeta. {{storylink|Parasites}}

Having been unable to recruit [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] to the Decepticon cause, Starscream was pleased to see that the insurgent was targeting the troublesome Autobot [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]]. Megatron let him know he was wrong about Hot Rod's intentions. {{storylink|Ruins}} When Zeta Prime then attacked [[Nyon]]'s population with his vamparc ribbons and [[Guardian robot|Omega Destructors]], Starscream compared it to something Megatron would do, but Megatron assured him he was capable of much more. {{storylink|Purge}} In spite of Starscream's opinion that Megatron was a "stubborn wreck" for his repeated attempts to sway Orion Pax to his cause, they were successful, and the Decepticons joined forces with Orion's Autobots against Zeta Prime. {{storylink|Choices}} Together, they attacked Zeta Prime and his Omega Destructors. Starscream personally led the Seekers as air support. {{storylink|Overthrown}}

After Zeta Prime was defeated and Megatron installed himself as ruler of Cybertron, he had the Decepticons hunt down all remaining Autobots. Starscream led a force to raid an Autobot hiding place in [[Ultrix]] and took special interest in Hot Rod, offering him to join the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}} With new help, the Autobots began their all out assault on the Citadel. Starscream and the Seekers were ordered to take them out but were intercepted by the Aerialbots. {{storylink|Broadcast}}

After Megatron's first defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Starscream conspired with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] to overthrow him and have him exiled to [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. {{storylink|Derelicts}} While Scorponok became the new Decepticon leader, Starscream seemingly preferred to stay in the background and showed no signs of being his second-in-command in public. {{storylink|Wreckage (issue)|Wreckage}} He annoyed Scorponok by urging him to take action rather than just hold grandiose speeches, causing Scorponok to let him in on his plan to capture the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]] for the Decepticons. Starscream participated in this attack by leading his Seekers to the refinery. {{storylink|Faces of Darkness}} Scorponok ordered him to keep the Autobot defenders busy while he left to deal with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] personally. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}}

[[File:Devastation5-StarscreamAchinglyNaive.jpg|thumb|upright|left]]
Starscream was present when Megatron faced Optimus Prime in open battle on [[Sherma Bridge]]. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}} During the war, he ended up as Megatron's bodyguard, a position largely for show, and developed a mutual hatred with [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} He would also appear to settle with Megatron instead of carrying on being an attempted traitor. Megatron viewed this as them moving on from such things but it was actually because Starscream feared him—a fear he initially thought was respect. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

{{bigquote|Thanks to Ore-13, Megatron, I have evolved... beyond you! I am the ''future!''|Starscream|[[Infiltration issue 6]]}}

[[File:Infiltration6 takeyourpunishment.jpg|285x240px|thumb|Starscream, seen here actually getting off easy!]]
Millions of years later, Starscream was the leader of a Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|insurgent cell]] that had operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. However, since the discovery of the mysterious, Energon-like substance known as [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]], Starscream had stepped outside standard procedure, establishing a second command bunker in [[Oregon]] above a richer seam of the ore than the one in [[Nebraska]]. Unfortunately, the abandoned Nebraska bunker had been infiltrated by a human named [[Stoker]], who had managed to obtain data on Starscream's operations, forcing Starscream to have the human eliminated, though he didn't count on [[Verity Carlo|another human]] obtaining Stoker's [[SM-40]] computer and an [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Autobot counter-insurgency agent]] bringing the evidence to the Autobots. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 1|Infiltration #1}} Meanwhile, Starscream had ordered [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] to cover his tracks by destroying all evidence of Stoker's travels and what remained of the Nebraska bunker. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5|Infiltration #5}} Starscream intended to use Ore-13 to challenge [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] for leadership of the Decepticons, but when the moment of truth finally arrived, the energy source proved insufficient to destroy the Decepticon leader, and Megatron blasted Starscream with his fusion cannon at point-blank range, virtually obliterating him. Megatron told the other Decepticons, "See to the remains. If he lives, then I'll decide what to do with him." {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

[[File:Starcasm idw dev6.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Sarcasm from Starscream?? NO!]]
As it turns out, Starscream survived and was placed in a [[CR chamber]] for extensive repairs. The other Decepticons were worried that Megatron was jumping the gun by calling in [[Sixshot]] early, and Astrotrain realized Starscream might be the only one of them willing to tell Megatron this. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} During an attack on Decepticon headquarters by the [[Reaper]]s, Starscream completed his recovery and was confident that he would prevail in the upcoming battle. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}

When [[Sixshot]] arrived, he initially attacked the Reapers, but they insisted he join them or die. Starscream then emerged from base calling out Sixshot—his hatred of Starscream caused the living weapon to decide to switch sides after all, at which point Starscream promptly activated Sixshot's shutdown command, sending him crashing to the ground. Starscream then proceeded to bomb the Reapers, causing Megatron to agree to take the fight to the Reapers. (Based on the timing of his emergence and his co-plotter Astrotrain immediately going "look at brave Starscream, Megatron!", it seems having an excuse to take out Sixshot and thus force Megatron to go against the Reapers was all planned by Starscream) {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} Starscream once again accepted Megatron as his liege, and together they teamed up to destroy the alien invaders. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

At some point during the following year, Starscream met with [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and persuaded him to lead the rest of the Autobots into an ambush (under the pretense that Megatron would be defeated, the Autobots could leave Earth, and the Decepticons would get Earth to themselves), {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}, where they were promptly defeated. Optimus was rendered almost offline, and Starscream watched in glee as Megatron delivered the news of a [[Sunstreaker (G1)|traitor]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

Some time later, Starscream, was back in a subordinate position under Megatron and getting increasingly annoyed with it. He joined in Megatron's attack on [[New York City]], quite enjoying that whole "killing humans who can't fight back" thing. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}

[[File:AHM3Starscream.JPG|150px|thumb|Hey, I just spotted the janitor from ''Futurama''!]]
Starscream personally shot down the fleeing [[Air Force One]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], after which he returned to join Megatron in New York City. Upon his arrival, Megatron mused that it was fitting to have Starscream beside him, as a Decepticon who had been with the cause since the start. Starscream, believing Megatron to be sarcastic, retorted that he'd been there before even Megatron. A somewhat weary Megatron clarified, congratulating him and complimenting his skills. He further explained that Starscream was very nearly the living embodiment of the Decepticon ideal, but a step short of realizing it. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}}

With the conquest completed, Starscream stood at Megatron's side as he addressed the gathered Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}} However, he soon reverted to type when he noticed Megatron didn't have a proper plan now that he'd won and the fun on Earth was a distraction for the troops. He taunted Megatron with the knowledge that he knew this and told him other Decepticons would start getting restless, so Megatron's position would soon be challenged by hordes of bored sociopaths whom Megatron had indoctrinated to be violent and take things. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

Later, Starscream met with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (passing a depressed [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] on the way) and discussed the possibility of overthrowing Megatron. They agreed. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} He made his move a short while later, sending the Insecticons to attack Megatron. His allies were summarily defeated, however, and Megatron revealed that he had known about Starscream's plans all along. Starscream explained his reasoning behind the revolt: while he once idolized Megatron for teaching the Decepticons to fight the "old order" and take what they want, all he had done since was lead them into a war without end. He then revealed that the Insecticons weren't his only loyalists, as he had also managed to sway the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] to his cause. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

Starscream's uprising was suddenly cut short when the Decepticons came under attack, first from human jets arrived from [[Europe]], and then the returning Autobots. Starscream was forced to team up with Megatron, who assured him that someday he would get be in charge, someday after the Decepticons won... but not now. After giving this some thought, Starscream organized his troops to fight back, ending his orders with "All hail Megatron!" {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} When Megatron was eventually defeated, Starscream picked up his injured leader, refusing to let the Autobots finish him off. When Optimus Prime asked why, he replied that leadership of the Decepticons is to be ''taken'', not offered up by chance. Before retreating, he reminded Prime that the Decepticons still had the advantage in most parts of the galaxy. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

Along with a few other Decepticons, Starscream took off into space aboard Astrotrain. Despite what he had told Prime, he was not pleased that Soundwave was keeping Megatron on life support, but his attempts to dissuade the loyalist were met with failure. He considered just throwing his former leader out Astrotrain's airlock, but had a [[The Transformers: The Movie|nagging feeling]] that he'd "somehow return, [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|even more powerful than before]]." Starscream was ready to give up, knowing that the Decepticons had no real reason to follow him, and that the faction would fall to infighting as soon as others challenged his rule. All he had was the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Megatron had seized from Optimus Prime earlier, but he had failed to find any supposed "ultimate power" within it, and prepared to throw it away. When [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] stopped him, saying that the Matrix was used by the Autobots to choose their leaders, Starscream suddenly realized that it was just what he needed to rally people to his cause. Gathering his followers, he told them that he had unlocked the unlimited powers of the Matrix, and that he had been chosen to light their [[darkest hour]]. While the roused Decepticons started hailing his name, Starscream knew fully well that his newfound leadership was wholly reliant on a seemingly useless Matrix, and wondered if this was really the right thing to have done. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

Starscream quickly proved to be an incompetent leader, gathering his troops on a lifeless asteroid and doing nothing to expand their territory or improve their conditions. As the Decepticons resorted to stealing energy and cannibalizing each other for parts, he demanded [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] do something about it, but the Insecticon would rather work on his [[cerebro-shell]]s. Though initially angry, Starscream conceded that he could use these devices after he used one to take out a rebellious [[Quake (G1)|Quake]]. {{storylink|All His Engines}} When he went to ask [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] about the same issue, he found him and Soundwave cutting open Megatron's body to make weapons. Just as Starscream began to express fake outrage about this "coup", Megatron himself appeared, revealing that the two had built him a new body with a built-in [[space bridge]]. He grudgingly admitted he knew Megatron would be back sooner or later, though Megatron neglected to take back leadership as long as Starscream had the Matrix, which he considered a possible threat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}}

Some time later, Bombshell approached Starscream to report that an Autobot ship had crashed on their defenses, but he did nothing but shrug it off and stare emptily at his Matrix, responding violently when Bombshell offered to take it from him. As it turned out, the wrecked ship had contained [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]], on a quest to take back the Matrix. After first using a cerebro-shell on [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] to make him attack Starscream, he confronted the Decepticon leader on his own. Starscream was unimpressed, having used his rank to give himself nigh-impenetrable armor, only to be taken by surprise when Rodimus shot the Matrix around his neck instead, causing it to release a burst of energy and incapacitate Starscream. Rodimus snagged the Matrix, and Megatron subsequently took back control of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Heart Like a Wheel}}

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As Megatron put his new plans into action and had the Decepticons return to Earth, Starscream went off on his own to meet with Thundercracker, who had abandoned the Decepticon cause following their previous defeat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}} He tried to convince his fellow Seeker to join with him and overthrow Megatron again, seeing him as obsessed with petty revenge on humanity and lacking long-term goals. When Thundercracker refused, Starscream lost patience and gunned him down, but before he could finish the job he was attacked by [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]. As the Autobot accused him of shooting down a plane carrying Optimus Prime, Starscream pleaded for his life and revealed that Megatron was to blame. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} Fortunately for him, Brawn chose to carry Thundercracker to safety rather than capture him. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} Starscream returned to the other Decepticons and watched Optimus Prime confront Megatron in a one-on-one battle. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

Megatron would later use the space bridge technology built into in his new body to summon Starscream and the rest of the Decepticons to him on Cybertron. At first they did battle with the Autobots, but were soon mind-controlled by [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] into combining with his [[Sweep]] army and forming a huge monster. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}} Once this "[[Deceptigod]]" was defeated, the weakened component Decepticons were captured by the Autobots and outfitted with [[Inhibitor/deterrence chip|I/D chips]]. Starscream spent his time in prison snarking at [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s attempts to take control of the situation. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:AllGoodThings-Starscream.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Furmanism|Like a vast, predatory]]-oh, forget it.]]

Starscream was present when [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] visited the Decepticon camp to lecture [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who had begun to put a plan in motion. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} Believing Ratbat's methods and goals were regressive, Starscream departed the Decepticon camp to talk to the Autobots, only to be shocked by the distrusting Bumblebee's taser-cane and taken into custody for his troubles. Interrogated by Prowl, Starscream explained that Ratbat was planning to assassinate Bumblebee during the memorial ceremony for the ''Lost Light''. While the Autobots dealt with that threat, Starscream proceeded to gate-crash the ceremony himself and announced his desire to be part of the planet's new government. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Naturally, all the Autobots were suspicious, but Starscream soon proved his good faith when he helped [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] rescue some NAILs from a series of mysterious explosions, convincing Bumblebee to let him join the government. {{storylink|Stick Together}} Bumblebee, Starscream, and NAIL representative [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] soon held a public assembly to introduce their joint governance, although Starscream did most of the talking, much to Bumblebee's chagrin. {{storylink|Devisive}}

Starscream joined Metalhawk in greeting ex-Decepticon [[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] when he returned to Cybertron, but the new arrival's obvious distaste for his former faction prompted Starscream to step back and leave the welcoming to his fellow leader. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

Given his genuine desire to see the new government work out, Starscream was just as suspicious as his fellow leaders when noted Decepticon warmonger [[Turmoil]] returned to Cybertron with claims of altruism. Turmoil immediately began to foment distrust among the government by planting more doubts about the Autobots in Metalhawk's mind, so Starscream took the NAIL to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] to talk the matter out, calling upon bar owner [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to recount his own experiences with Turmoil as evidence for the prosecution. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}}

Not long after the Turmoil incident, Starscream and Metalhawk paid a visit to Autobot High Command to pester Bumblebee about setting up elections. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt}} That night, the pair returned to High Command, this time to check on the recently injured Wheeljack and to offer their assistance in locating [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], who had gone missing in the wilderness earlier that evening. Bumblebee refused their offer, and when Turmoil's spaceship disappeared shortly afterwards, Starscream and Metalhawk joined the Autobots at the spot from which it vanished. {{storylink|Night and the City}}

At dawn, the Decepticon and NAIL set out to search for the missing Autobots regardless. Shortly after spotting Blurr, also out searching, they saw the Autobot get caught in an explosion which revealed a cavern containing the original [[Crystal City]]. However, Prowl's security team quickly arrived, and prevented Starscream and Metalhawk from entering the cave. To put pressure on the Autobots, Starscream rounded up a crowd of NAILs and Decepticons and demanded that Prowl explain the situation to them. The Autobot admitted that a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] had teleported into the abandoned city, injuring itself in the process such that the surrounding area would shortly be destroyed. As Prowl returned to Wheeljack, at work in the cavern, Starscream snuck in after him, and a brief chase with the security officer led them to the Metrotitan's face. Suddenly, it awoke, and lauded Starscream as a conqueror who would unite Cybertron, something witnessed by the entire crowd, who had followed them down into the city. As the titan began to detonate, group fled together. On the way back to Iacon, the divinely blessed Starscream was held aloft by NAILs and Decepticons. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}}

{{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}}
{{storylink|City on Fire}}
{{storylink|The Verge}}
{{storylink|Before the Dawn}}
{{storylink|Plan for Everything}}
{{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}
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At the war's end, Starscream and a small team of Decepticons accompanied the mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] to the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]]. He led the Decepticons into the Autobot bunker after Mirage destroyed the Autobot security system, but stood back during the ensuing fight. After Megatron ordered the Autobot prisoners executed, Starscream held [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] back as Mirage prepared to kill [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}
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==Notes==
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*Starscream's appearance in [[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]] seems to be based more on this concept drawings of him for the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]] game, rather than his actual appearance in either of the two games. This is most noticeable when looking at his pelvic region and thighs.

*Also, the crown he occasionally wears in later issues of the comic is based on the crown he sports in Fall of Cybertron, which in itself is based on the crown he wears in [[The Transformers: The Movie]].

==References==

[[Category:Decepticon leaders]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Neutrals]]
[[Category:Seekers]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity

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Ambitious. Treacherous. Opportunistic. '''Starscream'''''.

{{quote|Starscream... He's never '''''known''''' a good greater than his own well-being. He's pure '''''ambition''''' with no '''''ideology'''''–not even '''''Decepticon ideology'''''|[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] damns the winner|"[[Heavy is the Head]]"}}
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Starscream and his comrades, Skywarp and Thundercracker, were recruited by Soundwave when [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] requested fliers. They believed they had been called to join Megatron's gladiatorial team, but accepted the offer to join the Decepticons. Starscream immediately proclaimed his allegiance and declared how much of an honor fighting alongside Megatron would be. After going through some upgrades to boost their firepower, the Seekers' first duty was to capture a senator, who would be executed at Megatron's recruitment rally. He was also informed by Megatron of confidential plans in which he would play a key role. When the security forces intervened, Starscream was captured, and—surprise, surprise—offered to reveal Megatron's plans to save his own neck. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} However, this turned out to have ''been'' Megatron's plan—Starscream, together with Soundwave, executed the council questioning him, then freed every prisoner in the building, solidifying his loyalty to Megatron... until such time as Starscream felt like betraying his leader. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

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In the very early stages of the war, one of Starscream's duties appears to have been recruitment, as he made a very pointed effort to convince [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to join the team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}} Around the same time he appeared as a delegate during one of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s security sessions, bringing with him a disguised Soundwave to spy on the [[Senate]]'s plans for how to stop the growing Decepticon menace. When Zeta expressed surprise at how easily Starscream accepted his idea of draining energy from civilians to power [[vamparc ribbon|weapons]], he almost let slip that he'd done worse things in Megatron's name. To cover up his blunder, he yelled out that there was a spy in their midst, causing Soundwave to escape and distracting Zeta. {{storylink|Parasites}}

Having been unable to recruit [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] to the Decepticon cause, Starscream was pleased to see that the insurgent was targeting the troublesome Autobot [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]]. Megatron let him know he was wrong about Hot Rod's intentions. {{storylink|Ruins}} When Zeta Prime then attacked [[Nyon]]'s population with his vamparc ribbons and [[Guardian robot|Omega Destructors]], Starscream compared it to something Megatron would do, but Megatron assured him he was capable of much more. {{storylink|Purge}} In spite of Starscream's opinion that Megatron was a "stubborn wreck" for his repeated attempts to sway Orion Pax to his cause, they were successful, and the Decepticons joined forces with Orion's Autobots against Zeta Prime. {{storylink|Choices}} Together, they attacked Zeta Prime and his Omega Destructors. Starscream personally led the Seekers as air support. {{storylink|Overthrown}}

After Zeta Prime was defeated and Megatron installed himself as ruler of Cybertron, he had the Decepticons hunt down all remaining Autobots. Starscream led a force to raid an Autobot hiding place in [[Ultrix]] and took special interest in Hot Rod, offering him to join the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformation (issue)|Transformation}} With new help, the Autobots began their all out assault on the Citadel. Starscream and the Seekers were ordered to take them out but were intercepted by the Aerialbots. {{storylink|Broadcast}}

After Megatron's first defeat at the hands of Optimus Prime, Starscream conspired with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] to overthrow him and have him exiled to [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. {{storylink|Derelicts}} While Scorponok became the new Decepticon leader, Starscream seemingly preferred to stay in the background and showed no signs of being his second-in-command in public. {{storylink|Wreckage (issue)|Wreckage}} He annoyed Scorponok by urging him to take action rather than just hold grandiose speeches, causing Scorponok to let him in on his plan to capture the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]] for the Decepticons. Starscream participated in this attack by leading his Seekers to the refinery. {{storylink|Faces of Darkness}} Scorponok ordered him to keep the Autobot defenders busy while he left to deal with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] personally. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}}

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Starscream was present when Megatron faced Optimus Prime in open battle on [[Sherma Bridge]]. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}} During the war, he ended up as Megatron's bodyguard, a position largely for show, and developed a mutual hatred with [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} He would also appear to settle with Megatron instead of carrying on being an attempted traitor. Megatron viewed this as them moving on from such things but it was actually because Starscream feared him—a fear he initially thought was respect. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

{{bigquote|Thanks to Ore-13, Megatron, I have evolved... beyond you! I am the ''future!''|Starscream|[[Infiltration issue 6]]}}

[[File:Infiltration6 takeyourpunishment.jpg|285x240px|thumb|Starscream, seen here actually getting off easy!]]
Millions of years later, Starscream was the leader of a Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|insurgent cell]] that had operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. However, since the discovery of the mysterious, Energon-like substance known as [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]], Starscream had stepped outside standard procedure, establishing a second command bunker in [[Oregon]] above a richer seam of the ore than the one in [[Nebraska]]. Unfortunately, the abandoned Nebraska bunker had been infiltrated by a human named [[Stoker]], who had managed to obtain data on Starscream's operations, forcing Starscream to have the human eliminated, though he didn't count on [[Verity Carlo|another human]] obtaining Stoker's [[SM-40]] computer and an [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Autobot counter-insurgency agent]] bringing the evidence to the Autobots. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 1|Infiltration #1}} Meanwhile, Starscream had ordered [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] to cover his tracks by destroying all evidence of Stoker's travels and what remained of the Nebraska bunker. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5|Infiltration #5}} Starscream intended to use Ore-13 to challenge [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] for leadership of the Decepticons, but when the moment of truth finally arrived, the energy source proved insufficient to destroy the Decepticon leader, and Megatron blasted Starscream with his fusion cannon at point-blank range, virtually obliterating him. Megatron told the other Decepticons, "See to the remains. If he lives, then I'll decide what to do with him." {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

[[File:Starcasm idw dev6.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Sarcasm from Starscream?? NO!]]
As it turns out, Starscream survived and was placed in a [[CR chamber]] for extensive repairs. The other Decepticons were worried that Megatron was jumping the gun by calling in [[Sixshot]] early, and Astrotrain realized Starscream might be the only one of them willing to tell Megatron this. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} During an attack on Decepticon headquarters by the [[Reaper]]s, Starscream completed his recovery and was confident that he would prevail in the upcoming battle. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}}

When [[Sixshot]] arrived, he initially attacked the Reapers, but they insisted he join them or die. Starscream then emerged from base calling out Sixshot—his hatred of Starscream caused the living weapon to decide to switch sides after all, at which point Starscream promptly activated Sixshot's shutdown command, sending him crashing to the ground. Starscream then proceeded to bomb the Reapers, causing Megatron to agree to take the fight to the Reapers. (Based on the timing of his emergence and his co-plotter Astrotrain immediately going "look at brave Starscream, Megatron!", it seems having an excuse to take out Sixshot and thus force Megatron to go against the Reapers was all planned by Starscream) {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} Starscream once again accepted Megatron as his liege, and together they teamed up to destroy the alien invaders. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

At some point during the following year, Starscream met with [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and persuaded him to lead the rest of the Autobots into an ambush (under the pretense that Megatron would be defeated, the Autobots could leave Earth, and the Decepticons would get Earth to themselves), {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}, where they were promptly defeated. Optimus was rendered almost offline, and Starscream watched in glee as Megatron delivered the news of a [[Sunstreaker (G1)|traitor]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

Some time later, Starscream, was back in a subordinate position under Megatron and getting increasingly annoyed with it. He joined in Megatron's attack on [[New York City]], quite enjoying that whole "killing humans who can't fight back" thing. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}

[[File:AHM3Starscream.JPG|150px|thumb|Hey, I just spotted the janitor from ''Futurama''!]]
Starscream personally shot down the fleeing [[Air Force One]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], after which he returned to join Megatron in New York City. Upon his arrival, Megatron mused that it was fitting to have Starscream beside him, as a Decepticon who had been with the cause since the start. Starscream, believing Megatron to be sarcastic, retorted that he'd been there before even Megatron. A somewhat weary Megatron clarified, congratulating him and complimenting his skills. He further explained that Starscream was very nearly the living embodiment of the Decepticon ideal, but a step short of realizing it. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}}

With the conquest completed, Starscream stood at Megatron's side as he addressed the gathered Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}} However, he soon reverted to type when he noticed Megatron didn't have a proper plan now that he'd won and the fun on Earth was a distraction for the troops. He taunted Megatron with the knowledge that he knew this and told him other Decepticons would start getting restless, so Megatron's position would soon be challenged by hordes of bored sociopaths whom Megatron had indoctrinated to be violent and take things. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}}

Later, Starscream met with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (passing a depressed [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] on the way) and discussed the possibility of overthrowing Megatron. They agreed. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} He made his move a short while later, sending the Insecticons to attack Megatron. His allies were summarily defeated, however, and Megatron revealed that he had known about Starscream's plans all along. Starscream explained his reasoning behind the revolt: while he once idolized Megatron for teaching the Decepticons to fight the "old order" and take what they want, all he had done since was lead them into a war without end. He then revealed that the Insecticons weren't his only loyalists, as he had also managed to sway the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] to his cause. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

Starscream's uprising was suddenly cut short when the Decepticons came under attack, first from human jets arrived from [[Europe]], and then the returning Autobots. Starscream was forced to team up with Megatron, who assured him that someday he would get be in charge, someday after the Decepticons won... but not now. After giving this some thought, Starscream organized his troops to fight back, ending his orders with "All hail Megatron!" {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} When Megatron was eventually defeated, Starscream picked up his injured leader, refusing to let the Autobots finish him off. When Optimus Prime asked why, he replied that leadership of the Decepticons is to be ''taken'', not offered up by chance. Before retreating, he reminded Prime that the Decepticons still had the advantage in most parts of the galaxy. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

Along with a few other Decepticons, Starscream took off into space aboard Astrotrain. Despite what he had told Prime, he was not pleased that Soundwave was keeping Megatron on life support, but his attempts to dissuade the loyalist were met with failure. He considered just throwing his former leader out Astrotrain's airlock, but had a [[The Transformers: The Movie|nagging feeling]] that he'd "somehow return, [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|even more powerful than before]]." Starscream was ready to give up, knowing that the Decepticons had no real reason to follow him, and that the faction would fall to infighting as soon as others challenged his rule. All he had was the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Megatron had seized from Optimus Prime earlier, but he had failed to find any supposed "ultimate power" within it, and prepared to throw it away. When [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] stopped him, saying that the Matrix was used by the Autobots to choose their leaders, Starscream suddenly realized that it was just what he needed to rally people to his cause. Gathering his followers, he told them that he had unlocked the unlimited powers of the Matrix, and that he had been chosen to light their [[darkest hour]]. While the roused Decepticons started hailing his name, Starscream knew fully well that his newfound leadership was wholly reliant on a seemingly useless Matrix, and wondered if this was really the right thing to have done. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|Uneasy Lies the Head}}

Starscream quickly proved to be an incompetent leader, gathering his troops on a lifeless asteroid and doing nothing to expand their territory or improve their conditions. As the Decepticons resorted to stealing energy and cannibalizing each other for parts, he demanded [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] do something about it, but the Insecticon would rather work on his [[cerebro-shell]]s. Though initially angry, Starscream conceded that he could use these devices after he used one to take out a rebellious [[Quake (G1)|Quake]]. {{storylink|All His Engines}} When he went to ask [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] about the same issue, he found him and Soundwave cutting open Megatron's body to make weapons. Just as Starscream began to express fake outrage about this "coup", Megatron himself appeared, revealing that the two had built him a new body with a built-in [[space bridge]]. He grudgingly admitted he knew Megatron would be back sooner or later, though Megatron neglected to take back leadership as long as Starscream had the Matrix, which he considered a possible threat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}}

Some time later, Bombshell approached Starscream to report that an Autobot ship had crashed on their defenses, but he did nothing but shrug it off and stare emptily at his Matrix, responding violently when Bombshell offered to take it from him. As it turned out, the wrecked ship had contained [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]], on a quest to take back the Matrix. After first using a cerebro-shell on [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] to make him attack Starscream, he confronted the Decepticon leader on his own. Starscream was unimpressed, having used his rank to give himself nigh-impenetrable armor, only to be taken by surprise when Rodimus shot the Matrix around his neck instead, causing it to release a burst of energy and incapacitate Starscream. Rodimus snagged the Matrix, and Megatron subsequently took back control of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Heart Like a Wheel}}

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As Megatron put his new plans into action and had the Decepticons return to Earth, Starscream went off on his own to meet with Thundercracker, who had abandoned the Decepticon cause following their previous defeat. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|Altered Carbon}} He tried to convince his fellow Seeker to join with him and overthrow Megatron again, seeing him as obsessed with petty revenge on humanity and lacking long-term goals. When Thundercracker refused, Starscream lost patience and gunned him down, but before he could finish the job he was attacked by [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]. As the Autobot accused him of shooting down a plane carrying Optimus Prime, Starscream pleaded for his life and revealed that Megatron was to blame. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} Fortunately for him, Brawn chose to carry Thundercracker to safety rather than capture him. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} Starscream returned to the other Decepticons and watched Optimus Prime confront Megatron in a one-on-one battle. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

Megatron would later use the space bridge technology built into in his new body to summon Starscream and the rest of the Decepticons to him on Cybertron. At first they did battle with the Autobots, but were soon mind-controlled by [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] into combining with his [[Sweep]] army and forming a huge monster. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}} Once this "[[Deceptigod]]" was defeated, the weakened component Decepticons were captured by the Autobots and outfitted with [[Inhibitor/deterrence chip|I/D chips]]. Starscream spent his time in prison snarking at [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s attempts to take control of the situation. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:AllGoodThings-Starscream.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Furmanism|Like a vast, predatory]]-oh, forget it.]]

Starscream was present when [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] visited the Decepticon camp to lecture [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who had begun to put a plan in motion. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} Believing Ratbat's methods and goals were regressive, Starscream departed the Decepticon camp to talk to the Autobots, only to be shocked by the distrusting Bumblebee's taser-cane and taken into custody for his troubles. Interrogated by Prowl, Starscream explained that Ratbat was planning to assassinate Bumblebee during the memorial ceremony for the ''Lost Light''. While the Autobots dealt with that threat, Starscream proceeded to gate-crash the ceremony himself and announced his desire to be part of the planet's new government. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Naturally, all the Autobots were suspicious, but Starscream soon proved his good faith when he helped [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] rescue some NAILs from a series of mysterious explosions, convincing Bumblebee to let him join the government. {{storylink|Stick Together}} Bumblebee, Starscream, and NAIL representative [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] soon held a public assembly to introduce their joint governance, although Starscream did most of the talking, much to Bumblebee's chagrin. {{storylink|Devisive}}

Starscream joined Metalhawk in greeting ex-Decepticon [[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] when he returned to Cybertron, but the new arrival's obvious distaste for his former faction prompted Starscream to step back and leave the welcoming to his fellow leader. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

Given his genuine desire to see the new government work out, Starscream was just as suspicious as his fellow leaders when noted Decepticon warmonger [[Turmoil]] returned to Cybertron with claims of altruism. Turmoil immediately began to foment distrust among the government by planting more doubts about the Autobots in Metalhawk's mind, so Starscream took the NAIL to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] to talk the matter out, calling upon bar owner [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to recount his own experiences with Turmoil as evidence for the prosecution. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}}

Not long after the Turmoil incident, Starscream and Metalhawk paid a visit to Autobot High Command to pester Bumblebee about setting up elections. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt}} That night, the pair returned to High Command, this time to check on the recently injured Wheeljack and to offer their assistance in locating [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], who had gone missing in the wilderness earlier that evening. Bumblebee refused their offer, and when Turmoil's spaceship disappeared shortly afterwards, Starscream and Metalhawk joined the Autobots at the spot from which it vanished. {{storylink|Night and the City}}

At dawn, the Decepticon and NAIL set out to search for the missing Autobots regardless. Shortly after spotting Blurr, also out searching, they saw the Autobot get caught in an explosion which revealed a cavern containing the original [[Crystal City]]. However, Prowl's security team quickly arrived, and prevented Starscream and Metalhawk from entering the cave. To put pressure on the Autobots, Starscream rounded up a crowd of NAILs and Decepticons and demanded that Prowl explain the situation to them. The Autobot admitted that a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] had teleported into the abandoned city, injuring itself in the process such that the surrounding area would shortly be destroyed. As Prowl returned to Wheeljack, at work in the cavern, Starscream snuck in after him, and a brief chase with the security officer led them to the Metrotitan's face. Suddenly, it awoke, and lauded Starscream as a conqueror who would unite Cybertron, something witnessed by the entire crowd, who had followed them down into the city. As the titan began to detonate, group fled together. On the way back to Iacon, the divinely blessed Starscream was held aloft by NAILs and Decepticons. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}}

{{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}}
{{storylink|City on Fire}}
{{storylink|The Verge}}
{{storylink|Before the Dawn}}
{{storylink|Plan for Everything}}
{{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}
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===Spotlight: Mirage===
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At the war's end, Starscream and a small team of Decepticons accompanied the mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] to the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]]. He led the Decepticons into the Autobot bunker after Mirage destroyed the Autobot security system, but stood back during the ensuing fight. After Megatron ordered the Autobot prisoners executed, Starscream held [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] back as Mirage prepared to kill [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}
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==Notes==
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*Starscream's appearance in [[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]] seems to be based more on this concept drawings of him for the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]] game, rather than his actual appearance in either of the two games. This is most noticeable when looking at his pelvic region and thighs.

==References==

[[Category:Decepticon leaders]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
[[Category:Neutrals]]
[[Category:Seekers]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

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Concept drawing of Starscream from the War for Cybertron video game.

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[[File:Prowl-Infiltration2&3covers.jpg|300px|thumb|My prickitude [[Shane McCarthy|fluctuates]] [[Nick Roche|wildly]] [[Mike Costa|between]] [[John Barber|writers]].]]
Pragmatist. Calculating and cold. Rule-bound. Prick. Just some of the words used to describe '''Prowl'''.
{{quote|We're not winning this war, and I'm '''''tired''''' of it. Tired of crunching stat after stat, formulating workable strategies for '''''achievable victory'''''. Prime listens--to a point--then gets '''''restless''''' and changes tack on a whim. The average Autobot default setting is daredevil maverick. That's not '''''us''''', [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]. '''''We''''' can subdivide this war into its purest mathematical form and generate solutions all we want, but unless we happen to be [[Spotlight: Hot Rod|'''''surfing''''' on a '''''meteoroid''''']] at the time, '''''no one''''' will pay attention.|Prowl|"[[Everything in Its Right Place]]"}}
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==IDW Generation 1 comics==
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Prowl learned to appreciate rules and discipline during his formative years in [[Petrex]], a strictly [[functionism|functionist]] town where saying anything bad about your [[alternate mode]] could get you thrown in jail. He eventually made it into the [[Iaconian Mechaforensic Division]], where he became famous for his tendency to order a full body autopsy during practically every investigation. This is exactly what he did when he and his partner [[Chromedome (G1)|Tumbler]] were assigned to investigate the assassination of [[Sherma|Senator Sherma]], seemingly killed by Decepticons, leading to the discovery of [[cerulean glass]] on the victim's body. Following the trail to [[Translucentica Heights]], the duo ran straight into another body: that of [[Momus|Senator Momus]]. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}}

[[File:Prowl computing Patternism.jpg|left|280px|thumb|]]
As Tumbler went after the killer, Prowl investigated the crime scene and found that Momus had in fact been a Decepticon himself... and also that there was a ''second'' killer, who promptly attacked them. Inexperienced in combat, Prowl could do little to fight back, but the two were rescued by a fellow cop named [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] who believed the [[Senate]] to be targeting Decepticons. Pax suggested that they avoid reporting their findings to their superiors, but Prowl ignored him in favor of regular police procedure, which much to his chagrin led to his preliminary report being quoted as fact on the news. Sent by Pax to investigate a nearby [[Relinquishment Clinic]], he and Tumbler not only found proof that the killers had been using borrowed bodies, but also a complex dedicated to researching [[brain module]]s and a list of known Decepticons. While Tumbler, Orion Pax and several others believed that the clinic was the [[Institute]] and that the Senate was planning to use it to brainwash the Decepticons, Prowl rejected this as a far-fetched conspiracy theory. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} He refused to have any part in Pax's plan to stop the Senate's evil plot, but worried about his partner's choice to join in. He asked Pax to keep Tumbler out of danger, and in exchange he wouldn't tell anyone what they were planning. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

[[File:MegatronOrigin2 boredAutobots.jpg|thumb|And remember to fill out those TPS reports.]]
Following the rise of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], Prowl joined the Autobot Security Services in [[Kaon]], working right under Sentinel. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 1|Megatron Origin #1}} [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s rise as the most popular and violent pit fighter in videos of [[Kaon]]'s illegal [[gladiatorial combat]] attracted Prowl's attention, and he formed an Autobot Security Services team to crack down on them, though to the chagrin of his fellow officers, he tended to blather on about his theories about how somebody was making a fortune distributing on these inexpensive to produce videos. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}}

After the murder of [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]], Sentinel and Prowl led a security forces deployment that arrested many of Megatron's pit fighters and those that they were attempting to recruit. Prowl personally attached the [[inhibitor claw]] to Megatron once he was overwhelmed by security forces. While processing the prisoners, he delivered the galling news that due to [[Ratbat (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|senate orders]], the one known as [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] was to be freed without charge. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} Unfortunately, it was all part of Megatron's mad plans. He allowed himself and his men to be captured so Starscream could feign turning coat and murder the senate members who questioned him. During the ensuing jail break that devastated the [[Security Services Headquarters|Security Team HQ]] and following street battle, Prowl lost his usual cool composure in the face of such onslaught and looked to Sentinel Prime for directions. When Prime left to face Megatron personally and was brutally defeated, it was Prowl who took control and ordered the evacuation of security forces from Kaon. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

As the Decepticon movement began to spread across Cybertron and [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]] took command, Prowl became a member of Orion Pax's Autobot counter-insurgency unit. He participated in a mission to arrest [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] as he was selling weapons to terrorists in [[Nyon]]. {{storylink|Law and Disorder}} Not long afterwards he helped hunt down Decepticon spy [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], but was dealt with by [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] who collapsed the [[Neurospan Bridge]] on him. {{storylink|The Hunt for Soundwave}} When [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] was held hostage by Decepticons to convince Orion to come to Kaon and talk to Megatron, Prowl and the rest of the team came to their rescue. {{storylink|Cause and Effect}}

On a mission from Zeta Prime to arrest the insurgent [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]], Orion Pax's team traveled to Nyon's [[Acropolex]], where Prowl noted that their target seemingly wasn't trying to kill them and also mentioned being a believer in the [[Matrix of Leadership]] unlike [[Ironhide (G1)|some people]]. At the heart of the Acropolex, the Autobots found that Hot Rod just wanted to show them multiple tanks full of energon drained from Nyon's populace to power Zeta Prime's war machines. He asked Orion Pax to join him against Prime's tyranny, though Prowl voiced his disapproval of officers joining the insurgents against their own government. {{storylink|Ruins}} He seemingly changed his mind as soon as Zeta Prime began directly assaulting Nyon. To distract Zeta's [[Guardian robot|Omega Destructor]]s while Hot Rod evacuated the city, Orion Pax and Prowl acted as bait and drew one of the Destructors into a trap, but failed to harm it and were defeated by Zeta Prime himself. {{storylink|Purge}} The Autobots' lives were saved by Megatron, who took them to Kaon for repairs and negotiated an alliance with Orion. {{storylink|Choices}}

[[File:Prowl Autocracy12 Endgame.jpg|left|250px|thumb|This is my "up to something" face.]]
Together with their new allies, Prowl and the others attacked Zeta Prime's [[Citadel]] and put an end to his rule. Unsurprisingly, the Decepticons then betrayed them. {{storylink|Overthrown}} Prowl was among those captured under Megatron's new rule, but escaped alongside his cellmates [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. They followed Orion Pax's ID signal to the ruins of Nyon, where they were shocked to learn that he had acquired the Matrix and become Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Rise}} When Optimus had to make a rallying call for more allies for their cause, Prowl cut the news-feed for the message to get carried out. He then participated in the assault against the Citadel. {{storylink|Broadcast}} After the battle, Prowl showed Optimus the armory that Zeta Prime had hidden in the [[Undergrid]], suggesting that they could use the weapons within against the Decepticons. Optimus refused this and ordered them destroyed. Knowing Prowl, however, he may not have followed orders... {{storylink|Endgame}}

Not long after Optimus's rise to leadership, Prowl aided him in responding to an attack on the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]]. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} During the [[Exodus (G1)|Exodus]], his security unit was in charge of upholding order at Iacon's [[Starsreach Spaceport]], but growing tensions led to rioting among those who couldn't afford their way off the planet. Prowl called in Optimus Prime to calm the rioters, only to be pulled into combat when the Decepticons attacked the spaceport. {{storylink|Massacre}} After [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] had chased off the attackers, Prowl watched him and the other [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] leave Cybertron. {{storylink|Unleashed}} He later participated in the Autobot defensive strategy against a rampaging [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Annihilation}}

Four million years ago, Prowl was working directly under Optimus Prime as the Autobots fought to prevent the Decepticons from bringing fresh energon supplies to the war effort. While Optimus went after the energon convoy himself, Prowl held the line with Hound and the others to prevent the Decepticons from getting hold of the latest city they had targeted. In the aftermath, Prowl congratulated Prime for capturing the convoy without having to fire a shot. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}

At some point during the war, Prowl tried to desert and escape the war on board the ''[[Peaceful Resolution]]''. It was shot down before reaching orbit, and he realized he had to help win the war instead of running from it. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

After the [[Garrus-9]] detention facility had been established, Prowl was among the law enforcement Autobots who endured the trials of ''Autobot'' [[Flame (Marvel)|criminals]] who inflicted unspeakable horrors on civilians and other non-combatants. Prowl and other luminaries such as [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]], [[Xaaron]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] agreed that the trials would remain a secret until the final verdict was cast, then it would be full disclosure, regardless of the damage to morale and the Autobots' political standing. {{Storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

[[File:Infiltration3 Prowl saveit.jpg|300px|thumb|Talk to the hand, the prick ain't listening.]]
Millions of years later, Prowl was the leader of a detachment of Autobots that had operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, attempting to foil a Decepticon insurgency led by [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] and blindly following the Autobot rules of counterinsurgency. He almost threw [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the brig for breaking cover to rescue three humans from the Decepticons, and subsequently refused to contact [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] until further evidence of enemy activities was uncovered. He did not willingly believe Ratchet when the medic told him that the Decepticons had stepped up their presence by constructing a [[Infiltration protocol|second base]]. However, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] ended up sending a pulsewave transmission to Optimus Prime behind Prowl's back. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3|Infiltration #3}} Prowl was forced to face reality when Megatron arrived on Earth to confront Starscream, and he finally agreed to call in Optimus Prime. Thing was, Prime had already arrived. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

When Springer ordered several Autobots on a lethal mission to rescue the damaged and deranged Kup from [[Tsiehshi]], Prowl evidently helped conceal Springer's efforts from Optimus. However, he still felt it was a misguided effort, asking Springer if Kup would want other Autobots killed rescuing him. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

Prowl went with the Autobots to investigate Decepticon activity in the country of [[Latveria]]. There they discovered a heavily shielded "array" that the Decepticons were using as a base. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part One|Man and Machine #1}} After a skirmish with the [[human]]s that were present there, they teamed up with them to shut down the [[Psycho-Prism]] human mind altering device the Decepticons had fortified inside the array. The Decepticons attacked. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Two|Man and Machine #2}} During the fight, [[Luke Cage]] and Ratchet discovered a weak spot in the array's defenses and went in. Prowl followed to make sure Ratchet didn't put human interests ahead of Autobot interests, but the human [[Spider-Man]] was held captive inside, so Prowl gave in and let Ratchet and Luke Cage attempt a rescue.

Prowl found the Psycho-Prism guarded by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Doctor Doom]]. Doctor Doom zapped him into unconsciousness. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Three|Man and Machine #3}} He awoke next to Ratchet to find Spider-Man had been freed by Doctor Doom, who had switched sides. Prowl and Ratchet decided to use the Decepticons' [[mirror response mode]] equipment to boost their power with Spider-Man's superhuman abilities. [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] arrived with Jazz and Bumblebee and suggested they use his abilities instead. They did, then [[orbital jump|orbital bounced]] with Spider-Man back to the battle outside, where their added strength helped defeat Megatron. Wolverine, Jazz, and Bumblebee stayed to destroy the Psycho-Prism. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Four|Man and Machine #4}}

[[File:Escalation6 Prowl MYTURF.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Yeah, let the irresponsible loner look after the MacGuffin. Good call.]]
After [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] was kidnapped by [[Machination|a mysterious group of humans]], {{storylink|Escalation issue 1|Escalation #1}} Prowl was still obsessed with the rules of the counterinsurgency war and thus did not understand why Optimus Prime requested reinforcements to Earth. Prowl was furious when Ironhide dared to go around him and volunteer himself to track down clues on Sunstreaker's disappearance, and subsequently forced him to stay behind while the Autobots not on his grievance list left for [[Brasnya]] to confront the Decepticons. {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} When everything kicked off in the former [[Russia|Soviet]] nation, Prowl led [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (and later [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]) into battle, attempting to capture [[Georgi Koska]], a Decepticon [[Facsimile construct|facsimile]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} He clashed with Hot Rod over the capture of Koska as both of them were of equal rank, but when Optimus Prime was temporarily offline and believed dead, Prowl assumed full command and came up with a strategy for fighting Megatron (shoot him, then run away). {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

Under orders from Optimus, Prowl oversaw the moving of ''[[Ark-19]]'' to a more secure location. He turned to Prime rather than order the launch on his own discretion. (Prime had to order him to use his own discretion.) {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} When [[Sixshot]] blew them out of the sky, Optimus took command of the situation until the ''Ark-19'' was destroyed. {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}}

Once on the ''[[Ark-32]]'', Prowl found that, due to injuries from the battle with Sixshot {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} and separate missions, he and Hardhead were the only active Autobots. He was mildly annoyed that Optimus Prime and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] were otherwise preoccupied during this crisis. He was then shocked when Optimus abruptly ordered their unit to withdraw from Earth to handle a situation at the [[Garrus-9]] secure facility. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}}

Optimus Prime and Prowl met with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] on Garrus-9 to discuss the prisoners' breakout and how a surviving Decepticon had been tortured. Prime left Maximus in charge and said that he and Prowl had unfinished business aboard the ''Ark-32''. When [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] was reported guarding a cave on [[Corata-Vaz]], Optimus Prime recognized this had something to do with his [[infraspace]] encounter in [[Brasnya]]. He ordered Prowl to summon the [[Wrecker]]s to find out what Thunderwing was guarding. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}} He judged the subsequent battle between the Wreckers and Thunderwing as suicidal, and felt that they were wasting their time given everything seemed to be coming at them at once. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[File:AHM15 SpringerpunchesProwl.jpg|200px|thumb|According to my calcula- ''OHGODMYFACE!'']]
Prowl became increasingly frustrated with the tendency of the Autobots in general and Optimus specifically to lionise and listen to charismatic warriors and mavericks. Realising nobody would listen to the more logical tactical advice that he or Perceptor gave, he had Kup sent to the [[Kimia Facility]] to be rebuilt... with some personality sub-routines added in, which would ensure that the iconic elder could be controlled and made to act as a proxy for him. Prowl didn't want attention or glory, he only wanted to do his job, and he had absolutely no ethical qualms about ensuring that "when [Kup] speaks, you won't even see my lips move"...

He ''really'' didn't like Springer either, and was annoyed that the ''Decepticons'' seem to be a more unified body than the Autobots. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 15|All Hail Megatron #15}}

After the [[Expansion]] incident, Optimus Prime reassigned more Autobots to Earth. The Decepticons had been laying low for months, and everyone was starting to get restless. While Prowl recommended a "wait and see" approach to Optimus Prime, Ironhide's calls for action soon drowned out Prowl's reasoning. When Mirage handed them solid intelligence about a possible opportunity to wipe out Starscream and a small group of Decepticons, the Autobots acted on it. It turned out to be an ambush, and the Autobots were soundly defeated by the Decepticons with the aid of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. Informed that the Decepticons were launching simultaneous attacks across the galaxy on Autobot installations and also that there was a traitor among them, the Autobots' morale was dealt a heavy blow. Through use of a space bridge portal, Megatron planned to send the Autobots to Cybertron to have them devoured by the [[Insecticon swarm|Swarm]]. Optimus Prime managed to sabotage the portal and strand the Autobots on Cybertron before the Decepticons could follow, albeit nearly at the cost of his life. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[File:Ironhidepuncheseveryone.jpg|left|250px|thumb|I'm sensing a pattern emerging.]]
In this unprecedented situation, Jazz's authority superseded Prowl's, and he took overall command of the battered and demoralized Autobots. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}} Jazz also proved necessary to shore up Prowl's own authority, which was severely disregarded by his men. Jazz's reputation helped keep them in line, particularly the recalcitrant Ironhide, who had taken to striking superior officers, including Prowl himself. After the situation with Ironhide was defused, Prowl got Jazz to admit the energon searches he'd been sending troops out on were just to keep the men busy. Prowl worried that Prime would soon die, and about the details of their commander's condition that they had kept from the troops at large. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}}

In particular, what Jazz and Prowl were withholding was the fact that the [[Matrix of Leadership]] was not within Prime anymore, but had been absconded with by Megatron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}

Kup arrived on Cybertron shortly thereafter with his own team, and things took a turn for the worse, with the Swarm encroaching on their position. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} Sunstreaker was revealed to be the traitor, having made a bargain with Starscream to kill Megatron. He sacrificed his life to buy the other Autobots time to put some distance between them and the Swarm. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}

[[File:AHM10 ProwlandJazz.jpg|250px|thumb|Prick ''and'' nerd.]]
Thankfully, Ratchet finally managed to repair and revive Optimus Prime, and Autobot morale went on the upswing despite their situation. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} Under Prime's direction, they immediately began building a defense against the oncoming Swarm horde in a new temporary base. Once everything was nearly in place, Prowl calculated the odds of them succeeding and wound up with quite a dire forecast. Jazz urged him to keep it to himself, which Prowl quickly agreed to do. When the Swarm surged against them, the Autobots fought as hard as they could, but were eventually on the verge of being overwhelmed. Fortunately, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] arrived to tilt the odds squarely in the Autobots' favor. Prowl asked Omega how he had survived the galaxy-wide Decepticon attack, speculating that they had probably sent an army against him. Omega simply replied, "I am Omega Supreme". {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

The Autobots eventually boarded Omega's rocket mode and headed for Earth. There, they engaged the Decepticon forces in a fierce battle which ended with Megatron's defeat and Starscream ordering a withdrawal from the planet. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[File:Prowl Spotlight AdviseAgainstInvolvement.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"But Prowl, look...teddy bear."]]
Over the next three years, the Autobots remained on Earth at the insistence of Optimus Prime. Optimus believed they could not leave in good conscience while human society was still in disarray from their war and rogue Decepticons still wandered the planet. The humans were not interested in having protectors, however, and soon learned to take care of themselves. [[Skywatch]] reverse-engineered Cybertronian technology to hunt and capture Autobots AND Decepticons left on the planet.

As part of Optimus Prime's belief that the Autobots must help humanity rebuild in whatever way possible, Prowl was assigned to assist the local police whilst in disguise as one of their squad cars. Over the next eight months, Prowl saw humanity at its lowest ebb. Desperate, angry people who would never forgive the Transformers for bringing their war to humanity's homeworld. He watched as some of his driver's fellow police officers set fire to the building that the Decepticon [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] was trapped in, a cold execution of what Prowl considered an enemy combatant. He protested to Optimus Prime that humanity was dangerous, they were now killing Transformers, and that there was no strategic purpose for the Autobots to be on this planet or for he to continue this masquerade of being a police car. Prime asked his officer to trust him in his belief to the value of this activity, and that all the Autobots were on a personal journey.

[[File:Prowl Spotlight DoneTheNumbers.jpg|130px|thumb|Prowl finally realizes that math is useless.]]
And so Prowl continued to patrol the streets, and while he did so, he calculated. The humans numbered in their swarming billions versus less than ten thousand Cybertronians. Humanity lived brief, petty, frantic lives of comparatively little consequence, their world and its infrastructure inefficient, ramshackle and incompetent. Prowl concluded that not a single human life was worth that of a Cybertronian. However, when he and his police officer driver were overseeing the removable of volatile Cybertronian wreckage from a building, some workers accidentally triggered an abandoned weapon to fire, destroying a damaged building. Without thinking, Prowl transformed and pushed a young girl out of the way, saving her life, but in the process, was trapped under the rubble that would have crushed her. His driver expressed disbelief that the Autobot had been in disguise as his car for the past eight months, and that he had broken cover to save one girl. Prowl confessed that for eight months he had been watching, planning, but unable to do anything. There were so many times he could have assisted if he were able to break cover. He had run the numbers, made calculations on Earth and on humanity, his math was flawless, but they weren't ''right''. And when push came to shove, he couldn't rely on what he thought might happen, he had to act on instinct and do the right thing. The policeman, impressed, remarked that Prowl spoke like a true beat cop, and stated that while he was obligated to call this incident in, it wasn't an emergency and suggested that Prowl had an hour to extricate himself before Skywatch arrived. {{storylink|Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl}}

[[File:Ongoing issue 1-Prowl shot in the back.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Woman makes prick staticky. Hilarity ensues.]]
The Autobots moved west, where Prowl was joined in his undercover police work with new arrival [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]. They were present at a power installation in New Mexico, which was being ransacked by the ravenous [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]] [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]. Skywatch deployed its robot-hunting crash-suits and brought down the Decepticon before leveling lethal particle cannons at him. Despite himself, Prowl broke cover to prevent the execution of a helpless Transformer. This left his backside open to the second Skywatch team on site, who used [[Suppressor (device)|mode lock inhibitors]] to capture him as well as the "bait", Breakdown.

Prowl's capture was reported back to Autobase by Streetwise, and Hot Rod assembled a strike team to infiltrate Skywatch and rescue him. These Autobots were outfitted with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s new counter-inhibitors to prevent the mode lock from working. Unfortunately, this sudden change in tactical efficiency only caused Skywatch to panic, drawing out their lethal ordnance to protect themselves. Prowl was rescued...but Ironhide died in the assault. Grieving for his friend, Optimus Prime then stepped down as Autobot leader and turned himself over to Skywatch. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}}

With Optimus gone, Hot Rod advocated abandoning his plan and this planet, and Prowl was one of the first to sign up for Hot Rod's splinter group. They failed to convince [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] to fly them off-world, but then encountered a group of Decepticons led by Swindle. After a brief scuffle, Hot Rod and Swindle entered into negotiations for a truce. Prowl was uncomfortable with the idea of collaboration, despite his earlier effort on Breakdown's behalf. Ultimately, however, he went along with it. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

[[File:Prowl Seasons In Flight.jpg|thumb|230px|Prowl always narcs on the cool kids.]]
The united Autobots and Decepticons attempted to construct a space cruiser in order to leave the planet. Their efforts reached a hurdle with the arrival of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], duly appointed enforcer of the [[Tyrest Accord]]. Prowl had summoned Ultra Magnus to Earth as part of standard operating procedure after Ironhide's death, before Prime abdicated his leadership and the faction had split. Things became difficult as Magnus attempted to confiscate Hot Rod's "unlicensed interstellar vehicle". Prowl attempted to weigh in with legalese of his own, citing the line of procedural succession and emergency powers, but it became moot when Magnus discovered their collaboration. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

Eventually the collaboration ended when the Decepticons betrayed Hot Rod. Prowl and the others survived thanks to the intervention of Optimus Prime and Skywatch leading Bumblebee to form an alliance with humans. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"}}

[[File:Prowl LSOTW5 Pressure.jpg|left|thumb|100px|To prick...or ''not'' to prick...]]
Sometime after things settled down on Earth, Prowl formed a plan to recapture the [[Garrus-9]] detention facility, which had fallen during Megatron's push three years earlier. Prowl's primary objective on this mission was for the Wreckers to retrieve the data stored on [[Aequitas]], as he feared that if the Decepticons managed to get their hands on politically-damaging information about Autobot war criminals, it would be disastrous to the Autobot cause. When selections for the new Wreckers squad were being made, Prowl learned that [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (a weapons researcher at [[Kimia Facility]] who had an obsessive fascination with the Wreckers) had recently suffered a lab accident involving cerebro-centric bullets and only had months to live. Applying pressure on psy-ops specialist [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] (who had judged the researcher unfit for Wreckers duty), Prowl arranged for Ironfist to be placed in Springer's squad on the condition that he would be the one to sacrifice his life to unlock Aequitas. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After the surviving Wreckers defeated [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] and liberated G-9, Prowl was given a [[data slug]] containing the Aequitas' data, the legacy of Ironfist, who had finally succumbed to his lab accident injury. Prowl explained to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] how he regretted using Ironfist in this manner, and he would prefer if the information about trials were never made public, despite what he had agreed to millions of years ago, for fear of what it would do to Autobot morale. As Ultra Magnus left, Prowl started to apply pressure on the data slug... {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

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When [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] crash-landed a spaceship full of [[zombie]]s in [[Las Vegas]], Autobot and Skywatch troops were ready to defend the city. After a brief battle, they learned that the zombies were not on Galvatron's side, but rather a threat to the entire planet, and Prowl had the area quarantined before interrogating Galvatron on what he knew about the creatures. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|The Transformers: Infestation #1}} The leader of the zombies, an interdimensional vampire in disguise named [[Britt]], soon revealed herself and attacked the Autobots and Decepticons, infecting Kup with the zombie plague and creating a space-time portal to Cybertron's distant past, intending to infect the planet while it was still teeming with life. Prowl, however, had a way to sabotage her plan: using his previously established mind link with Kup, he removed the virus's control over the old warrior and had him change the portal's coordinates, trapping Kup, Britt and the zombie army in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 2|The Transformers: Infestation #2}}

Prowl was one of the Autobots who participated in the covert mission to take out the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], who were working with [[North Korea]] in exchange for energon. {{storylink|International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"|Ranks of Bronze}} In order to keep the battle a secret from the world at large, they hacked all spy satellites watch the area, after which Prowl helped defeat [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"|Hawk Among the Sparrows}} Then the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] joined the fray. Since Bumblebee and [[Kyle Pennington|Pennington]] back at base were unable to see what was going on, Prowl had to keep them informed, all while calculating the best strategies to avoid casualties. The Autobots were eventually victorious, but at the cost of humanity learning about their alliance with Skywatch. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

As the Autobots flew home from Korea, the Decepticons returned to Earth with a vengeance and had their plane shot down. Prowl and the others survived, however, and made it to shore. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} After their attacker was revealed to be none other than a returning Megatron, they confronted him and learned that he had defeated most of their troops in America and left them to the mercy of armed and angry humans. Prowl sent Jazz to save them, but against his direct orders to not resort to violence, Jazz ended up breaking cover and killing one of the men. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} The Autobots regrouped at Omega Supreme, and were soon joined by Megatron, having given himself up just to taunt them. Prowl was contemplating how short-sighted it had been to have both their mechanics on the Korea team when Optimus Prime approached him, asking him to investigate Megatron's claims that Spike Witwicky had executed a [[Scrapper (G1)|surrendered combatant]]. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

[[File:PoliceActionPrologue-Prowl.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Not to prick, apparently.]]

In order to finish his investigation, Prowl remained on Earth with Bumblebee, Ultra Magnus and some other Autobots while the rest of them left to drive Galvatron off of Cybertron. After a last-minute questioning of Megatron revealed nothing new, he tried unsuccessfully to get Decepticon deserter [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] to stay with the Autobots, and lied to Bumblebee and Spike that he would keep them updated on what was going on. {{storylink|Police Action: Prologue}} Appearing via hologram on board Omega Supreme, Prowl participated in the talks on what the Autobots would do with Megatron. He agreed with [[Xaaron]] that they needed a third party to judge the Decepticon leader's trial, but admitted that personally he'd rather just execute the scumbag. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory #1}}

When Spike let slip that he'd be gone from base for 36 hours for secret reasons, Prowl decided to spy on his activities. This proved uninformative as Spike just met with higher-ups and assorted women, but things got heated when Breakdown suddenly showed up for revenge against the human. Prowl defeated him with help from Streetwise, but was forced to break off the mission and was chewed out by Ultra Magnus for the attention attracted by the battle. He mentioned wanting to look into anti-Transformer spokesman [[Ben Simpson]], whom he suspected was providing people with guns made from Megatron's parts, but was ordered to focus on Spike. Searching the site of Scrapper's death, Prowl was sampling some odd chemical residue when he suddenly came under attack. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1|Police Action #1}}

The assailant was Brawl, though Prowl noticed he had a spotter that got away. Together with Streetwise he defeated the Decepticon and took him in for questioning, but a failsafe in his body caused him to shut down during interrogation. Continuing with the investigation on Spike, Prowl had former Skywatch member [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] brought in while he looked into the sample he had found. Just as he figured out that Scrapper had been attacked by a human with a chemical weapon rather than another Decepticon as previously assumed, Spike approached him and shamelessly admitted that it was all true. {{storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|Only Forward}}

While Spike argued that it was a strategical operation to rid the world of Devastator, Prowl saw it as murder with vengeance for Spike's friend [[Tim Simmons]] as the motive. Spike didn't care for being lectured, calling Prowl out on making his own tough decisions and keeping secrets from his allies for their own sake. Before he could think of what to do next, Prowl got word from Bumblebee that Ultra Magnus had agreed to go after Ben Simpson, and rolled out alongside him and Streetwise. Simpson turned out to be a [[facsimile construct]] created by Swindle to boost anti-Transformer sentiment among humanity for profit. When captured, Swindle not only admitted to being responsible for the situation in North Korea, but also for helping Skywatch by selling Cybertronian technology to... Spike Witwicky. Before the Autobots could do much, Spike had fled while Jazz went off on his own and announced to the world that the Autobots were cutting all ties with Skywatch and humanity. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}}

[[File:Prowl DeathofOptimusPrime.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Emo prick.]]
The few Autobots on Earth returned to Cybertron in the wake of Galvatron and [[D-Void]]'s defeat. Though the war was over, [[Autobot High Command]] found themselves stuck with the thankless job of governing the many neutral Cybertronians returning home. Prowl coined the term Non-Aligned Indigenous Life-forms, or [[NAIL]]s, for them, and they didn't like being ruled by the people who had ruined their world through war. When a riot took place, the Autobots were outnumbered 20-to-1 and Prowl had no choice but to release the captive Decepticons and have them lend a hand, though [[inhibitor/deterrence chip]]s kept from using lethal force. Things got worse when Rodimus and Ultra Magnus announced that they were leaving Cybertron in search of the [[Knights of Cybertron]] when he needed them to deal with the neutrals. This caused Prowl to blow up in anger towards the neutrals, calling them arrogant and ungrateful cowards who did nothing during the war but now acted like they owned the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

Contrary to Prowl's belief that nobody would willingly come with Rodimus, he managed to gather over 200 Autobots for his quest, including [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. Prowl tried to convince him to stay as he truly needed his special abilities, but Chromedome refused as he'd rather leave his past behind. After a brief fit of anger, Prowl resorted to plan B, contacting his [[Duobot|agents]] on board [[Lost Light|Rodimus's ship]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} He ordered them to place a tracker on its engines, though unfortunate events would lead to them to fail and be killed. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Prowl and Bumblebee watched the launch of the ''Lost Light'' be cut short when the ship disappeared in a sudden explosion. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

[[File:Prowl Arcee TheAutomonyLesson.jpg|left|thumb|250px|]]
Prowl was left handling the Decepticons, who were very harsh law enforcers and very unhappy about their imprisonment. After arresting [[Needlenose]] and [[Horri-Bull]] for assaulting [[Tappet|a NAIL]] (and then arresting the NAIL for disturbing the peace), he took them back to the Decepticon pen and was confronted by Decepticon spokesman [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who demanded his faction be treated as equals. Believing him to have some sort of plan, Prowl reported his suspicions to Bumblebee and suggested they cancel the memorial service dedicated to Rodimus's crew, what with the large NAIL population being indifferent to the fate of their friends. He later discussed the matter of Ratbat with his secret weapon, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], telling her that he was going to preserve the peace even if he had to do things he didn't want to do. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} He learned the truth soon enough when Starscream came to the Autobots and sold out Ratbat, telling Prowl that he planned to assassinate Bumblebee during the memorial service then stage a coup. Acting on this info, Prowl managed to stop [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] from sniping Bumblebee and leaving a NAIL to take the blame, and in the meantime sent Arcee to deal with Ratbat. Even though she mercilessly murdered the Decepticon, the two agreed afterwards that she had acted in self-defense and had no other choice. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Prowl later addressed to the Decepticons in the wake of Ratbat's death, claiming that evidence suggested suicide. Starscream stepped in and backed the cover story, much to Prowl's discomfort. Very shortly thereafter, mysterious explosions began striking Cybertron, leading Prowl to believe the Decepticons were responsible. Metalhawk questioned this, adding in some cutting remarks about the war not being over for Prowl yet. Eventually Wheeljack figured out the origin of the explosions and that all parties were innocent in the matter. Much to Prowl's displeasure, Starscream came up with a plan to protect the civilians while Wheeljack ended the threat. When Starscream was granted a place in the new government thanks to his actions, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] became enraged and struck Prowl, who had tried to calm him down. {{storylink|Stick Together}}

[[File:Prowl Bombshell Devisive.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Reports of this headshot may have been greatly exaggerated.]]
Starscream immediately began undermining Bumblebee's position in the new government, adding to Prowl's growing frustration. When the Decepticon [[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]] was found murdered, Prowl saw to the investigation. While interrogating the only witness, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], Prowl found a [[cerebro-shell]] implanted on the Decepticon, leading him to the conclusion that [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] was the murderer. Prowl and Arcee used the entranced Dirge to track Bombshell down, finding the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] ensnaring [[Sunstorm (G1)|another victim]]. After a scuffle where Prowl found out that Bombshell's I/D chip wasn't functioning, he ordered [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to pursue the fleeing suspect. Prowl and Arcee soon caught up and found Blurr being accosted by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. While Arcee was ordered to save Blurr, Prowl kept on with his pursuit of Bombshell, eventually cornering him. When Bombshell refused to give him any information or the identity of any possible collaborators, a fed-up Prowl coldly executed the deranged Insecticon. The cerebro-shell fell off Dirge, and he witnessed the aftermath of Prowl's actions. Dirge managed to escape and Prowl ordered Arcee to pursue him while he dealt with the Constructicons. Utilizing a hidden override code on the I/D chips to overcome whatever was blocking the signal, Prowl activated their chips and disabled all five Constructicons at once. Later, an injured Blurr gave Prowl a piece of his mind for being ordered after Bombshell without backup, calling him "crazy" and "paranoid". Prowl ignored Blurr's concerns, and pointed out that there was something larger at play with the Decepticons, telling Bumblebee that they had to "take control" of this new era. {{storylink|Devisive}}

When the NAIL [[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] arrived, Prowl kept close tabs with him along with Sideswipe. Later on, he was informed that Sky-Byte was having a secret meeting with the Decepticons and broke into their hiding place with Streetwise and Sideswipe and after a brief fight, managed to capture Sky-Byte and Needlenose. They were about to lynch them in public when Ironhide stopped Prowl after saying that it was a way to have a better future of equality for Autobot and Decepticon. When questioned the next day at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] of his new attitude, Ironhide said he had a vision that he and Alpha Trion were telling war stories on Gorlam Prime and that every Autobot and Decepticon by that time, were dead along with their old grudges. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

When the Decepticon captain [[Turmoil]] landed his ship on Cybertron, Prowl and his security forces were ordered in by Bumblebee to attack if necessary. When the order was given by Metalhawk, the Autobot forces stormed in to capture the Decepticons. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}} He was present when a Metrotitan appeared beneath Cybertron's surface and declared Starscream as the Cybertronian conqueror who would unite the planet. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}}

[[File:CityOnFire-NewProwl.jpg|left|thumb|220px|<---o The Verge]]

A short while later, Omega Supreme was bombed in a terror attack, and Prowl used the opportunity as pretense to arrest the Decepticons still working under Soundwave and Shockwave. To allow him to spirit the Decepticons away to secret captivity, Prowl had Arcee infiltrate their hideout, disable them with a special stasis bomb, and then planet explosives throughout the pen. Prowl then lead his public arrest force to the pen, where he purposely tripped the explosives to present the appearance that the Decepticons had booby-trapped their own base and had perished in the blast. {{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}} The blast left Prowl in a serious, although stable, condition, but he soon mysteriously disappeared from his [[CR chamber]]. A short while later, when Decepticons had begun rioting in response to Megatron's return, Prowl reappeared in an upgraded body, and shot [[Staxx]] to save Wheeljack, who had been corned by the angry mob. {{storylink|City on Fire}} He subsequently led the Autobot engineer to the [[Black Room]], where the Decepticons Prowl had previously 'killed' were waiting, repaired and upgraded. Wheeljack was taken hostage, and soon the escaped Megatron arrived, with a stunned Starscream in tow. {{storylink|The Verge}}

[[File:IDWRID14 prowlstator.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]

When a group of Autobots, joined by Metalhawk, Dirge and Swindle arrived at the Black Room, Prowl was holding Starscream and Wheeljack at gunpoint. The engineer tried to remind Bumblebee of what was "most important", but was shot through the head by his captor. Bombshell and Prowl revealed to their audience that the Autobot law enforcer had been taken by one of the Insecticon's mind control devices as he attempted to execute him, and had been a pawn of the Decepticons ever since. Bombshell also noted that Prowl had been easily controlled due to his memories already being damaged in some manner. With that concluded, Megatron declared that the Autobot had outlived his usefulness as a secret pawn, and announced that he would now become part of the next generation of Decepticon warrior. Briefly freed from Bombshell's influence, Prowl collapsed to the ground, aghast that his friends had never suspected his being controlled, but was suddenly wracked with pain as his body transformed against his will... into the head and shoulders of a reborn Devastator! The behemoth proceeded to attack the Autobot command center and snatch [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]] out of the air, before proceeding, under Bombshell's influence, to the med-center, where the highest concentration of Autobots was. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}}

The Prowl-Devastator remained conscious under Bombshell's control, but unable to direct his own actions. He was confronted by Ironhide's newly arrived Autobot gestalt, the former Aerialbots known as [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], and battled the giant. Prowl-Devastator's mind temporarily shut down when Arcee revealed her true colors and executed Bombshell. The gestalt soon started back up again, however, as Prowl's mind interfaced with the Devastator gestalt and began willingly causing vast amounts of destruction. The Devastator-Prowl started rampaging again, completely out of Decepticon control, and tore his way through Superion. {{storylink|Plan for Everything}}

Ironhide managed to get through to Prowl inside Devastator's psyche, convincing him to stop the devastation. Prowl re-exerted control over himself and Devastator long enough to rip the gestalt's head from its shoulders, separating Prowl and the Constructicons back into their component parts. Undeterred, Megatron prepared to enter the Devastator gestalt personally with his new body. Luckily, Bumblebee deciphered Wheeljack's last words in time, and he, Prowl and Ironhide spoke the access code for Wheeljack's system bypass, reactivating the force field bubble the engineer had secretly implanted in Megatron's spark casing. Unfortunately for the Autobot government, however, the NAILs had had enough after this latest outbreak of warfare. Led by Starscream, they cast both Autobots and Decepticons out of new Iacon. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}

{{storylink|Second Exodus}}
{{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}}
{{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}}

==Notes==
* According to IDW story editor [[Andy Schmidt]], [[Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl]] was originally going to be told in [[The Transformers (IDW)|the ongoing series]] . But when fans reacted badly to Prowl's characterization in [[...For All Mankind|the first issue of that series]], IDW decided to jump the gun and publish the story early as a ''Spotlight''.<ref>[http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1002/19/schmidt.htm Comics Continuum video interview with Andy Schmidt]</ref> It is intended to reconcile his new, rashly self-sacrificial portrayal with the methodical, vehemently anti-hotheaded-maverick personality he [[The Transformers: Infiltration|had]] [[The Transformers: Escalation|exhibited]] [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|previously]]. But that reconciliation doesn't actually address the core concern of many of those upset fans, who wanted not just explanation, but ''reversion'' to the subversive schemer that Prowl had recently developed into.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=7345 IDW forum thread practically begging for Prowl's new characterization to be undone.]</ref>
*Prowl's design in the first portion of Robots In Disguise is based on a concept drawing of War for Cybertron Bluestreak that never saw it's way in to the game. His design in the rest of the comic is based on pure awesome, evidently.

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[[File:Prowl-Infiltration2&3covers.jpg|300px|thumb|My prickitude [[Shane McCarthy|fluctuates]] [[Nick Roche|wildly]] [[Mike Costa|between]] [[John Barber|writers]].]]
Pragmatist. Calculating and cold. Rule-bound. Prick. Just some of the words used to describe '''Prowl'''.
{{quote|We're not winning this war, and I'm '''''tired''''' of it. Tired of crunching stat after stat, formulating workable strategies for '''''achievable victory'''''. Prime listens--to a point--then gets '''''restless''''' and changes tack on a whim. The average Autobot default setting is daredevil maverick. That's not '''''us''''', [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]. '''''We''''' can subdivide this war into its purest mathematical form and generate solutions all we want, but unless we happen to be [[Spotlight: Hot Rod|'''''surfing''''' on a '''''meteoroid''''']] at the time, '''''no one''''' will pay attention.|Prowl|"[[Everything in Its Right Place]]"}}
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==IDW Generation 1 comics==
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Prowl learned to appreciate rules and discipline during his formative years in [[Petrex]], a strictly [[functionism|functionist]] town where saying anything bad about your [[alternate mode]] could get you thrown in jail. He eventually made it into the [[Iaconian Mechaforensic Division]], where he became famous for his tendency to order a full body autopsy during practically every investigation. This is exactly what he did when he and his partner [[Chromedome (G1)|Tumbler]] were assigned to investigate the assassination of [[Sherma|Senator Sherma]], seemingly killed by Decepticons, leading to the discovery of [[cerulean glass]] on the victim's body. Following the trail to [[Translucentica Heights]], the duo ran straight into another body: that of [[Momus|Senator Momus]]. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}}

[[File:Prowl computing Patternism.jpg|left|280px|thumb|]]
As Tumbler went after the killer, Prowl investigated the crime scene and found that Momus had in fact been a Decepticon himself... and also that there was a ''second'' killer, who promptly attacked them. Inexperienced in combat, Prowl could do little to fight back, but the two were rescued by a fellow cop named [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] who believed the [[Senate]] to be targeting Decepticons. Pax suggested that they avoid reporting their findings to their superiors, but Prowl ignored him in favor of regular police procedure, which much to his chagrin led to his preliminary report being quoted as fact on the news. Sent by Pax to investigate a nearby [[Relinquishment Clinic]], he and Tumbler not only found proof that the killers had been using borrowed bodies, but also a complex dedicated to researching [[brain module]]s and a list of known Decepticons. While Tumbler, Orion Pax and several others believed that the clinic was the [[Institute]] and that the Senate was planning to use it to brainwash the Decepticons, Prowl rejected this as a far-fetched conspiracy theory. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} He refused to have any part in Pax's plan to stop the Senate's evil plot, but worried about his partner's choice to join in. He asked Pax to keep Tumbler out of danger, and in exchange he wouldn't tell anyone what they were planning. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

[[File:MegatronOrigin2 boredAutobots.jpg|thumb|And remember to fill out those TPS reports.]]
Following the rise of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], Prowl joined the Autobot Security Services in [[Kaon]], working right under Sentinel. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 1|Megatron Origin #1}} [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s rise as the most popular and violent pit fighter in videos of [[Kaon]]'s illegal [[gladiatorial combat]] attracted Prowl's attention, and he formed an Autobot Security Services team to crack down on them, though to the chagrin of his fellow officers, he tended to blather on about his theories about how somebody was making a fortune distributing on these inexpensive to produce videos. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}}

After the murder of [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] and [[Fastback (G1)|Fastback]], Sentinel and Prowl led a security forces deployment that arrested many of Megatron's pit fighters and those that they were attempting to recruit. Prowl personally attached the [[inhibitor claw]] to Megatron once he was overwhelmed by security forces. While processing the prisoners, he delivered the galling news that due to [[Ratbat (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|senate orders]], the one known as [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] was to be freed without charge. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} Unfortunately, it was all part of Megatron's mad plans. He allowed himself and his men to be captured so Starscream could feign turning coat and murder the senate members who questioned him. During the ensuing jail break that devastated the [[Security Services Headquarters|Security Team HQ]] and following street battle, Prowl lost his usual cool composure in the face of such onslaught and looked to Sentinel Prime for directions. When Prime left to face Megatron personally and was brutally defeated, it was Prowl who took control and ordered the evacuation of security forces from Kaon. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 4|Megatron Origin #4}}

As the Decepticon movement began to spread across Cybertron and [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]] took command, Prowl became a member of Orion Pax's Autobot counter-insurgency unit. He participated in a mission to arrest [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] as he was selling weapons to terrorists in [[Nyon]]. {{storylink|Law and Disorder}} Not long afterwards he helped hunt down Decepticon spy [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], but was dealt with by [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] who collapsed the [[Neurospan Bridge]] on him. {{storylink|The Hunt for Soundwave}} When [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] was held hostage by Decepticons to convince Orion to come to Kaon and talk to Megatron, Prowl and the rest of the team came to their rescue. {{storylink|Cause and Effect}}

On a mission from Zeta Prime to arrest the insurgent [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]], Orion Pax's team traveled to Nyon's [[Acropolex]], where Prowl noted that their target seemingly wasn't trying to kill them and also mentioned being a believer in the [[Matrix of Leadership]] unlike [[Ironhide (G1)|some people]]. At the heart of the Acropolex, the Autobots found that Hot Rod just wanted to show them multiple tanks full of energon drained from Nyon's populace to power Zeta Prime's war machines. He asked Orion Pax to join him against Prime's tyranny, though Prowl voiced his disapproval of officers joining the insurgents against their own government. {{storylink|Ruins}} He seemingly changed his mind as soon as Zeta Prime began directly assaulting Nyon. To distract Zeta's [[Guardian robot|Omega Destructor]]s while Hot Rod evacuated the city, Orion Pax and Prowl acted as bait and drew one of the Destructors into a trap, but failed to harm it and were defeated by Zeta Prime himself. {{storylink|Purge}} The Autobots' lives were saved by Megatron, who took them to Kaon for repairs and negotiated an alliance with Orion. {{storylink|Choices}}

[[File:Prowl Autocracy12 Endgame.jpg|left|250px|thumb|This is my "up to something" face.]]
Together with their new allies, Prowl and the others attacked Zeta Prime's [[Citadel]] and put an end to his rule. Unsurprisingly, the Decepticons then betrayed them. {{storylink|Overthrown}} Prowl was among those captured under Megatron's new rule, but escaped alongside his cellmates [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. They followed Orion Pax's ID signal to the ruins of Nyon, where they were shocked to learn that he had acquired the Matrix and become Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Rise}} When Optimus had to make a rallying call for more allies for their cause, Prowl cut the news-feed for the message to get carried out. He then participated in the assault against the Citadel. {{storylink|Broadcast}} After the battle, Prowl showed Optimus the armory that Zeta Prime had hidden in the [[Undergrid]], suggesting that they could use the weapons within against the Decepticons. Optimus refused this and ordered them destroyed. Knowing Prowl, however, he may not have followed orders... {{storylink|Endgame}}

Not long after Optimus's rise to leadership, Prowl aided him in responding to an attack on the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]]. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} During the [[Exodus (G1)|Exodus]], his security unit was in charge of upholding order at Iacon's [[Starsreach Spaceport]], but growing tensions led to rioting among those who couldn't afford their way off the planet. Prowl called in Optimus Prime to calm the rioters, only to be pulled into combat when the Decepticons attacked the spaceport. {{storylink|Massacre}} After [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] had chased off the attackers, Prowl watched him and the other [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] leave Cybertron. {{storylink|Unleashed}} He later participated in the Autobot defensive strategy against a rampaging [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Annihilation}}

Four million years ago, Prowl was working directly under Optimus Prime as the Autobots fought to prevent the Decepticons from bringing fresh energon supplies to the war effort. While Optimus went after the energon convoy himself, Prowl held the line with Hound and the others to prevent the Decepticons from getting hold of the latest city they had targeted. In the aftermath, Prowl congratulated Prime for capturing the convoy without having to fire a shot. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}

At some point during the war, Prowl tried to desert and escape the war on board the ''[[Peaceful Resolution]]''. It was shot down before reaching orbit, and he realized he had to help win the war instead of running from it. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

After the [[Garrus-9]] detention facility had been established, Prowl was among the law enforcement Autobots who endured the trials of ''Autobot'' [[Flame (Marvel)|criminals]] who inflicted unspeakable horrors on civilians and other non-combatants. Prowl and other luminaries such as [[Tyrest (G1)|Chief Justice Tyrest]], [[Xaaron]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] agreed that the trials would remain a secret until the final verdict was cast, then it would be full disclosure, regardless of the damage to morale and the Autobots' political standing. {{Storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

[[File:Infiltration3 Prowl saveit.jpg|300px|thumb|Talk to the hand, the prick ain't listening.]]
Millions of years later, Prowl was the leader of a detachment of Autobots that had operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, attempting to foil a Decepticon insurgency led by [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] and blindly following the Autobot rules of counterinsurgency. He almost threw [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the brig for breaking cover to rescue three humans from the Decepticons, and subsequently refused to contact [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] until further evidence of enemy activities was uncovered. He did not willingly believe Ratchet when the medic told him that the Decepticons had stepped up their presence by constructing a [[Infiltration protocol|second base]]. However, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] ended up sending a pulsewave transmission to Optimus Prime behind Prowl's back. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3|Infiltration #3}} Prowl was forced to face reality when Megatron arrived on Earth to confront Starscream, and he finally agreed to call in Optimus Prime. Thing was, Prime had already arrived. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

When Springer ordered several Autobots on a lethal mission to rescue the damaged and deranged Kup from [[Tsiehshi]], Prowl evidently helped conceal Springer's efforts from Optimus. However, he still felt it was a misguided effort, asking Springer if Kup would want other Autobots killed rescuing him. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

Prowl went with the Autobots to investigate Decepticon activity in the country of [[Latveria]]. There they discovered a heavily shielded "array" that the Decepticons were using as a base. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part One|Man and Machine #1}} After a skirmish with the [[human]]s that were present there, they teamed up with them to shut down the [[Psycho-Prism]] human mind altering device the Decepticons had fortified inside the array. The Decepticons attacked. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Two|Man and Machine #2}} During the fight, [[Luke Cage]] and Ratchet discovered a weak spot in the array's defenses and went in. Prowl followed to make sure Ratchet didn't put human interests ahead of Autobot interests, but the human [[Spider-Man]] was held captive inside, so Prowl gave in and let Ratchet and Luke Cage attempt a rescue.

Prowl found the Psycho-Prism guarded by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Doctor Doom]]. Doctor Doom zapped him into unconsciousness. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Three|Man and Machine #3}} He awoke next to Ratchet to find Spider-Man had been freed by Doctor Doom, who had switched sides. Prowl and Ratchet decided to use the Decepticons' [[mirror response mode]] equipment to boost their power with Spider-Man's superhuman abilities. [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] arrived with Jazz and Bumblebee and suggested they use his abilities instead. They did, then [[orbital jump|orbital bounced]] with Spider-Man back to the battle outside, where their added strength helped defeat Megatron. Wolverine, Jazz, and Bumblebee stayed to destroy the Psycho-Prism. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Four|Man and Machine #4}}

[[File:Escalation6 Prowl MYTURF.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Yeah, let the irresponsible loner look after the MacGuffin. Good call.]]
After [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] was kidnapped by [[Machination|a mysterious group of humans]], {{storylink|Escalation issue 1|Escalation #1}} Prowl was still obsessed with the rules of the counterinsurgency war and thus did not understand why Optimus Prime requested reinforcements to Earth. Prowl was furious when Ironhide dared to go around him and volunteer himself to track down clues on Sunstreaker's disappearance, and subsequently forced him to stay behind while the Autobots not on his grievance list left for [[Brasnya]] to confront the Decepticons. {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} When everything kicked off in the former [[Russia|Soviet]] nation, Prowl led [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (and later [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]) into battle, attempting to capture [[Georgi Koska]], a Decepticon [[Facsimile construct|facsimile]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} He clashed with Hot Rod over the capture of Koska as both of them were of equal rank, but when Optimus Prime was temporarily offline and believed dead, Prowl assumed full command and came up with a strategy for fighting Megatron (shoot him, then run away). {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

Under orders from Optimus, Prowl oversaw the moving of ''[[Ark-19]]'' to a more secure location. He turned to Prime rather than order the launch on his own discretion. (Prime had to order him to use his own discretion.) {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} When [[Sixshot]] blew them out of the sky, Optimus took command of the situation until the ''Ark-19'' was destroyed. {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}}

Once on the ''[[Ark-32]]'', Prowl found that, due to injuries from the battle with Sixshot {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} and separate missions, he and Hardhead were the only active Autobots. He was mildly annoyed that Optimus Prime and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] were otherwise preoccupied during this crisis. He was then shocked when Optimus abruptly ordered their unit to withdraw from Earth to handle a situation at the [[Garrus-9]] secure facility. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}}

Optimus Prime and Prowl met with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] on Garrus-9 to discuss the prisoners' breakout and how a surviving Decepticon had been tortured. Prime left Maximus in charge and said that he and Prowl had unfinished business aboard the ''Ark-32''. When [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] was reported guarding a cave on [[Corata-Vaz]], Optimus Prime recognized this had something to do with his [[infraspace]] encounter in [[Brasnya]]. He ordered Prowl to summon the [[Wrecker]]s to find out what Thunderwing was guarding. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}} He judged the subsequent battle between the Wreckers and Thunderwing as suicidal, and felt that they were wasting their time given everything seemed to be coming at them at once. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[File:AHM15 SpringerpunchesProwl.jpg|200px|thumb|According to my calcula- ''OHGODMYFACE!'']]
Prowl became increasingly frustrated with the tendency of the Autobots in general and Optimus specifically to lionise and listen to charismatic warriors and mavericks. Realising nobody would listen to the more logical tactical advice that he or Perceptor gave, he had Kup sent to the [[Kimia Facility]] to be rebuilt... with some personality sub-routines added in, which would ensure that the iconic elder could be controlled and made to act as a proxy for him. Prowl didn't want attention or glory, he only wanted to do his job, and he had absolutely no ethical qualms about ensuring that "when [Kup] speaks, you won't even see my lips move"...

He ''really'' didn't like Springer either, and was annoyed that the ''Decepticons'' seem to be a more unified body than the Autobots. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 15|All Hail Megatron #15}}

After the [[Expansion]] incident, Optimus Prime reassigned more Autobots to Earth. The Decepticons had been laying low for months, and everyone was starting to get restless. While Prowl recommended a "wait and see" approach to Optimus Prime, Ironhide's calls for action soon drowned out Prowl's reasoning. When Mirage handed them solid intelligence about a possible opportunity to wipe out Starscream and a small group of Decepticons, the Autobots acted on it. It turned out to be an ambush, and the Autobots were soundly defeated by the Decepticons with the aid of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. Informed that the Decepticons were launching simultaneous attacks across the galaxy on Autobot installations and also that there was a traitor among them, the Autobots' morale was dealt a heavy blow. Through use of a space bridge portal, Megatron planned to send the Autobots to Cybertron to have them devoured by the [[Insecticon swarm|Swarm]]. Optimus Prime managed to sabotage the portal and strand the Autobots on Cybertron before the Decepticons could follow, albeit nearly at the cost of his life. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[File:Ironhidepuncheseveryone.jpg|left|250px|thumb|I'm sensing a pattern emerging.]]
In this unprecedented situation, Jazz's authority superseded Prowl's, and he took overall command of the battered and demoralized Autobots. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}} Jazz also proved necessary to shore up Prowl's own authority, which was severely disregarded by his men. Jazz's reputation helped keep them in line, particularly the recalcitrant Ironhide, who had taken to striking superior officers, including Prowl himself. After the situation with Ironhide was defused, Prowl got Jazz to admit the energon searches he'd been sending troops out on were just to keep the men busy. Prowl worried that Prime would soon die, and about the details of their commander's condition that they had kept from the troops at large. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}}

In particular, what Jazz and Prowl were withholding was the fact that the [[Matrix of Leadership]] was not within Prime anymore, but had been absconded with by Megatron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}

Kup arrived on Cybertron shortly thereafter with his own team, and things took a turn for the worse, with the Swarm encroaching on their position. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} Sunstreaker was revealed to be the traitor, having made a bargain with Starscream to kill Megatron. He sacrificed his life to buy the other Autobots time to put some distance between them and the Swarm. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}}

[[File:AHM10 ProwlandJazz.jpg|250px|thumb|Prick ''and'' nerd.]]
Thankfully, Ratchet finally managed to repair and revive Optimus Prime, and Autobot morale went on the upswing despite their situation. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} Under Prime's direction, they immediately began building a defense against the oncoming Swarm horde in a new temporary base. Once everything was nearly in place, Prowl calculated the odds of them succeeding and wound up with quite a dire forecast. Jazz urged him to keep it to himself, which Prowl quickly agreed to do. When the Swarm surged against them, the Autobots fought as hard as they could, but were eventually on the verge of being overwhelmed. Fortunately, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] arrived to tilt the odds squarely in the Autobots' favor. Prowl asked Omega how he had survived the galaxy-wide Decepticon attack, speculating that they had probably sent an army against him. Omega simply replied, "I am Omega Supreme". {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

The Autobots eventually boarded Omega's rocket mode and headed for Earth. There, they engaged the Decepticon forces in a fierce battle which ended with Megatron's defeat and Starscream ordering a withdrawal from the planet. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[File:Prowl Spotlight AdviseAgainstInvolvement.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"But Prowl, look...teddy bear."]]
Over the next three years, the Autobots remained on Earth at the insistence of Optimus Prime. Optimus believed they could not leave in good conscience while human society was still in disarray from their war and rogue Decepticons still wandered the planet. The humans were not interested in having protectors, however, and soon learned to take care of themselves. [[Skywatch]] reverse-engineered Cybertronian technology to hunt and capture Autobots AND Decepticons left on the planet.

As part of Optimus Prime's belief that the Autobots must help humanity rebuild in whatever way possible, Prowl was assigned to assist the local police whilst in disguise as one of their squad cars. Over the next eight months, Prowl saw humanity at its lowest ebb. Desperate, angry people who would never forgive the Transformers for bringing their war to humanity's homeworld. He watched as some of his driver's fellow police officers set fire to the building that the Decepticon [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] was trapped in, a cold execution of what Prowl considered an enemy combatant. He protested to Optimus Prime that humanity was dangerous, they were now killing Transformers, and that there was no strategic purpose for the Autobots to be on this planet or for he to continue this masquerade of being a police car. Prime asked his officer to trust him in his belief to the value of this activity, and that all the Autobots were on a personal journey.

[[File:Prowl Spotlight DoneTheNumbers.jpg|130px|thumb|Prowl finally realizes that math is useless.]]
And so Prowl continued to patrol the streets, and while he did so, he calculated. The humans numbered in their swarming billions versus less than ten thousand Cybertronians. Humanity lived brief, petty, frantic lives of comparatively little consequence, their world and its infrastructure inefficient, ramshackle and incompetent. Prowl concluded that not a single human life was worth that of a Cybertronian. However, when he and his police officer driver were overseeing the removable of volatile Cybertronian wreckage from a building, some workers accidentally triggered an abandoned weapon to fire, destroying a damaged building. Without thinking, Prowl transformed and pushed a young girl out of the way, saving her life, but in the process, was trapped under the rubble that would have crushed her. His driver expressed disbelief that the Autobot had been in disguise as his car for the past eight months, and that he had broken cover to save one girl. Prowl confessed that for eight months he had been watching, planning, but unable to do anything. There were so many times he could have assisted if he were able to break cover. He had run the numbers, made calculations on Earth and on humanity, his math was flawless, but they weren't ''right''. And when push came to shove, he couldn't rely on what he thought might happen, he had to act on instinct and do the right thing. The policeman, impressed, remarked that Prowl spoke like a true beat cop, and stated that while he was obligated to call this incident in, it wasn't an emergency and suggested that Prowl had an hour to extricate himself before Skywatch arrived. {{storylink|Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl}}

[[File:Ongoing issue 1-Prowl shot in the back.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Woman makes prick staticky. Hilarity ensues.]]
The Autobots moved west, where Prowl was joined in his undercover police work with new arrival [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]. They were present at a power installation in New Mexico, which was being ransacked by the ravenous [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]] [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]. Skywatch deployed its robot-hunting crash-suits and brought down the Decepticon before leveling lethal particle cannons at him. Despite himself, Prowl broke cover to prevent the execution of a helpless Transformer. This left his backside open to the second Skywatch team on site, who used [[Suppressor (device)|mode lock inhibitors]] to capture him as well as the "bait", Breakdown.

Prowl's capture was reported back to Autobase by Streetwise, and Hot Rod assembled a strike team to infiltrate Skywatch and rescue him. These Autobots were outfitted with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s new counter-inhibitors to prevent the mode lock from working. Unfortunately, this sudden change in tactical efficiency only caused Skywatch to panic, drawing out their lethal ordnance to protect themselves. Prowl was rescued...but Ironhide died in the assault. Grieving for his friend, Optimus Prime then stepped down as Autobot leader and turned himself over to Skywatch. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}}

With Optimus gone, Hot Rod advocated abandoning his plan and this planet, and Prowl was one of the first to sign up for Hot Rod's splinter group. They failed to convince [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] to fly them off-world, but then encountered a group of Decepticons led by Swindle. After a brief scuffle, Hot Rod and Swindle entered into negotiations for a truce. Prowl was uncomfortable with the idea of collaboration, despite his earlier effort on Breakdown's behalf. Ultimately, however, he went along with it. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

[[File:Prowl Seasons In Flight.jpg|thumb|230px|Prowl always narcs on the cool kids.]]
The united Autobots and Decepticons attempted to construct a space cruiser in order to leave the planet. Their efforts reached a hurdle with the arrival of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], duly appointed enforcer of the [[Tyrest Accord]]. Prowl had summoned Ultra Magnus to Earth as part of standard operating procedure after Ironhide's death, before Prime abdicated his leadership and the faction had split. Things became difficult as Magnus attempted to confiscate Hot Rod's "unlicensed interstellar vehicle". Prowl attempted to weigh in with legalese of his own, citing the line of procedural succession and emergency powers, but it became moot when Magnus discovered their collaboration. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

Eventually the collaboration ended when the Decepticons betrayed Hot Rod. Prowl and the others survived thanks to the intervention of Optimus Prime and Skywatch leading Bumblebee to form an alliance with humans. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"}}

[[File:Prowl LSOTW5 Pressure.jpg|left|thumb|100px|To prick...or ''not'' to prick...]]
Sometime after things settled down on Earth, Prowl formed a plan to recapture the [[Garrus-9]] detention facility, which had fallen during Megatron's push three years earlier. Prowl's primary objective on this mission was for the Wreckers to retrieve the data stored on [[Aequitas]], as he feared that if the Decepticons managed to get their hands on politically-damaging information about Autobot war criminals, it would be disastrous to the Autobot cause. When selections for the new Wreckers squad were being made, Prowl learned that [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (a weapons researcher at [[Kimia Facility]] who had an obsessive fascination with the Wreckers) had recently suffered a lab accident involving cerebro-centric bullets and only had months to live. Applying pressure on psy-ops specialist [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] (who had judged the researcher unfit for Wreckers duty), Prowl arranged for Ironfist to be placed in Springer's squad on the condition that he would be the one to sacrifice his life to unlock Aequitas. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After the surviving Wreckers defeated [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] and liberated G-9, Prowl was given a [[data slug]] containing the Aequitas' data, the legacy of Ironfist, who had finally succumbed to his lab accident injury. Prowl explained to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] how he regretted using Ironfist in this manner, and he would prefer if the information about trials were never made public, despite what he had agreed to millions of years ago, for fear of what it would do to Autobot morale. As Ultra Magnus left, Prowl started to apply pressure on the data slug... {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

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When [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] crash-landed a spaceship full of [[zombie]]s in [[Las Vegas]], Autobot and Skywatch troops were ready to defend the city. After a brief battle, they learned that the zombies were not on Galvatron's side, but rather a threat to the entire planet, and Prowl had the area quarantined before interrogating Galvatron on what he knew about the creatures. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|The Transformers: Infestation #1}} The leader of the zombies, an interdimensional vampire in disguise named [[Britt]], soon revealed herself and attacked the Autobots and Decepticons, infecting Kup with the zombie plague and creating a space-time portal to Cybertron's distant past, intending to infect the planet while it was still teeming with life. Prowl, however, had a way to sabotage her plan: using his previously established mind link with Kup, he removed the virus's control over the old warrior and had him change the portal's coordinates, trapping Kup, Britt and the zombie army in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infestation issue 2|The Transformers: Infestation #2}}

Prowl was one of the Autobots who participated in the covert mission to take out the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], who were working with [[North Korea]] in exchange for energon. {{storylink|International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"|Ranks of Bronze}} In order to keep the battle a secret from the world at large, they hacked all spy satellites watch the area, after which Prowl helped defeat [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. {{storylink|International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"|Hawk Among the Sparrows}} Then the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] joined the fray. Since Bumblebee and [[Kyle Pennington|Pennington]] back at base were unable to see what was going on, Prowl had to keep them informed, all while calculating the best strategies to avoid casualties. The Autobots were eventually victorious, but at the cost of humanity learning about their alliance with Skywatch. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

As the Autobots flew home from Korea, the Decepticons returned to Earth with a vengeance and had their plane shot down. Prowl and the others survived, however, and made it to shore. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} After their attacker was revealed to be none other than a returning Megatron, they confronted him and learned that he had defeated most of their troops in America and left them to the mercy of armed and angry humans. Prowl sent Jazz to save them, but against his direct orders to not resort to violence, Jazz ended up breaking cover and killing one of the men. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} The Autobots regrouped at Omega Supreme, and were soon joined by Megatron, having given himself up just to taunt them. Prowl was contemplating how short-sighted it had been to have both their mechanics on the Korea team when Optimus Prime approached him, asking him to investigate Megatron's claims that Spike Witwicky had executed a [[Scrapper (G1)|surrendered combatant]]. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

[[File:PoliceActionPrologue-Prowl.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Not to prick, apparently.]]

In order to finish his investigation, Prowl remained on Earth with Bumblebee, Ultra Magnus and some other Autobots while the rest of them left to drive Galvatron off of Cybertron. After a last-minute questioning of Megatron revealed nothing new, he tried unsuccessfully to get Decepticon deserter [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] to stay with the Autobots, and lied to Bumblebee and Spike that he would keep them updated on what was going on. {{storylink|Police Action: Prologue}} Appearing via hologram on board Omega Supreme, Prowl participated in the talks on what the Autobots would do with Megatron. He agreed with [[Xaaron]] that they needed a third party to judge the Decepticon leader's trial, but admitted that personally he'd rather just execute the scumbag. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory #1}}

When Spike let slip that he'd be gone from base for 36 hours for secret reasons, Prowl decided to spy on his activities. This proved uninformative as Spike just met with higher-ups and assorted women, but things got heated when Breakdown suddenly showed up for revenge against the human. Prowl defeated him with help from Streetwise, but was forced to break off the mission and was chewed out by Ultra Magnus for the attention attracted by the battle. He mentioned wanting to look into anti-Transformer spokesman [[Ben Simpson]], whom he suspected was providing people with guns made from Megatron's parts, but was ordered to focus on Spike. Searching the site of Scrapper's death, Prowl was sampling some odd chemical residue when he suddenly came under attack. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1|Police Action #1}}

The assailant was Brawl, though Prowl noticed he had a spotter that got away. Together with Streetwise he defeated the Decepticon and took him in for questioning, but a failsafe in his body caused him to shut down during interrogation. Continuing with the investigation on Spike, Prowl had former Skywatch member [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] brought in while he looked into the sample he had found. Just as he figured out that Scrapper had been attacked by a human with a chemical weapon rather than another Decepticon as previously assumed, Spike approached him and shamelessly admitted that it was all true. {{storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|Only Forward}}

While Spike argued that it was a strategical operation to rid the world of Devastator, Prowl saw it as murder with vengeance for Spike's friend [[Tim Simmons]] as the motive. Spike didn't care for being lectured, calling Prowl out on making his own tough decisions and keeping secrets from his allies for their own sake. Before he could think of what to do next, Prowl got word from Bumblebee that Ultra Magnus had agreed to go after Ben Simpson, and rolled out alongside him and Streetwise. Simpson turned out to be a [[facsimile construct]] created by Swindle to boost anti-Transformer sentiment among humanity for profit. When captured, Swindle not only admitted to being responsible for the situation in North Korea, but also for helping Skywatch by selling Cybertronian technology to... Spike Witwicky. Before the Autobots could do much, Spike had fled while Jazz went off on his own and announced to the world that the Autobots were cutting all ties with Skywatch and humanity. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}}

[[File:Prowl DeathofOptimusPrime.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Emo prick.]]
The few Autobots on Earth returned to Cybertron in the wake of Galvatron and [[D-Void]]'s defeat. Though the war was over, [[Autobot High Command]] found themselves stuck with the thankless job of governing the many neutral Cybertronians returning home. Prowl coined the term Non-Aligned Indigenous Life-forms, or [[NAIL]]s, for them, and they didn't like being ruled by the people who had ruined their world through war. When a riot took place, the Autobots were outnumbered 20-to-1 and Prowl had no choice but to release the captive Decepticons and have them lend a hand, though [[inhibitor/deterrence chip]]s kept from using lethal force. Things got worse when Rodimus and Ultra Magnus announced that they were leaving Cybertron in search of the [[Knights of Cybertron]] when he needed them to deal with the neutrals. This caused Prowl to blow up in anger towards the neutrals, calling them arrogant and ungrateful cowards who did nothing during the war but now acted like they owned the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

Contrary to Prowl's belief that nobody would willingly come with Rodimus, he managed to gather over 200 Autobots for his quest, including [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]. Prowl tried to convince him to stay as he truly needed his special abilities, but Chromedome refused as he'd rather leave his past behind. After a brief fit of anger, Prowl resorted to plan B, contacting his [[Duobot|agents]] on board [[Lost Light|Rodimus's ship]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} He ordered them to place a tracker on its engines, though unfortunate events would lead to them to fail and be killed. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Prowl and Bumblebee watched the launch of the ''Lost Light'' be cut short when the ship disappeared in a sudden explosion. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

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Prowl was left handling the Decepticons, who were very harsh law enforcers and very unhappy about their imprisonment. After arresting [[Needlenose]] and [[Horri-Bull]] for assaulting [[Tappet|a NAIL]] (and then arresting the NAIL for disturbing the peace), he took them back to the Decepticon pen and was confronted by Decepticon spokesman [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], who demanded his faction be treated as equals. Believing him to have some sort of plan, Prowl reported his suspicions to Bumblebee and suggested they cancel the memorial service dedicated to Rodimus's crew, what with the large NAIL population being indifferent to the fate of their friends. He later discussed the matter of Ratbat with his secret weapon, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], telling her that he was going to preserve the peace even if he had to do things he didn't want to do. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} He learned the truth soon enough when Starscream came to the Autobots and sold out Ratbat, telling Prowl that he planned to assassinate Bumblebee during the memorial service then stage a coup. Acting on this info, Prowl managed to stop [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] from sniping Bumblebee and leaving a NAIL to take the blame, and in the meantime sent Arcee to deal with Ratbat. Even though she mercilessly murdered the Decepticon, the two agreed afterwards that she had acted in self-defense and had no other choice. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}} Prowl later addressed to the Decepticons in the wake of Ratbat's death, claiming that evidence suggested suicide. Starscream stepped in and backed the cover story, much to Prowl's discomfort. Very shortly thereafter, mysterious explosions began striking Cybertron, leading Prowl to believe the Decepticons were responsible. Metalhawk questioned this, adding in some cutting remarks about the war not being over for Prowl yet. Eventually Wheeljack figured out the origin of the explosions and that all parties were innocent in the matter. Much to Prowl's displeasure, Starscream came up with a plan to protect the civilians while Wheeljack ended the threat. When Starscream was granted a place in the new government thanks to his actions, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] became enraged and struck Prowl, who had tried to calm him down. {{storylink|Stick Together}}

[[File:Prowl Bombshell Devisive.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Reports of this headshot may have been greatly exaggerated.]]
Starscream immediately began undermining Bumblebee's position in the new government, adding to Prowl's growing frustration. When the Decepticon [[Skydive (Predator)|Skydive]] was found murdered, Prowl saw to the investigation. While interrogating the only witness, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], Prowl found a [[cerebro-shell]] implanted on the Decepticon, leading him to the conclusion that [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] was the murderer. Prowl and Arcee used the entranced Dirge to track Bombshell down, finding the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] ensnaring [[Sunstorm (G1)|another victim]]. After a scuffle where Prowl found out that Bombshell's I/D chip wasn't functioning, he ordered [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to pursue the fleeing suspect. Prowl and Arcee soon caught up and found Blurr being accosted by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. While Arcee was ordered to save Blurr, Prowl kept on with his pursuit of Bombshell, eventually cornering him. When Bombshell refused to give him any information or the identity of any possible collaborators, a fed-up Prowl coldly executed the deranged Insecticon. The cerebro-shell fell off Dirge, and he witnessed the aftermath of Prowl's actions. Dirge managed to escape and Prowl ordered Arcee to pursue him while he dealt with the Constructicons. Utilizing a hidden override code on the I/D chips to overcome whatever was blocking the signal, Prowl activated their chips and disabled all five Constructicons at once. Later, an injured Blurr gave Prowl a piece of his mind for being ordered after Bombshell without backup, calling him "crazy" and "paranoid". Prowl ignored Blurr's concerns, and pointed out that there was something larger at play with the Decepticons, telling Bumblebee that they had to "take control" of this new era. {{storylink|Devisive}}

When the NAIL [[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] arrived, Prowl kept close tabs with him along with Sideswipe. Later on, he was informed that Sky-Byte was having a secret meeting with the Decepticons and broke into their hiding place with Streetwise and Sideswipe and after a brief fight, managed to capture Sky-Byte and Needlenose. They were about to lynch them in public when Ironhide stopped Prowl after saying that it was a way to have a better future of equality for Autobot and Decepticon. When questioned the next day at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] of his new attitude, Ironhide said he had a vision that he and Alpha Trion were telling war stories on Gorlam Prime and that every Autobot and Decepticon by that time, were dead along with their old grudges. {{storylink|A Better Tomorrow}}

When the Decepticon captain [[Turmoil]] landed his ship on Cybertron, Prowl and his security forces were ordered in by Bumblebee to attack if necessary. When the order was given by Metalhawk, the Autobot forces stormed in to capture the Decepticons. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}} He was present when a Metrotitan appeared beneath Cybertron's surface and declared Starscream as the Cybertronian conqueror who would unite the planet. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things}}

[[File:CityOnFire-NewProwl.jpg|left|thumb|220px|<---o The Verge]]

A short while later, Omega Supreme was bombed in a terror attack, and Prowl used the opportunity as pretense to arrest the Decepticons still working under Soundwave and Shockwave. To allow him to spirit the Decepticons away to secret captivity, Prowl had Arcee infiltrate their hideout, disable them with a special stasis bomb, and then planet explosives throughout the pen. Prowl then lead his public arrest force to the pen, where he purposely tripped the explosives to present the appearance that the Decepticons had booby-trapped their own base and had perished in the blast. {{storylink|The End of the Beginning of the World}} The blast left Prowl in a serious, although stable, condition, but he soon mysteriously disappeared from his [[CR chamber]]. A short while later, when Decepticons had begun rioting in response to Megatron's return, Prowl reappeared in an upgraded body, and shot [[Staxx]] to save Wheeljack, who had been corned by the angry mob. {{storylink|City on Fire}} He subsequently led the Autobot engineer to the [[Black Room]], where the Decepticons Prowl had previously 'killed' were waiting, repaired and upgraded. Wheeljack was taken hostage, and soon the escaped Megatron arrived, with a stunned Starscream in tow. {{storylink|The Verge}}

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When a group of Autobots, joined by Metalhawk, Dirge and Swindle arrived at the Black Room, Prowl was holding Starscream and Wheeljack at gunpoint. The engineer tried to remind Bumblebee of what was "most important", but was shot through the head by his captor. Bombshell and Prowl revealed to their audience that the Autobot law enforcer had been taken by one of the Insecticon's mind control devices as he attempted to execute him, and had been a pawn of the Decepticons ever since. Bombshell also noted that Prowl had been easily controlled due to his memories already being damaged in some manner. With that concluded, Megatron declared that the Autobot had outlived his usefulness as a secret pawn, and announced that he would now become part of the next generation of Decepticon warrior. Briefly freed from Bombshell's influence, Prowl collapsed to the ground, aghast that his friends had never suspected his being controlled, but was suddenly wracked with pain as his body transformed against his will... into the head and shoulders of a reborn Devastator! The behemoth proceeded to attack the Autobot command center and snatch [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]] out of the air, before proceeding, under Bombshell's influence, to the med-center, where the highest concentration of Autobots was. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}}

The Prowl-Devastator remained conscious under Bombshell's control, but unable to direct his own actions. He was confronted by Ironhide's newly arrived Autobot gestalt, the former Aerialbots known as [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], and battled the giant. Prowl-Devastator's mind temporarily shut down when Arcee revealed her true colors and executed Bombshell. The gestalt soon started back up again, however, as Prowl's mind interfaced with the Devastator gestalt and began willingly causing vast amounts of destruction. The Devastator-Prowl started rampaging again, completely out of Decepticon control, and tore his way through Superion. {{storylink|Plan for Everything}}

Ironhide managed to get through to Prowl inside Devastator's psyche, convincing him to stop the devastation. Prowl re-exerted control over himself and Devastator long enough to rip the gestalt's head from its shoulders, separating Prowl and the Constructicons back into their component parts. Undeterred, Megatron prepared to enter the Devastator gestalt personally with his new body. Luckily, Bumblebee deciphered Wheeljack's last words in time, and he, Prowl and Ironhide spoke the access code for Wheeljack's system bypass, reactivating the force field bubble the engineer had secretly implanted in Megatron's spark casing. Unfortunately for the Autobot government, however, the NAILs had had enough after this latest outbreak of warfare. Led by Starscream, they cast both Autobots and Decepticons out of new Iacon. {{storylink|Heavy Is the Head}}

{{storylink|Second Exodus}}
{{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}}
{{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}}

==Notes==
* According to IDW story editor [[Andy Schmidt]], [[Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl]] was originally going to be told in [[The Transformers (IDW)|the ongoing series]] . But when fans reacted badly to Prowl's characterization in [[...For All Mankind|the first issue of that series]], IDW decided to jump the gun and publish the story early as a ''Spotlight''.<ref>[http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1002/19/schmidt.htm Comics Continuum video interview with Andy Schmidt]</ref> It is intended to reconcile his new, rashly self-sacrificial portrayal with the methodical, vehemently anti-hotheaded-maverick personality he [[The Transformers: Infiltration|had]] [[The Transformers: Escalation|exhibited]] [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|previously]]. But that reconciliation doesn't actually address the core concern of many of those upset fans, who wanted not just explanation, but ''reversion'' to the subversive schemer that Prowl had recently developed into.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=7345 IDW forum thread practically begging for Prowl's new characterization to be undone.]</ref>
*Prowl's design in the first portion of Robots In Disguise is based on a concept drawing of War for Cybertron Bluestreak that never saw it's way in to the game.

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:''Spike [[Witwicky]] is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] and [[Autobot]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Spikewitwickyg1.jpg|200px|thumb|Wait till you see my sweet future jumpsuit!]]
'''Spike Witwicky''' is the oldest (and sometimes only) son of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Spike, like most Witwickys, has a tendency to form close bonds to the Autobots and become one of their main human allies. 'Cause let's face it, there are advantages when your best friend is [[Bumblebee (G1)|a car]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Show Hayami]] (Japanese, ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform''), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese, ''The Movie'', ''Transformers 2010''), [[Kōji Ochiai]] (Japanese, ''The Rebirth'')|[[Wolfgang Mascher]] (German; Generation 1), [[Dirk Meyer]] (German; ''Generation 2''), [[Crock Krumbiegel]] (German; ''The Movie''), [[Olivier Destrez]] then [[François Leccia]] (French), [[Nada Blam]] (Serbian), [[Staffan Hallerstam]] (Swedish; Generation 1), [[Dick Eriksson]] (Swedish; Generation 2)}}

[[File:Mtmte2 witiwickys saved.jpg|left|thumb|220px|This isn't what they meant by "bodyboarding", Prime...]]

In 1984, the fourteen-year-old Spike was working on an oil rig with his father [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] when his life was turned upside-down by the arrival of the [[Decepticon]]s. The evil robots began attacking the rig and terrorizing the workers; when Spike tried vainly to save his father from the clutches of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], he was swatted away by the Decepticon and fell in the ocean. Sparkplug broke free from Rumble's grip a second later and leapt in after him, and as the two Witwickys floated in the brine, the [[Autobot]]s arrived to stop the Decepticons' evildoing. To cover the villains' escape, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] collapsed the oil rig, imprisoning Spike and Sparkplug beneath a metal lattice with fire creeping towards them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] freed the two humans and brought them to safety, and in reciprocation, Spike and his father offered to serve as the Autobots' guides to [[Earth]] and allies in the fight against the Decepticons.

[[File:Mtmte2 spike finds soundwave.jpg|thumb|220px|I don't see anyone else around. I guess this must be mine. Result!]]

While returning to the Autobots' base after writing the latest entry in [[Spike's diary|his journal]], Spike stumbled across a sweet discarded cassette player, which he brought back to the base with him. After quizzing [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] on the Autobots' various special abilities, Spike took Hound up on his offer for a joyride through the desert, leaving the tape player behind. When he returned, however, he was horrified to discover that the device had been the Decepticon [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] in disguise, and that he had downloaded much secret information from [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]. Using that information, the Decepticons soon struck [[Sherman Dam]], and when the Autobots tried to stop them, Hound was buried under a pile of rocks, deep in the river, by Rumble. Spike dived in to save him, but once he had done so, he then had to be saved by Hound, who gave him CPR.

[[File:Mtmte2 witwickys and trailbreaker.jpg|left|thumb|220px|They never miss the game]]

While out scanning for Decepticon transmissions with Trailbreaker, Spike and his father learned that Megatron was planning to hit the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]], and the Autobots mobilized to confront them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Soon after, when the Autobots learned that the Decepticons were poised to return to Cybertron, Spike and Sparkplug volunteered to stop them before they could depart aboard [[Victory (G1)|their space cruiser]]. During the subsequent battle, Spike threw a rock that dislodged [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s [[null-ray]]. Eventually, the threat of the Decepticons was believed ended when their space cruiser crashed in the ocean. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[File:Transporttooblivion captive spike.jpg|thumb|220px|All we need is [[Chewbacca|Chewie]] and we'll be all set!]]

Several months later, the Decepticons resurfaced with a plan to create an intergalactic transportation system known as a "[[space bridge]]". Spike was chilling with [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] when the villains struck a solar power plant, knocking out power across the city. When Optimus Prime charged [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] with spying on the Decepticons to learn their plan, Spike requested that he be allowed to accompany the small Autobot, beginning a long-standing friendship between the two. Unfortunately, this first mission together did not go very well, as Spike was captured by the Decepticons and almost used as a guinea pig for the first test run of the space bridge, but was thankfully saved at the last second by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}}

Spike's friend [[Chip Chase]] brought Spike and Bumblebee on a visit to the laboratory of [[Alcazar|Doctor Alcazar]], with whom he was working on an [[antimatter]] formula. [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] attacked the trio as they were leaving the lab, and although they were able to escape, the Decepticons returned to capture Chip in his home. Spike, Bumblebee, Hound and Mirage teamed up to rescue Chip, but the Decepticons were still able to acquire the antimatter formula. In the battle that resulted, [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] was wielding the antimatter-powered Megatron when Spike bravely attacked his leg with a pneumatic drill. Skywarp seized the boy, but this gave Chip the distraction he needed to plant an override device on the Decepticon's leg, allowing [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to control Skywarp's motor relays remotely, tipping the scales of the battle in the Autobots' favor. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[File:Divideandconquer spike grabs gun.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Spike was helping Optimus Prime search for the newest location of the Decepticons' space bridge when a distress call from Chip summoned them to a munitions plant under Decepticon attack. Prime was fatally wounded in the subsequent battle, forcing Chip and a team of Autobots to head to Cybertron to recover a replacement [[cosmitron]] for his systems. In their absence, the Decepticons attacked Autobot Headquarters, and the leaderless Autobots could not muster the courage to fight. Claiming that this was not what Prime would have wanted, Spike seized Jazz's pistol and announced that he would fight the battle himself if he had to, his bravery galvanizing the other Autobots into action. During the fight, the Cybertron team returned with the cosmitron, restoring Prime, who defeated Megatron and won the day. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

A freak snowstorm in the desert around Autobot Headquarters gave Spike cause for celebration, as he introduced the Autobots to the wonders of a snowball fight. When the unnatural weather was discovered to be the product of a Decepticon plot at the North Pole, Spike and his father headed to the Arctic Circle with the Autobots. There, the two humans were captured by the Decepticons' newest recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], but they could see that his heart wasn't in the evil robots' scheme, and he soon switched sides. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

[[File:Fireonthemountain spike and luisa.jpg|thumb|220px|It's the pink interior that makes Spike such a [[Ladiesman217|Ladiesman]].]]

When the Autobots discovered a cavern full of [[dinosaur]] bones behind their Headquarters, Spike educated them on the ancient reptiles, and helped design the robotic "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" that Optimus Prime decided to have created based on Spike's stories. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Later, he and Bumblebee headed to [[South America]] to investigate a Decepticon scheme in Peru, where he got cosy with a native girl named [[Luisa]] after he saved her life. Luisa led them to the temple the Decepticons were using as a base, where Spike discovered and repaired the captive Skyfire. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}}

Soon after, he and Chip helped the Autobots create two more Dinobots, {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}} Spike faced his greatest challenge yet when he saw his father abducted by the Decepticons. The Autobots quickly enacted a rescue plan, but Spike soon realized that his father was not in his right mind when he discovered that he was responsible for sabotaging Teletraan I and the Autobots' weapons. In truth, a [[hypno-chip]] had transformed Sparkplug into a mind-controlled Decepticon slave! {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}}

[[File:Tud hypnochipped sparkplug.jpg|left|thumb|220px|So this is where he learned the excellent parenting skills he demonstrates in Headmasters]]

Concurrently, the Decepticons activated a massive space bridge that teleported the entire planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into Earth's orbit, causing massive natural disasters that Spike and the Autobots were also forced to contend with. Discovering that his father had been taken to Cybertron, Spike insisted that Optimus Prime allow him and a team of Autobots to go to the planet and find him. Navigating traps and ventilation shafts, Spike, Bumblebee and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] made their way to [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Decepticon Headquarters]], where Spike confronted his father in hopes of bringing him to his senses. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Unfortunately, Sparkplug instead triggered an alarm that brought the Decepticons running, forcing Spike and the Autobots to flee and take refuge in [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s old laboratory. There, Wheeljack analyzed a computer disk stolen from Decepticon Headquarters by Bumblebee and created a device to undo the hypno-chips' effects. Spike served as bait to lure the Decepticons and Sparkplug out so that the device could be tested, and although he was nearly shot by his brainwashed father, Wheeljack's counter-weapon succeeded, freeing Sparkplug from Decepticon control. The Autobots and Witwickys headed back to Earth, where Spike hit on the idea to blow up the Decepticons' stockpile of [[energon cube]]s in order to blast Cybertron out of Earth orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

[[File:AutobotSpike-AutobotXTabled.jpg|thumb|220px|Well, you can call him "Junkbot"!]]

Spike traveled with the Autobots to [[Bali]] to battle the newest Decepticons, the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and was the one who came up with the idea to use Trailbreaker's forcefield to block [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]'s clone beams. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}} Soon after, Spike was among the spectators of a mighty one-on-one battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, which ended with Prime's defeat. When Megatron was revealed to have cheated by combining all the powers of the Decepticons together, the Autobots overturned the result of the fight and sent the Decepticons tumbling into a river of lava. Spike wondered if this was truly the end of the Transformers' war, but Optimus Prime was uncertain. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

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When Spike was grievously injured by Megatron in a Decepticon attack, the Autobots had to figure out a way to remove his mind from his body so that life-saving surgery could be performed. The process was carried out using [[Autobot X]], a [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein]]-like robot created by Sparkplug from various Autobot spare parts, but the unstable robot body clouded Spike's mind. He began rampaging, and eventually fled Autobot Headquarters, at which point he was approached by Megatron, who manipulated him into allying with the Decepticons against his friends. Only after nearly killing his father did Spike come to his senses, and turned on the Decepticons, after which his mind was subsequently transferred back into his body. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}}

Spike was instrumental in saving [[New York City]] from Decepticon domination when he and Bumblebee infiltrated Megatron's command post and goaded him into destroying his own weapons control console, {{storylink|City of Steel}} after which he had to fight against his friends when the Autobots fell under the influence of a Decepticon [[personality destabilizer device]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[File:Arcade Hahaha.jpg|thumb|220px|Bumblebee comforts Carly after a sudden tiff]]

While on a run to pick up a [[polarizer]] for Wheeljack's new [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]] invention, Spike and Bumblebee stopped off at the [[Robots Video Arcade]], where Spike was approached by an older girl named [[Carly]]. When it turned out that all she wanted was to be introduced to Bumblebee, however, Spike excused himself and his Autobot buddy, and they had an eventful journey back to the base, enduring a policeman who questioned Spike's driving age and a surprise attack by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Carly trailed them back, and then helped them out in their mission to reclaim the stolen Immobilizer from the Decepticons. At the adventure's end, Spike invited Carly out for a chocolate soda, beginning a romance between the two teens. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

When Spike and Chip came up with the idea of the Autobots racing for charity, they could never have predicted that the Decepticons would use it as an opportunity to trap the heroic robots in their vehicle modes with their new [[Transfixatron]]. Wheeljack and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] managed to escape the paralyzing device's influence and created a [[Anti-transfixation grenade|grenade]] to undo its effects, and Chip and Spike outran Soundwave and his cassettes to detonate it in the Autobots' midst and save them. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

[[File:Spike SemiNude.jpg|left|150px|thumb|We have hereby filled our beefcake quota for this Wiki. Move along.]]

After a lesson in how to play football, Spike went with a team of Autobots to investigate the underwater city of [[Sub-Atlantica]], and told them of the legend of [[Atlantis]] that was potentially inspired by it. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} Later, while investigating a Decepticon oil pumping platform, Spike was captured alongside Skyfire and Hound, but was able to effect their release by incapacitating their Decepticon guards with an electro-magnet. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} Later still, Spike told the Autobots about ninjas when he attended the unveiling of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

When a mysterious second [[Optimus Prime clone|Optimus Prime]] appeared while the Autobots were investigating a crevice of [[korlonium crystal]]s, Spike proposed a series of tests to determine which was the real one. The tests failed, but the impostor Prime was revealed when he displayed no concern for Spike after the boy was captured by Megatron. His deception revealed, Megatron hurled Spike from his [[Incredibly tall rocket|rocket base]] to cover his retreat, but he was safely rescued by [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} Soon after, Spike joined the Autobots in battling the super-powered Insecticons, and bravely climbed Shrapnel's body to deliver by hand the antidote that stopped his over-charged frame from exploding. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}}

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The Autobots' discovery of a mysterious prehistoric island where dinosaurs still lived was a dream come true for Spike, and he christened the lost world "[[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]]" when Powerglide and the Dinobots took him there. After some perilous encounters with the local wildlife, however, Spike decided he would limit his dinosaur experiences to reading about them in [[Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire|books]]. Powerglide returned Spike home, but while he and Bumblebee headed to the library, the Decepticons arrived on Dinobot Island and began draining its many sources of energy. This caused a series of time warps to open all over the world, including one that disgorged barbarians and woolly [[mammoth]]s right into Spike and Bumblebee's path! The time-tossed creatures collapsed a building on top of the duo, {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} but Bumblebee shielded Spike with his body, and the other Autobots soon arrived to dig them out and send the unwelcome visitors back through the time warp. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}} A little later, Spike taught Optimus Prime how to play basketball. {{storylink|The Master Builders}}

[[File:Masterplan spike cornered.jpg|left|thumb|220px|"I learned in history that [[Mark Twain]] fought you with one of these too!"]]

Spike believed it was "about time" when the mayor of [[Central City (Earth)|Central City]] decided to honor the Autobots with a holiday dedicated to them, but he was horrified when mayoral rival [[Shawn Berger]] interrupted the ceremony with a tape given to him by Megatron that framed the Autobots for energy theft. Naturally, Spike, his father and Chip were not fooled by the bogus footage, but unfortunately, they were about the only humans who stood by the Autobots. When the heroic robots went to trial, Spike left in the middle of the proceedings to try and locate some evidence to prove their innocence. He was successful, discovering more footage on the tape that revealed the "Autobots" on display as disguised Decepticons, but was then confronted by Ravage. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} Escaping, Spike presented his evidence to the mayor, but it came too late: the Autobots had already been exiled from Earth, and the world was now celebrating the Decepticons. Megatron did not allow his pantomime to last long, however, announcing in a press conference his dominion over Central City. Spike was captured and put to work in a slave camp along with the rest of the city's population, but thankfully, before long, the Autobots returned to Earth to clear their names and rout the Decepticons. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

[[File:Dotd spike carly swoop.jpg|thumb|220px| "Now that's some pre-[[Pat Lee|Lee]] '[[Dull surprise]]' right there!"]]

Spike and Carly were enjoying themselves at an [[Fun A Rama Park|amusement park]] with Bumblebee, but the merriment had to come to an end so they could go to the airport and pick up Sparkplug. The airfield became a battlefield, however, when a [[Hangar|Decepticon base was discovered in a nearby hangar]] and the Dinobots were ordered in to attack. Badly damaged by the fight, the Dinobots decided to finally secede from the Autobots, but this could not have come at a worse time: no sooner had they left than the Autobots began to malfunction due to [[cybertonium]] deterioration. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} Spike and Carly volunteered to go to Cybertron to recover a fresh supply, but as soon as they had arrived, they fell afoul of Shockwave, and were forced to flee into the tiny tunnels honeycombing the planet. Heading for Wheeljack's lab, Spike and Carly encountered [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], who had come to Cybertron with the other Dinobots, but had been the only member of the team to avoid capture. With Swoop to help them, Spike and Carly navigated the ancient traps in the bowels of the planet, and even found a historical video records room that relayed for them the history of the Transformers' war. While watching the video, they were ambushed by Shockwave's [[Sentinel (G1)|sentinels]] and taken to join the other Dinobots in the cybertonium pits. The Dinobots had had their memory circuits bypassed to ensure their compliance, but Carly soon put their systems right, and they worked with the two humans to escape the pits, defeat their captors and return to Earth with enough cybertonium to repair all the Autobots. For their bravery, Spike and Carly were appointed [[Honorary Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[File:Spike gets kissed.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Spike valiantly resists the princess' advances]]

Spike and Carly got to travel to the [[moon (moon)|moon]] when the Decepticons threatened the world with the [[Voltronic Galaxer]], {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} after which Spike went on an even greater journey: into the past! Along with [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], Spike followed a group of Decepticons through a relic called the [[Dragon Mound]], which transported them to 543 AD. There, Spike took an immediate liking to [[Nimue]], the daughter of a local nobleman, and tried to single-handedly rescue her when she was kidnapped by the Decepticons and their local ally, Sir [[Wigend du Blackthorne]]. Unfortunately, by the time Spike had scaled the tower Nimue was being held in (which was in and of itself a challenge thanks to the heavy suit of armor Hoist had made for him), she and Wigend had fallen in love and become engaged! Spike subsequently returned to the present with the Transformers, where we can only assume he didn't tell Carly about the hot medieval chick. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}

When several Autobots and Decepticons were lost in a space bridge accident, Spike was among those who huddled around Teletraan I as Chip tried to use the computer to locate them. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} After the lost Transformers returned, Spike, Bumblebee and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] were sent to the planet [[Floron III]] to recover [[robotic insecticide]] that would help deal with the threat of the Insecticons. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently brought back one of the planet's native lifeforms, the [[Morphobot]]s. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

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Spike was washed away in a flash flood caused by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] when they started fighting for Decepticon leadership, but was rescued by Optimus Prime and carried to safety by Powerglide. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}} Later, Spike was working in his father's automotive garage when Powerglide dropped in with [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]], a flighty heiress he had rescued from the Decepticons. Spike began hitting on Astoria when they were left alone, but when he found that all she wanted to talk about was Powerglide, he grumpily returned to his work...at which point all his equipment started malfunctioning thanks to Astoria's tendency to jinx up machinery around her. We bet Spike didn't tell Carly about her, either. {{storylink|The Girl Who Loved Powerglide}}

[[File:Hoisthollywoodflesheatinglava.jpg|left|thumb|From this angle, it looks like they're STANDING on the lava...|220px]]

When Hoist, Spike and Carly accidentally stumbled into the middle of a movie shoot, the movie's [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]] decided to hire Hoist and some other Autobots on to star in his movie, and Spike and Carly were given free passes to the studio lot. While there, they discovered the Decepticons were also hiding out on the lot, searching for footage a film crew had accidentally taken of a secret cargo they were transporting. Spike and Carly were able to get hold of the negative the Decepticons were looking for, and fled (with some difficulty) through the myriad movie sets decorating the lot. Eventually, the Decepticons were tricked into believing the negative was destroyed when Hoist pretended to be evil and dropped it, Spike and Carly in a vat of lava... but of course, it was only movie magic. {{storylink|Hoist Goes Hollywood}}

Spike, Carly and Sparkplug were in the audience when [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] received the [[National Scientific Achievement]] award for his newest invention, [[Corrostop]]. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}} Later, when the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] tried to plunge the Earth into the sun using the space bridge, Spike helped the Autobots find the missing space bridge control panel, and convinced Megatron to join forces with them to stop the Combaticons' plan. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}} For his final recorded adventure in the 20th century, Spike aided the Autobots in apprehending the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], reacting with some distress to the sight of Optimus Prime playing "chicken" with [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

[[File:Spike ospit.jpg|220px|thumb|Oh, bother. How do you propose we solve our predicament at this moment?]]

Over the course of the next twenty years, Spike and Carly married and had a son named [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. Spike was even able to take a more active hand in the Transformers' battles, as he was given a transforming [[exosuit]]. In the course of these twenty years, the Decepticons finally conquered Cybertron, forcing the Autobots to relocate to their newly-built [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] on Earth, and to bases on two of Cybertron's moon. In the year 2005, the thirty-five-year-old Spike was stationed on [[Moonbase Two]] with Bumblebee when the Autobots decided to make their big push against the Decepticons, and he requested that [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] tell Daniel, on Earth, that he would be home soon.

[[File:Tftm spike acid drop.jpg|left|thumb|275px|And now he doesn't feel like swearing]]

Spike could never have predicted what would happen next. As he and Bumblebee watched, the monstrous planet [[Unicron]] appeared from the depths of space and consumed Moonbase One, with Moonbase Two next on the menu. Acting quickly, Spike and Bumblebee set a stockpile of explosives to blow up the moon right in Unicron's mouth as they escaped on a shuttlecraft. When the smoke cleared, however, they found that Unicron was completely uninjured, and a frustrated Spike expressed his discontent in a distinctly PG manner. Their craft was then caught in the suction from Unicron's mouth, and they were pulled in to the behemoth's digestive system, where they hung from a conveyor, waiting to be dropped into an acid pit. Thankfully, they were saved from his messy fate by Daniel, wearing an older version of Spike's exosuit, who shot the pit cover down just as they were dropped. Spike and his son escaped Unicron's body along with the other Autobots who had entered it, as the chaos-bringer exploded thanks to the power of the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

Under their new leader, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]], the Autobots subsequently forced the Decepticons off Cybertron and retook the planet. With Cybertron established as a force for good in the universe once more, Spike was appointed Earth's official ambassador to the planet. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

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While attending the first [[Galactic Olympics]], Spike, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] were captured by a strike team of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] that attacked the event. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} They were taken to the planet [[Quintessa]], where the native [[Quintesson]]s questioned them, and then intended to put them to death. The trio tried rushing the aliens and taking [[Deliberata|one of their number]] captive, but the other Quintessons simply sentenced their comrade to death along with them, and they were all dropped into the Sharkticon pit together. At the last moment, a team of Autobots arrive to pluck them from the jaws of death, but the Quintessons then detonated a [[core bomb]] that blew up their planet and sent the Autobots and Spike hurtling through space. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}} They eventually landed on the planet [[Goo 8739B]], where they came under attack from the Decepticons, now allied with the Quintessons, {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}} but they were soon rescued by the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}} They returned to Cybertron, but the Decepticons and Quintessons pursued them, and ultimately, the aliens betrayed their allies when they activated a [[large switch]] that shut down Transformers all across the galaxy. Unfortunately for them, the Quintessons had not reckoned with Spike, who used the paralyzed Rodimus Prime's gun to destroy the switch, undoing its effects. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

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In 2006, while fleeing from a Decepticon attack, Spike, Daniel and a team of Autobots took refuge in the colossal [[Autobot Mausoleum|mausoleum]] the Autobots had built to hold the bodies of their fallen warriors. There, they discovered that Optimus Prime was apparently not dead after all, as he appeared to see the Decepticons off. Rodimus quickly returned the Matrix to his old leader, at which point Optimus was revealed to simply be a re-animated Quintesson pawn who activated the mausoleum's self-destruct sequence and left Spike and the others to die in the mausoleum. Luckily, they were able to hastily construct an improvised craft to get themselves to safety. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

Despite preparations for the first major peace conference on Cybertron taking up most of his time, Spike was still able to organize a surprise party for Daniel's birthday. This gave Daniel the idea to have a party for Ultra Magnus, however, and he proceeded to get in a lot of trouble trying to find out the Autobot's birthday. Once Daniel had been rescued from the Decepticons' clutches, Spike decided that they would just appoint that day as Ultra Magnus's birthday. {{storylink|Surprise Party}} Later, he welcomed the ambassador from [[Odessix]], [[Ynara]], to Cybertron, and had to make a few apologies for the bored Daniel's brusque behavior. Daniel subsequently went missing (in actuality, he was transported to the other-dimensional world of [[Menonia]]), but Carly told Spike to stay at the party while she and [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] went looking. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

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When Daniel began suffering nightmares, Spike and Carly called on Rodimus Prime to help ease the boy's troubles. {{storylink|Nightmare Planet}} A little later, Spike accompanied Kup on a security inspection of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], during which Starscream's ghost and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] tried to steal the giant Autobot's eyes. Spike and Bumblebee teamed up to investigate, and caught the villains in the act. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine}} Spike also helped Rodimus Prime moderate peace talks between the planets [[Xetaxxis]] and [[Lanarq]], {{storylink|The Quintesson Journal}} after which he and Daniel helped the Autobots by posing as human repairmen to sneak inside [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] and steal his [[transforming cog]]. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG|left|thumb|220px|Guess which one the marble is under?]]

In 2007, Spike was on Cybertron when the Decepticons launched a massive attack on the planet with the intention of taking control of the legendary [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]]. Together with a team of Autobots, Spike pursued Scourge deep into the planet, where a blast of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber struck their craft and overloaded its engines, sending them careening across the galaxy, wildly out of control. They eventually crashed on the planet [[Nebulos]], where they ran afoul of a cell of rebel Nebulans who were fighting against the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]], the tyrannical rulers of their planet, and mistook the Autobots for their robot servants. Spike tried to talk the Nebulans out of destroying the captured Autobots, but it took the arrival of the Decepticons for the Nebulans to risk releasing their prisoners to help them fight back. During the battle, several Autobots were captured, forcing the Autobots and Nebulans to take a drastic step: to fight back against the Decepticons and the Hive, four Nebulans and four Autobots volunteered to undergo a process developed by [[Brainstorm]] that would merge them together into [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Spike carried out the biotechnological modifications, following Brainstorm's design, and in addition to the Nebulans, also bonded Daniel to [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] at her request in order to save his life. The Decepticons subsequently emulated the Autobots' Headmaster process with members of the Hive, and also modified the process to create [[Targetmaster]]s. The Autobots didn't rest on their laurels, and Spike again helped modify six of the rebel sharpshooters to become Autobot Targetmasters themselves. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}

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To battle against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], the gigantic robot created by Hive leader Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] from the Hive's own subterranean city, Spike had the pacifistic Autobot [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] lead him to the Hive's old, abandoned surface city, which he had previously discovered while wandering the planet. There, Spike used the city's old machines to reconstruct it, Cerebros and himself, bonding them all together into the mighty [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Spike flew his new creation to Cybertron (which the Decepticons have moved into the vicinity of Earth with a giant rocket engine in his absence), where he battled and defeated Scorponok and rescued Daniel and the captive Autobots within the giant robot's city banks. The Decepticons, however, had already opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, which threatened to drive the [[Sun]] nova and destroy Earth, Cybertron and the entire [[solar system]]. As they were organic and unaffected by the chamber's energy, Spike and the Nebulons were able to act quickly to save the planet by shutting the chamber down and reversing the Decepticons' rocket to draw off the excess solar energy. This energy was funnelled into [[Vector Sigma]], revitalizing Cybertron and bringing about a new [[Golden Age]]. Despite all of this, Cerebros was insistent that Spike deactivate him so that he would never have to fight again...but quickly changed his tune when Spike transformed back into his head so that he could see the beauty of the restored planet. Optimus Prime subsequently appointed Cerebros as guardian of Nebulos, where he and the other Autobot Headmasters would root out and destroy the lingering influence of the Hive, after which Cerebros would live on the planet as its guardian. What this meant for Spike, however, was never revealed. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}
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====Madman ''The Transformers'' comic====
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In the year 2001, Spike Witwicky was overseeing the construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] when his friend [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] complained about the fact he was stuck on guard duty while the rest of the Autobots forces were fighting a rearguard action during the evacuation of Cybertron. Spike tries to cheer him up, assuring the young Autobot that his time is coming, and for now, just to enjoy the view of the future Autobot City. While Hot Rod rambled on about Optimus Prime bravely fighting off Decepticons single-handedly, Spike spotted [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and his minions up to no good on the dig site, and Hot Rod sprang into action. The young Autobot prevented the Decepticons from stealing the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, and during the struggle, the Autobot artifact spoke to him with Spike's own words of encouragement. {{Storylink|The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the American animated series occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that the events of Season 3, which took place in 2006 in America, were moved back to 2010, and the events of "The Rebirth" do not occur. Japanese animated continuity inserts several additional stories into the timeline, as detailed below.}}

=====Scramble City: Mobilization=====
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In the late 1980s, the Autobots began work on a mobile battle fortress dubbed "[[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]", and began construction of the massive structure in a subterranean cavern. Spike helped the Autobots work on the project along with [[Carly]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father]] and [[Chip Chase|Chip]], and while welding a section of machinery, he was approached by Bumblebee with the prospect of taking a quick break from the labor. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}
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=====''The Great Transformer War'' comic=====
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After the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] brainwashed [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] into becoming a [[Decepticon]] with [[Cohesive Control Liquid]], Spike donned a modified [[exosuit]] and lasergun to save his Autobot friends. Daniel initially asked to go, but Spike forbid him, as the mission was too dangerous. Dodging Computron's laserfire, Spike burned the control liquid off with his lasergun, freeing Computron from the Terrorcons's hold. Computron immediately defeated the Decepticons and sent them fleeing. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 2|The Great Transformer War #2}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese)

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In the year that followed the resurrection of Optimus Prime, Spike spent most of his time on Cybertron, actively working as a liaison between the Autobots and humanity to develop new sources of energy. In 2011, Spike was enjoying a cup of tea with Carly in [[Great Dome|Autobot Base]] on Cybertron when the Decepticons suddenly launched a massive offensive against the planet, backed up with the added power of their new Headmaster warriors. Spike quickly contacted Optimus Prime at the Autobots' secondary command post on the planet [[Athenia]], and then withdrew to the safety of Athenia himself once reinforcements arrived on Cybertron. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} Optimus Prime himself was among the Autobots who went to Cybertron, intending to stabilize Vector Sigma, which had begun to run out of control. Spike had researched the computer and claimed there was no way to stop it without the Matrix, which was precisely what Prime didn't have. Daniel was concerned for Prime, but Spike assured him he would be fine. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} He wasn't, though. He died. Again. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

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When Spike next appeared, he had sustained some serious injuries through unexplained means. Although he was on the mend, it meant he was not fit for a mission that required a human agent: the disabling of a [[Metamorphose|metal-warping meteor]] that the Decepticons had set on collision course with Athenia. Daniel volunteered to go in his place, and Spike, impressed with his bravery, allowed it. {{storylink|Approach of the Demon Meteorite}}

After Cybertron was destroyed thanks to the machinations of Decepticon Headmaster leader [[Scorponok (G1)#Japanese cartoon continuity|Scorponok]], Spike moved his family and his research to Athenia. Soon after this, Spike supervised the launch of the [[Sol 1]] satellite, a solar energy satellite built by both humans and Transformers that served as a symbol of unity between their two planets. Unfortunately, the Decepticons stole it. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} Later, Spike went with the Autobots to help evacuate the residents of a South American village that was threatened by a volcanic eruption, {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}} and was menaced on Athenia by [[buridanka|an ambulatory monster-plant]] from [[Darhos]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

[[File:Hm14 mars survey.jpg|thumb|250px| "Damn it, IKEA!"]]

While conducting a geographic survey on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] with a view to terraforming the planet, Spike, Daniel, [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and the [[Trainbot]]s discovered a Decepticon plot to destroy the red planet with plasma energy bombs. The Autobot Headmasters were called in while Spike, Daniel and Wheelie returned to Athenia, {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}} but alas, the four young heroes were not able to stop Mars from being blown up. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}} Spike subsequently scanned the remains of the planet with Arcee and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], and they concluded that the gravimetric balance of the solar system had been badly damaged. Spike feared that the destruction of another planet by the Decepticons would utterly destroy the whole system. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}}

When the Autobots received an distress signal from the planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]] in a parallel dimension, which was running critically low on energy, Spike was unsure whether or not they should risk giving up any of their own carefully-managed energy supply. He was eventually convinced that it was the right way to proceed, and even allowed Daniel and Wheelie to travel to Sandra with him and the Headmasters on the basis that it would be a good experience for them. Spike got very philosophical once they were on Sandra, remarking that all resources tend to run out eventually, and lamenting that Earth could face the same fate as Sandra if they weren't careful. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

[[File:Hm18 negotiating with galvatron.jpg|left|thumb|220px|We aren't negotiating in good faith? We went through a lot of trouble to make a wicker chair that would support your weight.]]

His fears for the safety of the universe growing since the destruction of Mars, Spike stunned the Autobots when he announced his intention to negotiate with Galvatron the possibility of the Autobots and Decepticons allying to create a joint energy development programme. Even more surprising was that Galvatron ''agreed'', on the condition that Spike bring Carly and Daniel with him, that the Decepticons might hold them hostage so that the negotiations could be held in "good faith". Negotiations proceeded badly, with Galvatron accusing Spike of arguing from a non-neutral position, given that he lived with the Autobots on Athenia, instead of his native Earth. Galvatron instructed Spike to leave his "most precious thing" on Earth to prove his neutrality: his son, Daniel! Daniel reluctantly agreed to stay on Earth, and Carly decided to stay with him, meaning that Spike would be separated from his whole family in the pursuit of peace. As it turned out, however, Spike wasn't actually negotiating with Galvatron at all: a transmission from [[Chaar]] by the Autobot spy [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] revealed that the real Galvatron was still there, and that Spike was conversing with a disguised [[Sixshot]]! The Decepticons were using the peace talks as a cover to embark on an interplanetary energy quest, and the Autobots were left in the dust as a consequence. As the Autobots prepared to follow the villains, Daniel insisted that he be allowed to go to defend his family honor, and Spike and Carly were silently proud of their determined son. {{storylink|Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!}}

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The Autobots' return to Earth some time later heralded a great loss, as Ultra Magnus soon died in battle with Sixshot, and Spike wept at his funeral. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}} Decepticon attacks continued with increased ferocity around the globe, angering Spike, {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} but he did not let these tragedies deter him from his work. While attending a summit on Earth to discuss using the planet's volcanoes for power, he realized that the Decepticons' recent activities had been focused on the [[Pacific Ring of Fire]]. When he returned to Autobot City to present his findings, however, the city came under attack by Trypticon and Sixshot, and Spike was wounded by a stray laser blast. With all of the Headmasters' technology unable to remove a large chunk of shrapnel embedded in one of his arteries, Spike told Daniel to remain strong even in the face of his death, and to take his place as Earth's envoy to the Autobots. Luckily, this wasn't necessary: in a drastic step that used up all of his energy, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] used his telekinetic powers to dissolve the shrapnel and save Spike's life. {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

In a major subsequent battle, the Autobots were able to force the Decepticons to withdraw from Earth, seemingly for good. Fortress appointed Spike head of the clean-up operation to remove all traces of the villains' memory from Earth, and Spike started by organizing an Autobot wrecking crew to destroy the Decepticons' desert Earth headquarters. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}} News soon reached the Autobots on Earth that the Decepticons had returned to the Headmasters' home planet, [[Master (planet)|Master]], and Daniel petitioned Spike to be allowed to accompany the Headmasters there. Carly was unwilling to let him go, but Spike decided it'd be good for his character, and asked Fortress to let Daniel go with them. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2)}} Spike watched as the worried Carly cooked up some [[space ration]]s for Daniel to take with him. {{storylink|My Friend Sixshot!}}

[[File:Hm35 witwickys goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|220px|How!]]

Unfortunately for the Earth, the Decepticons would eventually return, just as Earth's restoration programme was entering a critical phase. With Fortress and the other Headmasters not yet back from Master, Spike was left to co-ordinate the Autobot counter-attack to the Decepticons' renewed offensive, and headed to Santiago, [[Chile]] with Carly to investigate the emergence of a strange metal tower there. On the way, his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the Andes, where Carly and several other passengers fell into a crevasse. Simultaneously, Fortress's team returned to Earth, and Daniel immediately set out to help his parents. Spike attempted to descend into the crevice himself despite his injuries, and was surprised when Daniel stopped him and insisted that he rescue his mother personally. Daniel performed the task admirably, and Spike could see that his boy had grown into a man. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} When the message came in for the Autobots to gather for the final battle with the Decepticons, Spike told Daniel that he would look after Carly so that he could join his friends in the fight.

Following the Decepticons' ultimate defeat in a colossal battle royal at the North Pole, which saw the evil robots at last forced off Earth, the Autobots prepared to depart the planet as well. Spike, Carly and Daniel gathered to bid farewell to their long-time friends, and Spike was determined that the goodbye should be a happy one, since, while the Transformers were leaving, the peace they had brought to the planet was there to stay. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

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

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After the Decepticons' defeat at the North Pole, but shortly before the Autobots' departure from Earth, Spike was out walking with Carly, Daniel, Wheelie and Chromedome when they were attacked by [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundblaster]]. [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] charged at Daniel, but Spike leapt into his path and was injured, driving Daniel furious. The youth leapt onto Slugfest and covered his eyes, tricking him into blasting [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] and freeing up Chromedome to take Soundblaster down.

A little later, after the Autobots had left, Spike, Daniel and Carly were seen happily running along a beach. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 8}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
In [[2012]], Spike was stationed on [[Nebulos]] with Carly and Chip Chase. When [[Hi-Q]] went missing in the middle of a project, Spike sent a distress call that brought [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] and his team to visit. Spike took them to meet the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s and [[Targetmaster]]s, and helped them question [[Hi-Test]] on the disappearance. With [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]]'s help, they got hold of some security footage that revealed Hi-Q had been kidnapped by the [[Battlecharger]]s. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 3}}

===Big Looker Storybooks continuity===
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Spike Witwicky and his father Sparkplug were investigating the damage done by a volcanic eruption close to their home town of [[Kimball]] when they witnessed a fleet of jet planes emerging from a spaceship buried within the volcano that the tremors had exposed. Spike was vocally opposed to Sparkplug's desire to examine the ship in search of "a little adventure", but ventured into the crater nonetheless, where he and his father were met by a talking Volkswagen named Bumblebee, who brought them into the ship and introduced them to his fellow Autobots. After helping the Autobots tap the volcano's energies to re-power their ship, Spike and Sparkplug were given a lift back home by Hound, but on the way, they witnessed the Decepticons draining the energy of a nearby power plant. Knowing that Hound wanted to return to his Autobot comrades to warn them that their enemies had re-powered themselves, Spike told him he could use "a little more adventure". The message was delivered, and as the Autobots readied for battle, Bumblebee took Spike and Sparkplug to a safe distance, where he would serve as a lookout and warn of a potential second wave of Decepticons approaching from the rear. Unfortunately, the battle lasted through the night, and when the rear wave appeared, Sparkplug realized that Bumblebee's signal—a flash of his headlights—was being lost in the rising sun. Spike, Sparkplug and Bumblebee raced into the battlefield to alert the Autobots, and they were able to get ready for the attack just in time. Optimus Prime credited victory in the battle to Spike and Sparkplug, and Spike affirmed his father's belief that the Autobots were their kind of machines. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Spike and Sparkplug watched as the Autobots participated in a race to win a year's supply of gas and oil. The Autobots won, but Spike decided he'd stick to hot dogs and soda! {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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When a lighting storm spooked the Autobots, Spike wrote about the experience in his [[Spike's diary|diary]] the next morning, then tried to explain the phenomenon to his robot friends with the aid of his father. Intrigued by the idea of energy that fell from the sky, Optimus Prime had [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] construct a lightning rod to collect it, and Spike and Sparkplug were on hand as the finishing touches were added to the project. That night, Spike monitored weather forecasts and alerted the Autobots to the arrival of a new storm so they could see the machine in action. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

Spike was instrumental in breaking the Decepticons' control over a human solar power station when he snuck into the facility with the intent of disabling the power-collecting machinery. Finding the door to the control room locked, Spike at first thought to pick the lock with his pen-knife, but quickly dismissed the idea and instead used the blade to alert the Autobots, watching nearby, flashing them a message in morse code by allowing the sun to glint off the knife. Optimus Prime sent [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] to deliver a [[sonic multi-tool]] to Spike, which allowed him to unlock the door and use the machinery to destroy the energon cubes the Decepticons had already gathered, sending them fleeing. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}
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While he was in town with Ironhide to buy groceries, Spike spotted a flier for a car rally that he realized passed through the region where the Decepticons had set up a new temporary base. Spike suggested using the race as cover to investigate the Decepticons' activities, and so he and Jazz joined the rally, with Spike stealthily jumping from the moving Autobot as they neared the area in question to avoid detection. He discovered the Decepticons testing a new [[ion drive]] in an abandoned mineshaft, and hit on an idea: he had Jazz push a row of mine-cars down into the tunnel, destroying the ion drive and collapsing the tunnel on the evil robots. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}

Investigating a report of Decepticon activity near a small village, Hound and Spike discovered that they had taken an interest in a local windmill. Spike and his father had to explain the concept of a non-electromagnetic mechanism to the baffled Autobots. When battle erupted around the windmill, Spike ran to the top of the structure to get a better look at the fight, but a blast from Laserbeak caused him to lose his footing and he fell onto the breaking lever, freeing the windmills sails to spin. [[File:LaserbeaksFury spike headshot.jpg|left|thumb|200px]] Laserbeak was knocked from the sky by a sail and the Decepticons were panicked by the primitive machine, causing Rumble to destroy it. Spike was able to get to safety before it collapsed, and the next day, consoled the worried Optimus Prime with the new that their battle hadn't even made the front page: the town was buzzing about Laserbeak's appearance a local disco! {{storylink|Laserbeak's Fury}}

When Spike joined the Autobots on a salvage mission to gather useful materials, it quickly became apparent that the Decepticons had developed a new method of spying on their enemies from orbital satellites. Remembering a story his father had told him when he was younger about two giants that were tricked into fighting each other, Spike suggested using the same tactic on the satellites. His aid didn't stop there: he was able to provide information about the [[Aurora Borealis]] and its radio-scrambling effects, allowing the Autobots to duplicate it as part of their plan to make the satellites crash into each other. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}}
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Following a failed Decepticon attack on Autobot City, Bumblebee and Spike secretly trailed the retreating [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] to the Decepticons' new hidden base in a nearby industrial estate. Instructed by Bumblebee to wait outside while he went spy, Spike paid a visit to an adjacent scrap yard and asked the [[A. McNulty|manager]] to help him find some some bronze-chrome wheel trims for Hot Rod. When Spike saved the man from a collapsing pile of junk, in gratitude, he gave him the wheel-trims for free. Bumblebee, meanwhile, had been spotted by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], and hidden in vehicle mode in the junkyard, where he was almost scrapped by an electromagnet until Spike distracted the magnet's operator and save his little Autobot buddy. Subsequently, Spike and his father were used as the Autobots' human eyes and ears in the industrial estate, and learned for them that it was about to close down for a few weeks. The Autobots used this as a chance to take the fight to the Decepticons hiding there, and during the battle, Spike used several pieces of construction equipment to aid the Autobots, first drawing their fire with a calorifier on a chain, then using the electromagnet to trap several smaller Decepticons, before using a wrecking ball to attack Galvatron himself! Finally, Spike used the wrecking ball to collapse the entire building, burying the Decepticons in the rubble. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
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====Generation 1====
[[File:G138 spike.jpg|left|thumb|Man, those Witwickies love pink shirts, don't they?]]
Spike Witwicky was away at college for the first few years of the [[Autobot]]/[[Decepticon]] [[Great War (G1)|war]] on [[Earth]], and was entirely unaware of his family's involvement in the robot conflict until the day he returned home to find [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father]]'s [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|garage]] a pile of rubble. Spike was relieved to find his father alive and well, but this sense of relief did not last long, as Sparkplug explained that the damage was the work of the Decepticon [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], and told Spike of [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]]'s involvement with the Autobots. Intent on ensuring his brother's safety, Spike headed up to [[Mount St. Hilary]], but found the volcano abandoned. Presently, the Autobot splinter group led by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], who had recently arrived in Earth orbit after departing the planet [[Nebulos]], entered the caverns, having followed distress call broadcast by [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]]. Finding Goldbug's [[brain module]] in a toy car on the cavern floor, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] replayed recent images from the disembodied Autobots' memory, including Buster's capture by Ratbat. Seeing this image, Spike stepped forward and petitioned the Autobots for aid in saving his brother, but they turned him down and departed.

[[File:G138 spike in control.jpg|thumb|"Watch as I give him a wet willy!"]]

Spike bedded down in the cave overnight, but when he awoke the next morning, it was to the sight of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons arriving in search of the Autobots. Despite their brushing him off, Spike believed the Autobots deserved a warning, and used the machinery in the cave to replay Goldbug's distress signal, summoning Maximus's team back to the volcano in time to save him from a vengeful Scorponok. As battle erupted, Spike sought safety deeper in the volcano, but was pursued into its confines by Scorponok's [[Nebulan]] component, Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. Fortress Maximus's Nebulan component [[Galen]] followed, but was killed when Zarak triggered a rockslide. In his last moments, Galen passed his control helmet to Spike, who took control of Fortress Maximus and used his firepower to send the Decepticons into retreat. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}}

The Autobots offered to properly [[binary bonding|binary bond]] Spike with Fortress Maximus, transforming him into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]], and Spike accepted, believing it to be his best chance of finding and rescuing Buster. He returned home to tell his father the news just as Sparkplug received a call from [[Walter Barnett (G1)|Walter Barnett]] of [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]] to let him know that Buster had been located. Using his new Headmaster powers to trace the call, Spike led the Autobots to a desert island that soon proved to be a [[Club Con|Decepticon base]] in disguise. [[File:G139 headmaster spike.jpg|left|thumb|"Though maybe the giant boxy shapes under my conspicuous trenchcoat should have been a clue."]] Prohibited from joining the fight by the other Autobots due to their fears his concern for Buster would short out Maximus's [[circuits#logic circuits|logic circuits]], Spike complied with their wishes at first, but when the Decepticons' base also proved to be a rocket that took off for space, Spike was forced to take action, linking with Fortress Maximus and pursuing. Although he was able to use Maximus to shoot down [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Spike was unable to get Buster free of the island's protective dome before the rocket outpaced him. {{storylink|The Desert Island of Space!}}

Returning to the ''[[Steelhaven]]'' to build a new body for Goldbug, Spike was alerted by a bugging device he had left in his father's home to a phone call from [[Ethan Zachary]], and learned that the [[human]] had preserved the deceased [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s mind as a computer program. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} Rendezvousing with the other Autobots in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] to gain the resources to build Prime a new body, Spike earned the ire of current commander [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], who violently rejected the notion that a human could lead any Autobots. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

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''When Optimus Prime was restored to life on Nebulous and returned to Earth, Spike, as part of Fortress Maximus, fought alongside him during the "[[Time Wars (event)|Time Wars]]".'' {{storylink|Time Wars}} Soon after, the Decepticons' island base resurfaced, and Spike took Optimus Prime and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] aboard Fortress Maximus to investigate, but the island was gone, relocated to the Arctic, by the time they arrived. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Following, the Autobots found Buster on the verge of hypothermia in the frozen wastes, but Spike used Fortress Maximus to carefully raise his brother's body temperature with infra-red heating. Spike later took Fortress Maximus into battle against the [[Underbase]]-powered [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], but was bested in a clash in [[Buenos Aires]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

With Buster saved, Spike considered his work as Fortress Maximus's partner done, and following Starscream's defeat, announced his intent to leave the Autobot ranks despite their current depleted state. Leaving Maximus's body to gather dust in storage on the Ark, Spike returned to his normal life on Earth, but found himself plagued by nightmares full of mechanical imagery, prompting him to throw away his control helmet—kept for security's sake at the urging of Optimus Prime—in a junkyard to make a totally clean break from his brief time as a Headmaster. [[File:Fortressmaximus-thelastautobot1.jpg|left|thumb]] Unfortunately, Decepticon [[Pretender Beast]]s [[Snarler]] and [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]], who had been sent to kill Spike by Scorponok, located the discarded helmet and proceeded to track Spike to [[California]], where he was on a ski trip with his friend, [[Cliff Dietz]]. Taking refuge in a cave, Cliff helped Spike realize that his nightmares held a deeper meaning: that binary-bonding went far deeper that he had ever realized, and that even without his control helmet, separated by millions of miles, he and Fortress Maximus were still connected, two minds in one being. With this realization, Spike was able to summon Fortress Maximus from the Ark to battle Snarler and Catilla, though his responses proved far more sluggish than usual. Recovering his control helmet from Snarler's disabled Pretender shell, Spike fully re-established his connection with Fortress Maximus and combined with him once more to defeat the two Decepticons. {{storylink|The Man in the Machine!}}

[[File:Spikewitwicky2009.jpg|thumb|In 2009, jheri curls returned with a vengeance. Don't you remember that?]]
Although this realization about the nature of his connection with Fortress Maximus seemed to change Spike's tune, at some point over the next few years, he reverted to his old outlook, and returned Maximus to the Ark so he could get back to his human life. When the Ark crashed back on Earth in [[1991]], Fortress Maximus urged Spike to investigate the crash site and recover his body so they could become one again and stop the menace posed to Earth by [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]. Accepting his responsibility as the last Autobot currently on Earth, Spike acquiesced, but once he had re-combined with Maximus, found his will subsumed by the Autobot, who elected to actively pursue Galvatron. Maximus found himself no match for the deranged future Decepticon, however, and called out for Spike's aid, but Spike refused to make a point, before the two came to an understanding and united their minds to bring Galvatron down. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}}

In an alternate timeline in the year [[2009]], Spike Witwicky was part of a very small Autobot/human resistance movement in a world where [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]'s Decepticons controlled North America. The handful of Autobots who remained alive despaired and were on the cusp of giving up, but Spike and [[Lisa]] (who shared growing feelings for each other) guilted them into one last suicidal attack on the [[Decepticon Powerbase]] in New York before the rest of the world could unleash a nuclear holocaust onto America at midnight. Though there were several casualties, Spike managed to hoist an American flag on the Decepticon stronghold on live television, a symbolic measure which prompted the end of the planned nuclear strike. Before Galvatron could respond, the Decepticon despot was abducted by [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] into another timeline. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[File:Spikewitwickytimewars.jpg|left|150px|thumb|White jumpsuits were so 2006.]]

''In the year 2009, Decepticons had built an [[energy leech (device)|energy leech]] to destroy Earth while [[time rift|a space-time anomaly]] was eating entire planets. After [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] orchestrated a plan to travel twenty years back in time to the source of the anomaly, Spike Witwicky and his son Daniel accused Rodimus of shirking his responsibilities towards Earth and guilted Rodimus into allotting more troops to help destroy the Decepticons' machine.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}
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====''Generation 2''====
[[File:Spikewitwickyg2.jpg|75px|thumb|Now the jumpsuit's in BROWN?]]
Despite the conclusions he had come to and the newfound unity he had forged with Maximus during his battle with Galvatron, it was apparent that old habits proved hard for Spike to shake. He again returned Maximus's body to the ruined Ark and tried to get back to life, presumably on the basis that so much time passed on Earth without any Transformer activity that he believed it was "all over". {{storylink|All or Nothing!}} A few years later, however, when Megatron returned and a small squad of Autobots came to Earth to battle him in [[Milleville]], Spike was drawn to the site of the battle, and snuck back aboard the Ark, now restored and under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Final Transformations}}

Discovering that Megatron was holding [[Sidney Biggles-Jones]] captive, Spike realized that he had no choice but to bond with Fortress Maximus once more, only to find that Megatron had disabled Maximus's dormant body while rebuilding the Ark, leaving him under-equipped for combat. Caught in the act of donning his armor by fellow stowaway [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], Spike combined with Maximus (curiously omitting Cerebros from the process) and explained his presence, then charged Skydive with rescuing Doctor Biggles-Jones while he and Maximus took Megatron on. Unsurprisingly, Megatron grievously wounded the pair, forcing Skydive to step in and distract him long enough for Maximus to escape, and make his way to the Ark's anti-matter power core. Intended to breach the core with his body and destroy the ship, hoping to take Megatron with it, Maximus instructed Spike to disconnect and escape, but Spike resolved to stay with his partner to the end to ensure their success. They smashed into the core together and perished in the resultant ship-destroying explosion, but alas, their sacrifice was in vain, as Megatron survived. {{storylink|All or Nothing!}}
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====''Classics''====
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[[File:Invasion-Radcontrolroom.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Well, it beats a jheri curl.]]

Spike retained his duties as Fortress Maximus's binary-bond partner for decades, and eventually he was stationed in [[South America]]. He was present one day in [[2012]] when [[Rad]] reported from the [[Ironworks]] base in [[Oregon]] about a foiled attack by [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Gigatron]] and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|another dimension]], a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Spike, merged with [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]], gathered civilians inside Fortress Maximus for safety. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:SpikeWitwicky CircuitSmasher LooseEnds3.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Powered by Blackrock ingenuity and 90s angst.]]
Spike was able to keep everyone from poking around in the Ark for a year or two, but he eventually stopped being Fortress Maximus full-time so he could live his life. Unfortunately, that meant some greedy/bored people were able to sneak into the Ark and poke around it in 1994... awakening Megatron! With nuclear weaponry turned against Earth's cities by the [[Aunty|Ark computer]] and zombie Decepticons roaming the Earth, Spike became Fort Max again and led a final battle alongside [[Circuit Breaker|Josie Beller]] and [[G.B. Blackrock]]. The final battle was a bust: Fort Max was killed and Spike's mind and nervous system went with him.

Blackrock, however, used Beller's neural-cybernetic technology and bonded them with Spike's Headmaster parts, bringing him 'back to life', retarding his aging, and giving him powerful electric powers. Taking up the name '''Circuit-Smasher''', Spike became the main weapon for the rebels in [[Argus Base]] against Megatron's genocide. Unfortunately, he could only do so much and the Decepticon corpses were incapable of being permanently killed (again), and by 2012 he was angry enough to attack the first Autobots he saw on sight, blaming them for Earth's demise. Only some appeals from [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] and fellow rebel [[Gordon Kent]] calmed Spike down.

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He led the Autobot [[Wrecker]]s to Argus Base, filling them in on the destruction of Earth and how this was the Ark's fault. He then formed part of a conference with Springer, Blackrock, Kent, and Sandstorm, running through their new options now the Wreckers were on Earth, only to be interrupted by a broadcast from Megatron, taunting the Autobots with the tortured body of Kup. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Spike, along with a few of the Wreckers and a handful of humans armed with [[Battlesuit]]s, attacked the Ark, with the intention of shutting down its supercomputer [[Aunty|Auntie]]. Before attacking, Spike made it clear that they were to deactivate the Ark, and if he began to suspect any of them were thinking of trying to get it back under control and using it to leave, he would crash every single one of their circuits. He blasted a projectile that was launched at one of the humans. After [[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] was blasted by the Ark's auto-turret defenses, Spike coldly commanded everyone to keep moving, saying that all of the Wreckers were expendable. Once they broke through the Ark's outer defenses, Auntie deployed [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardians]] to protect herself. As the Wreckers and humans fought the Guardians, Spike infiltrated the Ark, but was detected by Auntie, who detained him. However, Spike was still able to use his powers to smash every single one of Auntie's circuits, deactivating her and the Guardians. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}} After Megatron and his army were taken care of, Spike came to Optimus Prime, telling him that he and the others had unanimously decided on the Autobots leaving Earth for good. When Prime offered to help, Spike angrily rejected the offer, warning Optimus not to make ask them to leave more than once. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Spike, his brother Buster, and his father Sparkplug met the Autobots early on in their time on Earth. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}} Spike formed a close friendship with Bumblebee. {{storylink|Extermination}}

Somewhere in the time after [[1984]], Spike married Carly, who then gave birth to Spike's son, Daniel. {{storylink|Extermination}} After the explosion of the ''[[Ark II]]'' in [[1999]], which caused the death of Spike's father Sparkplug, Spike tried to leave his involvement with the Transformers behind and settled down with his wife and son in Cleveland, Ohio, trying to live a new life as a normal family. The newfound peace wouldn't last for long, though, as Spike was soon recruited by a shady military official named [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] seeking his help in reviving Optimus Prime, whose body his men had recently found in the Arctic. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} Spike, who had been entrusted by Prime with a fragment of the Matrix, used that fragment to bring Prime back to life.

Optimus Prime subsequently used the Matrix to revive and assemble a group of his Autobots, which he would then lead against Megatron's Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Meanwhile, Spike was imprisoned by General Hallo, who had double motives behind reviving the Autobots {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} and even tried to kill them by bombing them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} With the help of [[Larry|Larry, the World's Most Resourceful Janitor]], Spike was able to escape his cell and uncover the [[Lazarus Project]] and Hallo's sinister schemes, but not in time to stop him from launching a nuclear strike against the Autobots {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} which was ultimately averted when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] sacrificed his life in order to make it detonate before it could reach its target. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

Following these events, Spike once again returned to his family and tried to leave his past with the Transformers behind. A few months later, though, his old friend Bumblebee, who had just decided to quit the Autobot army following a fierce battle against [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], showed up by his house. Spike, frustrated that the Autobots refused to leave him alone, hurled a few nasty insults against his old buddy {{storylink|Extermination}} before changing his mind and joining him on a men's night out in the city, where they stopped a mugging. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}

===''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers''===
In response to the forming of the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and its commandeered Transformers, the United States government assembled a strike team dubbed [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. Spike Witwicky (codename Spike) was listed on the roster, but was never seen. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Spike was out driving with Bumblebee and Hound when, to their surprise, they stumbled on a badly-damaged Starscream. Though Spike was all in favor of leaving the Decepticon there, Bumblebee insisted they take Starscream back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] with them. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

Bumblebee gave Spike a ride to his high school, but while Spike was in class, his Autobot pal got carjacked. When Spike emerged, he found a smug Bumblebee sitting in the carpark with two wet seats. {{storylink|Joyride (story)|Joyride}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Spike Witwicky is the son of four-star general "Sparkplug" Witwicky. From a young age, he wanted to be a soldier just like his idolised dad. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}} Sparkplug often took him on long camping trips in the woods, and this outdoors lifestyle caused Spike to develop a dislike for relying on machines. {{storylink|Scrapper (issue)|Scrapper}}

He met his friend [[Joe Henderson]] at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. By this point, Spike had let his family ties go to his head and was insufferably arrogant and obnoxious. Worse, he started to act like he was in an action movie, treating everyone else as the supporting character and doing "cool" stuff like rule-breaking, acting reckless, and taking personal vendettas, which is less "cool" and more "dangerous and illegal" in real life. But since he was both protected by his daddy ''and'' also genuinely smart and competent as a soldier, he was able to get away with this. He graduated second in his class and went to work in special forces, where he continued to act like he was in a story. {{Storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward}}

[[File:Spikewitwickybuttonflies.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hey, remember above, when we said we filled the beefcake quota for the wiki? We lied!]]

In the wake of the Decepticons' devastating attack on Earth, Commander Spike Witwicky met his dad inside a secret bunker where the remnants of the United States military had gathered to mount a desperate counteroffensive. Regrettably, Sparkplug had selected Spike for a mission to assassinate the leader of the Decepticons, [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], even though he feared his son would not make it back. It was a suicide mission, but Spike was the most qualified. Spike accepted, despite the consequences, but ignored his father's pleas for him to call his worried mother first.

During the night, he and a team snuck into [[New York City]] by boat, but they were discovered by [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]. With one dive, the boat and its occupants were dashed to bits under the water, and Spike's signal was destroyed. Learning his son was dead, Sparkplug, in shock, believed it was he who had not only sent his son to die, but had inspired Spike to join the military in the first place. But unknown to Sparkplug, his son surfaced on the shore of New York, perfectly alive... {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}

Stealing new pants from an abandoned [[Gloomingdales]], Spike ran into the leaders of the underground human resistance movement, who were looking for supplies. Spike took [[Bridge]] and [[Sarah]] into an abandoned office building to discuss gathering the resistance and assassinating Megatron. But first, Spike took them into a disguised military facility where he retrieved a weapon created from studying [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]'s gun arm. Their quick escape was cut short, since [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] was causing a ruckus outside. Telling the others to run for cover, Spike ducked into a building and then reappeared when he drove a motorcycle through an upstairs window, firing a small pistol. This distracted Rumble long enough for [[Charles (G1)|Charles]] to shoot him right in the face. Rumble's defeat was followed by an overcoming sonic screech, and as Soundwave arrived to sadly take Rumble's body away, it seemed the city's electronic blackout was over. Phones were working again, and so Spike called his father. He learned not only that his father thought he was dead, but that there was nothing they could do to prevent other nations from unleashing a nuclear onslaught across North America. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}}

Later, Spike, Sarah, Bridge and Charles ran out of a half-demolished building, passing [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], who was slagging the [[European Union]] jets. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}}

He and his party set up a better sniper position in a nearby building, where they watched [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|two]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|robots]] fight each other. When Megatron eventually bested Optimus, Spike decided it was time to intervene. He charged the weapon and blasted Megatron's face, allowing Optimus to defeat him. Later, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] found him and brought him to Optimus Prime. Prime offered to help Spike and the rest of the humans rebuild their planet. Spike thanked Prime for his thought, but said that there was no chance of the Transformers and the humans reconciling. As he put it, Optimus' "kind" caused all the destruction, and that any chance of an alliance was gone. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[File:SpikeWitwickyG1-ManofSteel.jpg|thumb|200px|"All right, guys, who ordered me the strippers?"]]

After the Decepticons' defeat, they abandoned Earth, leaving Ravage and others behind. Spike Witwicky headed a military regiment to hunt down surviving Transformers and found Ravage in an abandoned building. Ravage attacked Spike but got blasted for his efforts. At least he put Spike in the hospital, though. Sparkplug became the new head of [[Skywatch]] and requested Spike join his task force of ridding the planet of Transformers. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 16|The Man of Steel}} Being lionised for saving the world ''and'' becoming a tactical commander went to Spike's head. {{Storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward}} He also made the decision to violate US and international law by trading with the Decepticon war criminal [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], giving him resources in exchange for the advanced Cybertronian technology that would become Skywatch's arsenal. (Someone on Skywatch's oversight panel was almost certainly allowing this to carry on...) {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden}}

[[File:Ongoing Issue 2 Spike one night stand.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Andy Schmidt|"Our new Transformers ongoing is totally kid-friendly! Honest!"]] ]]

Two years later, Spike was still commanding the Transformer-hunting team. With his [[Crash suit]], he quickly contained the Decepticon [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] which subsequently drew the watching [[Prowl (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] out of hiding. Then he drove away in the contained Breakdown {{storylink|...For All Mankind}} for a one-night stand with a [[Spike's booty call|local stripper]]. He came back to the Skywatch HQ after being alerted to Optimus' surrender. His father reprimanded him for being offsite for Prowl's liberation and Optimus' surrender, so to prove himself, Spike went to interrogate Optimus. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} In spite of his attempts to appear friendly, however, the Autobot leader refused to be given any special treatment and did not give up any information on the other Autobots. Spike then resorted to capturing three more Autobots and asking Optimus if he'd do it for ''their'' sake. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 2: "A Rude Awakening"|A Rude Awakening}} This didn't work either. With one day left before his father arrived to take Optimus Prime away, Spike had nothing to show for it and was feeling like he hadn't accomplished anything as a leader. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

During another chat with Optimus, Spike listened to his story about how long it took for him to learn that there was more to leadership than winning battles and how he still treated the situation on Earth like a war. He had given himself up because he could not change, but was impressed by humanity's capacity for change and believed Spike would become a great leader much faster than he did. Needing some time alone to think about this, Spike went on a drive in Breakdown only be to attacked by the other [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and forced to hide in a river. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}} Once he was picked up by a Skywatch transport, he learned that the Stunticons had combined into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and realized they needed Optimus Prime's help to defeat him. Having thought about what Optimus told him, Spike returned to base and admitted to Optimus that his poor leadership had led to the death of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] at the hands of Skywatch, but now he had realized it was time for a change. He released Optimus from captivity, allowing the Autobots to defeat Menasor, then approached the new Autobot leader [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] with an offer to form an alliance between Skywatch and the Autobots. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}}

[[image:Spike-idw-ongoing-007-008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Two eyes, one nose, one mouth... totally the same guy.]]

The Autobots accepted, and so Skywatch stopped hunting them and let them use their facilities in exchange for access to their technology. Sparkplug disapproved, but Spike defended his decision by saying they could never capture ''all'' the Autobots or even keep up with their technology anyway, so working together was the best option as long as they kept [[Section 82|certain]] things hidden from them. Still, he had illegally released a prisoner, so his entire unit had to be sworn to silence so that the generals wouldn't find out they had broken military protocol. [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] protested this deception, but Spike shrugged it off as just a little white lie. {{storylink|All His Engines}}

Wanting to avoid another combiner incident, and frankly just wanting revenge for [[Tim Simmons|a comrade]] who had been killed by Devastator, Spike set up a secret, isolated system to detect the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}} After a video conference with [[Allenby|General Allenby]], during which Sparkplug helped corroborate his cover-up story that Optimus Prime had escaped from custody on his own, his father told him the alliance with the Autobots was an uneasy one and now was ''not'' the time to get overconfident and sloppy. Then he went AWOL to hunt down Scrapper on his own without telling either Skywatch or the Autobots. He neutralised the Decepticon using deliberately low-tech means, in order to rub in how badass humans are and be a movie-style hero. And then murdered him when he was wounded and helpless, and covered it up. {{storylink|Scrapper (issue)|Scrapper}}

Later, the Combaticons managed to get help from North Korea. Spike suggested using Optimus Prime to fight the threat. {{storylink|International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"|The Land Ironclads}} Spike managed to convince the Autobot leader to help and complained about the lack of intelligence that one of his units was showing only for Optimus to point out the unit's intelligence reflects on its commander. {{storylink|International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"|Ranks of Bronze}} The Autobots later had a brawl with the Combaticons and Predacons. Sandra told Spike that Russia had announced they were launching a nuclear missile at the battle. Spike attempted to make the forces stop due to the threat but with no result. He then relied on Cosmos to get rid of the problem. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

While arriving back at Skywatch, Spike and his comrades were hit down aboard a jet by a mysterious object.{{Storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man|The Demolished Man}} Spike and the others managed to survive the crash but had to stay underwater until they had reached the Panama Canal. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} Spike woke up in Optimus later and received a message from a repaired Megatron that he was holding hostages and Optimus went to save them. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} Optimus tried to track down Megatron after rescuing the hostages. Spike suggested a more low tech approach. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

Most of the Autobots later left to liberate their home world, Cybertron. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|Orphans of the Helix}} The remaining Autobots were left on Earth to investigate Scrapper's death and Spike requested Prowl remain involved in the case, leaving Prowl to be suspicious of Spike's motives. {{storylink|Police Action: Prologue}}

Spike suggested Prowl should investigate Ben Simpson but Prowl ended up spying on Spike instead. Spike was attacked by Breakdown but was saved by Streetwise. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1}} Shortly after this, Spike decided to admit to Prowl that he killed Scrapper {{storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|Only Forward}} and when he was accused of having intended to violate the guarantees he'd made the Autobots all along, he turned it around on Prowl: he claimed it was necessary, that he knew Prowl had made murky decisions out of necessity before, and that it was Prowl himself that would wreck Autobot/human relations if he blabbed. The Autobot responded that he'd trusted Spike before and never could again, but Spike was unconcerned since ''he'd'' never trusted the Autobots since, hey, they're not human.

And then his successful moral checkmate and fancy words were blown to pieces because the Autobots had brought in Swindle, who would clearly blab about the illegal and immoral deal Spike had made. Spike fled the Skywatch base and was reduced to an international fugitive, after the Autobots revealed his crimes to both his superiors and to the news media. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}}
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===''Mars Attacks: The Transformers''===
Following a particularly intense battle in a city, Spike ran up to congratulate Prime on the victory, only to find his footwear being disparaged by [[The General|a General]]. Moments later, the planet was attacked by [[Martian]]s, and Spike sought cover with Bumblebee, who was reluctant to translate the Martians' speech for him. When later Spike found himself surrounded by Martians while standing in a puddle of [[water]], his [[yellow boots|rubber boots]] saved him from an electric jolt which took out the Martians, vindicating his choice of foot covering. {{storylink|Mars Attacks: The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:Spikeheadmastertoy.jpg|300px|thumb|Finally, your favorite Transformers character!]]
* '''Fortress Maximus''' (Headmaster, 1987)

:Spike is a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] figure that comes with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Gray and blue, it transforms into [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]]'s head, which then in turn becomes Fortress Maximus's head. Although the on-package [[bio]] refers to 'the Nebulan leader, Spike', most assume it is supposed to represent the character from TV, making this the first Transformers toy of an Earth human.

:This toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Galen]], and [[redeco]]ed as [[Grand Maximus|Gran]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Car Robots]]'' [[Cerebros (RID)|Plasma]] and ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' [[Master (RM)|Master]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Autobot/FortressMaximus/fortressmaximus.htm More information on Spike (with Fortress Maximus) at TFU.info]''
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===Masterpiece===
[[File:Masterpiecetoy spike.jpg|thumb|300px]]
* '''Convoy''' (2011)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-10'''
: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#mp10|MP-10 Convoy]] comes with a small figure of Spike. Standing at about an inch tall, he features articulation in his shoulders, hips and knees, and is scaled to be able to sit in all the cockpit spaces that ''[[Diaclone]]'' figures could occupy on the original Generation 1 Optimus Prime figure, such as Prime's passenger compartment while in vehicle mode, [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]'s seats, the consoles on the floor of the [[Combat Deck (G1)|Combat Deck]], and the cockpit of the Combat Deck's artillery robot.

: As this smaller incarnation of Convoy is in [[scale]] with them, Spike is also capable of riding ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' figures!

===Transformers (2010)===
* '''Masterpiece Optimus Prime''' (2012)
: A [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#mp10hasbro|Hasbro's release]] of the MP-10 figure and its accessories features various plastic color and [[Paint operation|paint detail]] changes, yet Spike appears to be no different.
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==Merchandise==
===Super Collection Figure===

[[File:SCF-Bumblebee-Spike.JPG|thumb|Spike says "How."]]
*'''Bumble and Spike''' (Act 3, 2001)
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''5''' (painted) '''6''' (clear)

:[[Plastic|PVC]] figurines of Spike and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]] were sold together in the third act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s [[Super Collection Figure]] series. Like all the figures in the wave, the pair were available as both regular full-color figures and clear plastic versions, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. The full-color version of the set came packaged with the torso piece of the wave's Fortress Maximus "build-a-figure".

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Autobot Espionage Team''' (2003)

:''Super Collection Figure'' Spike and Bumblebee were later released by [[Hasbro]] as part of their ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line, sold under the name "Autobot Espionage Team," as Hasbro did not have the trademark rights to Bumblebee's name at this point in time. Unlike the blindpacked Japanese version, they were sold on an individual blister card, and came packaged with the right leg of the Fortress Maximus figure.
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===History Collection===
[[File:TFhistorycollection spike.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Spike''' (2004)
:A PVC figurine of Spike was the rare [[chase figure]] of Takara's [[History Collection]]. Spike was the only piece in the series who did not feature with a circular "bottlecap" display base, instead, coming crouched on Optimus Prime's hand, from which he could be removed. Additionally, Prime's hand could plug into the wrist socket of the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|20th Anniversary/Masterpiece Optimus Prime]] figure.
::*''[http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act234/ More information on the History Collection at TFKenkon.com]''

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==Notes==
*Spike and Buster were both derived from the same "young male human friend" character in early backstory material. For more on the name variation see [[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch Witwicky]].
* Apparently Spike Witwicky is named after a person in real life! According to the [[BotCon 2010]] panel hosted by [[Bob Budiansky]], [[Jim Shooter]] (editor in-chief at [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] at the time) chose the name based on one of his real life friends. The name Witwicky had previously showed up in Marvel's ''Dazzler'' comics, as co-plotted by Shooter.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spike Witwicky''' (スパイク・ウィトウィッキー ''Supaiku Witowikkī'')
*''English:'' '''Sparkle''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''La Flèche''' (Canada, "The Arrow")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csuka''' (''The Movie'', "Pike")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Spys''' ("Spear")

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Fortress_Maximus Fortress Maximus's ''Universe'' profile (with Spike) at NFTA.net]

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:''Spike [[Witwicky]] is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] and [[Autobot]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Spikewitwickyg1.jpg|200px|thumb|Wait till you see my sweet future jumpsuit!]]
'''Spike Witwicky''' is the oldest (and sometimes only) son of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Spike, like most Witwickys, has a tendency to form close bonds to the Autobots and become one of their main human allies. 'Cause let's face it, there are advantages when your best friend is [[Bumblebee (G1)|a car]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Show Hayami]] (Japanese, ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform''), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese, ''The Movie'', ''Transformers 2010''), [[Kōji Ochiai]] (Japanese, ''The Rebirth'')|[[Wolfgang Mascher]] (German; Generation 1), [[Dirk Meyer]] (German; ''Generation 2''), [[Crock Krumbiegel]] (German; ''The Movie''), [[Olivier Destrez]] then [[François Leccia]] (French), [[Nada Blam]] (Serbian), [[Staffan Hallerstam]] (Swedish; Generation 1), [[Dick Eriksson]] (Swedish; Generation 2)}}

[[File:Mtmte2 witiwickys saved.jpg|left|thumb|220px|This isn't what they meant by "bodyboarding", Prime...]]

In 1984, the fourteen-year-old Spike was working on an oil rig with his father [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] when his life was turned upside-down by the arrival of the [[Decepticon]]s. The evil robots began attacking the rig and terrorizing the workers; when Spike tried vainly to save his father from the clutches of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], he was swatted away by the Decepticon and fell in the ocean. Sparkplug broke free from Rumble's grip a second later and leapt in after him, and as the two Witwickys floated in the brine, the [[Autobot]]s arrived to stop the Decepticons' evildoing. To cover the villains' escape, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] collapsed the oil rig, imprisoning Spike and Sparkplug beneath a metal lattice with fire creeping towards them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] freed the two humans and brought them to safety, and in reciprocation, Spike and his father offered to serve as the Autobots' guides to [[Earth]] and allies in the fight against the Decepticons.

[[File:Mtmte2 spike finds soundwave.jpg|thumb|220px|I don't see anyone else around. I guess this must be mine. Result!]]

While returning to the Autobots' base after writing the latest entry in [[Spike's diary|his journal]], Spike stumbled across a sweet discarded cassette player, which he brought back to the base with him. After quizzing [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] on the Autobots' various special abilities, Spike took Hound up on his offer for a joyride through the desert, leaving the tape player behind. When he returned, however, he was horrified to discover that the device had been the Decepticon [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] in disguise, and that he had downloaded much secret information from [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]. Using that information, the Decepticons soon struck [[Sherman Dam]], and when the Autobots tried to stop them, Hound was buried under a pile of rocks, deep in the river, by Rumble. Spike dived in to save him, but once he had done so, he then had to be saved by Hound, who gave him CPR.

[[File:Mtmte2 witwickys and trailbreaker.jpg|left|thumb|220px|They never miss the game]]

While out scanning for Decepticon transmissions with Trailbreaker, Spike and his father learned that Megatron was planning to hit the [[ruby crystal mines of Burma]], and the Autobots mobilized to confront them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Soon after, when the Autobots learned that the Decepticons were poised to return to Cybertron, Spike and Sparkplug volunteered to stop them before they could depart aboard [[Victory (G1)|their space cruiser]]. During the subsequent battle, Spike threw a rock that dislodged [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]'s [[null-ray]]. Eventually, the threat of the Decepticons was believed ended when their space cruiser crashed in the ocean. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[File:Transporttooblivion captive spike.jpg|thumb|220px|All we need is [[Chewbacca|Chewie]] and we'll be all set!]]

Several months later, the Decepticons resurfaced with a plan to create an intergalactic transportation system known as a "[[space bridge]]". Spike was chilling with [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] when the villains struck a solar power plant, knocking out power across the city. When Optimus Prime charged [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] with spying on the Decepticons to learn their plan, Spike requested that he be allowed to accompany the small Autobot, beginning a long-standing friendship between the two. Unfortunately, this first mission together did not go very well, as Spike was captured by the Decepticons and almost used as a guinea pig for the first test run of the space bridge, but was thankfully saved at the last second by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}}

Spike's friend [[Chip Chase]] brought Spike and Bumblebee on a visit to the laboratory of [[Alcazar|Doctor Alcazar]], with whom he was working on an [[antimatter]] formula. [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] attacked the trio as they were leaving the lab, and although they were able to escape, the Decepticons returned to capture Chip in his home. Spike, Bumblebee, Hound and Mirage teamed up to rescue Chip, but the Decepticons were still able to acquire the antimatter formula. In the battle that resulted, [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] was wielding the antimatter-powered Megatron when Spike bravely attacked his leg with a pneumatic drill. Skywarp seized the boy, but this gave Chip the distraction he needed to plant an override device on the Decepticon's leg, allowing [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to control Skywarp's motor relays remotely, tipping the scales of the battle in the Autobots' favor. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[File:Divideandconquer spike grabs gun.jpg|left|thumb|220px]]

Spike was helping Optimus Prime search for the newest location of the Decepticons' space bridge when a distress call from Chip summoned them to a munitions plant under Decepticon attack. Prime was fatally wounded in the subsequent battle, forcing Chip and a team of Autobots to head to Cybertron to recover a replacement [[cosmitron]] for his systems. In their absence, the Decepticons attacked Autobot Headquarters, and the leaderless Autobots could not muster the courage to fight. Claiming that this was not what Prime would have wanted, Spike seized Jazz's pistol and announced that he would fight the battle himself if he had to, his bravery galvanizing the other Autobots into action. During the fight, the Cybertron team returned with the cosmitron, restoring Prime, who defeated Megatron and won the day. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

A freak snowstorm in the desert around Autobot Headquarters gave Spike cause for celebration, as he introduced the Autobots to the wonders of a snowball fight. When the unnatural weather was discovered to be the product of a Decepticon plot at the North Pole, Spike and his father headed to the Arctic Circle with the Autobots. There, the two humans were captured by the Decepticons' newest recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], but they could see that his heart wasn't in the evil robots' scheme, and he soon switched sides. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

[[File:Fireonthemountain spike and luisa.jpg|thumb|220px|It's the pink interior that makes Spike such a [[Ladiesman217|Ladiesman]].]]

When the Autobots discovered a cavern full of [[dinosaur]] bones behind their Headquarters, Spike educated them on the ancient reptiles, and helped design the robotic "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" that Optimus Prime decided to have created based on Spike's stories. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Later, he and Bumblebee headed to [[South America]] to investigate a Decepticon scheme in Peru, where he got cosy with a native girl named [[Luisa]] after he saved her life. Luisa led them to the temple the Decepticons were using as a base, where Spike discovered and repaired the captive Skyfire. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}}

Soon after, he and Chip helped the Autobots create two more Dinobots, {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}} Spike faced his greatest challenge yet when he saw his father abducted by the Decepticons. The Autobots quickly enacted a rescue plan, but Spike soon realized that his father was not in his right mind when he discovered that he was responsible for sabotaging Teletraan I and the Autobots' weapons. In truth, a [[hypno-chip]] had transformed Sparkplug into a mind-controlled Decepticon slave! {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}}

[[File:Tud hypnochipped sparkplug.jpg|left|thumb|220px|So this is where he learned the excellent parenting skills he demonstrates in Headmasters]]

Concurrently, the Decepticons activated a massive space bridge that teleported the entire planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into Earth's orbit, causing massive natural disasters that Spike and the Autobots were also forced to contend with. Discovering that his father had been taken to Cybertron, Spike insisted that Optimus Prime allow him and a team of Autobots to go to the planet and find him. Navigating traps and ventilation shafts, Spike, Bumblebee and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] made their way to [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Decepticon Headquarters]], where Spike confronted his father in hopes of bringing him to his senses. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Unfortunately, Sparkplug instead triggered an alarm that brought the Decepticons running, forcing Spike and the Autobots to flee and take refuge in [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s old laboratory. There, Wheeljack analyzed a computer disk stolen from Decepticon Headquarters by Bumblebee and created a device to undo the hypno-chips' effects. Spike served as bait to lure the Decepticons and Sparkplug out so that the device could be tested, and although he was nearly shot by his brainwashed father, Wheeljack's counter-weapon succeeded, freeing Sparkplug from Decepticon control. The Autobots and Witwickys headed back to Earth, where Spike hit on the idea to blow up the Decepticons' stockpile of [[energon cube]]s in order to blast Cybertron out of Earth orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

[[File:AutobotSpike-AutobotXTabled.jpg|thumb|220px|Well, you can call him "Junkbot"!]]

Spike traveled with the Autobots to [[Bali]] to battle the newest Decepticons, the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and was the one who came up with the idea to use Trailbreaker's forcefield to block [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]'s clone beams. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}} Soon after, Spike was among the spectators of a mighty one-on-one battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, which ended with Prime's defeat. When Megatron was revealed to have cheated by combining all the powers of the Decepticons together, the Autobots overturned the result of the fight and sent the Decepticons tumbling into a river of lava. Spike wondered if this was truly the end of the Transformers' war, but Optimus Prime was uncertain. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

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When Spike was grievously injured by Megatron in a Decepticon attack, the Autobots had to figure out a way to remove his mind from his body so that life-saving surgery could be performed. The process was carried out using [[Autobot X]], a [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein]]-like robot created by Sparkplug from various Autobot spare parts, but the unstable robot body clouded Spike's mind. He began rampaging, and eventually fled Autobot Headquarters, at which point he was approached by Megatron, who manipulated him into allying with the Decepticons against his friends. Only after nearly killing his father did Spike come to his senses, and turned on the Decepticons, after which his mind was subsequently transferred back into his body. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}}

Spike was instrumental in saving [[New York City]] from Decepticon domination when he and Bumblebee infiltrated Megatron's command post and goaded him into destroying his own weapons control console, {{storylink|City of Steel}} after which he had to fight against his friends when the Autobots fell under the influence of a Decepticon [[personality destabilizer device]]. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[File:Arcade Hahaha.jpg|thumb|220px|Bumblebee comforts Carly after a sudden tiff]]

While on a run to pick up a [[polarizer]] for Wheeljack's new [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]] invention, Spike and Bumblebee stopped off at the [[Robots Video Arcade]], where Spike was approached by an older girl named [[Carly]]. When it turned out that all she wanted was to be introduced to Bumblebee, however, Spike excused himself and his Autobot buddy, and they had an eventful journey back to the base, enduring a policeman who questioned Spike's driving age and a surprise attack by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Carly trailed them back, and then helped them out in their mission to reclaim the stolen Immobilizer from the Decepticons. At the adventure's end, Spike invited Carly out for a chocolate soda, beginning a romance between the two teens. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

When Spike and Chip came up with the idea of the Autobots racing for charity, they could never have predicted that the Decepticons would use it as an opportunity to trap the heroic robots in their vehicle modes with their new [[Transfixatron]]. Wheeljack and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] managed to escape the paralyzing device's influence and created a [[Anti-transfixation grenade|grenade]] to undo its effects, and Chip and Spike outran Soundwave and his cassettes to detonate it in the Autobots' midst and save them. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

[[File:Spike SemiNude.jpg|left|150px|thumb|We have hereby filled our beefcake quota for this Wiki. Move along.]]

After a lesson in how to play football, Spike went with a team of Autobots to investigate the underwater city of [[Sub-Atlantica]], and told them of the legend of [[Atlantis]] that was potentially inspired by it. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} Later, while investigating a Decepticon oil pumping platform, Spike was captured alongside Skyfire and Hound, but was able to effect their release by incapacitating their Decepticon guards with an electro-magnet. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} Later still, Spike told the Autobots about ninjas when he attended the unveiling of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

When a mysterious second [[Optimus Prime clone|Optimus Prime]] appeared while the Autobots were investigating a crevice of [[korlonium crystal]]s, Spike proposed a series of tests to determine which was the real one. The tests failed, but the impostor Prime was revealed when he displayed no concern for Spike after the boy was captured by Megatron. His deception revealed, Megatron hurled Spike from his [[Incredibly tall rocket|rocket base]] to cover his retreat, but he was safely rescued by [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} Soon after, Spike joined the Autobots in battling the super-powered Insecticons, and bravely climbed Shrapnel's body to deliver by hand the antidote that stopped his over-charged frame from exploding. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}}

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The Autobots' discovery of a mysterious prehistoric island where dinosaurs still lived was a dream come true for Spike, and he christened the lost world "[[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]]" when Powerglide and the Dinobots took him there. After some perilous encounters with the local wildlife, however, Spike decided he would limit his dinosaur experiences to reading about them in [[Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire|books]]. Powerglide returned Spike home, but while he and Bumblebee headed to the library, the Decepticons arrived on Dinobot Island and began draining its many sources of energy. This caused a series of time warps to open all over the world, including one that disgorged barbarians and woolly [[mammoth]]s right into Spike and Bumblebee's path! The time-tossed creatures collapsed a building on top of the duo, {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} but Bumblebee shielded Spike with his body, and the other Autobots soon arrived to dig them out and send the unwelcome visitors back through the time warp. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}} A little later, Spike taught Optimus Prime how to play basketball. {{storylink|The Master Builders}}

[[File:Masterplan spike cornered.jpg|left|thumb|220px|"I learned in history that [[Mark Twain]] fought you with one of these too!"]]

Spike believed it was "about time" when the mayor of [[Central City (Earth)|Central City]] decided to honor the Autobots with a holiday dedicated to them, but he was horrified when mayoral rival [[Shawn Berger]] interrupted the ceremony with a tape given to him by Megatron that framed the Autobots for energy theft. Naturally, Spike, his father and Chip were not fooled by the bogus footage, but unfortunately, they were about the only humans who stood by the Autobots. When the heroic robots went to trial, Spike left in the middle of the proceedings to try and locate some evidence to prove their innocence. He was successful, discovering more footage on the tape that revealed the "Autobots" on display as disguised Decepticons, but was then confronted by Ravage. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} Escaping, Spike presented his evidence to the mayor, but it came too late: the Autobots had already been exiled from Earth, and the world was now celebrating the Decepticons. Megatron did not allow his pantomime to last long, however, announcing in a press conference his dominion over Central City. Spike was captured and put to work in a slave camp along with the rest of the city's population, but thankfully, before long, the Autobots returned to Earth to clear their names and rout the Decepticons. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

[[File:Dotd spike carly swoop.jpg|thumb|220px| "Now that's some pre-[[Pat Lee|Lee]] '[[Dull surprise]]' right there!"]]

Spike and Carly were enjoying themselves at an [[Fun A Rama Park|amusement park]] with Bumblebee, but the merriment had to come to an end so they could go to the airport and pick up Sparkplug. The airfield became a battlefield, however, when a [[Hangar|Decepticon base was discovered in a nearby hangar]] and the Dinobots were ordered in to attack. Badly damaged by the fight, the Dinobots decided to finally secede from the Autobots, but this could not have come at a worse time: no sooner had they left than the Autobots began to malfunction due to [[cybertonium]] deterioration. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} Spike and Carly volunteered to go to Cybertron to recover a fresh supply, but as soon as they had arrived, they fell afoul of Shockwave, and were forced to flee into the tiny tunnels honeycombing the planet. Heading for Wheeljack's lab, Spike and Carly encountered [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], who had come to Cybertron with the other Dinobots, but had been the only member of the team to avoid capture. With Swoop to help them, Spike and Carly navigated the ancient traps in the bowels of the planet, and even found a historical video records room that relayed for them the history of the Transformers' war. While watching the video, they were ambushed by Shockwave's [[Sentinel (G1)|sentinels]] and taken to join the other Dinobots in the cybertonium pits. The Dinobots had had their memory circuits bypassed to ensure their compliance, but Carly soon put their systems right, and they worked with the two humans to escape the pits, defeat their captors and return to Earth with enough cybertonium to repair all the Autobots. For their bravery, Spike and Carly were appointed [[Honorary Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[File:Spike gets kissed.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Spike valiantly resists the princess' advances]]

Spike and Carly got to travel to the [[moon (moon)|moon]] when the Decepticons threatened the world with the [[Voltronic Galaxer]], {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} after which Spike went on an even greater journey: into the past! Along with [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], Spike followed a group of Decepticons through a relic called the [[Dragon Mound]], which transported them to 543 AD. There, Spike took an immediate liking to [[Nimue]], the daughter of a local nobleman, and tried to single-handedly rescue her when she was kidnapped by the Decepticons and their local ally, Sir [[Wigend du Blackthorne]]. Unfortunately, by the time Spike had scaled the tower Nimue was being held in (which was in and of itself a challenge thanks to the heavy suit of armor Hoist had made for him), she and Wigend had fallen in love and become engaged! Spike subsequently returned to the present with the Transformers, where we can only assume he didn't tell Carly about the hot medieval chick. {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}}

When several Autobots and Decepticons were lost in a space bridge accident, Spike was among those who huddled around Teletraan I as Chip tried to use the computer to locate them. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} After the lost Transformers returned, Spike, Bumblebee and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] were sent to the planet [[Floron III]] to recover [[robotic insecticide]] that would help deal with the threat of the Insecticons. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently brought back one of the planet's native lifeforms, the [[Morphobot]]s. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

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Spike was washed away in a flash flood caused by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] when they started fighting for Decepticon leadership, but was rescued by Optimus Prime and carried to safety by Powerglide. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}} Later, Spike was working in his father's automotive garage when Powerglide dropped in with [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]], a flighty heiress he had rescued from the Decepticons. Spike began hitting on Astoria when they were left alone, but when he found that all she wanted to talk about was Powerglide, he grumpily returned to his work...at which point all his equipment started malfunctioning thanks to Astoria's tendency to jinx up machinery around her. We bet Spike didn't tell Carly about her, either. {{storylink|The Girl Who Loved Powerglide}}

[[File:Hoisthollywoodflesheatinglava.jpg|left|thumb|From this angle, it looks like they're STANDING on the lava...|220px]]

When Hoist, Spike and Carly accidentally stumbled into the middle of a movie shoot, the movie's [[Attack of the Alien Robots director|director]] decided to hire Hoist and some other Autobots on to star in his movie, and Spike and Carly were given free passes to the studio lot. While there, they discovered the Decepticons were also hiding out on the lot, searching for footage a film crew had accidentally taken of a secret cargo they were transporting. Spike and Carly were able to get hold of the negative the Decepticons were looking for, and fled (with some difficulty) through the myriad movie sets decorating the lot. Eventually, the Decepticons were tricked into believing the negative was destroyed when Hoist pretended to be evil and dropped it, Spike and Carly in a vat of lava... but of course, it was only movie magic. {{storylink|Hoist Goes Hollywood}}

Spike, Carly and Sparkplug were in the audience when [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] received the [[National Scientific Achievement]] award for his newest invention, [[Corrostop]]. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}} Later, when the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] tried to plunge the Earth into the sun using the space bridge, Spike helped the Autobots find the missing space bridge control panel, and convinced Megatron to join forces with them to stop the Combaticons' plan. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}} For his final recorded adventure in the 20th century, Spike aided the Autobots in apprehending the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], reacting with some distress to the sight of Optimus Prime playing "chicken" with [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

[[File:Spike ospit.jpg|220px|thumb|Oh, bother. How do you propose we solve our predicament at this moment?]]

Over the course of the next twenty years, Spike and Carly married and had a son named [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. Spike was even able to take a more active hand in the Transformers' battles, as he was given a transforming [[exosuit]]. In the course of these twenty years, the Decepticons finally conquered Cybertron, forcing the Autobots to relocate to their newly-built [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] on Earth, and to bases on two of Cybertron's moon. In the year 2005, the thirty-five-year-old Spike was stationed on [[Moonbase Two]] with Bumblebee when the Autobots decided to make their big push against the Decepticons, and he requested that [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] tell Daniel, on Earth, that he would be home soon.

[[File:Tftm spike acid drop.jpg|left|thumb|275px|And now he doesn't feel like swearing]]

Spike could never have predicted what would happen next. As he and Bumblebee watched, the monstrous planet [[Unicron]] appeared from the depths of space and consumed Moonbase One, with Moonbase Two next on the menu. Acting quickly, Spike and Bumblebee set a stockpile of explosives to blow up the moon right in Unicron's mouth as they escaped on a shuttlecraft. When the smoke cleared, however, they found that Unicron was completely uninjured, and a frustrated Spike expressed his discontent in a distinctly PG manner. Their craft was then caught in the suction from Unicron's mouth, and they were pulled in to the behemoth's digestive system, where they hung from a conveyor, waiting to be dropped into an acid pit. Thankfully, they were saved from his messy fate by Daniel, wearing an older version of Spike's exosuit, who shot the pit cover down just as they were dropped. Spike and his son escaped Unicron's body along with the other Autobots who had entered it, as the chaos-bringer exploded thanks to the power of the Autobot [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

Under their new leader, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]], the Autobots subsequently forced the Decepticons off Cybertron and retook the planet. With Cybertron established as a force for good in the universe once more, Spike was appointed Earth's official ambassador to the planet. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

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While attending the first [[Galactic Olympics]], Spike, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] were captured by a strike team of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] that attacked the event. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} They were taken to the planet [[Quintessa]], where the native [[Quintesson]]s questioned them, and then intended to put them to death. The trio tried rushing the aliens and taking [[Deliberata|one of their number]] captive, but the other Quintessons simply sentenced their comrade to death along with them, and they were all dropped into the Sharkticon pit together. At the last moment, a team of Autobots arrive to pluck them from the jaws of death, but the Quintessons then detonated a [[core bomb]] that blew up their planet and sent the Autobots and Spike hurtling through space. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}} They eventually landed on the planet [[Goo 8739B]], where they came under attack from the Decepticons, now allied with the Quintessons, {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}} but they were soon rescued by the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}} They returned to Cybertron, but the Decepticons and Quintessons pursued them, and ultimately, the aliens betrayed their allies when they activated a [[large switch]] that shut down Transformers all across the galaxy. Unfortunately for them, the Quintessons had not reckoned with Spike, who used the paralyzed Rodimus Prime's gun to destroy the switch, undoing its effects. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

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In 2006, while fleeing from a Decepticon attack, Spike, Daniel and a team of Autobots took refuge in the colossal [[Autobot Mausoleum|mausoleum]] the Autobots had built to hold the bodies of their fallen warriors. There, they discovered that Optimus Prime was apparently not dead after all, as he appeared to see the Decepticons off. Rodimus quickly returned the Matrix to his old leader, at which point Optimus was revealed to simply be a re-animated Quintesson pawn who activated the mausoleum's self-destruct sequence and left Spike and the others to die in the mausoleum. Luckily, they were able to hastily construct an improvised craft to get themselves to safety. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

Despite preparations for the first major peace conference on Cybertron taking up most of his time, Spike was still able to organize a surprise party for Daniel's birthday. This gave Daniel the idea to have a party for Ultra Magnus, however, and he proceeded to get in a lot of trouble trying to find out the Autobot's birthday. Once Daniel had been rescued from the Decepticons' clutches, Spike decided that they would just appoint that day as Ultra Magnus's birthday. {{storylink|Surprise Party}} Later, he welcomed the ambassador from [[Odessix]], [[Ynara]], to Cybertron, and had to make a few apologies for the bored Daniel's brusque behavior. Daniel subsequently went missing (in actuality, he was transported to the other-dimensional world of [[Menonia]]), but Carly told Spike to stay at the party while she and [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] went looking. {{storylink|Madman's Paradise}}

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When Daniel began suffering nightmares, Spike and Carly called on Rodimus Prime to help ease the boy's troubles. {{storylink|Nightmare Planet}} A little later, Spike accompanied Kup on a security inspection of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], during which Starscream's ghost and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] tried to steal the giant Autobot's eyes. Spike and Bumblebee teamed up to investigate, and caught the villains in the act. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine}} Spike also helped Rodimus Prime moderate peace talks between the planets [[Xetaxxis]] and [[Lanarq]], {{storylink|The Quintesson Journal}} after which he and Daniel helped the Autobots by posing as human repairmen to sneak inside [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] and steal his [[transforming cog]]. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG|left|thumb|220px|Guess which one the marble is under?]]

In 2007, Spike was on Cybertron when the Decepticons launched a massive attack on the planet with the intention of taking control of the legendary [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]]. Together with a team of Autobots, Spike pursued Scourge deep into the planet, where a blast of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber struck their craft and overloaded its engines, sending them careening across the galaxy, wildly out of control. They eventually crashed on the planet [[Nebulos]], where they ran afoul of a cell of rebel Nebulans who were fighting against the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]], the tyrannical rulers of their planet, and mistook the Autobots for their robot servants. Spike tried to talk the Nebulans out of destroying the captured Autobots, but it took the arrival of the Decepticons for the Nebulans to risk releasing their prisoners to help them fight back. During the battle, several Autobots were captured, forcing the Autobots and Nebulans to take a drastic step: to fight back against the Decepticons and the Hive, four Nebulans and four Autobots volunteered to undergo a process developed by [[Brainstorm]] that would merge them together into [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Spike carried out the biotechnological modifications, following Brainstorm's design, and in addition to the Nebulans, also bonded Daniel to [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] at her request in order to save his life. The Decepticons subsequently emulated the Autobots' Headmaster process with members of the Hive, and also modified the process to create [[Targetmaster]]s. The Autobots didn't rest on their laurels, and Spike again helped modify six of the rebel sharpshooters to become Autobot Targetmasters themselves. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}}

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To battle against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], the gigantic robot created by Hive leader Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] from the Hive's own subterranean city, Spike had the pacifistic Autobot [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] lead him to the Hive's old, abandoned surface city, which he had previously discovered while wandering the planet. There, Spike used the city's old machines to reconstruct it, Cerebros and himself, bonding them all together into the mighty [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Spike flew his new creation to Cybertron (which the Decepticons have moved into the vicinity of Earth with a giant rocket engine in his absence), where he battled and defeated Scorponok and rescued Daniel and the captive Autobots within the giant robot's city banks. The Decepticons, however, had already opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, which threatened to drive the [[Sun]] nova and destroy Earth, Cybertron and the entire [[solar system]]. As they were organic and unaffected by the chamber's energy, Spike and the Nebulons were able to act quickly to save the planet by shutting the chamber down and reversing the Decepticons' rocket to draw off the excess solar energy. This energy was funnelled into [[Vector Sigma]], revitalizing Cybertron and bringing about a new [[Golden Age]]. Despite all of this, Cerebros was insistent that Spike deactivate him so that he would never have to fight again...but quickly changed his tune when Spike transformed back into his head so that he could see the beauty of the restored planet. Optimus Prime subsequently appointed Cerebros as guardian of Nebulos, where he and the other Autobot Headmasters would root out and destroy the lingering influence of the Hive, after which Cerebros would live on the planet as its guardian. What this meant for Spike, however, was never revealed. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}
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====Madman ''The Transformers'' comic====
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In the year 2001, Spike Witwicky was overseeing the construction of [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] when his friend [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] complained about the fact he was stuck on guard duty while the rest of the Autobots forces were fighting a rearguard action during the evacuation of Cybertron. Spike tries to cheer him up, assuring the young Autobot that his time is coming, and for now, just to enjoy the view of the future Autobot City. While Hot Rod rambled on about Optimus Prime bravely fighting off Decepticons single-handedly, Spike spotted [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and his minions up to no good on the dig site, and Hot Rod sprang into action. The young Autobot prevented the Decepticons from stealing the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, and during the struggle, the Autobot artifact spoke to him with Spike's own words of encouragement. {{Storylink|The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the American animated series occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that the events of Season 3, which took place in 2006 in America, were moved back to 2010, and the events of "The Rebirth" do not occur. Japanese animated continuity inserts several additional stories into the timeline, as detailed below.}}

=====Scramble City: Mobilization=====
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In the late 1980s, the Autobots began work on a mobile battle fortress dubbed "[[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]", and began construction of the massive structure in a subterranean cavern. Spike helped the Autobots work on the project along with [[Carly]], [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father]] and [[Chip Chase|Chip]], and while welding a section of machinery, he was approached by Bumblebee with the prospect of taking a quick break from the labor. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}
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=====''The Great Transformer War'' comic=====
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After the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] brainwashed [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] into becoming a [[Decepticon]] with [[Cohesive Control Liquid]], Spike donned a modified [[exosuit]] and lasergun to save his Autobot friends. Daniel initially asked to go, but Spike forbid him, as the mission was too dangerous. Dodging Computron's laserfire, Spike burned the control liquid off with his lasergun, freeing Computron from the Terrorcons's hold. Computron immediately defeated the Decepticons and sent them fleeing. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 2|The Great Transformer War #2}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese)

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In the year that followed the resurrection of Optimus Prime, Spike spent most of his time on Cybertron, actively working as a liaison between the Autobots and humanity to develop new sources of energy. In 2011, Spike was enjoying a cup of tea with Carly in [[Great Dome|Autobot Base]] on Cybertron when the Decepticons suddenly launched a massive offensive against the planet, backed up with the added power of their new Headmaster warriors. Spike quickly contacted Optimus Prime at the Autobots' secondary command post on the planet [[Athenia]], and then withdrew to the safety of Athenia himself once reinforcements arrived on Cybertron. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} Optimus Prime himself was among the Autobots who went to Cybertron, intending to stabilize Vector Sigma, which had begun to run out of control. Spike had researched the computer and claimed there was no way to stop it without the Matrix, which was precisely what Prime didn't have. Daniel was concerned for Prime, but Spike assured him he would be fine. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} He wasn't, though. He died. Again. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

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When Spike next appeared, he had sustained some serious injuries through unexplained means. Although he was on the mend, it meant he was not fit for a mission that required a human agent: the disabling of a [[Metamorphose|metal-warping meteor]] that the Decepticons had set on collision course with Athenia. Daniel volunteered to go in his place, and Spike, impressed with his bravery, allowed it. {{storylink|Approach of the Demon Meteorite}}

After Cybertron was destroyed thanks to the machinations of Decepticon Headmaster leader [[Scorponok (G1)#Japanese cartoon continuity|Scorponok]], Spike moved his family and his research to Athenia. Soon after this, Spike supervised the launch of the [[Sol 1]] satellite, a solar energy satellite built by both humans and Transformers that served as a symbol of unity between their two planets. Unfortunately, the Decepticons stole it. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} Later, Spike went with the Autobots to help evacuate the residents of a South American village that was threatened by a volcanic eruption, {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}} and was menaced on Athenia by [[buridanka|an ambulatory monster-plant]] from [[Darhos]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

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While conducting a geographic survey on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] with a view to terraforming the planet, Spike, Daniel, [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and the [[Trainbot]]s discovered a Decepticon plot to destroy the red planet with plasma energy bombs. The Autobot Headmasters were called in while Spike, Daniel and Wheelie returned to Athenia, {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}} but alas, the four young heroes were not able to stop Mars from being blown up. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}} Spike subsequently scanned the remains of the planet with Arcee and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], and they concluded that the gravimetric balance of the solar system had been badly damaged. Spike feared that the destruction of another planet by the Decepticons would utterly destroy the whole system. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}}

When the Autobots received an distress signal from the planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]] in a parallel dimension, which was running critically low on energy, Spike was unsure whether or not they should risk giving up any of their own carefully-managed energy supply. He was eventually convinced that it was the right way to proceed, and even allowed Daniel and Wheelie to travel to Sandra with him and the Headmasters on the basis that it would be a good experience for them. Spike got very philosophical once they were on Sandra, remarking that all resources tend to run out eventually, and lamenting that Earth could face the same fate as Sandra if they weren't careful. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

[[File:Hm18 negotiating with galvatron.jpg|left|thumb|220px|We aren't negotiating in good faith? We went through a lot of trouble to make a wicker chair that would support your weight.]]

His fears for the safety of the universe growing since the destruction of Mars, Spike stunned the Autobots when he announced his intention to negotiate with Galvatron the possibility of the Autobots and Decepticons allying to create a joint energy development programme. Even more surprising was that Galvatron ''agreed'', on the condition that Spike bring Carly and Daniel with him, that the Decepticons might hold them hostage so that the negotiations could be held in "good faith". Negotiations proceeded badly, with Galvatron accusing Spike of arguing from a non-neutral position, given that he lived with the Autobots on Athenia, instead of his native Earth. Galvatron instructed Spike to leave his "most precious thing" on Earth to prove his neutrality: his son, Daniel! Daniel reluctantly agreed to stay on Earth, and Carly decided to stay with him, meaning that Spike would be separated from his whole family in the pursuit of peace. As it turned out, however, Spike wasn't actually negotiating with Galvatron at all: a transmission from [[Chaar]] by the Autobot spy [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] revealed that the real Galvatron was still there, and that Spike was conversing with a disguised [[Sixshot]]! The Decepticons were using the peace talks as a cover to embark on an interplanetary energy quest, and the Autobots were left in the dust as a consequence. As the Autobots prepared to follow the villains, Daniel insisted that he be allowed to go to defend his family honor, and Spike and Carly were silently proud of their determined son. {{storylink|Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!}}

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The Autobots' return to Earth some time later heralded a great loss, as Ultra Magnus soon died in battle with Sixshot, and Spike wept at his funeral. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}} Decepticon attacks continued with increased ferocity around the globe, angering Spike, {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} but he did not let these tragedies deter him from his work. While attending a summit on Earth to discuss using the planet's volcanoes for power, he realized that the Decepticons' recent activities had been focused on the [[Pacific Ring of Fire]]. When he returned to Autobot City to present his findings, however, the city came under attack by Trypticon and Sixshot, and Spike was wounded by a stray laser blast. With all of the Headmasters' technology unable to remove a large chunk of shrapnel embedded in one of his arteries, Spike told Daniel to remain strong even in the face of his death, and to take his place as Earth's envoy to the Autobots. Luckily, this wasn't necessary: in a drastic step that used up all of his energy, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] used his telekinetic powers to dissolve the shrapnel and save Spike's life. {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

In a major subsequent battle, the Autobots were able to force the Decepticons to withdraw from Earth, seemingly for good. Fortress appointed Spike head of the clean-up operation to remove all traces of the villains' memory from Earth, and Spike started by organizing an Autobot wrecking crew to destroy the Decepticons' desert Earth headquarters. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}} News soon reached the Autobots on Earth that the Decepticons had returned to the Headmasters' home planet, [[Master (planet)|Master]], and Daniel petitioned Spike to be allowed to accompany the Headmasters there. Carly was unwilling to let him go, but Spike decided it'd be good for his character, and asked Fortress to let Daniel go with them. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2)}} Spike watched as the worried Carly cooked up some [[space ration]]s for Daniel to take with him. {{storylink|My Friend Sixshot!}}

[[File:Hm35 witwickys goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|220px|How!]]

Unfortunately for the Earth, the Decepticons would eventually return, just as Earth's restoration programme was entering a critical phase. With Fortress and the other Headmasters not yet back from Master, Spike was left to co-ordinate the Autobot counter-attack to the Decepticons' renewed offensive, and headed to Santiago, [[Chile]] with Carly to investigate the emergence of a strange metal tower there. On the way, his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the Andes, where Carly and several other passengers fell into a crevasse. Simultaneously, Fortress's team returned to Earth, and Daniel immediately set out to help his parents. Spike attempted to descend into the crevice himself despite his injuries, and was surprised when Daniel stopped him and insisted that he rescue his mother personally. Daniel performed the task admirably, and Spike could see that his boy had grown into a man. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} When the message came in for the Autobots to gather for the final battle with the Decepticons, Spike told Daniel that he would look after Carly so that he could join his friends in the fight.

Following the Decepticons' ultimate defeat in a colossal battle royal at the North Pole, which saw the evil robots at last forced off Earth, the Autobots prepared to depart the planet as well. Spike, Carly and Daniel gathered to bid farewell to their long-time friends, and Spike was determined that the goodbye should be a happy one, since, while the Transformers were leaving, the peace they had brought to the planet was there to stay. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

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

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After the Decepticons' defeat at the North Pole, but shortly before the Autobots' departure from Earth, Spike was out walking with Carly, Daniel, Wheelie and Chromedome when they were attacked by [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundblaster]]. [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] charged at Daniel, but Spike leapt into his path and was injured, driving Daniel furious. The youth leapt onto Slugfest and covered his eyes, tricking him into blasting [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] and freeing up Chromedome to take Soundblaster down.

A little later, after the Autobots had left, Spike, Daniel and Carly were seen happily running along a beach. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 8}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
In [[2012]], Spike was stationed on [[Nebulos]] with Carly and Chip Chase. When [[Hi-Q]] went missing in the middle of a project, Spike sent a distress call that brought [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] and his team to visit. Spike took them to meet the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s and [[Targetmaster]]s, and helped them question [[Hi-Test]] on the disappearance. With [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]]'s help, they got hold of some security footage that revealed Hi-Q had been kidnapped by the [[Battlecharger]]s. {{storylink|A Flash Forward, Part 3}}

===Big Looker Storybooks continuity===
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Spike Witwicky and his father Sparkplug were investigating the damage done by a volcanic eruption close to their home town of [[Kimball]] when they witnessed a fleet of jet planes emerging from a spaceship buried within the volcano that the tremors had exposed. Spike was vocally opposed to Sparkplug's desire to examine the ship in search of "a little adventure", but ventured into the crater nonetheless, where he and his father were met by a talking Volkswagen named Bumblebee, who brought them into the ship and introduced them to his fellow Autobots. After helping the Autobots tap the volcano's energies to re-power their ship, Spike and Sparkplug were given a lift back home by Hound, but on the way, they witnessed the Decepticons draining the energy of a nearby power plant. Knowing that Hound wanted to return to his Autobot comrades to warn them that their enemies had re-powered themselves, Spike told him he could use "a little more adventure". The message was delivered, and as the Autobots readied for battle, Bumblebee took Spike and Sparkplug to a safe distance, where he would serve as a lookout and warn of a potential second wave of Decepticons approaching from the rear. Unfortunately, the battle lasted through the night, and when the rear wave appeared, Sparkplug realized that Bumblebee's signal—a flash of his headlights—was being lost in the rising sun. Spike, Sparkplug and Bumblebee raced into the battlefield to alert the Autobots, and they were able to get ready for the attack just in time. Optimus Prime credited victory in the battle to Spike and Sparkplug, and Spike affirmed his father's belief that the Autobots were their kind of machines. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Spike and Sparkplug watched as the Autobots participated in a race to win a year's supply of gas and oil. The Autobots won, but Spike decided he'd stick to hot dogs and soda! {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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When a lighting storm spooked the Autobots, Spike wrote about the experience in his [[Spike's diary|diary]] the next morning, then tried to explain the phenomenon to his robot friends with the aid of his father. Intrigued by the idea of energy that fell from the sky, Optimus Prime had [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] construct a lightning rod to collect it, and Spike and Sparkplug were on hand as the finishing touches were added to the project. That night, Spike monitored weather forecasts and alerted the Autobots to the arrival of a new storm so they could see the machine in action. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

Spike was instrumental in breaking the Decepticons' control over a human solar power station when he snuck into the facility with the intent of disabling the power-collecting machinery. Finding the door to the control room locked, Spike at first thought to pick the lock with his pen-knife, but quickly dismissed the idea and instead used the blade to alert the Autobots, watching nearby, flashing them a message in morse code by allowing the sun to glint off the knife. Optimus Prime sent [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] to deliver a [[sonic multi-tool]] to Spike, which allowed him to unlock the door and use the machinery to destroy the energon cubes the Decepticons had already gathered, sending them fleeing. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}
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While he was in town with Ironhide to buy groceries, Spike spotted a flier for a car rally that he realized passed through the region where the Decepticons had set up a new temporary base. Spike suggested using the race as cover to investigate the Decepticons' activities, and so he and Jazz joined the rally, with Spike stealthily jumping from the moving Autobot as they neared the area in question to avoid detection. He discovered the Decepticons testing a new [[ion drive]] in an abandoned mineshaft, and hit on an idea: he had Jazz push a row of mine-cars down into the tunnel, destroying the ion drive and collapsing the tunnel on the evil robots. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}

Investigating a report of Decepticon activity near a small village, Hound and Spike discovered that they had taken an interest in a local windmill. Spike and his father had to explain the concept of a non-electromagnetic mechanism to the baffled Autobots. When battle erupted around the windmill, Spike ran to the top of the structure to get a better look at the fight, but a blast from Laserbeak caused him to lose his footing and he fell onto the breaking lever, freeing the windmills sails to spin. [[File:LaserbeaksFury spike headshot.jpg|left|thumb|200px]] Laserbeak was knocked from the sky by a sail and the Decepticons were panicked by the primitive machine, causing Rumble to destroy it. Spike was able to get to safety before it collapsed, and the next day, consoled the worried Optimus Prime with the new that their battle hadn't even made the front page: the town was buzzing about Laserbeak's appearance a local disco! {{storylink|Laserbeak's Fury}}

When Spike joined the Autobots on a salvage mission to gather useful materials, it quickly became apparent that the Decepticons had developed a new method of spying on their enemies from orbital satellites. Remembering a story his father had told him when he was younger about two giants that were tricked into fighting each other, Spike suggested using the same tactic on the satellites. His aid didn't stop there: he was able to provide information about the [[Aurora Borealis]] and its radio-scrambling effects, allowing the Autobots to duplicate it as part of their plan to make the satellites crash into each other. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}}
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Following a failed Decepticon attack on Autobot City, Bumblebee and Spike secretly trailed the retreating [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] to the Decepticons' new hidden base in a nearby industrial estate. Instructed by Bumblebee to wait outside while he went spy, Spike paid a visit to an adjacent scrap yard and asked the [[A. McNulty|manager]] to help him find some some bronze-chrome wheel trims for Hot Rod. When Spike saved the man from a collapsing pile of junk, in gratitude, he gave him the wheel-trims for free. Bumblebee, meanwhile, had been spotted by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], and hidden in vehicle mode in the junkyard, where he was almost scrapped by an electromagnet until Spike distracted the magnet's operator and save his little Autobot buddy. Subsequently, Spike and his father were used as the Autobots' human eyes and ears in the industrial estate, and learned for them that it was about to close down for a few weeks. The Autobots used this as a chance to take the fight to the Decepticons hiding there, and during the battle, Spike used several pieces of construction equipment to aid the Autobots, first drawing their fire with a calorifier on a chain, then using the electromagnet to trap several smaller Decepticons, before using a wrecking ball to attack Galvatron himself! Finally, Spike used the wrecking ball to collapse the entire building, burying the Decepticons in the rubble. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
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====Generation 1====
[[File:G138 spike.jpg|left|thumb|Man, those Witwickies love pink shirts, don't they?]]
Spike Witwicky was away at college for the first few years of the [[Autobot]]/[[Decepticon]] [[Great War (G1)|war]] on [[Earth]], and was entirely unaware of his family's involvement in the robot conflict until the day he returned home to find [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father]]'s [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|garage]] a pile of rubble. Spike was relieved to find his father alive and well, but this sense of relief did not last long, as Sparkplug explained that the damage was the work of the Decepticon [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], and told Spike of [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]]'s involvement with the Autobots. Intent on ensuring his brother's safety, Spike headed up to [[Mount St. Hilary]], but found the volcano abandoned. Presently, the Autobot splinter group led by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], who had recently arrived in Earth orbit after departing the planet [[Nebulos]], entered the caverns, having followed distress call broadcast by [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]]. Finding Goldbug's [[brain module]] in a toy car on the cavern floor, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] replayed recent images from the disembodied Autobots' memory, including Buster's capture by Ratbat. Seeing this image, Spike stepped forward and petitioned the Autobots for aid in saving his brother, but they turned him down and departed.

[[File:G138 spike in control.jpg|thumb|"Watch as I give him a wet willy!"]]

Spike bedded down in the cave overnight, but when he awoke the next morning, it was to the sight of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons arriving in search of the Autobots. Despite their brushing him off, Spike believed the Autobots deserved a warning, and used the machinery in the cave to replay Goldbug's distress signal, summoning Maximus's team back to the volcano in time to save him from a vengeful Scorponok. As battle erupted, Spike sought safety deeper in the volcano, but was pursued into its confines by Scorponok's [[Nebulan]] component, Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]]. Fortress Maximus's Nebulan component [[Galen]] followed, but was killed when Zarak triggered a rockslide. In his last moments, Galen passed his control helmet to Spike, who took control of Fortress Maximus and used his firepower to send the Decepticons into retreat. {{storylink|Trial by Fire!}}

The Autobots offered to properly [[binary bonding|binary bond]] Spike with Fortress Maximus, transforming him into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]], and Spike accepted, believing it to be his best chance of finding and rescuing Buster. He returned home to tell his father the news just as Sparkplug received a call from [[Walter Barnett (G1)|Walter Barnett]] of [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]] to let him know that Buster had been located. Using his new Headmaster powers to trace the call, Spike led the Autobots to a desert island that soon proved to be a [[Club Con|Decepticon base]] in disguise. [[File:G139 headmaster spike.jpg|left|thumb|"Though maybe the giant boxy shapes under my conspicuous trenchcoat should have been a clue."]] Prohibited from joining the fight by the other Autobots due to their fears his concern for Buster would short out Maximus's [[circuits#logic circuits|logic circuits]], Spike complied with their wishes at first, but when the Decepticons' base also proved to be a rocket that took off for space, Spike was forced to take action, linking with Fortress Maximus and pursuing. Although he was able to use Maximus to shoot down [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Spike was unable to get Buster free of the island's protective dome before the rocket outpaced him. {{storylink|The Desert Island of Space!}}

Returning to the ''[[Steelhaven]]'' to build a new body for Goldbug, Spike was alerted by a bugging device he had left in his father's home to a phone call from [[Ethan Zachary]], and learned that the [[human]] had preserved the deceased [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s mind as a computer program. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}} Rendezvousing with the other Autobots in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] to gain the resources to build Prime a new body, Spike earned the ire of current commander [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], who violently rejected the notion that a human could lead any Autobots. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

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''When Optimus Prime was restored to life on Nebulous and returned to Earth, Spike, as part of Fortress Maximus, fought alongside him during the "[[Time Wars (event)|Time Wars]]".'' {{storylink|Time Wars}} Soon after, the Decepticons' island base resurfaced, and Spike took Optimus Prime and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] aboard Fortress Maximus to investigate, but the island was gone, relocated to the Arctic, by the time they arrived. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Following, the Autobots found Buster on the verge of hypothermia in the frozen wastes, but Spike used Fortress Maximus to carefully raise his brother's body temperature with infra-red heating. Spike later took Fortress Maximus into battle against the [[Underbase]]-powered [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], but was bested in a clash in [[Buenos Aires]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

With Buster saved, Spike considered his work as Fortress Maximus's partner done, and following Starscream's defeat, announced his intent to leave the Autobot ranks despite their current depleted state. Leaving Maximus's body to gather dust in storage on the Ark, Spike returned to his normal life on Earth, but found himself plagued by nightmares full of mechanical imagery, prompting him to throw away his control helmet—kept for security's sake at the urging of Optimus Prime—in a junkyard to make a totally clean break from his brief time as a Headmaster. [[File:Fortressmaximus-thelastautobot1.jpg|left|thumb]] Unfortunately, Decepticon [[Pretender Beast]]s [[Snarler]] and [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]], who had been sent to kill Spike by Scorponok, located the discarded helmet and proceeded to track Spike to [[California]], where he was on a ski trip with his friend, [[Cliff Dietz]]. Taking refuge in a cave, Cliff helped Spike realize that his nightmares held a deeper meaning: that binary-bonding went far deeper that he had ever realized, and that even without his control helmet, separated by millions of miles, he and Fortress Maximus were still connected, two minds in one being. With this realization, Spike was able to summon Fortress Maximus from the Ark to battle Snarler and Catilla, though his responses proved far more sluggish than usual. Recovering his control helmet from Snarler's disabled Pretender shell, Spike fully re-established his connection with Fortress Maximus and combined with him once more to defeat the two Decepticons. {{storylink|The Man in the Machine!}}

[[File:Spikewitwicky2009.jpg|thumb|In 2009, jheri curls returned with a vengeance. Don't you remember that?]]
Although this realization about the nature of his connection with Fortress Maximus seemed to change Spike's tune, at some point over the next few years, he reverted to his old outlook, and returned Maximus to the Ark so he could get back to his human life. When the Ark crashed back on Earth in [[1991]], Fortress Maximus urged Spike to investigate the crash site and recover his body so they could become one again and stop the menace posed to Earth by [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]. Accepting his responsibility as the last Autobot currently on Earth, Spike acquiesced, but once he had re-combined with Maximus, found his will subsumed by the Autobot, who elected to actively pursue Galvatron. Maximus found himself no match for the deranged future Decepticon, however, and called out for Spike's aid, but Spike refused to make a point, before the two came to an understanding and united their minds to bring Galvatron down. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}}

In an alternate timeline in the year [[2009]], Spike Witwicky was part of a very small Autobot/human resistance movement in a world where [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]'s Decepticons controlled North America. The handful of Autobots who remained alive despaired and were on the cusp of giving up, but Spike and [[Lisa]] (who shared growing feelings for each other) guilted them into one last suicidal attack on the [[Decepticon Powerbase]] in New York before the rest of the world could unleash a nuclear holocaust onto America at midnight. Though there were several casualties, Spike managed to hoist an American flag on the Decepticon stronghold on live television, a symbolic measure which prompted the end of the planned nuclear strike. Before Galvatron could respond, the Decepticon despot was abducted by [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] into another timeline. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[File:Spikewitwickytimewars.jpg|left|150px|thumb|White jumpsuits were so 2006.]]

''In the year 2009, Decepticons had built an [[energy leech (device)|energy leech]] to destroy Earth while [[time rift|a space-time anomaly]] was eating entire planets. After [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] orchestrated a plan to travel twenty years back in time to the source of the anomaly, Spike Witwicky and his son Daniel accused Rodimus of shirking his responsibilities towards Earth and guilted Rodimus into allotting more troops to help destroy the Decepticons' machine.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}
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====''Generation 2''====
[[File:Spikewitwickyg2.jpg|75px|thumb|Now the jumpsuit's in BROWN?]]
Despite the conclusions he had come to and the newfound unity he had forged with Maximus during his battle with Galvatron, it was apparent that old habits proved hard for Spike to shake. He again returned Maximus's body to the ruined Ark and tried to get back to life, presumably on the basis that so much time passed on Earth without any Transformer activity that he believed it was "all over". {{storylink|All or Nothing!}} A few years later, however, when Megatron returned and a small squad of Autobots came to Earth to battle him in [[Milleville]], Spike was drawn to the site of the battle, and snuck back aboard the Ark, now restored and under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Final Transformations}}

Discovering that Megatron was holding [[Sidney Biggles-Jones]] captive, Spike realized that he had no choice but to bond with Fortress Maximus once more, only to find that Megatron had disabled Maximus's dormant body while rebuilding the Ark, leaving him under-equipped for combat. Caught in the act of donning his armor by fellow stowaway [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], Spike combined with Maximus (curiously omitting Cerebros from the process) and explained his presence, then charged Skydive with rescuing Doctor Biggles-Jones while he and Maximus took Megatron on. Unsurprisingly, Megatron grievously wounded the pair, forcing Skydive to step in and distract him long enough for Maximus to escape, and make his way to the Ark's anti-matter power core. Intended to breach the core with his body and destroy the ship, hoping to take Megatron with it, Maximus instructed Spike to disconnect and escape, but Spike resolved to stay with his partner to the end to ensure their success. They smashed into the core together and perished in the resultant ship-destroying explosion, but alas, their sacrifice was in vain, as Megatron survived. {{storylink|All or Nothing!}}
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====''Classics''====
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[[File:Invasion-Radcontrolroom.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Well, it beats a jheri curl.]]

Spike retained his duties as Fortress Maximus's binary-bond partner for decades, and eventually he was stationed in [[South America]]. He was present one day in [[2012]] when [[Rad]] reported from the [[Ironworks]] base in [[Oregon]] about a foiled attack by [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Gigatron]] and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] from [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|another dimension]], a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Spike, merged with [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]], gathered civilians inside Fortress Maximus for safety. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}
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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:SpikeWitwicky CircuitSmasher LooseEnds3.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Powered by Blackrock ingenuity and 90s angst.]]
Spike was able to keep everyone from poking around in the Ark for a year or two, but he eventually stopped being Fortress Maximus full-time so he could live his life. Unfortunately, that meant some greedy/bored people were able to sneak into the Ark and poke around it in 1994... awakening Megatron! With nuclear weaponry turned against Earth's cities by the [[Aunty|Ark computer]] and zombie Decepticons roaming the Earth, Spike became Fort Max again and led a final battle alongside [[Circuit Breaker|Josie Beller]] and [[G.B. Blackrock]]. The final battle was a bust: Fort Max was killed and Spike's mind and nervous system went with him.

Blackrock, however, used Beller's neural-cybernetic technology and bonded them with Spike's Headmaster parts, bringing him 'back to life', retarding his aging, and giving him powerful electric powers. Taking up the name '''Circuit-Smasher''', Spike became the main weapon for the rebels in [[Argus Base]] against Megatron's genocide. Unfortunately, he could only do so much and the Decepticon corpses were incapable of being permanently killed (again), and by 2012 he was angry enough to attack the first Autobots he saw on sight, blaming them for Earth's demise. Only some appeals from [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] and fellow rebel [[Gordon Kent]] calmed Spike down.

[[File:Roadbuster CircuitSmasher LooseEnds4.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]

He led the Autobot [[Wrecker]]s to Argus Base, filling them in on the destruction of Earth and how this was the Ark's fault. He then formed part of a conference with Springer, Blackrock, Kent, and Sandstorm, running through their new options now the Wreckers were on Earth, only to be interrupted by a broadcast from Megatron, taunting the Autobots with the tortured body of Kup. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Spike, along with a few of the Wreckers and a handful of humans armed with [[Battlesuit]]s, attacked the Ark, with the intention of shutting down its supercomputer [[Aunty|Auntie]]. Before attacking, Spike made it clear that they were to deactivate the Ark, and if he began to suspect any of them were thinking of trying to get it back under control and using it to leave, he would crash every single one of their circuits. He blasted a projectile that was launched at one of the humans. After [[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] was blasted by the Ark's auto-turret defenses, Spike coldly commanded everyone to keep moving, saying that all of the Wreckers were expendable. Once they broke through the Ark's outer defenses, Auntie deployed [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardians]] to protect herself. As the Wreckers and humans fought the Guardians, Spike infiltrated the Ark, but was detected by Auntie, who detained him. However, Spike was still able to use his powers to smash every single one of Auntie's circuits, deactivating her and the Guardians. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}} After Megatron and his army were taken care of, Spike came to Optimus Prime, telling him that he and the others had unanimously decided on the Autobots leaving Earth for good. When Prime offered to help, Spike angrily rejected the offer, warning Optimus not to make ask them to leave more than once. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Spike, his brother Buster, and his father Sparkplug met the Autobots early on in their time on Earth. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}} Spike formed a close friendship with Bumblebee. {{storylink|Extermination}}

Somewhere in the time after [[1984]], Spike married Carly, who then gave birth to Spike's son, Daniel. {{storylink|Extermination}} After the explosion of the ''[[Ark II]]'' in [[1999]], which caused the death of Spike's father Sparkplug, Spike tried to leave his involvement with the Transformers behind and settled down with his wife and son in Cleveland, Ohio, trying to live a new life as a normal family. The newfound peace wouldn't last for long, though, as Spike was soon recruited by a shady military official named [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] seeking his help in reviving Optimus Prime, whose body his men had recently found in the Arctic. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}} Spike, who had been entrusted by Prime with a fragment of the Matrix, used that fragment to bring Prime back to life.

Optimus Prime subsequently used the Matrix to revive and assemble a group of his Autobots, which he would then lead against Megatron's Decepticons. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Meanwhile, Spike was imprisoned by General Hallo, who had double motives behind reviving the Autobots {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} and even tried to kill them by bombing them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} With the help of [[Larry|Larry, the World's Most Resourceful Janitor]], Spike was able to escape his cell and uncover the [[Lazarus Project]] and Hallo's sinister schemes, but not in time to stop him from launching a nuclear strike against the Autobots {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} which was ultimately averted when [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] sacrificed his life in order to make it detonate before it could reach its target. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

Following these events, Spike once again returned to his family and tried to leave his past with the Transformers behind. A few months later, though, his old friend Bumblebee, who had just decided to quit the Autobot army following a fierce battle against [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], showed up by his house. Spike, frustrated that the Autobots refused to leave him alone, hurled a few nasty insults against his old buddy {{storylink|Extermination}} before changing his mind and joining him on a men's night out in the city, where they stopped a mugging. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}

===''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers''===
In response to the forming of the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and its commandeered Transformers, the United States government assembled a strike team dubbed [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. Spike Witwicky (codename Spike) was listed on the roster, but was never seen. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Spike was out driving with Bumblebee and Hound when, to their surprise, they stumbled on a badly-damaged Starscream. Though Spike was all in favor of leaving the Decepticon there, Bumblebee insisted they take Starscream back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] with them. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

Bumblebee gave Spike a ride to his high school, but while Spike was in class, his Autobot pal got carjacked. When Spike emerged, he found a smug Bumblebee sitting in the carpark with two wet seats. {{storylink|Joyride (story)|Joyride}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Spike Witwicky is the son of four-star general "Sparkplug" Witwicky. From a young age, he wanted to be a soldier just like his idolised dad. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}} Sparkplug often took him on long camping trips in the woods, and this outdoors lifestyle caused Spike to develop a dislike for relying on machines. {{storylink|Scrapper (issue)|Scrapper}}

He met his friend [[Joe Henderson]] at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. By this point, Spike had let his family ties go to his head and was insufferably arrogant and obnoxious. Worse, he started to act like he was in an action movie, treating everyone else as the supporting character and doing "cool" stuff like rule-breaking, acting reckless, and taking personal vendettas, which is less "cool" and more "dangerous and illegal" in real life. But since he was both protected by his daddy ''and'' also genuinely smart and competent as a soldier, he was able to get away with this. He graduated second in his class and went to work in special forces, where he continued to act like he was in a story. {{Storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward}}

[[File:Spikewitwickybuttonflies.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hey, remember above, when we said we filled the beefcake quota for the wiki? We lied!]]

In the wake of the Decepticons' devastating attack on Earth, Commander Spike Witwicky met his dad inside a secret bunker where the remnants of the United States military had gathered to mount a desperate counteroffensive. Regrettably, Sparkplug had selected Spike for a mission to assassinate the leader of the Decepticons, [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], even though he feared his son would not make it back. It was a suicide mission, but Spike was the most qualified. Spike accepted, despite the consequences, but ignored his father's pleas for him to call his worried mother first.

During the night, he and a team snuck into [[New York City]] by boat, but they were discovered by [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]. With one dive, the boat and its occupants were dashed to bits under the water, and Spike's signal was destroyed. Learning his son was dead, Sparkplug, in shock, believed it was he who had not only sent his son to die, but had inspired Spike to join the military in the first place. But unknown to Sparkplug, his son surfaced on the shore of New York, perfectly alive... {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}

Stealing new pants from an abandoned [[Gloomingdales]], Spike ran into the leaders of the underground human resistance movement, who were looking for supplies. Spike took [[Bridge]] and [[Sarah]] into an abandoned office building to discuss gathering the resistance and assassinating Megatron. But first, Spike took them into a disguised military facility where he retrieved a weapon created from studying [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]'s gun arm. Their quick escape was cut short, since [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] was causing a ruckus outside. Telling the others to run for cover, Spike ducked into a building and then reappeared when he drove a motorcycle through an upstairs window, firing a small pistol. This distracted Rumble long enough for [[Charles (G1)|Charles]] to shoot him right in the face. Rumble's defeat was followed by an overcoming sonic screech, and as Soundwave arrived to sadly take Rumble's body away, it seemed the city's electronic blackout was over. Phones were working again, and so Spike called his father. He learned not only that his father thought he was dead, but that there was nothing they could do to prevent other nations from unleashing a nuclear onslaught across North America. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}}

Later, Spike, Sarah, Bridge and Charles ran out of a half-demolished building, passing [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], who was slagging the [[European Union]] jets. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}}

He and his party set up a better sniper position in a nearby building, where they watched [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|two]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|robots]] fight each other. When Megatron eventually bested Optimus, Spike decided it was time to intervene. He charged the weapon and blasted Megatron's face, allowing Optimus to defeat him. Later, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] found him and brought him to Optimus Prime. Prime offered to help Spike and the rest of the humans rebuild their planet. Spike thanked Prime for his thought, but said that there was no chance of the Transformers and the humans reconciling. As he put it, Optimus' "kind" caused all the destruction, and that any chance of an alliance was gone. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[File:SpikeWitwickyG1-ManofSteel.jpg|thumb|200px|"All right, guys, who ordered me the strippers?"]]

After the Decepticons' defeat, they abandoned Earth, leaving Ravage and others behind. Spike Witwicky headed a military regiment to hunt down surviving Transformers and found Ravage in an abandoned building. Ravage attacked Spike but got blasted for his efforts. At least he put Spike in the hospital, though. Sparkplug became the new head of [[Skywatch]] and requested Spike join his task force of ridding the planet of Transformers. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 16|The Man of Steel}} Being lionised for saving the world ''and'' becoming a tactical commander went to Spike's head. {{Storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward}} He also made the decision to violate US and international law by trading with the Decepticon war criminal [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], giving him resources in exchange for the advanced Cybertronian technology that would become Skywatch's arsenal. (Someone on Skywatch's oversight panel was almost certainly allowing this to carry on...) {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden}}

[[File:Ongoing Issue 2 Spike one night stand.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Andy Schmidt|"Our new Transformers ongoing is totally kid-friendly! Honest!"]] ]]

Two years later, Spike was still commanding the Transformer-hunting team. With his [[Crash suit]], he quickly contained the Decepticon [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] which subsequently drew the watching [[Prowl (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] out of hiding. Then he drove away in the contained Breakdown {{storylink|...For All Mankind}} for a one-night stand with a [[Spike's booty call|local stripper]]. He came back to the Skywatch HQ after being alerted to Optimus' surrender. His father reprimanded him for being offsite for Prowl's liberation and Optimus' surrender, so to prove himself, Spike went to interrogate Optimus. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} In spite of his attempts to appear friendly, however, the Autobot leader refused to be given any special treatment and did not give up any information on the other Autobots. Spike then resorted to capturing three more Autobots and asking Optimus if he'd do it for ''their'' sake. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 2: "A Rude Awakening"|A Rude Awakening}} This didn't work either. With one day left before his father arrived to take Optimus Prime away, Spike had nothing to show for it and was feeling like he hadn't accomplished anything as a leader. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

During another chat with Optimus, Spike listened to his story about how long it took for him to learn that there was more to leadership than winning battles and how he still treated the situation on Earth like a war. He had given himself up because he could not change, but was impressed by humanity's capacity for change and believed Spike would become a great leader much faster than he did. Needing some time alone to think about this, Spike went on a drive in Breakdown only be to attacked by the other [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] and forced to hide in a river. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}} Once he was picked up by a Skywatch transport, he learned that the Stunticons had combined into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and realized they needed Optimus Prime's help to defeat him. Having thought about what Optimus told him, Spike returned to base and admitted to Optimus that his poor leadership had led to the death of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] at the hands of Skywatch, but now he had realized it was time for a change. He released Optimus from captivity, allowing the Autobots to defeat Menasor, then approached the new Autobot leader [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] with an offer to form an alliance between Skywatch and the Autobots. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}}

[[image:Spike-idw-ongoing-007-008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Two eyes, one nose, one mouth... totally the same guy.]]

The Autobots accepted, and so Skywatch stopped hunting them and let them use their facilities in exchange for access to their technology. Sparkplug disapproved, but Spike defended his decision by saying they could never capture ''all'' the Autobots or even keep up with their technology anyway, so working together was the best option as long as they kept [[Section 82|certain]] things hidden from them. Still, he had illegally released a prisoner, so his entire unit had to be sworn to silence so that the generals wouldn't find out they had broken military protocol. [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] protested this deception, but Spike shrugged it off as just a little white lie. {{storylink|All His Engines}}

Wanting to avoid another combiner incident, and frankly just wanting revenge for [[Tim Simmons|a comrade]] who had been killed by Devastator, Spike set up a secret, isolated system to detect the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}} After a video conference with [[Allenby|General Allenby]], during which Sparkplug helped corroborate his cover-up story that Optimus Prime had escaped from custody on his own, his father told him the alliance with the Autobots was an uneasy one and now was ''not'' the time to get overconfident and sloppy. Then he went AWOL to hunt down Scrapper on his own without telling either Skywatch or the Autobots. He neutralised the Decepticon using deliberately low-tech means, in order to rub in how badass humans are and be a movie-style hero. And then murdered him when he was wounded and helpless, and covered it up. {{storylink|Scrapper (issue)|Scrapper}}

Later, the Combaticons managed to get help from North Korea. Spike suggested using Optimus Prime to fight the threat. {{storylink|International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"|The Land Ironclads}} Spike managed to convince the Autobot leader to help and complained about the lack of intelligence that one of his units was showing only for Optimus to point out the unit's intelligence reflects on its commander. {{storylink|International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"|Ranks of Bronze}} The Autobots later had a brawl with the Combaticons and Predacons. Sandra told Spike that Russia had announced they were launching a nuclear missile at the battle. Spike attempted to make the forces stop due to the threat but with no result. He then relied on Cosmos to get rid of the problem. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|All My Sins Remembered}}

While arriving back at Skywatch, Spike and his comrades were hit down aboard a jet by a mysterious object.{{Storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man|The Demolished Man}} Spike and the others managed to survive the crash but had to stay underwater until they had reached the Panama Canal. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} Spike woke up in Optimus later and received a message from a repaired Megatron that he was holding hostages and Optimus went to save them. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome|Burning Chrome}} Optimus tried to track down Megatron after rescuing the hostages. Spike suggested a more low tech approach. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

Most of the Autobots later left to liberate their home world, Cybertron. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|Orphans of the Helix}} The remaining Autobots were left on Earth to investigate Scrapper's death and Spike requested Prowl remain involved in the case, leaving Prowl to be suspicious of Spike's motives. {{storylink|Police Action: Prologue}}

Spike suggested Prowl should investigate Ben Simpson but Prowl ended up spying on Spike instead. Spike was attacked by Breakdown but was saved by Streetwise. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1}} Shortly after this, Spike decided to admit to Prowl that he killed Scrapper {{storylink|Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|Only Forward}} and when he was accused of having intended to violate the guarantees he'd made the Autobots all along, he turned it around on Prowl: he claimed it was necessary, that he knew Prowl had made murky decisions out of necessity before, and that it was Prowl himself that would wreck Autobot/human relations if he blabbed. The Autobot responded that he'd trusted Spike before and never could again, but Spike was unconcerned since ''he'd'' never trusted the Autobots since, hey, they're not human.

And then his successful moral checkmate and fancy words were blown to pieces because the Autobots had brought in Swindle, who would clearly blab about the illegal and immoral deal Spike had made. Spike fled the Skywatch base and was reduced to an international fugitive, after the Autobots revealed his crimes to both his superiors and to the news media. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|A Second Chance at Eden}}
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===''Mars Attacks: The Transformers''===
Following a particularly intense battle in a city, Spike ran up to congratulate Prime on the victory, only to find his footwear being disparaged by [[The General|a General]]. Moments later, the planet was attacked by [[Martian]]s, and Spike sought cover with Bumblebee, who was reluctant to translate the Martians' speech for him. When later Spike found himself surrounded by Martians while standing in a puddle of [[water]], his [[yellow boots|rubber boots]] saved him from an electric jolt which took out the Martians, vindicating his choice of foot covering. {{storylink|Mars Attacks: The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:Spikeheadmastertoy.jpg|300px|thumb|Finally, your favorite Transformers character!]]
* '''Fortress Maximus''' (Headmaster, 1987)

:Spike is a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] figure that comes with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Gray and blue, it transforms into [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]]'s head, which then in turn becomes Fortress Maximus's head. Although the on-package [[bio]] refers to 'the Nebulan leader, Spike', most assume it is supposed to represent the character from TV, making this the first Transformers toy of an Earth human.

:This toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as [[Galen]], and [[redeco]]ed as [[Grand Maximus|Gran]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Car Robots]]'' [[Cerebros (RID)|Plasma]] and ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' [[Master (RM)|Master]].
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Autobot/FortressMaximus/fortressmaximus.htm More information on Spike (with Fortress Maximus) at TFU.info]''
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===Masterpiece===
[[File:Masterpiecetoy spike.jpg|thumb|300px]]
* '''Convoy''' (2011)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-10'''
: ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#mp10|MP-10 Convoy]] comes with a small figure of Spike. Standing at about an inch tall, he features articulation in his shoulders, hips and knees, and is scaled to be able to sit in all the cockpit spaces that ''[[Diaclone]]'' figures could occupy on the original Generation 1 Optimus Prime figure, such as Prime's passenger compartment while in vehicle mode, [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]'s seats, the consoles on the floor of the [[Combat Deck (G1)|Combat Deck]], and the cockpit of the Combat Deck's artillery robot.

: As this smaller incarnation of Convoy is in [[scale]] with them, Spike is also capable of riding ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' figures!

===Transformers (2010)===
* '''Masterpiece Optimus Prime''' (2012)
: A [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] in the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#mp10hasbro|Hasbro's release]] of the MP-10 figure and its accessories features various plastic color and [[Paint operation|paint detail]] changes, yet Spike appears to be no different.
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==Merchandise==
===Super Collection Figure===

[[File:SCF-Bumblebee-Spike.JPG|thumb|Spike says "How."]]
*'''Bumble and Spike''' (Act 3, 2001)
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''5''' (painted) '''6''' (clear)

:[[Plastic|PVC]] figurines of Spike and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys|Bumblebee]] were sold together in the third act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s [[Super Collection Figure]] series. Like all the figures in the wave, the pair were available as both regular full-color figures and clear plastic versions, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. The full-color version of the set came packaged with the torso piece of the wave's Fortress Maximus "build-a-figure".

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Autobot Espionage Team''' (2003)

:''Super Collection Figure'' Spike and Bumblebee were later released by [[Hasbro]] as part of their ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line, sold under the name "Autobot Espionage Team," as Hasbro did not have the trademark rights to Bumblebee's name at this point in time. Unlike the blindpacked Japanese version, they were sold on an individual blister card, and came packaged with the right leg of the Fortress Maximus figure.
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===History Collection===
[[File:TFhistorycollection spike.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Spike''' (2004)
:A PVC figurine of Spike was the rare [[chase figure]] of Takara's [[History Collection]]. Spike was the only piece in the series who did not feature with a circular "bottlecap" display base, instead, coming crouched on Optimus Prime's hand, from which he could be removed. Additionally, Prime's hand could plug into the wrist socket of the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#20th Anniversary/Masterpiece|20th Anniversary/Masterpiece Optimus Prime]] figure.
::*''[http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act234/ More information on the History Collection at TFKenkon.com]''

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==Notes==
*Spike and Buster were both derived from the same "young male human friend" character in early backstory material. For more on the name variation see [[Butch Witwicky (G1)|Butch Witwicky]].
* Apparently Spike Witwicky is named after a person in real life! According to the [[BotCon 2010]] panel hosted by [[Bob Budiansky]], [[Jim Shooter]] (editor in-chief at [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] at the time) chose the name based on one of his real life friends. The name Witwicky had previously showed up in Marvel's ''Dazzler'' comics, as co-plotted by Shooter.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spike Witwicky''' (スパイク・ウィトウィッキー ''Supaiku Witowikkī'')
*''English:'' '''Sparkle''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''La Flèche''' (Canada, "The Arrow")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Csuka''' (''The Movie'', "Pike")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Spys''' ("Spear")

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Fortress_Maximus Fortress Maximus's ''Universe'' profile (with Spike) at NFTA.net]

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Jesse (G1)

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:''Jesse is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Jesse ClubCon beach.jpg|thumb|200px]]

'''Jesse''' (also '''Jessie''') is a stunningly-attractive high school student. She attends ballet class, wears fashionable Eighties berets, and—luckily for [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]—leaps lustfully into the arms of skinny, bookish, and sensitive boys. She can be a little dense when it comes to others' feelings, but she always [[Kiss|apologizes]] for it.

A few years later, she would grow up to have a [[:Image:Jessieclubcon.jpg|slightly more-questionable fashion sense]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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[[File:Odisengage.jpg|300px|thumb|WHAT IS THAT THING ON HER—oh, it's Buster.]]
While watching ''[[A Kiss for Us]]'' at the [[Community Drive-In]], Jesse and Buster were making out in his car (while their friend [["O"]] watched) when it was rear-ended by a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle (surprise, it's [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]]!). During the following [[Decepticon]] attack, Buster told Jesse and "O" to find help, while he drove away in the Bug. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} Buster was unreachable for some time, which worried Jesse and "O", but while walking about, listening to the [[Dazzler]] on their stereo, Buster returned with Bumblebee and explained that he had been caught up in the [[Autobot]]/Decepticon war. Buster and Bumblebee drove away before his friends could process this incredible information. {{storylink|Power Play!}}

Tragically, Buster's father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] was kidnapped by the evil Decepticons, forcing Buster further into the conflict. As he drove away inside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] to rescue his father, Jesse was starstruck by his bravery, though she was terrified for his safety. She knew that he was sensitive, but she had not realized that he was so brave! {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}} She futilely tried to escape her worries by retreating to [[Jesse's ballet class|her ballet class]], but as they watched their neighbors pack up and leave town, even there, the Transformers conflict was made evident. She wondered if she would ever see Buster again. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

[[File:Jessieapologize1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I've been a very bad girl.]]
After Sparkplug's heart attack, "O" and Jessie came to visit Buster in his father's autorepair shop. Buster was understandably cross, but his friends made matters worse when they indirectly suggested that autorepair is an easy skill to pick up. Enraged on behalf of his father's profession, Buster shooed his friends out of the garage. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After a period of not talking to Buster at school, Jessie surprised Buster by asking him if he would accompany her on a bike ride to the falls. Though she avoided the subject of their recent fight, when her bike's chain suddenly broke, she had no choice but to bring up the subject. She [[Kiss|apologized]].

Her apology was interrupted by Buster's father, Bumblebee, and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], of which the latter two were curious about Buster and Jessie's romantic display. They were further interrupted by an attack from both [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who had been spying on them, and later the newly-built Decepticon, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. Buster stopped the attack by revealing that he had been in possession of the Autobot [[Creation Matrix]] for some time, and he used it to disassemble Jetfire dramatically before their eyes. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

''Seeking revenge on Buster for [[Robot Buster!|humiliating him]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] ordered [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] to kill the boy. In the wake of Buster's returning the Creation Matrix to Optimus Prime, the Matrix-induced nightmares that remained began to take their toll on Buster and Jessie's relationship, a problem that Sparkplug hoped would be resolved by a trip to the local demolition derby. Soundwave and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] arrived in the middle of the derby, and when the Constructicons combined into [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Buster grabbed his head and screamed. As he collapsed in Jessie's arms, she cried, assuming the worst. Cradling his limp body, she angrily guarded him as Soundwave advanced. But before Soundwave could complete the assassination, his sensors detected within Buster's Matrix-enhanced brain lay the keys to the future of the Transformers race. He abruptly called for a retreat. Jessie loaded Buster, who was now awake, but delirious, into [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and they hurried back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}}''

''Once Sparkplug, Jessie, and her boyfriend arrived, Optimus Prime decided that the only way to get to the bottom of Buster's visions of a second generation of Transformers was for him to monitor Buster's dreams as they both slumbered. When Buster and Optimus woke up, excitedly (and in unison) proclaiming the imminent arrival of the [[Special Teams]], Buster began talking nonsense about [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], and other creatures. Regardless, he was smiling again, so Jessie and Sparkplug were relieved all the same. {{storylink|Second Generation!}}''

[[File:Jessieapologize2.jpg|200px|thumb|So, so naughty. You'll have to punish me.]]
Jesse was almost brainwashed into serving the Decepticons by a [[Wash and Roll|Car Wash of Doom]], but Buster managed to get her out of the highly suggestible state of mind she was in, thereby killing any chance he had of getting further than second base with her. The humans of [[Earth]] thank Buster for his sacrifice. {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}}

Later, while Buster was being held captive by Decepticons, Jesse visited Sparkplug at his house. [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] arrived in an [[egg transport]] seeking help spying on the Decepticons at [[Club Con]] and possibly rescuing Buster. It was agreed that Jesse would blend into the crowd at Club Con better than Sparkplug, so she and Blaster visited the place as tourists. While snorkeling, Jesse discovered an underwater entrance to the island used by the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]]s. She snuck in with Blaster, even though he objected.

Inside, they found Buster chained to the wall. Buster told them what Decepticons were up to, but the room was too small for Blaster to transform and cut the chain, so they had to leave him behind. Against Blaster's advice, Jesse snuck into a Decepticon meeting and stole [[Raindance]] and [[Grand Slam (G1)|Grandslam]]. The theft was soon discovered, and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] sent the Seacons to the beach in pursuit. Blaster transformed to protect the tourists. The battle was going badly, so Blaster spit the mini-cassettes into the ocean to lure the Seacons away.

Blaster transformed again and the two were able to blend into the crowd once more. Jesse apologized for messing things up, but Blaster told her she was a big help in finding out important info. Plus, she was able to get a tan, so the mission wasn't a total waste of her time. [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] gave the tourists a ride home while [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] apologized for the disruption. {{storylink|Club Con!}}

===Coloring books===
As an adult in the year 2005, Jesse had married Buster and together they brought up their son [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. The latter hung out with the Autobots a lot, which his parents were fine with. However, when the Autobots planned a search for a lost crate of energon cubes, Jesse and Buster drew the line and forbade their son to go along. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
Jesse and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] were exploring (read: [[Kiss|snogging]]) in the hills outside of [[Center City]], when they discovered a hidden Decepticon base and overheard [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s dastardly earthquake-related plans.

They ran into [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], who was also investigating the Decepticon base. However, Jesse was abducted by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and the two had to leave without her.

Jesse was subsequently brainwashed by Megatron into betraying the Autobot rescue force, resulting in Center City's destruction and Decepticon dominion over the planet Earth. Maybe Buster's next date will go better. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

===''Regeneration One''===
{{noterg1}} During his trip through time and space [[Hot Rod (G1) |Hot Rod]] finds himself back on Earth just as Megatron's conquest of the planet is getting under way. There Hot Rod sees Buster and Jessie (now married) racing through the streets, trying to escape Megatron's zombie-cons.

They initially manage to avoid running straight into [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Bugly]] and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and Buster tells Jessie to call up [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] who doesn't answer his phone. After a rather heated voice message, brother-to-brother, about how they need [[Fortress Maximus (G1) |Fortress Maximus]] Buster and Jessie once again avoid Thundercracker's attack and drive into cover inside of a [[Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom |car wash]]. Just as Buster proclaims his love for Jessie and bids her a final goodbye Ratbat blasts them both into atoms.{{storylink|Less Than Zero}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Portuguese:'' '''Zézé''' (Portugal comics)

[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:Witwicky family]]

Jesse (G1)

2013-09-23T12:17:07Z

Laserbeak Eject: /* Regeneration One */

{{disambig3|Jesse}}
:''Jesse is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Jesse ClubCon beach.jpg|thumb|200px]]

'''Jesse''' (also '''Jessie''') is a stunningly-attractive high school student. She attends ballet class, wears fashionable Eighties berets, and—luckily for [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]—leaps lustfully into the arms of skinny, bookish, and sensitive boys. She can be a little dense when it comes to others' feelings, but she always [[Kiss|apologizes]] for it.

A few years later, she would grow up to have a [[:Image:Jessieclubcon.jpg|slightly more-questionable fashion sense]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Odisengage.jpg|300px|thumb|WHAT IS THAT THING ON HER—oh, it's Buster.]]
While watching ''[[A Kiss for Us]]'' at the [[Community Drive-In]], Jesse and Buster were making out in his car (while their friend [["O"]] watched) when it was rear-ended by a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle (surprise, it's [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]]!). During the following [[Decepticon]] attack, Buster told Jesse and "O" to find help, while he drove away in the Bug. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} Buster was unreachable for some time, which worried Jesse and "O", but while walking about, listening to the [[Dazzler]] on their stereo, Buster returned with Bumblebee and explained that he had been caught up in the [[Autobot]]/Decepticon war. Buster and Bumblebee drove away before his friends could process this incredible information. {{storylink|Power Play!}}

Tragically, Buster's father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] was kidnapped by the evil Decepticons, forcing Buster further into the conflict. As he drove away inside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] to rescue his father, Jesse was starstruck by his bravery, though she was terrified for his safety. She knew that he was sensitive, but she had not realized that he was so brave! {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}} She futilely tried to escape her worries by retreating to [[Jesse's ballet class|her ballet class]], but as they watched their neighbors pack up and leave town, even there, the Transformers conflict was made evident. She wondered if she would ever see Buster again. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

[[File:Jessieapologize1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I've been a very bad girl.]]
After Sparkplug's heart attack, "O" and Jessie came to visit Buster in his father's autorepair shop. Buster was understandably cross, but his friends made matters worse when they indirectly suggested that autorepair is an easy skill to pick up. Enraged on behalf of his father's profession, Buster shooed his friends out of the garage. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After a period of not talking to Buster at school, Jessie surprised Buster by asking him if he would accompany her on a bike ride to the falls. Though she avoided the subject of their recent fight, when her bike's chain suddenly broke, she had no choice but to bring up the subject. She [[Kiss|apologized]].

Her apology was interrupted by Buster's father, Bumblebee, and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], of which the latter two were curious about Buster and Jessie's romantic display. They were further interrupted by an attack from both [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who had been spying on them, and later the newly-built Decepticon, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. Buster stopped the attack by revealing that he had been in possession of the Autobot [[Creation Matrix]] for some time, and he used it to disassemble Jetfire dramatically before their eyes. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

''Seeking revenge on Buster for [[Robot Buster!|humiliating him]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] ordered [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] to kill the boy. In the wake of Buster's returning the Creation Matrix to Optimus Prime, the Matrix-induced nightmares that remained began to take their toll on Buster and Jessie's relationship, a problem that Sparkplug hoped would be resolved by a trip to the local demolition derby. Soundwave and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] arrived in the middle of the derby, and when the Constructicons combined into [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Buster grabbed his head and screamed. As he collapsed in Jessie's arms, she cried, assuming the worst. Cradling his limp body, she angrily guarded him as Soundwave advanced. But before Soundwave could complete the assassination, his sensors detected within Buster's Matrix-enhanced brain lay the keys to the future of the Transformers race. He abruptly called for a retreat. Jessie loaded Buster, who was now awake, but delirious, into [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and they hurried back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}}''

''Once Sparkplug, Jessie, and her boyfriend arrived, Optimus Prime decided that the only way to get to the bottom of Buster's visions of a second generation of Transformers was for him to monitor Buster's dreams as they both slumbered. When Buster and Optimus woke up, excitedly (and in unison) proclaiming the imminent arrival of the [[Special Teams]], Buster began talking nonsense about [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], and other creatures. Regardless, he was smiling again, so Jessie and Sparkplug were relieved all the same. {{storylink|Second Generation!}}''

[[File:Jessieapologize2.jpg|200px|thumb|So, so naughty. You'll have to punish me.]]
Jesse was almost brainwashed into serving the Decepticons by a [[Wash and Roll|Car Wash of Doom]], but Buster managed to get her out of the highly suggestible state of mind she was in, thereby killing any chance he had of getting further than second base with her. The humans of [[Earth]] thank Buster for his sacrifice. {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}}

Later, while Buster was being held captive by Decepticons, Jesse visited Sparkplug at his house. [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] arrived in an [[egg transport]] seeking help spying on the Decepticons at [[Club Con]] and possibly rescuing Buster. It was agreed that Jesse would blend into the crowd at Club Con better than Sparkplug, so she and Blaster visited the place as tourists. While snorkeling, Jesse discovered an underwater entrance to the island used by the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]]s. She snuck in with Blaster, even though he objected.

Inside, they found Buster chained to the wall. Buster told them what Decepticons were up to, but the room was too small for Blaster to transform and cut the chain, so they had to leave him behind. Against Blaster's advice, Jesse snuck into a Decepticon meeting and stole [[Raindance]] and [[Grand Slam (G1)|Grandslam]]. The theft was soon discovered, and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] sent the Seacons to the beach in pursuit. Blaster transformed to protect the tourists. The battle was going badly, so Blaster spit the mini-cassettes into the ocean to lure the Seacons away.

Blaster transformed again and the two were able to blend into the crowd once more. Jesse apologized for messing things up, but Blaster told her she was a big help in finding out important info. Plus, she was able to get a tan, so the mission wasn't a total waste of her time. [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] gave the tourists a ride home while [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] apologized for the disruption. {{storylink|Club Con!}}

===Coloring books===
As an adult in the year 2005, Jesse had married Buster and together they brought up their son [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. The latter hung out with the Autobots a lot, which his parents were fine with. However, when the Autobots planned a search for a lost crate of energon cubes, Jesse and Buster drew the line and forbade their son to go along. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
Jesse and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] were exploring (read: [[Kiss|snogging]]) in the hills outside of [[Center City]], when they discovered a hidden Decepticon base and overheard [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s dastardly earthquake-related plans.

They ran into [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], who was also investigating the Decepticon base. However, Jesse was abducted by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and the two had to leave without her.

Jesse was subsequently brainwashed by Megatron into betraying the Autobot rescue force, resulting in Center City's destruction and Decepticon dominion over the planet Earth. Maybe Buster's next date will go better. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

===''Regeneration One''===
{{noterg1}} During his trip through time and space [[Hot Rod (G1) |Hot Rod]] finds himself back on Earth just as Megatron's conquest of the planet is getting under way. There Hot Rod sees Buster and Jessie (now married) racing through the streets, trying to escape Megatron's zombie-cons.

They initially manage to avoid running straight into [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Bugly]] and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and Buster tells Jessie to call up [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]. After a rather heated voice message, brother-to-brother, about how they need [[Fortress Maximus (G1) |Fortress Maximus]] Buster and Jessie once again avoid Thundercracker's attack and drive into cover inside of a [[Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom |car wash]]. Just as Buster proclaims his love for Jessie and bids her a final goodbye Ratbat blasts them both into atoms.{{storylink|Less Than Zero}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Portuguese:'' '''Zézé''' (Portugal comics)

[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:Witwicky family]]

Jesse (G1)

2013-09-23T12:03:22Z

Laserbeak Eject: /* Regeneration One */

{{disambig3|Jesse}}
:''Jesse is a [[human]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Jesse ClubCon beach.jpg|thumb|200px]]

'''Jesse''' (also '''Jessie''') is a stunningly-attractive high school student. She attends ballet class, wears fashionable Eighties berets, and—luckily for [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]—leaps lustfully into the arms of skinny, bookish, and sensitive boys. She can be a little dense when it comes to others' feelings, but she always [[Kiss|apologizes]] for it.

A few years later, she would grow up to have a [[:Image:Jessieclubcon.jpg|slightly more-questionable fashion sense]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Odisengage.jpg|300px|thumb|WHAT IS THAT THING ON HER—oh, it's Buster.]]
While watching ''[[A Kiss for Us]]'' at the [[Community Drive-In]], Jesse and Buster were making out in his car (while their friend [["O"]] watched) when it was rear-ended by a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle (surprise, it's [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]]!). During the following [[Decepticon]] attack, Buster told Jesse and "O" to find help, while he drove away in the Bug. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} Buster was unreachable for some time, which worried Jesse and "O", but while walking about, listening to the [[Dazzler]] on their stereo, Buster returned with Bumblebee and explained that he had been caught up in the [[Autobot]]/Decepticon war. Buster and Bumblebee drove away before his friends could process this incredible information. {{storylink|Power Play!}}

Tragically, Buster's father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] was kidnapped by the evil Decepticons, forcing Buster further into the conflict. As he drove away inside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] to rescue his father, Jesse was starstruck by his bravery, though she was terrified for his safety. She knew that he was sensitive, but she had not realized that he was so brave! {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}} She futilely tried to escape her worries by retreating to [[Jesse's ballet class|her ballet class]], but as they watched their neighbors pack up and leave town, even there, the Transformers conflict was made evident. She wondered if she would ever see Buster again. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

[[File:Jessieapologize1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I've been a very bad girl.]]
After Sparkplug's heart attack, "O" and Jessie came to visit Buster in his father's autorepair shop. Buster was understandably cross, but his friends made matters worse when they indirectly suggested that autorepair is an easy skill to pick up. Enraged on behalf of his father's profession, Buster shooed his friends out of the garage. {{storylink|Warrior School!}} After a period of not talking to Buster at school, Jessie surprised Buster by asking him if he would accompany her on a bike ride to the falls. Though she avoided the subject of their recent fight, when her bike's chain suddenly broke, she had no choice but to bring up the subject. She [[Kiss|apologized]].

Her apology was interrupted by Buster's father, Bumblebee, and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], of which the latter two were curious about Buster and Jessie's romantic display. They were further interrupted by an attack from both [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who had been spying on them, and later the newly-built Decepticon, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. Buster stopped the attack by revealing that he had been in possession of the Autobot [[Creation Matrix]] for some time, and he used it to disassemble Jetfire dramatically before their eyes. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

''Seeking revenge on Buster for [[Robot Buster!|humiliating him]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] ordered [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] to kill the boy. In the wake of Buster's returning the Creation Matrix to Optimus Prime, the Matrix-induced nightmares that remained began to take their toll on Buster and Jessie's relationship, a problem that Sparkplug hoped would be resolved by a trip to the local demolition derby. Soundwave and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] arrived in the middle of the derby, and when the Constructicons combined into [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Buster grabbed his head and screamed. As he collapsed in Jessie's arms, she cried, assuming the worst. Cradling his limp body, she angrily guarded him as Soundwave advanced. But before Soundwave could complete the assassination, his sensors detected within Buster's Matrix-enhanced brain lay the keys to the future of the Transformers race. He abruptly called for a retreat. Jessie loaded Buster, who was now awake, but delirious, into [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and they hurried back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}}''

''Once Sparkplug, Jessie, and her boyfriend arrived, Optimus Prime decided that the only way to get to the bottom of Buster's visions of a second generation of Transformers was for him to monitor Buster's dreams as they both slumbered. When Buster and Optimus woke up, excitedly (and in unison) proclaiming the imminent arrival of the [[Special Teams]], Buster began talking nonsense about [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], and other creatures. Regardless, he was smiling again, so Jessie and Sparkplug were relieved all the same. {{storylink|Second Generation!}}''

[[File:Jessieapologize2.jpg|200px|thumb|So, so naughty. You'll have to punish me.]]
Jesse was almost brainwashed into serving the Decepticons by a [[Wash and Roll|Car Wash of Doom]], but Buster managed to get her out of the highly suggestible state of mind she was in, thereby killing any chance he had of getting further than second base with her. The humans of [[Earth]] thank Buster for his sacrifice. {{storylink|Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom}}

Later, while Buster was being held captive by Decepticons, Jesse visited Sparkplug at his house. [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] arrived in an [[egg transport]] seeking help spying on the Decepticons at [[Club Con]] and possibly rescuing Buster. It was agreed that Jesse would blend into the crowd at Club Con better than Sparkplug, so she and Blaster visited the place as tourists. While snorkeling, Jesse discovered an underwater entrance to the island used by the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]]s. She snuck in with Blaster, even though he objected.

Inside, they found Buster chained to the wall. Buster told them what Decepticons were up to, but the room was too small for Blaster to transform and cut the chain, so they had to leave him behind. Against Blaster's advice, Jesse snuck into a Decepticon meeting and stole [[Raindance]] and [[Grand Slam (G1)|Grandslam]]. The theft was soon discovered, and [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] sent the Seacons to the beach in pursuit. Blaster transformed to protect the tourists. The battle was going badly, so Blaster spit the mini-cassettes into the ocean to lure the Seacons away.

Blaster transformed again and the two were able to blend into the crowd once more. Jesse apologized for messing things up, but Blaster told her she was a big help in finding out important info. Plus, she was able to get a tan, so the mission wasn't a total waste of her time. [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] gave the tourists a ride home while [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] apologized for the disruption. {{storylink|Club Con!}}

===Coloring books===
As an adult in the year 2005, Jesse had married Buster and together they brought up their son [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]]. The latter hung out with the Autobots a lot, which his parents were fine with. However, when the Autobots planned a search for a lost crate of energon cubes, Jesse and Buster drew the line and forbade their son to go along. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

===Find Your Fate Junior===
Jesse and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] were exploring (read: [[Kiss|snogging]]) in the hills outside of [[Center City]], when they discovered a hidden Decepticon base and overheard [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]'s dastardly earthquake-related plans.

They ran into [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], who was also investigating the Decepticon base. However, Jesse was abducted by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and the two had to leave without her.

Jesse was subsequently brainwashed by Megatron into betraying the Autobot rescue force, resulting in Center City's destruction and Decepticon dominion over the planet Earth. Maybe Buster's next date will go better. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

===''Regeneration One''===
{{noterg1}} During his trip through time and space [[Hot Rod]] finds himself back on Earth just as Megatron's conquest of the planet is getting under way. There Hot Rod sees Buster and Jessie (now married) racing through the streets, trying to escape Megatron's zombie-cons.

They initially manage to avoid running straight into [[Thundercrackerg1]], [[Bugly]] and [[Ratbatg1]] and Buster tells Jessie to call up [[Spikeg1]], Buster{{storylink|Less Than Zero}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Portuguese:'' '''Zézé''' (Portugal comics)

[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]
[[Category:Witwicky family]]

Target: 2006

2013-09-22T08:38:35Z

Laserbeak Eject: /* Notes */

{{featured}}
{{comicstory
|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #78–88
|prev=In the National Interest
|title="Target: 2006"
|next=Cybertron: The Middle Years!
|image=MarvelUK-088.jpg
|caption=They have better things to do tonight than die!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|coverdate=[[September 13|13th September]] – [[November 22|22nd November]] [[1986]]
|script=[[Simon Furman]]
|art=[[Jeff Anderson]] (78-79, 81, 87), [[Ron Smith]] (82), [[Geoff Senior]] (83-84, 86)
|pencils=[[Will Simpson]] (80, 85, 88)
|inks=[[Tim Perkins]] (80, 85, 88)
|colours=[[Tony Jozwiak]] (78-81, 85, 87), [[John Burns]] (82), [[Gina Hart]] (84,86,88)
|letters=[[Richard Starkings]] (78,82-85,88), [[Annie Halfacree]] (79-81,86-87)
|editor=[[Ian Rimmer]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge travel back in time with a plan to destroy Unicron.'''

==Synopsis==
===Prologue===
[[File:Primewoods.jpg|thumb|left|150px|PRIME '''''SMASH!''''']]
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] is hunting the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s and is growing frustrated. So frustrated, in fact, that he is indiscriminately knocking over trees and wrecking woodland habitats. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] manages to get through to Prime about the damage he is causing, and also questions whether the Dinobots are worth the trouble they cause. Optimus wonders if Prowl might be right, but doesn't want the [[Autobot]] forces on [[Earth]] to be any more depleted than they have to be.

Meanwhile, below the surface of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] is running late for a briefing with [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] about the forthcoming [[Operation: Volcano]] and whether [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] will be a part of it.

On the surface city of [[Polyhex]], phase one of Operation: Volcano is going into effect as [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] tortures a treacherous Autobot into revealing Emirate Xaaron's whereabouts, before killing said traitor. Unknown to the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]], the information is false, having been ''deliberately'' leaked by [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]].

Back on [[Earth]], Optimus Prime is briefing the Autobots on the reasons they fight and the importance of protecting the [[human]] race from the [[Decepticon]] menace when he, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and Prowl are wracked by pain and suddenly disappear. The remaining Earthbound Autobots are distraught.

On Cybertron, an Autobot "priest" is tending the chamber of the [[Matrix Flame]], which, with its connection to Optimus Prime severed, gutters and dies. The priest does not take this well.

[[File:Target 2006 Prologue Galvatron, Scourge & Cyclonus.jpg|thumb|150px|It took 1.21 jiggawatts to get this image.]]
At a cereal farm in [[Oregon]], the weather takes a turn for the worse as three shadowy figures arrive, trying to figure out where, and more importantly, [[Time travel|when]] they are. Soon, the locals are investigating the noise made by the figures arrival. After one of the figures discovers that it's [[1986]], he is revealed as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]!

===Apocalypse Then...Now!===
[[File:Target 2006 Part 1 Scourge & Cyclonus.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Catch that pigeon NOW.]]
[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (who has Galvatron on board) are flying over [[Wyoming]] and testing out the destructive capabilities of their [[New body|new forms]] by destroying first a locomotive and then a [[Joe's Garage|gas station]]. The Decepticons discuss how easy it would be to conquer the planet with their upgraded weaponry until Galvatron reminds them that their purpose in the past is to prepare for the future. Galvatron orders them to seek out [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]].

Down at ground level, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] is leading a team of Autobots in a reconnaissance mission, hoping to discover what happened to Optimus, Prowl, and Ratchet by spying on Megatron, who is accompanied by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s. As the Autobots continue to watch, Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus arrive at the [[Wyoming base|Decepticon base]], transforming to robot mode and introducing themselves to Megatron as fellow Decepticons. Ever suspicious, Megatron has [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] scan the new arrivals and confirm that they are, indeed, Decepticons but something seems to be blocking any deeper scan.

[[File:Target 2006 Megatron fusions Galvatron.jpg|thumb|left|150px|I don't think so.]]
A wary Megatron asks if Galvatron works for [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]], and is surprised when Galvatron claims to be the [[Decepticon leader]] of [[2006]]. Galvatron asks Megatron to put aside his considerable doubts, and surrender command of the Constructicons (temporarily) to him. Galvatron asks Megatron to trust in him, and Megatron replies in traditional style by blasting Galvatron in the face with his [[fusion cannon]]. The future Decepticon shrugs off the shot and his lieutenants aim their weaponry at Megatron. Galvatron orders Scourge and Cyclonus ''not'' to fire as Megatron can not be allowed to die.

Instead, Scourge and Cyclonus bull-rush Megatron and Soundwave respectively rendering them unconscious before Galvatron uses his [[particle cannon]] to bury the prone Decepticons under a rock pile. At that point, Galvatron's leadership is confirmed when [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] perches on his shoulder. Galvatron orders the Constructicons to accompany him.

[[File:Target 2006 Ultra Magnus splash.jpg|thumb|150px|Deal with ''this''.]]
Witnessing all this, the Autobots split up, with Jazz and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] following Galvatron's party, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] observing Megatron's group and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] reporting back to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]].

On Cybertron, Impactor is furious that Ultra Magnus is no longer part of Operation: Volcano, and pleads his case to Emirate Xaaron. Xaaron states that the extinguished Matrix Flame has priority over Volcano, and informs Impactor to take it up with Ultra Magnus himself. Magnus declares that he must travel to Earth.

===Construction Time Again!===
[[File:Target 2006 Galvagun.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Anything [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|you]] can do, I can do better.]]

On Earth, specifically in Northern [[Oregon]], Jazz and Hound are spying on the Constructicons. Galvatron is leading the Constructicons as they build a massive and presumably powerful device of some sort, utilising enough solar panels to "level a small planet". This leads the Autobots to speculate that it might be some sort of power source for future Cybertron, but if so, why build it in the past?

One thing the Autobots ''are'' sure of is that if they don't find out more about the structure, it'll be the death of all of them. As Hound and Jazz turn and head back to the Ark, Cyclonus attacks, seriously wounding Jazz, and gloating over an obviously upset Hound.

Elsewhere, Ultra Magnus arrives on Earth, somewhat disorientated after travelling via [[Spanner (G1)|Spanner]]'s unstable prototype [[space bridge]]. As Magnus fights off the after-effects of travel, he recalls Impactor's fury at the disruption of Volcano and notes that he only has five [[units of time|solar cycles]] to get to the bottom of the Matrix Flame mystery and set things right on Earth.

[[File:Target 2006 Hound vs wood.jpg|thumb|150px|For when lumberjacks are just too slow.]]
For Hound, it seems that time has already run out as Cyclonus tosses him around like a rag doll. Cyclonus gloats then when [[Life Spark]] was as injured as Hound currently is, Unicron sculpted him into the powerful form of Cyclonus but for the Autobot, no such opportunity will arise. As Cyclonus brings his oxidating laser to bear for the coup de grace, it is shot out of his hand by the imposing Ultra Magnus.

[[File:Target 2006 Creepy Galvatron Prone Jazz.jpg|thumb|left|80px|Ooh 'eck!]]
Ultra Magnus is surprised that Cyclonus appears to recognise him, leading the Decepticon to realise that this must be the Ultra Magnus of 1986, and that the Autobot's presence on Earth needs to be reported to Galvatron. Magnus believes that it will take some time for that report to reach Galvatron, but Cyclonus disagrees, tossing Hound into Magnus to punctuate the point before flying off.

Understanding that Hound is too gravely injured to report to the Ark under his own power, Ultra Magnus transforms to his car carrier mode and transports the stricken Autobot back to base. Upon hearing Cyclonus's report that Ultra Magnus is unexpectedly present on Earth, Galvatron realises that his Decepticons are going to have to improvise. The future Decepticon decides that the best course of action would be to goad the Autobots into a hasty, ill-planned attack so that defeat will demoralise them. Furthermore, Jazz will be used as bait.

Back at the Ark, [[Grapple]] is repairing Hound, who is briefing the Autobots on the threat of Galvatron. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] wants to investigate immediately but is stopped by Ultra Magnus, who insists that Jetfire and the other Autobots need to assist in the quest to find out what's happened to Optimus Prime before concerning themselves about Galvatron. Jetfire is skeptical, and points out that much of Magnus's story doesn't quite add up.

The bickering Autobots are interrupted by Smokescreen who displays a communication from Galvatron on the view screen. The future Decepticon gloats mockingly at the Autobots as he displays his [[Variable voltage harness|brutally tortured]] prisoner, Jazz.

===Defeat!===
[[File:Target 2006 Ironhide digs.jpg|100px|thumb|Ironhide gets his rocks off.]]
Ironhide is digging through rubble, pondering the nature of defeat. He notes that some defeats can be overcome easily, but some cannot. Ironhide thinks back to the Autobots recent battle with Galvatron.

[[File:Target 2006 Doubting Magnus.jpg|thumb|left|150px|He really can't deal with it right now.]]
''On the Ark, a distracted Ironhide's reverie is interrupted by Jetfire who, together with Smokescreen, are preparing to go kick Galvatron's butt back to 2006 in order to rescue Jazz. Hound disagrees, saying that without extra Autobot power and as Galvatron is clearly out of their league.''

''A less-than-trusting Jetfire realises that they are referring to Ultra Magnus and tells Hound and Ironhide to ask the newly-arrived Autobot to accompany them. Ultra Magnus backs up that lack of trust by refusing, stating that his priority has to be finding Optimus Prime and the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Magnus begs for forgiveness from the remaining Autobots, who for their part would rather be Earth-bound if Magnus's lack of compassion is standard Cybertronian issue.''

''The remaining Autobots go to attack anyway, and are almost immediately ambushed by Scourge and Cyclonus. Mirage is the first casualty to the airborne Decepticons, and the Autobots scatter to avoid being blasted by Scourge and Cyclonus's weaponry. Jetfire takes to the skies, colliding with Cyclonus and forcing the Decepticon to the ground, trailing smoke.''

''The other Autobots are blasting Scourge, but the future Decepticon's skiff form proves to be too manoeuvrable and they are unable to hit him. Scourge indulges the Autobots by landing and transforming into robot mode, punching out [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] as he comes into land. The Autobots respond by surrounding Scourge and clobbering him into unconsciousness.''

[[File:2006-1.jpg|thumb|250px|Galvatron indulges in his passion for S&M.]]
''Jetfire pulls Ironhide, Smokescreen and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] away from the melee and go after Galvatron. The future Decepticon leader seems completely unbothered by their arrival, and is happy that some Autobots got past his lieutenants. Galvatron reveals that the defeats of Scourge and Cyclonus were a mere ruse and that the future Decepticons are unharmed, as are the Constructicons. None of the Decepticons lift a finger to defend Galvatron, who is unperturbed by the Autobot fire-power arrayed against him. The Autobots blast Galvatron, but, unharmed, he merely laughs at their efforts before savagely beating the Autobots down himself.''

''Galvatron leaves the helpless Autobots alive, deeming them not even worth killing.''

Ironhide finishes digging through the rubble, revealing Soundwave and Megatron. Back at the Ark, somebody punches their way out of a stasis pod whilst Grapple is distracted.

===Wreck and Rule!===
[[File:Impactorfearless.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Dance into the fire.]]
On Cybertron, Impactor's Autobot group, now dubbed "The [[Wrecker]]s" attack Decepticons. Shrapnel is taken out by Impactor's harpoon gun and subsequently used as a weapon to take care of [[Octane]]. [[Rack'n'Ruin]] deal with [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] while the [[Jumpstarter]]s, together with Roadbuster, finish off [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]].

As Impactor notes, the attack is a success, except without Ultra Magnus's presence to guard their flank, the Wreckers would be quickly overwhelmed by Decepticon reinforcements were this the actual Operation: Volcano instead of a practice run with [[facsimile construct]]s standing in for the Decepticons.

[[File:Jukebot.jpg|thumb|150px|FREEBIRD!]]
Impactor once again goes over the painstaking preparations for their mission, and how Emirate Xaaron's sending of Ultra Magnus to Earth has put the mission in jeopardy. Without Magnus's presence, Operation: Volcano is as good as dead, a fact which [[Twin Twist]] affirms, stating that it's "not their fight anymore". Impactor goes to report the abortion of the operation to Xaaron and tells the rest of the Wreckers to relax.

Twin Twist, [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], and Roadbuster follow their instructions, stopping off at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], a black market fuel source that doesn't concern itself with petty details like the customer's faction. The Wreckers aren't in good spirits, as while they realise that calling off Volcano was the logical course of action, they still feel bad about backing out. The depressing mood is broken when an angry Decepticon, [[Fang]], bursts into the Oil House and brutally attacks [[Piano Transformer guy|the entertainment]] as Fang didn't like the music being played. Twin Twist's mech fluid is boiling and he wants to do something about Fang, but Roadbuster cautions that this "isn't their fight".

[[File:Target 2006 Whirl Roadbuster Do It.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Let's fall in love.]]
In the meantime, Impactor is explaining the decision to call off Volcano to Xaaron. Xaaron agrees that if Magnus is unable to return on time, then withdrawing would be the right thing to do, and might lead to an Autobot victory later on. The Emirate muses about what might happen if Volcano is aborted and Ultra Magnus does return to Cybertron on time. Impactor grudgingly takes the hint.

Back at Maccadam's, Fang beats the fluid out of the Piano Transformer and asks if anybody else wants to disagree with him. Twin Twist takes Fang up on his offer, quickly rendering Fang an ex-Decepticon. Defending an innocent Transformer from unprovoked Decepticon attacks acts as an epiphany for the Wreckers, who agree that they must continue to fight, no matter what.

Once the Wreckers reassemble at their base, Impactor announces a change in their plans. Operation: Volcano is a 'go' once more than Impactor asks for volunteers to participate. The Wreckers unanimously vote to re-join the Operation, and begin another combat rehearsal.

===The Devil You Know...===
[[File:Target 2006 Starscream breaks free.jpg|thumb|150px|lright|The Birdbot of Arkatraz.]]
[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] has awoken aboard the Ark, and has also freed [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Starscream cannot accept the sight he is seeing, that of Megatron commanding the Autobots.

Megatron tells the Autobots that they need to follow his instructions as closely as possible. Jetfire is in disagreement, claiming that Megatron was rescued by Ironhide merely to advise, not to command. Megatron treats this statement with contempt, pointing out how ''spectacularly'' unsuccessful Jetfire's last attempt at commanding an assault on Galvatron was. Ironhide interjects that Megatron wasn't exactly a resounding success against Galvatron either, and would still be lying under a rock pile if not for the Autobot.

Ironhide concedes that a mutual alliance with Megatron's forces is the Autobots' best bet against Galvatron, and calls for a vote on whether they should follow Megaton's instructions, at least in the short term. The vote carries.

Starscream can't help but smirk as he learns of these events, particularly at the prospect of allying with a being powerful enough to force the Autobots and Decepticons together. Overcome with the idea of power, Starscream leaves to seek out Galvatron.

[[File:Target 2006 Magnus Big head.jpg|thumb|left|150px|It's like an orange on a toothpick.]]
At the Ark, Ultra Magnus cannot believe the Autobots are willingly going to follow the orders of a monster such as Megatron and berates Hound rather fiercely about committing to rescuing Jazz over seeking out Optimus Prime. Hound comments that they have plenty of time to carry out both objectives. Magnus strenuously disagrees, showing him the countdown to Operation: Volcano and explaining how Magnus's time on Earth is strictly limited by his mission on Cybertron. Hound wonders if that mission can be postponed, and Ultra Magnus flatly states that it can't, as the bait has already been set. Hound understands, but knows he still has to accompany the others to rescue Jazz. Magnus agrees but cautions to watch out for Megatron, who is just as insidiously evil as Galvatron.

Over at the [[Portland Iron and Steel Foundry]] central storehouse, Scourge is struggling with ennui, reduced to carrying the raw materials for Galvatron's weapon and with the [[human]]s not being a match for his considerable fighting prowess, Galvatron's lieutenant is itching to fight. He detects something and brings his weapon to bear, blasting [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] who is trying to sneak in alongside Brawn and Tracks.

[[File:Scourge marvel uk 83.jpg|thumb|150px|Even Scourge cannot stop the metal.]]
The sneak attack surprises Scourge, who thought that once the Autobots were beaten, they wouldn't recover. The future Decepticon is nonplussed, though, as a mere three Autobots are no match for his fire-power. Unfortunately for Scourge, five more Autobots arrive from another part of the building and pen him in amongst the maze-like storage areas.

Things get worse for Scourge as his weapon is blasted out of his hand. A second blast hits Scourge, enraging him to the point that he smashes into a pile of steel, burying Smokescreen and Ironhide. Realising that discretion is the better part of valour, Scourge tries to contact Galvatron and escape, but his signal is jammed.

Scourge's mood is momentarily improved when he catches [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] unaware and impales the Autobot with a thrown steel plate. With the need to transform into his jet mode becoming more and more pressing, Scourge smashes through an exterior wall. Before he can transform, though, Megatron blasts Scourge with the ol' [[fusion cannon]], temporarily incapacitating the future Decepticon.

Elsewhere, Jazz is struggling with the pain of his torture, but fights through it enough to claim that Galvatron is just as bad as Megatron. Galvatron is amused by Jazz's claim, but makes one small correction. Galvatron is not "as bad as Megatron," Galvatron IS Megatron!

===Trios!===
[[File:Triplechangerstarget2006.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Oh, ''bugger''.]]
On Cybertron, Impactor is trapped in an [[inhibitor claw]] and is getting his aft handed to him by the [[Triple Changer]] team of [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]. Unable to transform, Impactor has to rely on his close combat skills to defeat the trio, but it is found wanting. Down but not out, Impactor knows that the stakes are higher than just his life, and if Operation: Volcano has any chance of succeeding, it will be because he fights back. Impactor charges Springer, knocking him to the ground. Reacting instantaneously, Sandstorm draws a bead on Impactor with his sandblaster gun. Springer chides Sandstorm, stating that they don't need to use their guns. Instead, Springer uses his rocket pack to leap over Impactor and backhands the Wrecker to the ground.

Impactor refuses to beg for his life. Springer doesn't seem to care, dismissing Sandstorm and Broadside who transform to their aerial forms and fly off. Springer also transforms to his helicopter mode and tells his fellow Triple Changers that they'll meet at [[Debris]] before flying away. This shocks Impactor as only the Wreckers are supposed to know about the Debris base. The departing Springer tosses a [[communicube]] to Impactor, much to the Wrecker's confusion. The communication turns out to be from Emirate Xaaron who reveals that the Triple Changers are Autobots who Xaaron has drafted in to replace Ultra Magnus on Operation: Volcano. He admits they're not up to Magnus's standard but points out that the beating they just handed out to Impactor proves their worth. A frustrated but convinced Impactor crushes the communicube.

Back on Earth, Galvatron is dispelling Jazz's disbelief about Galvatron being a future version of Megatron. Jazz goads Galvatron into explaining further. [[The Transformers: The Movie|Twenty years from now]], Megatron and Optimus Prime will fight at the very spot Galvatron is occupying now. Megatron will ultimately fall. Though wounded, Megatron would have continued to function if the ever-treacherous Starscream hadn't booted him out into space.

[[File:Target 2006 Unicron.jpg|thumb|200px|A sinister plot device looms.]]
In space, Megatron's broken body is discovered by [[Unicron]], a planet-sized living being. Unicron offers Megatron a simple choice: Serve him or die. Being pragmatic, Megatron opts for the first option. Unicron repairs and upgrades Megatron into his new form: that of Galvatron. Still being a Decepticon leader at heart, Galvatron tries to rebel from Unicron's enslavement. Galvatron is instantly (and painfully) punished. Understanding that he needs to be free of Unicron's influence, Galvatron time travelled to 1986 where the Chaos Bringer could not follow and set about building a weapon powerful enough to destroy Unicron which Galvatron plans to fire the moment he returns to 2006.

Cyclonus returns from the steel foundry and reports that there was no sign of Scourge, so he assumes that Scourge is either dead or captive. Cyclonus did come across Starscream, who claimed to have information to share with the winning side in return for their alliance. Having no patience for the [[Seeker (body-type)|Decepticon jet]]'s schemes, Cyclonus instead beat the information out of him. Megatron is currently leading the Autobots. Jazz is amused by the irony of Megatron fighting Megatron and begins to laugh before an upset Galvatron knocks the Autobot unconscious.

[[File:Target2006-BlurrHotRodKup.jpg|thumb|200px|left|It's just a jump to the left...]]
In the Wyoming desert, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Frenzy, and Thundercracker are confused about why Megatron, Soundwave and the Constructicons are absent. Fenzy and Thundercracker don't recall anything after their earlier beating from [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], which Shockwave despairs at. Meanwhile, in the far-flung future of 2006, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] prepare to travel back to 1986. As the Autobot trio use the mass displacement [[Time-jump mechanism|time travel machine]] to arrive in 1986, Frenzy, Shockwave, and Thundercracker are spirited away in a manner similar to what happened to Optimus Prime, Prowl and Ratchet.

As the future Autobots arrive in the '80s, a malevolent subconscious laughter is heard. The laughter echoes across the coal mine, the surface of Cybertron and even reaches Galvatron, who is suddenly afraid...

===Prisoners of War!===
[[File:Target 2006 Nemesis.jpg|thumb|150px|''Nemesis'' no mo'.]]
In, the inky void of space, the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' floats above the Earth, protected from detection from highly sophisticated shielding systems. A lance of energy shoots from the Earth and utterly obliterates the Decepticon starship.

Watching the orbital destruction on a monitor, Galvatron is very pleased with himself. The test firing of his new super weapon was a complete success. Now all the future Decepticon leader has to do is wait for the weapon to recharge, return to the 2006 from whence he came and use the weapon against Unicron and Galvatron will be his own master.

The self-congratulating is interrupted by Cyclonus, reporting that it is time for the prisoner-exchange meeting.with the Autobots. A meeting which the new recruit, Starscream is to play a pivotal role. Starscream agrees, but wants to know the reasoning behind destroying a perfectly good starship like the ''Nemesis''. What if the Decepticons wish to leave Earth some day? Galvatron scoffs that there are far better methods of transportation now available.

Noting that Starscream seems rather ill at ease in their presence, Galvatron reassures the jet not to be too concerned about violence-first approach to problems now that Galvatron is in full control of the situation. Starscream transforms and flies off to perform his duties. This gives Cyclonus an opportunity to ask Galvatron why they need Starscream at all. The future Decepticon leader explains that Cyclonus is missing the delicious irony in Starscream using Galvatron to ensure his future when Galvatron is the reason Starscream has ''no'' future. The Decepticons allow themselves some healthy maniacal laughter.

At the Ark, Ultra Magnus is contemplating his failure. With a mere twenty-two hours before the launch of Operation: Volcano, he is no closer to locating Optimus Prime than he was when he was first sent to Earth. Magnus's reverie is interrupted by the arrival of Kup, Blurr, and a genuflecting Hot Rod, who introduce themselves, and then go to leave, explaining that they have to talk to Optimus Prime about Galvatron. Ultra Magnus stops them right there and insists that they compare notes.

[[File:Target 2006 fatally slow.jpg|thumb|left|150px|This is bad comedy!]]
In Northern Oregon, it is time for the prisoner exchange. Galvatron insists that the Autobots turn Scourge back over to him before he releases Jazz. Jetfire agrees but reminds Galvatron that the [[anti-grav manacles]] restraining Scourge are programmed to fry the Decepticon should Galvatron break his pledge and bring harm to Jazz.

Jetfire claims that it could easily have been Galvatron in the manacles, as they beat Scourge easily. The future Decepticon leader disagrees about the ease of his lieutenant's capture. The prisoners are exchanged, and the Autobots now have a badly-wounded but still living Jazz back in their hands. Galvatron asks after Megatron.

At the site of Galvatron's weapon, Megatron is being choked by Cyclonus, who points out that Megatron was foolish to come snooping around unprotected. Megatron claims it is Cyclonus who is the foolish one and that he is not unprotected just as Soundwave sneaks up on Cyclonus, allowing Megatron to incapacitate the future Decepticon. Knowing that it won't take long for Galvatron to deal with the Autobots, and orders to Soundwave to round up the Constructicons. Before he can acknowledge the order, Soundwave is blasted into unconsciousness. Megatron is slow to react and is also rendered unconscious thanks to Starscream and his [[null-ray]].

[[File:MagnusVGalv2006.jpg|thumb|140px|Come and 'ave a go if you think you're 'ard enough.]]
At the Ark, Kup is explaining the principles of time travel using [[mass substitution]] to Ultra Magnus. After realising that Optimus Prime's disappearance must be due to Galvatron's time travel, Magnus berates himself for his idiocy in avoiding the future Decepticons when they were the key to his Prime hunt and charges off to rectify his mistake, ignoring the remainder of Kup's explanation.

Back at the prisoner exchange rendezvous, the Autobots are confused. If Galvatron knew about Megatron, why bother with the exchange at all? Galvatron explains that he has need of Scourge, and feels that the Autobots are in need of a lesson. Using a remote control, the future Decepticon activates Jazz and sends him to attack against his Autobot comrades. Unwilling to attack their cohort, the Autobot group are soon rendered unconscious and Jazz is deactivated once more.

Shortly thereafter, Galvatron visits the site of his weapon, where Starscream is poised to fatally shoot Megatron. Galvatron prevents Starscream from committing the act, and punishes the Seeker for disobeying a direct order to leave Megatron alive in true Decepticon style. Starscream gets punched out. Gloating at the ease in which all his foes are falling to him, Galvatron asks who can truly stand against him. Enter Ultra Magnus...

===You Haveta Ask?!===
[[File:Target 2006 Galvatron catapult.jpg|thumb|left|Like a [[Furmanism|vast, predatory bird]].]]
Galvatron is perched on top of Ultra Magnus's car carrier mode, and is trying to destroy the powerful Autobot. Ultra Magnus is trying to shake off the enraged Decepticon and finally has to resort to the drastic measure of speeding over an incomplete highway overpass and slamming on the brakes hard. Galvatron's momentum sends the future Decepticon leader tumbling off the edge of the overpass and into the ground below, temporarily knocking the fight out of him. Ultra Magnus wonders how the fight got this complex.

[[File:Target 2006 Part Eight Galvatron.jpg|thumb|[[Superman]]!]]
''Earlier, Magnus had confronted Galvatron and offered the Decepticon a simple choice: immediately return to his own time by choice, or Ultra Magnus would force him to, in pieces of necessary. Galvatron reacted in his typical manner, by firing his particle beam cannon. However the shot missed and grazed the edge of Galvatron's super weapon, prompting Galvatron to have to fight Magnus using only his bare hands.''

''Ultra Magnus is able to fend off the initial furious assault from Galvatron, and is able to weather most of the subsequent attacks although the powerful Autobot is taking a lot of damage. Magnus tries to keep Galvatron enraged and not thinking clearly with incessant quips. As Galvatron rants and raves about his Unicron-given indestructibility, Ultra Magnus picks up a message from Kup on his internal communications sensors.'' [[File:Galvatrong1.jpg|thumb|left|The scariest knee in the Solar System.]] ''Apparently, Kup, Blurr, and Hot Rod have a plan that will send Galvatron back to 2006, and all Magnus has to do is keep the near-indestructible warmonger busy for an hour or two. After a few more blows are exchanged, Ultra Magnus dazzles and disorientates Galvatron using his powerful headlights and drives off. Galvatron scrabbles for a handhold and climbs to the roof of Magnus' trailer.''

Back to the present, Ultra Magnus is happy that he's been able to occupy Galvatron's attention for the length of time that he has, and hopes it's been enough for Kup and company to enact their plan. Before Magnus can check on Kup et al., the overpass he is standing on is blasted away by Galvatron, sending the Autobot hurtling to the ground. Once landed, Ultra Magnus is met by Galvatron's laser cannon mode, which proceeds to blast the Autobot all over the place. In a last, desperate gambit, Ultra Magnus tosses a fuel tanker in the firing line of Galvatron's barrel, causing a massive fire to erupt. The two Transformers continue to fight until a victor steps out of the conflagration—Galvatron!

===Back to the Future!===
[[File:Target 2006 repaint.jpg|thumb|They stole the idea from [[Hasbro]].]]
Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr are laying the groundwork to their plan. First, they [[repaint|paint]] [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] to look like Starscream, then they set up explosives all around Galvatron's super weapon. After that, the future Autobots hide the real Starscream and render both Scourge and Cyclonus unconscious. The preparation complete, the Autobts go to their observation area.

Galvatron is dragging Ultra Magnus by the neck to his weapon site so that the Autobot can witness Galvatron's final triumph. When Galvatron discovers that his lieutenants have been recently damaged to ensure unconsciousness, he at first suspects Megatron and Soundwave, but finds them just as deactivated as before. Galvatron then, understandably, assumes that this was some treachery on the part of Starscream, just as the Autobot trio had intended. The Autobots prepare to attack Galvatron, but are unable to get a clear shot as Ultra Magnus has stepped into the firing line. Magnus is determined to do what he can to get Optimus Prime back and still participate in Operation: Volcano, which is kicking off in under an hour.

[[File:Galvatron V Magnus UK87.jpg|thumb|left|Don't stop til you get enough!]]
Not too far away, the Autobots are recovering from their attack at the hands of a remote-controlled Jazz. Smokescreen is determined to take the fight to Galvatron one more time, despite the results from the last few such assaults, as unchecked Galvatron could arrive at any point in time and use his weaponry to stand as an unchallenged ruler.

Ultra Magnus continues to battle Galvatron, simply refusing to give up. Eventually, Magnus is thrown by Galvatron, giving Hot Rod's group a clear bead on Galvatron, which is instantly disrupted by the arrival of Smokescreen, Jetfire, and their group, who are defending Magnus by forcing Galvatron to go through them first. Kup, being practical, realises that going up against Galvatron is likely to mean death for these Autobots, so he goes ahead and detonates the explosives anyway, hoping that the Autobots will have the sense to get clear. The chain reaction of the explosives cause the power source of Galvatron's weapon to detonate, obliterating the weapon completely. As he is being buried by falling shrapnel, Galvatron howls with rage at being denied his victory this late in the game.

[[File:Target 2006 fake Starscream dies.jpg|thumb|He done blowed up real good.]]
Minutes later, Galvatron bursts from the wreckage, demanding to know who has the nerve to dare attack him. Skywarp-as-Starscream claims the credit, thanks to some remote control manipulation from the future Autobots. Overcome with rage, Galvatron fires at "Starscream", killing him. Once the red mist clears, Galvatron realises that he will not kill Starscream until 2006, and so, he must be in a parallel dimension to the one he time jumped from initially and thus his actions here will have no bearing on the future, or on his enslavement to Unicron. Taking the setback in his stride, Galvatron uses a [[Time-jump trigger device|hand-held device]] to transport himself, Scourge and Cyclonus back to 2006 whilst the future Autobots consider what to do with Starscream.

===Aftermath!===
Unicron is surveying the remains of Galvatron's weapon, and is happy to see that his puppet, Galvatron couldn't escape the Chaos Bringer's control so easily, although the ingenuity Galvatron's trip to the past did surprise Unicron. Unicron's influence is such that he was able to subtly guide Hot Rod, Blurr, and Kup in their successful plan to thwart Galvatron. Unicron also plants the suggestion to one day build [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] on the site of Galvatron's weapon complex. The future Autobots return to the future.

[[File:Target 2006 Magnus too late for Volcano.jpg|thumb|200px|left|I trust I am not too early.]]
After Starscream is stuffed back into cold storage, Jetfire and Smokescreen are thanking a magnanimous Ultra Magnus on his role in saving both Earth and Cybertron. At the mention of Cyberton, Magnus has a small conniption as he now knows that Operation: Volcano must have already begun—without him!

On Cybertron, Emirate Xaaron is at the [[Imperial Amphitheatre]] giving a speech to twenty-two [[Autobot resistance chief]]s, who, in reality, are expendable facsimile constructs and part of the complicated trap that is Operation: Volcano. After an Insecticon-sized signal is detected by Impactor and the Wreckers, they know phase one of Volcano has been a success. The Decepticons have swallowed the bait. Roadbuster, though, isn't happy. He's worried about the chance of failure, especially as while powerful, the Triple Changers are not a match for Ultra Magnus. Impactor observes that if Magnus is returning to Cybertron to participate in Volcano, his time is extremely limited.

Back on Earth, Laserbeak cuts free Soundwave and Megatron, the latter of whom is thirsting for revenge. Ultra Magnus returns to Cybertron rather than meeting with Optimus Prime, and hopes that one day, Magnus and Prime can fight together side by side, a notion Jetfire agrees with.

[[File:Dirge macabre marvel uk 88.jpg|thumb|Anti-climax personified.]]
Back on Cybertron, the [[Ten Deadliest Killers]] gather. They include the Insecticons, Thrust, Blitzwing, Octane and a tagging-along thug by the name of [[Macabre]]. Unlike his fellow Decepticons, Macabre doesn't seek to interrogate Emirate Xaaron, merely to assassinate him. Impactor gives the signal: "Wreck and Rule!" However, the signal is superfluous as [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] interrupts Dirge with a communicube containing a message from Megatron—the Decepticons must cease all operations in [[Polyhex]] and have the space bridge working well enough to transport the Insecticons to Earth within two cycles, with no questioning of orders.

Impactor steps to the dais and informs Xaaron that the Decepticons have turned back. Uncertain as to the reason, the Wrecker speculates that the Decepticons must have discovered that it was a trap, and so all the preparation work for Operation: Volcano was wasted. Macabre, however, didn't turn back with the other Decepticons, and is determined to go down in history as the Decepticon that killed Xaaron, so he fires his massive studded gun at the Autobot dignitary. Unfortunately for Macabre, Impactor spots the weapon and is able to take the impact himself, dying.

[[File:Target 2006 Prime triumphant.jpg|thumb|left|...most of the time.]]
Macabre steps out of the shadows, bewailing his lost opportunity to finish off Xaaron and is blown to smithereens by the Wreckers' combined fire-power. Xaaron is upset about Impactor's impending death, but Impactor always knew that death was a possibility and nominates Springer for his replacement as Wreckers commander.

On Earth, Optimus Prime is speechifying at the Ark. He talks about the severe injuries that Jazz, Trailbreaker, and Grapple have suffered, and the perhaps even more debilitating mental injuries the other Autobots have acquired having faced total defeat. Prime states that no matter what sufferings they go through in their battles, the Autobots will prevail.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (2)
* [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (3)
* [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (4)
* [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (5)
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (6)
* [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (7)
* [[Xaaron]] (12)
* [[Skater]] (13)
* [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (14)
* [[Autobot traitor]] (16)
* [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (17)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (18)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (19)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] (20)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (21)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (22)
* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (23)
* [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (26)
* [[Matrix Flame priest]] (27)
* [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (31)
* [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (39)
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (40)
* [[Grapple]] (42)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (43)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (44)
* [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (45)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (46)
* [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (47)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (48)
* [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (54)
* [[Rack'n'Ruin]] (55)
* [[Twin Twist]] (59)
* [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (64)
* [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (65)
* [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (66)
* [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (69)
* [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (70)
* [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (71)
|c2=
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (15)
* [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (24)
* [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (25)
* [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (28)
* [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (29)
* [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (30)
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (32)
* [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (33)
* [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (34)
* [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (35)
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (36)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (37)
* [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (38)
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (41)
* [[Fang]] (61)
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (62)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (63)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (68)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (72)
* [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (74)
* [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (75)
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (76)
* [[Octane]] (77)
* [[Macabre]] (78)
* [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (79)
* [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (80)
* [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (81)
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (82)
|c3=
* [[Joy Meadows]] (8)
* [[Rick (Marvel)|Rick]] (9)
* [[Tony (G1)|Tony]] (10)
|c4=
* [[Centurion (Marvel)|Centurion]] (11)
* [[Piano Transformer guy]] (60)
* [[Unicron]] (67)
|h5='''[[Facsimile construct]]s'''|c5=
* Dirge (49)
* Kickback (50)
* Thrust (51)
* Octane (52)
* Shrapnel (53)
* Bombshell (56)
* Blitzwing (57)
* Ramjet (58)
* [[Autobot resistance chief]]s (73)
}}

==Notes==
*This is the epic Transformers story that everyone remembers from the UK comics. Events in this story cause ramifications over the next 150 issues.
*[[Ladybird Books]] would borrow the premise of this story for their 1986 books.
*The Movie was originally planned to take place in 2006 but was changed to 2005 very late in production by which time "Target: 2006" had already been given a title. As a result, all of the UK comics future stories were set twenty years in the future of the 'real' year.
*Galvatron time jumps just at the point in the Movie after he says "Decepticons, to Earth."
*According to Galvatron in issue #78, Earth has a weather control system as of 1995. Our Earth is clearly behind schedule.
*This story has it that Unicron's physical form ''can'' be destroyed by weapons technology (albeit really powerful weapons) and not just the Matrix—Unicron himself refers to the cannon being able to destroy him. The idea of Unicron being defeatable by Transformer weaponry has never turned up again.
*The character designs for Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge in issue #78 are based on the toys rather than the Movie look as the issue was designed before the artist got to see the Movie designs.
**The early parts of the story also use a different colour scheme for Cyclonus including a mainly silver head that was also seen on a prototype shown in the [[Toy Fair 1986]] catalogue. His colours in later parts are closer to the released toy.
*For this story and all future appearances Galvatron would appear in his grey and purple toy colour scheme rather than the Movie's predominantly purple colour.
*Simon Furman reused issue #78's sequence with Emirate Xaaron and captions about the Autobot movement going literally underground almost verbatim when he took over the US strip some years later.
*The drawing of Galvatron on the cover of issue #87 is a slightly altered tracing of his [[character model]].
*The fate of Optimus Prime and the other Transformers who disappear is revealed in #100's "[[Distant Thunder!]]"
*In terms of story chronology, this is the fourth UK "future" story centering on the [[The Transformers: The Movie|movie]] cast. It's preceded by the Shockwave segment of "[[Aspects of Evil!]]". The next story, chronologically, is "[[Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!]]" and the subsequent titles.
*A hardback version of ''[[Transformers: Target: 2006]]'' with an exclusive cover was made available at the Transforce 2002 convention in the UK. However, the convention version was misprinted, with the final eight pages of the story appearing in reverse order. Titan offered a free replacement, but many fans kept the original—partially because of the novelty, but mostly because they had just got it signed by [[Simon Furman]].
*Parts 5 and 6 were reprinted as a single comic book issue as a pack-in (erroneously) included with ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] vs. [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. (It was supposed to be packed in with the [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] vs. [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] set, which was "Target: 2006"-themed.) This printing altered two uses of the word "damn" to "darn", a word more friendly to American children.
*According to Jeff Anderson's website[http://http://www.jeffandersonillustrator.co.uk/photo_8932596.html#photos_id=9009576] the splash page of Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus in #78 was evidently stolen by unknown assailants along with another piece of artwork. If you see it, won't you be a doll and contact him or Simon Furman?

===Errors===
* In #81, Ironhide is seen kneeling next to an unconscious Megatron and Soundwave. Whereas the flashback to this scene in #83 has Megatron busting out of the rubble during Ironhide's rescue attempt and strangling him.
*It is implied that Galvatron builds his weapon on the site of the future [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] so that when the weapon fires in 2006 it will destroy Autobot City ''and'' Unicron. He states it will be "hidden underground", but it's not mentioned ''how'' it'll get underground—we could be charitable and assume there is a way, but ''why'' would the Autobots build their city where they ''know'' a slag-off great cannon was buried?
*On page 5 of issue #81, Jetfire's backpack suddenly disappears for a single frame.
*On the first and last pages of issue #82, the [[Octane]] facsimile construct is mis-colored as [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]].
*The Autobots do not use [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. This would normally be an item of interest and not an error, except that we are reminded that Omega Supreme exists, that he is powerful enough to kill lots of Decepticons, and Smokescreen ''actually says'' "Now there's a thought! Why not sic Omega on them?" (referring to the Constructicons, Megatron, Soundwave and Laserbeak when it is assumed they are involved in the disappearance of Prime, Prowl and Ratchet) in Part 1. No reason is ever given why they don't use him against Galvatron and he is not shown in any scenes in the entire story.
*Part 4 has the Wreckers training against nine facsimile constructs that represent the "deadliest killers". Then, the final part establishes Operation: Volcano will kill the ''ten'' deadliest killers—while the art only shows ''nine'' of them ([[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] turns up but doesn't seem to have been expected by the others). Did the tenth just decide to have a lie-in?
*Wouldn't killing Skywarp still have an adverse effect on the future? Even if he did become Cyclonus or Scourge or what have you, he still appears in later issues of the comic, and the movie adaptation as well.

===Back-up stories===
'''Issue #78:'''
*Hercules — "Whom the Gods Would Destroy!" Part 1
*[[Robo-Capers]]

'''Issue #79:'''
*Hercules — "Whom the Gods Would Destroy!" Part 2
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #80:'''
*Hercules — "Whom the Gods Would Destroy!" Part 3
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #81:'''
*Hercules — "Whom the Gods Would Destroy!" Part 4
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #82:'''
*Hercules — "...Not Just Another Galactus Story!" Part 1
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #83:'''
*[[Cybertron: The Middle Years!]]
*Hercules — "...Not Just Another Galactus Story!" Part 2
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #84:'''
*Hercules — "...Not Just Another Galactus Story!" Part 3
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #85:'''
*Hercules — "...Not Just Another Galactus Story!" Part 4
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #86:'''
*Spitfire and the Troubleshooters — "Beginnings" Part 1
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #87:'''
*Spitfire and the Troubleshooters — "Beginnings" Part 2
*Robo-Capers

'''Issue #88:'''
*Spitfire and the Troubleshooters — "Beginnings" Part 3
*Robo-Capers

===Covers (34)===
====Marvel originals====
*'''UK issue #78 cover:''' Prowl, Ratchet, and Optimus Prime disappearing into limbo, by [[Alister Pearson]].
*'''UK issue #79 cover:''' Galvatron and Ultra Magnus, by [[John Higgins]].
*'''UK issue #80 cover:''' Ultra Magnus arrives, by [[John Stokes]].
*'''UK issue #81 cover:''' Galvatron stands over vanquished Autobots, by [[Will Simpson]].
<center><gallery>
Image:MarvelUK-078.jpg|'''UK issue #78'''
Image:MarvelUK-079.jpg|'''UK issue #79'''
Image:MarvelUK-080.jpg|'''UK issue #80'''
Image:MarvelUK-081.jpg|'''UK issue #81'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''UK issue #82 cover:''' the [[Wrecker]]s, by [[Phil Gascoine]].
*'''UK issue #83 cover:''' Scourge being blasted, by [[Robin Smith]].
*'''UK issue #84 cover:''' Galvatron and Unicron by Phil Gascoine.
*'''UK issue #85 cover:''' Jazz is possessed by Galvatron, by Robin Smith.
<center><gallery>
Image:MarvelUK-082.jpg|'''UK issue #82'''
Image:Image-MarvelUK-083.jpg|'''UK issue #83'''
Image:MarvelUK-084.jpg|'''UK issue #84'''
Image:MarvelUK-085.jpg|'''UK issue #85'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''UK issue #86 cover:''' Ultra Magnus fighting Galvatron, by Robin Smith.
*'''UK issue #87 cover:''' Galvatron poses by his weapon, by Phil Gascoine.
*'''UK issue #88 cover:''' the Wreckers, by [[Geoff Senior]].
<center><gallery>
Image:MarvelUK-086.jpg|'''UK issue #86'''
Image:MarvelUK-087.jpg|'''UK issue #87'''
Image:MarvelUK-088.jpg|'''UK issue #88'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

====Collected Comics reprints====
*'''Collected Comics #15 cover:''' Reuse of issue #79 cover by [[John Higgins]].
<center><gallery>
Image:Tfcolcom15.jpg|'''Collected Comics #15'''
</gallery></center>

====IDW reprints====
{{Note|[[Rob Ruffolo]] is incorrectly credited with colouring the covers for these reprints.}}

*'''IDW issue #1 cover A:''' Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus arrive in 1986, art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
*'''IDW issue #1 cover B:''' Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus arrive in 1986, by [[Jeff Anderson]].
*'''IDW issue #1 Retail Incentive cover A:''' sketch of cover A, by Nick Roche.
*'''IDW issue #1 Retail Incentive cover B:''' panels of UK issue #78, by Jeff Anderson.
<center><gallery>
Image:IDWTarget2006 1A.jpg|'''IDW issue #1 A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 1B.jpg|'''IDW issue #1 B'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 1RIA.jpg|'''IDW issue #1 RI-A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 1RIB.jpg|'''IDW issue #1 RI-B'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''IDW issue #2 cover A:''' Cyclonus and Ultra Magnus fight by Hound's prone body, by Nick Roche, colors by [[Liam Shalloo]].
*'''IDW issue #2 cover B:''' Galvatron's ultimate weapon, by Will Simpson colors by [[Tony Jozwiak]].
*'''IDW issue #2 Retail Incentive cover A:''' sketch of cover A, by Nick Roche.
*'''IDW issue #2 Retail Incentive cover B:''' panels from UK issue #81, by Jeff Anderson.
<center><gallery>
Image:IDWTarget2006 2A.jpg|'''IDW issue #2 A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 2B.jpg|'''IDW issue #2 B'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 2RIA.jpg|'''IDW issue #2 RI-A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 2RIB.jpg|'''IDW issue #2 RI-B'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''IDW issue #3 cover A:''' the Wreckers, art by Nick Roche, colors by Liam Shalloo.
*'''IDW issue #3 cover B:''' Wreck and Rule!, by [[Ron Smith]].
*'''IDW issue #3 Retail Incentive cover A:''' sketch of cover A, by Nick Roche.
*'''IDW issue #3 Retail Incentive cover B:''' panels from UK issue #82, by Ron Smith.
<center><gallery>
Image:IDWTarget2006 3A.jpg|'''IDW issue #3 A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 3B.jpg|'''IDW issue #3 B'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 3RIA.jpg|'''IDW issue #3 RI-A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 3RIB.jpg|'''IDW issue #3 RI-B'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''IDW issue #4 cover A:''' Brawn choked by a zombie-controlled Jazz, by Nick Roche, colors by Liam Shalloo.
*'''IDW issue #4 cover B:''' Galvatron riding Ultra Magnus, by Geoff Senior.
*'''IDW issue #4 Retail Incentive cover A:''' sketch of cover A, by Nick Roche.
*'''IDW issue #4 Retail Incentive cover B:''' panels from UK issue #86, by Will Simpson.
<center><gallery>
Image:IDWTarget2006 4A.jpg|'''IDW issue #4 A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 4B.jpg|'''IDW issue #4 B'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 4RIA.jpg|'''IDW issue #4 RI-A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 4RIB.jpg|'''IDW issue #4 RI-B'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

*'''IDW issue #5 cover A:''' Ultra Magnus versus Galvatron, art by Nick Roche, colors by Josh Burcham.
*'''IDW issue #5 cover B:''' Starscream is obliterated, by Jeff Anderson, colors by Tony Jozwiak.
*'''IDW issue #5 Retail Incentive cover A:''' sketch of cover A, by Nick Roche.
*'''IDW issue #5 Retail Incentive cover B:''' panels from UK issue #88 by Will Simpson.
<center><gallery>
Image:IDWTarget2006 5A.jpg|'''IDW issue #5 A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 5B.jpg|'''IDW issue #5 B'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 5RIA.jpg|'''IDW issue #5 RI-A'''
Image:IDWTarget2006 5RIB.jpg|'''IDW issue #5 RI-B'''
</gallery></center>
{{-}}

====Trade paperbacks====
*'''Titan TPB cover:''' Galvatron in shadow, by Geoff Senior.
*'''Transforce Titan hardcover:''' Galvatron shoots at Ultra Magnus by [[Lee Sullivan]].
*'''IDW TPB cover:''' reuse of IDW issue #5 cover A.
*'''''The Transformers Classics UK Volume 3:''''' [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] vs [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]], [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]'s head, [[Xaaron]], [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] riding [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Outback]] by [[Andrew Wildman]].
<center><gallery>
Image:TitanTarget2006tpb.jpg|'''Titan TPB'''
Image:TransforceTitanTarget2006hc.jpg|'''Transforce Titan HC'''
Image:IDWTarget2006tpb.jpg|'''IDW TPB'''
Image:Classicuk3.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics UK Volume 3'''''
</gallery></center>

===Reprints===
*[[1990]] — ''[[Transformers Collected Comics]]'' 15 (prologue, parts 1 and 2)
*[[2002]] — ''[[Transformers: Target: 2006]]''
*[[2007]] — ''[[The Transformers: Target: 2006]]'' #1–5
*[[2007]] — ''[[The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman]]'' (parts 3 and 5)
*[[2008]] — ''[[The Transformers: Target: 2006]]''
*[[2012]] — ''[[The Transformers Classics UK Volume 3]]''

[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]
[[Category:Pack-in material]]

All His Engines

2013-09-21T07:47:38Z

Laserbeak Eject: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #7
|prev=Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"
|next=Scrapper (issue)
|title="All His Engines"
|image=Transformers 7-A.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[May 26]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[E. J. Su]]
|colors by=[[James Brown]]
|letters by= [[Neil Uyetake]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''A recovering Megatron reflects on the current state of the Decepticons and the Autobots' alliance with humanity.'''

==Synopsis==
Three years after [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s defeat on [[Earth]], the majority of the remaining [[Decepticon]]s are located on a desolate asteroid, under the self-proclaimed command of [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]]. [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] sit dejected, while [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] fight with each other. Elsewhere on the asteroid. [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] is pursued by [[Needlenose]], [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]], Kickback, and [[Pounce]] after stealing more than his share of [[energon]] rations. After initially escaping by firing his boot jets into the others, Dreadwind is gunned down and killed by the other three, who then fight amongst themselves over who gets what part as they cannibalize the body, during which [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] looks on approvingly.

Elsewhere, [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] has isolated himself in his laboratory, allegedly striving to fix the [[space bridge]], while [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] is based in the ship that took them to the asteroid. Starscream, wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], confronts [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] over his lack of progress in developing an energon processor, to which Bombshell replies that the Decepticons on the asteroid are now self-governing through cannibalism, under the supervision of Razorclaw. Starscream demands to know what Bombshell has been working on, and Bombshell presents him with a [[cerebro-shell]], which would allow Starscream to exert control over any Cybertronian he affixes it to.

At that moment a [[Quake (G1)|disgruntled Decepticon]] blasts a hole through the wall and bursts in, declaring "death to tyrants". Starscream throws the cerebro-shell at him, and once it is affixed he opens fire, shouting "die!" at the intruder, who then promptly dies, seemingly because Starscream ordered him to, as opposed to from any wounds. Starscream asks if Bombshell has created any more cerebro-shells.

Meanwhile, on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|General Witwicky]] meet at a military facility, and Optimus thanks him for the contributions of [[human]] soldiers that made the defeat of the Decepticons possible. In private, General Witwicky is angered by the release of Optimus Prime and the [[Autobot]]s, stating that [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] has superseded his authority. Spike retorts that it was a tactical decision, that the Autobots aren't the enemy, and that they'd never be able to keep up technologically otherwise. General Witwicky points out that if General [[Allenby]] finds out. Spike will probably be court-martialed, to which Spike replies that they'll just have to keep it a secret.

After the general leaves, Spike speaks to [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]], a soldier who used to work for General Allenby. She points out that if he is so much suspected of breaking protocol, Allenby will have him court-martialed, and that he has jeopardized all of those under his command by asking them to back his story, and that this underhanded approach goes against all the reasons that she decided to join the military for. Spike replies that the only lie that General Allenby has to believe is that Prime escaped custody prior to fighting [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], as opposed to being released. They then go to meet the rest of the Autobot recruits, in the form of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]].

Back on the asteroid, Megatron, badly damaged and in a [[CR tank]], stirs, clenches his fist, and vows that upon his return, Optimus Prime will be defeated.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (15)
* [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (19)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] (20)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (21)
* [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (22)
|c2=
* [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (1)
* [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] (2)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (3)
* [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (4)
* [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (5)
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (6)
* [[Needlenose]] (7)
* [[Pounce]] (8)
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (9)
* [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] (10)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (11)
* [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (12)
* [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (13)
* [[Quake (G1)|Quake]] (14)
* [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (23)
|c3=
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (16)
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Daniel Witwicky]] (17)
* [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] (18)
}}

==Quotes==
"Shockwave has isolated himself in his workshop, toiling without stop to rebuild the space bridge. Or so he says. No one has thought to check. No one would know what they were looking at if they did."
:—'''Megatron''' thinks that Shockwave may have hatched a cunning plan.

"Razorclaw has not been chosen by the Matrix of Leadership. He may enjoy observing this place like a game warden, but in Megatron's absence I must lead us into a new era!"
:—'''Starscream''' makes sure that Bombshell hasn't forgotten that he's the boss.

==Notes==
* Includes a [[Decepticomments]] section where editor [[Denton J. Tipton]] says good-bye to the readers. It also reveals the winner of the contest from "[[Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight]]".
* With this issue, art duties have been turned over to E.J. Su, and the characters are no longer drawn in [[Don Figueroa]]'s movie-inspired style. For example, the Autobots' designs are simplified versions of the character models Su developed back in 2005 for the ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' series.
* This issue reveals that, in IDW continuity at least, Dreadwind and Darkwing are siblings.

===Errors===
* Some of Dreadwind's body parts are inconsistently colored - on page 2 and 3 his "leg wings" are colored gray, but on page 4 and 5 they're the same teal color as his shoulders, and then they're gray once more on page 7. His kneecaps suffer the same mis-coloring as they are colored purple in every page except 3 and 7 where they're gray.
* Bombshell's [[cerebro-shell]]s are depicted as miniature versions of his insect mode. This ''could'' be related to the miniature Bombshell from "[[Spotlight: Blaster]]", but it seems Bombshell invented them just now.
* Blurr is back in his Cybertronian body a la ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee]]''.
* And speaking of Bumblebee, he's oddly back to his old Volkswagen body, rather than his Dodge Challenger-inspired body which had been used for the last few issues.
* To complete the alternate mode roundabout, Jetfire is now in a simplified version of his body from ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'', as opposed to the much larger body with an Earth bomber alternate mode that he had previously.
* How DOES a barely functioning/on life support/half dead Megatron know so much about what's going on in the Decepticon camp AND Earth anyway?
* The issue title, which should be printed on the last page, is missing.<ref>"[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=10070&start=30 Mike Costa and the Transformers Ongoing literary references]" post on IDW Publishing's forums.</ref>

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Close up of Megatron's face; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by [[James Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' An angry Megatron featuring a black helmet like in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comics]]; art by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Hot Rod; art by Don Figueroa.

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All His Engines

2013-09-17T18:39:31Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #7
|prev=Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"
|next=Scrapper (issue)
|title="All His Engines"
|image=Transformers 7-A.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[May 26]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[E. J. Su]]
|colors by=[[James Brown]]
|letters by= [[Neil Uyetake]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''A recovering Megatron reflects on the current state of the Decepticons and the Autobots' alliance with humanity.'''

==Synopsis==
Three years after [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s defeat on [[Earth]], the majority of the remaining [[Decepticon]]s are located on a desolate asteroid, under the self-proclaimed command of [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]]. [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] sit dejected, while [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] fight with each other. Elsewhere on the asteroid. [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] is pursued by [[Needlenose]], [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]], Kickback, and [[Pounce]] after stealing more than his share of [[energon]] rations. After initially escaping by firing his boot jets into the others, Dreadwind is gunned down and killed by the other three, who then fight amongst themselves over who gets what part as they cannibalize the body, during which [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] looks on approvingly.

Elsewhere, [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] has isolated himself in his laboratory, allegedly striving to fix the [[space bridge]], while [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] is based in the ship that took them to the asteroid. Starscream, wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], confronts [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] over his lack of progress in developing an energon processor, to which Bombshell replies that the Decepticons on the asteroid are now self-governing through cannibalism, under the supervision of Razorclaw. Starscream demands to know what Bombshell has been working on, and Bombshell presents him with a [[cerebro-shell]], which would allow Starscream to exert control over any Cybertronian he affixes it to.

At that moment a [[Quake (G1)|disgruntled Decepticon]] blasts a hole through the wall and bursts in, declaring "death to tyrants". Starscream throws the cerebro-shell at him, and once it is affixed he opens fire, shouting "die!" at the intruder, who then promptly dies, seemingly because Starscream ordered him to, as opposed to from any wounds. Starscream asks if Bombshell has created any more cerebro-shells.

Meanwhile, on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|General Witwicky]] meet at a military facility, and Optimus thanks him for the contributions of [[human]] soldiers that made the defeat of the Decepticons possible. In private, General Witwicky is angered by the release of Optimus Prime and the [[Autobot]]s, stating that [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] has superseded his authority. Spike retorts that it was a tactical decision, that the Autobots aren't the enemy, and that they'd never be able to keep up technologically otherwise. General Witwicky points out that if General [[Allenby]] finds out. Spike will probably be court-martialed, to which Spike replies that they'll just have to keep it a secret.

After the general leaves, Spike speaks to [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]], a soldier who used to work for General Allenby. She points out that if he is so much suspected of breaking protocol, Allenby will have him court-martialed, and that he has jeopardized all of those under his command by asking them to back his story, and that this underhanded approach goes against all the reasons that she decided to join the military for. Spike replies that the only lie that General Allenby has to believe is that Prime escaped custody prior to fighting [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], as opposed to being released. They then go to meet the rest of the Autobot recruits, in the form of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]].

Back on the asteroid, Megatron, badly damaged and in a [[CR tank]], stirs, clenches his fist, and vows that upon his return, Optimus Prime will be defeated.

==Featured characters==
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|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (15)
* [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (19)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] (20)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (21)
* [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (22)
|c2=
* [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (1)
* [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] (2)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (3)
* [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (4)
* [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (5)
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (6)
* [[Needlenose]] (7)
* [[Pounce]] (8)
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (9)
* [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] (10)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (11)
* [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (12)
* [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (13)
* [[Quake (G1)|Quake]] (14)
* [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (23)
|c3=
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (16)
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Daniel Witwicky]] (17)
* [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] (18)
}}

==Quotes==
"Shockwave has isolated himself in his workshop, toiling without stop to rebuild the space bridge. Or so he says. No one has thought to check. No one would know what they were looking at if they did."
:—'''Megatron''' thinks that Shockwave may have hatched a cunning plan.

"Razorclaw has not been chosen by the Matrix of Leadership. He may enjoy observing this place like a game warden, but in Megatron's absence I must lead us into a new era!"
:—'''Starscream''' makes sure that Bombshell hasn't forgotten that he's the boss.

==Notes==
* Includes a [[Decepticomments]] section where editor [[Denton J. Tipton]] says good-bye to the readers. It also reveals the winner of the contest from "[[Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight]]".
* With this issue, art duties have been turned over to E.J. Su, and the characters are no longer drawn in [[Don Figueroa]]'s movie-inspired style. For example, the Autobots' designs are simplified versions of the character models Su developed back in 2005 for the ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' series.
* This issue reveals that, in IDW continuity at least, Dreadwind and Darkwing are siblings.

===Errors===
* Some of Dreadwind's body parts are inconsistently colored - on page 2 and 3 his "leg wings" are colored gray, but on page 4 and 5 they're the same turquoise color as his shoulders, and then they're gray once more on page 7. His kneecaps suffer the same mis-coloring as they are colored purple in every page except 3 and 7 where they're gray.
* Bombshell's [[cerebro-shell]]s are depicted as miniature versions of his insect mode. This ''could'' be related to the miniature Bombshell from "[[Spotlight: Blaster]]", but it seems Bombshell invented them just now.
* Blurr is back in his Cybertronian body a la ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee]]''.
* And speaking of Bumblebee, he's oddly back to his old Volkswagen body, rather than his Dodge Challenger-inspired body which had been used for the last few issues.
* To complete the alternate mode roundabout, Jetfire is now in a simplified version of his body from ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'', as opposed to the much larger body with an Earth bomber alternate mode that he had previously.
* How DOES a barely functioning/on life support/half dead Megatron know so much about what's going on in the Decepticon camp AND Earth anyway?
* The issue title, which should be printed on the last page, is missing.<ref>"[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=10070&start=30 Mike Costa and the Transformers Ongoing literary references]" post on IDW Publishing's forums.</ref>

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Close up of Megatron's face; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by [[James Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' An angry Megatron featuring a black helmet like in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comics]]; art by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Hot Rod; art by Don Figueroa.

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Image:Transformers 7-RI.jpg|
</gallery>

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Destiny, Part Two

2013-06-19T19:11:50Z

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|series=rg1|issueno=92
|prev=Destiny, Part 1
|next=Destiny, Part 3
|title="Destiny" Part 2
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[June 12]], [[2013]]
|coverdate=June 2013
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|penciler=[[Andrew Wildman]]
|inker=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|colorist=[[John-Paul Bove]]
|letterer=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''While Optimus Prime tries to broker an alliance on Earth, Soundwave foments chaos on Cybertron, and when Blaster is forced to take matters into his own hands, he soon becomes a target for the new Mayhem Attack Squad.'''

==Synopsis==
In Wyoming, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] attempts to reason with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] about a solution to renew Earth, but the super-powered human will have none of it. He viciously attacks Prime, taunting him that the Autobot had to see this coming. He is stopped from killing Optimus by the arrival of the leadership of the surviving humans. Commanding officer [[Linda Chang]] orders Circuit Smasher to stand down, and Optimus is taken into custody. She warns Optimus that any deviation from their orders will be interpreted as a hostile act and they'll let Circuit Smasher finish what he started. As he is lead away, Optimus inquires if the woman is Circuit Smasher's commanding officer, but he replies that she is his wife!

Back on Cybertron, in [[The Garage]], [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] are being tested and re-tested by [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to confirm that the new bodies they've received are free from Nucleon's effects. Blaster implores Prowl to let them help, replaying comm-line chatter about all the chaos that's been going on, and saying that they need every able-bodied 'Bot they can get. He says that he can sense something more going on then just the chaos that [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] caused with his [[Gene Key]], and angrily tells Prowl that he doesn't want to just sit on the sidelines. Prowl recounts the specific effects of Nucleon on each Autobot, and says they ''do'' need every pair of hands they can get, but when it comes to the four of them, they can't take the risk. He then leaves to take care of the latest batch of crises, while [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] urges the four to hang in there. Silverbolt wonders if maybe Blaster is just sensing some echo of his former state, but Blaster isn't sure..

Elsewhere in Iacon, [[Fang]] is leading a group blockading a main road, and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], backed up by the other [[Wrecker|Wreckers]], is ordering him to stand down. [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] starts to suggest something, but is immediately shot down by Kup, who says that they need to stamp out little fires like this one before it all explodes. Roadbuster then suggests that maybe Kup is the one making a bigger problem than it needs to be, by giving the angry crowd something to get upset about. As the two argue, two bots trying to pass the blockade transform and attack Fang and the others. As a fight breaks out between the two sides, [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] hovers above, transmitting the fight to [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] who remarks that he can't get enough of the chaos. Noticing that their comm-line has been hacked into, Soundwave cuts off Spinister and activates the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] to eliminate the intruder.

Back in Wyoming, Prime is brought to plead his case before the surviving humans there. He proposes uniting the humans with [[Nebulos]] in a joint effort to rebuild- the Nebulans' science and technology can help speed Earth's rebuilding, and the Earthlings' strength and tenacity could help the Nebulans recover from the mass mental trauma inflicted by Scorponok. Circuit Smasher immediately shoots down the idea, but the others, including [[G.B. Blackrock]] are more receptive to the idea, and agree to take a hard look at Prime's plan.

In The Garage, Blaster rips out the wires connecting him to the scanning equipment, and says that they all have to leave, and '''now'''. He says that he randomly just tapped into the old Decepticon comm-line subfrequencies, and overheard Soundwave tell Spinister that while everyone thinks the chaos is random, and a side effect of Scorponok's Gene Key, it's really all happening because Soundwave is transmitting an irritant, subsonic signal on a frequency that all Cybertronians share. The signal is fomenting the restlessness and causing the rebelliousness in Cybertron's population, so as to leave them defenseless. Huffer remarks that they're hardly battle-ready and ill-equipped to deal with the assassins sent after them. Blaster says they have no choice, as Soundwave has frozen the airwaves, so it's down to the four Autobots to survive the coming attack and get the information back to command.

Deep in the bowels of Cybertron, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] is leading the remaining [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] on a search for the bottom of the [[Sonic Canyons]], on the chance that [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] may have survived his fall into them. Hot Rod is following a map in his head that was given to him via the [[Covenant of Primus]]. Though [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] is somewhat unsure about it all, [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] says that Grimlock risked everything to recover Slag from his primitive state, so they're going on, regardless. When asked about the [[Demons]], Hot Rod says that they don't need to look for them.....because the Demons will find them eventually.

As the Mayhem Attack Squad busts into The Garage, they find Huffer, alone. When [[Snarler]] asks if he has any last words, and charges, Huffer says he's a 'bot of few words and knocks Snarler out cold with a single punch, surprising the other two Decepticons. [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] then attacks, but is taken out by a blast from a modified energy siphon wielded by Inferno and Silverbolt. Blaster uses his abilities to knock [[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]'s internal sensors off, causing him to miss hitting Inferno and Silverbolt, then Huffer punches the Decepticon unconscious. Exiting his [[Pretender]] shell, Carnivac attacks and hits Silverbolt with a blast of napalm. Blaster sonically attacks Carnivac, who is incapacitated, and Inferno is able to contain Silverbolt's damage.

Later, Blaster having informed Prowl of the Decepticons' plans, the intracomm is taken down "for essential maintenance" as a cover for disabling Soundwave's disruptive influence. Prowl thanks the four Autobots, especially Blaster, but notes that now that all communications are down, they'll have no way of knowing if an attack is coming until it's too late.

Deep in space, both the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and the ''[[Warworld]]'' continue their approaches to Cybertron...

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.)<br>
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*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (4)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (5)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (6)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (7)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (8)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (9)
*''[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]'' (10)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (11)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (13)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
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*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (16)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (28)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (29)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (30)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (31)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (32)
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (34)
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (35)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*[[Fang]] (12)
*[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] (17)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (18)
*[[Needlenose]] (19)
*[[Battletrap]] (20)
*[[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] (21)
*[[Windsweeper]] (22)
*[[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]] (23)
*[[Snarler]] (24)
*[[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] (25)
*[[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] (36)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (37)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] (2)
*[[Linda Chang]] (3)
*[[Gordon Kent]] (26)
*[[G.B. Blackrock]] (27)

|h4=Others|c4=
*[[Demon]]s (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"'Energy siphon to weapon in sixteen astro-seconds...Huffer...I will '''never''' doubt you again."<br>
:--'''Silverbolt''' is thoroughly impressed by Huffer's engineering prowess under pressure.

"Unfortunately, didn't Huffer say it takes twenty-''five'' astro-seconds to charge? Which we don't have." <br>
:--'''Inferno''' realizes that they still need to blast Roadblock, who's standing right in front of them.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*In this issue it is finally confirmed that the four Autobots in The Garage, as well as Slag, received new bodies sometime between issues #89 and #90.
*Blaster's claim that he once "practically was the resistance on Cybertron" is a somewhat-exaggerated report of his days as part of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor's]] [[Cybertron Seven|anti-Decepticon unit]], but an understandable one given his lone-wolf tendency. While his personality from this time is at the fore (having basically disappeared from the character during his sparse appearance at the end of the original Marvel series), he's lacking the toy-accurate visor-eyed appearance he had for most of the US Marvel run, and is instead sporting the more cartoon-based noggin that Andrew Wildman and the other artists of the UK comics always drew him with, which carried over to the last few US issues.
*Kup and Roadbuster argue about what [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] would have done as leader of the Wreckers. Springer was killed by [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] in #85.

===Transformers references===
*Fang originated in the Marvel UK story "[[Target: 2006]]", showing up in a brief cameo and going on to make an appearance in IDW's Generation 1 continuity as a member of [[Squadron X]]. He doesn't really look like himself here, lacky any of his distinctive spiky armor.
*The Autobots measure the timing of Huffer's weapon in [[astrosecond]]s, a unit of time from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]. We don't want to call it an out-and-out error, but it is a little odd to hear this term in a Marvel story.
*Blaster makes use of his weaponized sonic abilities in this issue, which were more of a cartoon thing of his; he rarely used them in the original Marvel US stories (where he would usually achieve similar effects through the use of his trusty [[electro-scrambler]]), or in the UK stories (and even then, only in alt mode).

===Real world-references===
*The surviving humans of Spike/Circuit Smasher's group are gathered in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, which is in the southwest corner of the state.

===Errors===

*The idea that the Nucleon victims are being quarantined puts the error into Inferno's appearance out in the open as a member of Hot Rod's crowd control last issue.

===Trivia===
*While unlikely to be a deliberate reference, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s attempt to subliminally influence the population of Cybertron to become more violent brings to mind [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s attempt to do the same thing in [[Dreamwave]]'s "[[Passive Aggression]]".

*[[Andrew Wildman]] stated on his personal Twitter-account that this was his final Transformers issue (for now)...

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' The new Mayhem Attack Squad charges into action, by Andrew Wildman and [[Jason Cardy]].
*'''Cover B:''' Circuit Smasher blasting Optimus Prime, by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Huffer laying Snarler out flat, by [[Geoff Senior]] and [[Josh Burcham]].
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