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Dude, stop. English names are not transferred across different characters. Big Convoy is not Big Prime. [[Gren]] is not Hook. Gaia Guardian is not Gaia Defensor, etc. [[User:Mimi|Mimi]] 21:50, 14 September 2013 (EDT)
:Big Convoy has never been named in English, Gren's never been named as that, and Gaia Guardian doesn't have an English name. Those examples don't work at all. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 21:55, 14 September 2013 (EDT)
::You are severely missing the point. The Kre-O character has no name, English or otherwise. All we have is the assumed intent of the writer (so, "Alexa"). What applies to the original character does not automatically apply to homages, as I've shown with my examples.
::And, frankly, if you had an issue, a better method of action would have been discussing rather than automatically reverting the preference of the person taking the time to make those pages! [[User:Mimi|Mimi]] 22:03, 14 September 2013 (EDT)
:: Mimi has a point. using the Alexis/Alexa Kre-o as an example; this wiki typically uses the Japanese name unless/until and English name is made. So, while the Kre-O character might be based off Alexis from Armada, we must call her what the comic calls her. And since the comic calls her nothing, author intent is all we have to go on. I say stick with Alexa but keep the reference to Alexis in the notes/[[User:Stevo|Stevo]] 22:27, 14 September 2013 (EDT)
:::Eh. Whatever, I don't even know all that much about the Japanese names, so I'm not the best one to ask about it. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 16:59, 15 September 2013 (EDT)
:: Give me a mistake in the paragraph please.[[User:MetroPlex71]]
Please don't say that being a woman is an insult. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 22:32, 22 September 2013 (EDT)
:For clarification, I think [http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Waspinator_(BW)&curid=335&diff=828439&oldid=827733&rcid=666524 Supernova222] was the one who said it first. Just letting that out there. --[[User:Inkblot|Inkblot]] 22:48, 22 September 2013 (EDT)
:I wasn't trying to sir. Inkblot is correct. I just undid my revision cause I wasn't sure if it was correct or not. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 06:37, 23 September 2013 (EDT)
:(sometimes I should just sit down and shut up.) [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 06:40, 23 September 2013 (EDT)

You need to settle down just a little bit. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:34, 12 October 2013 (EDT)
:Sorry, sir. I just got a bit too angry.[[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 19:38, 12 October 2013 (EDT)

Please explain why you revert everything I contribute on this wiki?! - [[User:SoundWave|SoundWave]] 15:53, 19 October 2013 (EDT)
:The Ravage note was unessasary. The Team Prime image was fine, though you might want to move it to the episode section. Also, good job on editing the Soundwave ROTF page, the rape thing is one of the few PG-13 level things that is not accepted here. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 15:56, 19 October 2013 (EDT)
:: Thanks. - [[User:SoundWave|SoundWave]] 16:01, 19 October 2013 (EDT)
:: Could you give me an example of a mistake in the paragraph in the AOE page? I checked it on EVERY grammar,punctuation and spell checker page to fix it. No problems... I even contacted my language arts teacher. No problem in the paragraph. It's getting a little bit fishy....[[User:MetroPlex71]]
Why did you remove my talk on the Knock Out page? I thought the talk pages were for disscussing changes? - [[User:Bumblejumper|Bumblejumper]] 22:13, 4 November 2013 (EST)
:You're saying that being gay is a bad thing, and that is not acceptable. Quit it right now. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 22:15, 4 November 2013 (EST)
::Sorry, but being gay really is a bad thing, the Bible says so. But if the wiki community doesn't want it on there I won't add it again, okay? :) - [[User:Bumblejumper|Bumblejumper]] 22:19, 4 November 2013 (EST)
:::No, it's not a bad thing. If you ever add that again, you will get into some major trouble. Now don't add it again. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 22:21, 4 November 2013 (EST)
::::Sorry, I won't add it again. But plz don't be so cross, I didn't know it was against the rules I'm new here. what exactly do not mean "major trouble? - [[User:Bumblejumper|Bumblejumper]] 22:24, 4 November 2013 (EST)
:::::Being banned. Saying stuff like that is absolutely against the rules. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 22:29, 4 November 2013 (EST)
::::::Okay, it's completely understood. :) But if I say "Bank robbers stink" is that okay? (Just thought I'd better ask so I don't violate any more rules, LOL, not off to a very good start, am I? :))BTW, you got a YouTube channel friend? - [[User:Bumblejumper|Bumblejumper]] 22:33, 4 November 2013 (EST)
::::::::That is acceptable. And no, I don't. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] 22:36, 4 November 2013 (EST)

For the second time, chill. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 00:51, 5 November 2013 (EST)

== [[Zobovor]]'s fake BW names on BW DVD ==

Thanks for reverting my edit. i really thought those were preliminary names for the BW characters! --[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:32, 25 November 2013 (EST)

== Moving pages ==

You realise that when you move pages, as you've been doing when Kre-O cameos show up without even making a <nowiki>[[x (Kre-O)]]</nowiki> page, you're meant to fix the links to point to the new page, yes? [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Rattrap]] alone shows 333 ''mainspace'' links! (There's a reason for the bolded "Warning! This can be a drastic and unexpected change for a popular page; please be sure you understand the consequences of this before proceeding." text!). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 22:49, 24 January 2014 (EST)

==Prime image==

Why did you revert my optimus prime edit and the edit someone else did? --[[User:TillAllR1|TillAllR1]] ([[User talk:TillAllR1|talk]]) 14:08, 16 April 2014 (EDT)
:For main images we use the first body or the body the characters had the most. Optimus Prime's appeared more in his body from the first three movies than the one from AOE, so we're sticking with the image we already had. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:11, 16 April 2014 (EDT)

Would it not make sense to have a up to date image? --[[User:TillAllR1|TillAllR1]] ([[User talk:TillAllR1|talk]]) 14:16, 16 April 2014 (EDT)
:That's not how it works. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:17, 16 April 2014 (EDT)

But shouldn't it be? --[[User:TillAllR1|TillAllR1]] ([[User talk:TillAllR1|talk]]) 14:19, 16 April 2014 (EDT)
:No. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:19, 16 April 2014 (EDT)

It would inform those not aware of the change, make the wiki seem up to date and would be a accurate representation of the character as he is now. --[[User:TillAllR1|TillAllR1]] ([[User talk:TillAllR1|talk]]) 14:24, 16 April 2014 (EDT)
:Look, I didn't make the rules. You're going to have to ask someone like Itswalky, abates, or M Sipher about it. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:27, 16 April 2014 (EDT)
::Even then that image he uploaded is no good. Prime is smooshed in the center with all that wasted space on the big OPTIMUS PRIME in the background. We need a good clear shot of the character. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] ([[User talk:Detour|talk]]) 19:14, 16 April 2014 (EDT)

== The Vigilant Town ==

Youtube version is actually edited in the last scene, explaining the Decepticon insignia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEwQrlEAI4

But the Hub network released this episode on their website, and most likely that's the original non-edited episode. http://www.hubnetwork.com/shows/transformers-rescue-bots/videos/full-episode-the-island-of-misfit-tech-episode-13-season-2

Please check the differences before reverting. [[User:Klink|Klink]] ([[User talk:Klink|talk]]) 23:46, 24 May 2014 (EDT)
:Wow, that Decepticon sigil was so blatantly edited in by someone else. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] ([[User talk:Detour|talk]]) 23:57, 24 May 2014 (EDT)
::Eh. I hadn't seen the episode, and I'd trusted abates judgement more than the newbie. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 23:59, 24 May 2014 (EDT)

==Tenses==
Hey, just a quick reminder that fiction sections need to be in the past tense. Thanks! [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 14:50, 4 July 2014 (EDT)
:Yeah, sorry about that. I'll remember next time! [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 4 July 2014 (EDT)

==Helloooo==
Hihi, I didn't realize there were any other translady editors of the TFWiki. Hello! [[User:Antimatter|Antimatter]] ([[User talk:Antimatter|talk]]) 19:06, 11 July 2014 (EDT)
:Hello there! One of our admins is too, [[User:FortMax]]. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:39, 11 July 2014 (EDT)
::Embarrassing fact- she follows me on twitter, but I forgot she was an admin here, haha. Anyway, nice talkin to you, see you round the wiki! [[User:Antimatter|Antimatter]] ([[User talk:Antimatter|talk]]) 00:06, 12 July 2014 (EDT)
:::Nice talking to you, too! [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 11:59, 12 July 2014 (EDT)

==Response==
What are you specifically talking about.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 17:31, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:The removal of the Scorn caption and comments you left on abates and Jalaguy's pages. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 17:35, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

Scorn's caption does not come off as a joke, but at any rate, The Picture of Scorn is a concept art, and should be noted as such, given that concept art often does not share the same appearance of the final product. I'm not necessarily opposed to humor by nature, but it shouldn't get in the way of information, on and information based site.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 17:56, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

EDIT:For future reference, when responding to a message, please leave it on the talk page of the person you are speaking to so they get a notification message.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 17:57, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:No, it really shouldn't. And no, that's not how it works either. You have to refresh talk pages and check recent changes to see if someone's updated a talk page. Don't put responses to things on your talk page to other people's talk pages. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:00, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

Why shouldn't it? It's the exact type of picture that needs context to explain it, official imaging that is altered or not representative of the final product.

And, for the most part in my experience, wiki's use the method of response I use, as it guarantee's the user get's the message. Doing it the other way can lead to a number of complication, like the user not getting the message, or information being lost in communication.

Final quick question, Are you an Admin or Mod?--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 18:10, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:No, if they want to know what it is, they can just look at the description on the image itself. Stop trying to make the wiki work the wayt you want it to.

:And I'm not sure where you get that idea from. You're going to get the message, no matter what, Maybe it works that way at Wikia, but not here.

:And no, I'm not. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:15, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

As you are not an Admin, I would like to ask you not to discuss this with me, as it's not really your place to. While I do appreciate the desire to look after a wiki that you contribute to, unless you are of a position of authority, trying to enforce any rule or policy will not result in desirable results, especially as the Admin's are the one who are really the one's to determine if a policy is being broken or not, and a standard user does not necessarily have the same ability to truly recognize this, and even if they do, they don't have the authority to do anything about it. For future references, if you think someone is breaking a policy or vandalizing pages, contact an Admin or site Mod, rather than taking matter's into your own hands, as this often does little to help the situation or can even make it worse.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 18:30, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:......It's a public forum. Just because I'm not a moderator doesn't mean I shouldn't tell you that you're not doing what's right and ask you to stop. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:34, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:And even then, why wouldn't I know how to interpret the rules? The rules are stated outright among various pages. This isn't some message board. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:51, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

In theory, you are right, but in practice that rarely works. If the user is a true vandal, just messing up the page for kicks, it won't have achieved anything, and may in fact motivate said vandal to keep it up. If it's just another user, then you run into a several other problems. You may not truly understand the full meaning of policy's, or if they are truly being violated, especially if it's a gray type of situation. In those situation, you may just achieve amnesty with a new user who was trying to help. Many people do not appreciate being told what to do by a person in a non-authoritative position, as you are essentially the same "rank" as them, you don't truly have the authority to make any real demands.

Most Admins are Admins for a reason, normally they are excellent editors but also, more importantly, they have excellent crisis situation skills and know how to handle problems users, or users who may simply of made a mistake. At most, a person in a non-authoritative position should ever directly do in a situation where they think someone is breaking policies, is politely inform them of the site policies, and if the situation continues, notify an Admin and let them handle it, as there is little else of use you can actually do.

As to misinterpreting the rule, it's easy to do, as not every situation fit's into the set rules perfectly, many situation have grey aspects to them and are not always easily resolved by a set forth rule, and need some one in a position of authority to properly resolve the situation. --[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 18:57, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:TFWiki doesn't have a massive problem with non-admin users giving advice to new users if it's basic stuff like 'please don't remove captions/add scores of new captions'. Admins aren't always around, and sometimes new users just need pointing to our policy pages. That being said, Escargon, you can sometimes be a bit quick to jump down people's throats over stuff like this. Please try and remain calm and courteous when engaging with other users. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 19:01, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
::Alright. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 19:04, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

Well how many Transformers Wiki's are their?--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 21:29, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:A couple. But we're the original one. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:31, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

That sort of takes the wind out of that arguments sails.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 21:43, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:No, it doesn't. We've been around since 2006. We're far more succesful than any other attempt at making a wiki for TF. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:47, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

Do you understand why I said it takes the wind out of the argument?--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 21:49, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

In response to comment on abates page

While those are notable achivements, I've been part of much smaller wiki's and wed communitys who can make similar claims, being invited to events and having content copied for outside use. Any communit of of fair size can recize and invint to big events and copying of content, if that is the case, unfortuently happens alot, many people take the easiest way out and instead of using their own ideas, take them from other sources.

As for your estimated user count, as it stands now from 2008 to now, about 13000 users have registered, so a little over 10000, rather than tens of thousands. Now grand majority of those who have registered have not bothered to make a user page, indicating a "fly by night" user who only made a hand full of edits before dropping off, and didn't stick around. I don't know the amount of users who activly take part on the site, but it wouldn't be anywhere near tens of thousands.

But I'd still like a response to my early question, do you know why I said it takes the winds out of that particular arguments sails? I'd like to know if you know what I meant, and if so why you think I was wrong.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 23:07, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:Would you knock it off? You've already been told by the owner to stop it. Nobody here is going to agree with you and these other wiki's. Just stop. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 23:29, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

I've moved past that and will not pursue the humor issue at this time, but I do want to know what you though my earlier point was invalid. I feel that if you counter one of my point, that you should explain why. If you want to debet me, fine, but I want to be countered with facts and hard evidence, not "No it doesn't" and hyperbole--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 23:34, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:Oh my god knock it off. I was guessing the numbers, not hyperboling, and you're still persuing it. You think that just because there's only a few TFWiki's it doesn't matter we're the best. Look at all those other wiki's. They're shit, like almost every wiki.
:Stop persueing this. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 23:37, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

Well, no I'm not. I've left that issue alone. Now I'm asking why you didn't considered my earlier point valid at the time. Now I simply wish to know if you actully had a point to counter my earlier comment or not. Now it has become a curiosity, not somthing I want to use to achive an end. And I will point out that wasn't my point when I made the comment.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 23:44, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
:EDIT: And techcially, you were using hyperbole, given that your stated numbers were vastily larger than the real number......and I'm pretty sure hyperboling isn't a proper word.--[[User:8492nd|8492nd]] ([[User talk:8492nd|talk]]) 00:03, 19 July 2014 (EDT)

== Swoop ==

Did Hasbro actually explicitly state they still have the name "Swoop"? Or are you extrapolating that from the explanation for AOE Strafe being named that way because of his two heads? I just checked the USPTO website - two entries for "Swoop" filed by Hasbro are listed as "dead", though that only means the name is not ®. It could still be ™ - but then I found entries for "Swoop Coupe" filed by Mattel and a goddamn COMPANY named "Swoop LLC" operating in the "toys" field that has its company name trademarked, both listed as "live" on the USPTO website. Knowing Hasbro's lawyers, they wouldn't touch the name with a ten foot pole at this point.

So again I ask, do you know of an explicit "We still have the name" statement by Hasbro, or are you simply basing an assumption on the fact that "trademark problems" was not explicitly cited as the reason for the name change for AOE?--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] ([[User talk:Nevermore|talk]]) 07:33, 27 July 2014 (EDT)

== "utterly stupid" ==

try not to be exactly that insulting when interacting with other people, please and thank you --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 01:35, 21 September 2014 (EDT)
:Yeah, that was rude. Sorry. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 01:43, 21 September 2014 (EDT)

==Formatting titles==
Quick reminder to follow the [[Help:Style guide#Titles|style guide]] when referring to the titles of things. e.g. episode names are wrapped in quotes, franchise names are italicised, and so on. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 10:51, 10 May 2015 (EDT)
:Okay. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 10:54, 10 May 2015 (EDT)

== Fire in the Dark Mini-Cons ==

May I consult with you on organizing the Fire in the Dark Mini-Cons since that community discussion seems to have died? I'm currently trying to figure out how to do [[Reptix]] and [[Ironlunge]] as they are the only beastformer volume 4 Micron Boosters to have already appeared in fiction, as ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' Predacons. As BWU appears to lack Mini-Cons (though Maximals/Predacons are roughly the same size as Micromasters), would it be appropriate to split the pages and classify the Aurex Mini-Cons as being associated with the original toys while the Primax Predacons are repurposings of those toys? This thought occurred to me because Ask Vector Prime classified the quasi-ROTF promotional [[Mighty Mini-Con Team]] as Aurex characters, which rather makes sense given the relative absence of Mini-Cons in Tyran. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 11:36, 28 August 2015 (EDT)
:*shrugs* I guess. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:11, 28 August 2015 (EDT)

== Taking you up on your offer ==

Any idea who '''[[:File:WhoamI-HOS3.jpg|this]]''' might be? He is one of the Autobots who appear behind John Henry, near the end of the third chapter/issue. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 22:42, 2 September 2015 (EDT)
:Sorry I'm late! School stuff. Anyway, the stacks on his head remind me of Magnus. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 16:20, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
::Ah, yes. Sometimes these things seem so obvious once they're pointed out to me. Thanks! --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 17:06, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
:::You're welcome! (P.S. it appears the Legends comics are back up.) [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 17:07, 3 September 2015 (EDT)

==Ask Vector Prime==
Are you an Ask Vector Prime writer, like Jim Sorenson?--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 07:55, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
:Yes. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 16:53, 11 September 2015 (EDT)
::oh ok thanks for answering.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 10:09, 12 September 2015 (EDT)

Since you have transcribed other videos from the Ask Vector Prime Facebook, would you also be able to transcribe the [https://www.facebook.com/AxiomNewsRook/videos/995397140503906/ Hammerstrike video] of Rook's Facebook for [[Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist/src|this source page]]? I tried to at first but the more muffled parts became very hard for me to comprehend. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 01:41, 1 November 2015 (EDT)
==Optimus Prime==
Please stop reverting my edits. Please.

==Earth-7642==
I thought it wasn't official because it was only in Marvunapp but actually that designation was in one of the Marvel Handbooks.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 19:53, 11 December 2015 (EST)
:It may be official for Marvel, but it's never been stated ANYWHERE else besides that Wikia that the Transformers crossovers was a part of it. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 19:54, 11 December 2015 (EST)
::"It may be official for Marvel" The note started with "In Marvel continuity", the note was basically about the Marvel side of things. Whatever though, I'm just saying.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 15:21, 19 July 2017 (EDT)
:::I dunno why you're bringing this back up 2 years later, but having since found the listing in question, literally all the handbook says is that its the one where Spider-Man met Superman. The whole TF things comes from the the Marvel Addendum, and if you actually read the notes on the article, the author said that adding the non-DC stuff to it was just because he felt like it, not that it was actually official. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:27, 19 July 2017 (EDT)
::::(I just stumbled upon this conversation, that's why I brough it up again) Nevermind I read your post wrong. I thought you meant that while the NAvTF story being part of 7642 may be official for Marvel, it's not official for Transformers (while the note itself was about the Marvel side of things). Sorry for the confusion.--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 15:49, 19 July 2017 (EDT)

==Kmc==
Why did you revert my edit to [[Dissolution Part 2: Anomie]]? I think a "sigh" doesn't quit explain things.
--[[User:Kmc|Kmc]] ([[User talk:Kmc|talk]]) 21:50, 2 February 2017 (EST)
:I think she's either getting at the irrelevance of mentioning the universal stream designation or the lack of clarity in the note about what Rodimus is wrong about. I have added back in a clearer note about Rodimus's recurring idiocy. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 12:23, 4 February 2017 (EST)

==List of universal streams==
Was there something wrong with adding "our" Quadwal universe to the list? It's on the Quadwal page. If I did something wrong with the formatting, please let me know, I've never added to a wiki page before. [[User:FirstStrike1177|FirstStrike1177]] ([[User talk:FirstStrike1177|talk]]) 20:33, 18 December 2017 (EST)
:Because it was never called out ever at all in fiction. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:02, 18 December 2017 (EST)
Doesn't he make references to our Quadwal time, just never a specific universe number? "Our reality" is even listed in the Notes on the [[Quadwal]] page in this wiki.[[User:FirstStrike1177|FirstStrike1177]] ([[User talk:FirstStrike1177|talk]]) 21:08, 18 December 2017 (EST)
Would it have been more accurate to put Quadwal Cluster instead of an unknown number since that's what Vector Prime typically says when referring to our universe? I just thought that by Quadwal Cluster he meant most/if not all Quadwal universes.[[User:FirstStrike1177|FirstStrike1177]] ([[User talk:FirstStrike1177|talk]]) 21:15, 18 December 2017 (EST)
:The notes logically extrapolate that. If the universe wasn't called out, we don't need an article on it. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:46, 18 December 2017 (EST)
I wasn't making an article on it, just noting that we're classified under the Quadwal classification on the list of known universes. If someone hasn't read all of Ask Vector Prime, they don't know that Quadwal is a joke on the fourth wall, and they want to know if our universe even got a classification from Vector Prime (aka me for a good thirty minutes) having it noted that he did in fact say we're of the Quadwal Cluster on the main universe list is a time saver. [[User:FirstStrike1177|FirstStrike1177]] ([[User talk:FirstStrike1177|talk]]) 22:19, 18 December 2017 (EST)
:What she's trying to say to you is that the list is only for stream designations that have been officially and formally (or as "formally" as they were given like in such cases as "Aurex Something Something" and "Primax yadda-yadda Zeta") given in official Transformers media. We know that our real world exists in the Quadwal Cluster, but it's official stream designation was never actually ever given, meaning that we can't include it in this list at all regardless of our knowing that it does exist anyway. It's the same reason that we don't have stream designations listed for things like the Beast Machines cartoon, the Victory cartoon, any of the live action films after the first one, the 2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon, or pretty much any piece of Transformers media that isn't on that list. We know that all official Transformers media does exist, but not everything has an official stream designation that has been given by a piece of official Transformers media, and therefore, everything that doesn't have an official stream designation is left out of the list since the list is only for stream designations that have been officially given. Otherwise, we'd have to start making up stream designations for everything, and that's not what this Wiki is supposed to do. Besides, the very first line of description text in the Quadwal section ("[[Transformers timeline|A strangely divergent continuity family.]]") already links out to the article for our real world anyway, so the fact that our real world is represented by/inside the Quadwal Cluster is already indicated by that line of text on the main list page. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 01:26, 19 December 2017 (EST)

==Why?==
Please explain why you revert just about everything I contribute on this wiki? I do not understand. At least people who reverse my edits explain. [[User:Lucky Hugs|Lucky Hugs]] ([[User talk:Lucky Hugs|talk]]) 23:43, 19 December 2017 (EST)
:Your edits to the CNN page are written out of universe. They're supposed to be written in universe. And your first couple edits shouldn't be adding captions. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 00:03, 20 December 2017 (EST)

Could you please elaborate on the "out of universe" part? What do you mean by "out of universe"? How can I fix it and why didn't YOU fix it? And I do understand the caption part. [[User:Lucky Hugs|Lucky Hugs]] ([[User talk:Lucky Hugs|talk]]) 00:07, 20 December 2017 (EST)
:You're writing it with things like "in Revenge of the Fallen." It's supposed to be written in universe. You shouldn't expect others to fix your mistakes, either. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 00:14, 20 December 2017 (EST)

I see, but all you had to do was remove a sentence and fix some grammar to fit to that sentence removal. [[User:Lucky Hugs|Lucky Hugs]] ([[User talk:Lucky Hugs|talk]]) 00:17, 20 December 2017 (EST)
:...People have lives outside of editing wikis. I was working, so it was easier at the time to revert your changes. And you're still not correctly formatting it: articles that aren't episode or comic summaries are always written in past tense. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 00:21, 20 December 2017 (EST)

I conjugated as much as I could see that could be conjugated to the past tense. [[User:Lucky Hugs|Lucky Hugs]] ([[User talk:Lucky Hugs|talk]]) 00:26, 20 December 2017 (EST)

==Grammar==
I hadn't really taken a look at any of your synopses before, simply because it's a lot of text. But I glanced over [[The Dark Heart of Sandokan|this one]] and it was just... hard to read.

I'm not a proofreader and I hate feeling like I'm nitpicking or whatever, especially when you're doing such good work and especially when you've put whole orders of magnitude more work into this wiki than me, but it took me over half an hour to comb through this one and fix the errors. I'm still not really happy with how it turned out, because one way or another I have very little formal understanding of grammar and I feel like a lot of things slipped by me. Also, I'm really not sure how much of what's wrong with this synopsis was just carried over from the old version.

Recurring errors:
* Ship names were not italicised.
* Sentences often had far more commas and clauses than they should've - like, there were some extremely long sentences in there that really should have been cut in half.
* Commas were often placed on the wrong side of connectives (i.e. like "I went to the store, and approaching the counter, said hi to the shopkeeper." instead of "I went to the store and, approaching the counter, said hi to the shopkeeper.").
* This is where my lack of formal training comes into play, but you used lots of -ing verb like "turning", "blasting", "running" etc. particularly at the start of sentences. Didn't read right to me, especially if more than one was used in a single sentence.
* Sentence subjects were often unclear, usually as a result of the above errors.

Please carry on doing what you're doing, but maybe take the time to carefully read back what you have both as you finish each sentence, and as you finish each section. If you really don't have time I'll carry on trying to do my best to clean up, because I'd rather see this content up than not at all.

I don't have time to go and check any of the older synopses, but I'd just leave those anyway and carry on with the new content.[[User:The Wadapan|The Wadapan]] ([[User talk:The Wadapan|talk]]) 05:54, 5 February 2018 (EST)
:Yeah, that wasn't my best summary. It might of been just the general eh-ness of the story, but I'll remember to try and read through in later stuff, since I do know I made a few mistakes in older summaries here and there. Think I'll go over those ones too when I get a chance. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 06:02, 5 February 2018 (EST)
:Thank you, by the way, for fixing that up. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 09:09, 5 February 2018 (EST)
::No problem - like I'm say, I'm happy enough to keep doing it.[[User:The Wadapan|The Wadapan]] ([[User talk:The Wadapan|talk]]) 11:51, 5 February 2018 (EST)

== Upcoming comic releases ==

I guess this is mostly towards the upcoming ''Lost Light'' issue but I guess it can apply to any other comic really. How come the articles aren't created for the comics until after the issues have been released? To an extent, I get that it might be done because the issues are too far away and they might even end up getting cancelled. That's why for example on Wikipedia, a movie that has only started production and is to be released in like, 3 years, gets a draft rather than an article. But in the case of ''Lost Light'' #16, the issue comes out tomorrow. Would it be better to already have at least some of the article ready? [[User:Panagiotis Zois|Panagiotis Zois]] ([[User talk:Panagiotis Zois|talk]]) 07:59, 13 March 2018 (EDT)
:We have a guy who does all of the articles for the IDW comics on the day they're released. Putting up empty skeleton pages serves no point. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 08:12, 13 March 2018 (EDT)

== SG Sludge/Kakuryu/Doryu ==

Any chance you'd have links to Gauntt's comments on these guys?

(Also, nice work on D&D, very tidy now.) [[User:Crossfire|'''Cross''']][[User talk:Crossfire|'''fire''']] 03:14, 23 March 2018 (EDT)
:Can't access Twitter right now, so I'll have to wait till I get home, but yeah, I can link them. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 07:34, 23 March 2018 (EDT)
::Here we are: [https://twitter.com/alexisverityc/status/975202333201137664] [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 10:16, 23 March 2018 (EDT)
:::Very interesting, thank you! Do you think we should add this to the D&D page? [[User:Crossfire|'''Cross''']][[User talk:Crossfire|'''fire''']] 11:55, 23 March 2018 (EDT)
::::I'll probably add it to their articles once I get around to creating them (eventually). [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:12, 23 March 2018 (EDT)

==Car Robots names==
IS there some reason you're unilaterally changing them now [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal#RID/Car Robots names|after you didn't discuss it much?]] [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:10, 6 August 2018 (EDT)
: I'll remind you I had explicit permission from M Sipher. I've been meaning to get around to it, but I've been busy. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 13:12, 6 August 2018 (EDT)
::Sipher isn't the only person here and the way you're going around it (leaving some names like Gigatron) makes no sense. Why is this an issue when BWU and IDW have given those characters names that aren't their RID ones? [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:20, 6 August 2018 (EDT)
:::Sipher is an admin. I only left in Gigatron and the like in as a compromise; I'm fully willing to convert those names as well. As for BWU, it's given characters aside from RID/CR ones different names, and, as stated in the past, is a mish-mash of stuff occupying it's own unique corner, and shouldn't influence pages one way or another. Gigatron's only called that in IDW because of Megatron; practically every other RID character that's show up used the English name. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 13:26, 6 August 2018 (EDT)

== Unused images ==

I've been going through the uncategorized images trying to sort as many as I can into their proper place, and I found a handful of images you uploaded around a year and a half ago that aren't currently being used on any pages. I'm not sure where they're from, so I was hoping you could at least tell me where they came from so I can apply the proper template and put them somewhere until we can figure out what to do with them.
* [[:File:SGSunbow.jpg]]
* [[:File:Sgtranstech.jpg]]
* [[:File:SGTransTechAirazor.jpg]]
* [[:File:TTRhinoxFinalGoodbye.jpg]]
Thanks much. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 22:59, 17 November 2018 (EST)
:...Aw, shit, I never did get around to adding those.
:They're from [[Epilogue Two]]. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 18:22, 18 November 2018 (EST)

== In defense of NexusShard17 ==

I don't think it's entirely fair to call NexusShard17's work done "for no reason". In the case of the Manatronatee image, he probably removed it because he assumed Saix had tagged it for deletion for good reason, something that I do not believe you caught. In the case of Arcee / Chun-Li, he must have been confused on whether the figure represented Transformer scanning human or the other way around. After all, it's not that hard on this site to get carried away while tackling a tedious set of problems, and Nexus Shard17 does handle a lot of grunt work. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 18:39, 17 December 2018 (EST)
:Ah, I see. My apologies. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 20:21, 17 December 2018 (EST)

==Dazlestrike==

Excuse me, I'm trying to make a page for Dazlestrike, the [[Lionizer (G1)#Generations|Lionizer]] repaint, but I'm unsure if he's an Autobot or Decepticon. I was wondering if you know what faction he is, if you don't then that's fine. Thanks.--[[User:CyclonustheWarrior|CyclonustheWarrior]] ([[User talk:CyclonustheWarrior|talk]]) 14:38, 29 January 2019 (EST)
:Why are you asking them specifically? You should put your question [[Talk:Dazzlestrike|here]]. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 21:57, 29 January 2019 (EST)
::Sorry, just thought I'd ask someone at the wiki, however, I honestly do wonder what I was thinking. --[[User:CyclonustheWarrior|CyclonustheWarrior]] ([[User talk:CyclonustheWarrior|talk]]) 14:33, 30 January 2019 (EST)

==About the Forged To Fight Windblade stats==
Did I ''not'' just say they were on '''every''' character page? We did it for [[Transformers: Earth Wars]], we're doing it for Forged To Fight, so please stop deleting important Game info. Thanks! [[User:Xaapro213|Xaapro213]] ([[User talk:Xaapro213|talk]]) 20:24, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
:You clearly didn't read my edit summary. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 20:50, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
: For 1. You just edited out Important Game Info I got. I was watching some footage of the Earth Wars Campaign Updates, and you just deleted that. For 2. What you're basically asking, is for me to go into every single character page that we've compiled for Battle Tactics, Earth Wars, and Forged To Fight, make a separate SRC page for each game, including Game details, stats, who is strong against who, and what not? Not including all the stuff like Character Growths, Stat bonuses, Rankings, Levels, Star ratings, and whatever else? Because that's basically what I'm getting. [[User:Xaapro213|Xaapro213]] ([[User talk:Xaapro213|talk]]) 20:59, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
::Yes.
::Character pages are not for those stats. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:09, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
:::The stats are pointless, unreadable, an absolute eyesore, and not the sort of thing we should keep catalogued on the wiki. We don't keep Tech Spec numbers here, either. It's best to keep each FTF section based on the corresponding stories. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 21:25, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
::: That’s fine. That’s ok. Fine by me. This is totally fine. Not like I’ve spent the last 2 years compiling game stats for Forged To Fight, now for it to be rendered completely and utterly pointless. Ok. FIne. Totally fine. Thanks. [[User:Xaapro213|Xaapro213]] ([[User talk:Xaapro213|talk]]) 21:32, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
::::There happy now? I Purged every character statistics page and replaced it with a stub. Now I gotta replay every chapter of Forged To Fight's Campaign along with replaying the monthly Legacy series to get Story info! [[User:Xaapro213|Xaapro213]] ([[User talk:Xaapro213|talk]]) 21:53, 6 May 2019 (EDT)
:::::...Did you miss the bit where I said you could copy-paste those on a /src page, separate from the character articles? [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:57, 6 May 2019 (EDT)

== Hachette covers ==

>Hey, I don't know if Hachette has used the Dreamwave MTMTE profile for Getaway or Banzai-Tron at all,

>but I can tell you that they were done by Dan Khanna, rather than the usual Guido or Figueroa. Escargon (talk) 19:35, 22 September 2019 (EDT)

:I looked over the covers. Which ones were you talking about? I didn't see any covers featuring either of those characters. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 10:20, 23 September 2019 (EDT)
::My apologies; I had thought I had seen one for the Mutineer's Arc of Lost Light with Getaway on the cover, but I was mistaken. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 10:23, 23 September 2019 (EDT)

:::Gotcha. And were you referring to the Bludgeon art, as opposed to Banzai-tron? [[File:DefinitiveG1Collection v20.jpg]] --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 10:45, 23 September 2019 (EDT)
:::Nah, I did mean Banzai-Tron; I mentioned him cause he was the only other one Khanna did that got published, and figured it was possible he might show up at some point. 10:53, 23 September 2019 (EDT)

== Bruticus ==

>Hello, I see you reverted my edit. If you could please tell me what differentiates the plot hole I pointed out from the rest of the ones that are allowed to be listed in the continuity errors section, that would be much appreciated, as your comment on the revision could be just as easily applied to any point in any continuity errors section on any page in the wiki. Thanks! [[User:Skywarp|Skywarp]] ([[User talk:Skywarp|talk]]) 11:39, 29 September 2019 (EDT)Skywarp
:Honestly, I think that you're note was fine looking back, it just could have done a bit of paring down. I think a lot of the cartoon sections can have a look over for what really is a continuity error and what isn't. Feel free to re-add it; I'll come back and pare it down a bit later. Apologies for my overly-zealous take down of it. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 12:08, 29 September 2019 (EDT)

== TLK HMS Aliance Bot Robot Mode ==

Hi I was a bit confused by the response to the removal of my note, just need to clarify my comments on the concept art of the HMS Alliance resembling a scuba diver like Seaspray's ROTF HFTD Voyager figure released in 2010 I think that's when it was.
Just in case I should ask to see because I was at first taken aback by there being two concept arts in that book with HMS in their name.

One is on pg. 390 the "HMS Alliance" and I think on pg. 392 or 391 there is another robot mode named HMS Victory. They both look completely different.
: I removed the note mostly because I’m waiting for a scan of it to add it to the article. There were also a few things wrong with it and at the time I was at work, so I just removed it. I’ll add it back in and fix it a bit tonight. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 16:44, 6 December 2019 (EST)

== File:RID18 cvrB.jpg ==

Why'd you change the description for this cover? It's incorrect and I can't undo it. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 23:19, 6 December 2019 (EST)
:That was an accident on my part. Never edit the wiki when you're tired. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 08:53, 7 December 2019 (EST)
::Indeed! Thanks. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 10:47, 7 December 2019 (EST)

== Question ==
Thank you for reverting my changes, I'm really new to this wiki and I don't know what goes where. so where do I put the hellion accent?--[[User:Applefart|Applefart]] 20:50, December 10 (EST)
:Probably be best on the notes section of Flywheels' page. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:27, 15 December 2019 (EST)

==IDW 2019 #1==
The original sentence is both redundant and confusing. It says literally the exact same thing twice - except for listing two different final issues. Why is the longer version better than just picking one of the halves? --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 22:31, 15 February 2020 (EST)
:mmmm. Compromise completed. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 22:38, 15 February 2020 (EST)

== Bad decision choices. ==

You made a bad decision for taking down some of the warrior client files for certain unreleased characters from Transformers Universe. Those were the closest thing to a bio those characters have. [[User:StormJet|StormJet]] ([[User talk:StormJet|talk]]) 14:36, 26 April 2020 (EDT)
:You mean the ones that you copied pasted directly from them without even trying to rewrite them in the slightest? You're goddamned right I did.
:But hey, since you clearly understood how to search through the history to find out who did so you could come to my talk page and whine all passive-aggressive about it, you can find those things you copy pasted in the history, rewrite them yourself, and then put them back in! Unless that's too much work for the likes of you-oh wait, it clearly is, because you've been told off about it before. Oh well! Guess they'll stay that way until someone fixes it, since you clearly can't! [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 14:43, 26 April 2020 (EDT)

== Animated edits. ==

Hi, terribly sorry, but might I ask why you got rid of the notes I put on Animated Hoist, Lyzack, and Clippers pages? [[User:LordCringeTheCringiest|LordCringeTheCringiest]] ([[User talk:LordCringeTheCringiest|talk]]) 22:05, 27 June 2020 (EDT)
:None of those are canon. Derrick J. Wyatt DID design them, but they're fanart years after the fact. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 22:06, 27 June 2020 (EDT)
::Fair, sorry about that, I just thought it would be interesting information. [[User:LordCringeTheCringiest|LordCringeTheCringiest]] ([[User talk:LordCringeTheCringiest|talk]]) 22:22, 27 June 2020 (EDT)

== Female Transformers captions ==

Okay. I just saw a user with very few edits changing captions with no explanation. Still don't like the idea of off site discussions having an impact on the site. Never have, never will. It plays into the "elitist" image some people have of us. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 10:20, 13 July 2020 (EDT)

== Steige Category ==

I see that you undid my change to remove the article [[Steige]] from the Fan Terminology category. This page is a simple redirect to Siege. The person who created the page simply said 'because i keep typing it in because i forget it's not its actual name'. Somebody then added it to the fan terminology page.

Given that its just a redirect AND its just because one person keeps misspelling it; I don't believe it should be showing up on the list of fan terms at https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Fan_terminology

If it is a proper fan term then there should be an article about it; not just a redirect.

I've made my changes again. [[User:Elleby|Elleby]] ([[User talk:Elleby|talk]]) 00:25, 17 July 2020 (EDT)

== Sentinel Zeta Prime doesn't exist ==

I hereby discharge you from duty.
[[User:TransformersFan00|TransformersFan00]] ([[User talk:TransformersFan00|talk]] 10:54, 26 August 2020 (EDT)
==Prime Problem Audio error==
So when Megatron ordered Laserbeak ejected which was “Soundwave Eject Laserbeak Target Optimus Prime” the “Target” part he said sounded more like an Ironhide voice than Megatron voice before it was back to normal in the “Optimus Prime” part. Did I clear up enough for you to understand? [[User:Nelspeedracer|Nelspeedracer]] ([[User talk:Nelspeedracer|talk]])
:...so? -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 23:04, 12 September 2020 (EDT)

== So how are fiction sections written if they can't be detailed? ==

I write up a partial, almost completed stub about Mirage and you ERASE it? There's just as much detail there as any other genre/history of his character as mine.
I literally wrote all the parts he was involved with in his initial appearance. It's his fictional story. What else? I'm just learning to hyperlink things in a wiki, cut me a break.
I'm trying.
How about instead of ''deleting'' the whole thing, you just edit it to fit instead?
I thought this is supposed to be a contributing wiki, not a "sorry, I don't like what you wrote" wiki.
You gotta give me more than one day to learn this stuff. Jeezus.

User talk:Saix

2020-10-22T23:50:59Z

MirageX:

Interesting that you think she's an Earthling... --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 20:24, 17 March 2015 (EDT)
:Well, "Galen Witwicky", so I assumed. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 20:38, 17 March 2015 (EDT)
::I'm wagering that this involves a human/Nebulon interspecies relationship! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 21:43, 17 March 2015 (EDT)

==E-Hobby Starscream==
You guys share links from seibertron but if I want to share it from deviantart, that's bad? I mean the user that published those pages in deviantart is E-Hobby's official user page.(I think).--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 11:36, 19 March 2015 (EDT)
:It's not e-Hobby that's putting those pages on DeviantArt. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:16, 19 March 2015 (EDT)
::Hmm ok then, but still Seibertron is a fan site too, right?--[[User:Primestar3|Primestar3]] ([[User talk:Primestar3|talk]]) 12:16, 31 March 2015 (EDT)

==Joke about Legends Arcee==
If my joke offend you or simply not funny, sorry about that. I'm just joking about sexist tendencies of Japanese culture. In fact, most famous and badass woman transformer only doing cook and wipe Rattrap's ass in this comic.—[[User:MWM|MWM]] ([[User talk:MWM|talk]]) 11:01, 21 March 2015 (EDT)
:Don't worry, I'm not angry. I got what you meant with the joke, but it was still iffy, since it's hard for a reader to tell if it's serious or a criticism of the comic. I appreciate that you took the time to uploaded the image! [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:12, 21 March 2015 (EDT)

== 3-D Diorama? ==
Say, where did you find these? [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:30, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
:[http://www.tf-base.ru/comics_manga.html] [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 21:32, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::Thanks![[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:50, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::Ugh...they're all CBR files my computer can't access. Thanks for the link thought. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 21:50, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
:::They're just renamed rar files. Change the file extension to .rar and upzip them [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 22:39, 9 April 2015 (EDT)

== Magmatron ==

Thanks for the back up there. I THOUGHT I remembered it being the standard but didn't want to remove it without checking so I just cleaned up the grammar. Might possibly be put on the page for the toyline itself, but not sure if it is really worth noting.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 16:30, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

== About the Hero Mashers ==

So I guess while you were putting them where they would go, BotCon's official Andromeda's Facebook page went ahead and made it a seperate cluster from anything before. [https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1128571057169997&id=1099425733417863] [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 06:51, 10 May 2015 (EDT)

== Sequel series = splinter timelines? ==

Can you show me where this piece of information comes from? I have never heard of this idea before; doesn't it nullify the entire concept of continuities? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 13:10, 15 May 2015 (EDT)
:I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this interpretation, but it doesn't nullify continuity. Series A happens, then series B happens as a sequel to A. A is definitely the past of B, but that doesn't mean B is the future of A. We have several instances of this happening, notably the Marvel G1 continuity. G2, A Distant Time & Place, Regeneration One, and Classics are all explicitly sequels to Marvel US G1, but are mutually incompatible. Hell, Beast Wars (the cartoon) was implicitly a sequel to both Marvel US G1 AND the Sunbow Cartoon. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 13:21, 15 May 2015 (EDT)
::So then the U.S. ''Cybertron'' cartoon is not part of [[Aurex 802.23 Alpha]]? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 13:23, 15 May 2015 (EDT)
:::It is when it is. The events of the US cartoon are completely relevant -if not fundamental- to the rest of the events on this page. Universal streams are not completely separate timelines. They blend and weave into each other and flow from larger sources, like, you know, '''streams'''. A single cartoon can be part of multiple streams AND its own all at the same time. I swear, people just look at "OOH NUMBERS" and forget the accompanying text that gives context to the numbers, and trip over themselves to be soooooooo clever in splitting up shit. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 13:33, 15 May 2015 (EDT)
::::Well said. And let's be wary of letting the tail wag the dog here. The primary source text should always be, well, primary. Or, in other words, which are you going to believe, your own eyes or something that was published in code in a source book (or in a Japanese Manga with a print run in the hundreds or the like.)--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 13:47, 15 May 2015 (EDT)

== Mandarin Names ==

Hello, thanks for adding information. However, please do change the spelling for Taiwanese Mandarin Name because the spelling in Taiwan is different from the Hanyu Pinyin in China. Thanks. :D --'''[[User:TX55|TX55]]'''''[[User talk:TX55|TALK]]'' 10:17, 24 May 2015 (EDT)

== Universal streams ==

Looks like we're both working on the same parts of the wiki at the same time. I'll take a break, I have homework anyway. Thanks for fixing up my code. I appreciate the help. (Even if I think you're wrong about Zarak.) --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 18:47, 26 June 2015 (EDT)

== List of characters whose dimensional classification is unknown ==

There's also [[Gaiacross]] and his components. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 15:07, 27 June 2015 (EDT)

== Shell Game characters ==

If this wiki now accepts that RID Optimus-redeco [[Defensor (OTFCC)|Defensor]] is [[Viron]], then is it alright to do the same to the other "[[Shell Game]]" universe characters? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 13:36, 29 July 2015 (EDT)

==Regeneration One==

Regeneration One is explicitly a sequel to Marvel G1 continuity and belongs sequentially after it in write-ups. That's how the stories are presented, that's how it was branded, that's how the creators want it, and that's how we've written it up. If you want to rearrange things, make a case on a relevant talk page.--[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 08:44, 11 August 2015 (EDT)
:You're really imperious for somebody who just started editing two months ago. ("How the creators want it"? Do you have personal correspondence with Furman on wiki organization?) None of the pages you've reverted actually contain Marvel US G1, which Regeneration One is a sequel to. You are linking together fiction that has nothing to do with each other in regard to those characters. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:01, 11 August 2015 (EDT)
::Sorry, I didn't realize that my tenure wasn't long enough to disagree with a six-month veteran like yourself. It's bizarre to not acknowledge that ReGeneration One and Marvel UK don't spring from the same tree and put leagues of fiction between them. And, if I'm "imperious," what are you? You're constantly changing around organizational elements with no discussion, based on whatever new scheme you've come up with. For someone whose been here well under a year, you certainly have strong opinions. I at least lurked for a long while to get the culture. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 15:03, 11 August 2015 (EDT)
:::There's a difference between disagreement and acting like the authority on wiki organization and article writeups because apparently you're the only one who lurked. "Organizational elements" have frequently changed based on users' whims; section reorganization isn't anything new and the last major one was done purely by two users without input from others. In regards to MUK and RG1, it's not the job of character pages to establish points of continuity that aren't relevant to the actual subject of the article. The various versions of Jhiaxus have absolutely nothing to do with each other and putting them under one "continuity" is a ridiculous pretense with no benefit. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:26, 11 August 2015 (EDT)
::::Separating RG1 (and Classics) into their own sections would be a major change to a large number of pages and there's been no discussion about it. If you want to do it, there should be talk first so everyone else knows what's going on. [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 21:28, 11 August 2015 (GMT)
::::: And I've asked about it on http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Reorganising_Regeneration_One to see what people think. If it's ayes, then it's off to the edits! [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]) 23:15, 11 August 2015 (GMT)

==Characters with no confirmed universal origin==

Question... have we not specified [[Ramulus|Longhorn (Universe)]] and [[Sunstorm (Universe)]]? Just want to be sure I'm not missing something. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 14:26, 17 August 2015 (EDT)
:No, I just forgot to update. Sorry! [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:27, 17 August 2015 (EDT)
::Thank you, your list is a handy reference.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 14:34, 17 August 2015 (EDT)
Whilst this is being talked about, it's probably worth noting that RTS Strafe hasn't ''reeeaaaally'' had its universe confirmed - it was merged with G1 Strafe for some convoluted reason during the 'AOE Strafe is a counterpart of G1 Strafe' debacle and probably should've been unmerged after all that nonsense was undone. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 16:16, 17 August 2015 (EDT)
:I'm mostly fine with just assuming he's G1 based on context, but I'd send in a question if you want confirmation. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:30, 17 August 2015 (EDT)
Hey, Saix, should ''Universe'' 2003 [[Smokescreen (Cybertron)|Smokescreen (unreleased)]] be on your list as well? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 16:21, 17 August 2015 (EDT)

== BW Metals manga ==

Do you still have the BW Metals manga scans? The links on the talk page are dead. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 16:48, 13 September 2015 (EDT)
:[http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/0t4p8rcK/file.html], [http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/dWpVVb7v/file.html], [http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/ZXqkMXea/file.html], [http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/ch91fgKi/file.html], [http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/M6MwWTaV/file.html], [http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/jCLxuohn/file.html] [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 09:54, 14 September 2015 (EDT)

==Italics==
Hey, man, saw you unitalicizing [[Ask Vector Prime]]. I don't really care one way or the other, but I seem to see it italicized a lot. Is there a policy or system to this? --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 16:06, 24 September 2015 (EDT)
:AVP isn't a work or a franchise, so it doesn't get italicized. It's something like {{w|Dear Abby}}—a column. Chicago style of editing says columns don't get either quotation marks or italics. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:13, 24 September 2015 (EDT)
::That's fine for me going forward. There's a LOT of AVP where it's in italics though. If you're ever feeling like a quest, rooting them all out might be worth doing. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 16:15, 24 September 2015 (EDT)

==Gong==
Knock it off. It's fine the way it is now. Stop reverting each other. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] ([[User talk:Jimsorenson|talk]]) 12:43, 26 September 2015 (EDT)

You were right. I was wrong. Making all the Guardians and Renegades convinced me of that. I apologize to you for my childishness. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:01, 26 October 2015 (EDT)
:Not needed, but thank you nonetheless for the apology. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:30, 26 October 2015 (EDT)

== Stealth Bomber ==

I see that you put a redlink to [[Stealth Bomber]] on [[Stealth Saber]] and [[Victory Bomber]]'s pages. Did you intend that someone else would pick that redlink up to create a page for Stealth Bomber or did you think that Stealth Bomber didn't merit an individual page? I've wondered about such a thing as we have an individual page for RiD [[Dreadwing (RID)|Dreadwing]] but not for BWII [[Formation Scream]], G2 Megatron+Starscream, and G2 Dreadwing+Smokescreen. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 23:31, 27 October 2015 (EDT)
:I think it warrants a page, hence the link. I was just too lazy to make that page in particular. Formation Scream should also get its own page. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 08:57, 28 October 2015 (EDT)

== Disagreements ==

I saw what you wrote on the Community Portal. I can't speak for others but, though we often disagree, I do value your input and perspective. Also, it makes the times we do agree that much more meaningful. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 16:58, 2 November 2015 (EST)
:Speaking of, there's a contentious GoBots issue on Community Portal, should screen captures be included for character pages or not. I would be interested to hear you weigh in. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 09:07, 3 November 2015 (EST)

== Devisiun ==
I understand you may not like the speculative tone, but was it really necessary to also delete the plausible explanation that the secondary star may be encased in a [[wikipedia:dyson sphere|Dyson sphere]]? After all, the text clearly refer to a double star and one of the celestial body represented seems to produce a lot of light. (Besides having spot the same color than the "single" star of said same picture.) Damn... I was only trying to be thorough and objective. How could I contact Scott online so that the answer would be considered by this wiki? -- [[User:Xunk16|Xunk16]] ([[User talk:Xunk16|talk]]) 06:11, 16 December 2015 (EST)
:I'm not Saix, but to quote the [[Help:Contents|wiki's main help page]]: "Speculation to fill gaps should be minimized, and preferably eliminated entirely." It's fine to note the inconsistency, but an extended account of possible explanations is unnecessary. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 06:46, 16 December 2015 (EST)
:Understood. Thanks, I'll sleep better now. But I'm still going to run a Tranformers RPG campaign and feel that this question may deserve an answer. So the second part of my inquiry remains. Since I will try to ask, where and how such a thing should be done so that the information could validly be forwarded on this wiki? [[User:Xunk16|Xunk16]] ([[User talk:Xunk16|talk]]) 07:04, 16 December 2015 (EST)
::Scott has Twitter and Tumblr accounts you can engage her on. But, honestly? You're looking for complexity where there isn't any. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 09:08, 16 December 2015 (EST)
:::I have to agree. Most casual sci-fi fans don't know what Dyson spheres are, and the concept has never featured in ''Transformers'', as far as I'm aware. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 09:15, 16 December 2015 (EST)

== Your JG1 timeline list ==

Hey, that list on your user page is awesome and really helpful. Though, the Prime AM-28 Leo Prime bio also contains some JG1 info, set post-BWN before he jumps over to Uniend (or over to Gargent, then Nexus, then finally Uniend, as claimed by AVP, but I digress). --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 13:36, 18 December 2015 (EST)
:Thanks for the reminder. I mostly constructed it so I would have something to check when organizating fiction sections. Let me know if I'm missing anything else. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:31, 18 December 2015 (EST)
::Will do. EDIT: Tale of the Pretenders is missing. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 14:53, 18 December 2015 (EST)
:The G1 GoBots thing might or might not come before Car Robots in a present day sense as the Spychangers came from the future anyway, so the GoBots bio would simply have to come before whatever point in time the Spychangers traveled back in time from. Though, given how things like Binaltech, RobotMasters, and Kiss Players all take place in the timeline at points contemporary to their releases in the real world, perhaps the G1 GoBots bio does as well, taking place somewhere in 2004 (in hindsight, I wish I had asked Sakamoto about this).
:On a different note, the bios for e-HOBBY New Years Lambor and Alert are missing, which should probably go after G-2 but before the two post-G-2 e-HOBBY manga. Also the bio for Magnificus and Ga'mede and the bio for Generations Magnificus, the latter of which would go prior to Badlands, while the former... somewhere years earlier (not sure where, though). And the bios for e-HOBBY Crosscut and Road Rage, which would most likely go after the Super Spychangers but before Binaltech. Any other missing e-HOBBY bios can be found [http://www.e-hobbymagazine.com/category/english/museun_en here] (barring those that lack links, that is). --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 17:19, 22 April 2016 (EDT)

== Italics in establishment names ==

From what I've researched, I have to agree that establishment names aren't capitalized. However, that's how [[The Blue Deployer]] is rendered in the ''TransTech'' text stories. Think that's worth noting under "Errors"? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 16:16, 19 December 2015 (EST)
:I guess. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:17, 19 December 2015 (EST)

== Just to avoid any edit wars over pastel horses... ==
I understand that the captions are about humor over anything else, but maybe the caption should at least be a ''little'' less confrontational in tone? I'm not against humor in the article itself, but that opening caption's not exactly ''good'' humor. It's more mean-spirited than simple jokeyness that this wiki thrives upon; so I decided that a joke about Bumblebee's kid-appeal nature (and thus perceptiveness to what's popular with kids) would be a bit less potentially divisive overall, and less likely to appear mean-spirited.

I expect that sort of tone in the articles for stuff like B.O.T, The Beast or Kiss Players, the really awful, terrible stuff we ''have'' to rip into pieces because of how bad they are, not an article on My Little Pony. It's kind of like opening, say, a Soundwave article by poking fun at his speech with a disabled joke in his first image caption because of his speech pattern; it's ''easy'' and can get a few laughs, but overall it's just not worth it because not everyone will find such jokes to be really funny. And above all else, I'd like to think that we as a community are above those sorts of cheap jokes just for a few laughs.

Not trying to come off as indignant here, honest. I'm just wondering if maybe the caption joke isn't really good in any capacity. And if a caption isn't funny, then really, we shouldn't defend it just because of longevity. We obviously need the funny to stay, but to ignore potentially valid points just for the sake of a joke seems...well, kind of odd for this Wiki. We're jokey, but nowhere unappropriate have I seen the wiki's captions actually being ''that'' harsh towards a subject.

It's also a jarring shift in tone to go from "Only the dead can know peace from this evil" as an opening caption to "Don't go looking for the Tooth Fairy without it!" as the next caption down the page. They're both aiming for humor, but one's more "Ha-ha look at this silly situation!" and the other is more "Ha-ha let's make a "ponies are evil" joke because it's teh funnies!".

Again, not wanting to look entitled; but I'm curious about why the edit was reverted so quickly. [[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 00:48, 27 December 2015 (EST)

== SPOILERS ==

Please remember to use the Spoiler warning template when adding new material. I just stumbled across information you added to [[Lio Convoy]] about [[Sunrise]] before I had a chance to read it. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 08:56, 8 January 2016 (EST)
:I apologize. I'll try to remember not to do that again. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 09:08, 8 January 2016 (EST)

== Moving images ==

Sorry about that. I thought it was a more efficient use of space to align the tops of the images with the headers. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 20:55, 12 January 2016 (EST)

==About Grimlock==
They're both from Viron universes, and both technically part of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 Robots in Disguise]] continuity.
Someone could be all like, "Wait, I though RID's Grimlock was a big green backhoe. Who's this Dinosaur?"
Imagine if there were two Optimus Primes in one continuity, even if they looked completely different, would it not be within reason to distinct the two from one another?{{unsigned|PsychoShark}}
:Your hypothetical is ridiculous. Explain to me the process in which this situation would arise. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 19:01, 25 January 2016 (EST)
:Plus the disambig link at the top already exists. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 19:05, 25 January 2016 (EST)

While going through my talk page, I noticed that PsychoShark mentioned that the [http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Grimlock_(Dinobots)&diff=next&oldid=1048629 note] he added to [[Grimlock (Dinobots)]] was based on a similar note from [[Slapper (Dinobots)]]. Seeing as how we've deemed the other one unnecessary, I thought you might want to remove the one on Slapper's page. -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 07:44, 7 February 2016 (EST)

== Universal origins list ==

If it's of interest to you for your user page list, I've seen that [[Nitpick]], [[Comet]], [[Beamer (Autobot)|Beamer]], [[NightViper]], [[Kickstart]], [[Heavyfoot]], [[Ironclad]], [[Fastbreak]], [[Aston]], [[Miss-Q]], "[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]", [[Time Limit]], [[Clutch (GoBots)|Clutch]], and [[Warpath (GoBots)|Warpath]] all have indeterminate cluster origin, albeit that they're all intentionally ambiguous and/or their origins are unlikely to ever be revisited. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 22:57, 27 January 2016 (EST)

== eptitle ==

With screencaps for episodes whose titles have been disambiguated, you can use the "eptitle" parameter to set the text of the link different from the actual link. For example, with [[Volcano (episode)]] from RID, you would put

'''<nowiki>{{RID2001cap|description.|Volcano (episode)|</nowiki>1|eptitle=Volcano}}'''.

Then, the link will show up like this:
[[Volcano (episode)|Volcano]]

Nice work on all that cleanup, by the way. Cheers! -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 20:33, 1 March 2016 (EST)

== Dinosaurs ==

Okay, examples to try and clarify:
*火星 means "Mars". The kanji, treated separately, are literally rendered as "Fire Planet", but still plainly mean "Mars". It's not just being used to "refer" to Mars, it's straight up the name the Japanese give to the celestial body the English call "Mars".
*固定電話 means "Landline Phone". The kanji, treated separately, render as "Hard-determined Electricity-talker".

As demonstrated in the dictionary entries I posted, Japanese dictionaries ''dont'' give readers the symbolic runaround that the Dinoforce pages were using -- they simply treat "Gairyuu" as the word for an Ankylosaurus. I suppose I may be being somewhat oversensitive, but choosing to render Japanese words in a symbolic breakdown like that, contrary to how it's intended to be interpreted, feels a lot like refusing to acknowledge that it even ''has'' words for these concepts, and feels kind of Tarzanesque? I don't feel it's removing information, since to a Japanese speaker, Gairyuu doesn't ''mean'' "Armored Dragon" -- it means Ankylosaurus, just like to an English speaker (or Greek, if you want), Ankylosaurus doesn't "fused lizard", it means a type of dinosaur with an armored back and club tail --fused lizard is just the root of the name.

In addition, while many Japanese names for Dinosaur use "ryuu" in a similar manner to how English uses "saur", "ryuu" itself does not mean dinosaur, nor are dinosaur called "ryuu" -- as with English, they are instead called "恐竜", or "Ferocious dragon". I mean, "-saur" would be a workable translation of "ryuu", no complaints, but as in English "saur" is used to refer to more than just dinosaurs (e.g. Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs, etc.) And in fact, Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs include 竜 in their Japanese rendering.

I definitely see the value in retaining the kanji meanings here, especially if that's a thing we're going to be doing with characters like Triceradon, too. But I think we should make it clear that those are the ''root'' of the names, rather than treating the Japanese names as if they don't have specific direct meanings that a Japanese speaker would recognize.[[User:KrytenKoro|KrytenKoro]] ([[User talk:KrytenKoro|talk]]) 01:11, 2 March 2016 (EST)

== Image of Comet ==

I see that you have uploaded good quality images from almost every Club story PDF. Is there any reason you haven't got the one of dead [[Comet]] in "[[Withered Hope]]"? [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 16:58, 15 March 2016 (EDT)

==Other Decepticons==
Why can't you just leave that link in, it works perfectly well, and dont forget they also are alchemor inmates. I dont see the problem with just having that there. - Junkheap117
:Stop fucking obsessing over this. They are not actual characters, and your overall antics are exhausting my patience. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 18:57, 21 March 2016 (EDT)

== Blackarachnia talk page ==

I understand talk pages are not chat rooms. The reason I posted that was because the article itself seems to question why the chest is transparent, so I thought that might explain it. I didn't just go and edit the page because I knew it would be undone. [[User:Avalanche|Avalanche]] ([[User talk:Avalanche|talk]]) 21:03, 10 April 2016 (EDT)

== Being last seen ==

Here's my take, for what it's worth. A ''good'' write-up is not a list of things that happened one after the other. A good write-up is a story unto itself. It is the story of that character, and it should read as "complete". And when the cartoon or comic adventures of that character stops abruptly - when a character's final appearance is as a face in a crowd and they receive no personal "finale" - then it's the job of the write-up to note that they "were last seen"/"last appeared"/"made their final recorded appearance", etc, to bring that write-up's "story" to its end, instead of, essentially, just stopping in what reads as mid-story. The complete BWII write-up of the Autorollers just stops mid-story. It does not read as complete. At best, a reader's reaction is "Oh, huh, I guess that's it, then," instead of knowing that they are reading an end - but really, an less-informed reader has no reason to assume there isn't more just because there's isn't a stub saying so. We don't always have stubs! There shouldn't be any expectation on the reader to know that storylinked title is the final episode, if it even is. The write-up needs to say this is "the end" for that character. Yes, they return for a cameo in BWN, but that's a separate header. The were "last seen" during the battle on Gaea in that moment. It's no more "out of universe" than describing art or writing errors as "anomalous accounts" or "erroneous reports" is. I'm not getting into an edit war or even fighting to make this change; I'm just saying, it's pretty standard "handbook" write-up terminology, how I write mine, and how I will continue to write them. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] ([[User talk:Chris McFeely|talk]]) 17:05, 25 April 2016 (EDT)

== Hey ==

Here's some more BotCon Diamond bios: http://postimg.org/gallery/7wuis1oc/27b9edf7/ [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 13:15, 1 June 2016 (EDT)
:Cool, thanks. I'll have a look when I get home. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:37, 1 June 2016 (EDT)

== Can you identify anyone else? ==

So regarding the new in-development Transformers Online, I stumbled across a trailer of some characters and skills in action. Right now, I can only make out Jazz, Bumblebee, and probably Swindle. Can you tell if the rest of the transformers in this video resemble any other character? Thanks! --[[User:The Seeker|The Seeker]] ([[User talk:The Seeker|talk]]) 19:01, 2 August 2016 (EDT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qFTeBn-BS8

== Dinobot (RID) article ==

the dinobot were reference in prime season 3 were they not? RID 2015 is the sequel to prime is it not. so why are not adding prime to that page. Yes they were only reference. but still though wouldn't it make more sense for that cartoon in that dinobot section. i mean are more a sequel to the game when you stop to think about it. Also there is no evidence supporting the fact were referring to the fall of cybertron version of the dinobots.--[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 04:29, 12 August 2016 (EDT)
:At the time that Miko and Bulkhead made that reference, the RID Dinobot subspecies didn't even exist yet. There was no way that the Prime cartoon was referencing something that never existed at the time that it made the reference. The FOC Dinobots, however, did exist, and were part of an active attempt to better unify the Aligned media between the games, the tie-in comics, and the Prime cartoon. Miko's and Bulkhead's Dinobots reference only makes sense in regards to the FOC Dinobots since they were only Aligned Dinobots that existed at the time the reference was made. What you're asking is for us to declare Miko's and Bulkhead's reference as having been retconned into referring to a subspecies that would not come into existence until later on, yet there has been no official media that has made such a retcon. We as fans have ZERO authority on such matters and are not going to start declaring our own unofficial retcons for virtually no other reason than "because we want to", as you seem to want us to do. Besides, Bulkhead's referring to Dinobots as something "Totally different" from how the Predacons were like a natural Cybertronian dinosaur species makes no sense in regards to the RID Dinobots, since the RID Dinobots for all intents and purposes do very much seem to be like a natural Cybertronian dinosaur species while the FOC Dinobots were an artificially-created subgroup that very much does make them totally different from a natural Cybertronian dinosaur species. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 11:19, 12 August 2016 (EDT)

== [[Roboid]] [[Nook]] ==

Isn't it generally TFWiki's practice to ''point out'' Easter eggs, homages, and the like? --[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 05:10, 3 September 2016 (EDT)

== Regarding TFO edits ==

Saix, I know there is currently no official parameter and that it's not within the wiki's obligation to decide upon an arbitrary translation, but some of the transliterations, even by Chinese (BOTH Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese) standards, are just flat out nonsensical and frivolous. I hope you understand that there are multiple ways (via synonyms) to translate the hanzi, and I can speak from experience behind the screen as a bilingual Mandarin-English speaker, and as a professor's teaching assistant in Elementary Chinese irl. [[User:The Seeker|The Seeker]] ([[User talk:The Seeker|talk]]) 10:50, 14 September 2016 (EDT)
:By transliteration, I assume you actually mean translation? I realize there is leeway in translation to convey the same idea in a different language, but some of your translations were still questionable and played too loose with the meaning of the hanzi, in my opinion. Take 命运之殇 in particular—I don't understand how you derived "war" out of it, unless you were going by Google translate, when it's a straightforward name based on the certain death it supposedly doles out (as opposed to "Destiny's War", which means absolutely nothing). Or how you got "Laser Wrench" from F型扳手. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:16, 14 September 2016 (EDT)
I didn't use Google Translate. I consulted with native speaking relatives and peers and utilized Systransoft.com as well as MDBG, which I find for both to be more adequate. Bluestreak's sniper rifle, from the hanzi I recognize, can have synonymous possibilities. Certainly, "Destiny" can be interchanged with "Fate", altho I will admit, the second half of the title can be considered as: "war casualty" or "death" in general. For the second example, there's clearly no resemblance to an actual F-Type Wrench whatsoever, so I find even calling that weapon an "F-Type" in practicality to be redundant. (I've been a workshop assistant for a good year or so, so I've been familiar enough with tools in the shed.) If anything, Wheeljack's Melee weapon is identified as a Pipe Wrench, so shame on Tencent for the misleading name. [[User:The Seeker|The Seeker]] ([[User talk:The Seeker|talk]]) 15:19, 14 September 2016 (EDT)
:A wiki is not the place for creative "translations" that basically are localizations. If the name is literally "F-type Wrench", then it's F-type Wrench, regardless of how much you think it makes sense. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:39, 14 September 2016 (EDT)

== Deluge ==

first of all, i know the story has deluge as both, but in most universe, he's and his decepticon counterpart are there own individual. i was trying to make that clear to the people reading that story, but you thought i was too stupid to realize that, i mean yes the blackout thing was stupid on my part. but seriously you could have easily edited it to say that this Deluge is a amalgam of both version.--[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 21:29, 28 December 2016 (EST)

== Missed the joke ==
While I appreciate the effort to correct errors on the page bearing my name ([[Mark Baker-Wright]]), it should be noted that the word "misspelled" was misspelled (as "mispelled") on purpose....--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] ([[User talk:G.B. Blackrock|talk]]) 18:21, 13 January 2017 (EST) (sorry to get to this so late. I actually don't go around looking at my own page that often)
:Ah, I was using an automated tool that does automatic corrections and wasn't really reading that closely. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 22:05, 13 January 2017 (EST)

==Model Numbers==
hey, i saw that you undid some of my edits for adding model numbers back into these wiki pages (apologies if i did it wrong!) - but how can we get these reinstated? that information is very useful, and should be on each of the main collection pages...

== Godbomber revision? ==

Why was my info deleted on the godbomber page? - [[User:Asda|Asda]] ([[User talk:Asda|talk]]) 11:28, 28 September 2017 (EDT)

== Don't revert my notes man ==

It's not needless my friend, it's just extra information that many Transformers fans I know would be happy to find on here. Please don't revert people's notes, even if you feel that it's "needless". If anything, I'm '''adding''' notes, not pruning them. Smh.
: Please stop adding notes. They're not good notes. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 23:57, 1 January 2018 (EST)
::"Pruning" was what I was doing, and we are not obligated to store every passing thought you have. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 00:05, 2 January 2018 (EST)

== Run For Our Lives ==

Like you, my first instinct when I created the article was to use lower case for "for", as is grammatically correct, but the official title actually leaves it capitalized (see [https://www.go90.com/videos/37rr2B0WBM6 here]). By comparison, other TR episode titles that have conjunctions or articles choose to use lower case as normal ("Aftermath and Rebirth", "At the Last Second", etc.), so the capitalization of For stands out by comparison. Thus, technically, the title was more accurate as it was. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 12:35, 2 January 2018 (EST)
:I don't consider websites to be particularly authoritative in capitalization, especially when the actual "official title" in the episode itself is "RUN FOR OUR LIVES". People rarely remember every rule about how to capitalize titles, and we don't need to drive ourselves crazy accounting for every mistake some website has in rendering them. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 13:48, 2 January 2018 (EST)

== SG Fistfight, Insecticons ==

Why did you remove the note about SG Fistfight's deco? Do you dispute that it's true, that it's verifiable, or that it's noteworthy?

It's true that he's orange and black, as verified by [[Transhuman]]. As for it being noteworthy, ''This character has no official visual representation whatsoever... yet, at least'', so shouldn't we at least mention what we know about his physical appearance?

As for his sharing Tyrannitron's deco, G1 Fistfight and Tyrannitron were Action Master partners of opposing factions, just like Skyfall and Banzai-Tron were Action Masters of opposing factions (so SG Skyfall got G1 Banzai-Tron's deco), the Technobots and Terrorcons were combiners of opposing factions (so the SG teams swapped decos), etc. Moreover, G1 Fistfight and Tyrannitron were partnered with Shockwave and a Dinobot, respectively, further emphasizing a rivalry for SG to flip around.

If you look at almost any SG character's article, we typically note what inspired or seems to have inspired that character's deco, even if it is unconfirmed.

Speaking of unconfirmed, why does everyone insist that ''Generation 1 Zaptrap was officially repurposed as Shattered Glass Shrapnel'' if his only appearance colors him like someone else? i'd appreciate your comments [[File_talk:Insecticons_SG.jpg|here]], please.

--[[User:Rhymus|Rhymus]] ([[User talk:Rhymus|talk]]) 04:50, 14 January 2018 (EST)

== Crossformers/Pretenders ==

I get that Japan never identified the Crossformers (or the Dinoforce) as Pretenders, but the TransTech story "Gone Too Far" does refer to Black Shadow as both a Crossformer and a Pretender, with Hubcap referring to him as "some kind of ''Pretender''!", Jackpot asking "Who ever heard of a Pretender with a ''robotic'' shell? I hate this universe!", and the narration reading "He had hoped that the Pretender’s focus would be split between controlling both the shell and his own body." Granted, all three of these could arguably be just from the perspective of those two Autobots, using a term that's familiar to them to refer to a kind of Transformer they've never encountered before, but I figured it was at least worth pointing out. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 17:04, 19 January 2018 (EST)

== Hi! Cylas here. ==

Are you just following me and undoing my (admittedly) "sub-par" edits? Also, if/when you do, could you give a reason? And your comments sometimes hurt my feelings. -[[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User Talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 6:54 PM (MST)

And for your information, Aligned is, according to this wiki, a continuity family. It doesn't have an official name, but go to the family's [[Aligned continuity family|page]] and see for yourself everything that it encompasses. The Covenant of Primus and the Novels and Prime and Robots in Disguise and Rescue Bots and War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron. [[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 00:11, 6 April 2018 (EDT)
*Edit: I should have actually read the article before I wrote that comment. Yes, the Aligned family has some inconsistencies. Yes, it can be interpreted as several similar universes that don't necessarily line up. But Aligned is still a continuity family, and the inconsistencies are worth noting.
**Edit to the edit: Forgot to sign. [[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 00:19, 6 April 2018 (EDT)
:Okay Saix. I can handle the Novel trilogy as not being in the same universe as Prime. But RID is a ''direct sequel'' to Prime. Okay, maybe my thing with Thunderhoof wasn't good. But that doesn't change the fact that Prime and RID are in the same universe. -[[User:Cylasbreakdown|Cylasbreakdown]] ([[User talk:Cylasbreakdown|talk]]) 18:35, 9 May 2018 (EDT)

== Stop undoing my edits ==

You are just removing everything I post at this point, most of them without even stating why. Stop it. This isn't your website. I have just as much right to contribute as you. And I'm allowed to make jokes: rule 1 of this wiki: the funny stays. If you keep doing this, I'm taking it to the moderators.
* Edit: Leave my posts alone. Anything you delete, I'm just going to put back. I've had enough of you trying to bully me off this site. And from the look of this page I'm not the only one.

== Legends chapter 53 ==

I think that the in the top right panel of page 2, the guys protecting Dinobot, Tigatron, and Cheetor are ''Device Label'' Grimlock, ''Prime'' Arcee, and ''Disney Label'' Mickey Mouse. Also Maybe Diabattles with Rhinox? Also possibly Cybertron Optimus in supermode sticking his feet in right above Windblade. [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 19:19, 9 August 2018 (EDT)

== Chinese names ==
Hello,I'm user IDWchromedome.These Chinese names(okay,most) really come from hasbro officials,I admit a few are not,I will be careful later.I have a Chinese Dreamwave Illustrations book.This book is officially licensed by Hasbro,most are written according to that book.and I'm Chinese.As you can see,My English level is very bad,So I don't know you can understand what I'm saying.I hope you can understand,if I offended you,I'm sorry.

== M'Ress ==

I'd just like to take this moment to explicitly thank you for [https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=M%27Ress&diff=1288196&oldid=1288175 fixing] my glaring omission from M'Ress's introduction. I don't know how such a mistake escaped my notice. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] ([[User talk:Andrusi|talk]]) 10:10, 27 September 2018 (EDT)

== Could you move all the info for Cyberverse McDonalds to G1 ==

I didn't know the McDonalds toys were G1 not Cyberverse. Could you move all those McDonalds entries from the Cyberverse pages to G1 pages then? Be sure to edit any pictures and the fast food promotion and McDonalds page as well. Or you can just wait until later where I'll probably do it, I dunno. [[User:Notirishman|--notirishman]] ([[User talk:Notirishman|talk]]) 22:41, 13 October 2018 (EDT)

== Why remove the new section in Twelve-of-Twelve? ==

Just wondering why you'd change it. In character synopsis articles we usually break up the character's history into smaller sections. In this case, literal millions of years have passed between the Lost Light's adventures in the Functionist universe and the arrival of Council-controlled Primus in the main universe. If anything necessitates the addition of a new section, it's this. Is the article just not long enough to be split up? Or is there some other reason?

Also, I'd like to bring your attention to my questions on the [[Talk:Functionist Council|Functionist Council talk page]]. Is it okay to copy-paste that same paragraph in the other members' articles? [[User:Genitus|Genitus]] ([[User talk:Genitus|talk]]) 13:54, 17 October 2018 (EDT)
:Because we don't "usually" do that; only in long IDW subartciles, which Twelve isn't. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:08, 17 October 2018 (EDT)
::Okay, that's what I thought. What about my second question? [[User:Genitus|Genitus]] ([[User talk:Genitus|talk]]) 14:48, 17 October 2018 (EDT)
==Why did you change the acid storm (Cyberverse) page==
the discussion agree that till thing are sorted out we try gender-neutral pronoun (Like what Simon Furman did). yes there was the episode but that could have been a script error.--[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 17:26, 29 October 2018 (EDT)

== Legal drinking age ==

Nope. Wyoming did not raise its drinking age until 1 July 1988 while Louisiana had raised its but had enacted a loophole that basically left the age at 18. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 07:59, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== BW Megatron edits ==

Hi, I'd just like to apologize for overfixating on sneaking in complaints about Masterpiece Megatron's Japanese voicebox. I made the mistake of thinking that the wiki's informal tone gives people leave to treat it like a TV Tropes YMMV page, and I based most of those edits on YouTube comments that I saw that affirmed my own opinion at the time (that is, that the Japanese voice box drives the price up merely to affirm that the toy represents a wackier and less threatening version of the character that is absolutely not my literal David Kaye-voiced husbando).

I should absolutely find other things to edit, to focus on useful information (such as poseability, objective comparisons between figures, etc.) rather than using the wiki to vent my salt boner. (As for my previous opinion, I'm starting to realize that Chiba's voice clips probably didn't inflate Megs' price ''that'' much, since MP Dinobot comes with no sound gimmick and is nearly as expensive.) --[[User:Samus Aran|Samus Aran]] ([[User talk:Samus Aran|talk]]) 00:36, 23 May 2019 (EDT)

== RBA and Prime Hot Shot ==

Hey, OK sorry if I made that change, but the new Hot Shot is small and young (maybe one of the cybertronians born after the core's rebirth. So, please, he's obviously a separate character from Prime Hot Shot.
[[User:RoboWarriorPrime|RoboWarriorPrime]] ([[User talk:RoboWarriorPrime|talk]]) 17:57, 03 June 2019
: He's not for our categorization purposes. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 08:22, 4 June 2019 (EDT)
::Oh really? Aren't also Grimlock, Sideswipe and Whirl for your categorization purposes? [[User:RoboWarriorPrime|RoboWarriorPrime]] ([[User talk:RoboWarriorPrime|talk]]) 08:42, 04 June 2019
:::We have official material that states those three are entirely different characters from the ones that appeared in WFC/Prime. Just think of Hot Shot's Prime design as a different "version" of the same character, like G1 Megatron in the comics versus G1 Megatron in the cartoon. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 09:28, 4 June 2019 (EDT)
::::I agree with RoboWarrior. Hot Shot and Whirl are almost identical situations of pre-existing veteran Wreckers being distinct from new recruits in Rescue Bots Academy. And the original decisions to split Grimlock, Sideswipe, and Kickback were not based on word from "official material". Not sure where you got that from. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] ([[User talk:Xaaron|talk]]) 09:38, 4 June 2019 (EDT)
Please hash it out on [[Talk:Hot Shot (Prime)]]. My issue was that somebody came out of nowhere and split a page. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 09:52, 4 June 2019 (EDT)

== Transmutate (character) to Transmutate (G1) ==

Thanks for catching that one. Given how rarely non-characters have franchise tag disambiguations as opposed to "story", "episode", "polity", etc., I felt that we were more likely doing a disservice to our users by insisting on not giving Paddles the (G1) disambig. I hadn't even noticed that the same situation applied to Transmutate. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 11:47, 13 September 2019 (EDT)

==Transformers references==

I was looking for someone to ask: when is something a reference, then? I was operating under the impression that something like, say, ''Cyberverse'' Shockwave threatens to take over the Decepticons when nearly every cartoon version of the character has been a staunch loyalist (except for ''Energon'' Shockblast) would be surprising to people who don't know about the character's comic history.

== Solid Snake and Simon Belmont ==

I was going to add a note about Snake and Simon ending up in another fighting game together, but stopped after seeing the edit history. You stated that "Now that it's not a unique thing, it's not worth noting." To my understanding, they're the only two characters who have articles on this wiki that ended up in ''Smash Bros.'', especially since they both ended up in the same game. What is it about this that makes it not unique or unnoteworthy as trivia? I'm not necessarily against the decision, but am curious about the reason. --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] ([[User talk:King Starscream|talk]]) 16:01, 8 October 2019 (EDT)
:[[Ryu]], [[Ken]] and [[Inkling]] are playable in Smash too. And [[Bomberman]] is an assist trophy. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 16:09, 8 October 2019 (EDT)
::That and it's not really a trivia point relevant to ''Transformers''. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:44, 8 October 2019 (EDT)

== Super Megatron notes ==

Stuck on mobile right now, so I cant really do it myself, but, several notes:

1. I think the "native humanoids" are younger versions of White Leo and White Lune

2. The "Omega Sentinel"'s details match up more with Titans Return Astrotrain more than Energon Omega's mold [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 09:32, 8 April 2020 (EDT)
:Thanks for catching the Astrotrain thing. I'm waiting till the comic confirms that the cat people are Beastformers, because the details don't match up just yet. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:00, 8 April 2020 (EDT)
::One more thing; should the Frenzy/Rumble mold just go on Frenzy's page, seeing as it's almost certainly not JG1 Frenzy, and that he's based more on the toy than the animation model? [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 16:15, 8 April 2020 (EDT)
:::I approached it from the Japanese perspective, so I just put him on the page with blue cartoon guy, but I suppose it doesn't really matter where. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:26, 8 April 2020 (EDT)

== About official Chinese release ==

Excuse me. 黑狗队/HēiGǒuDuì was a translated Chinese name and in an official Chinese release of the comic. So...can it be added?

== Why shouldn’t I blank out the talk page on my own profile? ==

The entire thing was nothing but condescension from jerks. I took their points to heart a long time ago, and I was tired of looking at them. {{unsigned|Phil Bond}} 02:25, 1 September 2020 (EDT)
:It's [[Transformers Wiki:User page#User page etiquette|against site policy]]. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 03:12, 1 September 2020 (EDT)

== Kudos on the cleanup ==

You da Cybertronian on the BWII cleanup! --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] ([[User talk:Lonegamer78|talk]]) 17:44, 11 September 2020 (EDT)

== New jokes, not edited ones. ==

Just for the record, I didn't edit an existing joke. I edited my OWN joke that was new to begin with. There was nothing there to begin with.
In fact, I'd say Mirage's page was shockingly absent of captions for such an iconic, long-standing character really. [[User:MirageX|MirageX]] ([[User talk:MirageX|talk]]) 18:31, 22 October 2020 (EDT)
:Check the message. It says not to add more jokes if you haven't already been contributing actual content to the wiki. -- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 18:42, 22 October 2020 (EDT)
Check Mirage's page now. I've written up a partial stub of his WFC Siege storyline. I intend to finish it once I watch the rest of the episodes tonight, possibly tomorrow. It's not the easiest thing to watch, but I'll do it if it means contributing so I'm not chastised for adding missing captions. [[User:MirageX|MirageX]] ([[User talk:MirageX|talk]]) 19:50, 22 October 2020 (EDT)

Mirage (G1)

2020-10-22T23:25:59Z

MirageX: /* War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

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Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

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Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

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Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
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Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
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Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}

Mirage appears initially in Episode 3, Series 1 of the series, using his illusion abilities to not only change his outward color scheme to a worn purple-ish hue and yellow eye color, but to appear with a Decepticion faction logo.
He encounters Skytread, Reflector and Vortex plus an unidentified seeker, claiming to be tracking for an Autobot encampment.
He witnesses an Autobot graveyard, allies skewered on pikes. Caught in a state of shock, his hologram falters and Skytread calls him out for his ruse.
Before he can be executed, Chromia and a fellow Autobot team of Optimus Prime, Elita-1 and Wheeljack ambush the team, allowing Mirage to escape and execute two hologram replicas of himself.
He faces the trio of Reflectors, running alongside firing--the hologram forms are able to inflict damage as well, taking fire and a jump kick from one of the Reflectors.
His corporeal form fires his shoulder missile defeating one clone, while a remaining hologram knocks out the last remaining clone of Reflector with laser fire.

Once the battle is over, they seek out Ratchet in his makeshift medbay.
Mirage becomes frustrated with Ratchet's unwillingness to join the war again and brandishes his shoulder missile at him, frustrated with his resistance. He is tackled by Impactor; Elita-1 is shocked by Ratchet's treatment of Autobot and Decepticon alike. Mirage chastizes him for his impartial treatment, angry that the very army killing his brethren are being treated and repaired. Impactor lashes out, eluding to Mirage's past as an elitist Autobot, "too busy sipping Energon behind guilded walls". Mirage fires back that Impactor has no idea what he's about. Ratchet interrupts, telling the Autobots to leave.

Wheeljack convinces Ratchet to hear Optimus's appeal one last time; convinced that Megatron will ultimately tear the planet apart, he agrees to help. Impactor doesn't like the idea and and Mirage grabs him; Ratchet again stops them from fighting, and Impactor says he will come along as Ratchet's bodyguard to ensure his safe return to the medbay. Mirage makes a final appeal along with Elita-1 to Prime not to let Impactor come along as a Decepticon; Impactor confesses that he no longer serves Megatron despite his faction branding; he fights for himself. Mirage reluctantly goes along with Optimus's plan.

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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6 |A water pistol would have been just as effective and a lot less cruel. ]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

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Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

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Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

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Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
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Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
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Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
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Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
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'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6 A water pistol would have been just as effective and a lot less cruel. ]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertCyclonusonscreen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

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Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

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Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

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Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Mirage often found himself struggling with war, trapped in a glass case of emotion.]]

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Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb|"Optimus let me borrow his hat! Whee!"]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

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Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

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Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

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Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb|"Optimus let me borrow his hat! Whee!"]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

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Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

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Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

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Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
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Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
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Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

2020-10-22T22:16:03Z

MirageX: /* S.T.A.R.S. continuity */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Skywarp also moonlighted as an Oregon EPA agent looking for negligent carbon emissions.]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb|"Hey Chesty McGee, did Rob Leifeld draw you or something?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25 |So, Megs has a particle cannon capable of blowing limbs off, but sure, let's all largely focus on the guy who decided to wear a cape to battle.]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|"Will SOMEBODY please answer the intercom? I'm a little BUSY!"]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
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'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons? The Nye Mets are my favorite squadron!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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MirageX: /* Ladybird Books continuity */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Skywarp also moonlighted as an Oregon EPA agent looking for negligent carbon emissions.]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb|"Hey Chesty McGee, did Rob Leifeld draw you or something?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertCyclonusonscreen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|"Will SOMEBODY please answer the intercom? I'm a little BUSY!"]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons? The Nye Mets are my favorite squadron!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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MirageX: /* Big Looker storybooks continuity */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
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One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Skywarp also moonlighted as an Oregon EPA agent looking for negligent carbon emissions.]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertCyclonusonscreen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|"Will SOMEBODY please answer the intercom? I'm a little BUSY!"]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons? The Nye Mets are my favorite squadron!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|"Will SOMEBODY please answer the intercom? I'm a little BUSY!"]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons? The Nye Mets are my favorite squadron!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
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'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons? The Nye Mets are my favorite squadron!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"Hey kids, watch me disappear from this battlefield like magic!"]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
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==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertCyclonusonscreen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity}}

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb|Shoulder pads saw a brief but spectacular comeback from 20 years prior.]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
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{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
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One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Mirage was the size of 20 men and the strength of 50, so the economics made sense.]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

2020-10-22T21:54:48Z

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb|...and his calves were quite large!]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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MirageX: /* Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25|"Like what you see, ladies?"]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

2020-10-22T21:51:17Z

MirageX: /* G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
[[File:AutobotAlertCyclonusonscreen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Mirage Ferret.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|In his new alt mode, he had a penchant for consuming food pellets 8-10 times a day and smelled like old feet wrapped in wet fur.]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:MTMTE40 mirage tends bar.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]

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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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MirageX: /* Dreamwave Generation One continuity */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
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{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
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One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
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When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
[[File:Henkeipackin mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
[[File:MiragesRebirth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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MirageX: /* Dreamwave Generation One continuity */

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
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When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
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Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
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Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
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Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
[[File:AllSpark2 mirage.jpg|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
[[File:BeCool quiz audience1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75]]
'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:TFvsJoe2 mirage is in charge.jpg|thumb]]
Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Bubbles#As Mirage}}
Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Mirage (G1)

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:''Mirage is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Mirage.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"The ship was... full."]]
'''Mirage''' is what [[human]]s call "old money." Before the war, he was a member of affluent [[Cybertronian (disambiguation)|Cybertronian]] society, with his own large estate and high-priced [[Mirage's friends|friends]]. He enjoyed the finer things in life: vintage [[energon]], swank evening events, and [[turbofox]] hunts on the grounds. But when the war started, he was forced to choose sides and found himself banded with a group of commoners he didn't really understand.

Some of the other Autobots don't trust Mirage. He feels the war, even after all these millions of years, is beneath him. War is not, after all, how civilized, erudite beings conduct themselves. He often questions the Autobots' violent means, and not-so-secretly hopes they and the [[Decepticon]]s can get along. Because of this, he has been labelled by a few others as a Decepticon sympathizer. Still, he sided with the Autobots for a reason, and he is there for the Autobots when they need him.

Although the details vary by continuity, Mirage has the ability to create illusions which typically either render him invisible or make him appear to be somewhere he isn't. In some universes, he can [[combiner|combine]] with his fellow Autobots to form [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] or [[Betatron (Generations)|Betatron]].

He sounds like {{w|Dean Martin}}.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[File:LastStand mirage vs ravage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}

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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:EntertheNightbird invisible Mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]

{{main|Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
Mirage was part of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and was therefore present for the early years of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict on Earth. Often putting his invisibility ability to work, he was key in defeating the Decepticons in some of their most important encounters, including bringing down their massive [[Victory (G1)|star cruiser]]. Contrary to popular opinion, Mirage was definitely ''not'' a traitor.

In a splinter timeline, Mirage fought alongside his fellow Autobots, including those displaced in time, during the [[Solitarium]] conflict. In 2021, Mirage gained a new [[combiner]] body as part of [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]. Then he went to ''Hawaii!''
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
[[File:BattleforEarth mirage.jpg|thumb|I think "Armless" suits you better!]]
Mirage was one of the survivors of the Ark's crash who was rebuilt as an Earth vehicle. During the Global building fiasco, Mirage was among the Autobots who tried and failed to scratch Devastator's paint. Still, he managed to teleport into Megatron's war room and reverse the effects of the Devastator Button, freeing the Decepticons' hostages. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:DecepticonPatrol mirage electric balls.jpg|left|thumb]]
One peaceful day, Optimus decided it was too quiet, and sent Bumblebee and Mirage out to spy on the Decepticons. Sure enough, the Decepticons were up to something. The cowardly Laserbeak having mistakenly identified an automobile factory as an Autobot factory. The Decepticons had been sent out to locate and destroy this factory. Reporting this back to Optimus, Mirage was instructed to project the holographic image of an Autobot factory nearby so as to trap the Decepticons in a big hole. Ravage saw through the ruse, and attacked Mirage from behind, dispelling his illusion just as Megatron was about to fall for the trap. Ratchet quickly fixed up Mirage, and Mirage retaliated against Ravage by throwing [[electric ball]]s at him. {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}

Mirage was part of the Autobot convoy that followed Optimus Prime into combat when it was discovered that the Decepticons used a [[molecular transfer device]] to steal fuel from all around the globe. He, Optimus, Hound, Jazz, and Bumblebee infiltrated the Decepticons' stronghold, only to meet with opposition from the Decepticons posted to guard the machine. Mirage used his holographic powers to confuse Megatron, creating an opening for Bumblebee to grab the molecular transfer device's controls, and drain all of the Decepticons' fuel. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}}

When the Decepticons took over the Autobots' base by deceiving them with a phoney message from Cybertron, the Autobots turned the tables by sending a fake message of their own. Believing they were about to be attacked by [[Martian]]s, the Decepticons came running out of the base, straight into an Autobot ambush. Mirage joined in sending the villains on their way, hurling electric balls at Megatron and Ravage. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}}

When Gears had fallen for a dastardly Decepticon trap, Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe somehow learned about it instantly. Mirage jammed Thundercracker's circuits with his [[circuit-jammer]], paralyzing him in mid-air. {{storylink|The Autobot Smasher!}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}} {{storylink|The Big Book of Coloring Fun}}}}
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===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:GreatCarRally skywarp vs mirage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When the Cybertronian civil war had yet to leave the planet, Optimus asked his Autobots to join him in leaving their home world behind and travel out into space. When Bumblebee volunteered to join Optimus, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots jumped in as well. After crash-landing on Earth and being offline for about 65 millions years, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots met Sparkplug and his son Spike. With the Decepticons still not in the know of what forms the Autobots had taken, Mirage was one of the troops that Optimus led into the desert in order to ambush their enemies. Though they successfully took by surprise a squadron of Decepticons, the Autobots had not anticipated a second group flying in from the opposite direction. Thanks to a warning from Spike and Sparkplug, the Autobots managed to fend off the Decepticons, and came to accept Earth as their new home. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

Mirage and Cliffjumper found out about a cross-country car rally that offered a year's worth of gas and oil to whoever won the competition. The pair excitedly went off to tell Optimus Prime about it, unaware that Soundwave had been spying on them. As Optimus went over the specifics of the race with his troops, he elected Mirage to participate in the rally's first heat, where Mirage's ability to handle winding roads could be used to his advantage. Mirage managed to secure an early lead in the race, only to be attacked by Skywarp. Mirage found himself struggling to both dodge Skywarp's blasts and race at the same time. With the other drivers closing in on Mirage, the Autobot race car deployed his [[Electro-disrupter|Electro-disruptor]], and caused Skywarp to crash into the nearby sea. This distraction out of the way, Mirage finished up his part of the race, though he arrived in last place. Passing the baton to Hound, he warned him to watch out for more Decepticons that might show up during the race.{{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

Thanks to [[Shooting Star]], Optimus discovered that Blitzwing was planning to steal oil from a nearby oil truck. Optimus took Mirage and a team of Autobots to stop the theft. Thanks to Swoop's help, the Autobots managed to thwart the Decepticons’ heist. Mirage laughed when the Autobots realized that the humans involved had fainted upon seeing Swoop. Mirage pointed out that he was glad that a robot who transformed into a monstrosity out of Earth's distant past was on the Autobots' side. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Marinker]] (English)}}
[[File:MegatronsFightForPower repairing the ship.jpg|left|thumb]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots who attended the test run of [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'s lightning collector, {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}} and later assisted in the ongoing reconstruction of the Autobots' space cruiser. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}}

When the Decepticons attacked Autobot City without any early warning, it was Mirage who suggested they may have already constructed a hideout nearby, allowing them to appear without warning. {{storylink|Decepticon Hideout}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
[[File:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25]]
When [[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]] spotted [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] stealing energy, he called his Autobot allies through his S.T.A.R.S. control center. Mirage was amongst those who responded to Johnny's call, {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} and joined in the struggle against Thundercracker, even though his movements were slowed by the Decepticon syphoning off his power. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}

Later, Ultra Magnus pleaded for [[you]] to "requisition" Mirage and other Autobots in order to combat the Decepticon threat. Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Mirage. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Mirage was amongst the troops accompanying Optimus. As they drove along, the Autobots were ambushed by the Decepticons. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
When Bombshell used his cerebro-shells to gain control of all the Dinobots except Swoop, one path found Mirage among several Autobots in the war room listening to Prowl's warning that the rampaging quartet was approaching [[Bandit's Bluff]], dangerously close to a human city. This gave Mirage the idea to cast an illusion of Optimus Prime, whom Bombshell had surely ordered his new minions to attack, on the edge of the cliff to trick them into charging over it and into the ocean. If Optimus selected this plan over [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger's]], it went off without a hitch, plunging the Dinobots into the sea, where Autobots aboard [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray's]] massive destroyer mode were able to salvage them and return to base where Windcharger could safely remove the shells. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}
====Attack of the Insecticons====
Mirage was one of many Autobots involved in a plot where the Sun-Pak, a device invented by Sparkplug to solve the Autobots' energy problems, is stolen by the Decepticons.

In one possible adventure, where Sparkplug has been kidnapped by Starscream and injected by a Cerebro-Shell by Bombshell in order to force the human into building more of the device for the Decepticons, Mirage is the one to discover Sparkplug wandering away from the Decepticon base some time later. After returning with Sparkplug from his espionage mission, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots find out that Sparkplug had his memory damaged when injected with the Cerebro-Shell, and was only capable of producing a laser-toothbrush for the Decepticons in-lieu of the Sun-Pak.

In an alternate path, where the Autobots escape from the Decepticons initial attempt at stealing the Sun-Pak, but lose the device to the Decepticons anyways, Mirage can be sent as an advance scout to discover the whereabouts of the Insecticons and their newly-acquired Sun-Pak. With Buster tagging along, the both of them are made to swear to Optimus that they will not engage the enemy, and contact the rest of the Autobots once they have located the Sun-Pak. Following the ultra-sonic vibrations of the Insecticons' wings, Mirage tracks down the trio to a rotting forest. As they spy on the Insecticons, Shrapnel gloats he we will the device he stole to overpower Megatron himself. Mirage spots Ravage darting away from the scene, and realizing that the Decepticon mini-cassette will inform Megatron of what is happening, making time of the essence, he contemplates breaking his promise to Optimus.

If Mirage does decide to break his promise to Optimus, he uses his Electro-Scrambler to produce holograms of himself, confusing the three Insecticons, while Buster snatches the Sun-Pak. Congratulating each other on successfully outwitting the Insecticons, Buster and Mirage make their way back to Autobot base.

If, alternatively, Mirage decides to not break his promise to Optimus and contact the rest of the Autobots as he agreed to before, Megatron does indeed arrive first on the scene. But while the Decepticons squabble, the Autobots in turn arrive on the scene, and Megatron decides to stay in the forest to ambush his adversaries. Unbeknownst to him, Mirage and Buster still spy on the Decepticons' activities, and forewarn Optimus of Megatron's ploy. Optimus decides to have [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] pour acid on the concealed Decepticons, winning the day at the expense of the easily replaceable Sun-Pak. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
While discussing how nice the recent lull in Decepticon activity was, Mirage interjected about how trickery was the best way to outdo the evil robots, and boasted about his holographic abilities.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was able to put his abilities to good use. Beachcomber returned prematurely from his day off to report that he had discovered a secret Decepticon fortress. Within the fortress was a Destruction beam device, which the Decepticons were about to use to destroy the nearby Center City. Beachcomber had been unable to find the lab housing the device, however, and so consulted his fellow Autobots. Beachcomber and Mirage headed back to the Decepticons’ fortress, and using Mirage's holographic abilities, tricked Buzzsaw into thinking the fortress was overrun by an Autobot army. This prompted him to head back to the lab to defend it. Following him, the Autobots were able to destroy the Destruction beam before it caused any harm, and then hurried out of the fortress while the Decepticons still panicked over Buzzsaw's report of an Autobot army. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Decepticon Poison====
When Red Alert came bursting into the Autobots’ headquarters, warning them about Ramjet being spotted nearby, and a number of Autobot subsequently found themselves unable to transform, Mirage correctly deduced that the Decepticon had poisoned the Autobots’ fuel supply.

In one possible scenario that ensued, Mirage was part of the Autobots’ back-up squadron, as they attempted to defend the Autobot base against the Decepticons. In one version of the ensuing events, the Autobots were able to beat back the Decepticons, though not without receiving some grievous injuries themselves.

In another possible scenario, where Optimus followed a plan courtesy of Prowl, the Autobot leader instructed his troops to transform into vehicle mode and play dead. The Decepticons, believing the Autobots’ ruse, disarmed themselves in order to carry out the Autobots’ “carcasses.” Now with the element of surprise against unarmed opponent, the Autobots Transformed and were able to easily defeat the evil robots.

In another possible turn of events, Perceptor gave out too much of his antidote to cure each poisoned Autobot. The Autobots who received the antidote soon found themselves falling apart, leaving Mirage and the rest outmatched against the greater number of Decepticons.

In a completely different scenario, Optimus agreed to Prowl's plan to go on the offensive and try and discover the full extent of the Decepticons’ plans. Optimus nominated Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage to go along with him on the mission. The group refuelled with the gas that Sparkplug brought back from the Autobots’ secret storage area, and took off. The group soon happened upon the Decepticons’ lab in the middle of a barren, polluted wasteland.

If all four Autobots ventured together into the Decepticons’ lab, they first encountered Laserbeak, only to quickly dispatch him. Venturing further into the lab, the group soon spotted the antidote they were after, and sent Mirage to fetch it. Disguising himself as Laserbeak with his electro-scrambler, Mirage successfully retrieved the beaker, thought not before overhearing Starscream and Ramjet conversing. The two Decepticons were gloating about using a new poison to turn humans into mindless slaves.

If Optimus ordered his squad to instead return to Autobot headquarters immediately, his squad returned to find their comrades nearly dead from the poison. But with Ratchet's help, the antidote was quickly distributed, and the Autobots sprung back to life.

If Optimus led his troops back to the Decepticons’ poison lab, Mirage was amongst the Autobot convoy that drove into action. Whatever decisions they took, the Autobots managed to destroy the Decepticons’ lab.

If however Optimus ordered his troops to deal with the Decepticons before returning to base with the antidote, the Autobots were faced with another decision; deal with Starscream and Ramjet first, or to attempt to destroy the containers of poison first, as per Prowl's suggestion.

If the Autobots went along with Prowl's strategy, the resulting heat from the explosion caused the Autobots’ circuits to overheat, rendering them unconscious. In the process, Mirage dropped the vial containing the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. Upon reawakening, the Autobots found themselves captives of Megatron, who informed them that their fellow Autobots would soon perish, and that the humans would be conquered by the Decepticons shortly after.

If Optimus instead decided to deal with Ramjet and Starscream first, his troop easily overpowered the pair, Prowl and Mirage working together to wrestle down Starscream. After having destroyed the lab, the Autobots returned to their headquarters with the antidote.

If instead of all heading into the lab together, the Autobots had sent in Bumblebee alone, and Bumblebee subsequently managed to escape with the antidote to the Decepticons’ poison, the Autobots escaped from the [[Decepticon Poison Lab|Valley of Poison]] and returned to Autobot headquarters. Once the other Autobots were cured, they all drank a toast to Bumblebee, to celebrate his part in the mission. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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====Autobot Alert!====
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Mirage was in Metroplex city when an Autobot Alert sounded.

In one possible scenario, Mirage was selected alongside Jazz, Swoop, Powerglide and Prowl, to join Ultra Magnus on an orbital mission to both rescue Cosmos and halt a Decepticon plot to take over Earth's broadcast satellites. After donning special space gear for solar protection, the team took off and headed towards Cosmos's last coordinates.Though they soon found Cosmos, so did they spot Galvatron's ship, Cyclonus, looming nearby. After both Mirage and Powerglide retrieved Cosmos, Mirage overlooked him quickly. He was able to detect weak life signs within Cosmos, but could not repair Cosmos himself. Returning to the shuttle's control deck, Mirage and Ultra Magnus discovered that Cyclonus himself was acting as the Decepticons’ signal-jamming device. Ultra Magnus then ordered his troops to train all of their available weapons on Cyclonus for a full-frontal assault. Mirage questioned the wisdom of this plan, pointing out it could easily turn into a suicide mission.

If the Autobots went along with Ultra Magnus's plan, Mirage and the rest of the Autobots were horrorstruck when Galvatron himself emerged from Cyclonus, followed by an army of multiwing jet fighters. Mirage and the others were left drifting helplessly into space as the Decepticons tore their shuttle apart.

If instead Powerglide and Swoop went about their own way of defeating the Decepticons, Cyclonus's transmission device was successfully destroyed and the entire crew of the Autobot shuttle presumably returned to base safely.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, wherein Ultra Magnus agreed to prioritize theft of the coded message, Mirage was part of the captive audience that listened to Kup divulge information about an ancient Autobot formula. {{storylink|Autobot Alert!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
While "computer hacking," Mirage discovered numerous human reports of a mysterious construction project occurring on the uninhabited [[Clarke Atoll]], which the Autobots identified as a set of gigantic rocket engines. After an independent report by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] corroborated his suspicions, Mirage related his findings to the other Autobots, and they all headed out to stop the Decepticons' plan to use the engines to force Earth out of orbit and convert it into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:DarkAges5 its not stopping.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Do you even KNOW, Bro?]]]
Despite his misgiving about the war effort, Mirage's tenure with the Autobot cause dates back to the time of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]. When Shockwave staged a disastrous offensive against [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Mirage was there defending the [[Decagon]] alongside Prowl and the other Autobot soldiers. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} During the [[Dark Ages]], he continued serving under Prowl as part of the main Autobot faction at [[Virtue's Forum]], in the remains of Iacon. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Alongside Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], he tried defending their prisoner, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Experiment D-43]], against the intruder known as [[The Fallen]], but failed miserably in the process. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} During the [[Quintesson]] occupation of Cybertron, he was among the Autobots held captive at [[Internment Camp Pi]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

{{unreleased WW comic}}
Optimus returned to Cybertron, and the Autobots were freed from slavery. {{Storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years ago, Mirage crash-landed on the planet Earth aboard the shuttle known as the Ark, with more than two dozen of his fellow Autobots and Decepticons. They remained inactive in stasis lock at the base of a volcano until 1984, when volcanic activity shook them back on-line. The war began again, but without reinforcements or connection to Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons were eventually defeated and taken prisoner by the Autobots in 1998. Mirage and the rest of the Transformers were prepared to fly back to Cybertron in a new spacecraft, the ''[[Ark II]]'', but it exploded shortly after takeoff in 1999, leaving them all believed dead.

[[File:PrimeDirective5 mirage fights virus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]|Bumblebee's customized weapons were annoying as hell.]]]
Not so. Most of the Transformers had been salvaged by a mercenary named [[Lazarus]], who spent the next few years repairing and reprogramming the Cybertronians to use as weapons of mass destruction at his command. Optimus Prime was reactivated by the United States military to oppose Lazarus, and he in turn used the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to revive several other Autobots who had escaped Lazarus' salvage crews, including Mirage. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Together, they helped in the clean-up operation at the [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] following an attack upon it by Lazarus-controlled Transformers, then made a bee-line for Lazarus's base of operations, only to find that Megatron and the Decepticons had broken free of his control. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} While half the Autobots pursued the Decepticons to [[San Francisco]], Mirage and the rest remained at Lazarus's base to repair the other Autobots left strewn around, and to find a way to stop the cyberforming virus Megatron had unleashed upon the planet. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Mirage and his allies combated the virus using curative weapons powered by their own energon reserves. Despite the interference of the well-meaning Canadian military, {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} the Autobots eventually emerged triumphant, though Wheeljack wound up putting himself in stasis lock to neutralize the virus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

''Mirage was remarkably unhelpful during the war with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. After Optimus Prime was forced to give the Matrix over to Megatron as a debt of honor, Mirage sniped about the decision worse than any of the Autobots. His criticisms only got louder after a news report from [[Washington, D.C.]] made it clear that Megatron had found one of his warriors, the already mighty [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]], who could actually wield the power of the Matrix directly. Now that Prime had actually strengthened their enemies as well as weakening the Autobots, Mirage just wouldn't shut up about it. The final straw was when [[Franklin Townsend]], a crazed augment working for the Keepers, idly strolled into the Ark, took over control of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]'s mind, and made his getaway. Mirage was ready to brazenly disobey Prime's orders and charge right after Bluestreak, until Optimus physically slammed him into a wall and forced him to obey his commanding officer. When you're being so much of a dick that the legendary patience of Optimus Prime runs out, it's time to rein it in, Mirage. {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}}''

[[File:WarandPeace2 traitor.jpg|thumb|upright=2]|Okay, Mr. "I'll let the Decepticons know we're alive on Earth" hothead one-bot, cut-rate sniper disobeying orders.]]]
Following a vision experienced by Optimus Prime, the Autobots battled the Decepticons over a Cybertronian stasis pod in [[Alaska]], during which Mirage went up against Thundercracker. The fighting came to an abrupt, surprising end when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his forces arrived on Earth and announced that, in their absence, the Autobot/Decepticon wars on Cybertron had ended and that the two factions had been united. Thrilled at the prospect of being able to return home, Mirage was one of the first to fall in with the new regime, and helped talk Prowl into surrendering to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|New World Order}} Taken into custody as war criminals, several of the Autobots (especially [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]) considered Mirage a traitor. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} Once back on Cybertron, however, the Autobots learned of a secret rebellion, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and Mirage quickly realigned himself with the Autobot cause when Shockwave's true plan was revealed. During the subsequent rebel uprising that ended with Shockwave's dethroning, Mirage made amends with Cliffjumper by using his invisibility to sneak up and save him from [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

[[File:DWG1v36 mirage.jpg|thumb|left]|Mirage: Autobot pragmatist.]]]
Unfortunately for Mirage, in the wake of Shockwave's defeat, the Autobots' acting commander Prowl soon came to the conclusion that they needed to return to Earth, and called a meeting to discuss the matter. {{storylink|Original Sin}} Prowl proposed that a more significant beach-head had to be established on Earth for the future, but Mirage—happy to finally be home—had no desire to return to "that primitive little rock," and while he did not oppose the plan, advocated being conscious of the costs involved. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] didn't take his remarks well, feeling that Mirage was putting money before friends, and didn't hesitate to point out that Mirage's fortune from his aristocracy days was now non-existent, his estate and possessions having been partitioned up and sold off by Shockwave's united government while he was gone. {{storylink|Atonement}} Mirage ultimately lost the argument, and was last seen grumpily standing on the [[Autobase]] shuttle landing platform as supplies for the trip back to Earth were loaded. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] found Mirage's holo-projector aboard the ''Ark'', and used it to make a better holographic driver for himself than [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] could. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

Meanwhile, Mirage was among the dormant Transformers discovered by [[Cobra]], reprogrammed for nefarious purposes, and given new alternate modes (Mirage now transformed into a Cobra [[Ferret]]). Upon being freed from Cobra's control by Wheeljack, Mirage's group located Optimus Prime and helped fight back against the newly freed Decepticons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} He later stood watch as the damaged Prime was formulating a plan to defeat Megatron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}
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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
Mirage was apparently among the Autobots awakened on the [[Fera Islands]] in [[1939]], as Optimus Prime mentioned that he had been killed in the battle against [[Cobra]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
[[File:BeastWithin mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75|Ow.]]
Mirage participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
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Mirage was not seen participating in the Autobots' first recorded battle with the Decepticons on Earth, but he did show up to stand around in the background while Optimus Prime explained the situation to human authorities. Mirage doubted that the Decepticons would give up after one defeat, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} and he was quickly proven correct when he caught [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] menacing a passenger train. Mirage leapt onto the train-mode Decepticon's back, but was shaken off when Astrotrain converted to shuttle mode and blasted off. Prime and Bumblebee caught up to the villain, {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} and Mirage soon joined them in battling him. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] then arrived to join the fight, Mirage grinned and remarked they'd been keeping things warm for him. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Later, Mirage, Ironhide, and Rodimus tracked the Decepticons to a volcanic region of the planet, where [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] gathered to await the emergence of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from one of the lava pools. Mirage and the Autobots blocked the pool with a rain of boulders, but Galvatron was able to blast his way free anyway, the mighty explosion scattering the three heroes. Fortunately for them, Galvatron proved more interested in berating Cyclonus and Starscream for interrupting his nap than attacking the Autobots. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 9|Henkei! Henkei! #9}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===
[[File:Henkei9 mirage.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.25]]
Mirage was part of the small crew of Autobots led by Optimus Prime who came to Earth in search of the fragments of the legendary [[Energon Cube]]. Eleven years after their arrival, Mirage joined his comrades in battling the Decepticons, who had also come searching for the Cube, in the [[Hoshinochō]] [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} The Autobots received some help in the fight from human boy [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]], but Mirage still had to question Optimus Prime's decision to bring the boy to their secret underground base, beneath the Star Dome. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} While Prime and Bumblebee showed off the base to Wataru, Mirage and Grimlock were ordered to return to the surface. As they went, Grimlock lamented that they had had to leave so many friends behind on Cybertron; Mirage comforted him, hoping that their allies would join them on Earth some day. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

When Mirage and the Autobots sped into action to stop new Decepticon recruit [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]'s attack on a hydroelectric plant, Mirage's sleek racecar mode drew some attention from the motorists he zoomed past. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} The battle ended when Wataru revealed he possessed the ability to manipulate energon, which freed Skyfire from his Decepticon brainwashing. Optimus explained that Wataru was a "[[Booster]]", a human bestowed with powers by the Energon Cube, and Mirage feared that Megatron would some soon looking for the boy. {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Mirage's prediction soon came true, and Optimus was badly injured protecting Wataru. [[File:Henkei12 mirage transformers.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]] When the Autobots next had to go into battle, it was without their leader, and Mirage was defeated by [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Fortunately, Optimus recovered in time to come to his troops' aid. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

When Optimus found himself embroiled in battle with the deranged Galvatron, all hope seemed lost until Mirage and the other Autobots arrived in response to a "distress call" sent by Starscream, who hoped to see Galvatron destroyed. {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} Mirage found himself unable to open fire on Galvatron for fear of shooting Optimus, and only narrowly avoided being atomized by Galvatron's volley of return fire. Fortunately, this gave Optimus the chance to fight back, and when he punctured Galvatron's armor with his sword, the explosive energies released collapsed the cavern in which they were fighting, forcing Mirage and all the Autobots to flee. {{storylink|Revenge (Henkei)|Revenge}} This was not enough to stop Galvatron, however, and he soon returned to menace Hoshinochō. {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} This time, Optimus used the power of the Matrix to defeat him, in a battle that forced the Autobots to reveal their existence to humanity. After appearing on television to introduce themselves to the world, Mirage and the Autobots then left the planet to pursue the fleeing Galvatron back to Cybertron. {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:ActionBlast1 autobots.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.75|Mirage is the extremely pixellated one.]]
Mirage was one of the many oppressed Cybertronians who sought freedom when their planet's halls of power grew dark with corruption, greed and malice. He was one of the first Autobots to travel to Earth, and took on an alternate form to disguise himself amongst its populace. {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
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While invisible, Mirage managed to sneak up on [[Octane]] and blast him off-line with his [[electro-disrupter]], saving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from a nasty beating. Both Autobots were surprised, then, when Octane got back up despite his circuits being completely shorted out—he had, it turned out, been possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]. The two Autobots gawped at the sight of the spectral Decepticon taking form before them, attempting to figure out if he was the real thing or a hologram. {{storylink|Mirage's Activity}} Starscream quickly defeated them, but decided against possessing the unconscious Mirage, deeming a ground-bound Autobot body to be beneath him. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}}

After recovering, Mirage and Ironhide tracked Starscream's ghost to the Decepticons' base, certain that once he had dethroned Megatron he would turn his evil intentions towards the Autobots. They received some unexpected backup in the form of interdimensional Autobot quantum operatives [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]], who kept Starscream busy while Mirage used some kind of heretofore unmentioned telepathic ability to probe the ghostly villain's mind. Focusing on Starscream's worst fear, Mirage projected a hologram of that nightmare: Galvatron! The sight of his former leader was enough to send Starscream fleeing back to his home dimension. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[File:Miragekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"The brick was... full."]]
Mirage was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Mirage was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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Mirage was one of the Autobots who gathered to meet Spike Witwicky when he was brought to the Autobots' headquarters. {{storylink|To Earth}} He would later participate in battle against the Decepticons when they used a massive space bridge to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} and afterwards, appeared before the press alongside his comrades so they could introduce themselves to the world. {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
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'''Red Sports Car''' (赤のスポーツカー ''Aka no Supōtsu Kā'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanations about the BeCool mark. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} Red Sports Car was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Mirage was among the Autobots menaced by the Decepticons' [[Alligaticon]]. {{storylink|Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?}}
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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
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Together with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], and [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], Mirage investigated [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] after the abandoned city was covered in foliage spawned by the "[[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]" [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] had dropped on Cybertron. The Autobots were then caught up in a Decepticon attack against the invading humans, though Mirage escaped while Perceptor and Brawn were captured. Though tempted to only think of his own safety, Mirage made use of his illusory powers to sneak into Megatron's throne room and liberate both his comrades and the Joes. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}}

The trio brought the Joes back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as captives, then immediately turned around and headed back out to search for the missing Wheeljack, who they soon found being vivisected within the Joes' base camp. Mirage and his friends charged in, exchanging fire with the off-worlders until blasts from both sides knocked everyone unconscious. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Both teams eventually awakened and were about to start fighting again when Grimlock arrived to declare that a truce between the Autobots and Joes had been reached. Both factions partied together to cement their alliance, and during the celebration, Grimlock told the Joes about Optimus Prime, lost leader of the Autobots. Mirage expressed his complete faith in Prime, stating that he was always exactly where he needed to be. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}}

Following an attack by the DeceptiCobra alliance, Mirage, Brawn, and Rodimus found that [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]], while in a trance, had drawn a map to the Chamber of Primus on Metroplex's floor. Following the map, the three Autobots, Bazooka, [[Cover Girl]], and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] travelled deep into the planet, and discovered that the Decepticons had built a temple upon the god's gigantic brow that had placed him, and by extension the planet, under Megatron's control. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} Defeating the temple's DeceptiCobra guards, they ventured even deeper into Primus's cavernous mind, where Primus's [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] told them the story of Primus's origins. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} [[File:TFvsJoe11 no man left behind.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]] Tremors then began to shake the chamber as Cybertron transformed into Primus's robot mode, and the team tried to escape before they could be buried alive. Mirage was not as lucky as his comrades and was pinned under a hail of debris. Duke returned to help dig him out, and the pair were then airlifted to safety by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]. {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

When the combined might of the Autobots and Joes marched on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] for the final battle, Mirage was at the fore, carrying [[Tunnel Rat]] on his shoulder. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}} During the battle, a powered-up Megatron combined the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] with his [[black hole]] spark to draw Mirage and the other Autobots to him, using their bodies to form a giant "Mega-Megatron" body. They were saved when [[Shipwreck]] split Mega-Megatron apart, and the Autobots and Joes were ultimately victorious. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}
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===''TransTech''===
[[File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Most preppies just wear an alligator '''shirt''', Mirage.]]
In [[Axiom Nexus]], Mirage went to [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] for a new color scheme. He left in [[:File:G2MirageVaultArt.jpg|an interesting deco]]. {{Storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2015/05/19}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Primax 096.0 Beta]] during the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Mirage and [[Sideswipe (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Sideswipe]] attempted to stop the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Sandstorm (G2)|Sandstorm]] from escaping with ill-gotten [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}
{{note|Mirage's coloration in both these ''TransTech'' and ''Ask Vector Prime'' stories is based on an unproduced [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'']] redeco of his Generation 1 toy. See "[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Notes|Notes]]", on the toy page, for more details.}}

===''Generations Selects'' Special Comic===
Mirage was a member of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. During a mission, he joined [[Blue Big Convoy|his leader]] in interrupting a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Megatron]]. {{Storylink|Super Megatron comic 3}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:Siege-Ep3-Mirage-is-a-bad-spy.jpg|thumb|300px|"How do you do, fellow 'cons?"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shawn Hawkins]] (English), [[Yoshiyuki Matsūra]] (Japanese)|[[Ádel Mercadante]] (Portuguese), [[Laurent Maurel]] (French)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[File:BotCon2009 mirage and wheeljack.jpg|thumb]]
*At Optimus Prime's command, Mirage (in his ''Alternators'' body), transformed and rolled out for [[BotCon 2009]] alongside his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
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==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
[[File:TFAdventureGame mirage.jpg|left|thumb|Nobody "makes you" do anything! Own your decisions!]]
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Mirage could involve himself in the quest through the Decepticons' maze-like base. He had the power to force [[you]] to trade places with another player. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}
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===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
[[File:TFc64 mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Mirage was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[File:Bsbg-mirage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle.]]
Mirage participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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===Kre-O Transformers Konquest===
The Autobots' peaceful day in [[Kreopolis]] was shattered when the city was bombarded by the Decepticons, and a number of Autobots including Mirage were shattered into their component blocks. Mirage's pieces began raining from the sky alongside the Decepticon bombs, but they were gathered up by Optimus Prime's [[Kreon]], who used them to reassemble Mirage. Prime subsequently rode back out to the battlefield by clinging to Mirage's spoiler, so he could catch more Autobot bricks. {{storylink|Kre-O Transformers Konquest}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegends mirage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Mirage was present on Cybertron during Nova Prime's peaceful reign. {{storylink|Prime Evil}}

Mirage participated in a battle against the Insecticons. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} Following a Decepticon attack on [[New York City]], Mirage led a team of infiltrators including [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]] on a hunt for Decepticons. They were thwarted by three of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|War Dawn (Legends)|War Dawn}} Mirage was talked into taking part in a charity race, during which the Constructicons fused everyone in their vehicle modes using the [[Transfixatron]]. The Autobots managed to keep the Decepticons at bay, even trapped as cars, until the process could be reversed. {{storylink|Autobot Run}}

After Optimus Prime's defeat at the hand of Megatron, Mirage was involved in the skirmishes in Autobot city that ensued. {{storylink|The Omega Corps}}

Mirage was part of [[Drift (G1)|Drift]]'s team which had to speed a vital component to a power station to prevent it from exploding. They made it, despite interference from [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] and [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. {{storylink|Rushdown Road}}
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===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
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Mirage appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. He is portrayed by Bubbles. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Mirage-(CW).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.75]]
Mirage (CW) participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Mirage-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I should have had an invisibility ability. But then so would one of the Decepticons.]]

{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class''': Gunner
*'''Lowest Star Rating''': 2 star
*'''Weapons''': Mirage uses a standard issue Grenade Launcher to bombard enemies from afar.
*'''Ability:EMP rocket Barrage'''- fire 6 EMP rockets dealing damage and stunning all defenses in the blast radius for a few seconds!
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points ÷2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:mirage Mirage at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Mirage-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Can you keep up?"]]
Mirage was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of him running around! {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
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===''Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive''===
Mirage took part in a series of attacks against multiple Decepticon bases, destroying them and defeating all enemies in the process. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Mirage (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
*As noted in this article's opening section, Mirage's powers have been rather inconsistent across the media he's appeared in.
**Per his original [[bio]], the idea was that, rather than ''actually'' become invisible or change his appearance, he used his [[electro-disrupter]] to scramble the senses of other Transformers, causing them to see images that were not there, or to make himself appear to be somewhere he was not—hence, his name! The cartoon simplified and reworked his abilities into straightforward invisibility; his ability to create illusions was not used (aside from one anomalous instance in "[[Masquerade]]"), presumably because [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] already had that concept covered with his holograms. Obviously, the cartoon went on to influence most future interpretations of the character.
**The language of Mirage's profile describes the working of the electro-disrupter as "casting discrete packets of electrical charges." The Marvel coloring books ''completely'' misinterpreted this line, and depicted Mirage as actually being able to hurl destructive balls of electricity at his enemies.
*Mirage has been a traitor/suspected traitor in nearly every continuity he's popped up in. You just can't trust those coastal elite.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ligier''' or '''Rijie''' (リジェ ''Rije''), '''Mirage''' (ミラージュ ''Mirāju'')
*''Czech:'' '''Rychlík'''
*''Hungarian:'' '''Délibáb''' ("Mirage")
*''Italian:'' '''Mistero''' ("Mystery")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hǎishìshènlóu''' (Taiwan, 海市蜃樓, "Mirage"), '''Huànyǐng''' (幻影, "Phantom")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Miragem''' ("Mirage")

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Talk:Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?

2020-10-22T21:20:00Z

MirageX:

Can I just ask what that second image has to do with Mountain Dew? --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 07:06, 14 February 2013 (EST)
:One of the variant versions of Mountain Dew is called "Code Red". --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 07:26, 14 February 2013 (EST)
::Ah, okay. Thanks! --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 07:46, 14 February 2013 (EST)

I have a question: why are there TWO Thundercrackers offered in this, with one being a higher cost than the other? --[[User:MirageX|MirageX]] ([[User talk:MirageX|talk]]) 17:20, 22 October 2020 (EDT)